David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Baruch College in New York. His publications include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (1995).

• Introduction ; Capsule Biography ; Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics before and after the Civil War ; The Political Roots of the First Leaves of Grass ; Whitman's "Calamus": A Rhetorical Prehistory of the Gay American Ethos ; Whitman and the Visual Arts ; To Be Free and Rule: Whitman on the Razor's Edge ; Bibliographical Essay ; Dual Chronology

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Baruch College in New York. His publications include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (1995).

• Introduction ; Capsule Biography ; Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics before and after the Civil War ; The Political Roots of the First Leaves of Grass ; Whitman's "Calamus": A Rhetorical Prehistory of the Gay American Ethos ; Whitman and the Visual Arts ; To Be Free and Rule: Whitman on the Razor's Edge ; Bibliographical Essay ; Dual Chronology

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Baruch College in New York. His publications include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (1995).

• Introduction ; Capsule Biography ; Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics before and after the Civil War ; The Political Roots of the First Leaves of Grass ; Whitman's "Calamus": A Rhetorical Prehistory of the Gay American Ethos ; Whitman and the Visual Arts ; To Be Free and Rule: Whitman on the Razor's Edge ; Bibliographical Essay ; Dual Chronology