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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Why These Twelve?
Daemonic Preludium
I. Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
Foregrounding the Giants
Walt Whitman
An Induction
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Leaves of Grass 1855
Song of Myself
The Sleepers
Leaves of Grass 1856
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Leaves of Grass 1860
A Word Out of the Sea
As I Ebb’d With the Ocean of Life
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
II. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals
Essays
Emily Dickinson
III. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales and Sketches
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
The Marble Faun
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
The Bostonians
The Wings of the Dove
“The Jolly Corner”
IV. Mark Twain and Robert Frost
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pudd’Nhead Wilson
Robert Frost
A Witness Tree
North of Boston
Directive
V. Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot
The Auroras of Autumn
Four Quartets
VI. William Faulkner and Hart Crane
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying: Darl
Sanctuary: Popeye
Light in August: Joe Christmas
Hart Crane
White Buildings: Urban Purgatorio
Praise for an Urn
Possessions
Passage
Repose of Rivers
At Melville’s Tomb
Voyages
The Bridge
Atlantis
Ave Maria; National Winter Garden
Van Winkle; The River
The Tunnel
To Brooklyn Bridge
The Harbor Dawn
Cutty Sark
The Dance
Southern Cross; Virginia
The Broken Tower
Coda: The Place of the Daemon in the American Sublime: Hart Crane’s Achievement
Dedication
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Other Titles
About the Author
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