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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
e spectator seem a little remote, by comparison, from the more eager questions of their day. Yet Lowell's best work was done in a field of pure letters toward the cultivation of which America had befoHis criticism of contemporaries cannot, for the most part, be greatly praised. In the period of Lowell's literary bringing — up the traditions of the English Christopher North had reached over to Amerfully with these tactics, and Lowell in Cambridge was only too ready to follow his example. In Lowell's Fable for critics you find the beginning of all this: in his prose you will find an essay on Pmeness upon both Masson and Milton himself, and yet the keen Fitz-Gerald selects one sentence of Lowell's in this very essay as an illustration of that same sin. Lowell says of Milton's prose tracts:-t had garnered in its loyal depths since first it gazed upon its pallid regent. The criticism on Lowell comes with force from FitzGerald, who always cultivated condensation, and it also recalls the re
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
ys, of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. In the late volume giving memorials of one of the last of the Transcendentalists, Daniel Ricketson, of New Bedford, there are interesting glimpses of the time when Lowell's article on Thoreau was supposed to have wellnigh suppressed him as an author. Thoreau's sister wrote to Ricketson, it seems, I have too much respect for Mr. Lowell's powers of discrimination to account at all for ris blundering and most unfriendly attack upon Henry's book, and Ricketson himself adds, Lowell's nature is wholly inadequate to take in Thoreau. Lowell thought Thoreau was posing for effect. I am satisfied that Thoreau could not possibly play a part. He then winds up with one of those seemingly daring combinations with which the Transcendentalists innocently startled more decorous ears: I rank Christ Jesus, Socrates, and Thoreau as the sincerest souls that ever walked the earth. In literature nothing counts but geniu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
other poems (1863); Snow bound (1866); The Tent on the Beach, and other poems (1867); Among the Hills, and other poems (1868); Miriam, and other poems (1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872) ; Hazel blossoms (1874) ; Mabel Martin (1875); Centennial Hymn (1876); The vision of Echard (1878); The King's Missive, and other poems (1881); The Bay of seven Islands, and other poems (1883) ; Poems of nature (1885); and St. Gregory's Guest, and recent poems (1886); and the prose works: The stranger in Lowell (1845); Supernaturalism in New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith's journal (1849) ; Old Portraits and modern sketches (1850) ; and Literary Recreations (1854); A final edition of his works supervised by the poet himself appeared in seven volumes (1888-9). Died in Hampton Falls, N. H., Sept. 7, 1892. Willis, Nathaniel Parker Born in Portland, Me., Jan. 20, 1806. Graduating from Yale in 1827, he soon founded the American monthly magazine, which later was merged into the New Yor