Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-148) and index.
Contents:
Growing up in the age of accelerating print : Whitman as printer, journalist, teacher, and fiction writer -- "Many manuscript doings and undoings" : the road toward Leaves of grass -- "I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us" : the first and second editions of Leaves of grass -- Intimate script and the New American Bible : "Calamus" and the making of the 1860 Leaves of grass -- Blood-stained memoranda -- Reconstructing Leaves of grass, restructuring a life -- Dying into leaves -- Appendix : what Whitman left us.
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