A Life of Walt Whitman

INDEX.

Abandonment, capacity for self-, 52.
Abolition sentiment, Lincoln and, 182.
See Slavery.
Abolitionism, 81;
and the South, 235.
Abolitionist, W. an, 39.
Abolitionists, 134;
in Democratic party, 27.
Actors, W. at home with, 191.
Adam, W. as, 160-2.
Adams, President John, 23, 24.
Addison, W. advised to study, 328.
Æschylus, W. reads, 57.
Affirmations of modern thought, 62.
Agnosticism and reason, 333.
Agricultural interest in America, 308.
Alboni, Marietta, her influence on W., 86, 131, 320.
Alcott, A. Bronson, his relations with W., 112, 138, 282.
Alexandria, Va., 195, 199.
Ambition, W. a youth of, 33.
America, romance of, xix-xxiii;
Elizabethan character of, xxi;
its development, xxvi;
changes in, 79.
America, and W., 87, 149, 180;
W. an incarnation of, xxviii, 132, 335;
an average American, 64;
his passion for, 63;
describes, 95;
his symbol for, 122;
symbolic character of, 124;
call to citizenship, 125;
need for comradeship in, 163;
Emerson’s view of W.’s message to, 145-6;
W.’s criticism of, 124, 236-42;
W. the poet of, 249, 292 (see American poet);
her need for the war, 206-8;
A. and the soul, 255;
and death, 266;
and free-interchange, 306-7;
and labour-problem, 307-13;
W.’s ideal for, 312;
“material foundations,” 331;
A. and solidarity, 337.
American art, xxiv.
American Bible, W. wishes to write an, 55.
American character, the, xxi;
its idealism, xxi, xxiii, 80-1, 177;
its power of assimilation, xxiv.
American character of L. of G., 109.
American cynicism, 264.
American literature, W. and, 60.
American opinion hostile to L. of G., 214, 333.
American poet, the, Emerson’s dictum, 94;
general expectancy of an, 94;
W.’s prophecy of an, 95-6;
W. as the, 133 n.
American poets, W. and the, 104, 279;
need for, 97.
American Review, W. writes for, 37.
Anger of W., sudden, 216, 236, 327.
Animals, W.’s feeling of kinship with, 99.
“Answerer, Song of the,” 103.
Anthony, Susan B., 126.
Antietam, battle of, 182-3.
Anti-Nebraska men, 134.
Anti-slavery party, 45.
Appearance, W.’s, 276, 283, 289, 326.
See Portraits.
“Appearances, Of the terrible doubt of,” 164.
Arabian Nights, W. reads, 19.
Aristocrat, poem on an, 53.
Armory Square Hospital, W. at the, 190, 194, 203.
Arrangement of L. of G., 286-7.
Art, its meaning first shown to W., 22;
popular, 43;
in N.Y., 84.
“As a strong bird on pinions free”. See “Thou Mother,” etc.
“As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,” 154-6.
“As I ponder’d in silence,” 208.
“As the time draws nigh,” 169.
Asceticism, 71.
Ashton, J. Hubley, describes a visit of W.’s, 192;
and Harlan incident, 214.
Ashton, Mrs., 234, 248.
Athenæum, The, and W., 259.
Attila, 336.
Attorney-General’s Office, W. in the, 214.
Aurelius, Marcus, 224, 262, 318.
Aurora, The, W. edits, 37.
Average American, W.’s life to be that of an, 64.

Babylon, L. I., W. at, 28, 33;
described, 28-9.
Bacchus, W.’s engraving of, 111.
“Backward Glance o’er travel’d roads, A,” 329-30.
Baldwin, the engine, 271.
“Barnburners,” Van Buren men, become Free-soil Democrats, 44, 134.
Barnum, P. T., 85.
Bathing, W.’s love of, 40.
Bayne, Peter, 258.
“Beat! Beat! Drums!” 207.
Beauty, W. indifferent to formal and static, 59.
Beecher, Ward, 112.
Beethoven, 267, 293, 320.
Beggars, W. and, 219.
Bell, Governor, 172.
Berenson, Mrs., her friendship with W., 302-4, 313, 318, 346.
Bernard, St., 146.
Bettini, 85, 320.
Bhagavad-Gitá, L. of G. compared with, 115.
Bible, W.’s wish to write an American, 55;
W. studies the, 57, 224, 318.
Biographies of W. See J. Burroughs, Dr. Bucke, and Preface.
Birthday dinners, 317, 325, 331-2;
last, 335-7.
Blake, 124, 225, 263, 290, 341;
his mystic sight, 66, 118;
W. and, 59.
“Blood-money,” 39, 46, 103.
Body, W. and the, 99, 102, 159-62;
“a spiritual body,” 152-3;
“enamoured” body, 162;
and soul, 125.
“Body Electric, I sing the,” 102, 145, 160.
Boehme, 121, 146.
Bohemians of New York, W. and the, 138.
Bolton group of Whitmanites, 337.
Books, W.’s method of reading, 57;
his favourite books, 58-9, 318.
Booth, the elder, effect of his acting on W., 22.
Boston, 81, 138;
W.’s dislike of, 103, 279;
W. at, 136, 142-7;
second visit, 278-83.
“Boston Ballad, A,” 103.
Boston Common, 144, 147, 281.
Boston Intelligencer, criticism of W., 108.
Botticelli, 102, 226.
Bowery Theatre, the (now the Thalia), 22, 329.
Bowne, John, a L. I. Quaker, 4.
Bragg, General, 187.
Breckinridge, J. C., 172.
Bremer, Frederika, and Emerson, 94.
“Broad-axe, Song of the,” 122, 274.
Broadway, W. and, 41, 83, 87, 138, 219, 266.
Broadway Journal, W. writes for, 37.
“Broadway Pageant, A,” 205.
Brooklyn, 1-3, 10-11;
W. in, 56-7, 86, 110, 203-4, 210, 219, 232;
leaves, 183;
secures Fort Greene to town, 43.
Brooklyn, battle of, 5.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, W. edits, 42-4;
a correspondent of, 196.
Brooklyn Ferry, 11, 40, 85.
“Brooklyn Ferry, Crossing,” 120.
Brooklyn Times, W. and the, 109.
Brown, John, different views of, and influence on America, 136, 159;
O’Connor and, 190.
Brown, Madox, 225.
Browning, R., 62, 92, 291;
and W., 293-5.
Bruno, Giordano, 224.
Brush, Major, 5;
his niece, 5-6.
Bryant, W. C., 40, 59, 172, 336;
friendship for W., 42.
Buchanan, President, 135, 175.
Buchanan, Robert, his letter on W., 258-9.
Bucke, Dr. R. M., 263, 305, 325-6, 334, 336, 341, 342;
visits W., 269;
account of, 269-70;
his Cosmic Consciousness, 270;
visited by W., 274-7;
goes with W. to L. I., 280;
his life of W., 304.
Buddha, the, 121, 345.
Bull Run, battle of, 182.
Buonarotti, Michael Angelo, 102, 265.
Burke, E., 290.
Burns, Anthony, 81, 103.
Burns, R., 289, 328, 337;
W. and, 59;
W. on, 329.
Burnside, General, 182, 183.
Burr, Aaron, W. and, xxv.
Burroughs, J., in Washington, 191, 215;
notes on W., 221, 304;
walks with W., 233, 262;
nurses W., 247-8;
visits W., 251, 256, 258, 305, 342;
W. visits, 231, 266, 270.
Burroughs, Mrs., 234.
“By Blue Ontario’s Shore,” 123, 209.
Byron, 91, 320, 328;
W. and, 59, 292-3.

Calamus, meaning of the word, 162.
Calamus (poems), 162-7, 253;
most esoteric of W.’s poems, 162;
political significance, 163;
personal revelation in, 165;
underlying philosophy of, 166-7;
vindicated, 194;
J. A. Symonds and, 224.
Calhoun, J. C., 24, 79, 175.
California, 43, 63-4.
Californian redwood tree, 255.
Calvin, 121.
Camden described, 246;
W. in, xxvii, 248, 278, 315;
loneliness there, 250;
at 322, Stevens St., his life there, 250-1;
removes to 431, Stevens St., 256;
friends there, 257, 325;
literary work, 257.
See Mickle St.
Canada, 311;
W. plans to lecture in, 129;
goes to, 274-7;
interest in, 276-7.
Canary, W.’s, 319.
Capital punishment, W. opposes, 33, 42.
Capitol, W. often at the, 201-2.
“Captain! my Captain!” 337.
Carlyle, Thos., 35, 84, 91, 92, 121, 263, 291, 294, 296, 306, 318, 328, 339;
death of, 301;
and L. of G., 171;
his Shooting Niagara, 234, 236;
W. and, 41, 59, 293.
Carnegie, Andrew, 317.
Carpenter, The, by O’Connor, 191, 227-9.
Carpenter, Edward, 263;
visits W., 266-9;
account of, 266-7;
his Towards Democracy, 267;
his account of W., 267-9;
second visit to W., 305-7;
his Art of Creation, qu., 167;
on W.’s children, 349-50.
Carpenter, Tamosin, 347.
Carpentering, W. takes up, 57;
helpful to him, 85;
gives up, 87.
Carpenters, 122.
Cass, Lewis, 44.
Catalogues in L. of G., 84, 160, 222.
Caution, highly developed in W., 68, 163.
Cenci, 336.
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 265.
Champagne, W.’s taste for, 315.
“Champion of America,” 131-2.
Chancellorsville, battle of, 184.
“Chanting the Square Deific,” 212.
See Satan.
“Chants Democratic,” 150.
Charity, W. and, 312-3.
Chattanooga, battle of, 187.
Chestnut St. Opera House, Philadelphia, 317.
Chicago, W. visits, 54.
Child, in W.’s nature, the, 78, 344;
dreams of a, 55.
Children of Adam, 126, 144-7, 159-62, 284-6;
difficulty of discussing, 160-1;
Mrs. Gilchrist and, 225, 264.
Children, W.’s, 51, 186, 230-1, 252, 349-50;
W. and, 234, 273, 318, 320.
China, W. talks of, 265.
Chinese proverb, xxiii.
Christ, 313, 345.
See Jesus.
“Christ-portrait” of W., 67.
Christianity, W. and, 75-7, 168, 297, 339.
Chronicle, The, W. M. Rossetti writes on W. in, 222.
Church, W. in a Brooklyn, 68.
Churches, W. and the, 42, 75-6, 142, 241, 280, 323.
Cincinnati Society, 38.
Citizenship and the soul, 208;
for all, 240.
City-life, attraction for W., 114;
modern, xxviii.
City-populations, 307.
Clare, Ada, 139.
Class-feeling, W.’s dislike of, 323.
Classical allusions avoided in L. of G., 109.
Clay, Henry, 23, 40, 42, 79, 134.
Cleanthes, Hymn of, 224.
Clements, Mr., W. apprenticed to, 19-20.
Cleveland, President, 314, 320.
Clothes, W.’s, 83, 110, 140, 304, 331.
Cole, Mary, 234.
Coleridge, S. T., 91, 119, 290.
Colonna, Vittoria, 265.
Columbian Magazine, W. writes for, 37.
Columbus, xx-xxi, 243.
See Prayer of C.
“Columbus, A thought of,” 340.
Common people, W.’s love of the, 114.
Companions, the Great, 168.
Complete Prose, qu., 47-8.
See Footnotes.
“Compost, This,” 122.
Comrade, W. as a, 67;
God the perfect, 244.
Comrades, a society of, 312.
Comradeship, Calamus poems of, 162;
political significance of, 163;
W. institutes a rite of, 165;
philosophy of, 167;
W. creates a, 179;
L. of G. brings to Symonds, 224;
universal possibility of, 299-300;
W.’s, 133, 149, 168, 196, 228, 232-3, 253, 275, 297.
Comte, A., 62, 263.
Concord, W. at, 281-2.
Concrete, W.’s love for the, 60;
quality, W.’s, 198.
Coney Island Beach, W. goes to, 40, 57, 154.
Confederacy of Southern States adopts a constitution, 175.
Consciousness, the unfolding of, 69;
the double nature of, 73-4;
superhuman elements in, 228;
W.’s, 316.
See also “Cosmic consciousness”.
Conservator (Philadelphia), The, 300 n.
Conservative quality of W., 64.
Constitution of U.S., xxiii, xxv, 23.
Contemporary Club, the, 332.
Contemporary Review and W., 258.
Conversion, W.’s experience compared with, 70, 72.
Conway, Moncure, 93, 110-2, 344.
Coolness, W.’s, 66.
Cooper, Fenimore, 42, 59;
W.’s love for the novels of, 19.
“Copperheads,” 185.
“Cosmic consciousness,” W.’s, 52, 117, 119, 168, 224, 333;
W.’s experience of, 72-3;
influence on style, 150-1, 153-4;
Dr. Bucke on, 270.
Cotton in the South, 24, 25.
Cowper, W., 290.
Crescent, The, New Orleans, 46.
Criterion, The, criticism of W., 108.
Critic, The, criticism of W., 108.
Criticisms of Whitman, 171, 222, 224-5, 327-8, 329 n., 334-5;
by W. 109, 329.
Cromwell, O., 121.
Croton Water-works, N.Y., 42.
“Crucified, To him that was,” 167-8, 227.
Culpepper, Va., W. visits, 202.
Cuba annexation desired, 135.
Cuvier, 122.

Daily News and W., 258.
Dana, C. A., 127.
Dancing, W. approves, 43.
Dannville, 209.
Dante, 57, 109, 164, 226, 318.
Dartmouth College, N.H., W. visits, 245.
Darwin, C., 62.
Davis, Jefferson, 79, 188.
Davis, Mary, 305, 318-21, 336.
Death, W. and the idea of, 9, 12, 101, 102, 158, 168-9, 242-3, 249, 266, 281, 287, 340-1;
immortality and, 152-3, 155;
welcome to, 152;
W. learns lesson of, 249, 343;
in shadow of, 253-4;
W.’s, 344;
reported, 247.
“Death’s Valley,” 340-1.
Declamation, L. of G. written for, 98.
Declaration of Independence, xxiii, 23.
Deliberate way of W. in hospitals, 196;
character of W., 204.
Democracy in New York, 83.
Democracy, W. as, 335.
Democracy, dangers of. See Dem. Vistas.
Democrat, W. edits, 37.
Democratic party, 13, 23, 40, 79, 82, 136, 172.
Democratic Review, W. writes for, 33.
Democratic Vistas, W. at work on, 234;
America’s need for national literature, 236;
reasons for his criticism, 237;
vast task of America, ib.;
fears for her, 238, 238-9 n.;
her need for religion, 238,
and for great men, 239;
too much “culture,” 241;
need of personality, of religion and of literature, 242, 245, 248.
Denver, 272, 320.
Depression, W.’s, during illness, 249.
“Devil, If I felt like the,” 338.
See Satan.
Dickens in America, 35, 42.
Dix, Dorothea, 195.
Dixon, Thomas, and L. of G., 171, 223.
Dog, W.’s, 257.
Don Quixote, W. reads, 58.
Doubt, W. and, 100, 155, 164.
“Dough-faces,” 27, 39.
“Dough-face Song, A,” 39.
Douglas, S. A., 44, 80, 134, 135, 172, 174, 176.
Dramatic gift, W. has not the, 73.
Dreams, W. on, 102.
Doyle, Peter G., 210, 215, 258, 301, 305, 336, 344-5;
account of, 230;
and W., 231-4;
nurses W., 247-8;
letters to, 250, etc.;
baggage-master, 257.
Dred Scott decision, 135.
Dress. See Clothes.
Driving, W.’s love of, 303, 314.
Drum-taps, published, 205;
recalled, 212.
See L. of G.
Dutch, on Long Island, 3;
realism, W.’s, 85.
Dying, W.’s long, 330.

Early tales, W.’s, 33-5, 286;
early verses, W.’s, 39, 47-8, 290.
Earth, W.’s conception of the, 117-9, 330;
and evil, 122.
Editor, W. as an, 37.
Education, W.’s, 28.
Edward VII. See Prince of Wales.
Egoism, a divine, 90;
of L. of G., 91.
Egoist, W. not an, 53.
Eldridge, C. (see also Thayer and Eldridge), 191, 247-8, 251.
Election, methods of presidential, 174.
Elizabeth, Queen, xx-xxi.
Elliott, E., W. and, 327.
Emancipation, Proclamation of, 183.
Emerson, R. W., xxiii, 59, 62, 81, 108, 110, 129, 136, 151, 176, 258, 263, 291, 293, 303, 318, 328, 336;
position in American letters, 91-3;
and free rhythm, 92-3;
Emerson and Whitman, 59, 91-4, 106-7, 112, 114-5, 137, 143-7, 148, 159, 163, 171, 322;
his letter to W., 92-3, 127-8;
W.’s letter to E., 127, 179;
discussion between, 145-7, 159, 223;
helps W. to get funds for hospitals, 198;
W. revisits, 281-2;
their friendship, 146, 163, 282-3;
contrast of his and W.’s temperaments, 294;
death of, 301.
Emotional, atmosphere of poetry, 290-1;
character of W.’s mysticism, 70-1.
Enfans d’Adam. See Children of Adam.
English, demand for L. of G., 257;
fame of W., 223, 245;
friends help W., 258-9, see Friends;
habit of compromise, 208;
language, W. and the, 97;
readers of L. of G., 171;
Reviews, W. reads, 57;
W.’s appreciation of the, 338.
England and America compared, xxii;
dispute between, 43;
W.’s idea of a home in, 338.
Enjoyment, W.’s power of, 314-5.
En-masse, frequent use by W. of, 216-7.
“Ensemble,” W.’s use of, 255.
Epictetus, 318, 342-3.
Equality, doctrine of, accepted in the South, 25;
W.’s doctrine of, 102, 297.
Erie Canal opened, 11.
Euripides, 58.
“Europe, the 72nd and 73rd year of these States,” 103.
Europe, its lack of sanity, 339.
Evangelical, W. an, 77.
Evening Mail (New York), 245.
Evil, W. and the problem of, 122, 124, 157, 212, 294-5, 340;
evil in W.’s nature, 336.
Evolution, W.’s doctrine of, 99, 100.
Evolutionists, the, 224.
Exhibition, International, 1853, 83-4.
“Exposition, Song of the,” 245, 248.
Expression, need for, 89-90.
Expurgation, W. agrees to, 285.

“Faces,” 102.
“Facing West from California’s shores,” 162.
Facts, W.’s love for, 60, 63.
Fairfax Seminary Hospital, 194, 198.
Faith, W.’s, 99, 100, 155, 244, 254-5.
Falmouth, Va., 183-4.
Farragut, Admiral, 182.
Federal sentiment aided by steam-transit, 27.
Federalists, 23.
Fellowes, Col., 38.
Fellowship, as an answer to doubt, 164;
Morris’s gospel of, 296;
philosophy of, 166-7.
Fellowship, W.’s, its character, 114, 299-300;
with nature, 261-2;
W.’s ideal of, 142.
Fellowship, the Walt Whitman, 300 n.
“Felons on trial in courts, You,” 156.
Ferries, W. and, 250-1, 266.
See Brooklyn Ferry.
Ferry-boat, W. steers a N.Y., 137.
Fire-Island Beach, L. I., 29.
“First, O songs, for a prelude,” 206.
“For you, O Democracy,” 163.
Forrest, Edwin, 21.
Fortnightly Review, M. Conway’s article on W. in, 110.
Fourier, 309.
Fourierists, W. and the, 323.
Fowler, Mr., 67.
Fowler & Wells, 87, 109, 129.
Fox, George, 121, 173;
his mystical experience, 72-3;
in L. I., 4;
and W., 298-300;
W.’s essay on, 329.
France, L. of G. in, 245;
W. and the people of, 280.
Francis of Assisi, 74, 152, 164, 169, 227.
Franklin Evans, 46 n., 52;
described, 35-7.
Fredericksburg, battle of, 183.
Freeman, The, W. founds, 56, 63.
Frémont, J. C., 63, 134.
Free-soil Democrats, 40, 44-5, 56, 134;
W. and the, 40, 310.
Free-trade, 177;
W. and, 306-7, 323, 337.
See also Tariffs.
Friends, W.’s older men, 28;
and women, 31;
in N.Y., 137-9;
in Washington, 190-2;
circle of, 245;
in Camden, 256-7, 325, 341, 342;
English, assist W., 258-9, 316-7;
dissimilarity among, 233;
his need of, 165, 250-1;
a city of, 165.
Friends, Society of. See Quakers.
Friends, Fox’s, 298-9.
Fritzinger, Harry, 319.
Fritzinger, Warren, 319, 342, 343, 344.
Fritzinger, W. W., 342.
Fugitive Slave Bill, 79.
“Full of life now,” 166.
Fuller (Ossoli), Margaret, 126.
Funeral, W.’s, 344-6.
Future, poet justified by, 97.
Future, W.’s attitude towards the, 206.

Games, W.’s love of, 30, 32.
Garfield, President, 301.
Garibaldi visits America, 173.
Garrison, W. L., 81.
Gentleman, Thoreau thinks W. a, 113.
Georgian farmer, a, 321-2.
German immigrants, 82.
Germany, L. of G. in, 245.
Germ, The, 97, 221-2.
Gettysburg, battle of, 184, 187;
Lincoln’s speech at, 184.
Gilchrist, Anne (Mrs. Alexander), 265, 267, 268, 301, 336;
reads L. of G., 225;
views of C. of Adam, 225-7, 284;
letters published, 225;
goes to Philadelphia, 263;
account of, 263-6;
W. visits, 266;
death of, 303, 320.
Gilchrist, Grace, quoted, 268, etc.
Gilchrist, Herbert H., 320.
Girls, attitude toward, 30.
Glendale, W. at, 280, 286.
Godiva, Lady, 264.
God, W.’s idea of, 75, 76, 101, 243-4, 253-4.
God latent in humanity, 100.
Goethe, 58, 62, 121, 222, 224, 289, 292.
Good-bye, my Fancy, described, 338-40;
title explained, 340.
Good Gray Poet, The, by O’Connor, 191, 214, 227, 333.
Government, purpose of all, 240.
Grant, Gen., 182;
takes Vicksburg, 185;
at Chattanooga, 187;
faith of North in Grant, 188;
ends war, ib.;
President, 235;
and the West, 272;
W.’s belief in, 203;
W. appeals to, 209.
“Great are the Myths,” 104.
Great Eastern Steamship, 173.
Great men, W. values, 239.
Greek, W. a, 279.
Greeley, Horace, 39.
Guyot, 263.

Hafiz, 318.
“Halcyon Days,” 330.
Hale, E. E., 108.
Halleck, Fitz-Green, 42.
Hamilton, Alex., xxv, 23.
“Hand-Mirror, A,” 124.
Happiness, the purpose of things, 101;
of old age, 330.
Harlan, James, 219, 223, 227;
dismisses W., 213-4.
Harleigh Cemetery, 345.
Harned, T. B., relations with W., 325, 349.
Harper’s Ferry, 136.
Harrington, by W. D. O’Connor, 190.
Harrison, President, 38.
Hartmann, S., 319-20.
Hawthorne, N., 34, 301.
Health, a fine art, 241;
spiritual basis of, 204, 339;
open-air and, 340.
Health, W. proud of his, 68-9;
W. to irradiate, 101, 338;
W.’s, 28;
and mystical experience, 69;
W.’s in Washington, 193;
hurts his hand, 194;
careful of his, 196;
effect of heat upon, 200;
first illness, 202-4;
h. seems to be good again, 216;
feels extremes of climate, 218;
Rossetti thinks health affects W.’s philosophy, 222;
partial paralysis, 232;
illness, 246;
details recounted, 247;
relapse, 248;
depression accompanies illness, 249;
consideration of causes, 252-3;
illness, poems in, 253-4;
convalescence, 258;
help derived from Nature, 260-2;
h. improved, 270;
ill in St. Louis, 273;
in Canada, 275-6;
better in Boston, 283;
has a sunstroke, 314;
increasing uncertainty, 317;
paralysis, 326.
Hegel, 62, 289, 309;
limit of W.’s agreement with, 296-8.
Heine, 339.
Heretic, W. a, 143.
Hero-worship, W.’s, 293.
Heyde, Hannah (Whitman), 12, 86, 88, 342;
W. visits, 246.
Hicks, Elias, 4, 5, 6, 121, 142;
account of, 14-5;
preaches at Brooklyn, 15-7;
his death, 17;
effect on W., 16-9;
W.’s essay on, 329.
“Historian, To a,” 153.
Hodgson, Robert, an English Quaker, 4.
Home-life, W.’s happy, 65-6.
Homer, 57, 318.
Hooker, General, 182, 184.
Hospitals, W. at the old New York H., 137-8;
W. commences to visit Washington, 184;
service in them, 186;
W. at the Armory Square H., 190;
W. at the Washington, 192, 198, 318, 324;
he needs money for work there, 192;
there daily, 194;
extent of hospitals, ib.;
nursing in, 195;
need for affection in, ib.;
W.’s efficient service in, 196-8;
effect on W., 199-200;
conditions grow worse, 202-3;
visits hospitals at Brooklyn and N.Y., 209;
Sundays at Washington hospitals, 215;
influence on W., 217;
causes illness, 252-3, 339;
pension proposed for service in, 316.
Houghton, Lord, 112.
House-building, 85.
Householder, W. a, 315.
See Mickle St.
Houston, the filibuster, 43.
Howells, W., and W., 138-9.
Hugo, Victor, 138, 293.
Humanity, W.’s love for, well founded, 41-2.
Humility, W. and, 76, 154.
Humour, W.’s, 303, 336-9.
“Hunkers,” 44.
Hunt, Leigh, 109.
Huntington, L. I., described, 2-3;
W. at, 31;
W. visits, 86.
See West Hills.
“Hush’d be the Camps to-day,” 212.
“Husky-haughty lips, With,” 330.

Idealism. See Mysticism.
Idealism of America. See “American character”.
Identity, W.’s sense of, 74.
Idiots, W. and, 274.
“I dream’d in a dream,” 165.
Iliad, Pope’s translation, 58.
Illness, W.’s, see Health;
originates in hospital-work, 339;
features of last, 338, 341-4.
Illumination, W.’s mystical, 69-78.
Immanence, idea of, central in modern thought, 62.
Immigration and N.Y., 81-2.
Immigration and the labour problem, 310.
Immortality, 152-3, 255, 332-3.
See Death.
Impersonal quality in W., 73, 293.
Inconsistency, W.’s, 237.
India used symbolically, 243-4.
See “Passage to I.”
Indian Bureau, W. a clerk in, 210;
Indians on L. I., 1-2;
W.’s relations with Indians, 210.
Industrial revolution, the, 307.
Ingersoll, R. G., and W., 274;
lectures on Whitman, 317;
tribute to W., 332;
W.’s view of I., ib.;
his agnosticism, 333;
lecture on W., 333-5;
visits W., 342;
at the funeral, 346.
“Inner Light,” doctrine of, 16, 17.
Institutions, W. and, 165, 323.
“Ireland, Old,” 205.
Irish immigration, 82.
Irving, Washington, 93.
Israel, prophets of, 238, 241, 291.
Italy and America, xx;
rise of a new, 205-6.
“I was looking a long while,” 153.

Jackson, President, 13, 23, 27, 38, 174.
Jamaica Academy, L. I., W. at, 33.
Japan, W. talks of, 268.
Japanese Embassy, first, 172, 205.
Jayne’s Hill, 2.
Jefferson, President, 13, 23, 25, 26, 38, 136.
Jesus, 74;
W.’s relation to, 76, 227-9;
W.’s poem to, 167-8;
and Humanity, 229.
See Christ.
Jingoism in America, 43-4.
Job, 318.
Johnson, President, 189, 235.
Johnston, Col., 257.
Johnston, Gen., 182.
Johnston, Mrs. Alma C., 280, 282.
Johnston, J., 336.
Johnston, J. H., 342;
W. visits, 266, 270, 280.
Journalist, W. as a, 33-45.
Journeys, W.’s, extent of, xxvii.
See South, West, Canada.
Joy, the note of L. of G., 90-1.
Judiciary Square Hospital, 194.

Kansas, 80, 134-5.
Keats, J., 59, 91.
Kennedy, W. S., 317;
W.’s letter to, 282;
his reminiscences, 301.
“Knowledge alone, Long I thought that,” 132-3.
“Know-nothing” party, 134-5.
Kossabones, W.’s ancestors, 31.

Labour agitator’s disappointment with W., a, 322.
Labour problem, W. and the, 306-13, 322-3;
in America, 308;
in Europe, 308-9;
in Long Island and N.Y., 309;
in America after the war, 310;
problem of immigration, ib.;
laissez-faire, 310-1;
the socialists, 311;
W. and Trade-Unionism, 312;
W. and Toynbee Hall, 313.
Lafayette, Gen., revisits America, 11.
Laissez-faire, 310-1.
Laurel Springs, 260.
Lamarck, 62.
Laws, W. and the, 292.
“Laws for Creations,” 153.
Laziness, W.’s, 30-1.
Leaves of Grass, title explained, 72;
character of various sections, 286-7;
unity as a whole, 287-8;
style of, 84, 92, 98, 104-7, 150-1, 244, 273, 289-91, 328;
genesis and evolution, 329;
W. and, 330, 335;
O’Connor and, 191;
Ingersoll and, 332-5;
Bucke and, 336;
the war and, 339;
conception, 55;
gestation, 85-7.
First edition, 87-8;
attitude of family to, 88;
own view, an expression of himself, 89-90;
the keynote, joy, 90-1;
Emerson’s appreciation, 91-2;
book described, 95-104;
religious emotion in, 105-6;
compared with Emerson’s writings, 106-7;
reception of, in America and England, 108-9;
writes notices of, 109;
its American character emphasised, ib.;
occupies W.’s time, 111;
Emerson’s dictum on, 115;
spirit of revolt in this edition, 296-7;
see also 148, 217.
Second edition (1856), 116-129, 148;
open letter to Emerson in appendix, 127-8;
rapid sale, 128-9.
Third edition, xxvi-xxvii, 132-3, 141-2, 218, 284-6;
described, 148-170;
personal note dominant in, 148-9;
importance of this edition, 149-50;
unity of volume, its optimism and mysticism, 151-2;
welcome to death characteristic of, 152-3;
his work a beginning, 154;
Children of Adam, 159-62;
Calamus group, 162-7;
poem to Jesus, 167-8;
poems of death, 169-70;
its circulation, 171;
in England, 172;
and the war, 180.
Drum-taps, 205-9;
“When lilacs last,” 211;
is read by students, 217;
written under strong emotion, 220.
Fourth edition (1867), 219, 221;
W.’s views of, ib.;
Rossetti’s selections, 221-2;
the book in England, 223;
Mrs. Gilchrist and, 225-7, 264.
Fifth edition (1871), 242;
Passage to India, 243;
style of, 244;
read in Europe, 245;
poems of illness and death, 253-5.
Centennial edition (1876), 259, 265, 286;
sells well, 266;
preface to, 267;
and the Rocky Mountains, 273.
Second Boston edition, 283-4, 286-8, 301;
attacked by District Attorney, 284-5;
sales, 305;
diminution of, 316;
re-published by McKay, 285;
Worthington and, 286.
Sands at Seventy, 329-30;
latest poems, 338-41.
Tenth edition, 342.
Leaves of Grass, a section of third edition, 150.
Lectures, W.’s, 129, 193, 270;
to supplement L. of G., 129-30;
a course on Democracy undelivered, 132.
See Lincoln lecture, and Oratory.
Lee, General, 182, 184, 187, 188, 324.
Leibnitz, 62.
Liberty, immortal, 103.
Liberty party, 79.
Libraries, 153.
Life and Death, 104.
Lilacs, 305.
“Lilacs last in the Door-yard bloom’d, When,” 211-2.
Lincoln, President, xxiii, 5, 80, 121, 132;
described, 134;
protests against Dred Scott decision, 135;
senatorial contest with Douglas, ib.;
attitude toward slavery, 136-7, 181-2;
in N.Y., 172;
election of (1860), 172, 174;
interregnum before inauguration, 175;
passes through N.Y., 175-6;
his inaugural address, 176;
and the war, 177, 179;
call for troops, 178;
his first tasks, 181-2;
proclamation of emancipation, 183;
speech at Gettysburg, 184;
and abolition, 181-2, 187;
enters Richmond, 188;
re-election and assassination, 189, 210, 264-5;
nature of his relation to America, 189;
is denounced by W. Phillips, 191;
American suspicion of his policy, 211;
effect of his death, 211-2;
and the South, 189, 324;
and the West, 271;
W. and, 234, 278;
W. often meets, 201;
W.’s faith in, 203;
at last levee, 210;
L.’s dictum on W., ib.;
W. and L.’s death, 278.
“Lincoln’s burial hymn, President.” See Lilacs last.
Lincoln lecture, W.’s, 270, 278, 317, 332.
Lind, Jenny, 85, 86.
Linton, W. J., 257.
Lionising, W. and, 332.
Literary circle, W.’s dislike of, 144.
Literature necessary for national life, 236-242.
“Live-oak growing, I saw in Louisiana a,” 163, 250.
Loafing of W., 141.
Locomotive first enters N.Y., 42.
“Locomotive in Winter, To a,” 271.
London, Ont., W. at, 270.
Longfellow, H. W., 59, 88, 94, 138, 301, 336;
and W., 278-9.
“Long I thought that Knowledge alone,” 132-3;
Symonds and, 224.
Long Island described, 1-3, 28-9;
W. and, 31, 85, 89, 280.
Long Island Patriot, W. and the, 20.
Long Island Star, W. and the, 20.
Long Islander, The, 56;
W. founds the, 31-2.
Love, the divine, 119;
“the kelson” of the Universe, 72, 98;
the one essential, 125;
the passion of, 127;
W. recognises power of, 35;
W.’s religion one of, 77;
love of Nature, W.’s, 260-1.
Lowell, J. R., 59, 94, 317.
Luther, 146.
Lynching, W. denounces, 42.
Lyrical ballads, 290.
Lytton, Lord, 35, 247.

Madison Sq. Theatre, N.Y., W. at, 317.
“Magnet South,” 235.
Man, L. of G., not a book but a, 158.
“Man-o’-War Bird, The,” 259.
Mannahatta, early name for N.Y., 20.
See N.Y.
Manual work, its value to W., 85.
Maretzek, 85.
Marriage, W. and, 50-3, 323, 336-7.
“Mary, Aunt,” 321.
Mary and Martha, 164.
Marx, Karl, 309.
Mazzini, 62, 173;
and W., 293-4.
McClellan, Gen., 182, 189, 211.
McKay, David, 285, 305.
McKnight, Mrs., 234.
Meade, Gen., 184-5.
Mendelssohn, 320.
Menken, Adah Isaacs, 49.
Meredith, G., 60, 225, 291.
Messenger Leaves (section of L. of G.), 167-9.
Meteors in 1860, 173.
Methodist vote, Mr. Harlan and the, 213.
Mexican War, W.’s attitude towards, 43.
Mickle Street, house in, described, 305, 317-9, 320.
Mill, J. S., W. and, 308.
Miller, “Joaquin,” 64, 270.
Millet, J. F., W. and, 84, 279-80, 293.
Milton, 58, 121.
Millwell. See West Hills.
Mississippi, W. descends the, 47;
ascends, 53;
W. and the, 54, 270-1, 273.
Missouri Compromise, 26, 134;
River, 54;
State, 271.
Modesty, W.’s, 329.
Money, W.’s indifference to, 65, 87;
need for, 193, 198;
income, 218-9;
difficulties, 257-9, 316-7;
see also 285, 341.
Montauk Point, 1.
Montgomery, Ala., 175.
Moralist versus mystic, 152;
W. as a, 237, 292.
Morris, W., 293, 331;
W. compared with, 296.
Morse, Sidney, makes a bust of W., 265, 320;
discussions with “Aunt Mary,” 321;
with W., 322-3.
Mount Vernon, W. visits, 215.
“Mugwumps,” 314.
Murray and Byron, Mr., 285.
“Music always round me, That,” 164-5.
Music, Mrs. Gilchrist and Carpenter’s attitude towards, 267;
W. and, 85-6, 320.
Myers, F. W., 224.
Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, W. at, 56.
Mysticism and materialism, xxiii;
various forms of, 70, 121;
Whitman’s, 69-78, 117-121, 149, 152-67, 254, 298-300;
and nature, 261-2, 339-40;
and oratory, 130-1;
and Quakerism, 180;
and sex, 226;
and war, 180-1, 207-8;
philosophy of, 166-7.
Myths, reverence for, 104.
See Great are the M.

Name, the power of the, 158.
Napoleon, 289.
“Native Moments,” 161.
Natural history, W.’s ignorance of, 230, 260-2.
Nature and soul-life, 340;
W.’s love of, 260-2.
Negroes, W. doubts if they are worth cost of war, 186-7;
W. and negro citizenship, 187;
O’Connor and W. disagree about, 191;
W. and negro problem, 235-6.
New Amsterdam. See New York.
New England, W. visits, in 1868, 234.
New Orleans of ’48 described, 48-50;
W. goes to, 44, 46-53, 349-50;
reminiscences of, 329.
New World, The (N.Y.), W. and, 33-7.
New York described, 11, 20-22, 80-86, 139-40;
art collections of, 279;
sympathy with South, 24, 178;
attitude towards Lincoln, 175-6;
during war, 185, 206;
W. and, xxvi-viii, 41-2, 64, 111, 245, 266, 270, 280;
W. criticises, 236;
he leaves, 183.
New York Evening Post, W. writes for, 42.
New York Herald, The, 115, 316.
New York Saturday Press, W. and the, 138-9.
New York Sun, W. writes for, 37, 127.
New York Times, 184, 209.
New York Tribune, the, 39, 40, 87, 108, 259, 285;
W.’s poems in, 46.
Newspapers, W. and, 62-3.
Niagara, W. at, 54, 274.
Nibelungenlied, 58, 337.
Nietzsche and Whitman, 213, 293, 296-8.
Nonconformity, W.’s, 99.
North, its interests antagonistic to the South, 24-5;
becomes identified with Federalism, 26;
not united, 176;
idealism of, 177;
and protection, ib.
North American Review, 108.
November Boughs, 329-30, 339.
“Now Finalé to the Shore,” 243.
Nurse, W.’s, 326.

“Occupations, Song for,” 101.
O’Connor, W. D., W. visits and boards with, 190, 201, 215, 225;
described, 190-1;
and Harlan, 214;
his The Carpenter, 227-9;
W.’s quarrel with, 236, 248, 250, 258;
and Messrs. Osgood, 285;
dies, 326-7, 336.
See also Good Gray Poet.
O’Connor, Mrs., 234, 248.
See also W. D.O’C.
Officials, W.’s dislike of, 306.
Old-age, W.’s view of, 330.
“Old Jim Crow,” W. fond of, 303.
Omar Khayyam, 159, 318.
“On the Beach at Night alone,” 120.
“Once I passed through a populous City,” 51.
Open-air, cure, W. tries, 260;
W.’s love for, 199;
W. writes in the, 101.
See Nature.
“Open Road, Song of the,” 116, 119-20.
Opera, W. at, 88, 178.
Optimism, W.’s, 41-2, 91, 151, 200;
false popular, 237-8.
Oratory, W.’s love for, 33;
his conception of, 129-31, 135, 143.
See also Lectures.
Oregon, dispute over boundary of, 43.
Oriental writers, W.’s interest in, 115.
Orsini, 136.
Osgood & Co., 280, 285, 301.
Ossian, 58, 289, 318.
“Our old Feuillage,” 150.
“Out of the Cradle,” 12, 158, 211, 281.
“Outlines for a Tomb,” 313.
“Overmen,” doctrine of, 297, 299.
Owen, Robert, 308-9.

Paine, Thomas, xxv, 5, 16, 25, 38.
Painting, W.’s appreciation of, 84, 279-80.
Paley, 62.
Pall Mall Gazette fund, 316.
Pan, W. compared with, 112.
Paralysis, W. begins to suffer from, 232.
See Health.
Parker, T., 143.
Parodi, 85.
Parties, W. outside political, 312.
Passage to India (booklet), 242-244;
poem, 243-4, 249, 266, 287.
Passion, W. and, 161-2, 206.
Passionate element in W., 13, 68.
Past, the, still present, 153, 256.
Patent Office, Washington, used as hospital, 194;
ball, 210.
Paternity, redemption of, 127, 241.
Patriotism, W.’s, aroused, 54-5.
Paumànackers, 3.
“Paumanok,” nom-de-plume of W., 39.
Peabody, George, 313.
Peace, efforts towards, 185, 188;
need for heroic idea of, 206-9.
Penn, William, 5.
Pension, proposed, 316.
Personal note in L. of G., 158.
Personality, Carpenter’s account of W.’s, 268, 306;
the source of power, 169;
W.’s doctrine of, 239-40;
W. retains sense of own, 74;
W.’s, influence of, 30.
Pessimism, Tolstoi’s, 295-6;
Morris and Ruskin’s, 296.
Pfaff’s Restaurant, N.Y., 138-40.
Philadelphia, W. in, 251, 331-5.
See Camden.
Phillips, Wendell, on Lincoln, 191.
Philosophy, W.’s interest in, 60-62.
Phrenological estimate of W.’s character, 67-8.
Pierce, President, 80, 103, 135.
“Pioneers! O Pioneers!” 205.
Pittsburg, W. at, 271.
Plato, 58, 121, 126, 239, 240, 282;
and W., 224, 291-2.
Plotinus, 121.
Poe, E. A., 37, 59, 258, 320;
W. meets, 42.
Poet, W. describes his ideal, 95-7, 103, 117-8, 123-4;
need of the poet for expression, 89-90;
alone realises unity of all, 243;
W. as a, 328-9.
Poets, two orders of, 328-9.
“Poets to Come,” 154.
Poetry, W.’s view of, 59-61, 109;
W. reads by the sea, 60;
changes in modern English, 289-290.
Polk, President, 40, 43.
Poor, a menace to Democracy, the very, 240, 310-1.
Pope, A., W. compared with, 151, 289.
Population of America, xxv, 176, 308.
Portraits of W. in 36th year, 66-7;
L. of G. portrait, 110;
“gentle shepherd,” 218;
others, 140-1, 148, 230, 257, 331, 338.
See list of illustrations.
Pose, W.’s, 338.
Potter, Dr. J., on W., 229-30.
Prairies, W. and the, 271.
Praise, W.’s love of, 303, 335.
Prayer, W. and, 76.
“Prayer of Columbus,” 253;
described, 254-5.
Pre-existence, W.’s doctrine of, 101.
Preface of 1855 used for poems, 116;
omitted, 129;
in selections, 223.
Preface to 1871 ed., 243.
Preface to 2nd Annex, 339.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 97.
Price, Mrs. Abby, 139, 219-20.
Price, Miss, qu., 219-20.
Pride, W.’s, 156, 317.
Printer, W. as a, 19-20, 56.
Prisons of the South, 187;
W. visits prisons, 111-2.
Property, W. and private, 240;
rights of, 311.
Prosecution of W. proposed in 1856, 127;
in 1882, 284-5.
“Prostitute, To a Common,” 168.
Proudhon, 309.
Publisher, W. as his own, 219, 258, 259, 285, 305.
Punishment, method of, 30.
“Pupil, To a,” 169.
Puritanism, W. free from, 19.
Putnam’s Monthly, 108.

Quaker traits in W., 112;
W.’s story of a, 334-5.
Quakeresses in hospitals, 195.
Quakers, 121;
on L. I., 4-5;
a crisis among American, 14, 15;
attitude to war, W. and the, 206;
doctrine of Inner Light, 16, 17;
doctrine of revelation, 55;
essential character of their faith, 18;
W.’s relation to, 75-6, 180, 206, 298-9, 301-2;
Williams family and the, 347-8.
Quebec, W. at, 276.

Radical, The (Boston), publishes Mrs. Gilchrist’s letters, 225.
“Rain, The voice of the,” 330.
Ramsay, A., 290.
Rand and Avery, 283.
Realisation, W.’s power of, 99.
Reality, evil necessary to, 212.
Recitations, W.’s in hospitals, 197.
Redpath, James, 198.
“Redwood Tree, Song of the,” 253;
described, 255-6.
Refinement, W. disclaims, 113.
Reformer, The, 349.
Rejected passages, 286.
Religion, W.’s, 18-19, 70-8, 149, 241-4, 254, 299;
and poetry, 61;
new, 339;
importance of, for America, 238, 241.
See Mysticism.
Religious emotion in L. of G., 105-6.
Renaissance in America, xxiv.
“Renfrew, Baron,” 173.
Republic, W.’s idea of, 292.
See America.
Republican becomes Democratic party, 13;
new party formed, 132, 134;
and the South, 189, 235;
and corruption, 314.
Respectable, W. seems to be growing, 216, 218.
“Respondez,” 124.
“Return of the Heroes, The,” 209.
Reviews himself, W., 109, 323-4.
Revolt, W.’s, against bondage, 296-7.
Rhythm, changes in rhythm of poetry, 290-1;
various emotional values of, 291;
W.’s feeling for sea, 60;
free, Emerson studies, 93;
W.’s view of, 96-8.
Rich, W. in danger of becoming, 57.
“Rich Givers, To,” 169.
Richmond, the Confederate capital, 182;
surrenders, 188.
“Rise, O Days, from your fathomless Deeps,” 206.
Robespierre, 289.
Rock Creek, W. at, 201.
Rocky Mountains, W. in the, 272-3.
Rodin, A., 130.
Rolleston, T. W., his Epictetus, 318.
“Rolling Earth, Song of the,” 117-9.
Romance of America, the, xix-xxiii.
Rome, Andrew, printer, 88.
Romney, 264.
Roosa, D. B. St. J., qu., 137-8.
“Roots and leaves themselves alone,” 165.
Rossetti, W. M., 97, 171, 259, 263-4;
his selections from L. of G., 221-3, 227, 245;
criticism of L. of G., 222;
relations with W., 223, 259;
and Mrs. Gilchrist’s letters, 225.
Rossetti, D. G., 222, 223, 263-4, 328.
Rossi, 284.
“Roughs,” W. “one of the,” 114.
“Rounded Catalogue, The,” 340.
Rousseau, J. J., 23, 58, 97, 108, 263, 289, 292.
Royce, Josiah, his World and the Individual, 166.
Rumford, Count (Colonel Thompson), 2.
Ruskin, J., 62, 171, 263, 296.
Rynders, Isaiah, 82.

Saadi, 318.
Saint, W. no, 76, 337.
St. Lawrence River, W.’s view of the, 276.
St. Louis, W. visits, 53, 271, 273, 286.
St. Simon, 309.
Saguenay, W. on the, 276.
“Salut au Monde,” 116, 158.
Sanborn, F. B., W. visits, 281-2.
San Francisco, 63.
Sand, George, 293, 318.
Sanity, W.’s, 297.
Santayana, George, his criticism of W., 329 n.
Satan, 212, 298, 297, 321.
“Scented herbage of my breast,” 167.
Science, W. and, 60-2, 96, 242;
Mrs. Gilchrist and Carpenter’s attitude toward, 267.
Scott, Sir Walter, 57, 91, 318, 320;
W. reads, 19.
Scott, W. Bell, 171, 223.
Sea, W. and the, 9, 31, 58, 60, 154-5.
Secession, South Carolina proposes, 24;
proclaims, 175;
not desired by America, 176;
soldiers, W. nurses, 199;
talk in New England, 27.
Self, the, 74, 166;
and the Other, 61;
the electric, 154.
Self-assertion, W.’s doctrine of, 76, 297.
Self-consciousness of W., 128.
Self-realisation, gospel of, 148, 253.
Self-revelation of W., 264.
Semele, 275.
Seward, W. H., 79, 172, 175.
Sex, W. and, 144-7, 159-62, 167;
W.’s expanded conception of, 226;
Thoreau puzzled by W.’s view, 115;
W.’s experience of, 71;
and religion, 70-1;
basic in life, 126-7.
Shakespeare, xxi, 57, 318.
Shelley, P. B., W. indifferent to, 59;
compared with, 107-8;
also 91, 97, 290, 295.
Sherman, Gen., 187;
his march to the sea, 188.
Ships, W.’s love of, 60, 335-6, 343-4;
Yankee clipper, 64.
Sin, W.’s attitude toward, 18, 124-5, 151, 156, 161, 255.
Skin, rich texture of W.’s, 316.
Slavery, 79-81, 135-7;
divides North from South, 25;
W. and, 103;
and Democratic party, 82, see Abolitionism, etc.;
S. party and election of 1860, 173-4;
and the war, 177;
in N.Y., 310-1.
Slave-trade, 140.
Sleep, W. on, 102.
“Sleepers, The,” 102, 274.
Sleepy Hollow, 301.
Smith, Adam, 308.
Smith, Mary Whitall. See Mrs. Berenson.
Smith, R. Pearsall, 297;
relations with W., 301-4;
leaves Philadelphia, 325.
Smoking, 32.
See Tobacco.
Social functions, W.’s interest in, 40.
Social problem in N.Y., 139-40.
Socialism, W. and, 239, 312.
Socialist, ideal, the, 308-9, 312;
party in America, 311;
Socialists, early, 308.
Solidarity, of the nation, felt in war-time, 207;
of the peoples, 205-6;
W.’s feeling for, 239-40, 242-3, 306-7, 337, 343.
Solitude, W.’s, 233, 331, 342;
compared with Thoreau and Emerson’s, 113-4.
“So Long,” 169.
“Sometimes with one I love,” 164.
“Song of Myself,” 122, 243, 286;
analysed, 98-101;
qu., 72 n.;
called “Walt Whitman,” 150.
Sophocles, 57.
Soul, the flesh and the, in modern religion, 61;
and Science, 96, 242;
in Nature, 102, 340;
W.’s view of the, 98, 120, 149.
South, its interests antagonistic to those of the North and West, 24-5;
similarity of interest with N.Y., 25;
policy, 26, 43;
and the war, 82-3, 176-7, 187, 235;
slavery and the, 25, 80-1;
pride of the, 187, 324;
Lincoln and, 189;
and the Union, 180, 314;
W. and the, 46-55, 180, 235, 237, 349-50.
South Carolina, and Federal tariff, 24, 27.
Southey, R., 327.
“Sovereign States,” doctrine of, 26.
Specimen Days, 262, 266.
Specimen Days and Collect, 286.
Spectacles, W. begins to wear, 245.
Speech, W.’s manner of, 98;
W.’s style and, 291.
Spencer, Herbert, 62, 263.
Spirits, W. and, 149.
Spiritualistic woman and W., 234.
“Spontaneous Me,” 127.
Spooner, Alden J., 20, 22, 30-1.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 259.
Square Deific. See “Chanting the S. D.”
“Squatter Sovereignty,” 44, 79, 80, 134.
Stafford family, 260;
George, 260-2, 266, 280, 343.
Stage-driver, W. as a, 137;
stage-drivers of N.Y., 138.
See Broadway.
Stanton, Mrs. E. C., 126.
Stars and Stripes, the, xx, 335.
“Starting from Paumanok,” 148.
Staten Island, N.Y., 140.
Statesman, The, W. edits, 37.
Stay-at-home, W. a, 64.
Steam-transit and Federal sentiment, 27.
Stedman, E. C., 191, 317-8.
Stockton, Commodore, 63.
“Stranger, To a,” 165.
Strength, W.’s great physical, 68.
Stubborn quality in W., 251.
Style of L. of G., 84, 92, 104-5, 150-1, 244, 289-91.
See under L. of G.
Subjective character of W.’s genius, 105.
Suggestiveness of L. of G., 269.
Sumter, Fort, 178.
“Sunset Breeze, To the,” 339, 340.
“Sunset, Song at,” 152.
Sunstroke, an early, 200-1;
another, 314.
Superhuman quality in W., 228;
noted by M. Conway, 111;
by Thoreau, 115.
Swayne, bookseller, 87.
Swinburne, A. C., 60, 223-5, 245, 327-9.
Swinton, John, 138.
Symbolism, W.’s, 117-8, 120;
example of the broad-axe, 122.
See Mysticism.
Symonds, J. A., W.’s letter to, 51, 349-50;
and L. of G., 172, 224-5;
account of, 223-4, 245, 267, 291, 336, 343.
Sympathy, W.’s yearning for, 267.

Tammany Hall, 38, 82, 178.
Taney, R. B., 135.
Tariffs, 24.
See Free-trade.
Tattler, W. edits, 37.
Taylor, Father, as described by W., 142-3;
death, 283.
Taylor, President, 45, 50.
Teacher, W. as a, 28-33, 233;
method of punishment, 30.
Teetotalism, W.’s support of, 33, 35-7.
See Temperance.
Temperance, W.’s, 122, 159-60, 315.
Tennyson, A., Lord, 35, 92, 109, 223, 245, 283, 290, 318, 336;
W. enjoys, 59;
W. reads aloud, 275;
regards W. as “a great big something,” 115;
and W., 339.
Texas admitted to Union, 43.
Thayer & Eldridge, publishers, 141-2, 171, 190.
Theatres of N.Y., W. goes to, 85-6, 19, 41, 270, 284.
Theory, W. no adept in, 75.
“There was a child went forth,” 103.
“These I singing in spring,” 163.
“Think of the soul,” 125.
Thoreau, H. D., 129, 171, 282-3, 301, 303, 335;
visits W., 112-6;
and J. Brown, 136,159;
W. solitary as, 233.
“Thou Mother with thy equal brood,” 245.
Timber Creek, W. visits, 259-61, 268, 281;
descriptions of, 260-1;
W. to have a cottage at, 317.
Tippecanoe, fight at, 38.
Tobacco, W. distributes in hospitals, 197.
Tolstoi, L., 293;
W. compared with, 295-6.
Tomb, W.’s, 341.
“To one shortly to die,” 168.
“To soar in Freedom,” 328.
“To think of Time,” 102.
Towards Democracy, E. Carpenter’s, 267, 305.
Toynbee Hall, W. and, 313.
Trade-Unionism, W. and, 312.
Tragedy, W.’s predilection for, in earlier writings, 34-5.
Tramp, W. envies the, 326.
Traubel, Horace, relations with W., 325, 326, 329, 331, 332, 342, 343, 344;
quoted, 349-50;
sec. of W. Fellowship, 300 n.
Treasury Building, W. at, 190, 215, 233, 247.
Tribune, New York. See N. Y. T.
“Trickle Drops,” 165.
Tri-Insula, a republic, 178.
Trowbridge, J. T., 142.
Tuft’s College, Mass., 255.
Tupper, M. F., W. compared with, 327.
“Twain, Mark,” 317.
“Two Rivulets” described, 266.
Tyler, President, 38.

Ulysses’ return, 276.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 81, 187.
Unitarianism, W.’s relation to, 76.
Union, W. and the idea of the American, 55.
Unity, W.’s doctrine of the universal, 120;
of L. of G., 221.
“Universal, Song of the,” 253;
described, 255.
Untidiness, W.’s, 318.

Van Buren, 44;
W. supports, 33, 38.
Van Velsor, Major C., 4, 10;
family, 347.
— Louisa. See L. Whitman.
— Naomi. See Williams.
Verdi, 320.
Verse, W. writes, 47.
Vice, Society for the Suppression of, 284, 285.
Victoria, Queen, W. and, 339.
Vicksburg taken by Grant, 185.
Virgil, 318.
Virginia, xx, 26, 188.
“Vocalism,” 157.
Voice, W.’s, described, 98;
W. and the, 154, 157.
Vow, Whitman’s (1861), 181, 204, 216.

Wagner, R., 293, 320.
Wales, Prince of, and W., 173.
Walks at Washington, W.’s, 215, 233.
Wallace, A. R., 62.
Wallace, J. W., visits W., 338.
“Walt,” W. calls himself, 141.
Walt Whitman Club, 325;
fellowship, 300 n.
War, W.’s attitude towards, 43, 202-3, 205-9;
and “a divine war,” 206;
his mysticism of, 207-8;
must be followed by nobler peace, 208-9.
War of 1812, 10.
War of 1861-65, 182-203;
causes of, 82, 208;
inevitableness, 177;
not for abolition, 187;
W. and the, xxvi, 178-209;
ready to share in, 202.
Washington, President, xxv, 5, 10, 38, 289;
W. compares himself with, 131.
Washington, condition of, during war, 194-8, 216.
Washington, W. in, xxvii, 184-248, 301, 306;
its influence on W., 150, 245;
W. visits hospitals, see H.;
W.’s manner of life in, 190, 193, 215;
W. fond of, 201-2;
why he remains, 218-9;
walks at, 233;
W. and negro problem in, 235;
hopes to return, 252;
discharged from post, 257;
visit to, 258.
Wealth of America becoming concentrated, 310.
Webster, Daniel, 42, 79.
Wesley, J., 290.
West, the, its interests, 24;
its settlement threatens the South, 26;
problem of, 79;
W. and the, xxvii;
first sees, 54;
contemplates settlement in, 183;
journey, 271-4.
West Hills, the Whitman homestead, 5, 103, 260, 320;
described, 7-9;
holidays at, 12;
W. visits, 280.
“What am I after all,” 158.
Whigs, the American, 23, 24, 44.
Whitehorse, the hamlet of, W. stays at, 259-60.
See Timber Creek.
Whitman, Abijah, 5.
— Andrew, 13, 86, 193, 256.
— Edward, 86, 256, 341.
— George, 13, 86, 182, 185, 246, 248, 250, 256, 257, 266, 342;
view of L. of G., 88;
volunteers, 178-9;
wounded, 183;
anxiety about, 203;
a prisoner, 209-10;
in Brooklyn, 218;
in Camden, 246;
W. leaves his house, 305.
Whitman, Hannah. See Heyde.
— Iredwell, 280.
— Jefferson, 13, 50, 53, 86, 88, 185, 193, 251, 256, 273;
goes to St. Louis, 218;
W. visits there, 265-5;
death of, 342.
— Jesse (W.’s grandfather), xxv, 5, 6, 8.
— Jesse (W.’s brother), 11, 65, 86, 256.
— Jessie, 342.
— Joseph, 5.
— Lieutenant, 5.
— Louisa (van Velsor), 4, 65, 103, 112;
described, 6-7;
and W., 12-3;
illness, 19-20;
and L. of G., 88;
letters of W. to, 202, 233, 247, etc.;
age and failing health, 210;
a link with W.’s youth, 233;
goes to Camden, 246;
death, 248;
effect on W., 249, 250, 252, 258;
her tomb, 341.
— Louisa (Mrs. George W.), 250, 269.
— Mahala, 280.
— Martha, 248.
— Mary, 11, 86.
— Walt, Dutch element in, 3;
born, 6;
at West Hills, 7-9;
at Brooklyn, 10-3;
hears Hicks, 15-8;
amusements and education, 19;
as a lad, 19-20;
sees Booth, 22;
and politics, 22, 33;
at seventeen, 28;
as a teacher, 28-33;
games, 30;
his idleness, 20, 30-1;
and Long Islander, 31-2;
wholesomeness, 32;
a journalist, 33-7;
Franklin Evans, 35;
an editor, 37;
political views, 39, 40, 44;
love of society, 40;
and of New York, 20, 41-2;
the Eagle, 42-4;
public work, 43;
goes to New Orleans, 46, 49-53;
returns via St. Louis, 54;
his idea of America, 55;
becomes a carpenter, 56;
his reading, 57-61;
attitude to American writers, 59-60;
and to science, etc., 60-2;
passion for America, 63;
inner development, 65, 69-78;
W. at 35, 66-8, 83;
in N.Y., 82-6;
hears Alboni, 86;
indifference to money, 87;
begins L. of G., 87;
publishes it, 88;
daily habits, 65, 88;
holidays, 86, 89;
power of joy, 91;
compared with Emerson, 94;
view of the poet, 95-7;
describes his childhood, 103-4;
religious quality of W., 105-6;
relation to Emerson, Rousseau, Shelley, 106-8;
reviews L. of G., 109;
visit from Conway, 110-2;
appearance in ’55, 111;
visit from Alcott and Thoreau, 112-5;
love of city-life, 114;
publishes second edition L. of G., 116;
symbolism of W., 117-22;
W. as the American poet, 123;
W. and evil, 124-5;
and women, 126-7;
in danger of prosecution, 127;
publishes Emerson’s letter, 127-8;
his letter to E., 128;
idea of lecturing, 129-31;
and of political life, 131-2;
need for comrades, 132-3;
becomes a Republican, 134;
W. and J. Brown, 136;
W.’s N.Y. friends, 137;
in N.Y., 138-40;
appearance in 1860, 140;
rarely laughs, 142;
at Boston, 142-3;
with Emerson, 143-7;
his optimism, 151;
humility, 154;
mystic experience, 155;
pride, 156;
evil qualities, 156;
attitude toward sex, 159-62;
his temperance, 160;
as Adam, 162;
on comradeship, 163;
W. and Jesus, 167-8;
and death, 169;
W. in N.Y., 172;
and P. of Wales, 173;
sees Lincoln, 175-6;
W. and the outbreak of war, 178-81;
goes to front, 183-4;
home-troubles, 185-6, 193;
life in Washington, 190, 193, 201;
friends there, 190-2;
appearance, 192;
occupation, 192-3;
health, 193;
thinks of lecturing, 193-4;
in hospitals, 194-200;
meets Lincoln, 201;
first illness, 202, 203-4;
willing to share in war, 203;
in Brooklyn, 203-5, 209;
prepares Drum-taps, 205;
attitude to war, 205-9;
seeks release of George W., 209-10;
clerk in Indian Bureau, 210
W. and Lincoln’s death, 211-2;
Harlan incident, 213-4;
as a clerk, 216;
gentler, 217;
decreasing vitality, 218;
visits Mrs. Price, 219-20;
relations with W. M. Rossetti, 223;
with Symonds, 223-5;
Mrs. Gilchrist’s letters, 225;
W. and sex, 226;
legendary element in story of W., 227;
outcome of his personality, 228-9;
W. and P. Doyle, 231-3;
W.’s solitude, 233;
W. and women, 234;
supports Grant, 235;
quarrel with O’Connor, 236;
his Democratic Vistas, 236-42;
publishes fifth edition of L. of G., 242;
W. a careful writer, 244;
public recitation of poems, 245;
illness, 247-57;
goes to Camden, 248;
effect of mother’s death, 249;
loneliness in Camden, 250;
poems at this juncture, 253-5;
his residence, 256;
discharged from post, 257;
poverty and help from England, 258-9;
visits Timber Creek, 260-2;
Mrs. Gilchrist comes to Phila., 263-5;
W. sits for bust, 265;
Carpenter’s visit and account of W., 267-9;
Dr. Bucke’s do., 270;
W.’s journey West, 271-4;
and to Canada, 274-7;
goes to Boston, 278-82;
sees Emerson, 282;
L. of G. troubles, 284-6;
W. and other prophetic writers, 289-300;
puts himself into his rhythm, 291;
universality of W., 295;
and vital power, 298;
his friendship with Pearsall Smith, 301-4;
W. takes the Mickle St. house, 305;
second visit of Carpenter, 305-7;
W. and labour problems, 306-13;
was he a Socialist? 311-2;
W. a “mugwump,” 314;
his household, 317-9;
visitors, 319-24;
his politico-social views, 323-4;
serious illness, 326;
more querulous, 327;
Swinburne’s attack, 327;
increased need for silence, 331;
birthday dinners, 331-2;
Ingersoll’s lecture, 333-5;
W. and L. of G., 335-6;
his views of health, 338-40;
his tomb, 341;
last illness, 341-4;
last letter, 342;
death, 344;
funeral, 344-6;
note on visit to New Orleans, etc., 349-50.
Whitman, his characteristics, described by phrenologist, 67-8.
See also 303-4, 334, and under Anger, Coolness, Elemental quality, Evil in, Humility, Humour, Mysticism, Pride, Sanity, Wonder, etc.
— Walter (father of W.), 56, 103;
described, 6, 13-4;
moves to Brooklyn, 10;
relations with W., 12, 65;
death, 86, 88;
tomb, 341.
— Zechariah, 5.
Whitman, burying ground, West Hills, 9;
family, and Hicks, 14;
and L. of G., 88;
homestead at West Hills, 2.
See W. H.
Whitmanites, 218.
Whitman’s America, Introd.;
W. owes much to A., xxv;
its development, xxvi;
extent of W.’s journeys, xxvii;
W. a metropolitan American, and a type of America, xxvii-viii.
“Whitman’s hollow,” 5.
Whittier, J. G., 59, 336.
“Whoever you are holding me now in hand,” 163.
Whole, the idea of the, W.’s love for, 60-1.
“Who learns my lesson complete?” 104.
Wholesomeness, W.’s, 32.
Wickedness, W.’s attitude to, 104.
Williams, family of, 31, 347-8.
— Naomi, 4, 347-8.
— Roger, 4.
Wilmot proviso, the, 43, 44.
Wisconsin, State of, W. in, 54.
Wisdom found in fellowship, 164.
“Woman waits for Me, A,” 126.
Woman, W. and, 102, 125-7, 148, 225-6, 240, 274.
Women, W.’s relations with, 51-3, 71, 139, 160, 234, 263, 303, 323, 349-50.
Women of America, 122;
of Boston, 279.
Women’s suffrage, 240;
W. and, 125-6.
Wonder, W.’s capacity for, 78.
Wood, Fernando, 82, 178, 185.
Wood, Silas, 7.
Woodfall and Junius, 285.
“Word out of the Sea, A.” See “Out of the Cradle”.
Words, W.’s idea of, 96, 117-9;
W. invents, 212.
Wordsworth, W., 91, 97, 290;
W. and, 59.
Work, W.’s power of, 32.
Working-man, American, W. and the, 312, 322.
Worship, W. feels this is for solitude, 142.
Worthington, Mr., 285-6.

Yankee, W. dislikes the, 103.
“Years of the Modern,” 205-6.
Yeomen as citizens, 306, 308.
Young people, W. and, 275, 303.
Youth, America the land of, xx-xxii.

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