INDEX 



241 



207, 208, 211-213, 220, 222-230; 

 his President lAncoWs 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 ; 

 hia Leaves of Grass, 191-196, 198, 

 199, 206-216, 222-226; the per- 

 sonal force back of his poems, 

 192; his sympathy with nature, 

 193 ; 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 ; hia VruTH- 

 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 ; bis 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, 

 226-231 ; his personal circum- 



stances, 231, 232 ; a warning to 

 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. 



Woodchuck {Arctomys monax), 104. 



Woodpecker, downy {Dryobates 

 pubescens), notes of, 102. 



Woodpecker, golden-shafted. See 

 High-hole. 



Woodpecker, hairy {Bi'yohaies 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 ; hia 

 Excursion, 156 ; freshness of his 

 poems, 156 ; 174. 



Wren, house {Troglodytes aMon), 

 nest of, 72. 



Yellow-hammer. See High-hole. 

 Tellow-throat, Maryland (Geothlypis 

 irichas)j song of, 37. 



