Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study of Ecopoetics

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Abbey, Edward, 49 abstraction, 75, 80, 84, 90, 92, 93, 94, 120, 123, 127, 147, 167; nature as, 92, 189n1; problem of, 35, 39, 53–73; in relation to personification, 15 Agassiz, Louis, 55; Principles of Zoology, 56 aging, 166, 168, 171, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183 alienation, 35, 49, 57, 94, 123, 139, 147, 157, 170–171 allegory, 15 Allen, Gay Wilson, 88, 89;“How Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman Viewed the Frontier,” 64–66 Allen, Paula Gunn, 37 Alabama, 109 Amburn, Ellis, Subterranean Kerouac, 41 American Indians. See Native Americans “America’s Characteristic Landscape” (Whitman), 178–179 “Among the Multitude” (Whitman), 45 Anderson, Quentin, 143 Arizona, 57 Arms, George, The Fields Were Green, 53 artisanal republicanism, 142–145, 157 “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” (Whitman), 98–99, 123–129, 149 Aspiz, Harold, 157 Asselineau, Roger, 33, 89, 90 autoeroticism. See sexuality Barrett, Betty,“Cavalry Crossing a Ford: Walt Whitman’s Alabama Connection,” 158–159 Barthes, Roland, 61 Bate, Jonathan, The Song of the Earth, 5–8, 176 “Bathed in War’s Perfume” (Whitman), 164 Baudelaire, Charles, 89, 145 Beach, Christopher, The Politics of Distinction, 138–139 “Beat! Beat! Drums” (Whitman), 134 Beat poetry, 16 Beaver, Joseph, 156 Bergland, Renée L., 87; The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, 70 bird, 60, 107, 108, 109, 114, 115, 196–197n9 Bishop, Elizabeth, 56 “Bivouac on a Mountain Side” (Whitman), 159 Blakney, R[aymond] B[ernard], 16–17 “Blood Money” (Whitman), 59 body, 29, 30, 31, 33, 43, 45, 50, 51, 82, 84, 91, 93, 94, 99, 100, 107, 111, 114, 124, 132, 166, 168, 171, 172, 182, 183 Boston, 55, 56 Brer Rabbit, 127 Broadway (street), 141 “Broadway” (Whitman), 181 Broadway Magazine, 53 Brooklyn, 102, 116, 134, 140 Brooklyn Bridge, 142 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 139 Brown, Bill, 23, 24. See also thing theory Bryant, William Cullen, 15, 53, 123, 137; “Thanatopsis,” 111, 113, 114;“To a Waterfowl,” 59–60, 158 Bucke, Richard Maurice, 160, 177 Buddhism, 30 Buell, Lawrence, The Environmental Imagination, 7, 113 “Bunch Poem” (Whitman). See “Spontaneous Me” Burke, Kenneth, 174; CounterStatement , 123; A Rhetoric of Motives, 150 Burroughs, John, 153, 159, 167; Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, 92 Index Calamus, 18, 41, 45, 85, 89, 90, 101, 111, 123, 135, 147, 148, 150, 152, 168 Camden (New Jersey), 71, 72, 165 Canada, 160, 165, 177 Carlyle, Thomas, 165 Carson, Rachel, 72, 163; Silent Spring, 15, 51–52, 83, 170 “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” (Whitman), 158–159 “Cavalry Crossing a Ford: Walt Whitman’s Alabama Connection” (Barrett), 158–159 Cavitch, David, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman, 99 “Centenarian, The” (Whitman), 65 “Centennial Edition” (Whitman), 164 Central Park, 173 Centuries, The (Traherne), 63–64 Century of Early Ecocriticism, A (Mazel), 92 Ceremony (Silko), 37 “Chambered Nautilus, The” (Holmes), 17, 53–61, 158 Chauncey, George, Gay New York, 147 Children of Adam (Whitman), 44 “Child’s Reminiscence, A” (Whitman). See “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” Chinese mysticism, 16, 189n2 city, 101, 102, 117, 121, 133–140, 143–150, 152, 165, 167–169, 171, 172, 180, 181, 198–199n4 “City of Orgies” (Whitman), 147 Civil War, 39, 42, 52, 65, 75, 92, 93, 99, 107, 116, 120–123, 132, 134–137, 148, 151–153, 156, 160, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169, 178, 188n14 Civilian Conservation Corps, 163 Clemens, Samuel, 69 Columbus, Christopher, 77 Commoner, Barry, Making Peace with the Planet, 163, 170 “Continuities” (Whitman), 182 Counter-Statement (Burke), 123 Cousteau, Jacques, 56 Coviello, Peter, 123, 148 Crane, Hart, 137 Crocodile Dundee, 143 Cronon, William, 138, 139, 150 “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman), 89, 98, 99, 125, 128, 130, 131, 135, 140, 150, 172 Crowley, John, Little, Big, 101 Custer, George A., 65–66 “Dalliance of the Eagles, The” (Whitman), 159–160, 175 Darwin, Charles, 49, 55, 105 Davis, Robert Leigh, 53, 123; Whitman and the Romance of Medicine, 135 Day I Met Walt Whitman, The (Leifel), 176 “Death Sonnet for Custer, A” (Whitman), 65. See also “From Far Dakota’s Cañons” Debs, Eugene, 142 Deloria, Vine, Jr., 77–78, 129–130, 135; God Is Red, 71. See also sacred spaces democracy, 152, 165, 172, 173, 174, 175, 181 Democratic Vistas (Whitman), 46, 53, 73, 78, 152, 164 depression, 71, 89, 114, 124, 152, 164 “Design of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days, The” (Johnson), 166 Dewey, John, Experience and Nature, 174 Dickinson, Emily, 15, 93 Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 51 Dodge, Jim, 100 Donne, John, 103...