127 -- Mystic Tie of Brotherhood 1 -- "Terrible Query": An American Literature? 5 -- "That Wonderful Little Island"-British Literature in Leaves 14 -- Prospective: "Lacks and Wants Yet" 23 -- 2 Shakespeare & Whitman 27 -- Whitman and the Bacon Debate 27 -- Walt vs. the Bard 31 -- Mellifluous and Honey-Tongued Poets 35 -- Whitman and the Romantics' Shakespeare: Victor Hugo 48 -- Parallel Lives? 57 -- 3 Milton & Whitman 63 -- Debutant Poets: 1645, 1855 63 -- Whitman & America Read Milton 69 -- Camerados Close 81 -- Life = Art 81 -- Self-Esteem 82 -- Liberty 83 -- Prophet-Seers 84 -- Mentor-Poets 87 -- Satan and Walt 90 -- Answerable Styles? 98 -- Strange Bedfellows, After All? 104 -- Awakeners 106 -- 4 Burns & Whitman 110 -- Camerado Bards 110 -- Walt Reads Rob 114 -- Self-Esteem 124 -- Mystic Tie of Brotherhood 127 -- Thomas Carlyle 264 -- OutreĢ Beings 137 -- Conscious Painful Being 140 -- Old Acquaintance 143 -- Of Tombs: A Coda 148 -- 5 Blake & Whitman 151 -- Making the Connection 153 -- Two Mystics Together Clinging 167 -- Other, Stronger Lessons 172 -- Poets of Contrariety and Rebellion 174 -- Iconoclasts: Poetry Unfettered 179 -- Poets of Sexual Delight 186 -- Announcing Adhesiveness 189 -- Death's Door: A Coda 196 -- 6 Wordsworth & Whitman 200 -- Walt on Wordsworth 211 -- The "Prelude" to Whitman 224 -- Prospectus: Knowing the World 226 -- Self-Empowerment 227 -- "Green" Poets: Nature and Democracy 230 -- "Mighty Scheme of Truth": Prophets of a New Religion 234 -- "Great Social Principle of Life": Comradery 240 -- At War with General Tendency 245 -- "Separate Persons" 247 -- 7 Whitman and Some Other "Big Fellows" 252 -- Walter Scott 255 -- Thomas Carlyle 264 -- Algernon Swinburne 288. Oscar Wilde 280 -- Algernon Swinburne 288.
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