by Walt Whitman, Francis Murphen
AcknowledgementsTable of DatesIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--LEAVES OF GRASSInscriptions--One's-Self I Sing--As I Ponder'd in Silence--In Cabin'd Ships at Sea--To Foreign Lands--To a Historian--To Thee Old Cause--Eidólons--For Him I Sing--When I Read the Book--Beginning My Studies--B...
Whitman starts off in a grandiose and expansive style and never shifts from it, staying in the highest possible register at all times. While his poems are individually titled they form a single mass of life-affirmation and Whitman's own style of patriotism and religious devotion.Most interesting to ...