tile to Lincoln’s policies, but the third volume, published after Lincoln’s death cele-
brates him as a hero-martyr. On Gurowski see LeRoy Fisher, Lincoln’s Gad®y: Adam
Gurowski (Norman: U Oklahoma P, 1964).
- R. Gerald McMurtry, “The Lincoln Funeral Car,” in The Poet and the Presi-
dent: Whitman’s Lincoln Poems, ed. William Coyle (New York: Odyssey Press, 1962),
124–131. - See Laderman, Sacred Remains, 157–163, and the photographs following 116.
Photographs and commercial reproductions of Lincoln’s iconic corpse, which to the
untrained eye seemed almost alive and beyond decay, were widely printed in the
media. - Zweig, Walt Whitman, 129.
- On the literature of consolation, see Douglas, “Heaven Our Home,” 49–68.
- On the concept that war is an instrument of progress as well as a national
purgative, see Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites, 222 and passim. - Emerson’s statement quoted in Laderman, Sacred Remains, 128.
- Hutchinson, Ecstatic Whitman, 153.
- Derrida, Work of Mourning, 142–143; Staten, Eros in Mourning, xii, 11.
- Sacks, English Elegy, 317.
- Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman’s Poetry: A Psychological Journey
(Boston: Houghton Mif®in, 1968), 189. - Miklos Udvarty, The Audubon Society Field Guide to the Birds of North America:
Western Region (New York: Knopf, 1977), 743. - W. David Shaw, Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1994), 165. - Lynch, Undertaking, 13, 21.
- “Elegy for Jane, My Student Thrown from a Horse,” 1953, in The Collected
Poems of Theodore Roethke (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 102. - Loving, Walt Whitman, 285–286, notes Whitman’s favorable observations of
Lincoln and his fascination with his physiognomy, recorded in some of his newspaper
pieces and other writings. But he also notes that Whitman (who creates a mythic
bond with the President in “Lilacs,” section 8) later in life exaggerated his intimacy
with Lincoln, going so far as to repeat the tale in his Lincoln lectures that he was
seated close to Lincoln in Ford’s Theater when the president was fatally shot. See
also PW1892, 59–61. - See Adams, “Whitman’s ‘Lilacs’ and the Tradition of Pastoral Poetry,” PMLA
72 (1957), 481. - Jeffrey Steele, “Poetic Grief Work in Whitman’s ‘Lilacs,’” WWQR 2 (winter
1984), 15. - Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in
America (New York: Oxford UP, 1967), 222. - Rosemary L. Gates, “Egyptian Myth and Whitman’s ‘Lilacs,’” WWQR 5
(summer 1987), 24; Edwards, Images and Shadows of Divine Things, 58. Gates remarks
that “The sun does not represent Osiris per se, but rather the immortality of Osiris,
who made immortality possible and who was symbolically cradled in the arms of
the sun.”
268 / Notes to Pages 192–199