Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass

List of Illustrations

Illustrations 1 A cut-away leaf showing 4 Whitman’s fiscal ledgers 2 Leftover material from 1847 5 3 Whitman contemplates genres 15 for a major early work 4 Probable source manuscript for 16 title phrase “leaf of grass” 5 Whitman revises from third- to 21 first-person address 6 Whitman revises from third- to 23 first-person address 7 Prose notations in verse-like form 27 8 Comparison of “Med Copho΅sis” 30–31 leaf with “wood drake” leaf 9 Emphatic comments on 44 Whitman’s aesthetic theory 10 Whitman among his manuscripts 50 11 “Light and Air!” manuscript 60 12 “Light and Air!” manuscript detail 62 13 “Sweet flag” manuscript 71 14 Whitman’s list of body parts 80 for “I Sing the Body Electric” 15 Whitman’s hand-drawn cover 101 lettering for the first Leaves of Grass 16 Newspaper-like manuscript 111 for “Song of the Broad-Axe” 17 Undated manuscript leaf 113 18 “You tides with ceaseless 125 swell and ebb” 19 “Every soul has its own language” 141 20 Whitman’s theory of the 166 “poem of materials” 21 Cover lettering compared 186 with title page font ...