"Underneath all, nativity": literary genealogy, literary geography A Brooklyn boyhood: sights, surroundings, influences Dark passages: teaching and early authorship Mannahatta: the literary marketplace and urban reality "The United States need poets": the political and social crisis American performances: theater, oratory, music "Sex is the root of it all": eroticism and gender Earth, body, soul: science and religion Toward a popular aesthetic: the visual arts "I contain multitudes": the first edition of Leaves of Grass
"The murderous delays": in search of an audience
Brotherly love, national war: into the 1860s
"My book and the war are one": the Washington years
Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet: postbellum institutions
The burden of atlas: the new America
The pope of Mickle Street: the final years.
From the Book - 1st Vintage Books ed.
"Underneath all, nativity": literary genealogy, literary geography A Brooklyn boyhood: sights, surroundings, influences Dark passages: teaching and early authorship Mannahatta: the literary marketplace and urban reality "The United States need poets": the political and social crisis American performances: theater, oratory, music "Sex is the root of it all": eroticism and gender Earth, body, soul: science and religion Toward a popular aesthetic: the visual arts "I contain multitudes": the first edition of Leaves of Grass
"The murderous delays": in search of an audience
Brotherly love, national war: into the 1860s
"My book and the war are one": the Washington years
Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet: postbellum institutions
The burden of Atlas: the new America
The pope of Mickle Street: the final years.
