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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 54 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 33 3 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 30 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 22 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.) 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 19 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 14 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 8 4 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 7 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
on, with extensive enter prise with noble design ty — Then My boy. Then is the time to return to you this — Sallust Yrs J. R. L. In this cheery announcement there is a curious foreshadowing of the imaginings, enterprises, and designties of his own life, and we can see whence he derived that gay and elastic spirit which made his later lectures delightful to his students at the University when he opened a new world to them in Professor Barrett Wendell's phrase; or, in the phrase of Mr. Henry James, made a romance of the hour for them. It was, the latter continues, an unforgettable initiation. He was so steeped in history and literature that to some yearning young persons, he made the taste of knowledge sweeter, almost, than it was ever to be again. Like Irving and Longfellow and Holmes, he first turned to the law for support, and went so far as to be admitted to the bar; but he had less heart, even, for the actual practice of law than Holmes for the practice of medicine. He
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
. Apart from his characterization of such broadly humorous types as Truthful James and Ah sin, Bret Harte deserves to be remembered as the picturesque chronicler among American writers. The most striking among recent instances is that of Henry James, a man of great powers, but of a well-nigh fatal instinct for superrefinemenmporaries as to some of the most attractive literary graces. Unless it be in Mr. James, he has no rival for half-tints, for modulations, forsubtile phrases that touhing to protest against, and something to assert. He is often classed with Mr. James as representing the international school of novelists; yet in reality they belong to widely different subdivisions. After all, Mr. James has permanently set up his easel in Europe, Mr. Howells in America; and the latter has been, from the benot forego the satisfaction of having given her California for a birthplace. Mr. James writes international episodes : Mr. Howells writes inter-oceanic episodes; hi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
e 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 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. E. Hale's The man without a country. 1869. Aldrich's Story of a bad boy. 1869. Mark Twain's Innocents abroad. 1870. Bret Harte's Luck of roaring Camp. 1876. Lanier's Poems. 1876. Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1878. Henry James's Daisy Miller. 1879. Stockton's Rudder Grange. 1880. Cable's The Grandissimes. 1882. Longfellow and Emerson died. 1884. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Howells's Rise of Silas Lapham. 1891. Lowell died. 1892. Whittie
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
Hyperion, Keats's, 225. HIyperion, Longfellow's, 140, 141. I fill this Cup, Pinkney's, 216. In a summer evening, Harriet Prescott Spofford's, 264. Indian Burying-ground, Freneau's, 36. Ingraham, Joseph Holt, 129. Innocents abroad, Mark Twain's, 248. Irving, Washington, 83-92, 94, 119, 140, 142, 161, 240. I sing the body Electric, Whitman's, 230. I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, Mrs. Hooper's, 264. Israfel, Poe's, 212. Jackson, Helen, 126-128, 264. James, Henry, 161, 246, 249-251. James, William, 18. James River Massacre, 9. Jane Talbot, Brown's, 70. Jay, John, 40, 53. Jefferson, Thomas, 46, 48, 80, 82, 221. Jeffrey, Lord, 69, 82. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 253. Joan of Arc, Mark Twain's, 248. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 57, 67, 216. Johnston, Lady, 53. Jonson, Ben, 174. Josh Billings, 242, 243. Keats, John, 225, 279. Kenton, Simon, 237. Kerr, Orpheus C., 243. King, Clarence, 278. Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline M., 240. Knickerbocker