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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 17 (search)
er extreme from the celebrated collection of De Quincey in Dove Cottage at Grasmere, where that author had five thousand books, by his own statement, in a little room ten or twelve feet square; and his old housekeeper explained it to me as perfectly practicable because he had no bookcases, but simply piled them against the walls, leaving here and there little gaps in which he put his money. In the delicate and touching dedication of Scudder's chief work, Men and letters, to his friend Henry M. Alden, the well-known New York editor, he says: In that former state of existence when we were poets, you wrote verses which I knew by heart and I read dreamy tales to you which you speculated over as if they were already classics. Then you bound your manuscript verses in a full blue calf volume and put it on the shelf, and I woke to find myself at the desk of a literary workman. Later, he says of himself, Fortunately, I have been able for the most part to work out of the glare of publicity.