Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
_Calamus_ (poems), 162-7, 253;
most esoteric of W.'s poems, 162;
political significance, 163;
personal revelation in, 165;
underlying philosophy of, 166-7;
vindicated, 194;
J. A. Symonds and, 224.
Calhoun, J. C., 24, 79, 175.
California, 43, 63-4.
Californian redwood tree, 255.
Calvin, 121.
Camden described, 246;
W. in, xxvii, 248, 278, 315;
loneliness there, 250;
at 322, Stevens St., his life there, 250-1;
removes to 431, Stevens St., 256;
friends there, 257, 325;
literary work, 257.
See Mickle St.
Canada, 311;
W. plans to lecture in, 129;
goes to, 274-7;
interest in, 276-7.
Canary, W.'s, 319.
Capital punishment, W. opposes, 33, 42.
Capitol, W. often at the, 201-2.
"Captain! my Captain!" 337.
Carlyle, Thos., 35, 84, 91, 92, 121, 263, 291, 294, 296, 306, 318,
328, 339;
death of, 301;
and _L. of G._, 171;
his _Shooting Niagara_, 234, 236;
W. and, 41, 59, 293.
Carnegie, Andrew, 317.
_Carpenter, The_, by O'Connor, 191, 227-9.
Carpenter, Edward, 263;
visits W., 266-9;
account of, 266-7;
his _Towards Democracy_, 267;
his account of W., 267-9;
second visit to W., 305-7;
his _Art of Creation_, qu., 167;
on W.'s children, 349-50.
Carpenter, Tamosin, 347.
Carpentering, W. takes up, 57;
helpful to him, 85;
gives up, 87.
Carpenters, 122.
Cass, Lewis, 44.
Catalogues in _L. of G._, 84, 160, 222.
Caution, highly developed in W., 68, 163.
Cenci, 336.
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 265.
Champagne, W.'s taste for, 315.
"Champion of America," 131-2.
Chancellorsville, battle of, 184.
"Chanting the Square Deific," 212.
See Satan.
"Chants Democratic," 150.
Charity, W. and, 312-3.
Chattanooga, battle of, 187.
Chestnut St. Opera House, Philadelphia, 317.
Chicago, W. visits, 54.
Child, in W.'s nature, the, 78, 344;
dreams of a, 55.
_Children of Adam_, 126, 144-7, 159-62, 284-6;
difficulty of discussing, 160-1;
Mrs. Gilchrist and, 225, 264.
Children, W.'s, 51, 186, 230-1, 252, 349-50;
W. and, 234, 273, 318, 320.
China, W. talks of, 265.
Chinese proverb, xxiii.
Christ, 313, 345.
See Jesus.
"Christ-portrait" of W., 67.
Christianity, W. and, 75-7, 168, 297, 339.
_Chronicle, The_, W. M. Rossetti writes on W. in, 222.
Church, W. in a Brooklyn, 68.
Churches, W. and the, 42, 75-6, 142, 241, 280, 323.
Cincinnati Society, 38.
Citizenship and the soul, 208;
for all, 240.
City-life, attraction for W., 114;
modern, xxviii.
City-populations, 307.
Clare, Ada, 139.
Class-feeling, W.'s dislike of, 323.
Classical allusions avoided in _L. of G._, 109.
Clay, Henry, 23, 40, 42, 79, 134.
Cleanthes, Hymn of, 224.
Clements, Mr., W. apprenticed to, 19-20.
Cleveland, President, 314, 320.
Clothes, W.'s, 83, 110, 140, 304, 331.
Cole, Mary, 234.
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