Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to Corrected Second Edition -- "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 (1956) -- 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( -- Ruben Dario "Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1890), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaen -- Hamlin Garland "A Tribute of Grasses" (Poem, 1893) -- Edmund Goose, 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, "Salutations 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" (Pome, Late 1920s) -- Carl Sndburg, "[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 Martinez Estrada, "Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1929) trans. Didier Tisdel Jaen -- Federico Garcia Lorca, "Ode to Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1929), trans. Betty Jean Craige -- Zona Gale, "Walte Whitman" (Poem, late 1920s) -- Edwin Markham, "Walt Whitman" (Poem 1931) -- Michael Golld, "Ode to Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1935) -- Stephen Vincent Benet, "Ode to Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1935) -- 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 Jaen -- 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 Jaen -- Pablos Neruda, "I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman" (Poem, early 1970s)trans. Teresa Anderson -- Pablos Neruda, "We Live In a Whitmanesque Age" (Prose, 1972) -- Jorge Luis Borges, "Camden, 1892" (Poem, 1966) trans. Richard Howard and Cesar 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, 1963) -- Edward Dahlberg, "Walt Whitman" (Poem, 1966) -- Howard Menerov, "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 Worlds" (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 Walt Whitman" (1980) -- Joseph Bruchae, "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 Henton, "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) -- Margo 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) -- Rudolfo Anaya, "Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico" (Poem, 1996) -- The Poets Respond: A Bibliographic Chronology -- Notes on Contributors.