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Aarnes, William, 563 Antoinette, Marie, 378 Abbott, Berenice, 288 Arad, Michael, 562 Abbott, Dr Henry, 203, 226, 240, 241 Arendt, Hannah, 546 abolitionism, see slavery and race Argento, Dominick, 564 Abrams, M.H., 79, 485, 510 Aristidean, The,14 Achilles, Jochen, 132 Arkhurst, Mr, 241 Adams, John (composer), 270 Arnold, Matthew, 77, 541, 547 Adams, John (President), 143 art and daguerreotype galleries, see adhesiveness, 508–521 photography and other forms of visual Adrian, Chris, 555 culture Agassiz, Louis, 219–20 Arvin, Newton, 217, 449 Aiken, Major William A., 353, 354 Ashbery, John, 314, 315, Alboni, Marietta, 262, 264, 452, 471 500, 554 Ashton, J. Hubley, 561 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 17, Aspiz, Harold, 519, 562 395, 396, 397 Asselineau, Roger, 87, 92, 449 Alcott, Louisa May, 396, 397, 555 astronomy, see science and pseudoscience Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 17 Atlantic Monthly, The, 416–17, Alexander, John W., 25, 285 423, 525 Allen, Gay Wilson,COPYRIGHTED 195, 313, 422, 423, 425, Auden, MATERIAL W.H., 439 449, 502, 549 Austin, J.L., 374, 492 amativeness, 508–521 autoeroticism, see sexuality American Phrenological Journal, 171, 218, Azarnoff, Roy S., 92 228, 414 Ammons, A. R., 446 Bachman, John, 51, 52 Anderson, Benedict, 292 Bacon, Francis, 219 Anderson, Quentin, 486 Badiali, Cesare, 262, 554 Andrews, Malcolm, 56 Baez, Joan, 345, 346 Andrews, William, 110 Bakhtin, M.M., 299 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 589 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Banvard, John, 252 Bloomer, Amelia, 396 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 451 Bly, Robert, 452 Barnum, P. T., 239, 240, 241, 242–3, 244, Bohan, Ruth, 288, 444 245, 246, 247, 248–9, 254 Bolcom, William, 269 Barthes, Roland, 283 Booth, John Wilkes, 20 Baudelaire, Charles, 43, 487 Booth, Junius Brutus, 66, 554 Bauerlein, Mark, 87, 88, 89, 93, 375, 490, Booth, Mary L., 297 493, 505 Borges, Jorge Luis, 450, 451 Bazalgette, Leon, 443 Boston Commonwealth, 421 Beach, Christopher, 111 Boston Daily Evening Transcript, 419, 524 Beaver, Joseph, 217, 223, 225 Boston Daily Globe, 424 Beecher, Henry Ward, 381 Boston, Massachusetts, 17, 42, 105, 416, Beethoven, Ludwig von, 262, 498 424, 459 Belden, E. Porter, 51 Bowen, Charles, 556 Bellini, Vincenzo, 262 Bowers, Fredson, 508–9, 511 Bellows, George, 443–4 Boym, Svetlana, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, Belsey, Catherine, 180 301, 303, 309 Bene´t, Stephen Vincent, 447, 448, 451 Bradbury, Ray, 349 Benjamin, Park, 13, 31 Bradley, Sculley, 177, 193 Benjamin, Walter, 45 Bradstreet, Anne, 398 Bennett, James Gordon, 31, 238 Brady, Mathew, 280, 282, 284 Bergman, Herbert, 40 Bragg, Billy and Wilco, 346, 347 Berman, Morris, 96–7 Brand, Dana, 43, 45, 57 Bernstein, Leonard, 269 Brasher, Thomas L., 38, 171 Berrigan, Ted, 452 Brenton, James, 13 Berryman, John, 452 Bridge, Frank, 269 Bertolini, Vincent J., 90, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 Bright, John, 269 Bettini, Alessandro, 262–3 Brignoli, Pasquale, 262, 267 B’hoy figure, 67–8 Broadway Journal, 14, 259, 393 bibliography (Whitman’s prose works), Brooklyn Daily Advertiser,37 566–87 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 14, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, biography (Whitman’s life and work), 11–26 60, 94, 103, 104, 153, 171, 203, 218, birthplace, Whitman’s (West Hills, Long 234, 235, 236, 240, 243, 244, 249, Island), 11 250, 251, 258, 260, 261, 262, 399, Bishop, Elizabeth, 443 413, 522, 524, 541 Black, James Wallace, 284 Brooklyn Daily Evening Star, 36, 38, 258 Black, John, 36 Brooklyn Daily Times, 17, 36, 114, 414 Black, Stephen A., 505 Brooklyn Freeman, 15, 36, 37, 104 Blackwell, Thomas, 199 Brooklyn, New York, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, Blackwood’s Magazine, 218 34–5, 37, 38, 42, 48, 51, 52, 110, 132, Blair, Jayson, 555 192, 251, 258, 291, 293, 294, 296–7, Blake, William, 53, 101, 345 298, 303, 319, 325, 378, 410, 411, Bliss, Arthur, 269 485, 487, 489, 490, 522 Blodgett, Harold W., 177, 193 Brooklyn Standard, 293 Blondheim, Menahem, 34 Brown, Calvin, 266 Bloom, Harold, 79, 81, 88 Brown, Charles H., 37–8 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 590 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Brown, Henry Kirke, 279 Catherwood, Frederick, 250 Brown, John, 371, 397, 478, 528 Catlin, George, 228, 246, 247, 279, 280, 284 Brown, Lewis K., 19, 540, 542, 547 Cavell, Stanley, 79 Browning, Robert, 405 Cavitch, David, 176 Bryant, William Cullen, 31, 35, 49, 50, 313, Certeau, Michel de, 45, 51 393–4, 397, 398, 564 Chambers, Robert, 225 Buber, Martin, 493, 494 Channing, Reverend William Ellery, 234, Buchanan, Robert, 174 235, 236, 254, 392 Bucke, Richard Maurice, 23, 24, 25, 218, Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, 466, 467, 468 401, 402, 403, 441, 442, 443, 446, Chapin, William E., 419 496, 553, 563, 564 Chase, Richard, 544 Buckingham, Lindsey, 346 Cheneys, the, 258, 259 Buddha, 199, 202 Chicago Defender, The, 450 Buell, Lawrence, 312, 314 Chopin, Kate, 444 Bunker, Chang and Eng, 242 Christ, 199, 203, 204 Bunsen, Christian C. J., 363, 366 Christian Examiner, The, 414–15 Burkhardt, Edward, 51 Cincinnati Daily Commercial,497 Burns, Anthony, 105 city, Whitman and the, 42–59 Burns, Ken, 357, 448, 555 Civil War, the American, 290–310, 522–37 Burroughs, John, 19, 20, 22, 60, 216, 217, Clapp, Henry, 17, 420, 496 222, 313, 314, 319, 401, 402, 415, Clare, Ada, 17 441, 442, 556, 561 Clare, John, 314, 315 Bush, George W., 153, 453 Clark, Edward, 12 Bush, Laura, 453 Clark, Gregory, 88 Butler, Judith, 178, 308 Clark, James, 12 Butsch, Richard, 248 Clay, Henry, 31, 381 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 154, 155, 394, Cady, Joseph, 172 407, 424, 441 Camden Courier-Post, 342 Clements, Samuel E., 29 Camden, New Jersey, 22–5, 42, 132, 342–3, Clias, Phokion Heinrich (Peter Henry), 237 361, 407, 441–2, 450, 560 Clifford, William Kingdon, 216 Canby, Henry Seidel, 354, 449 Clinton, William Jefferson, 357, 452, 561 Cardona-Hine, Alvaro, 348 Colbert, Charles, 223 Carlisle, E. Fred, 493, 494 Cole, Thomas, 50, 228 Carlyle, Thomas, 21, 117, 144, 200, 201, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 49, 101, 200, 219, 203, 219, 261, 541, 542, 543, 544, 364, 486, 493, 530–1 545, 546, 547, 564 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 269 Carnegie, Andrew, 73, 441 Collins, Wilkie, 326 Carpenter, Edward, 23, 164, 172, 406, 442 Columbian Magazine,14 Carroll, Charles, 556 Columbus, Christopher, 161, 388, 389 Carroll, Grant, 556 Combe, George, 218, 227 Carroll, Obediah, 556 Confucius, 199 Carter, Elliott, 269 Conner, Frederick William, 217 Cass, Lewis, 36 Constant, Benjamin, 81 catalogues, see style and technique(s) contemporary authors, Whitman and, Cather, Willa, 444 392–408 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 591 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Conway, Moncure, 20, 404 Dimock, Wai Chee, 123, 127, 479, 480 Corso, Gregory, 451 Disraeli, Benjamin, 541 Coviello, Peter, 166 Dixon, Dr. Edward H., 223, 226, 229 Cowley, Malcolm, 166, 463 Dodge, Dr. Jonathan W., 64 Cox, George C., 284 Donaldson, Thomas, 24 Crane, Hart, 444, 445, 446, 451, 471 Donizetti, Gaetano, 14, 262 Crane, Stephen, 56 Donne, John, 345 Crawford, Nelson Antrim, 352 Doudna, Martin K., 312, 313 Crawley, Thomas, 412 Dougherty, James, 251, 252, 288 Creston, Paul, 269 Douglass, Frederick, 109–10, 111, 381, Criterion, 16, 413 462–3, 478 Critic, The,25 Dowden, Edward, 405, 406, 442, 564 Crumb, George, 269 Doyle, Peter, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 65, 253, Cullen, Countee, 345 403, 439, 503, 558, 561 cummings, e.e., 345 Duckett, Bill, 24 Cummings, Glenn N., 312 Dujardin, Edouard, 443 Cunningham, Oscar, 540, 542 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 450 Currier and Ives, 272 Duncan, Isadora, 288, 444 Cushman, Charlotte, 554 Duncan, Robert, 452 Cushman, Stephen, 527 Dylan, Bob, 448
Daguerre, Louis, 273 Eakins, Thomas, 25, 286, 287, 443 Daily Whig,31 Eckler, Peter, 20, 534 Daniel, Lewis C., 447 Edinburgh Review, 218 Darwin, Charles, 217, 231 Edwards, John W., 327 Davis, Andrew Jackson, 339 Eggleston, Edward, 441 Davis, Mary, 24 Einstein, Albert, 218 Davis, Paulina Wright, 182 Eliade, Mircea, 205 Davis, Robert Leigh, 299, 301, 303 Eliot, T.S., 443, 444, 445, 446, 452, 487, Day, Benjamin Henry, 30 489, 493 death, 325–40 Ellis, Joseph, 102 Debs, Eugene, 74, 442, 447 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 42, 78, 79, 96, 98, deism, 198–9 133, 174, 198, 212, 219, 229, 230, De La Grange, Anna, 262 261, 312, 313, 314, 339, 366, 379, Deleuze, Gilles, 313 381, 385, 392, 393, 396, 397, 398, Delius, Frederick, 269, 444 399, 407, 412, 418, 423, 466, 473, democracy, 76–86, 136–50 486, 555, 564 Dennis, Matthew, 465 influence on Whitman, 87–8, 203, 278, Denver, Colorado (and the Rocky 363–4, 365, 368, 377–8, 394–5 Mountains), 23, 389, 563 letter to Whitman, 16, 39, 40, 362, 395, De Selincourt, Basil, 99 410, 414–15, 441, 504, 554 Dewey, John, 76, 80 equality, 471–83 Diamond, David, 269 Erkkila, Betsy, 94, 129, 152–3, 165–6, 174, Dickens, Charles, 43, 326 175, 190, 463, 488, 514–15 Dickinson, Emily, 101, 399, 400, 401, Evart, William, 561 471 evolution, see science and pseudoscience Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 592 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Faner, Robert, 260, 261, 267, 499 Gardner, Alexander, 280, 281, 282, 284 Faulkner, William, 322 Gardner, Thomas, 452 Fausset, Hugh l’Anson, 38, 40 Garman, Bryan K., 346, 448 Fellows, Colonel John, 202 Garrison, William Lloyd, 462 Ferguson, David, 532 Geertz, Clifford, 548, 550 Fern, Fanny, see Parton, Sarah Payson Willis Geffen, Arthur, 319, 322 Fichte, Johann, 80, 200 gender, 180–96 Fields, James T., 525 G’hal figure, 67–8 Fillmore, Millard, 136 George III, King, 105, 462 Finkel, William L., 89 Georgia Minstrels, the, 259 Fisher, Philip, 479, 480 Gibbon, Edward, 50 Fisheur, Maximilian de, 557 Gibran, Kahlil, 345 Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, 39, 40 Gibson, William, 317 Fitz-Richard, Arthur, 347 Gide, Andre´, 444, 446 Fletcher, Angus, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, Gilchrist, Anne, 22, 23, 405, 561 472, 477 Gilchrist, Herbert, 285 Foerster, Norman, 217 Ginsberg, Allen, 127, 440, 447, 449, 451, Folsom, Ed, 116, 117, 118, 119, 151, 187, 452 234, 355, 366, 411, 421, 439, 547 Glass, Philip, 269 Foner, Eric, 103 Glass, Stephen, 555 Forney, Colonel John W., 563 Gleason, Philip, 125 Forrest, Edwin, 66 Gliddon, George R., 203 Forster, E.M., 444 Gold, Michael, 345, 447, 449–50 Foss, Lukas, 269 Golden, Harry, 352 Foster, George, 48, 67 Goldman, Emma, 56, 442, 447 Foster, Stephen, 258 Gonza´les de la Garza, Mauricio, 153 Foucault, Michel, 165 Goodrich, Samuel Griswold, 226 Fowler, Lorenzo Niles, 15, 171, 228 Gostwick, Joseph, 203 Fowler, Orson S., 223, 228, 229, 231 Gould, Mitchell Santine, 355 Fowler and Wells, 16, 17, 364, 411, 412, Gounod, Charles, 262 414, 416, 562 Graff, Gerald, 356, 547 Fox, Catherine and Margaretta, 327 Graham, Jorie, 452 Franklin, Benjamin, 46, 202 Greeley, Horace, 31, 35, 37, 327, 541 Fredrickson, George, 102, 107, 112–13, 116 Greenblatt, Stephen, 547 free soil movement, see slavery and race Greenspan, Ezra, 468 Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 151 Griffith, D.W., 288 Freud, Sigmund, 88, 485, 493 Grisi, Giulia, 262 Fritzinger, Warren, 24 Griswold, Rufus, 13, 16, 165, 413, 441 Frost, Robert, 369, 388 Guattari, Felix, 313 Fuller, Margaret, 399 Gurney, Jeremiah, 284 Fuller, Robert, 557 Gutekunst, Frederic, 284 Fussell, Paul, Jr., 500, 502 Guthrie, Woody, 346, 347, 448 GutsMuths, Friedrich, 236, 237 Galaxy, The, 423, 424, 543 Gall, Franz Josef, 228 Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel, 351, 352, 354 Garber, Marjorie, 181 Hale, Edward Everett, 16 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 593 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Haley, Thomas, 557 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 313, 397, 398, 407 Halloran, S. Michael, 88 Holst, Gustav, 269, 444 Hamblen, Emily, 352 homosexuality, see sexuality Handel, Georg Friedrich, 262 Hopper, Edward, 443 Hardt, Michael, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, Howe, Julia Ward, 525 161, 162 Howells, William Dean, 403, 404, 407, 417, Harlan, James, 20, 401, 402, 420, 441, 561 424 Harlowe, Calvin, 557, 558 Hudson and Ottignon’s gymnasium, 237 Harmoneons, the, 259 Hudson, Samuel, 250 Harned, Thomas Biggs, 24, 25, 87, 89, 90, Hughes, Bishop John, 32, 70 91, 441, 442 Hughes, Langston, 440, 450–1 Harper’s Monthly, 56, 326, 524 Hull, Dr J. J., 243 Harrison, Gabriel, 279, 284 Humboldt, Alexander von, 337 Harrison, Lou, 269 Humboldt, Karl, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, Hartmann, Karl Amadeus, 268 223 Hartshorne, William, 40, 296 Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 81, 363 Haskell, Erastus, 540 Hutchinson, George B., 450, 559 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 379, 380, 392 Hutchinsons, the, 258, 259 Hay, John, 441 Huxley, Thomas, 218, 231 Haydn, Franz Joseph, 262 Hedge, Henry, 203 identity, see nation and identity Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 80, 81, immortality, see death 124, 337 imperialism, 151–63 Heisenberg, Werner, 218 Ingersoll, Robert, 24, 25 Helms, Alan, 509 Ingraham, Joseph Holt, 48 Henri, Robert, 443 Irving, David, 558 Henry, Peter, see Clias, Phokion Heinrich Irving, Washington, 380 Henze, Hans-Werner, 268 Ives, Charles, 269, 444 Herbert, Edward, 198 Ives, Percy, 285 Herrick, Anson, 33 Hersch, Fred, 270 Jackson, Andrew, 31, 38, 136, 316, 547 Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 226 Jackson, Thomas ‘‘Stonewall,’’ 370 Hertzfeld, Michael, 296 Jacobs, Jane, 58 Heth, Joice, 239 James, Henry, 129, 132, 400, 403, 404, 407, Hicks, Elias, 12, 89, 99, 201, 202, 381, 389 498 Hicks, Granville, 447 James, William, 128, 147 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 400, 403 Jarmusch, Jim, 288 Hindemith, Paul, 268, 269, 270, 444 Jarrell, Randall, 133, 134, 440 Hine, Charles, 284 Jay, Paul, 549 Hobbes, Thomas, 138 Jefferson, Thomas, 38, 47, 76, 102, 138, Hobsbawm, Eric, 294 143, 144, 202, 296, 351, 547 Hockney, David, 288 Jellicorse, John Lee, 98–9 Hollis, C. Carroll, 39, 40, 87, 88, 89, 91, Jesus Christ, see Christ 92, 93, 94, 363, 372, 374, 375, 468, Johnson, Andrew, 540 491, 492 Johnson, James Weldon, 450 Holloway, Emory, 36, 38, 354, 379 Johnston, Dr John, 24, 406 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 594 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Jones, John Paul, 131 Lawrence, Kansas, 23, 563 Jones, LeRoi, see Baraka, Amiri Lawson, Andrew, 165 Jones, Sir William, 200, 202 Lee, Ben, 347 Jordan, June, 440, 452 Leggett, William, 68 journalism, 29–41, 568–72 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyitch, 155, 156 Joyce, James, 345 Levine, Lawrence, 233–4 Judson, E.Z.C., 48 Lewinsky, Monica, 357, 452–3 Lewis, R.W.B., 440 Kalbfleisch, Martin, 522–3 Libbey, Walter, 279 Kant, Immanuel, 80, 201, 203 Liebermann, Lowell, 270 Kaplan, Justin, 38, 457–8 Liebig, Justus, 226 Kateb, George, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84 Life Illustrated, 16, 240, 364 Katz, Jonathan Ned, 187–8, 503 Lin, Maya Ying, 560 Keats, John, 134 Lincoln, Abraham, 20, 23, 56, 68, 71, 73, Kelsey, Eugene, 555 112, 118, 125, 191, 266, 306, 325, Kennedy, Robert, 270 326, 328, 345, 351, 399, 400, 420, Kent, Rockwell, 443 421, 441, 522, 528, 534, 535, 536, Key, Francis Scott, 531 559, 560, 561 Khayam, Omar, 345 Lincoln, Mary Todd, 325 Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, 170, 317, 505, Lind, Jenny, 262 516, 517 Lindsay, Vachel, 448 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 270, 315 Linnaeus, Carl, 223 Kinnell, Galway, 446, 452 Lippard, George, 48, 238 Kipling, Rudyard, 154 Lippincott’s Magazine,25 Klammer, Martin, 463 Lister, Joseph, 224 Knapp, Steven, 84–5 Literary Gazette,419 Knussen, Oliver, 269 Locke, Alain, 450 Kowalke, Kim, 270 Locke, John, 138, 139, 219 Krause, Sydney, 266–7 Log Cabin,31 Kristofferson, Kris, 317 London, Jack, 56 Kuebrich, David, 516–17 London, Ontario, Canada, 23–4, 132, 563 Ku¨hr, Gerd, 270 London Times, 547 Kumar, Krishan, 126 London Weekly Dispatch, 243 Kummings, Donald D., 87, 89, 98 Long Island Democrat,13,29 Kurtz, William, 284 Long Island, New York, 11, 12, 13, 29, 30, 33, 35, 37, 50, 60, 293, 294, 295, 311, labor and laborers, 60–75 321, 463, 499, 500–1 LaCapra, Dominick, 295 Long Island Patriot, 12, 29, 40 Lafayette, Marquis de, 12, 554 Long Island Star, 12, 14, 49 Laforgue, Jules, 443 Long Islander, The, 13, 29 Lamarck, Jean Baptiste, 64, 231, 519 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 343, 396, language, 361–76 397, 398, 407, 564 Lanier, Sidney, 404, 407 Longfellow, Samuel, 396 Larson, Kerry C., 174–5, 492 Loomis, Elias, 218 Lawrence, D. H., 57, 109, 126, 133, 174, Lorca, Federico Garcia, 440, 446, 451 440, 444, 445, 446, 447, 479, 480, 505 Lorde, Audre, 452 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 595 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Loving, Jerome, 36, 38, 40, 88, 322 Miller, James E., Jr., 445, 452, 498, 516, Lowell, Amy, 445, 446, 452 518, 519 Lowell, James Russell, 343, 407 Millet, Jean Franc¸ois, 72 Lowell, Robert, 451 Milton, John, 142, 398 Lowth, Robert, 199, 200 Mitchell, Edward P., 534 Lucretius, 313 Mitchell, Ormsby McKnight, 225 Luka´cs, George, 152 Mitchell, Reid, 296, 302, 303, 309 Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 151 Mitchell, Silas Weir, 225 Lyell, Charles, 226 Montaigne, Michel de, 364 Lynch, Michael, 170–1 Moon, Michael, 166, 307, 463, 468, 475, 476 Mack, Stephen John, 174, 548 Moore, Marianne, 471 Macpherson, James, 200, 202 Moore, N. F., 218 Madison, James, 202 Morgan, Edmund S., 189 Maggenti, Maria, 288 Morrison, Toni, 125 Mahay, John, 557 Morrison, Van, 345, 346 Malini, Johar Schueller, 154 Morse, Sidney, 25, 285 Mann, Thomas, 444 Moses, Robert, 58 Marki, Ivan, 459, 460, 468 Mote, Edward, 335 Martin, John, 50 Mount, William Sidney, 228, 279 Martin, Robert K., 95, 171, 173–4, 288, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 262 516 Muir, John, 312 Marx, Karl, 151, 545 Mullins, Aimee, 341 Masters, Edgar Lee, 447, 448 Mulvany, John, 280, 281 Matthiessen, F.O., 92, 364, 369, 371, 372, Murphy, Kevin, 288 373, 449 Murphy, Patrick D., 312 Mayhan, William F., 267 Murray, Martin, 247 Mazel, David, 313 Murray, Samuel, 286–7 McClure, J.E. ‘‘Sam,’’ 15 Murry, J. Middleton, 99 McClure’s Magazine,25 music, see opera and other kinds of music McElderry, Bruce, 92 Muybridge, Eadweard, 286 McKay, David, 24, 425 mysticism, 205–9 McMurtrey, John, 556 McNamara, Eugene, 251 Naginski, Charles, 269 Melville, Herman, 38, 101, 111, 201, 348, Napoleon I, 251 379, 380, 399, 400, 471, 528 Nathanson, Tenney, 93, 374, 492 Mendelson, Maurice, 152 nation and identity, 122–35; see also gender Mendelssohn, Felix, 262 National Era, 105 Menken, Adah Isaacs, 17, 18 nature, 311–24 Merrill, James, 452 Negri, Antonio, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, Mesmer, Franz, 229–30 161, 162 Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 262 Neruda, Pablo, 440, 449–50 Mill, John Stuart, 79, 81, 485, 492, 547 Nevins, Allan, 105 Miller, Alfred Jacob, 247, 280 New Orleans Crescent, 15, 36, 104 Miller, Charles, 555 New Orleans, Louisiana, 15, 42, 378 Miller, Edwin Haviland, 498, 505 New World, The, 13, 30 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 596 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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New York Aurora, 14, 31–3, 37–8, 39, 43, Oakeshott, Michael, 88 49, 394 O’Brien, Fitz-James, 17 New York City, 12, 14, 42–58, 62, 65–7, 69, O’Connor, Flannery, 322 70, 71, 132–3, 180, 192, 223, 224, O’Connor, William Douglas, 18, 19, 20, 22, 226, 236–54, 258, 292, 293, 294, 299, 117, 386, 397, 401, 402, 403, 420, 300, 319, 325, 422, 463, 464, 466, 441, 442, 561 467, 485, 486, 499, 522, 523, 524, O’Connor (Calder), Ellen (‘‘Nelly’’), 401, 526, 534, 546, 554 402, 561 cultural fads (phrenology, ‘‘electricity,’’ O’Donovan, William, 286–7 mesmerism, etc.), 227–30 Odets, Clifford, 447 museums, 239–48 Oettermann, S., 250 music scene, 262–3 O’Grady, Standish James, 406 newspaper publishing, 30–3, 37 O’Hara, Frank, 452 photographic galleries, 273, 284 ‘‘Old Mose,’’ 103 urban spectacle, 42–58, 487–9 Olmstead, Frederick Law, 312 New York Daily Graphic (or Weekly Graphic), Ong, Walter, 493 387, 424, 555 opera and other kinds of music, 257–71 New York Daily Plebian, 14, 258 oratory, 87–100, 381–5 New York Democrat, 14, 49, 60, 74 Orvell, Miles, 243 New York Evening Post, 15, 31, 35, 258, 393, Osceola, 246, 280 424 Osgood, James R., 24, 424, 425, 553 New York Evening Tattler, 14, 49 Ossian, see Macpherson, James New York Herald, 25, 362, 424, 528, 556 Ostriker, Alicia, 440 New York Leader, 243, 298, 524 O’Sullivan, Timothy, 280, 281–2 New York Mercury,33 Owen, Richard, 226 New York Mirror, 14, 29, 49 Owen, Robert Dale, 68 New York News,33 New York Subterranean,14 Paine, Thomas, 23, 136, 142, 202 New York Sun, 14, 30 painters and painting, see photography and New York Sunday Times & Noah’s Weekly other forms of visual culture Messenger,14 Paley, William, 218, 225–6 New York Times, The, 284, 419, 522, 524, Parker, Hershel, 509 526–7, 553, 555 Parker, Theodore, 118 New York Tribune, 15–16, 35, 299, 327, Parton, Sarah Payson Willis (‘‘Fanny Fern’’), 414 16, 399 New Yorker, The,31 Peale, Charles Willson, 239, 240, 244, 245 Newman, Simon P., 462 Peale, Rembrandt, 228 newspapers, see journalism Pearce, Roy Harvey, 87, 504–5 Newton, Isaac, 315 Pease, Donald, 460 Nichols, Mary Gove, 223 Pericles, 91, 148 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 88 Perry, Bliss, 442 Nora, Pierre, 300, 301, 302, 303 Persichetti, Vincent, 269 Norberg-Schulz, Christian, 489 Pessoa, Fernando, 446, 447 North American Review, 16, 203, 368 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 23, 42, 132, Norton, Charles Eliot, 413, 441 286–8, 342 Nye, Naomi Shihab, 341 Philadelphia Press, 424 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 597 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Philadelphia Progress, 553 religion, 197–215 Philadelphia Saturday Museum, 244 Reynolds, David S., 49, 233, 238, 258, 260, Phillips, Dana, 113 261, 279, 290, 457, 468 Phillips, Wendell, 381 Rhodes, Cecil, 318 photography and other forms of visual Rice, Dan, 238, 239 culture, 272–89 Rice, Emmett, 237 phrenology, see science and pseudoscience Rice, Thomas Dartmouth (‘‘Daddy’’), 66, 104 Picker, John, 265 Rich, Adrienne, 452 Pico, Rosina, 262 Richards, Renee (Dick Raskind), 181 Pierce, Franklin, 136 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, 200 Plath, Sylvia, 350 Riis, Jacob, 56 Plato, 337, 473 Riley, James Whitcomb, 343 Plumbe, John, 273 Rimbaud, Arthur, 345, 443 Poe, Edgar Allan, 14, 259, 313, 326, 393–4, Ritter, Frederic Louis, 268 398, 564 Robbins, Tim, 452 political views, 76–86 Roberts, Julia, 357 Pollak, Vivian, 174 Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 439 popular culture, 233–56, 341–58 Robinson, Henry Peach, 326 Pound, Ezra, 440, 443, 444, 445, 446 Roche, John, 288 Pound, Louise, 128 Rodgers, Cleveland, 36 Powers, Hiram, 228 Roethke, Theodore, 452 Prentiss, Colonel Clifton K., 557 Rolleston, T.W.H., 405–6 Price, Abby, 496, 501 Rome (brothers), Andrew and James, 16, Price, Helen, 496, 501 377, 411, 554 Price, Kenneth M., 280, 288, 342, 343, 347, Ropes, John F., 33 355, 418, 452, 509 Rorem, Ned, 268, 555 prophecy, 198–205; see also oratory Rorty, Richard, 77, 80, 84, 88, 124, 125, pseudoscience, see science and pseudoscience 129 publishing history of Leaves of Grass, 409–29 Rose, Ann C., 559 Putnam’s Monthly, 413 Rosenblum, Nancy, 79, 81, 84 Ross, Donald, 87–8 race, see slavery and race Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 404 Ramalho Santos, Irene, 154 Rossetti, William Michael, 20, 404, 405, Raskind, Dick, see Richards, Renee 441, 442, 561 Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg von, 203 Rossini, Gioacchino, 262 Rauschenbusch, Rev. Walter, 47 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 138, 141, 142, 235 Rawls, John, 127 Roy, Rammohun, 202 Readings, Bill, 304 Royle, Nicholas, 305, 307 reception and influence, Whitman’s, 439–54 Rubin, Joseph Jay, 37–8, 260 Reddin, Paul, 247 Rukeyser, Muriel, 450, 451 Redfield, J.S., 422 Ruskin, John, 487 Redpath, James, 19, 386, 397, 555 Rees Welsh & Co., 24, 425, 553 St Louis, Missouri, 23, 42 Reich, Jacques, 285 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 441 Reich, Wilhelm, 96 Saintsbury, George, 442 Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig, 230 Sanborn, Franklin B., 397 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 598 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Sanchez-Eppler, Karen, 107, 109 Sloan, John, 288 Sand, George, 62, 262 Smith, Adam, 145 Sandburg, Carl, 447, 448 Smith, Gerrit, 478 Sarandon, Susan, 452 Smith, Henry Nash, 160 Sarony, Napoleon, 284, 285 Smith, James McCune, 478 Saturday Evening Visitor, 424 Smuts, Jan Christian, 97, 98, 99 Saturday Press, The, 17, 416, 419, 420, 421, Snodgrass, W. D., 500 496, 497, 498 Snyder, Gary, 446, 451 Sawyer, Thomas, 65, 540 Socrates, 199 Scarry, Elaine, 545 Sontag, Henrietta, 262 Schele de Vere, Maximilian, 363, 366 Sontag, Susan, 134, 281 Schelling, Felix, 153–4, 155 Spencer, Herbert, 217 Schmidgall, Gary, 348, 499–500, 502–3, Springsteen, Bruce, 448 505 Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar, 227–8 Schmitz, Neil, 93–4 Stafford, Harry L., 23, 561 Scholnick, Robert J., 217, 509 Stanbery, Henry, 561 Schwarz, Vernolian, 36 Stanford, Charles Villiers, 268 Schyberg, Frederik, 449 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 463 science and pseudoscience, 216–32 Starr, Kenneth, 453, 561 Scott, Sir Walter, 12, 128 Statesman, The,49 Sears, Edmund Hamilton, 333 Stauffer, John, 478 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 164, 178, 180 Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 17 Seeger, Pete, 448 Steele, Timothy, 452 Sennett, Richard, 127–8 Steffanone, Balbina, 262 Sessions, Roger, 269, 270 Steiner, George, 494 sexuality, 164–79; see also adhesiveness, Stella, Joseph, 288 amativeness Stevens, Wallace, 443 Shahn, Ben, 288, 447, 450 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 442 Shahn, Bernarda Bryson, 447 Stewart, Susan, 537 Shakespeare, William, 65, 258, 337, 548, Stieglitz, Alfred, 288 549, 550 Stoker, Bram, 414 Sharpe, William Chapman, 52, 487–8 Stovall, Floyd, 203, 218 Shawn, David Warren, 88 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 107, 326 Shecter, Adam, 355 Strassburg, Robert, 269, 270 Sheeler, Charles, 288 Stratton, Charles (‘‘Tom Thumb’’), 241, 242 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 79, 312, 313, 405, Strauss, David Friedrich, 199 485 style and technique(s), 377–91 Sherman, William Tecumseh, 116 Sullivan, Jack, 269 Shively, Charley, 503 Sullivan, Louis, 288 Shklar, Judith, 79 Swedenborg, Emanuel, 339, 491, 496 Shurr, William H., 463 Sweet, Timothy, 302, 304, 305, 306 Simms, William Gilmore, 379 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 405, 440, 442 Simpson, Louis, 449 Swinton, John, 17 Sinclair, Upton, 56 Swinton, William, 363 slang, 368–71 Symonds, John Addington, 25, 165, 166, slavery and race, 101–21 178, 188, 216, 405, 406, 442 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 599 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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‘‘Talbot Wilson’’ notebook, the, 410, 411 Underhill, Evelyn, 205, 206, 207 Tanner, Stephen, 562 United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Tarbell, Ida, 56 383, 392, 414 Tarbell, Roberta K., 288 Tate, Allen, 446 Van Anden, Isaac, 14, 35 Taylor, Bayard, 381, 407 Van Buren, Martin, 13, 31, 36, 136 Taylor, Edward, 398 Van Gogh, Vincent, 443 Taylor, Father Edward Thompson, 89, 99 Van Velsor, Cornelius, 554 Taylor, Zachary, 36 Van Velsor, Naomi (‘‘Amy’’), 554 Teichgraeber, Richard, 234 Vaughan, Fred, 17, 503 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 229, 405, 533 Vaughan, Henry, 313 Thayer and Eldridge, 17, 18, 396, 397, 416, Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 269, 444 561 Verdi, Giuseppe, 14, 262, 290, 522 Theophilanthropist, 202 Vico, Giambattista, 337 Thomas, Michael Tilson, 269 Viele-Griffin, Francis, 443 Thomas, M. Wynn, 55, 57–58, 115, 116, Vogel, Morris, 298 463, 488, 557 Volney, Constantin, 202, 226 Thompson, Virgil, 269 Thomson, James, 313, 315 Wagner, Richard, 498, 548 Thoreau, Henry David, 17, 42, 49, 76, 78, Waldstreicher, David, 462 79, 82, 312, 314, 337, 338, 339, 351, Walker, George, 269, 270 395, 396, 462, 484, 561, 562 Walker, Peter, 562 Thucydides, 148 Wallace, James William, 24, 406 Thurman, Thomas, 558 Walzer, Michael, 125 Tillich, Paul, 207–8 Ward, Artemus, 17 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 94, 123, 137, 139, Warren, James Perrin, 88, 363, 372 351, 405, 471, 472, 473, 477, 479, Warren, Robert Penn, 83 480, 481, 482, 483 Washington, DC, 18–20, 22, 42, 54, 177, Todhunter, John, 405 299, 300, 443, 524, 526, 534, 560–1 Toomer, Jean, 450 Washington, George, 110, 202, 239, 296, Townshend, Percy Hare, 229 303 Trachtenberg, Alan, 70, 487, 488 Washington Star, 423 Trall, Dr Russell Thatcher, 562 Waters, G.W., 285 Traubel, Horace, 56, 95, 153, 154, 348, Webb, James Watson, 31 352–3, 389, 406, 450 Weber, Carl Maria von, 262 conversations with Whitman Webster, Daniel, 31, 93, 381 (1888–1892), 25, 118–19, 164, 166, Weekly Graphic, see New York Daily Graphic 180, 247, 421, 558, 559; on language, Weill, Kurt, 268, 269, 270, 444 361, 362, 363, 370, 371, 381 Wentworth, Horace, 416 as Whitman’s disciple, 441, 442, 444 Westminster Review, 202, 203, 218, 405, Travers, Len, 463, 465 418–19 Tuan, Yi-Fu, 316, 317 Wharton, Edith, 404, 444, 498 Turner, Nat, 463 Wheatley, Phillis, 101 Twain, Mark, see Clemens, Samuel Wheeler, Dora, 285 Langhorne Whig Review, 202 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 600 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Whitman, Andrew Jackson (brother), 11, 19, ‘‘Art-Singing and Heart-Singing,’’ 14, 60 259 Whitman, Edward (brother), 11, 552 ‘‘Artilleryman’s Vision, The,’’ 431, Whitman, George Washington (brother), 11, 529–31 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 42, 177, ‘‘As Adam Early in the Morning,’’ 330, 299, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 528, 335, 429 531, 536, 556, 559, 560, 561 ‘‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,’’ see Whitman (Heyde), Hannah Louisa (sister), 11 ‘‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood’’ Whitman, Jesse (brother), 11, 19, 21 ‘‘As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life,’’ 78, Whitman, Louisa Orr Haslam (Mrs. George), 183, 184, 193, 229, 322, 22, 561 334, 338, 340, 354–5, 429, 482, Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor (mother), 503–4 11–12, 18, 22, 194, 532, 554, 556 ‘‘As I Lay With My Head in your Lap Whitman, Martha (‘‘Mattie’’) Mitchell (Mrs Camerado,’’ 177, 432 Thomas Jefferson), 69 ‘‘As I Ponder’d in Silence,’’ 212, 333–4, Whitman, Nancy McClure (Mrs Andrew), 69 335, 338, 432 Whitman, Thomas Jefferson (brother), 11, ‘‘As in a Swoon,’’ 423 15, 19, 21, 23, 556 ‘‘As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth Woods,’’ 177, 431 (sister), 11 ‘‘Ashes of Soldiers,’’ 227, 431 Whitman, Walt, works ‘‘Autumn Rivulets’’ (cluster), 425 ‘‘Aboard at a Ship’s Helm,’’ 330, 430 ‘‘Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads, ‘‘Adieu to a Soldier,’’ 177, A,’’ 25, 74, 389–90, 426, 547, 572–4 192, 432 ‘‘Bardic Symbols,’’ 416, 417 After All, Not to Create Only, see ‘‘Song of ‘‘Bathed in War’s Perfume’’ (cluster), 422, the Exposition’’ 431 ‘‘After an Interval,’’ 423 ‘‘Beat! Beat! Drums!,’’ 18, 265, 269, 301, ‘‘After the Sea-Ship,’’ 338 399, 419, 431, 523, 524, 525 ‘‘Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals,’’ ‘‘Beauty of the Ship, The,’’ 423 330, 429 ‘‘Bervance; or, Father and Son’’ (fiction), 13 ‘‘Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky ‘‘Bible as Poetry, The’’ (essay), 389 Retreats,’’ 193, 432 ‘‘Birds of Passage’’ (cluster), 213, 425 ‘‘America [Centre of equal daughters ‘‘Blood-Money,’’ 104, 378 . . . ],’’ 130, 434 Blue Book, Walt Whitman’s, 123 American Primer, An, 223, 363, 373, 381, ‘‘Boston Ballad (1854), A,’’ 105, 574–5 397, 427, 459 ‘‘American Workingmen, versus Slavery’’ ‘‘Boy Lover, The’’ (fiction), 14 (article), 35, 103 ‘‘Broadway, 1861,’’ see ‘‘First O Songs for a ‘‘America’s Mightiest Inheritance,’’ 364, Prelude’’ 365, 366–7, 373, 574–5 ‘‘Broadway Hospital, The,’’ see ‘‘City ‘‘Apostroph,’’ 417–18 Photographs’’ ‘‘Are You the New Person Drawn Toward ‘‘Broadway Pageant, A,’’ 48, Me?’’, 334, 428 130, 162, 431 ‘‘Army Corps on the March, An,’’ 432, ‘‘Broadway Sights’’ (essay), 48 526, 527–8 ‘‘Brooklyniana,’’ 37, 293–8 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 601 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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‘‘Brother of All With Generous Hands,’’ see ‘‘Darest Thou Now, O Soul,’’ 269, 432 ‘‘Outlines for a Tomb’’ Daybooks and Notebooks, 181, 369 ‘‘By Blue Ontario’s Shore,’’ 79, 82, 194, ‘‘Dead Tenor, The,’’ 267, 435 195, 213, 367, 382, 383, 412, 415, ‘‘Death in the School-Room (a Fact)’’ 417, 427 (fiction), 13, 377 ‘‘By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame,’’ 305, 329, ‘‘Death of a Wisconsin Officer’’ (sketch), 335–6, 338, 430 555–6 ‘‘By the Roadside’’ (cluster), 425 ‘‘Death of Abraham Lincoln’’ (lecture), 23, ‘‘Calamus’’ (cluster), 17, 25, 54, 65, 96, 441, 580 145, 166, 170, 171, 172–3, 174, 177, ‘‘Death Sonnet for Custer, A,’’ 424 185, 187, 188, 209, 229, 230, 317, ‘‘Democracy’’ (essay), 21, 117, 543 352, 369, 386, 397, 398, 405, 417, Democratic Vistas, 21, 22, 57, 69, 72, 76, 418, 427–8, 442, 497, 502, 503, 77, 79, 80, 88, 117, 123, 124, 138, 508–521 141, 142, 144, 146–8, 149, 152, 162, Calamus (collection of letters), 403–4 170, 173–4, 189, 190, 227, 230, 231, ‘‘Carlyle from American Points of View’’ 236, 240, 254, 313, 387, 388, 465, (essay), 564 540–52, 576–9 ‘‘Carol of Harvest, For 1867, A,’’ 21, 423 ‘‘Dirge for Two Veterans,’’ 177, 225, 266, ‘‘Cavalry Crossing a Ford,’’ 430, 526–7 268, 269, 270, 432 ‘‘Cedar-Plums Like-Names’’ (essay), 564 ‘‘Dough-Face Song,’’ 378 ‘‘Centenarian’s Story, The,’’ 301, 303, 304, ‘‘Drum-Taps’’ (cluster), 71, 116, 124, 125, 430, 523 177, 178, 224, 227, 264, 298, 400, ‘‘Chants Democratic and Native 422, 425, 522–37, 560–1 American’’ (cluster), 114, 416, 417, Drum-Taps, 20, 21, 265, 291, 299, 300, 427–9, 447 301, 304, 305, 307, 308, 386, 399, ‘‘Chanting the Square Deific,’’ 206, 432 403, 420, 421, 422, 457, 528, 530, 534 ‘‘Children of Adam’’ (cluster), 96, 171, ‘‘Dumb Kate’’ (fiction), 14 174, 175, 176–7, 229, 330, 386, 396, ‘‘Earth! My Likeness!,’’ 428, 516, 517 397, 417, 418, 419, 497, 508–21 ‘‘Edgar Poe’s Significance’’ (essay), 564 ‘‘Child’s Champion, The’’ (fiction), 14 ‘‘Eido´lons,’’ 193, 222, 433 ‘‘Child’s Reminiscence, A,’’ see ‘‘Out of the ‘‘Eighteen Sixty-One,’’ 18, 265, 300–1, Cradle Endlessly Rocking’’ 430, 523, 525 ‘‘City Photographs,’’ 18, 298 ‘‘Eighteenth Presidency!, The,’’ 17, 68, 69, ‘‘Clear Midnight, A,’’ 331–4, 335, 338, 115, 136–7, 381, 465, 543, 572 339, 434, 505 ‘‘Elias Hicks’’ (essay), 389 ‘‘Come Up From the Fields Father,’’ 270, ‘‘Enfans d’Adam’’ (cluster), see ‘‘Children of 305, 352, 431, 533 Adam’’ Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, The ‘‘English in America’’ (book chapter), 363 (1902), 89 ‘‘Errand-Bearers (16th, 6th Month, Year ‘‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,’’ 17, 50, 51, 52, 84 of the States),’’ 419 53, 54, 78–9, 81–2, 83–4, 93, 131, ‘‘Ethiopia Saluting the Colors,’’ 116, 117, 132, 143, 192, 228, 251, 277, 288, 118, 421, 432 318–19, 321, 322, 335, 336, 383, 385, ‘‘Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These 427, 484–95 States,’’ 427, 459 ‘‘Dalliance of the Eagles, The,’’ 133, 331, ‘‘Faces,’’ 229, 353, 427, 458, 459 337, 338, 389, 434 ‘‘Fair of the American Institute, The,’’ 424 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 602 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Whitman, Walt, works (cont’d ) 243, 259, 349, 352, 411, 427, 452, ‘‘Fancies at Navesink,’’ 389, 434 458–9, 518 ‘‘Farm Picture, A,’’ 304, 431 ‘‘I Sit and Look Out,’’ 48, 429 ‘‘First O Songs for a Prelude,’’ 265, 299, I Sit and Look Out: Editorials from the 301, 430, 523 Brooklyn Daily Times,36 ‘‘For You O Democracy,’’ 174, 428 ‘‘In Cabin’d Ships at Sea,’’ 332, 432 ‘‘Fostering Precocity in Children’’ (article), ‘‘In Paths Untrodden,’’ 427, 515 236 ‘‘In the new garden, in all the parts,’’ 518 Franklin Evans (fiction), 13, 14, 46, 103, Idle Days & Nights of a half-Paralytic, 552 344, 377, 400, 410, 567–8 ‘‘Indian Bureau Reminiscence, An’’ (essay), ‘‘From Noon to Starry Night’’ (cluster), 247 269, 425 ‘‘Inscriptions’’ (cluster), 425 ‘‘From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a ‘‘Kiss to the Bride: Marriage of Nelly Bird,’’ 302, 430 Grant, A,’’ 424 ‘‘From Pent-Up Aching Rivers,’’ 176, 429, ‘‘Laws for Creations,’’ 213, 429 519 Leaves of Grass, publishing history, 409–29 ‘‘Full of Life Now,’’ 95, 96, 428 Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition, 16, 40, 43, Gathering of the Forces, The (journalism), 36 62, 67, 87, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, ‘‘Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun,’’ 53, 114, 119, 122, 126, 138, 145, 165, 54, 304, 431 166, 170, 194, 203, 228, 235, 240, ‘‘Gliding O’er All,’’ 332, 432 250, 252, 260, 276, 284, 312, 355, ‘‘Good-Bye My Fancy!,’’ 389, 435 362, 363, 372, 374, 375, 377, 379, ‘‘Good-Bye My Fancy (collection), 25 381, 383, 385, 393, 394, 409, 410–14, ‘‘Good-Bye My Fancy’’ (Second Annex), 415, 440, 441, 457–70, 474, 482, 497, 25, 389, 426 499, 504, 518, 554, 562 ‘‘Great are the Myths,’’ 367, 411, 412, Leaves of Grass, 1856 edition, 17, 113, 427, 459 114, 136, 145, 166, 170, 228, 284, ‘‘Growth of Words, The’’ (book chapter), 312, 372, 375, 381, 382, 383, 385, 363, 366 395, 414–16, 484 ‘‘Hand-Mirror, A,’’ 183, 429 Leaves of Grass, 1860 edition, 17, 89, 91, ‘‘Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour,’’ 352, 114, 166, 177, 228, 236, 284–5, 312, 434 375, 385, 386, 396, 416–19, 497, 499, ‘‘Heart-Music and Art-Music,’’ see ‘‘Art- 500, 502, 504, 508, 518 Singing and Heart-Singing’’ Leaves of Grass, 1867 edition, 21, 166, ‘‘Honest Opinions Forever!’’ (article), 34 177, 284, 386, 402, 404, 419–22, 427, ‘‘How Solemn as One by One,’’ 177, 432 514 ‘‘Hush’d be the Camps To–day,’’ 431, 534 Leaves of Grass, 1871–72 edition, 21, 72, ‘‘Hymns of Dead Soldiers,’’ 307 73, 166, 178, 284, 352, 386, 387, ‘‘I Dream’d in a Dream,’’ 174, 428 422–4, 523, 560 ‘‘I Hear America Singing,’’ 64, 428 Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author’s ‘‘I Heard you Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the (Centennial) edition, 22, 23, 423, 523 Organ,’’ 262, 419–20, 432 Leaves of Grass, 1881–82 edition, 24, 166, ‘‘I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing,’’ 171, 178, 386, 389, 401, 402–3, 428, 509 424–6, 484, 515, 553 ‘‘I Sing the Body Electric,’’ 111–12, 113, Leaves of Grass, 1891–92, Deathbed edition, 115–16, 168, 170, 181, 224, 228, 229, 25, 87, 351, 389, 409, 426, 457 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 603 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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‘‘Letter from Paumanok’’ (article), 262 ‘‘Now Precedent Songs, Farewell,’’ 373, 435 ‘‘Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson,’’ 385, ‘‘O Captain! My Captain!,’’ 20, 23, 270, 395, 415, 572–4 344, 345, 398, 400, 420, 421, 431, ‘‘Life,’’ 192, 435 440, 534, 535 ‘‘Life in a New York Market’’ (article), 43 ‘‘O Me! O Life!,’’ 191–2, 335, 432 literary criticism, 580–1 ‘‘Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances,’’ ‘‘Little Bells Last Night,’’ see ‘‘I Heard you 183, 184–5, 334, 428 Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ’’ ‘‘Offerings,’’ 352 ‘‘Little Sleighers, The’’ (fiction), 14 ‘‘Old Age Echoes,’’ 195, 389 ‘‘Live Oak, with Moss,’’ 17, 386, 440, 503, ‘‘Old Ireland,’’ 420, 431 508–21 ‘‘Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers’’ (essay), 49 ‘‘Locations and Times,’’ 352, 429 ‘‘On the Beach at Night,’’ 270, 388, 433 ‘‘Look Down Fair Moon,’’ 306–7, 431 ‘‘On the Beach at Night Alone,’’ 191, 225, Madman, The (fiction), 14 269, 427 ‘‘Mannahatta [I was asking . . . ]’’ (1860), ‘‘One Hour to Madness and Joy,’’ 208, 429, 48, 55, 370, 429 519 ‘‘March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the ‘‘One of the Lessons Bordering Broadway’’ Road Unknown, A,’’ 177, 326, 431, (article), 240 533 ‘‘One Song, America, Before I Go,’’ 190 ‘‘Marches Now the War Is Over’’ (cluster), ‘‘One Wicked Impulse!’’ (fiction), 347–8 422 ‘‘Orbic Literature’’ (essay), 21, 543 Memoranda During the War, 22, 117–18, ‘‘Origins of Attempted Secession’’ (essay), 224, 230, 264, 281–2, 291, 292, 298, 123 299, 303, 387, 448, 555, 559, 560, ‘‘Osceola,’’ 280 562, 579–80 ‘‘Others May Praise What They Like,’’ ‘‘Memories of President Lincoln’’ (cluster), 304, 431 177, 522–37, 561 ‘‘Our Old Feuillage,’’ 194, 428 ‘‘Mississippi at Midnight, The,’’ 378 ‘‘Ourselves and the ‘Eagle’ ’’ (article), 34 ‘‘Music for the ‘Natural Ear’ ’’ (article), ‘‘Out from Behind This Mask,’’ 183, 225, 259 433 ‘‘My Boys and Girls’’ (fiction), 13 ‘‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,’’ ‘‘My Passion for Ferries’’ (essay), 48 17, 42, 50, 79, 82, 207, 227, 257, 261, ‘‘My Tribute to Four Poets’’ (essay), 564 263, 267, 269, 270, 315, 322, 346, ‘‘Myself and Mine,’’ 213, 429 351, 352, 388, 404, 416, 420, 430, ‘‘Mystic Trumpeter, The,’’ 257–8, 269, 432 445, 482, 496–507, 512, 535 ‘‘Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish’d ‘‘Outlines for a Tomb,’’ 73, 424, 433 Shame: Winter of 1873, Congress in ‘‘Paragraph Sketches of Brooklynites’’ Session,’’ 424 (journalism), 37 ‘‘New States: Shall They Be Slave or Free?’’ ‘‘Passage to India,’’ 21, 152, 160–2, 187, (article), 35 191, 195, 213, 219, 221, 269, 313, ‘‘Noiseless Patient Spider, A,’’ 130–1, 313, 316, 318, 348, 387, 389, 423, 432, 317, 318, 388, 398, 433 440, 561 ‘‘Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes,’’ Passage to India, 72, 269, 386, 387, 388, 428, 518 412, 422, 423, 424, 425, 457, 543 November Boughs, 24, 25, 389, 403, 426 ‘‘Patroling Barnegat,’’ 389, 434 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 604 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Whitman, Walt, works (cont’d ) ‘‘Salut au Monde!,’’ 97, 113–14, 129, 152, ‘‘Pensive on Her Dead Gazing,’’ 308 156–9, 160, 186–7, 223, 226, 230, ‘‘Perfect Human Voice, The’’ (notebook 240, 246, 355, 427 entry), 373 ‘‘Sands at Seventy’’ (First Annex), 25, 322, ‘‘Personalism’’ (essay), 21, 543, 547 373, 389 ‘‘Pictures,’’ 106, 247, 378, 379 ‘‘Says,’’ 489 ‘‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!,’’ 46, 316, 330, ‘‘Scented Herbage of My Breast,’’ 208, 331–2, 334, 430 209, 259, 330, 334, 427, 515 ‘‘Plays and Operas’’ (essay), 48 ‘‘Sea-Drift’’ (cluster), 322 ‘‘Poems – A Perfect School,’’ 237 self-reviews, 584 ‘‘Poem of the Road,’’ see ‘‘Song of the Open Sequel to Drum-Taps, 20, 21, 291, 299, Road’’ 304, 307, 386, 420, 421, 422 ‘‘Poem of Walt Whitman, An American,’’ ‘‘Shadow and the Light of a Young Man’s see ‘‘Song of Myself’’ Soul, The’’ (fiction), 13 Poems by Walt Whitman (Rossetti edition), short fiction, 566–7 404, 405, 442, 561 ‘‘Shut Not Your Doors,’’ 335, 430 ‘‘Poets to Come,’’ 407, 429 ‘‘Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and ‘‘Prayer of Columbus,’’ 22, 184, 388, 389, Dim, A,’’ 177, 307, 431, 529 433 ‘‘Singer in the Prison, The,’’ 424, 433 Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free ‘‘Slang in America,’’ 363, 389, 574–5 (1872), 78, 148, 190, 209, 211, 221, ‘‘Sleepers, The,’’ 48, 70, 110, 111, 114, 572–4 118, 168, 169, 170, 228, 230, 383, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition, 385, 426, 458, 502 61, 74, 88, 91, 127, 141, 142, 194, ‘‘So Long!,’’ 95, 96, 189, 194, 231, 338, 216, 222, 235, 257, 260, 277–8, 284, 339, 426, 429 356, 361, 362, 367, 382, 383–4, 412, ‘‘Sobbing of the Bells, The,’’ 424, 434 415, 459, 464, 465, 467, 468, 473, ‘‘Song at Sunset,’’ 213, 428 475, 572–4 ‘‘Song for All Seas, All Ships, A,’’ Preface to Two Rivulets (1876), 54–5, 177, 269, 433 222, 226, 253, 254, 423, 572–4 ‘‘Song for Occupations, A,’’ 190, 192, 242, ‘‘Primer of Words, The,’’ see American 373, 383, 426, 458, 465 Primer, An, ‘‘Song of Joys, A,’’ 192, 206, 429 ‘‘Prohibition of Colored Persons’’ (article), ‘‘Song of Myself,’’ 46, 57, 69, 82, 126, 36 152, 181, 187, 224, 235, 240, 243, Prose Works 1892, 389 247, 251, 259, 276–7, 279, 280, 283, ‘‘Proud Music of the Storm,’’ 257, 262, 315, 325, 352, 404, 412, 421, 440, 263, 264, 290, 292, 423, 432 445, 458, 459–60, 471–83, 484, 488, ‘‘Quicksand Years,’’ 191, 192, 334–6, 491, 492, 498, 500, 504, 505; and city, 338, 430 53, 70, 127; and democracy, 137, 143, Rambles Among Words (with William 144; and music, 63, 257, 261, 263; Swinton), 363, 364, 366 mysticism and religion, 16, 96, 98, ‘‘Reconciliation,’’ 116, 269, 400, 432, 506 128, 204, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213, ‘‘Respondez!,’’ 427, 543 219, 349; and nature, 50, 139, 142, ‘‘Resurgemus,’’ 15, 410 227, 228, 320, 321, 322, 396, 502; ‘‘Reuben’s Last Wish’’ (fiction), 14 oratory 87, 89, 95; persona and ‘‘Revenge and Requital’’ (fiction), 14 self-identity, 40, 61, 67, 80, 123, 134, Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 605 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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136, 165, 180, 189, 192, 193, 194, ‘‘Sun-Bath – Nakedness, A’’ (essay), 562 244, 411, 417, 464, 474, 512; and ‘‘Sun-Down Papers – From the Desk of a science, 216, 220, 223, 225, 226, 230, Schoolmaster,’’ 29, 30 367; and sexuality, 165, 166, 167, 168, ‘‘Sun-Down Poem,’’ see ‘‘Crossing 169, 170, 171, 476; and slavery, 101, Brooklyn Ferry’’ 107, 108–9, 110, 112; style and ‘‘Sunday with the Insane’’ (essay), 564 language, 48, 127, 130, 131, 314, 370, ‘‘That Music Always Round Me,’’ 257, 371, 372, 374–5, 382, 383, 384, 388, 428 448, 499; title, 133, 354, 415, 426 ‘‘That Shadow My Likeness,’’ 183, 185, ‘‘Song of Prudence,’’ 194, 427 428 ‘‘Song of the Answerer,’’ 58, 367–368, ‘‘There was a Child Went Forth,’’ 185–6, 427, 459 427, 459, 489, 500 ‘‘Song of the Banner at Daybreak,’’ 189, ‘‘These I Singing in Spring,’’ 427, 515 301, 302, 368, 430 ‘‘This Compost,’’ 226–7, 313, 315, 316, ‘‘Song of the Broad-Axe,’’ 50, 64–5, 194, 321, 322, 398, 427 195, 214, 228, 230, 231, 339, 383, 427 ‘‘This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful,’’ ‘‘Song of the Exposition,’’ 21, 72, 73, 226, 174, 428 269, 386, 387, 422, 432 ‘‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,’’ ‘‘Song of the Open Road,’’ 17, 47, 140–1, 21, 130, 189, 190, 206, 214, 221, 386, 192, 194, 221, 230, 383, 427, 440 388, 424, 432, 457 ‘‘Song of the Redwood-Tree,’’ 231, 313, ‘‘Thought [As I sit with others . . . ],’’ 186, 315, 316, 318, 388, 433 430 ‘‘Song of the Rolling Earth, A,’’ 193, 315, ‘‘Thought of Columbus, A,’’ 25, 389 316, 373–4, 385, 427 ‘‘Thought of Culture, A’’ (essay), 254 ‘‘Song of the Universal,’’ 21, 209, 211, ‘‘Thought [‘‘Of equality . . . ],’’ 143, 352, 221, 433 430 Songs Before Parting, 21, 386, 421, 422 ‘‘Thoughts [Of public opinion . . . ],’’ 194, ‘‘Songs of Insurrection,’’ 73 429 ‘‘Songs of Parting’’ (cluster), 269 ‘‘Thoughts [Of these years I sing . . . ],’’ ‘‘Spain 1873–74,’’ 424, 433 180, 190, 192, 428, 429 ‘‘Sparkles from the Wheel,’’ 57, 315, 329, ‘‘ ‘Tis Ten Years Since’’ (articles), 387 336–40, 388, 433 ‘‘To a Certain Cantatrice,’’ 212, 430 Specimen Days, 60, 65, 222, 225, 230, 235, ‘‘To a Certain Civilian,’’ 177, 266, 431 240, 241, 251, 264, 268, 312, 322, ‘‘To a Common Prostitute,’’ 69, 278, 430 390, 487, 501, 553–65,581–4 ‘‘To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire,’’ Specimen Days and Collect, 24, 48, 387, 543, 213, 427 553 ‘‘To a Historian,’’ 194, 195, 213 ‘‘Spinal Thought, A’’ (notebook entry), ‘‘To a Pupil,’’ 194, 195, 430 213 ‘‘To Be at All,’’ 195 ‘‘Spirit That Form’d This Scene,’’ 389, 434 ‘‘To Old Age,’’ 352, 430 ‘‘Spirit Whose Work is Done,’’ 177, 432 ‘‘To Other Lands,’’ 130 ‘‘Spontaneous Me,’’ 320–1, 322, 427, 518 ‘‘To the East and to the West,’’ 174, 428 ‘‘Starting from Paumanok,’’ 97–8, 189, ‘‘To the Garden the World,’’ 175, 328, 195, 197, 206, 236, 283, 328, 329, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 334, 337, 338, 416, 429 336, 338, 429 ‘‘Still Though the One I Sing,’’ 213, 432 ‘‘To the Sun-Set Breeze,’’ 187, 207 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 606 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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Whitman, Walt, works (cont’d ) ‘‘Who Learns My Lesson Complete,’’ 61, ‘‘To Thee Old Cause,’’ 212, 253, 338, 432, 427, 459 560 ‘‘Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in ‘‘To Think of Time,’’ 115, 186, 193–4, Hand,’’ 427, 515 246, 328, 336, 426, 458 ‘‘Wild Frank’s Return’’ (fiction), 13, 14, ‘‘To You [Whoever you are . . . ],’’ 213, 377 231, 427 ‘‘Woman Waits for Me, A,’’ 176, 229, 427, ‘‘Tramp and Strike Questions, The’’ (essay), 518 72 ‘‘Word Out of the Sea, A,’’ see ‘‘Out of the ‘‘Two Brothers, One South, One North’’ Cradle Endlessly Rocking’’ (sketch), 557 ‘‘Words’’ notebook, 182, 363, 369 Two Rivulets, Author’s edition, 22, 387, ‘‘Wound-Dresser, The,’’ 177, 264, 308, 423, 543 431, 523, 531–2 ‘‘Unnamed Lands,’’ 226, 241, 430 ‘‘Wounded in the House of Friends,’’ ‘‘Very Excellent News!’’ (article), 34 378 ‘‘Veteran’s Vision, The,’’ 308, 309, 521, see ‘‘Yankee Soldier, A’’ (sketch), 556 also ‘‘Artilleryman’s Vision, The’’ ‘‘Year of Meteors,’’ 371, 431 ‘‘Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One ‘‘Year that Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Night,’’ 177, 264, 431, 533 Me,’’ 146, 431 ‘‘Virginia – The West,’’ 432, 523 ‘‘Years of the Modern,’’ 191, 431 ‘‘Visor’d,’’ 183, 334, 430 ‘‘You and Me To-Day,’’ 416–20 ‘‘Vulgarity of Newspaper Quarrels’’ ‘‘You Tides with Ceaseless Swell,’’ 187, (article), 33 435 ‘‘Wallabout Martyrs, The,’’ 378, 434 ‘‘Youth, Day, Old Age and Night,’’ 332, Walt Whitman: Feuilles d’herbe (translation 412, 427 of Leaves of Grass by Le´on Bazalgette), Whitman, Walter, Sr. (father), 11, 12, 16, 443 68, 136, 194, 202, 503, 554 ‘‘Warble for Lilac-Time,’’ 388, 424, 433 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 343, 397, 407, ‘‘We’’ (editorial), 32 525, 564 ‘‘We Two, How Long We were Fool’d,’’ Wilber, Oscar, 557 429, 519–20 Wilbur, Richard, 452 ‘‘What Best I See in Thee,’’ 424, 434 Wilde, Oscar, 23, 406, 407, 442 ‘‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,’’ Williams, James H., 558 42, 304, 313, 332, 431 Williams, Raymond, 51, 56 ‘‘When I Read the Book,’’ 183, 334, 340, Williams, Talcott, 24 430 Williams, William Carlos, 444, 445, 446 ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Wilmot, David, 102, 103 Bloom’d,’’ 20, 50, 71, 227, 252, 253, Wilson, Eric, 313 257, 261, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, Winchester, Jonas, 31 270, 306, 322, 326, 328, 345, 351, Winters, Yvor, 446 386, 388, 400, 404, 431, 440, 445, Wood, Marcus, 101, 104 498, 512, 535–6, 537, 559 Wordsworth, William, 49, 50, 65, 79, 81–3, ‘‘When the Full-Grown Poet Came,’’ 423, 101, 134, 312, 313, 314, 368, 369, 433 405, 485, 486, 490, 493 ‘‘Whispers of Heavenly Death’’ (cluster), Wormley, John, 558 269, 432 Worthington, Erastus, 12 Kummings / Companion to Walt Whitman 1405120932_3_index Final Proof page 607 29.11.2005 9:13pm
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