mad”; James Gibbons Huneker, the literary and musical critic, who had once viewed
Whitman favorably, attacked him, in what has been called “the ¤rst explicit refer-
ence by an American literary critic” to Whitman’s homosexuality. In an acerbic pun,
Huneker labeled the “Calamus” poems “in®ated humbuggery.”
On Hawthorne see Miller, Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” 47. Nordau, whose
book was translated into English in 1895, is cited in Hindus, Walt Whitman, 243–245.
On Huneker, see Arnold T. Schwab, James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts
(Stanford: Stanford UP, 1963), 80–81, 319; Schwab, “James Gibbons Huneker,” Dic-
tionary of American Literary Biography: American Critics and Scholars, 1800–1900, ed.
James W. Rathbun and Monica M. Green (Detroit: Gale, 1988), 7:96.
- Francis Howard Williams, Poet-Lore 7 (summer 1997), cited in Giantvalley,
Walt Whitman, 155–156. - LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné
(Austin: U Texas P, 1965), 515, 540.
89.Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 84 (April 1892), 707–709; LG, 580–581. The
original ¤rst stanza, which remained in manuscript during the poet’s lifetime, is pub-
lished in LG, 581, as “On the Same Picture.” Inness’s painting is located at Vassar
College. - “Death of a Nature Lover,” EPF, 30–32.
- “Death’s Valley” and “On the Same Picture,” LG, 580–581.
Notes to Pages 241–243 / 275