Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on Citations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Song of Ourselves
7. I Celebrate Myself 15
8. Undisguised and Naked 19
9. The Marriage of Self and Soul 24
10. The Grass 28
11. All In 34
12. A Vision of Democracy 38
13. These States 44
14. Songs of Triumph 47
15. Poet of the Body 51
16. The Sun 53
17. The Generative God 61
18. The Animals 66
19. Walt Becomes Other 69
20. A Massacre 72
21. A Sea Fight 76
22. American Jesus 79
23. Democratic Götterdämmerung 84
24. Walt and the Priests 88
25. Walt’s God 91
26. Walt and the Reader 94
27. Death and Democracy 99
28. Part II: In the Hospitals
29. Publication 107
30. In Washington 114
31. Letters Home 117
32. Tom Sawyer 127
33. The Vision Completed 133
34. Part III: Song of Myself (1855)
35. Song of Myself 141
36. Bibliography 207
37. Acknowledgments 211
38. Index 213