"Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass: * Analyzes the major poems for their themes, allusions, emotional impact * Explores in detail Whitman's affection for social outcasts---drug addicts, immigrants, prostitutes, homosexuals, Blacks * Discusses subtleties of Whitman's unique music. "....a great poet of the soul .... a crusading leader whose poetry was not immoral but was actually a refocusing of morality" (from back cover)
