A Life of Walt Whitman

CONTENTS

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Preface		vii
Table of Contents		xiii
List of Illustrations		xv
Abbreviations Employed in the Notes		xvii
Introduction: Whitman’s America		xix
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I.	The Whitman’s of West Hills	1
II.	Boyhood in Brooklyn	10
III.	Teacher and Journalist	28
IV.	Romance (1848)	46
V.	Illumination	56
VI.	The Carpenter	79
VII.	Whitman’s Manifesto	95
VIII.	The Mystic	110
IX.	“Year of Meteors”	134
X.	The Testament of a Comrade	148
XI.	America at War	171
XII.	The Proof of Comradeship	190
XIII.	A Washington Clerk	205
XIV.	Friends and Fame	221
XV.	Illness	247
XVI.	Convalescence	258
XVII.	The Second Boston Edition	278
XVIII.	Among the Prophets	289
XIX.	He Becomes a Householder	301
XX.	At Mickle Street	314
XXI.	“Good-Bye, My Fancy”	Clyx.com