Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. A Whitman for Moderns
6. 1. The Problem of an American Self 11
7. 2. The Road to Whitman 21
8. 3. Two Whitmans 44
9. Part II. Reading Williams
10. 4. A Relative Formalism: Relativity, Metrics, and the Separate Self 107
11. 5. Williams and the American Beauty: The Objective Use of Words 126
12. Part III. The Two Whitmans Joined
13. 6. Whitman in Paterson 177
14. 7. Doctor Paterson 192
15. Notes 227
16. Bibliography 255
17. Index 263