- Quoted Gates, “Egyptian Myths,” 31, no. 17.
- Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholy,” The Standard Edition of the
Psychological Works (London: Hogarth, 1964), 14:255. - James E. Miller Jr., A Critical Guide to “Leaves of Grass” (Chicago: U Chicago
Press, 1957), 117. Also see, Shaw, Elegy and Paradox, 147. - Vendler, Music of What Happens, 142–143.
- See, especially, Lyman L. Leathers, “Music, Whitman’s In®uence On,” in
Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland, 1998), 439–441. - Kuebrich, Minor Prophecy, 125. Helen Vendler, on the other hand, interprets
section 15 as a song of “ultimate despair of human solutions to violence” (Music of
What Happens, 143).
98.Stephen E. Whicher, “Whitman’s Awakening to Death: Toward a Bio-
graphical Reading of ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,’” A Century of Whitman
Criticism, ed. In Edwin Haviland Miller, 290. - Cited in Laderman, The Sacred Remains, 161. The bishop was Matthew Simp-
son of Illinois.
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- Waggoner, American Visionary Poetry, 35, 42; Bucke’s letter is quoted in WWC,
8:103. - Rufus M. Jones, “The Mystical Element in Walt Whitman” in Some Expo-
nents of Mystical Religion, 174; M. Jimmie Killingsworth, “Whitman’s Sexual Themes
during a Decade of Revision: 1866–1876,” WWQR 4 (summer 1988), 7–15.
3.The Galaxy published only two installments of the essay; the declaration, in
the third section, that America needed poets of death was not published until 1871,
when the author himself published Democratic Vistas. - Anonymous, “Poems by Walt Whitman,” Lloyds’s Weekly London Newspaper,
April 19, 1868, reprinted in Price, Walt Whitman, 158; Anne Gilchrist, “A Woman’s
Estimate of Walt Whitman,” The Radical (Boston, May 1870), reprinted in Hindus,
Walt Whitman, 139; Edward Dowden, “The Poet of Democracy: Walt Whitman,”
Westminster Review, July 1871, reprinted in Price, Walt Whitman, 207. - “Preface 1872—As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,” LG, 744–745.
- “Darest Thou Now O Soul” became the lead poem in the group “Whispers
of Heavenly Death” in the ¤nal (“Deathbed”) edition of Leaves of Grass; LG, 441–442.
7.LG, 454. - “These Carols,” LG, 502.
9.NUPM, 2:522–523; Allen, Solitary Singer, 342–343. Allen says that several such
drafts exist. - Friedrich Engels, “Natural Science and the Spirit World,” in The Dialectics
of Nature, 297–310. Among the distinguished scientists turned spiritualists whom
Engels names are Darwin’s rival in evolutionary theory Alfred Russell Wallace,
the discoverer of thalium William Crookes, and the celebrated pathologist Rudolf
Virchow.
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