Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
poems of illness and death, 253-5.
Centennial edition (1876), 259, 265, 286;
sells well, 266;
preface to, 267;
and the Rocky Mountains, 273.
Second Boston edition, 283-4, 286-8, 301;
attacked by District Attorney, 284-5;
sales, 305;
diminution of, 316;
re-published by McKay, 285;
Worthington and, 286.
_Sands at Seventy_, 329-30;
latest poems, 338-41.
Tenth edition, 342.
_Leaves of Grass_, a section of third edition, 150.
Lectures, W.'s, 129, 193, 270;
to supplement _L. of G._, 129-30;
a course on Democracy undelivered, 132.
See Lincoln lecture, and Oratory.
Lee, General, 182, 184, 187, 188, 324.
Leibnitz, 62.
Liberty, immortal, 103.
Liberty party, 79.
Libraries, 153.
Life and Death, 104.
Lilacs, 305.
"Lilacs last in the Door-yard bloom'd, When," 211-2.
Lincoln, President, xxiii, 5, 80, 121, 132;
described, 134;
protests against Dred Scott decision, 135;
senatorial contest with Douglas, _ib._;
attitude toward slavery, 136-7, 181-2;
in N.Y., 172;
election of (1860), 172, 174;
interregnum before inauguration, 175;
passes through N.Y., 175-6;
his inaugural address, 176;
and the war, 177, 179;
call for troops, 178;
his first tasks, 181-2;
proclamation of emancipation, 183;
speech at Gettysburg, 184;
and abolition, 181-2, 187;
enters Richmond, 188;
re-election and assassination, 189, 210, 264-5;
nature of his relation to America, 189;
is denounced by W. Phillips, 191;
American suspicion of his policy, 211;
effect of his death, 211-2;
and the South, 189, 324;
and the West, 271;
W. and, 234, 278;
W. often meets, 201;
W.'s faith in, 203;
at last levee, 210;
L.'s dictum on W., _ib._;
W. and L.'s death, 278.
"Lincoln's burial hymn, President." See Lilacs last.
Lincoln lecture, W.'s, 270, 278, 317, 332.
Lind, Jenny, 85, 86.
Linton, W. J., 257.
Lionising, W. and, 332.
Literary circle, W.'s dislike of, 144.
Literature necessary for national life, 236-242.
"Live-oak growing, I saw in Louisiana a," 163, 250.
Loafing of W., 141.
Locomotive first enters N.Y., 42.
"Locomotive in Winter, To a," 271.
London, Ont., W. at, 270.
Longfellow, H. W., 59, 88, 94, 138, 301, 336;
and W., 278-9.
"Long I thought that Knowledge alone," 132-3;
Symonds and, 224.
Long Island described, 1-3, 28-9;
W. and, 31, 85, 89, 280.
_Long Island Patriot_, W. and the, 20.
_Long Island Star_, W. and the, 20.
_Long Islander, The_, 56;
W. founds the, 31-2.
Love, the divine, 119;
"the kelson" of the Universe, 72, 98;
the one essential, 125;
the passion of, 127;
W. recognises power of, 35;
W.'s religion one of, 77;
love of Nature, W.'s, 260-1.
Lowell, J. R., 59, 94, 317.
Luther, 146.
Lynching, W. denounces, 42.
Lyrical ballads, 290.
Lytton, Lord, 35, 247.
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