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Sanborn (search for this): chapter 9
If he cannot make intelligent men feel the presence of a superior nature, the worse for them; I can never doubt him. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, II, 66. It is suggested by Dr. W. T. Harris, one of the two joint biographers of Alcott, that the shine beyond the circle of his own city and nation. Emerson's is destined to be the high literary name of this age. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, i, 264. No one up to that time, probably, had uttered an opinion of Emerson quite so prophetic hem all, and showed such mastery, and took up Time and Nature like a boy's marble in his hand, as to vindicate himself. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, i, 262. A severe test of a man's depth of observation lies always in the analysis he gives of h : Many promises were not kept and travelling is costly; but I have opened the way, and another year shall do better. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, 2.477. At any rate, his daughter thus pathetically described his appearance at this interview, as h
Henry Bryant (search for this): chapter 9
ure. Let us consider the career of one who was born with as little that seemed advantageous in his surroundings as was the case with Abraham Lincoln, or John Brown of Ossawatomie, and who yet developed in the end an individuality as marked as that of Poe or Walt Whitman. In looking back on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew up with the protection and stimulus of parents and teachers; their early biographies offer nothing startling. Among them appeared, one day, this student and teacher, more serene, more absolutely individual, than any one of them. He had indeed, like every boy born in New England, some drop of academic blood within his traditions, but he
Hawthorne (search for this): chapter 9
the career of one who was born with as little that seemed advantageous in his surroundings as was the case with Abraham Lincoln, or John Brown of Ossawatomie, and who yet developed in the end an individuality as marked as that of Poe or Walt Whitman. In looking back on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew up with the protection and stimulus of parents and teachers; their early biographies offer nothing startling. Among them appeared, one day, this student and teacher, more serene, more absolutely individual, than any one of them. He had indeed, like every boy born in New England, some drop of academic blood within his traditions, but he was born in the house
Samuel J. May (search for this): chapter 9
primitive of wayside schools, and was placed at fourteen as apprentice in a clock factory; was for a few years a traveling peddler, selling almanacs and trinkets; then wandered as far as North Carolina and Virginia in a similar traffic; then became a half-proselyte among Quakers in North Carolina; then a school-teacher in Connecticut; always poor, but always thoughtful, ever gravitating towards refined society, and finally coming under the influence of that rare and high-minded man, the Rev. Samuel J. May, and placing himself at last in the still more favored position of Emerson's foot-note. When that took place, it suddenly made itself clear to the whole Concord circle that there was not one among them so serene, so equable, so dreamy, yet so constitutionally a leader, as this wandering child of the desert. Of all the men known in New England, he seemed the one least likely to have been a country peddler. Mr. Alcott first visited Concord, as Mr. Cabot's memoir of Emerson tells u
John Brown (search for this): chapter 9
rson invariably and candidly deferred, regarding him, indeed, as unequivocally the leading philosophic or inspirational mind of his day. Let this foot-note, then, be employed as the text for frank discussion of what was, perhaps, the most unique and picturesque personality developed during the Transcendental period of our American literature. Let us consider the career of one who was born with as little that seemed advantageous in his surroundings as was the case with Abraham Lincoln, or John Brown of Ossawatomie, and who yet developed in the end an individuality as marked as that of Poe or Walt Whitman. In looking back on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew
Ralph Waldo Emerson (search for this): chapter 9
VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott The phrase foot-note person was first introduced ibtless the only literary contemporary to whom Emerson invariably and candidly deferred, regarding hast according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holat last in the still more favored position of Emerson's foot-note. When that took place, it suddenarly period (1837), Alcott, after criticising Emerson a little for the picture of vulgar life that ffinity with the fathers of English diction. Emerson is the only instance of original style among eyond the circle of his own city and nation. Emerson's is destined to be the high literary name oft. It may have been in a similar spirit that Emerson and his foot-note might seem at first to have of wholeness; in this respect far surpassing Emerson. It is scarcely possible, for any one who himself and Parker, though each stood near to Emerson and ostensibly belonged to the same body of t[17 more...]
R. T. S. Lowell (search for this): chapter 9
ack on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew up with the protection and stimulus of parents and teachers; their early biographies offer nothing startling. Among them appeareguage. When the Town and Country Club was organized in Boston, and had been, indeed, established largely to afford a dignified occupation for Alcott, as Emerson said, Alcott wished to have it christened either the Olympian Club or the Pan Club. Lowell, always quick at a joke, suggested the substitution of Club of Hercules instead of Olympian ; or else that, inasmuch as the question of admitting women was yet undecided, The Patty-Pan would be a better name. But if Alcott's words were large, h
Henry David Thoreau (search for this): chapter 9
on's searching inquiry, Of what use is genius, if its focus be a little too short or too long? No doubt, Mr. Alcott might well be one of those to whom such criticism could fitly be applied, just as it has been used to discourage the printing of Thoreau's whole journal. Is it not possible that Alcott's fame may yet be brought up gradually and securely, like Thoreau's, from those ample and beautifully written volumes which Alcott left behind him? Alcott doubtless often erred, at first, in thThoreau's, from those ample and beautifully written volumes which Alcott left behind him? Alcott doubtless often erred, at first, in the direction of inflation in language. When the Town and Country Club was organized in Boston, and had been, indeed, established largely to afford a dignified occupation for Alcott, as Emerson said, Alcott wished to have it christened either the Olympian Club or the Pan Club. Lowell, always quick at a joke, suggested the substitution of Club of Hercules instead of Olympian ; or else that, inasmuch as the question of admitting women was yet undecided, The Patty-Pan would be a better name. But
I. Carlyle (search for this): chapter 9
ction. Emerson is the only instance of original style among Americans. Who writes like him? Who can? None of his imitators, surely. The day shall come when this man's genius shall shine beyond the circle of his own city and nation. Emerson's is destined to be the high literary name of this age. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, i, 264. No one up to that time, probably, had uttered an opinion of Emerson quite so prophetic as this; it was not until four years later, in 1841, that even Carlyle received the first volume of Emerson's Essays and said, It is once more the voice of a man. Yet from that moment Alcott and Emerson became united, however inadequate their twinship might have seemed to others. Literature sometimes, doubtless, makes strange friendships. There is a tradition that when Browning was once introduced to a new Chinese ambassador in London, the interpreter called attention to the fact that they were both poets. Upon Browning's courteously asking how much poetr
Joseph Cook (search for this): chapter 9
a sudden foray into Virginia, it appears from his Diary that he had been at the point of joining it, when it was superseded by the swift progress of events, and so abandoned. The power of early sectarian training is apt to tell upon the later years even of an independent thinker, and so it was with Alcott. In his case a life-long ideal attitude passed back into something hard to distinguish from old-fashioned Calvinism. This was especially noticeable at the evening receptions of the Rev. Joseph Cook, who flattered Alcott to the highest degree and was met at least halfway by the seer himself. Having been present at one or two of these receptions, I can testify to the disappointment inspired in Alcott's early friends at his seeming willingness to be made a hero in an attitude quite alien to that of his former self. The New international, for instance, recognizes that in later years his manner became more formal and his always nebulous teaching apparently more orthodox. Be this a
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