| 7 | FOREWORD |
| 9 | THE “PUZZLE” OF WALT WHITMAN |
| PART ONE | |
| THE BIRTH OF A POET | |
| 15 | A Long Foreground |
| 19 | “Growth-Health-Work" |
| 23 | “We All Shall Rest At Last" |
| 28 | “Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate" |
| 29 | The "New Orleans Theory" and Other Matters |
| 32 | Once Again Into the Forties |
| 36 | Whitman and "Great Principles" |
| 41 | “America’s Most Stormily Human Period of History” |
| 45 | The Brooklyn Eagle |
| 54 | The Little Notebook |
| 60 | The Editor is Dismissed Again |
| 62 | “A Man’s Body at Auction" |
| 66 | The Brooklyn Freeman |
| 71 | He Was Also Writing a Little... |
| 75 | Four Poems |
| PART TWO | |
| LEAVES OF GRASS | |
| 86 | An Open-Hearted Man |
| 90 | Democratic Instinct |
| 98 | “Give Us Turbulence" |
| 106 | “I Do Not Rank High in Market Valuations" |
| 112 | Emerson, Lincoln and Others... |
| 117 | The First Three Editions of Leaves of Grass |
| 122 | “To Cotton-Field Drudge ... I Lean" |
| 135 | “I Sit And Look Out" |
| 138 | “O the Farmer’s Joys!” |
| 139 | “Welcome This Storm" |
| 146 | “... A Few Carols ... I Leave for Comrades and Lovers" |
| 154 | A Few Polemical Remarks |
| 158 | “... All Else Giving Place to Men and Women Like You" |
| 164 | “A Song of Joys" |
| 170 | More About Whitman’s "Rhythmic Style" |
| 175 | “My Spirit Has Pass’d ... Around the Whole Earth!” |
| 180 | “"Elusive, Yet Undeniably Magnetizing You" |
| 186 | Real Life in Them |
| 191 | “Song of Myself" |
| PART THREE | |
| DRUM-TAPS | |
| 203 | “Hurrying, Crashing, Sad, Distracted Year" |
| 207 | Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Whittier, "John Brown’s Body" |
| 210 | “Manly Love" |
| 213 | “Bold, Cautious, True, and My Lovino, Comrade |
| 220 | “The Most Important Something in the World" |
| 229 | “The Good Gray Poet" |
| 234 | “The Sweetest, Wisest Soul" |
| PART FOUR | |
| FIRM AS EVER | |
| 243 | The War Is Over |
| 247 | “We Have Met, We Have Look’d" |
| 255 | “Society ... Is Canker’d, Crude, Superstitious, and Rotten" |
| 263 | Tears! Tears! Tears! |
| 267 | “The Unperform’d ... Advance Upon Me" |
| 272 | “Fierce-Throated Beauty" |
| 275 | A Tragic Year |
| 282 | “This Is the Way We Encourage Poets and Patriots" |
| 290 | “I Like the Folks, the Plain ... Folks" |
| 294 | About the Heartlessness of the Post-War Years |
| 304 | “Many Things We Acquiesce in Now Would Be Destroyed" |
| 306 | “Thanks in Old Age ... Joyful Thanks!” |
| AND IN CONCLUSION... | |
| 310 | Whitman Abroad |
| 313 | “You Russians and We Americans!” |
| 323 | “I Want the People ... to Have ... All of It" |
| 334 | “Give to Sing the Songs of the Great Idea" |
| SOME BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON WALT WHITMAN IN RUSSIAN (Excluding chapters in textbooks) | |
| 337 | [introduction.] |
| 343 | Principal Post-Revolutionary Publications of Walt Whitman’s Works in the USSR |
| 344 | NAME INDEX |
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