Walt Whitman

Introduction; 1: Emerson's letter to Whitman; 2: The first notice; 3: Charles Eliot Norton's review; 4: Moncure Conway visits Whitman; 5: Norton and Lowell disagree; 6: Rufus W. Griswold on Whitman; 7: Whitman's anonymous self-reviews; 8: Edward Everett Hale on Whitman; 9: Extracts from an unsigned notice; 10: An English reaction; 11: An American echo; 12: ‘Impious and obscene'; 13: Bronson Alcott on Whitman; 14: Thoreau on Whitman; 15: ‘It is a lie to… review… one's own book'; 16: A favourable English reaction; 17: ‘His style is everywhere graphic'; 18: ‘Full of beauties and blemishes'; 19: Lincoln and Leaves of Grass 1857 (?); 20: ‘A wild Tupper of the West'; 21: Praise and blame; 22: ‘It is the healthiest book, morally'; 23: Three views of 1860; 24: ‘The primordial music of nature'; 25: More puzzling than Swedenborg; 26: ‘the Leaves … resemble the Hebrew Scriptures'; 27: ‘A curious warble ‘?; 28: Henry James on Whitman; 29: William Douglas O'Connor on Whitman; 30: Rossetti's London edition; 31: Review of the London edition; 32: Swinburne on Whitman; 33: Anne Gilchrist on Whitman; 34: Edward Dowden on Whitman; 35: ‘Whitman's style … is his greatest contribution'; 36: A belated appreciation; 37: Saintsbury on Whitman; 38: Peter Bayne on Whitman; 39: Lanier on Whitman; 40: Some views of the 1880s; 41: ‘Caviare to the multitude'; 42: ‘Taken in hand by a reputable publisher; 43: A writer of almost insane violence; 44: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Whitman; 45: Swinburne on Whitmania; 46: Knut Hamsun on Whitman; 47: Harriet Monroe on Whitman; 48: John Addington Symonds on Whitman; 49: T. W. Rolleston on Whitman; 50: William James on Whitman; 51: Max Nordau on Whitman; 52: William Dean Howells on Whitman; 53: John Burroughs on Whitman; 54: William Sloane Kennedy on Whitman; 55: Henry James on Whitman; 56: John Jay Chapman on Whitman; 57: Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Whitman; 58: Santayana on Whitman; 59: Basil de Selincourt on Whitman

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Milton Hindus