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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
w came upon him. It was no personal ambition that made him the psalmist of the new movement. His verses, crude as they were, had gained favour; he already had a name, and a career was predicted for him. He now doomed himself to years of retardation and disfavour, and had no reason to foresee the honours they would bring him in the end. What he tells us is the truth: For twenty years my name would have injured the circulation of any of the literary or political journals of the country. . . . Bryant, many years later, pointed out that in recent times the road of others to literary success had been made smooth by antislavery opinions, adding that in Whittier's case the reverse of that was true; that he made himself the champion of the slave, when to say aught against the national curse was to draw upon one's self the bitterest hatred, loathing, and contempt, of the great majority of men throughout the land. Unquestionably, Whittier's ambition, during his novitiate, had been to do someth
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
pt, quoted, 90; mentioned, 98, 164. Boutwell, G. S., 97. Bowditch, Dr. Henry I., 78. Bowen, H. C., 143. Brahmo-Somaj, 116. Brainard, J. G. C., 37. Brazil, 100. Bremer, Miss Fredrika, 110. 87 Bright, John, 94, 112; Whittier on, 113. Brown, David Paul, 62. Brown, J. Brownlee, his Thalatta, mentioned, 163. Brown, Capt., John, 78, 79. Brown University, 176. Browning, Elizabeth B., 142,165; her Sonnets from the Portuguese, mentioned, 166. Browning, Robert, 153. Bryant, William C., 37, 156. Burleigh, Charles C., 63. Burlington, N. J., 131. Burns, Robert, 19, 88,109; Whittier compared with, 152. Burroughs, George, 18, 103. Burroughs, Rev., George, 180. Butler, Gen. B. F., 110. Byron, Lord, 33. C. Campbell, Mr., 94. Campbell's restaurant, 83. Canada, 10. Carlisle, J. G., 181. Carlton, Mr., 33. Cartland, Mrs. Gertrude W., quoted, 58, 59. Cartland, Joseph, 179. Cary, Alice, visits Whittier, 108. Cary, Phoebe, 98; visits Whittier, 108.