Whitman Walt - Walt Whitman, a life

Parts of Chapter 8 appeared in different form in Telling Lives: The Biographers Art, edited by Marc Pachter, published by New Republic Books in association with the National Portrait Gallery.

Copyright 1979 by the Smithsonian Institution.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster, Inc.

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Kaplan, Justin.

Walt Whitman: a life / Justin Kaplan1st Perennial Classics ed.

p. cm.

Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-06-053511-3

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Abbott, Henry, 170, 213

abolitionism, 13335, 204

in Boston, 252

John Brown and, 247, 256

in England, 133

Elijah Lovejoy and, 89

novels and, 254, 255, 256

OConnors and, 288, 344

popular-sovereignty doctrine and, 134, 135

Whitman opposed to, 89, 133

Whitmans support of, 134, 145, 17475, 25556

Wilmot Proviso and, 131, 134, 162

see also slavery

Adams, Charles Francis, 145

Adams, Henry, 271, 337

on American presidents, 334

on sex and American art, 148

trip South of, 140, 143

Adams, John, 66

Adams, John Quincy, 100, 112

Adonais (Shelley), 308

After All, Not to Create Only (Song of the Exposition) (Whitman), 34142

After the Supper and Talk (Whitman), 24

Akers, Elizabeth, 277, 307

Alboni,Marietta, 17879, 231, 366

Alcott, Bronson:

at Boston Transcendental Club, 88

as educator, 82

Margaret Fullers death and, 164

Leaves of Grass viewed by, 21718

Southern life and, 140

transcendentalism and, 205

Whitmans meeting with, 21719, 221, 28990

Alcott, Louisa May, 217, 341

Hospital Sketches, 27879

as source, 310

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 27, 243, 246

Alexander, John White, 39

Allen, Elijah, 277, 307

American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), 229

American Genius discussion, 88

American Institute of New York, Whitmans reading at, 339, 341

American Museum, 112

American Notes (Dickens), 9899, 102n, 253

American Party, 215

American Phrenological Journal, 153, 208, 209

American Primer, An (Whitman), 229

American Revolution, 6667, 71

Whitmans ancestors in, 5556

Whitmans links to, 6567, 74, 97, 98

American Scholar address (Emerson), 88

Anderson, Robert, 261

Anderson, Sherwood, 87n

androgyny, as integrating principle in poetry, 183

Angel of Tears, The (Whitman), 98, 116n

animal magnetism, 15051

annexation principle, 100, 128, 129

slavery linked to, 131, 134

Antietam, Battle of, 268, 273

Appomattox, surrender at, 302

Arabian Nights, 71

Aristidean, 115

Arizona, annexation of, 139

Armory Square Hospital Gazette, 301

Arnold, George, 243, 244, 262, 263

Arnold, John, 23132, 240

Arnold, Matthew, 32021, 335

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (Whitman), 343

Ashton, J. Hubley, 290, 298

Whitmans dismissal from Indian Bureau and, 304, 306

As I Ebbd with the Ocean of Life (Bardic Symbols) (Whitman), 6263, 233, 240

Asselineau, Roger, 116n

Astor, John Jacob, 72

Astor Place riot, 174

Athenaeum (London), 356

Atlantic Monthly, 226, 245, 322

Whitman reviewed in, 25, 342, 357

Whitmans poems in, 233, 26364

Attorney General, Office of:

Ashton and, 290, 304, 306

Whitman as clerk in, 304, 306, 318

Audubon, John James, 307

Aurora, 1024, 108, 124, 133

Autobiography (Goethe), 128

Backward Glance Oer Traveld Roads, A (Whitman), 2021, 23, 18485

Bacon, Delia Salter, 291

Bacon, Francis, 291

Baker, Frank, 33940

Bancroft, George, 100

Banner at Day-Break (Whitman), see Drum-Taps

Bardic Symbols, see As I Ebbd with the Ocean of Life

Barnburners (Brooklyn), 13435, 145, 156

Barnum, P. T., 112, 177, 208

Bartol, Cyrus, 213

Battle Pieces (Melville), 309

Baudelaire, Charles, 326

Baxter, Sylvester, 25

Beach, Alfred, 159

Beach, Calvin, 242

Beach, Juliette Hayward, 242, 330

Beach, Moses, 159

Beecher, Henry Ward, 149, 218

Beldon, E. Porter, 113

Bells, The (Aldrich), 246

Benicia Boy, The, 243

Benjamin, Park, 98, 99, 104, 105, 115

Bennett, George C., 22526, 232

Benton, Thomas Hart, 112, 156

Branger, Pierre, 168

Berenice (Poe), 116n

Bervance: or, Father and Son (Whitman), 87, 116n, 118

Bettini, Alessandro, 178

Billy Budd (Melville), 120, 121

Binns, Henry Bryan, 14243

Bishop, Anna, 17677

blacks:

in Civil War, 24, 29192

enfranchisement of, 335, 344

free, Whitmans exposure to, 132, 25556

Whitmans view of, 132, 29192, 344

see also abolitionism; slavery

Blackstone, Sir William, 229

Blake, William, 32627

Whitman compared to, 326, 326n327n

Whitmans tomb and engraving by, 49, 327n

Blood-Money (Whitman), 162, 163

Bolton college, 34, 36n

Bonsall, Harry, 3334

Booth, Edwin, 26

Booth, John Wilkes, 79n

Booth, Junius Brutus, 20, 7879, 79n

Boston, 25256

blacks in, 25556

cultural conformity in, 25253

Boston Ballad, A (Whitman), 185186

Boston Evening Transcript, 263

Boston Journal, 342

Boston Transcript, 26

Boston Whig, 131

Brady, Mathew, 38

Brenton, James, 93

Brenton, Mrs., 93

Broadway Journal, 115, 175

Brook Farm commune, 204

Brooklyn (New York City):

as city of churches, 70, 77

population boom in, 64

street life in, 7172

Whitmans boyhood in, 6473

Whitmans early newspaper career in, 7481

Brooklyn Advertiser, 135, 145, 159

Brooklyn Art Union, Whitmans speech at, 16869, 171

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 102, 134, 135, 144, 176, 186, 294

Whitman as editor of, 105, 116n117n, 125, 126, 12728, 135

Whitmans articles for, 109, 116n117n, 126, 134, 135, 151, 168, 17273

Brooklyn Daily Times, 76, 208, 225226, 228, 232, 235, 245