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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.) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 10 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 6 0 Browse Search
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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 3: Holmes (search)
orse his biographer admits, a tinge of the sporting man about him, liked to see a fast trot, and describes the taste for horse flesh of his own Major Rowens in Elsie Venner so vividly that the most confirmed pedestrian can hardly read the account without a thrill. He knew the records of the prize ring, and sometimes measured the et deeper questions that his three novels, well characterized by an elderly lady as his medicated novels, all turned in different degrees. The first of these, Elsie Venner, achieved a permanent fame both as a picture of New England life and as a scientific study. How widely either has achieved that popular recognition which is sly trained minds, it also seems to me a wonderfully condensed and vigorous piece of writing, and it is to be read in connection with that remarkable passage in Elsie Venner, where the author speculates in respect to the attempted murder of his young schoolmaster. Boston, December 28, 1867. Dear sir, I should prefer to say that
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
s of the inside of that great social millstone which, driven by the river Time, set imperatively a-going the several wheels of our individual activities. He goes on with his rich and delightful gossip, but there is never a moment when some bit of reminiscence, some good pun, some remembered phrase from Sir Thomas Browne, may not interrupt the flow of the sentence. From this Holmes is far more free; he takes almost as many and as varied flights, but his art is better. Sometimes, even in Elsie Venner, he tires you with the details of scientific speculation; but the literary part is always well done. The defect in this direction began to show itself very early in Lowell, and I remember that when he began to write in the London Daily News in 1846, there was a general complaint, both at home and abroad, over the longwindedness of his prose style. This he overcame, but the tumultuous inequality lasted and was, indeed, a part of his charm. The London Spectator said well of him, Mr. Lowe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
26, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 53, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 70; theory of biography, 75; letter about engagement of his parents, 75; his letter in reply, 76; childhood, 77-81; letter of thanks for a reminiscence of his father, 81; early manhood, 82-84; medical practice and professorship, 84; lecturing, 85; influence of Emerson, 85-86; middle life, 86; success of The Autocrat, 86-87; as a talker, 88-90; literary opinions, 90-91; characteristics, 92-93; relations to science, 94-96; heresies, 96-98; Elsie Venner, 98; religion, 98-102; Little Boston, his favorite character, 103; clubs, 104-105; wit, 106; later life, 107-108; death, 108; 111, 114, 125, 127, 135, 136, 147, 148, 155, 158, 185, 186, 188. Holmes, O. W., Jr., 105. Horace, 55, 113. Howe, Dr. S. G., 104. Howells, W. D., 69, 70. Hughes, Thomas, 177. Hurlbut, W. H., afterward Hurlbert, 66. Ingraham, J. H., 139. Irving, Washington, 35, 117. Jackson, Miss, Harriot, 75. Jacobs, Miss S. S., 58. James, Henry, Sr., 70. James