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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 32 6 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 30 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
Edwin D. Mead reported, after attending many popular meetings in England, in 1901, that they heard Whittier and Longfellow quoted and sung more freely than any other poets. It is especially to be noticed that in Whittier's poems of the sea there is a salt breath, a vigorous companionship-perhaps because he was born and bred near it — not to be found in either of his companion authors. There is doubtless a dramatic movement, an onward sweep in Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesperus and Sir Humphrey Gilbert such as Whittier never quite attained, and the same may be true of the quiet, emotional touch in Longfellow's The fire of Driftwood ; nor was there ever produced in America, perhaps, any merely meditative poem of the sea so thoughtful and so perfect in execution as Holmes's The Chambered Nautilus. Among American poets less known, Brownlee Brown's Thalatta and Helen Jackson's Spoken were respectively beyond him in their different directions. But for the daily atmosphere and life, not
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
t, Mrs. Sarah J., Whittier's letter to, 45, 46. Literary World, the, quoted, 98, 99; mentioned, 176, 177. Little Pilgrim, the, mentioned, 6. Livermore, Harriet, 13. Lloyd, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howell), 139. London, England, 77, 181. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 37, 104, 141, 152, 155, 159, 162, 173, 177; leading poet, 1; compared with Whittier, 1; his Hyperion, mentioned, 151; his Kavanagh, mentioned, 151; quoted in England, 163; his Wreck of the Hesperus, mentioned, 163; his Sir Humphrey Gilbert, mentioned, 163; his The fire of Driftwood, mentioned, 163; Whittier's words on death of, 169, 170. Long Wharf, Boston, 60. Lowell, James Russell, 2, 28, 37, 54, 104, 141, 155, 159, 161, 173, 176, 182; his Moosehead Journal, mentioned, 151; his On a certain Condescension in Foreigners, mentioned, 151; his Verses suggested by the present Crisis, mentioned, 160. Lowell, Mass., 87. Loyal Legion, the, 176. M. Mabel Martin, 165. Macaulay, T. B., quoted, 7. McKim, J. Mil