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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introductory Note
Prologue
1 - “Underneath All, Nativity”: Literary Genealogy, Literary Geography
2 - A Brooklyn Boyhood: Sights, Surroundings, Influences
3 - Dark Passages: Teaching and Early Authorship
4 - Mannahatta: The Literary Marketplace and Urban Reality
5 - “The United States Need Poets”: The Political and Social Crisis
6 - American Performances: Theater, Oratory, Music
Photo Insert
7 - “Sex Is the Root of It All”: Eroticism and Gender
8 - Earth, Body, Soul: Science and Religion
9 - Toward a Popular Aesthetic: The Visual Arts
10 - “I Contain Multitudes”: The First Edition of Leaves of Grass
11 - “The Murderous Delays”: In Search of an Audience
12 - Brotherly Love, National War: Into the 1860s
13 - “My Book and the War are One”: The Washington Years
14 - Reconstructing a Nation, Reconstructing a Poet: Postbellum Institutions
15 - The Burden of Atlas: The New America
16 - The Pope of Mickle Street: The Final Years
Notes
Illustration Credits
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