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  • 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; 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, 269-1, 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., 47-25;
  • 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., 330.
  • Harlan, James, 219, 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.
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  • “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, 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, 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., 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, 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.
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  • 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, 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.
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