Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Whitman / D.H. Lawrence -- Policy made personal / Kenneth Burke -- The theory of America / Richard Chase -- Whitman justified, the poet in 1860 / Roy Harvey Pearce -- The delicacy of Whitman / James Wright -- Always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis -- Whitman's image of voice / Harold Bloom -- The wound-dresser / Paul Zweig.