Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- "Poets to Come . . . Leaving It to You to Prove and Dene It": Lucy Chen, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and Poets Unknown By James E. Miller Jr. -- The Voluptuous Earth and the Fall of the Redwood Tree: Whitman's Personications of Nature BY M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- "O Divine Average!": Whitman's Poetry and the Production of Normality in Nineteenth-Century American Culture BY Walter Grünzweig -- Walt Whitman at the Movies: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Desire BY Kenneth M. Price -- "Where's Walt?": Illustrated Editions of Whitman for Younger Readers BY Joel Myerson -- A Dream Still Invincible?: The Matthiessen Tradition BY Robert K. Martin -- Whitman's En Masse Aesthetics BY Sherry Ceniza -- Public Love: Whitman and Political Theory BY Betsy Erkkila -- Representatives and Revolutionists: The New Urban Politics Revisited BY M. Wynn Thomas -- Whitman on Asian Immigration and Nation-Formation BY Guiyou Huang -- Whitman's Soul in China: Guo Moruo's Poetry in the New Culture Movement BY Liu Rongqiang -- Pantheistic Ideas in Guo Moruo's The Goddesses and Whitman's Leaves of Grass BY Ou Hong -- Modernity and Whitman's Reception in Chinese Literature BY Wang Ning -- Gu Cheng and Walt Whitman: In Search of New Poetics BY Liu Shusen -- Grass and Liquid Trees: The Cosmic Vision of Walt Whitman BY Roger Asselineau -- Contributors -- Index.