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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
IX: the Atlantic Essays In the midst of these public interests, Mr. Higginson did some of the best literary work of his life. In the winter of 1852, he dined with A. Bronson Alcott at James T. Fields', and Mr. Alcott amused himself by guessing, with astonishing success, Mr. Higginson's literary methods. Some of the features he had divined were the young author's habit of bridge-building, of composing much in the open air, and in separate sentences. This analysis the latter declared admirable, and reflected: I might have said to him—in summer I bring home from the woods in my pockets flowers, lichens, chrysalids, nests, brown lizards, baby turtles . . . spiders' eggs . . . and scraps of written paper. In November, 1853, Mr. F. H. Underwood wrote to Mr. Higginson, asking for aid from his pen for a new literary and anti-slavery magazine [the Atlantic Monthly], adding, The articles will all be anonymous. In answer, he wrote: I gladly contribute my name to the list of writers.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
too soon for any ideal treatment in America. Who reads Twice-told Tales? In 1867, Colonel Higginson translated various sonnets from Petrarch, wrote essays and short stories for the Atlantic, continued his army papers, and compiled a little book by request of Ticknor and Fields, called Child Pictures from Dickens, which was issued at the time of Dickens's second visit to this country. The summary of a single day's occupation, jotted down in the diary, illustrates the truth of Mr. A. Bronson Alcott's description of Colonel Higginson as a man of tasks. In one day he had revised a memoir for one of the numerous literary aspirants who continually sought his sympathetic aid, written a book notice and several letters, made the first draughts of two Independent articles, aided in a written examination of the high school for one and a half hours in the afternoon, and spent two and a half hours examining school papers in the evening, besides his usual exercise. In the summer of thi
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
er Stowe. [Preface.] (In Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New ed.) [Sketches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） On the Outskirts of Public Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） The First Black Regiment. (In Outlook, July 2.) Anti-Slavery Days. (In Outlook, Sept. 3.) Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) 1899 Contemporaries. Def. II. Contents: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Amos Bronson Alcott. Theodore Parker. John Greenleaf Whittier. Walt Whitman. Sidney Lanier. An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne. Lydia Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anti-Slavery Career. Ulysses Simpson Grant. The Eccentricities of Reformers. The Road to England. Old Cambridge. Contents: I. Old Camb
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Index Afternoon Landscape, An, poems, 319, 418. Agassiz, Prof., Louis, 164; described, 96. Alcott, A. Bronson, 68, 277; on Higginson's literary methods, 155. Alexander, Mrs., 352. Alfred, King of England, millenary celebration of, 360-62. American Sonnets, 319, 369, 419. Andrew, Gov. John A., 203, 210; and Higginson's plan, 204, 205. Anti-Slavery Society, Mass., Higginson speaks at, 180, 181; Phillips speaks at, 201; Emerson speaks at, 201. Appleton Anne, marries Capt. Storrow, 3. See also Storrow, Anne Appleton. Appleton, Fanny, 26. See also Mrs. H. W. Longfellow. April Days, 157, 408. Army Life in a Black Regiment, 227, 230, 237, 363, 411, 423; at work on, 282. Arnim, Bettina von, Higginson reads, 343-46. Arnold, Edward, Higginson visits, 331, 332. Arnold, Matthew, and Higginson, 301. Atlantic Essays, 156, 157, 411. Baby of the Regiment, The, 237, 412. Barney, Margaret Dellinger, granddaughter of T. W. H., 394, 395. Barney, Ma
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
rance of secondary figures applied to the women of that period. Lydia Maria child. There was Lydia Maria Child, for instance, whose Appeal for that class of Americans called Africans was the first anti-slavery appeal in book form; and had very marked influence on her younger contemporaries. Mrs. Child's Letters from New York were so brilliant as to be ranked with similar work of Lowell's for quality, but have now almost passed into oblivion. The same is true of Miss Sedgwick; and Miss Alcott's name, though still living and potent with children, no longer counts for much with their elders. Of wider power was the work of three other women, whose names are, for different reasons, still remembered: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Jackson, and Emily Dickinson. Harriett Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Stowe was born in New England. If she had spent her life there she might prob-Harriet ably have been an abolitionist, but Beecher could hardly have written Uncle Tom's cabin. As it happened
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
rances of a true heroic mind, altogether unique, so far as I know, among the writing women of this generation. Bronson Alcott. The last of Emerson's immediate and closest friends, and one whom he always placed far above himself, was Amos Bronson Alcott, in one respect a more characteristic New England product than any of the others, inasmuch as he rose from a very humble source to be one of the leading influences of the time, in spite of all whims and oddities. Regarding himself as a fod and walked down, without hastening a step. Neither Plato nor Pythagoras could have done the thing better; and the whole event brought back vividly the appearance of the Gray Champion in one of Hawthorne's tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne. But Alcott now bids fair to be remembered only for the. influence which he had upon greater men. His personality could impose itself upon those who saw him and heard his words, but could find no effective expression in literature. Just the contrary was tru
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature （Names of living authors are omitted.) Alcott, Amos Bronson Born in Wolcott, Conn., Nov. 29, 1799. He established a school for children in Boston, which was very successful until the press denounced it on account of the advanced ideas of the teacher. He then gave up the school and devoted his time to the study of philosophy and reforms, and later moved to Concord, Mass., where he founded the so-called school of philosophy, and became one of its leaders. He contributed to The Dial and published Tablets (1868), Concord days (1872), Table talk (1877), Sonnets and Canzonets (1882), and an Essay (1865), presented to Emerson on his birthday. Emerson had a great veneration for him. Died in Boston, Mass., March 4, 1888. Austin, William Born in Charlestown, Mass., March 2, 1778. He graduated from Harvard in 1798, studied law, and became eminent as a practitioner. Spending some time in England, he published, as a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
rs series, 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols., Osgood & Co., 1883. Henry James's Life of Hawthorne, in English men of letters series, 1880. C. E. Woodberry's Hawthorne, in American men of letters series, 1902. F. B. Sanborn's Thoreau, in American men of letters series, 1882. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols., Roberts Bros., 1893. (B) Theodore Parker's Works, 12 vols., Trubner & Co. (London), 1863-1865. A. Bronson Alcott's Table talk, Roberts Bros., 1877. Chapter 8: the Southern influence.--Whitman (A) W. P. Trent's Simms, in American men of letters series, 1902. W. M. Baskervill's Life of Sidney Lanier, in Southern writers series, Barber & Smith (Nashville), 1897. G. E. Woodberry's Poe, in American men of letters series, 1885. John Burroughs's Study of Walt Whitman, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896. H. Ellis's The New spirit, Walter Scott (London), 1890. (B) W. G. Simms's Poems
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
Index. Adams, John, 53, 56, 63, 221. Adams, Mrs., John, 52, 56. Adams, John Quincy, 66. Addison, Joseph, 84, 108, 257. Al Aaraaf, Poe's, 214. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 179, 180-182. Alcott, Louisa M., 126. Alden, Capt., John, 139. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 264. All's well, Wasson's, 264. Americanism, 3, 159. American Humor, 242, 243. American poetical Miscellany, 68. Ames, Fisher, 4, 46. Ames, Nathaniel, 58. Ancient Mariner, Coleridge's, 68. A New home, Who'll follow? Mrs. Kirkland's, 240. Appeal for that class of Americans called Africans, Mrs. Child's, 125. Areopagitica, Milton's, 165. Arnold, Matthew, 266, 283. Arthur Gordon Pym, Poe's, 208. Arthur Mervyn, Brown's, 70. Astoria, Irving's, 240. Astronomical diary and almanac, Ames's, 58. Atlantic monthly, 106, 132, 133, 158, 162. Audubon, John James, 239. Austin, William, 187. Autocrat of the breakfast table, Holmes's, 157, 158. Bancroft, George, 87, 111, 117, 143. Barclay of Ury
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)
nt, 379 Adams, Charles Francis, 110 Adams, John, 93 n., 164, 181, 183 Adams, John Quincy, 71, 88-89, 116, 119, 162, 241 Adams, Phineas, 162 Adams, William T., 403 Addison, 22, 148, 234, 332, 348, 349, 368 Ad Spem, 123 Ad Vatem, 53 Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, 153 Adventures of three worthies, the, 388 Advertiser (Boston), 226 Aeschylus, 2, 3, 259 After all, 286 Aftermath, 39 Agassiz, 252, 253, 276 Agassiz, 247 Al Aaraaf, 57, 66, 68 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 28, 165, 267 Alcott, Louisa M., 402, 403, 407 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 242, 278, 281, 376, 377, 381, 384 n., 385, 386, 401, 405 Alexander, Archibald, 208, 219 Alexander, James W., 208 Alexander, John W., 331 Alexander, Joseph A., 208 Alger, Horatio, Jr., 403, 404 Alice of Monmouth, 276 Allan, John, 55, 56, 57 Allan, Mrs., John, 57 Allen, James Lane, 388, 390 All quiet along the Potomac, 303 Allston, Washington, 207 Amadis de Gaula, 1
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