Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" / D. H. Lawrence
Method and scope / F. O. Matthiessen
Shakespeare and Melville / Charles Olson
Nathaniel Hawthorne / Jorge Luis Borges
Introduction to "Walden" and "Civil Disobience" / Sherman Paul
Whitman's image of voice: to the tally of my soul / Harold Bloom
The curse of Kehama / Barbara Packer
"The Poet" / Julie Ellison
Hawthorne, Melville, and the fiction of prophecy / Richard Brodhead
The literary significance of the Unitarian movement / Lawrence Buell
Introduction to "Leaves of Grass" / John Hollander
Margaret Fuller's "Aesthetic" transcendentalism and its legacy / Kathy Kurtzman Lawrence
A mourner among the children: Emily Dickinson's early religious crisis / Elizabeth Schmidt.