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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
isite and complete perfection, what should I hope for myself, if I had not higher objects in view than fame? These Essays were published in a volume in 1823; and Willis records that when he was in Europe, ten years later, and just before Lamb's death, it was difficult to light upon a person who had read Elia. This brings us to a contemporary instance. Willis and Hawthorne wrote early, side by side, in The token, about 1827, forty years ago. Willis rose at once to notoriety, but Mr. S. G. Goodrich, the editor of the work, states in his autobiography, that Hawthorne's contributions did not attract the slightest attention. Ten years later, in 1837, thesWillis rose at once to notoriety, but Mr. S. G. Goodrich, the editor of the work, states in his autobiography, that Hawthorne's contributions did not attract the slightest attention. Ten years later, in 1837, these same sketches were collected in a volume, as Twice-told Tales ; but it was almost impossible to find a publisher for them, and when published they had no success. I well remember the apathy with which even the enlarged edition of 1842 was received, in spite of the warm admiration of a few; nor was it until the publication of Th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, I. Carlyle's laugh (search)
own generation, I had been under some personal obligations to him for his early writings,--though in my case this debt was trifling compared with that due to Emerson,--but his Latter-day pamphlets and his reported utterances on American affairs had taken away all special desire to meet him, besides the ungraciousness said to mark his demeanor toward visitors from the United States. Yet, when I was once fairly launched in that fascinating world of London society, where the American sees, as Willis used to say, whole shelves of his library walking about in coats and gowns, this disinclination rapidly softened. And when Mr. Froude kindly offered to take me with him for one of his afternoon calls on Carlyle, and further proposed that I should join them in their habitual walk through the parks, it was not in human nature — or at least in American nature --to resist. We accordingly went after lunch, one day in May, to Carlyle's modest house in Chelsea, and found him in his study, readi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Hawthorne. (search)
in terms of monosyllables. For all these merits he paid one high and inexorable penalty,--the utter absence of all immediate or dazzling success. His publisher, Goodrich, tells us, in his Reminiscences, Vol. II., p 269. that Hawthorne and Willis began to write together in The Token, in 1827, and that the now-forgotten Willis rose rapidly to fame, while Hawthorne's writings did not attract the slightest attention. The only recognition of his merits that I have been able to find in the coWillis rose rapidly to fame, while Hawthorne's writings did not attract the slightest attention. The only recognition of his merits that I have been able to find in the contemporary criticism of those early years is in The New-England Magazine for October, 1834, where he is classed approvingly with those who were then considered the eminent writers of the day,--Miss Sedgwick, Miss Leslie, Verplanck, Greenwood, and John Neal. To them, the critic says, we may add an anonymous author of some of the most delicate and beautiful prose ever published this side of the Atlantic,--the author of The Gentle Boy. New-England Magazine, October, 1834, p. 331. For twenty ye
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Poe. (search)
mosphere can be more belittling than that of his New York Literati: it is a mass of vehement dogmatism and petty personalities; opinions warped by private feeling, and varying from page to page. He seemed to have absolutely no fixed standard of critical judgment, though it is true that there was very little anywhere in America during those acrimonious days, when the most honorable head might be covered with insult or neglect, while any young poetess who smiled sweetly on Poe or Griswold or Willis might find herself placed among the Muses. Poe complimented and rather patronized Hawthorne, but found him only peculiar and not original; Works, ed. 1853, III., 202. saying of him, He has not half the material for the exclusiveness of literature that he has for its universality, whatever that may mean; and finally he tried to make it appear that Hawthorne had borrowed from himself. He returned again and again to the attack on Longfellow as a wilful plagiarist, denouncing the trivial r
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
onishing how distinctly a single voice is heard, even in its lowest and sweetest tones, through nearly every part of this wide pile; and the stillness of the multitudes to catch its murmurs is sometimes as thrilling as the notes themselves. Grisi can fill the whole building with the most brilliant sounds. We dined at Lord Fitzwilliam's, who has taken a large house just outside the gates, for the Festival week, which he thinks it his inherited duty to patronize. . . . . September 12.—Mr. Willis of Caius College, Cambridge, who has published on architecture, being here, and desirous to see some parts of the cathedral not usually seen, Mr. Harcourt had it opened and lighted, and a party was formed to go over it. It was very curious. We were shown, under the pavement of the present choir, the remains of the ancient choir of the church built in 1070 and burnt in 1137, together with one arch of the still older church built about A. D. 900, all discovered in 1830, when the excavations
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
15. White, Colonel, 373. White, Miss, Lydia, 176. Whitney, inventor of the cotton-gin, 14. Wickham, Jr., 298. Wickham, William, 33. Wieck, Clara (Schumann), 474. Wiegel, 179. Wilberforce, William, 297. Wilde, Mr., 14. Wilkes, John, 55. Wilkes, Miss (Mrs. Jeffrey), 42. Wilkie, Sir, David, 421, 422, 425, 448. 449. William IV., King of England, 409. Williams, Friend, 337 note, 385. Williams, Miss, Helen Maria, 130, 132, 135, 138. Williams, Samuel, 297 and note. Willis, Mr., of Caius College, 436. Wilmot, Mr., 411. Wilson, John, 278 and note. Winckelmann, J. J., 178. Winder, General, 29. Wirt, William, 33, 351. Woburn Abbey, 269, 270. Wolf, F. A., 105-107, 112, 114, 124. Woodbury, L., 381. Woodward, Mrs., 4, 7, 273, 276. Woodward, Professor, 6. Woodward, William H., 4, 7, 250. Wordsworth, Miss, 287, 432. Wordsworth, Mrs., 287, 432. Wordsworth, William, 287, 288, 411, 432-434. Wortley, Hon., Stuart, 408 note. Wyse, 183 note. Y Yo
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Wilberforce, William, I. 297. Wilde, Mr., I. 14. Wilde (Q. C.), II. 363. Wilde, R. H., II. 54. Wilkes, John, I. 55. Wilkes, Miss (Mrs. Jeffrey), I. 42. Wilkie, Sir, David, I. 421, 422, 425, 448, 449. Wilkinson, II. 155. Wilkinson, Sir, Gardiner, II. 371. William IV., King of England, I. 409. Williams, Friend, I. 337 note, 385. Williams, General, Sir William, II. 372. Williams, Miss, Helen Maria, I. 130, 132, 135, 138. Williams, Mr., Samuel, I. 297 and note. Willis, Mr., of Caius College, I. 436. Wilmot, Mr., I. 411. Wilson, II. 361. Wilson, John, I. 278 and note, II. 163, 164. Wilson, Professor, II. 155. Winckelmann, J. J., I. 178, II. 59. Winder, General, I. 29. Winsor, Justin, II. 318. Winthrop, Hon. Robert C., II. 263, 305, 470. Wirt, William, I 33, 351. Wiseman, Dr. (Cardinal), it. 73, 77, 80. Woburn Abbey, I. 269, 270, II. 466. Wolf. F. A., philologist, I. 105, 106, 107, 112, 114, 124. Wolf, Ferdinand, II. 2, 256
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
across Malvern hill. The fragments of McCall's and Slocum's divisions had crossed the White Oak swamp and encamped near Willis' church, near the knot of cross roads in the vicinity of Glendale. Heintzelman had crossed White Oak swamp and was goingss-roads, Glendale or Willis' Church; Glendale being the name of a plantation just south of Charles City cross roads, and Willis' church a point a mile in the same, direction from the same point on the Quaker road. By 11 o'clock in the morning, th the Quaker road that ran along its crest just south of the junction with the road leading to Charles City cross-roads by Willis' church, along which Jackson would advance, and the one leading to Richmond by way of Darbytown, along which would be the two miles of progress, and went into bivouac when he reached the River road. The army was countermarched, on the 3d, to Willis' church, to there take the road toward Charles City Court House and leading to the right flank of McClellan's new base an
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
t-colonel; McCoole, Thomas E., lieutenant-colonel; Moore, L. T., colonel; Riely, J. C., major; Washington, B. B., major. Thirty-second Cavalry battalion (consolidated with Fortieth Cavalry battalion): Robertson, John R., major. Thirty-second Infantry regiment (formed from Montague's and Goggin's Infantry battalion): Cary, John B., lieutenant-colonel; Ewell, Benjamin S., colonel; Goggin, James M., major; Lee, Baker P., Jr., major; Montague, Edgar B., colonel; Sinclair, Jefferson, major; Willis, William R., lieutenant-colonel. Thirty-second Militia regiment: Coiner, David W., lieutenantcol-onel; McCune, Samuel, colonel; Wilson, William M., major. Thirty-third Cavalry battalion (transferred to Seventeenth Cavalry): Armesy, Thomas D., major. Thirty-third Infantry regiment: Cummings, Arthur C., colonel; Golladay, Jacob B., major; Grace, Philip T., major; Holliday, Frederick W. M., major, colonel; Huston, George, major, lieutenant-colonel; Jones, John R., lieutenant-colonel; L
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
formed the extreme left of Longstreet. His line reached from Taylor's hill to the foot of Marye's hill. There, in the famous sunken road behind a stone wall, Cobb's brigade of McLaws' division was posted. On the left of Cobb and on the prolongation of his line, the Twenty-fourth North Carolina stood. General Ransom was in charge of a North Carolina division of eight regiments, and this was assigned place behind McLaws on the reserve line, and immediately behind the crest of Marye's and Willis' hills. The immediate care of this important point was committed to General Ransom. The eight regiments of this division formed two brigades, one Ransom's own, the other Cooke's. To Ransom's right was Pickett, and then Hood holding Longstreet's right. In Hood's division there were three North Carolina regiments. Jackson's troops were massed along the line of the Fredericksburg & Potomac railroad. A. P. Hill held the front line without much cover. Pender's North Carolina brigade, Lane's
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