ABSTRACT
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arranged in convenient alphabetical format. Coverage includes: biographical information: all names, dates, places, and events important to understanding Whitman's life and careerWhitman's works: essays on all eight editions of Leaves of Grass, major poems and poem clusters, principal essays and prose works, as well as his more than two dozen short stories and the novel, Franklin Evansprominent themes and concepts: essays on such major topics as democracy, slavery, the Civil War, immortality, sexuality, and the women's rights movement.significant forms and techniques: such as prosody, symbolism, free verse, and humourimportant trends and critical approaches in Whitman studies: including new historicist and cultural criticism, psychological explorations, and controversial issues of sexual identitysurveys of Whitman's international impact as well as an assessment of his literary legacy. Useful for students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and Whitman devotees, this volume features extensive cross-references, numerous photographs of the poet, a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry includes a bibliography for further study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1|43 pages
A
entry |1 pages
Abbott, Dr. Henry (1812–1859)
entry |2 pages
Actors and Actresses
entry |1 pages
Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)
entry |2 pages
Africa, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
“After the Supper and Talk” (1887)
entry |1 pages
Age and Aging
entry |1 pages
“Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799–1888)
entry |1 pages
Allen, Gay Wilson (1903–1995)
entry |1 pages
“America [Centre of equal daughters …]” (1888)
entry |2 pages
American Adam
entry |1 pages
American Character
entry |1 pages
American Phrenological Journal
entry |2 pages
American Primer, An (1904)
entry |2 pages
American Revolution, The
entry |1 pages
American Whig Review
entry |1 pages
“America's Mightiest Inheritance” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)
entry |1 pages
“Angel of Tears, The” (1842)
entry |1 pages
Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880–1918)
entry |1 pages
Architects and Architecture
entry |1 pages
“Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Army Corps on the March, An” (1865–1866)
entry |1 pages
Arnold, George B. (1803–1889)
entry |1 pages
Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888)
entry |1 pages
Art and Daguerreotype Galleries
entry |1 pages
“Artilleryman's Vision, The” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Arts and Crafts Movement
entry |1 pages
Arvin, Newton (1900–1963)
entry |1 pages
“As Adam Early in the Morning” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“As at Thy Portals Also Death” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“As Consequent, Etc.” (1881)
entry |2 pages
“As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado” (1865–1866)
entry |1 pages
“As I Ponder'd in Silence” (1871)
entry |1 pages
“As I Sit Writing Here” (1888)
entry |1 pages
“As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Ashes of Soldiers” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)
entry |1 pages
Asselineau, Roger (1915–)
entry |3 pages
Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies
entry |1 pages
Atlantic Monthly, The
entry |1 pages
Attorney General's Office, United States
entry |2 pages
Australia and New Zealand, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
“Autumn Rivulets” (1881)
letter 2|48 pages
B
entry |2 pages
“Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, A” (1888)
entry |1 pages
Barnburners and Locofocos
entry |1 pages
Barrus, Clara (1864–1931)
entry |1 pages
“Base of All Metaphysics, The” (1871)
entry |1 pages
Baxter, Sylvester (1850–1927)
entry |1 pages
Bazalgette, Léon (1873–1929)
entry |1 pages
Beach, Juliette H. (1829–1900)
entry |1 pages
“Beat! Beat! Drums!” (1861)
entry |1 pages
“Beginning My Studies” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Berryman, John (1914–1972)
entry |1 pages
Bertz, Eduard (1853–1931)
entry |1 pages
“Bervance: or, Father and Son” (1841)
entry |1 pages
Bible, The
entry |3 pages
Bibliographies
entry |1 pages
Binns, Henry Bryan (1873–1923)
entry |3 pages
Biographies
entry |1 pages
“Birds of Passage” (1881)
entry |1 pages
Birthplace, Whitman's
entry |1 pages
“Bivouac on a Mountain Side” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Blake, William (1757–1827)
entry |1 pages
Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)
entry |1 pages
Bolton (England) “Eagle Street College”
entry |1 pages
Bon Echo
entry |1 pages
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986)
entry |1 pages
Born, Helena (1860–1901)
entry |1 pages
“Boston Ballad (1854), A” (1855)
entry |1 pages
Boston, Massachusetts
entry |1 pages
“Boy Lover, The” (1845)
entry |3 pages
British Isles, Whitman in the
entry |2 pages
British Romantic Poets
entry |1 pages
“Broadway” (1888)
entry |1 pages
Broadway Hospital (New York)
entry |1 pages
Broadway Journal
entry |1 pages
“Broadway Pageant, A” (1860)
entry |2 pages
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
entry |1 pages
Brooklyn Daily Times
entry |1 pages
Brooklyn Freeman
entry |2 pages
Brooklyn, New York
entry |1 pages
Brown, Lewis Kirk (1843–1926)
entry |2 pages
Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)
entry |1 pages
Buchanan, Robert (1841–1901)
entry |1 pages
Bucke, Richard Maurice (1837–1901)
entry |1 pages
Buffalo Free Soil Convention (1848)
entry |1 pages
Burns, Anthony (1834–1862)
entry |2 pages
Burroughs, John (1837–1921) and Ursula (1836–1917)
entry |1 pages
“By Blue Ontario's Shore” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“By That Long Scan of Waves” (1885)
entry |1 pages
“By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“By the Roadside” (1881)
letter 3|65 pages
C
entry |4 pages
“Calamus” (1860)
entry |2 pages
Camden, New Jersey
entry |3 pages
Canada, Whitman's Reception in
entry |1 pages
Canada, Whitman's Visit to
entry |1 pages
Canby, Henry Seidel (1878–1961)
entry |2 pages
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)
entry |1 pages
Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919)
entry |1 pages
Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929)
entry |1 pages
Carpenter, George Rice (1863–1909)
entry |1 pages
Catalogues
entry |1 pages
Catel, Jean (1891–1950)
entry |1 pages
Cather, Willa (1873–1947)
entry |1 pages
“Cavalry Crossing a Ford” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Centenarian's Story, The” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia)
entry |1 pages
“Chanting the Square Deific” (1865–1866)
entry |1 pages
Chase, Richard Volney (1914–1962)
entry |1 pages
Chase, Salmon P. (1808–1873)
entry |1 pages
“Child and the Profligate, The” (1841)
entry |3 pages
“Children of Adam” (1860)
entry |1 pages
China, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
Chopin, Kate (1850–1904)
entry |1 pages
“City Dead-House, The” (1867)
entry |1 pages
“City of Orgies” (1860)
entry |3 pages
City, Whitman and the
entry |3 pages
Civil War, The (1861–1865)
entry |2 pages
Civil War Nursing
entry |1 pages
Clapp, Henry (1814–1875)
entry |1 pages
Clare, Ada (Jane McElheney) (1836–1874)
entry |1 pages
Clarke, McDonald (1798–1842)
entry |1 pages
“Clear Midnight, A” (1881)
entry |1 pages
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)
entry |2 pages
Collect (1882)
entry |3 pages
Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1984)
entry |3 pages
Collectors and Collections, Whitman
entry |1 pages
Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)
entry |1 pages
“Come Up from the Fields Father” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1902)
entry |1 pages
Compromise of 1850
entry |4 pages
Comradeship
entry |1 pages
Comstock, Anthony (1844–1919)
entry |2 pages
Contradiction
entry |1 pages
Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832–1907)
entry |1 pages
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851)
entry |2 pages
Correspondence of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1977)
entry |1 pages
Cosmic Consciousness
entry |1 pages
Costelloe, Mary Whitall Smith (1864–1945)
entry |1 pages
Cowley, Malcolm (1898–1989)
entry |1 pages
Crane, Hart (1899–1932)
entry |1 pages
Creeley, Robert (1926-)
entry |2 pages
Critics, Whitman's
entry |2 pages
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Crystal Palace Exhibition (New York)
letter 4|36 pages
D
entry |1 pages
“Dalliance of the Eagles, The” (1880)
entry |1 pages
Dana, Charles A. (1819–1897)
entry |1 pages
“Darest Thou Now O Soul” (1868)
entry |1 pages
Dartmouth College
entry |1 pages
Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)
entry |1 pages
Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)
entry |1 pages
Daybooks and Notebooks (1978)
entry |1 pages
De Selincourt, Basil (1876–1966)
entry |3 pages
Death
entry |1 pages
“Death in the School-Room (a Fact)” (1841)
entry |1 pages
“Death of Abraham Lincoln” (1879)
entry |1 pages
“Death of Wind-Foot, The” (1842)
entry |1 pages
“Death's Valley” (1892)
entry |3 pages
Democracy
entry |1 pages
Democratic Party
entry |1 pages
Democratic Review
entry |3 pages
Democratic Vistas (1871)
entry |1 pages
Denison, Flora MacDonald (1867–1921)
entry |1 pages
Denver, Colorado
entry |2 pages
Dialectic
entry |1 pages
Dickens, Charles (1812–1870)
entry |1 pages
Dickinson, Emily (1830–1886)
entry |1 pages
Dictionaries
entry |1 pages
“Dirge for Two Veterans” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Donaldson, Thomas (1843–1898)
entry |1 pages
Dos Passos, John (1896–1970)
entry |1 pages
Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)
entry |1 pages
Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
entry |1 pages
Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)
entry |2 pages
Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)
entry |1 pages
Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877)
entry |3 pages
“Drum-Taps” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Drum-Taps (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Dumb Kate” (1844)
entry |1 pages
Duncan, Robert (1919–1988)
entry |1 pages
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus (1816–1878)
letter 5|22 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)
entry |1 pages
“Earth, My Likeness” (1860)
entry |2 pages
Education, Views on
entry |1 pages
Egyptian Museum (New York) (1853–1859)
entry |1 pages
“Eidólons” (1876)
entry |2 pages
“Eighteenth Presidency!, The” (1928)
entry |1 pages
Eliot, T.S. (1888–1965)
entry |2 pages
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882)
entry |2 pages
Epic Structure
entry |1 pages
Epictetus (ca.55–ca.125)
entry |1 pages
Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)
entry |1 pages
Equality
entry |1 pages
“Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” (1871)
entry |1 pages
“Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States” (1850)
entry |1 pages
Evening Tattler (New York)
entry |1 pages
Everson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–)
entry |2 pages
Evil
entry |1 pages
Evolution
entry |1 pages
“Excelsior” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Eyre, Ellen
letter 6|26 pages
F
entry |2 pages
“Faces” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“Facing West from California's Shores” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Falmouth, Virginia
entry |1 pages
Farnham, Eliza W. (1815–1864)
entry |1 pages
“Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Ferries and Omnibuses
entry |2 pages
Feudalism
entry |1 pages
“Fireman's Dream, The” (1844)
entry |1 pages
“First O Songs for a Prelude” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“For You O Democracy” (1860)
entry |3 pages
Foreign Language Borrowings
entry |1 pages
Forster, E.M. (1879–1970)
entry |1 pages
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles (1811–1896) and Orson Squire (1809–1887)
entry |4 pages
France, Whitman in
entry |2 pages
Franklin Evans (1842)
entry |1 pages
Free Inquirer
entry |1 pages
Free Soil Party
entry |2 pages
Freedom
entry |1 pages
Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810–1876)
entry |1 pages
Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)
entry |1 pages
“From Far Dakota's Cañons” (1876)
entry |1 pages
“From Noon to Starry Night” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“From Pent-up Aching Rivers” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Fuller, Margaret (1810–1850)
entry |1 pages
Furness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946)
letter 7|17 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Galaxy, The
entry |1 pages
García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936)
entry |1 pages
Garland, Hamlin (1860–1940)
entry |4 pages
German-speaking Countries, Whitman in the
entry |1 pages
Gide, André (1869–1951)
entry |1 pages
Gilchrist, Anne Burrows (1828–1885)
entry |1 pages
Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)
entry |1 pages
Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)
entry |1 pages
Gilder, Richard Watson (1844–1909)
entry |1 pages
Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997)
entry |1 pages
“Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)
entry |1 pages
"Good-Bye my Fancy!" (1891)
entry |1 pages
“Good-Bye my Fancy” (Second Ann ex) (1891)
entry |1 pages
Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849–1928)
entry |1 pages
Gray, Fred (1834–1891)
entry |1 pages
Great Plains and Prairies, The
entry |1 pages
Grey, Ellen
entry |1 pages
Griswold, Rufus W. (1815–1857)
entry |1 pages
Gurowski, Count Adam de (1805–1866)
letter 8|30 pages
H
entry |1 pages
“Halcyon Days”
entry |1 pages
Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909)
entry |1 pages
“Half-Breed, The” (1845)
entry |1 pages
“Hand-Mirror, A” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Harlan, James W. (1820–1899)
entry |1 pages
Harleigh Cemetery
entry |1 pages
Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)
entry |1 pages
Harper's Monthly
entry |1 pages
Harris, Frank (1856–1931)
entry |1 pages
Harris, Thomas Lake (1823–1906)
entry |1 pages
Hartmann, C. Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944)
entry |1 pages
Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)
entry |1 pages
“Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour” (1881)
entry |1 pages
Health
entry |1 pages
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)
entry |1 pages
Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)
entry |1 pages
Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744–1803)
entry |1 pages
“Here the Frailest Leaves of Me” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Heroes and Heroines
entry |1 pages
Heyde, Charles Louis (1822–1892)
entry |1 pages
Heywood, Ezra H. (1829–1893)
entry |1 pages
Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)
entry |1 pages
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823–1911)
entry |1 pages
Hindu Literature
entry |1 pages
Holloway, Emory (1885–1977)
entry |1 pages
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)
entry |1 pages
Homer
entry |1 pages
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)
entry |1 pages
Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873)
entry |1 pages
[“Hours Continuing Long”] (1860)
entry |1 pages
Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)
entry |1 pages
Hudson River
entry |1 pages
Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)
entry |1 pages
Hugo, Victor (1802–1885)
entry |2 pages
Human Body
entry |1 pages
Human Voice
entry |1 pages
Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859)
entry |1 pages
Humor
entry |1 pages
Huneker, James Gibbons (1857–1921)
entry |1 pages
Hunkers
letter 9|33 pages
I
entry |1 pages
“I Dream'd in a Dream” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“I Hear America Singing” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“I Hear It was Charged against Me” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ” (1861)
entry |1 pages
“I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” (1860)
entry |2 pages
“I Sing the Body Electric” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“I Sit and Look Out” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“I Was Looking a Long While” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Immigrants
entry |4 pages
Immortality
entry |1 pages
Imperialism
entry |1 pages
“In Paths Untrodden” (1860)
entry |2 pages
India, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
Indian Affairs, Bureau of
entry |3 pages
Individualism
entry |4 pages
Influences on Whitman, Principal
entry |1 pages
Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833–1899)
entry |1 pages
“Inscriptions” (1871)
entry |2 pages
Interculturality
entry |1 pages
Internet, Whitman on the
entry |2 pages
Ireland, Whitman in
entry |2 pages
Israel, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
“Italian Music in Dakota” (1881)
entry |2 pages
Italy, Whitman in
letter 10|12 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jackson, Andrew (1767–1845)
entry |1 pages
James, Henry (1843–1916)
entry |1 pages
James, William (1842–1910)
entry |2 pages
Japan, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
Jarrell, Randall (1914–1965)
entry |1 pages
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
entry |1 pages
Johnston, Dr. John (d. 1918)
entry |1 pages
Johnston, John H. (1837–1919) and Alma Calder
entry |1 pages
Jordan, June (1936–)
entry |3 pages
Journalism, Whitman's
entry |1 pages
Journeying
entry |1 pages
Joyce, James (1882–1941)
letter 11|3 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)
entry |1 pages
Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)
entry |1 pages
Kerouac, Jack (1922–1969)
entry |1 pages
Kinnell, Galway (1927-)
entry |1 pages
Knortz, Karl (1841–1918)
letter 12|71 pages
L
entry |2 pages
“L. of G.'s Purport” (1891)
entry |2 pages
Labor and Laboring Classes
entry |1 pages
Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834)
entry |1 pages
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste (1744–1829)
entry |3 pages
Language
entry |1 pages
Lanier, Sidney (1842–1881)
entry |1 pages
“Last Loyalist, The” (1842)
entry |1 pages
“Last of the Sacred Army, The” (1842)
entry |1 pages
Lawrence, D.H. (1885–1930)
entry |1 pages
Lawrence, Kansas
entry |2 pages
Leaves of Grass
entry |5 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition
entry |3 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1856 Edition
entry |3 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1860 Edition
entry |3 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1867 Edition
entry |4 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1871–1872 Edition
entry |1 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition
entry |2 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1881–1882 Edition
entry |6 pages
Leaves of Grass, 1891–1892, Deathbed Edition
entry |1 pages
Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860)
entry |2 pages
Leaves of Grass, Variorum Edition
entry |1 pages
“Leaves-Droppings” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Leech, Abraham Paul (1815–1886)
entry |4 pages
Legacy, Whitman's
entry |1 pages
“Legend of Life and Love, A” (1842)
entry |1 pages
Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)
entry |1 pages
Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)
entry |1 pages
Leland, Henry Perry (1828–1868)
entry |1 pages
“Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Libraries (New York)
entry |1 pages
Liebig, Justus (1803–1873)
entry |1 pages
Life Illustrated
entry |2 pages
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)
entry |1 pages
Lincoln's Death
entry |1 pages
“Lingave's Temptation”
entry |2 pages
Literariness
entry |1 pages
Literature
entry |1 pages
“Little Jane” (1842)
entry |1 pages
“Little Sleighers, The” (1844)
entry |1 pages
“Live Oak with Moss” (1953–1954)
entry |1 pages
“Lo, Victress on the Peaks” (1865–1866)
entry |1 pages
London, Ontario, Canada
entry |1 pages
[“Long I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice”] (1860)
entry |1 pages
Long Island Democrat
entry |2 pages
Long Island, New York
entry |1 pages
Long Island Patriot
entry |1 pages
Long Island Star
entry |1 pages
Long Islander
entry |1 pages
“Long, Too Long America” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Longaker, Dr. Daniel (1858–1949)
entry |1 pages
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)
entry |2 pages
Love
entry |1 pages
“Love of Eris: A Spirit Record, The” (1844)
entry |1 pages
Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)
entry |1 pages
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (ca. 94–50 B.C.)
letter 13|33 pages
M
entry |1 pages
McKay, David (1860–1918)
entry |1 pages
Macpherson, James (“Ossian”) (1736–1796)
entry |1 pages
“Madman, The” (1843)
entry |1 pages
“Mannahatta [I was asking …]” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown, A” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?–1950)
entry |1 pages
Mathews, Cornelius (ca. 1817–1889)
entry |1 pages
Matthiessen, F.O. (1902–1950)
entry |1 pages
“Me Imperturbe” (1860)
entry |3 pages
Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works
entry |1 pages
Memoranda During the War (1875–1876)
entry |1 pages
“Memories of President Lincoln” (1881–1882)
entry |1 pages
Menken, Adah Isaacs (ca. 1835–1868)
entry |2 pages
Metaphysics
entry |1 pages
Mexican War, The
entry |1 pages
Michelet, Jules (1798–1874)
entry |1 pages
Mickle Street House (Camden, New Jersey)
entry |1 pages
Miller, Edwin Haviland (1918–)
entry |1 pages
Miller, Henry (1891–1980)
entry |1 pages
Miller, James Edwin, Jr. (1920–)
entry |1 pages
Miller, Joaquin (1837–1913)
entry |1 pages
Millet, Jean-François (1814–1875)
entry |1 pages
“Miracles” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Mississippi River
entry |1 pages
Mitchel, O.M. (Ormsby Macknight) (1809–1862)
entry |1 pages
Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829–1914)
entry |1 pages
Molinoff, Katherine
entry |2 pages
Motherhood
entry |2 pages
Music, Whitman and
entry |2 pages
Music, Whitman's Influence on
entry |1 pages
“My Boys and Girls” (1844)
entry |1 pages
“My Picture-Gallery” (1880)
entry |1 pages
“Myself and Mine” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Mystic Trumpeter, The” (1872)
entry |3 pages
Mysticism
letter 14|24 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Native Americans (Indians)
entry |1 pages
“Native Moments” (1860)
entry |3 pages
Nature
entry |1 pages
Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973)
entry |1 pages
New Orleans Crescent
entry |1 pages
New Orleans, Louisiana
entry |1 pages
New Orleans Picayune
entry |1 pages
New World, The (New York)
entry |1 pages
New York Aurora
entry |3 pages
New York City
entry |1 pages
New York Evening Post
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New York Times
entry |1 pages
New York Tribune
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Niagara Falls
entry |1 pages
“Noiseless Patient Spider, A” (1868)
entry |1 pages
North American Review, The
entry |1 pages
Norton, Charles Eliot (1827–1908)
entry |1 pages
“Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only” (1860)
entry |2 pages
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (1984)
entry |3 pages
November Boughs (1888)
letter 15|27 pages
O
entry |1 pages
“O Captain! My Captain!” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“O Hymen! O Hymenee!” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“O Living Always, Always Dying” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“O Magnet-South” (1860)
entry |1 pages
O'Connor (Calder), Ellen (“Nelly”) M. Tarr (1830–1913)
entry |1 pages
O'Connor, William Douglas (1832–1889)
entry |1 pages
“Of Him I Love Day and Night” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Old Age Echoes” (1897)
entry |1 pages
“Old Age's Lambent Peaks” (1888)
entry |1 pages
“On the Beach at Night” (1871)
entry |1 pages
“On the Beach at Night Alone” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Once I Pass'd through a Populous City” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“One Hour to Madness and Joy” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“One Wicked Impulse!” (1845)
entry |1 pages
“One's-Self I Sing” (1867)
entry |2 pages
Opera and Opera Singers
entry |2 pages
Optimism
entry |1 pages
“Orange Buds by Mail from Florida” (1888)
entry |1 pages
Oratory
entry |2 pages
Organicism
entry |1 pages
“Osceola” (1890)
entry |1 pages
Osgood, James R. (1836–1892)
entry |1 pages
Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)
entry |1 pages
“Our Old Feuillage” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Out from Behind This Mask” (1876)
entry |2 pages
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1859)
entry |1 pages
“Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice” (1865)
letter 16|62 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
entry |2 pages
Painters and Painting
entry |1 pages
Pantheism
entry |1 pages
Parodies
entry |1 pages
Parton, James (1822–1891)
entry |1 pages
Parton, Sara Payson Willis (Fanny Fern)(1811–1872)
entry |2 pages
“Passage to India” (1871)
entry |1 pages
“Patroling Barnegat” (1880)
entry |1 pages
Penned, Joseph (1857–1926), and Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936)
entry |2 pages
Periodicals Devoted to Whitman
entry |1 pages
Perry, Bliss (1860–1954)
entry |1 pages
Personae
entry |1 pages
Pessoa, Fernando (1888–1935)
entry |1 pages
Pfaff's Restaurant
entry |2 pages
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
entry |1 pages
Phillips, George Searle (“January Searle”) (1815–1889)
entry |3 pages
Photographs and Photographers
entry |3 pages
Phrenology
entry |1 pages
“Pioneers! O Pioneers!” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Place Names
entry |1 pages
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)
entry |3 pages
Poetic Theory
entry |1 pages
“Poetry To-day in America—Shakspere—The Future” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“Poets to Come” (1860)
entry |4 pages
Political Views
entry |3 pages
Popular Culture, Whitman and
entry |1 pages
Portugal and Brazil, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
Pound, Ezra (1885–1972)
entry |1 pages
“Prairie States, The” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“Prairie-Grass Dividing, The” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Prayer of Columbus” (1874)
entry |1 pages
Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)
entry |3 pages
Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition
entry |1 pages
Preface to Two Rivulets (1876)
entry |1 pages
Pre-Leaves Poems
entry |3 pages
Presidents, United States
entry |1 pages
Price, Abby Hills (1814–1878)
entry |1 pages
Price, Helen E. (b. 1841)
entry |1 pages
Pride
entry |1 pages
Printing Business
entry |1 pages
“Promise to California, A” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Prophecy
entry |1 pages
Prosody
entry |2 pages
“Proud Music of the Storm” (1869)
entry |1 pages
Providence, Rhode Island
entry |3 pages
Pseudoscience
entry |2 pages
Psychological Approaches
entry |1 pages
Putnam's Monthly
letter 17|3 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
Quakers and Quakerism
entry |1 pages
“Quicksand Years” (1865)
letter 18|36 pages
R
entry |4 pages
Racial Attitudes
entry |2 pages
Radicalism
entry |2 pages
Reading, Whitman's
entry |1 pages
Realism
entry |1 pages
“Reconciliation” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Reconstruction
entry |1 pages
“Recorders Ages Hence” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Redpath, James (1833–1891)
entry |1 pages
Reincarnation
entry |4 pages
Religion
entry |1 pages
Republican Party
entry |1 pages
“Respondez!” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Return of the Heroes, The” (1867)
entry |1 pages
“Reuben's Last Wish” (1841)
entry |1 pages
Revolutions of 1848
entry |1 pages
Rhetorical Theory and Practice
entry |1 pages
Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)
entry |1 pages
“Richard Parker's Widow” (1845)
entry |1 pages
Riverby
entry |1 pages
Rocky Mountains
entry |1 pages
Roe, Charles A. (b. 1829)
entry |1 pages
Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)
entry |3 pages
Romanticism
entry |1 pages
Rome Brothers, The
entry |1 pages
Rossetti, William Michael (1829–1915)
entry |2 pages
Roughs
entry |1 pages
“‘Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'” (1891)
entry |1 pages
Rukeyser, Muriel (1913–1980)
entry |2 pages
Russia and Other Slavic Countries, Whitman in
letter 19|100 pages
S
entry |1 pages
St. Louis, Missouri
entry |2 pages
“Salut au Monde!” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (Frank) (1831–1917)
entry |1 pages
Sand, George (1804–1876)
entry |1 pages
Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967)
entry |1 pages
"Sands at Seventy" (First An nex) (1888)
entry |1 pages
Santayana, George (1863–1952)
entry |1 pages
Sarrazin, Gabriel (1853–1935)
entry |1 pages
Saturday Press
entry |1 pages
Sawyer, Thomas P. (b. ca. 1843)
entry |2 pages
Scandinavia, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
“Scented Herbage of My Breast” (1860)
entry |3 pages
Scholarship, Trends in Whitman
entry |1 pages
Schyberg, Frederik (1905–1950)
entry |3 pages
Science
entry |1 pages
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)
entry |1 pages
Sculptors and Sculpture
entry |2 pages
Sea, The
entry |1 pages
“Sea-Drift” (1881)
entry |1 pages
Self-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's Anonymous
entry |2 pages
Sentimentality
entry |2 pages
Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865)
entry |4 pages
Sex and Sexuality
entry |1 pages
“Shadow and the Light of a Young Man's Soul, The” (1848)
entry |1 pages
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
entry |1 pages
“Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher” (1891)
entry |1 pages
Shephard, Esther (1891–1975)
entry |1 pages
“Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem” (1845)
entry |1 pages
Short Fiction, Whitman's (1841–1848)
entry |1 pages
“Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, A” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Simpson, Louis (1923–)
entry |1 pages
“Sketch, A” (1842)
entry |2 pages
Slang
entry |1 pages
“Slang in America” (1885)
entry |3 pages
Slavery and Abolitionism
entry |3 pages
“Sleepers, The” (1855)
entry |1 pages
Smith, Alexander (ca. 1830–1867)
entry |1 pages
Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)
entry |1 pages
Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)
entry |1 pages
Smuts, Jan Christian (1870–1950)
entry |1 pages
“So Long!” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Society for the Suppression of Vice
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“Some Fact-Romances” (1845)
entry |1 pages
“Sometimes with One I Love” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Song at Sunset” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Song for Occupations, A” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“Song of Joys, A” (1860)
entry |3 pages
“Song of Myself” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“Song of Prudence” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Answerer” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Banner at Daybreak” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Broad-Axe” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Exposition” (1871)
entry |2 pages
“Song of the Open Road” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Redwood-Tree” (1874)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Rolling Earth, A” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Song of the Universal” (1876)
entry |2 pages
“Songs of Parting” (1871)
entry |2 pages
Soul, The
entry |1 pages
South, The American
entry |2 pages
Space
entry |3 pages
Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in
entry |1 pages
“Sparkles from the Wheel” (1871)
entry |3 pages
Specimen Days (1882)
entry |1 pages
Speed, Attorney General James (1812–1887)
entry |1 pages
“Spirit That Form'd This Scene” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“Spirit whose Work is Done” (1865–1866)
entry |2 pages
Spontaneity
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“Spontaneous Me” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Stafford, George and Susan M.
entry |1 pages
Stafford, Harry L. (b. 1858)
entry |2 pages
“Starting from Paumanok” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)
entry |1 pages
Stevens, Oliver (b. 1825)
entry |1 pages
Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955)
entry |1 pages
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894)
entry |1 pages
Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843–1909)
entry |1 pages
Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825–1903)
entry |2 pages
Stoicism
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Style and Technique(s)
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“Supplement Hours” (1891)
entry |1 pages
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772)
entry |1 pages
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)
entry |1 pages
Swinton, John (1829–1901)
entry |1 pages
Swinton, William (1833–1892)
entry |2 pages
Symbolism
entry |1 pages
Symonds, John Addington (1840–1893)
letter 20|48 pages
T
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Tammany Hall
entry |1 pages
Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878)
entry |1 pages
Taylor, Father (Edward Thompson) (1793–1871)
entry |2 pages
Teaching of Whitman's Works
entry |2 pages
Technology
entry |2 pages
Temperance Movement
entry |1 pages
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–1892)
entry |1 pages
“That Music Always Round Me” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Thayer (William Wilde, 1829–1896) and Eldridge (Charles W., 1837–1903)
entry |1 pages
Theaters and Opera Houses
entry |1 pages
“There was a Child Went Forth” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“These I Singing in Spring” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“This Compost” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862)
entry |1 pages
“Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood” (1872)
entry |1 pages
“Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling” (1881)
entry |1 pages
“Thought of Columbus, A” (1892)
entry |1 pages
Timber Creek
entry |2 pages
Time
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“To a Certain Civilian” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“To a Common Prostitute” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“To a Historian” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To a Locomotive in Winter” (1876)
entry |1 pages
“To a President” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To a Stranger” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To a Western Boy” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To One Shortly to Die” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To Rich Givers” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power” (1897)
entry |1 pages
“To the Garden the World” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod” (1865–1866)
entry |1 pages
“To the States” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“To the Sun-Set Breeze” (1890)
entry |1 pages
“To Thee Old Cause” (1871)
entry |1 pages
“To Think of Time” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“To You [Whoever you are …]” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Tomb Blossoms, The” (1842)
entry |1 pages
Trail, Dr. Russell Thacher (1812–1877)
entry |1 pages
“Tramp and Strike Questions, The” (1882)
entry |3 pages
Transcendentalism
entry |2 pages
Traubel, Horace L. (1858–1919)
entry |2 pages
Travels, Whitman's
entry |1 pages
Treasurer's Office, Solicitor of the
entry |1 pages
“Trickle Drops” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Triggs, Oscar Lovell (1865–1930)
entry |1 pages
Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827–1916)
entry |1 pages
Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810–1889)
entry |1 pages
Two Rivulets, Author's Edition (1876)
entry |1 pages
Tyndale, Hector (1821–1880)
entry |1 pages
Tyndale, Sarah Thorn (1792–1859)
letter 21|2 pages
U
entry |2 pages
“Unfolded Out of the Folds” (1856)
entry |1 pages
“Unseen Buds” (1891)
letter 22|3 pages
V
entry |1 pages
Van Velsor, Cornelius (1768–1837)
entry |1 pages
Van Velsor, Naomi (“Amy”) Williams (d. 1826)
entry |1 pages
Vaughan, Frederick B. (b. 1837)
entry |1 pages
“Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Volney, Constantin (1757–1820)
letter 23|46 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Wallace, James William (1853–1926)
entry |1 pages
Walt Whitman's Blue Book (1968)
entry |1 pages
Warren, Samuel (1807–1877)
entry |3 pages
Washington, D.C. (1863–1873)
entry |1 pages
Washington, George (1732–1799)
entry |1 pages
“We Two Boys together Clinging” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“We Two, How Long We were Fool'd” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Wells, Samuel Roberts (1820–1875)
entry |1 pages
West Jersey Press
entry |1 pages
West, The American
entry |1 pages
Westminster Review, The
entry |1 pages
Wharton, Edith (1862–1937)
entry |1 pages
“What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“When I Heard at the Close of the Day” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“When I Read the Book” (1867)
entry |3 pages
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Whigs
entry |1 pages
“Whispers of Heavenly Death” (1868)
entry |1 pages
“Whispers of Heavenly Death” (cluster) (1871)
entry |1 pages
White, William (1910–1995)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Andrew Jackson (1827–1863)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Edward (1835–1892)
entry |2 pages
Whitman, George Washington (1829–1901)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Hannah Brush (1753–1834)
entry |1 pages
Whitman (Heyde), Hannah Louisa (d. 1908)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Jesse (brother) (1818–1870)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Jesse W. (grandfather) (1749–1803)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Louisa Orr Haslam (Mrs. George) (1842–1892)
entry |2 pages
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor (1795–1873)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Martha (“Mattie”) Mitchell (1836–1873)
entry |1 pages
Whitman, Nancy
entry |2 pages
Whitman, Thomas Jefferson (1833–1890)
entry |1 pages
Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. 1821)
entry |2 pages
Whitman, Walter, Sr. (1789–1855)
entry |1 pages
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)
entry |1 pages
“Who Learns My Lesson Complete?” (1855)
entry |1 pages
“Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand” (1860)
entry |1 pages
“Wild Frank's Return” (1841)
entry |1 pages
Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
entry |1 pages
Williams, Captain John
entry |1 pages
Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)
entry |1 pages
Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)
entry |1 pages
Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806–1867)
entry |1 pages
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
entry |1 pages
“With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!” (1884)
entry |1 pages
“Woman Waits for Me, A” (1856)
entry |1 pages
Woman's Rights Movement and Whitman, The
entry |3 pages
Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing
entry |1 pages
“World Below the Brine, The” (1860)
entry |1 pages
Worthington, Richard (1834–1894)
entry |1 pages
“Wound-Dresser, The” (1865)
entry |1 pages
Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795–1852)
entry |1 pages
Wright, James (1927–1980)
letter 24|4 pages
Y
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“Year of Meteors (1859–60)” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me” (1865)
entry |1 pages
“Yonnondio” (1887)
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“You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me” (1887)
entry |1 pages
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