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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
e up to that time, probably, had uttered an opinion of Emerson quite so prophetic as this; it was not until four years later, in 1841, that even Carlyle received the first volume of Emerson's Essays and said, It is once more the voice of a man. Yet from that moment Alcott and Emerson became united, however inadequate their twinship might have seemed to others. Literature sometimes, doubtless, makes strange friendships. There is a tradition that when Browning was once introduced to a new Chinese ambassador in London, the interpreter called attention to the fact that they were both poets. Upon Browning's courteously asking how much poetry His Excellency had thus far written, he replied, Four volumes, and when asked what style of poetic art he cultivated, the answer was, Chiefly the enigmatical. It is reported that Browning afterwards charitably or modestly added, We felt doubly brothers after that. It may have been in a similar spirit that Emerson and his foot-note might seem at