- 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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