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Walt Whitman's passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published in ""Leaves of Grass"", which Whitman obsessively expanded, edited, and republished throughout his life, ultimately leaving behind a powerful literary legacy. Twenty of his most commonly read and studied poems are discussed in-depth in this volume, which also features ideas for essay topics to assist students in developing critical-thinking skills.

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• Series Introduction(p. v)
• Volume Introduction(p. vi)
• How to Write a Good Essay(p. 1)
• How to Write about Walt Whitman(p. 42)
• "One's Self I Sing"(p. 60)
• "Starting from Paumanok"(p. 68)
• "Song of Myself"(p. 82)
• "I Sing the Body Electric"(p. 103)
• "A Glimpse"(p. 113)
• "When I Heard at the Close of Day"(p. 120)
• "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand"(p. 128)
• "First O Songs for a Prelude"(p. 138)
• "Cavalry Crossing a Ford"(p. 147)
• "The Wound Dresser"(p. 153)
• "O Captain! My Captain!"(p. 164)
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"(p. 171)
• "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"(p. 179)
• "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"(p. 188)
• "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"(p. 197)
• "A Noiseless Patient Spider"(p. 212)
• "Passage to India"(p. 219)
• "Song of the Broad Axe"(p. 229)
• "Song of the Exposition"(p. 240)
• "The Compost"(p. 249)
• Index(p. 258)

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Walt Whitman's passionate writing style and bold subject matter have deeply influenced American poetry. Nearly all of his poems were published inLeaves of Grass, which Whitman obsessively expanded, edited, and republished throughout his life, ultimately leaving behind a powerful literary legacy. Twenty of his most commonly read and studied poems are discussed in depth in this volume, which also features ideas for essay topics to assist students in developing critical-thinking skills. Excerpted from Bloom's How to Write about Walt Whitman by Frank D. Casale All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Frank D. Casale received a Ph.D. in English, with a certificate in American studies, from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received an M.A. in English from Rutgers University. He is currently assistant professor of English at Morgan State University.
Series Editor Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for criticism.