A Life of Walt Whitman - Henry Bryan Binns

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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