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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
the ancestor of five especially intellectual families in New England, counting among her descendants William Ellery Channing,rs old, in the midst of the daily toils of the wife of a New England farmer, and under her rapidly increasing burden of mothe, verse-making had become as common as taking snuff; in New England, in the age before that, it had become much more common e some who did not take snuff. Tyler, II. p. 267. The New England divine, who had a horror of fine art, could not keep hishn Milton. Puritan prose. The literary instinct of New England Puritanism by no means exhausted itself in verse. In prana, Its sub-title was The Ecclesiastical history of New England from its first planting, in the year 1620, unto the yeare of the fantastic school in literature; he prolonged in New England the methods of that school even after his most cultivateth and seventeenth centuries. Its birthplace was Italy; New England was its grave; Cotton Mather was its last great apostle.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 2: the secular writers (search)
Butler's Hudibras, which Trumbull was to employ again in his masterpiece, McFingal. The first canto of McFingal was published in April, 1775, soon after Lexington and Concord. The hero is a Scottish-American Tory, and the scene is laid at a New England town meeting; an admirable setting for the most famous of the Revolutionary satires. It has not become quite a classic; for, with all his wit and taste, Trumbull lacked the fire of imagination, and the exquisite sense of fitness in expressionilliant man of his time, had written to his friend Mason, two years before the Declaration of Independence, that there would one day be a Thucydides in Boston and a Xenophon at New York. Unfortunately a different influence came in the way. In New England, whence much of this intellectual work had proceeded, the prevailing party among educated men consisted soon after the war of an essentially conservative class, the Federalists, who had lost all faith in popular government, on the election of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
ton, but his distinctive flavor belonged to a city where the literary touch was earlier recognized. A certain proof of the cultivated character of Philadelphia, beyond New York or Boston, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, may be found in the remarkable magazine called The Portfolio, a weekly quarto which may fairly be described as the first essentially literary periodical in America. Joseph Denny, the editor, was a Bostonian and a Harvard graduate, and had edited newspapers in New England. He had been nominated for Congress and defeated in New Hampshire, and went to Philadelphia in 1799, as private secretary to Thomas Pickering, Secretary of State. The Portfolio was established at the beginning of 1801; was for five years a quarto and then for many years an octavo, following precisely the development which periodicals now sustain, substituting octavo for quarto, monthly for weekly, introducing illustrations and sometimes going down hill. He had for assistant writers Joh
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary The New England impulse. Some time before d, Professor Wendell suggestively calls the New England Renaissance. In a few years, he says, New New England developed a considerable political literature, of which the height was reached in formal or, and unlike the other of the great trio of New England orators, Rufus Choate, he strove in later ls Parkman was the product of generations of New England character and cultivation. He was born inrature. In pure literature the genius of New England.was now very soon to find its highest expreoston of his day. At a time when almost all New England authors came from Harvard College, he stepptt Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Stowe was born in New England. If she had spent her life there she mightificial. Emily Dickinson. Among other New England women of that period perhaps the most remar, so important a part in the development of New England literature. The North American Review was[8 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
h a function. The more exclusive type of life he had studied in New England history, -none better,--but what real awe did it impose on him wfore the period had arrived when, in Miss Sedgwick's phrase, the New England Goddess of Health held out flannel underclothing to everybody. here. Let us admit that, for better or worse, the literature of New England has been the wholesome product of a simple and healthy way of literature to spring from the hitherto unpromising soil of Puritan New England. Dr. Holmes himself early became a Unitarian, in the same spiritder the same title had appeared twenty-five years earlier in the New England magazine. They had not attracted much attention, and were, as aw. More than for America, perhaps, he stood for Boston, and for New England Brahminism. That was not the final type of Americanism, but it ttle criticism written in English. The special service of the New England literature of the middle of the nineteenth century was to achiev
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
ought and feeling which for a few years past has led many sincere persons in New England to make new demands on literature. In Emerson's paper in the second number above himself, was Amos Bronson Alcott, in one respect a more characteristic New England product than any of the others, inasmuch as he rose from a very humble sourchers had flinched. One of the heroic pictures yet waiting to be painted in New England history is that of the tranquil and high-minded philosopher at the time duriduct of two principal impulses: a reaching toward the moral intensity of old New England Puritanism, and toward the spiritual subtlety of modern New England TranscenNew England Transcendentalism. But he is not finally to be classified either as Puritan or Transcendentalist, for all the elements of his nature were fused as they can be only in the gight influence over Hawthorne. This tale was first printed in Buckingham's New England Galaxy for Sept. 10, 1824; and that editor says of it: This article was repr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8: the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
y through the Dismal Swamp in 1728, and he attended the actual surveyors half a mile into the then terrible Swamp. No New England writer at that day could possibly have written so cheery and jaunty a description of their struggle-- The skirts rician air with which this cheery Englishman pursues his investigations, a tone so absolutely remote from that of any New England excursion into the wilderness; but North and South at that time never came in contact. A hundred years later — that ionspolitically at Washington; socially in Philadelphia, where the Virginia ladies did their shopping; educationally in New England, whither the Southern boys came in shoals to the Harvard Law School under Judge Story, and whence tutors and governess magic. It is in this glow of fancy alone that Poe seems in any real sense to represent the South. The fact of his New England birth does not account for this detachment; it is due rather to his absorption in his own fantastic life of the mind.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
n as far as the Mississippi. Lewis and Clark carried us beyond the Mississippi (1814). About 1835 Oregon expeditions were forming, and I remember when boys in New England used to peep through barn doors to admire the great wagons in which the emigrants were to travel. Then came Mrs. Kirkland's A New home, Who'll follow? （1839).took, although the voyagers reach the other side at last, the real contrast is found on board ship; and, although he allows his heroine to have been reared in a New England village, he cannot forego the satisfaction of having given her California for a birthplace. Mr. James writes international episodes : Mr. Howells writes inter-rtray, what would seem not so impossible, an everyday gentleman or lady. For the East, on the other hand, Miss Jewett has been able to produce types of the old New England gentry, dwelling perhaps in the quietest of country towns, yet incapable of any act which is not dignified or gracious; and Miss Viola Roseboro has depicted suc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
tory, Peter Rugg, the Missing man, originally contributed to the New England Galaxy (1824-26), of which he was editor. Died in Charlestown, ntertaining knowledge, and contributed stories to the Token, the New England magazine, the Knickerbocker, and the Democratic Review. Twice-tois Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical history of New England (1702). Died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1728. Motley, John Lo Her first two novels appeared anonymously, and were entitled A New England tale (1822) and Redwood (1824). Then came The Traveller (1825); an Manufacturer, the Haverhill Gazette, and the Hartford, Conn., New England weekly Review, also contributing to John Neal's magazine, The Yathly he wrote mainly for that. Some of his works are Legends of New England in prose and verse (1831); Moll Pitcher (1832); Poems, chiefly Re prose works: The stranger in Lowell (1845); Supernaturalism in New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith's journal (1849) ; Old Portra
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
nickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's Literary history, Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in Hiarper's magazine, July, 1902. Chapter 5: New England period — Preliminary (A) G. T. Curtis's Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1869-1870. W. H. Channing's Memoirs of William Ellery ChannHitory of Plymouth plantation. 1626. George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1630-1648. John Winthrop's History of New England. 1640. The Bay Psalm book by Richard Mather, John Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of A. Miss Sedgwick's Hope Leslie. 1827. N. P. Willis's Sketches. 1830. W. E. Channing's Discourses, reviews, and Miscellanies. 1831. Whittier's Legends of New England. 1833. Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle. 1835. Drake's The Culprit Fay and other poems. 1835. Emerson's Historical discourse at Concord. 1835. W. G. Simm
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