Contents
Preface to the 1998 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Whitman, the Critics, and Homosexuality
The Dream-Vision Poems
"O a word to clear one's path": Adhesiveness
"Calamus"
2. The Academic Tradition
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Bayard Taylor and His Circle
George Santayana
Early Poems and White Buildings
Crane and Whitman
4. Some Contemporary Poets
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Duncan
Thom Gunn
Edward Field
Richard Howard
James Merrill
Alfred Corn
Conclusion: The Future
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
The Future Is Here