asional failure to seize essentials
Illustrations of his powers as an artist
"On the Beach at Night"--"Reconciliation"--"When
lilacs last on the dooryard bloomed"
Whitman's utterances on Death
Whitman's rude nonchalance deliberate, not due to
carelessness
"I furnish no specimens"
Whitman's treatment of sea
The question of outspokenness in Literature
Mr. Swinburne's dictum
Stevenson's criticism--"A Bull in a China Shop"
"The Children of Adam"
Merits and defects of his Sex Cycle
Whitman and Browning
The poetry of animalism
Whitman, William Morris, and Byron
Mr. Burroughs' eulogy of Whitman discussed
The treatment of love in modern poetry
On the whole the defects of Whitman's sex poems
typical of his defects as a writer generally
Characteristics of Whitman's style
III Whitman's attitude towards Humanity 187
His faith in the "powerful uneducated person"
The Poet of Democracy
Whitman and Victor Hugo
His affection comprehensive rather than deep
Mr. William Clarke's eulogy discussed
The psychology of the social reformer
Whitman and the average man
His egotism--emptied of condescension
Whitman no demagogue--his plain speaking
The Conservatism and conventionality of the masses
Illustration from Mr. Barrie's _Admirable Crichton_
Democratic poets other than Whitman--Ebenezer
Elliott, Thomas Hood, and Mrs. Browning
Whitman's larger utterance
Whitman and William Morris compared
Affinity with Tolstoy
IV Whitman's attitude towards Life 198
No moralist--but a philosophy of a kind
The value of "messages" in Literature
Whitman and Browning compared
Whitman and culture
Whitman and science
Compares here with Tennyson and Browning
Tonic influence of his writings
"I shall be good health to you"
His big, genial sanity

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WILLIAM HAZLITT _Photogravure Frontispiece_
From a crayon drawing by W. Bewick, executed in 1822
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