From the Book - Updated edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Whitman / D.H. Lawrence --
Policy made personal : Whitman's verse and prose-salient traits / Kenneth Burke --
Walt Whitman : always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis --
Whitman's image of voice : to the tally of my soul / Harold Bloom --
Native models / Kerry C. Larson --
A simple separate person / David Bromwich --
Reading / Mark Bauerlein --
Whitman's difficult availability / John Hollander --
Poetry and the mediation of value : Whitman on Lincoln / Helen Vendler --
The Whitman phrase / Angus Fletcher --
Afterthought / Harold Bloom.
The work in the writer / Harold Bloom
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Walt Whitman / Judith Connors
Walt Whitman and his critics / Matt Longabucco
Some lines from Whitman / Randall Jarrell
the performance of Whitman's poetry / Stephen Railton.