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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 40 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 32 2 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 25 5 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 21 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 19 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 16 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 14 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 10 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 8 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
in the title-page Percy Shelley and Leigh Hunt, in the latter's hand, but the blank leaves full of Shelley's notes in pencil-writing, delicate as himself. The Wordsworth volumes were captivating, with his own later alterations put in with ink in the neatest way, and showing the delicacy of his literary work. They have the original engravings from Sir George Beaumont, giving the actual scenes of Lucy gray, Peter Bell, and other poems. Fields described Wordsworth's reading of his own poems in old age, quite grandly, and his reading Tennyson aloud also with equal impressiveness; and turning on a silly lady too profuse in her praise of passages, with You ald seem as strange to another generation for me to have sat at the same table with Longfellow or Emerson, as it now seems that men should have sat at table with Wordsworth or with Milton. So I may as well tell you all about my inducting little Harriet Prescott into that high company. She met me at twelve in Boston at Ticknor's
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
utiful. . . The little hamlet sleeps in profound repose — a two-horse wagon, or even a pedlar with a pack, are events for a day. We look between the two little white churches up a lane which leads to Wachusett; last night we followed this up to its first summit — a little height before the real Wachusett begins; there was the skeleton of an old church, the strong frame uninjured, though raspberry bushes flaunt through the floor, and elders look in at windows; near it an old burial ground, Wordsworth's Churchyard among the mountains. . . . The strawberries were ripening all over the lonely hill-top, and five children with cows and tin kettles and the baby in a wagon — in the waning June sunset; five little sisters there were, with all bleached but their blue eyes. Worcester, June, 1862 Mrs. Howell, of Philadelphia, a most attractive woman whom I met last year, is there [Princeton] already. She wrote Milton's verses on his blindness which were included in a London edition of his w<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
., 119; Channing on, 42, 43; described, 94; works of, 105. Todd, Mabel Loomis, letters to, 331. Tracys, the, of Newburyport, 7. Tubman, Harriet, fugitive slave, 81, Tukey, Marshal, and temperance, 41, 42. U Urso, Camille, violinist, 243. V Verney, Capt., 281, 282. Victoria, Queen, 289; reviews troops, 278, 279. W Ward, Col., 178, 180. Wards, the, and Jenny Lind, 39, 40. Warners, C. D., 270, 271. Waterhouse, Dr., 13. Watson, Marston, 52, 53. Webster, Daniel, criticism of, 90. Weiss, Rev., John, sketch of, 24-26, 271. Wheeler, Capt., 177. Whitney, Anne, description of, 115, Whittier, J. G., 72; visit to, 7, 8; conversation with, 8-11; W. Phillips on, 11; description of, 93, 107. Willard, Dr., of the navy, 212. Woman's Suffrage, Washington Convention, 263; meetings, 265, 270. Worcester, Mass., Disunion Convention at, 77-79; preparations for war, 154, 169-81; return of Sixth Mass. Vols., 155, 156. Wordsworth, William, 319, 320.