A Life of Walt Whitman - Henry Bryan Binns

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].