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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.) 160 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 83 1 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 33 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
merican writing, good or bad. The situation is very different with Anne Bradstreet, who, indeed, represents a second step toward a type of writing which should be in some sense American in quality as well as in birthplace. Though born in England, she became absolutely identified with American thought and life, exerted an immense influence in her day, and was the ancestor of five especially intellectual families in New England, counting among her descendants William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Henry Dana, Wendell Phillips, and Andrews Norton. She was born in 1612 of Puritan stock, her father being steward of the estates of the Puritan nobleman, the Earl of Lincoln. She was married at sixteen and came to America with her husband, Governor Bradstreet, in 1630. It is evident that, in spite of her Puritan sense of duty, she could not leave England for the raw life of the colonies without a pang. After a time, she wrote many years later, I changed my condition and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
nce. The establishment of the Atlantic monthly in 1857 marks the attainment of a distinct standard of pure literature among the descendants of the Puritans. The Knickerbocker magazine was breathing its last in New York, and Harper's magazine (1850) was as yet producing little literature of power. The Atlantic monthly, on the other hand, was able to depend at once upon an established constituency of writers. Lowell was its first editor, and his stipulation in accepting the position -that Holmes should be the first contributor engaged — suggests a range of choice upon which no American editor had hitherto been able to rely. In fiction and in verse it must be admitted that the early volumes of the Atlantic do not compare favorably with modern magazine work; but the essays and editorials were usually excellent. It is not too much to say that for more than forty years the literary standard of this magazine has been maintained upon a higher plane than that of any other American public
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
s now Kirkland Street, passing the house where Holmes was born, through Brattle Street, past Longfelthe problems of the nation's life more deeply; Holmes came personally more before the public; Lowellt large has confirmed the opinion of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Of the longer poems of our chief sin by cultivated parents. Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, were essentially of this class; all taith. On his graduation from Harvard in 1829, Holmes, like so many other men of literary tastes at trike out a new career, such as in the case of Holmes followed the publication of the Autocrat of thart, even, for the actual practice of law than Holmes for the practice of medicine. He had also a fprobably less easily determinable than that of Holmes; and this for a reason which at first seems stained smoothness or finish of utterance, while Holmes easily developed it. Lowell was always liable he composed more impulsively and rapidly than Holmes, he never produced a strain quite so pure and [21 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
one of those seemingly daring combinations with which the Transcendentalists innocently startled more decorous ears: I rank Christ Jesus, Socrates, and Thoreau as the sincerest souls that ever walked the earth. In literature nothing counts but genius, yet the length of time which sifts out genius is an uncertain quantity. In the Boston of that period it was fancied quite easy thus to sift it out — but it proved that while men were right in attributing this gift to Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, and Whittier, the critics were quite wrong in denying it to Thoreau, who was generally regarded as a mere reflection of Emerson. Mrs. Thoreau, the mother, thought with quite as much justice that it was Emerson who reflected her son; but the weight of opinion was on the other side. Many could not understand why anybody should really wish Thoreau's letters to be published; but the final publication of his journal is acknowledged to be an important literary event; and it is probable
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
d one. Nothing used to strike an American more, on his first visit to England thirty years ago, than the frequent discussion of American authors who were rarely quoted at home, except in stump-speeches, whose works had no place as yet in our literary collections, but who were still taken seriously among educated persons in England. The astonishment increased when he found the almanacs of Josh Billings reprinted in Libraries of American humor, and given an equal place with the writings of Holmes and Lowell. Finally he may have been driven to the extreme conclusion that there must be very little humor in England, where things were seriously published in book form, which here would never get beyond the corner of a newspaper. He found that the whole department of American humor was created, so to speak, by the amazed curiosity of Englishmen. It was a phrase then rarely heard in the United States; and if we had such a thing among us, although it might cling to our garments, we were
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
scent splendors as this? One thing the larger public is likely to do. It is a fortunate fact that popular judgment, even at the time, is apt to fix upon some one poem by each poet, for instance, and connect the author with that poem inseparably thenceforward. Fate appears to assign to each some one boat, however small, on which his fame may float down towards immortality, even if it never attains it. This is the case, for instance, with Longfellow's Hiawatha, Lowell's Commemoration Ode, Holmes's Chambered Nautilus, Whittier's Snow-bound, Mrs. Howe's Battle Hymn, Whitman's My Captain, Aldrich's Fredericksburg sonnet, Helen Jackson's Spinning, Thoreau's Smoke, Bayard Taylor's Song of the Camp, Emerson's Daughters of time, Burroughs's Serene I Fold my hands, Piatt's The morning Street, Mrs. Hooper's I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, Stedman's Thou art mine, Thou hast given thy word, Wasson's All's well, Brownlee Brown's Thalatta, Ellery Channing's To-morrow, Harriet Spofford'
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
young people, married and single (1858); Bitter sweet, a poem in dramatic form (1858); Miss Gilbert's career （1860); Lessons in life (1861); Letters to the Joneses (1863); Plain talks on familiar subjects (1865); Life of Abraham Lincoln (1865); Kathrina, a poem (1867); The marble Prophecy and other poems (1872); Arthur Bonnicastle (1873); The mistress of the Manse, a poem (1874); The story of Sevenoaks (1875), and Nicholas Minturn (1876). Died in New York City, Oct. 12, 1881. Holmes, Oliver Wendell Born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809. Graduating from Harvard in 1829, he studied law for a year, then studied medicine and established a practice in Boston. Some of his professional publications are Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical science, with other addresses and essays (1861); Medical essays (1883). He is best known for his literary work, and contributed to the Atlantic monthly the famous papers and poems published in 1859 under the title of The Autocrat of the br
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
ittier, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. T. W. Higginson's Whittier, in English men of letters series, 1901. J. T. Morse's Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896. Horace E. Scudder's James Russell Lowell, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. (B) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., are the authorized publishers of the works of Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau. The standard edition in each case is the Riverside edition. Chapter 7: the Concord group (A) O. W. Holmes's Emerson, in American men of letters series, 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and O. W. Holmes's Emerson, in American men of letters series, 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols., Osgood & Co., 1883. Henry James's Life of Hawthorne, in English men of letters series, 1880. C. E. Woodberry's Hawthorne, in American men of letters series, 1902. F. B. Sanborn's Thoreau, in American men of letters series, 1882. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols.,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
ginson, Stephen, 49. Higginson, Thacher, 160. Hildreth, Richard, 117. Historians, New England, 116-119. History of the Jews, 241. History of the United States, Bancroft's, 143. Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 105. Holland, J. G., 124. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 10, 133, 135, 137, 143, 146, 152-160, 161, 162-164, 197, 242, 264. Hooper, Mrs., 264. Hopkinson, Francis, 54, 55. House of the seven Gables, Hawthorne's, 185. Howe, Mrs., Julia Ward, 264. Howells, W. D., 3, 236, 248-252. Hucklebe4. Kubla Khan, Coleridge's, 212. Laco Letters, 48. Lady of the Aroostook, Howells's, 251. Lake poets, 69. Lamb, Charles, 171, 260, 261. Landor, Walter Savage, 124, 169. Lane Seminary, 127. Lanier, Sidney, 215-227, 264. Last leaf, Holmes's, 159. Last man, Mrs. Shelley's, 72. Leather-Stocking tales, Cooper's, 97. Leaves of grass, Whitman's, 221. Lectures on English poets, Hazlitt's, 251. Lee, Richard Henry, 44. Lessons of a Preceptress, Hannah Webster's, 92. Let