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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
Hoar, George, on Woman's Suffrage, 263. Holden, Mass., tavern at, 56-58. Holmes, John, 124. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, at Atlantic dinners, 106-12. Honey, Rev. C. R., of England, 285, 289, 290. Howe, Julia Ward, 113; accounts of, 228, 229, 259; and Town and Country Club, 230; letters to, 231-35; first woman member of National Institute of Arts and Letters, 234, 235. Howe, Samuel Gridley, and Kansas, 138, 139; death of, 230, 231. Howell, Mrs., of Philadelphia, 145. Howells, Wm. Dean, 262. Hughes, Thomas, described, 258,259. Hunt, Helen, 244-46. Hunt, William, the artist, 31, 32. Hunter, Gen., David, described, 198; and Jefferson Davis, 205. Hurlbut, William Henry, his:foreign experiences, 29-33. J Jacksonville, Fla., 185-91, 194-97. Johnson, Robert U., 235. Johnson, Samuel, letters to, 14-17, 51. Jowett, Master, of Balliol, visit to, 286. K Kane, Dr. Elisha K., Arctic explorer, 90-92. Kansas, emigrants and money sent to, 137-39; Hig
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.), Chapter 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
loes. In prose and in verse he disclosed an unfailing Yankee cleverness, whittling his rhymes and sharpening his phrases with an innate dexterity. The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested, William Dean Howells has told us; and this was above all the secret of the charm Doctor Holmes had for every one. There is zest and gusto in all that he wrote, and the reader can share the writer's own enjoyment. Especially was the writer interested in himsevent. There are a few of Holmes's loftier poems in which we feel that the inspiration is equal to the aspiration; but there are only a few of them, with The Chambered Nautilus at the head, accompanied by Homesick in heaven,—not overpraised by Howells when he called it one of the most profoundly pathetic of the language. And Stedman was right also when he suggested that Holmes's serious poetry had scarcely been the serious work of his life. Even at its best this serious poetry is the result
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.), Chapter 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
, and Bret Harte preserved a real episode of the day in his John Burns of Gettysburg. Best of all, of course, was Lincoln's famous address at the battle-field on 19 November, 1863, which lacks nothing of poetry but its outer forms. As Grant rose to fame the poets kept pace with his deeds: Melville with Running the Batteries and Boker with Before Vicksburg dealt with the struggle to open the Mississippi. Lookout Mountain was commemorated by Boker—The battle of Lookout Mountain—and William Dean Howells—The battle in the clouds. Two poems this year honoured the negro soldiers that the Union army had begun to use. Boker's The black regiment concerns itself with the assault on Fort Hudson; Brownell's Bury them is a stern and terrible poem on the slaughter of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, with their Colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. The Confederates buried Shaw in a pit under a heap of his men, and Brownell thought of them as dragon's teeth buried in the sac<
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.), Chapter 5: dialect writers (search)
e works of almost diametrically opposite styles. The former makes its appeal by its simplicity and restraint; the latter by its emotionalism, its note of lyric intensity. Neither author, however, is of unmixed negro blood, and neither has come as close to the heart of his race as did Dunbar, a pure negro, in his Lyrics of lowly life (1896). He was the first American negro of pure African descent to feel the negro life aesthetically and to express it lyrically. See Introduction by William Dean Howells to Lyrics of lowly life. His dialect poems, it may be added, are better than the poems that he wrote in standard English. Indeed, Dunbar's command of correct English was always somewhat meagre and uncertain. Negro writers, however, were not the first to put their own race into literature or to realize the value of their own folk-lore. The possibilities of negro folk-lore, says a recent negro writer, See Benjamin Griffith Brawley's The negro in literature and art (Atlanta, 19
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.), Chapter 6: the short story (search)
e seventies of the anonymous Saxe Holm's stories, with their mid-century sentiment and romantic atmosphere, would imply that America at heart was still what it was in the days of Hawthorne and the annuals. What might have happened had James and Howells and Aldrich had full control it is idle to speculate; what did happen was the sudden appearance of a short story that stampeded America and for two decades set the style in short fiction. Bret Harte's The luck of Roaring camp, whatever one may nd A native of Winby. Lightness of touch, humour, pathos, perfect naturalness—these are the points of her strength. She was a romanticist, equipped with a camera and a fountain pen. To touch the seventies anywhere is to touch romance. Even Howells was not fully a realist until into the eighties. The new local colour work was not primarily realism. The new writers who now sprang up to portray local peculiarities in all parts of the land sought, even as Harte had done, to throw an idealiz
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.), Index (search)
aven, 237 Honey, James A., 357 n. Hope, James Barron, 290, 298, 305 Hopkins, Mark, 197, 211, 219-223 Hopkins, Samuel, 197, 198-200, 206, 219 Hopkinson, Francis, 150 Hood, Thomas, 148, 242 Hood, Tom (younger), 387 Hood, Gen. J. B., 290 Hooker's across, 283 Hooper, Johnson J., 153 Hoosiers, the, 364 Hoosier schoolmaster, the, 362, 383 Horace, 234, 240 Houghton, Lord, 268 House of the seven Gables, the, 21, 28 Howard, John, 45 Howe, Julia Ward, 285 Howells, W. D., 229, 237, 284, 351 n., 377, 383 Howe's Masquerade, 25 How old Brown took Harper's Ferry, 276, 279 How the Cumberland went down, 282 How to make books, 405 Huckleberries gathered from New England Hills, 373, 388 Huckleberry Finn, 405 Hugo, Victor, 51, 384 Human wheel, its Spokes and Felloes, the, 229 Humble-Bee, The, 241 Humble romance, a, 390 Humboldt, Alexander von, 130 Hume, David, 399 Hume, Martin, 129 Hunter, General, 155 Hutchinson, Thomas, 104,
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
h of character as well as of literary skill. But the skill was very noticeable also. Irving's prose is not that of the Defoe-Swift-Franklin-Paine type of plain talk to the crowd. It is rather an inheritance from that other eighteenth century tradition, the conversation of the select circle. Its accents were heard in Steele and Addison and were continued in Goldsmith, Sterne, Cowper, and Charles Lamb. Among Irving's successors, George William Curtis and Charles Dudley Warner and William Dean Howells have been masters of it likewise. It is mellow human talk, delicate, regardful, capable of exquisite modulation. With instinctive artistic taste, Irving used this old and sound style upon fresh American material. In Rip van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow he portrayed his native valley of the Hudson, and for a hundred years connoisseurs of style have perceived the exquisite fitness of the language to the images and ideas which Irving desired to convey. To render the Far Wes
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
aign biographies of Lincoln in 1860 was William Dean Howells, then an Ohio journalist of twenty-three. In 1917, at the age of eighty, Mr. Howells is still adding to his long row of charming and memo piece together, from no other sources than Mr. Howells's writings, an unrivaled picture of our boor understanding of the type. They were William Dean Howells and Henry James. Mr. Howells, who, in Mr. Howells, who, in his own words, can reasonably suppose that it is because of the mixture of Welsh, German, and Irishgroup; and the latter novel may prove to be Mr. Howells's chief visiting-card to posterity. We caned in the eighteen-eighties over the books of Howells and James. We must content ourselves with saying that a knowledge of Mr. Howells's work is essential to the student of the American provincial men who ruled over our literature when young Howells came out of the West, and My Mark Twain is hi by Ticknor and Fields. In 1881 he succeeded Howells in the editorship of the Atlantic. Aldrich h[3 more...]
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
aine, J. G., quoted, 163 Blithedale romance, the, Hawthorne 145-46, 150-51 Boston news-letter, 60 Boy's town, a, Howells 250 Bracebridge Hall, Irving 91 Bradford, William, 28 Bradstreet, Anne, 36-37 Bridge, the, Longfellow 156 Brigscendentalism, 143; life and writings, 144-52; typically American, 265 Hayne, Paul, 225 Hazard of New Fortunes, a, Howells 251 Hearn, Lafcadio, 248 Hecker, Father, 141 Henry, Patrick, 72, 209 Herons of Elmwood, the, Longfellow 156 Hiosier schoolmaster, the, Eggleston 247 House of the seven Gables, the, Hawthorne 145, 150 Hovey, Richard, 257 Howells, W. D., 93, 234-35, 250-51, 265 Hubbard, William, 39 Huckleberry Finn, Clemens 238 Humorists, American, 239 HutchiWister, Owen, 243 Woodberry, George, 257 Woodworth. Samuel, 107 Woolman, John, 69 Wonder-book, the, Hawthorne 145, 147 Wreck of the Hesprus, the, Longfellow 155 Wister, Owen, 243 Yale University, 62 Years of my youth, Howells 250
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
rday, while in the next room Fields and William Dean Howells edited The Atlantic monthly; then, uponrliest delighted him. In My literary Passions Howells has delicately recorded the development of hi of life. Poems in the manner of Heine won Howells a place in the Atlantic, then the very zenithly to be called a novel, but it is a valuable Howells document in its zeal for common actuality andefore I knew him. Tolstoy's novels seemed to Howells as perfect as his doctrine. To my thinking tf to be converted from his artistic practice, Howells had broadened his field and deepened his inqucontinues the literary tradition; and to name Howells, Woodberry, Santayana, Woodrow Wilson, Henry onomics. He arrived in Boston at the time W. D. Howells, See Book III, Chap. XI. an exponent oributions from men of the rank of Kipling and Howells. Many of the million readers which it long bThomas Hardy, Andrew Lang, Conan Doyle, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, F. Marion Crawfo[45 more...]
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