- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2Introduction
- 3Chapter I — The Whitmans of West Hills
- 4Chapter II — Boyhood in Brooklyn
- 5Chapter III — Teacher and Journalist
- 6Chapter IV — Romance (1848)
- 7Chapter V — Illumination
- 8Chapter VI — The Carpenter
- 9Chapter VII — Whitman’s Manifesto
- 10Chapter VIII — The Mystic
- 11Chapter IX — “Year of Meteors”
- 12Chapter X — The Testament of a Comrade
- 13Chapter XI — America at War
- 14Chapter XII — The Proof of Comradeship
- 15Chapter XIII — A Washington Clerk
- 16Chapter XIV — Friends and Fame
- 17Chapter XV — Illness
- 18Chapter XVI — Convalescence
- 19Chapter XVII — The Second Boston Edition
- 20Chapter XVIII — Among the Prophets
- 21Chapter XIX — He Becomes a Householder
- 22Chapter XX — At Mickle Street
- 23Chapter XXI — “Good-Bye, My Fancy”
- 24Appendix A
- 25Appendix B
- 26Contents
A Life of Walt Whitman
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