INDEX 
207, 208, 211-213, 220, 222-230 ; 
his President Lincoln’s Burial 
Hymn, 36, 37; 170, 171, 175; a 
Danish opinion of, 186; on trial, 
187; his personality, 187-189; 
Leaves of Grass the drama of him- 
self, 189, 206-209; his reception 
at home and abroad, 190, 191, 204; 
his Leaves of Grass, 191-196, 198, 
199, 206-216, 222-226; the per- 
sonal force back of his poems, 
192; his sympathy with nature, 
192; freedom of his art, 194-196 ; 
his sympathy with the common 
people, 196-198 ; his glorification 
of the emotional and physical side 
of man’s life, 201-206 ; his Drwm- 
Taps, 202; identity his great 
theme, 205; lists of objects, ac- 
tions, etc., in his poems, 210-212 ; 
his view of paternity and mater- 
nity, 213, 214; the New World 
Man and Woman in his poems, 
214, 215; his assimilation of sci- 
ence, 215, 216, 222-224 ; his ‘‘ cos- 
mic emotion,’’ 224, 225; his atti- 
tude towards social and political 
life, 225, 226; his prose writings, 
926-231; his personal circum- 
241 
stances, 231, 232; a warning te 
beginners in his poems, 232-235. 
Whittier, John Greenleaf, quota- 
tion from, 55. 
Wilde, Richard Henry, his sonnet 
To the Mockingbird quoted, 9. 
Wilson, Alexander, a poet, 1, 2; 
and Thomas Jefferson, 99, 100. 
Woodchuek (Arctomys monaz), 104. 
Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates 
pubescens), notes of, 102. 
Woodpecker, golden-shafted. See 
High-hole. 
Woodpecker, hairy (Dryobates vil- 
losus), notes of, 102. 
Woodpecker, red-headed (Melaner- 
pes erythrocephalus), 2. 
Wordsworth, William, quotations 
from, 6, 15, 22, 110, 111; on the 
skylark, 13-15; on the cuckoo, 
21-24; a poet of spring, 112; his 
Excursion, 156; freshness of his 
poems, 156; 174. 
Wren, house (Zroglodytes aédon), 
nest of, 72. 
Yellow-hammer. See High-hole. 
Yellow-throat, Maryland (Geothlypis 
trichas), song of, 37. 
