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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Illustrations
Preface
Preface to Corrected Second Edition (2014)
“Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction,” Ed Folsom
1855 - 1905
Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Letter to Whitman (1855)
Henry David Thoreau, A Letter to Harrison Blake (1856)
Matthew Arnold, From a Letter to W. D. O’Connor (1866)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, “To Walt Whitman in America” (Poem, 1871)
Joaquin Miller, “To Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1877)
Ernest Rhys, “To Walt Whitman from Some Younger English Friends” (Poem, 1889)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, From a Letter to Robert Bridges (1882)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1897)
Louis Sullivan, A Letter to Walt Whitman (1887)
Rubén Darío, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1890), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén
Hamlin Garland, “A Tribute of Grasses” (Poem, 1893)
Edmund Gosse, From “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1893)
Robert Buchanan, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1892)
Morris Rosenfeld, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1890s)
Willa Cather, “Whitman” (Essay, 1896)
George Cabot Lodge, “To W. W.” (Poem, 1902)
1905 - 1955
Ezra Pound, “A Pact” (Poem, 1913)
Ezra Pound, “What I Feel About Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1909)
Fernando Pessoa, “Salutation to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1915), trans. Edwin Honig
Edgar Lee Masters, “Petit, the Poet” (Poem, 1915)
Emanuel Carnevali, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1919)
Witter Bynner, “Whitman” (Poem, 1920)
D. H. Lawrence, “Whitman” (Essay, 1921)
D. H. Lawrence, “Retort to Whitman” (Poem, late 1920s)
Carl Sandburg, “[Bouquets and Brickbats]” (Essay, 1921)
Vachel Lindsay, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1923)
Hart Crane, “Cape Hatteras” (Poem, 1929)
T. S. Eliot, From “Whitman and Tennyson” (Essay, 1926)
Sherwood Anderson, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1933)
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1929), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén
Federico García Lorca, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1929), trans. Betty Jean Craige
Zona Gale, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, late 1920s)
Edwin Markham, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1931)
Michael Gold, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1935)
Stephen Vincent Benét, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1936)
Wallace Stevens, “Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery” Part 1 (Poem, 1936)
Langston Hughes, “The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1946)
Langston Hughes, “Old Walt” (Poem, 1954)
Kenneth Patchen, “The Orange Bears” (Poem, 1949)
Muriel Rukeyser, “Whitman and the Problem of Good” (Essay, 1949)
Pedro Mir, “Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves” Parts 9, 15 (Poem, 1952) trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén
Henry Miller, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, published 1957)
William Carlos Williams, “The American Idiom” (Essay, published 1961)
1955 - 1980
Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” (Poem, 1955)
Jack Kerouac, “168th Chorus” (Poem, 1959)
Jack Spicer, “Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce” (Poem, late 1950s)
Richard Eberhart, “Centennial for Whitman” (Poem, 1955)
Richard Eberhart, “Comments” (Essay, 1978)
Edwin Honig, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1955)
Pablo Neruda, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1956), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén
Pablo Neruda, “I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman” (Poem, early 1970s) trans. Teresa Anderson
Pablo Neruda, “We Live In A Whitmanesque Age” (Prose, 1972)
Jorge Luis Borges, “Camden, 1892” (Poem, 1966), trans. Richard Howard and César Rennert
Jorge Luis Borges, “Note on Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1947)
Jonathan Williams, “Fastball” (Poem, 1959)
John Berryman, From “Song of Myself: Intention and Substance” (Essay, 1957)
John Berryman, “Despair” (Poem, 1970)
Denise Levertov, From “A Common Ground” (Poem, 1961)
James Wright, “The Delicacy of Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1962)
David Ignatow, “Communion” (Poem, mid 1950s)
David Ignatow, “Son to Father” (Essay, 1979)
David Ignatow, “Waiting Inside” (Poem, late 1960s)
Louis Simpson, “Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain” (Poem, 1960)
Louis Simpson, “Pacific Ideas—A Letter to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1963)
Theodore Roethke, From “The Abyss” (Poem, 1964)
Edward Dahlberg, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1966)
Howard Nemerov, “A Modern Poet” (Poem, 1967)
Ronald Johnson, “Letters to Walt Whitman,” V, IX (Poems, 1966)
Charles Olson, “I, Mencius, Pupil of the Master…” (Poem, 1960)
Robert Creeley, “Introduction” (Essay, 1972)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto” (Poem, 1975)
Norman Rosten, “Face on the Daguerreotype” (Poem, 1965)
Calvin Forbes, “Reading Walt Whitman” (Poem, early 1970s)
Derek Walcott, “Over Colorado” (Poem, 1976)
Dave Smith, “With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg” (Poem, 1976)
Philip Dacey, “Hopkins to Whitman” (Poem, 1978)
Ted Berrigan, “Whitman in Black” (Poem, late 1970s)
William Stafford, “For You, Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1979)
Theodore Weiss, “The Good Grey Poet” (Poem, 1976)
Diane Wakoski, “For Whitman” (Poem, 1973)
Galway Kinnell, “Whitman’s Indicative Words” (Essay, 1973, rev. 1980)
1980s
Allen Ginsberg, “Allen Ginsberg on Walt Whitman: Composed on the Tongue” (Discourse, 1980)
Allen Ginsberg, “I Love Old Whitman So” (Poem, 1984)
Louis Simpson, “Honoring Whitman” (Essay, 1980)
William Heyen, “Essay Beginning and Ending with Poems for Whitman”(1980)
Joseph Bruchac, “To Love the Earth: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1980)
Alvaro Cardona-Hine, “I Teach Straying from Me—Yet Who Can Stray from Me?” (Essay, 1980)
Larry Levis, “Whitman” (Poem, 1981)
Calvin Hernton, “Crossing Brooklyn Bridge…” (Poem, 1980)
Patricia Goedicke, “For Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1980)
Patricia Hampl, “The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War” (Essay, 1980)
Judith Moffett, “Reaching Around” (Poem, 1980)
Thomas McGrath, “Revolutionary Frescoes—The Ascension” (Poem, 1978, rev. 1980)
Robert Bly, “My Doubts About Whitman” (Essay, 1980, rev. 1998)
June Jordan, “For the Sake of a People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” (Essay, 1980)
Meridel LeSueur, “Jelly Roll” (Essay, 1980)
Sharon Olds, “Nurse Whitman” (Poem, 1980)
Robert Duncan, “The Adventure of Whitman’s Line” (Essay, 1985)
Gillian Conoley, “Walt Whitman in the Car Lot, Repo or Used” (Poem, 1989)
1990s
Adrienne Rich, “Beginners” (Essay, 1993)
Gary Snyder, “Walt Whitman’s New World, Old World” (Essay, 1993)
Marge Piercy, “How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found Myself” (Essay, 1992)
Alicia Ostriker, “Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America” (Essay, 1992)
Garrett Hongo, “On Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass” (Essay, 1992)
Yusef Komunyakaa, “Kosmos” (Poem, 1992)
Chou Ping, “Walt Whitman: Whispers of Heavenly Death Murmur’d I Hear!” (Poem, 1993)
Sherman Alexie, “Defending Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1996)
Rudulfo Anaya, “Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico” (Poem, 1996)
The Poets Respond: A Bibliographic Chronology
Notes on Contributors
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