- Ivan Marki, The Trial of the Poet: An Interpretation of the First Edition of
Leaves of Grass (New York: Columbia UP, 1976), 123–125. - Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1977), 223; Douglas, “Heaven Our Home,” 49–60, 63. - Lamont, Illusion of Immortality, 132; Robert K. Martin, The Continuing Pres-
ence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life (Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1992), 31. - Jones, Some Exponents of Mystical Religion, 185.
17.Notes & Fragments, 38, cited in Marki, Trial of the Poet, 132. - Joseph Campbell, The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in Mythological
Dimension (New York: Viking, 1969), 166–168. James Nolan reads this passage in
terms of shamanism in Poet-Chief: The American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo
Neruda (Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 1994) 201. - Quoted in Marion Walker Alcaro, Walt Whitman and Mrs. G.: A Biography of
Anne Gilchrist (Rutherford, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1991) 221. - Stephen J. Tapscott, “Leaves of Myself: Whitman’s Egypt in “Song of My-
self ” in On Whitman: The Best from American Literature, ed. Edwin H. Cady and
Louis J. Budd (Durham: Duke UP, 1987), 203–227. - Harold Aspiz, “Walt Whitman: The Spermatic Imagination,” in On Whit-
man, 273–289. - In 1867, Whitman modi¤ed line 4 in section 23 of “Song of Myself ” to em-
phasize the role of the self in his interpretation of cosmic time: “Here or hence-
forward it is all the same to me; I accept Time absolutely... That mystic wonder
that completes all.” The workings of time, he assumed, would eventually resolve the
separation of the spiritual and material worlds. - Robert J. Scholnick, “‘The Password Primeval’: Whitman’s Use of Science in
‘Song of Myself,’” in Studies in the American Renaissance: 1986, ed. Joel Myerson
(Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1986), 386, 392. The essay is a valuable discussion of
Whitman and science. - Andrew W. Delp, “Andrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualism,” and Robert C.
Fuller, “Mesmerism and the Birth of Psychology,” both in Pseudo-Science and Society
in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Arthur Wrobel (Lexington: UP of Kentucky,
1987), 7, 105, 212–213. - Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams (London: George Allen & Unwin,
1921), 205. - “Cosmic Emotion,” Nineteenth Century 2 (October 1879), cited in Clara Bar-
rus, Whitman and Burroughs Comrades (1931; reprint, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kenni-
kat Press, 1959), 169. - The lexicographer is probably William Swinton, with whose language re-
search Whitman may have collaborated; the chemist possibly the renowned Dr.
William Draper, whose textbook on chemistry Whitman reviewed, the “grammarian
of the old cartouches” the Egyptologist Dr. Henry Abbott; and “he who works with
the scalpel” Dr. Edward H. Dixon, editor of The Scalpel, who was a popular lecturer
on medical topics mentioned in Whitman’s journalism. See WWBB, 58–61.
28.NUPM, 1:172–173; Frederick William Conner, Cosmic Optimism: A Study in
the Interpretation of Evolution by American Poets from Emerson to Robinson (Gaines-
250 / Notes to Pages 40–47