Ambition, W. a youth of, 33. America, romance of, xix-xxiii; Elizabethan character of, xxi; its development, xxvi; changes in, 79. America, and W., 87, 149, 180; W. an incarnation of, xxviii, 132, 335; an average American, 64; his passion for, 63; describes, 95; his symbol for, 122; symbolic character of, 124; call to citizenship, 125; need for comradeship in, 163; Emerson's view of W.'s message to, 145-6; W.'s criticism of, 124, 236-42; W. the poet of, 249, 292 (see American poet); her need for the war, 206-8; A. and the soul, 255; and death, 266; and free-interchange, 306-7; and labour-problem, 307-13; W.'s ideal for, 312; "material foundations," 331; A. and solidarity, 337. American art, xxiv. American Bible, W. wishes to write an, 55. American character, the, xxi; its idealism, xxi, xxiii, 80-1, 177; its power of assimilation, xxiv. American character of _L. of G._, 109. American cynicism, 264. American literature, W. and, 60. American opinion hostile to _L. of G._, 214, 333. American poet, the, Emerson's dictum, 94; general expectancy of an, 94; W.'s prophecy of an, 95-6; W. as the, 133 _n._ American poets, W. and the, 104, 279; need for, 97. _American Review_, W. writes for, 37. Anger of W., sudden, 216, 236, 327. Animals, W.'s feeling of kinship with, 99. "Answerer, Song of the," 103. Anthony, Susan B., 126. Antietam, battle of, 182-3. Anti-Nebraska men, 134. Anti-slavery party, 45. Appearance, W.'s, 276, 283, 289, 326. See Portraits. "Appearances, Of the terrible doubt of," 164. _Arabian Nights_, W. reads, 19. Aristocrat, poem on an, 53. Armory Square Hospital, W. at the, 190, 194, 203. Arrangement of _L. of G._, 286-7. Art, its meaning first shown to W., 22; popular, 43; in N.Y., 84. "As a strong bird on pinions free". See "Thou Mother," etc. "As I ebb'd with the ocean of life," 154-6. "As I ponder'd in silence," 208. "As the time draws nigh," 169. Asceticism, 71. Ashton, J. Hubley, describes a visit of W.'s, 192; and Harlan incident, 214. Ashton, Mrs., 234, 248. _Athenæum, The_, and W., 259. Attila, 336. Attorney-General's Office, W. in the, 214. Aurelius, Marcus, 224, 262, 318. _Aurora, The_, W. edits, 37. Average American, W.'s life to be that of an, 64. Babylon, L. I., W. at, 28, 33; described, 28-9. Bacchus, W.'s engraving of, 111. "Backward Glance o'er travel'd roads, A," 329-30. Baldwin, the engine, 271. "Barnburners," Van Buren men, become Free-soil Democrats, 44, 134. Barnum, P. T., 85. Bathing, W.'s love of, 40. Bayne, Peter, 258. "Beat! Beat! Drums!" 207. Beauty, W. indifferent to formal and static, 59. Beecher, Ward, 112. Beethoven, 267, 293, 320. Beggars, W. and, 219. Bell, Governor, 172.