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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
to Mrs. Fields: Milton's prose has long been my favourite reading. My whole life has felt the influence of his writings. Fields's Whittier, p. 41. He once wrote to Fields that Allingham, after Tennyson, was his favourite among modern British poets. I do not remember him as quoting Browning or speaking of him. This may, however, have been an accident. One of the very ablest of New England critics, a man hindered only by prolonged ill-health from taking a conspicuous leadership, David Atwood Wasson, himself the author of that noble poem with its seventeenth-century flavour, All's well, wrote in 1864 in the Atlantic Monthly what is doubtless the profoundest study of Whittier's temperament and genius. From this I gladly quote some passages:-- It was some ten years ago, he writes, that we first met John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet of the moral sentiment and of the heart and faith of the people of America. It chanced that we had been making notes, with much interest, upo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
ermont, 35. Villager, the, 87. Virginia, 157. W. Waldensian Synod, 166. Ward, Mrs. E. S. P., acquaintance with Whittier, 112. Wardwell, Lydia, 85. Warner, C. D., 178. Washburn, E. A., 97. Washington, D. C., 26, 48, 99, 171. Wasson, David A., his opinion of Whittier, 153, 154. Webster, Daniel, 6, 58, 156. Webster, Ezekiel, 58. Weld, Theodore, D., 115. Wendell, Ann E., 171; Whittier's letter to, 81, 172. Wendell, Professor, Barrett, his Literary History of America, quopoe-try, 138-149; his My Playmate, 141, 161; sound effect produced in his poetry, 142, 161, 162; his Amy Wentworth, 142; his The Henchman, 143-145; his The sisters, 145-147; his Memories, 147-149; his prose, 150, 151; compared with Burns, 152; D. A. Wasson's opinion of, 153,154; E. C. Stedman's opinion of, 154-157; his Cassandra Southwick, 155, 157-159; little known as to origin of poems, 159; his antislavery poetry, 160; his The New wife and the old, 161; his Songs of labor, 162; his hymns, 162