Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Preface to the Morningside Edition 1
5. Introduction 9
6. 1. Walt Whitman 23
7. 2. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 52
8. 3. Herman Melville 76
9. 4. Emily Dickinson 100
10. 5. Edwin Arlington Robinson, J. V. Cunningham, Robert Lowell 129
11. 6. Robert Frost 160
12. 7. Wallace Stevens 190
13. 8. Theodore Roethke 216
14. 9. Elizabeth Bishop 246
15. Index 282