Contents:

• Introduction to Walt Whitman and his poetry
• Whitman’s Concept of Poetry and the poet
• Whitman: Poet of Democracy and Science
• Whitman: The voice of America and the New World’s Epic Poet
• Mysticism, love and Sex and themes of Death
• Concept of Self in Whitman’s Poetry
• Whitman’s Poetic Style
• Symbolism, Imagery and Metaphors in Whitman’s Poetry
• Problem of Structure in Whitman’s Poetry
• A General Estimate of Whitman as a Poet His merits and Demerits
• Selected Literary Criticism on Walt Whitman as a poet
• Selected Poems of Walt Whitman
• Walt Whitman: Miscellaneous Poems
• Objective type Questions with Answers (MCQs)