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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 28 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
our more sub-Stantial literature seemed to him to consist of uninteresting state histories and extensive collections of the correspondence of American presidents— a time when he could write sadly: All America does not yet possess a humorist (Toute l'amerique ne possede pas un humoriste), one can place it to the credit of Longfellow that he had already won for himself some sort of literary standing in the presence of one Frenchman. At the time of this complaint, it may be noticed that Mr. S. L. Clemens was a boy of fifteen. The usual European criticism at the present day is not that America produces so few humorists, but that she brings forth so many. The work which came next from Longfellow's pen has that peculiar value to a biographer which comes from a distinct, unequivocal, low water mark in the intellectual product with which he has to deal. This book, Kavanagh, had the curious fate of bringing great disappointment to most of his friends and admirers, and yet of being prais
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
tographs, 139 note. Channing, W. Ellery, 271. Channing, Rev. William E., 11, 164. Chantrey, Sir, Francis, 90. Charles River, 116, 118. Chasles, Prof., Philarete, 195; describes Longfellow, 196,197. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 249. Chelsea, Eng., 90. Chivers, Dr. Thomas H., 145; his Eonchs of Ruby, mentioned, 143; quoted, 144. Christian Examiner, the, 112,113 note. Christiana, 103. Christus, Longfellow begins, 236; appeared, 242. Civil War, the, 65. Clark, Mr., 221. Clemens, Samuel L., 198. Cleveland, Henry R., 139, 284. Cogswell, Joseph G., 71, 81, 82. Coleridge, Samuel T., 262, 291; his Ancient Mariner, mentioned, 149. Coleridge, Sara, 141. Colman, Samuel, Longfellow's letter to, 139, 140. Cologne, 8. Columbian Muse, the, a collection of poems, 23. Como, Lake of, 223. Concord, Mass., 133, 271. Condry, Capt., 102. Congress, U. S., 11, 13. Connecticut, 90. Conolly, Rev. H. L., 194,195. Constantinople, 3. Cooper, James F., 80, 133. Copenha