- Marki, Trial of the Poet, 172.
- Harold Aspiz, “Mark Twain and ‘Doctor’ Newton,” American Literature 44
(1972), 130–136; on Whitman as healer, see chapter 5, passim.
60.LG, 153–154. On the ef®ux of sweat as an agency of spiritual expression, see
John James Garth Wilkinson, The Human Body in Its Connection with Man (Phila-
delphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1851), 266–267.
On Whitman and Wilkinson, see NUPM, 1:146. Wilkinson, a leading English
Swedenborgian, argued that heart reaches out to heart by “magnetic ¤ngers.” - White, Daybooks and Notebooks, 764; Goodale, “Some of Walt Whitman’s
Borrowings,” 208–210, shows that many details in this passage were taken from C. F.
Volney’s The Ruins. - Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman’s Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manu-
scripts, ed. Clifton Joseph Furness (Cambridge: U Harvard P, 1928), 44. - The dictionary de¤nition of “ambush” is to attack from a concealed position;
Whitman’s usage is quite unusual.
64.LG1855, 49; LGVar, 70 (“Song of Myself,” section 43). - Kuebrich, Minor Prophecy, 21.
- Quoted in Hick, Death and Eternal Life, 251.
- “When I walked at night by the shore and looked up at the countless stars, I
asked of my soul whether it would be ¤lled and satis¤ed when it should become god
enfolding all these, and open to the life and delight and knowledge of everything in
them or of them; and the answer was plain to me as the breaking water on the sands
at my feet: and the answer was, No, when I reach there, I shall want to go further
still.” UPP, 2:267, 64.
Historically, Moses is supposed to have died on Mount Nebo. - Joseph Brodsky, On Grief and Reason: Essays (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux,
1995), 96. - The radical Deist position is discussed in Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, 43.
Many of these values were shared by liberal religionists and radical reformers. - Quoted ibid.
- Stephen Pearl Andrews, The Science of Society (New York, 1851), quoted
ibid., 83. - Bloom, “Death and the Native Strain,” 87.
- Edmond Holmes, Whitman’s Poetry: A Study and Selection (1902; reprint, New
York: Haskell House, 1973), 60. - See Joseph Beaver, Walt Whitman—Poet of Science (New York: King’s Crown
Press, 1974), 53. - “Walt Whitman and His Poems,” United States Review 5 (September 1855),
reprint, Maurice Hindus, ed., Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes
and Noble, 1972), 38. - Passages from Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (1788) are quoted in Lamont,
Illusion of Immortality, 162–163. - “Preface 1876—Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets,” in LG, 753; Marki, Trial of
the Poet, 169–170. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Transcendentalist,” in Selections from Ralph
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