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Acknowledgments I have benefitted from the support and friendship of numerous people while writing this book—and I would have been unable to persevere without them. I begin by thanking Alan Ackerman for his sure-sighted counsel and steadfast belief in this project; Malcolm Woodland whose warm words of confidence and encouragement I will not forget, coming as they did in times of difficulty and transition; and John Reibetanz whose fidelity to poetry has been an inspiration throughout. I also thank the faculty and administration of the English Department at the University of Toronto and acknowledge the funding of the Ontario government. Portions of this book have appeared previously: sections of Chapters 4 and 5 in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (2011); parts of Chapter 1 in the Journal of the History of Ideas 71.3 (July 2010); and one section of Chapter 2 in Dionysius (2009). I gratefully acknowledge their permission to reprint. For the use of William Blake’s “Jacob’s Ladder” for the cover art, I thank the British Museum. I thank Fordham University Press and the American Literatures Initiative , particularly Helen Tartar, Thomas C. Lay, Kathleen Sweeney, Tim Roberts, and Alex Giardino. I am also indebted to many others, Tony Brinkley, Betsy Erkkila, Jay Bregman, Elspeth Brown, Robert Berchman, Kodolányi Gyula, and Sally Wolff-King. To my parents, Kevin and Elena Corrigan, I owe a deepest debt of gratitude ; my brother Yuri for his friendship and the many hours he spent reading and editing my writing; Maria and Sarah Corrigan for their love and support; and Jesse Archibald-Barber, a true friend. I would also like to thank Greg Glazov, Francis and Tess Corrigan, and their families. To my viii / acknowledgments uncle Jamie Glazov, whose brotherhood has made me a better man, and to my grandmother Marina Glazov, our family’s poet, I am truly grateful. Peggy Lee, who stayed by my side at the close of this project, thank you for your love and support. I dedicate this work to my family, both the Corrigans and the Glazovs, and particularly to the memory of my grandfather Yuri Glazov. ...

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