So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death

207–208, 220–222, 237. See also Body-soul
duality; Buddhism; Spiritualism
Remarque, Eric Maria, 170
Reynolds, David S., 271n. 41
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 50
Roethke, Theodore, 197
Rossetti, William Michael, 163, 207
Rossini, Claire, 260n. 11
Rubin, Joseph J., 14

Sassoon, Siegfried, 170
Savage, Minot Judson, 256n. 4
Scholnick, Robert J., 250n. 23
Science, 6–7, 19, 31–32, 45–47, 177, 208, 212–213,
218, 224, 228, 269n. 10, 270n. 15
Schubert, Franz, 165
Scott, Walter, 20
Selley, April, 247n. 33
Selsam, Howard, 26
Shakespeare, William, 19
Shelley, Percy B., 81, 134
Shryock, Richard, 181
Sigourney, Lydia, 20
Simonov, Konstantin,170
Spiritualism, 19, 126–128, 210, 251n. 46,
258n. 35, 259n. 5, 271nn. 36, 38, 41. See
also Religion
Staten, Henry, 155–156, 194
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 157
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 20
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 127
Swinburne, Algernon, 236
Swinton, William, 250n. 27
Symonds, John Addington, 240

Tait, P. G., 271n. 41
Tapscott, Steven J., 151
Taylor, Jeremy, 220
Taylor, Zachary, 259n. 5
Tennyson, Alfred, 37, 81, 211, 220, 237–238,
273n. 69
Thayer, William Roscoe, 13, 274n. 78
Thomas, M. Wynn, 175, 185
Thoreau, Henry, 201, 219, 255n. 21, 271n. 27
Thorvaldson, Bertel, 112–113
Tillich, Paul, 85
Tolstoy, Leo, 170

Traubel, Horace, 2, 30, 237–241, 273n. 69, 274n. 85

Trent, Josiah C., 273–274n. 75

Tufts College, 223

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 217

Universalism, 223–225

Vendler, Helen, 201, 269n. 97

Virchow, Rudolf, 269n. 10

Virgil, 20, 265n. 32

Volney, Constantin, 52, 113, 253n. 61, 257n. 23

Wagner, Richard, 191

Wallace, Alfred Russell, 269n. 10

Wallace, Ronald, 60

War, 56–59, 161–205, 266n. 50

Washington, George, 92, 166, 220

Watt, Isaac, 159

Wharton, Clarence, 58

Whicher, Stephen E., 203

Whitman, Andrew, 18

Whitman, George, 18, 167, 206

Whitman, Louisa, 18, 186, 196

Whitman, Martha, 18

Whitman, Walt: as Christ ¤gure, 4–5, 22, 53,

60–62, 68, 158–159, 240; fears the uncer-

tainty of an afterlife, 79, 85–86, 98–102, 136,

140–141, 146–147, 209, 221–222; ¤nal illness

and death, 238–243; as philosophic idealist,

3, 216, 225–227; physical state, 13–14, 169,

206, 228–231, 235–236; pictures his own

(vicarious) dying, 50–51, 69–76, 119–125,

132–133, 147–160, 200–201, 214–216, 218–223,

228–237; tomb and dissection, 274nn. 78, 85

Whitman, Walter, Sr., 18, 141

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 185, 203, 237–238

Williams, Captain John, 58

Williams, Francis Howard, 241

Williams, William Carlos, 236

Wright, Henry Clarke, 68–69, 144

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 199

Youmans, Edward L., 46

Young, Edward, 20

Zweig, Paul, 169, 193

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