“‘Now in a Moment I Know What I Am For’: Rituals of Initiaion in Whitman and Dickinson”
by Sandra M. Gilbert

“The Biographer’s Problem”
by Justin Kaplan

“Whitman’s Idea of Women”
Jerome M. Loving

“Death as Repression, Repression as Death: A Reading of Whitman’s ‘Calamus’ Poems”
by Vivian R. Pollak

“Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Views of Gender and Sexuality”
by David S. Reynolds

“Whitman and the Seduction of the Reader”
by William H. Shurr

“Strategies of Sex in Whitman’s Poetry”
by Louis Simpson