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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.) 12 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
ily. In England they could not understand his action, because it was not considered that disrespect to a President meant the same as to a Queen-which he (L.) had urged upon them. Thought Phelps far better fitted than himself, as being a business man, which he hated. Is revising Fable for critics; had not read it for years and did not wonder it gave dissatisfaction. Means to put a preface explaining that he did not really write it for publication, but as a jeu d'esprit; and sent it to Briggs, who took responsibility of publishing. Said that Browning had a good deal of jealousy of Tennyson, whereas Tennyson was too absorbed in himself to be jealous of Browning. B. has Jewish blood, but will not admit it. [I asked his reasons for thinking B. Jewish.] No one who has studied his face can doubt it. He used in one case a Hebrew line, then cancelled it in a later edition. Besides, if you dine with a Jew in London, you are sure to meet Browning. [These arguments seemed to me quite
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 14: Poe (search)
expressed. According to Griswold, whom he chose as his literary executor, Poe was a naturally unamiable character, arrogant, irascible, envious, without moral susceptibility or sense of gratitude, and exhibiting scarcely any virtue in either his life or his writings. According to the Richmond editor, John M. Daniel, who saw him frequently during the summer of 1849, he was sour of nature, capricious, selfish, a misanthrope, possessing little moral sense. In the view of Lowell's friend, C. F. Briggs, with whom he was associated for several months in 1845 as co-editor of the Broadway journal, he was badly made up, a characterless character, and utterly deficient of high motive. And Horace Greeley was disturbed lest Mrs. Whitman should marry him, giving it as his opinion that such a union would be a terrible conjunction. To N. P. Willis, on the other hand, who perhaps knew him better than any other outside of his immediate family during his last half-dozen years, there appeared, duri
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 1.9 (search)
fit of the editor in 1855, and made up of brief poems and essays donated by contributors to the magazine, contained pieces by Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, N. P. Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Donald Grant Mitchell, George H. Boker, Bayard Taylor, T. W. Parsons, Epes Sargent, J. G. Saxe, James T. Fields, Charles Godfrey Leland, George William Curtis, Park Benjamin, Rufus W. Griswold, Richard Henry Stoddard, C. F. Briggs, and many more; and among other contributors of the early time were Miss Sedgwick, James Gates Percival, Richard Henry Wilde, Mrs. Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, J. G. Whittier, Horace Greeley, and James Fenimore Cooper. The importance of The Knickerbocker magazine may be judged by this list of names; yet in dignity of tone and especially in the quality of its humour it was somewhat below the standard of several of its successors. New York, like Boston, saw many ambitious attempts
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 24: Lowell (search)
it is the mere text for sentiment and moral. Some union of art and morality, of Keats and Carlyle, Poe and Emerson—that was the poet's endeavour. He wrote to Briggs in 1846: Then I feel how great is the office of Poet, could I but even dare to hope to fill it. Then it seems as if my heart would break in pouring out one gngelize the world. It was perhaps this spirit of reform which Lowell had sought to express in his Prometheus and which he had in mind when in another letter to Briggs he declares I am the first who has endeavoured to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by. Ibid. Popularity came first, however, when fervouunfal. There it is the holy zeal which attacks slavery issuing in this fable of a beautiful charity. Scudder. Life. Vol. L p. 268. In 1850 Lowell wrote to Briggs: I begin to feel that I must enter a new year of apprenticeship. My poems have thus far had a regular and natural sequence. First, Love and the mere happine
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)
oy Emigrants, 405 Boy's Froissart, the, 339 Boy's King Arthur, the, 339 Brackenridge, H. M., 106 Bradbury, William B., 285 Bradford, William, 110 Bradstreet, Anne, 225 n. Bradstreet, Simon, 225 Brainerd, David, 198 Bransby, Rev., John, 55 Brave at home, the, 286 Brawley, Benjamin G., 351 n. Breakfast-Table Series, 230, 235 Brenton, James J., 261 Bridge, the, 41 Bridge, Horatio, 19, 21 Brier Wood Pipe, the, 286 Brigade must not know, Sir, the, 307 Briggs, C. F., 61, 167, 249, 250, 251 Bristol, Augusta Cooper, 286 British Empire in America, 107 Broadway journal, the, 59, 61 Brock, Sallie A., 301 Brook Farm, 14, 20, 21, Brookfields, the (friends of Thackeray), 232 Brooklyn Eagle, the, 262 n., 263, 264, 270 Brooklyn Freeman, 264 Brooklyniana, 269 Brooklyn standard, 269 Brooklyn Union, 270 Brooks, Elbridge, 404 Brooks, Noah, 400, 405 Broomstick Train, the, 237 Brotherhood, 328 Bother Jonathan, 187 Brother Jonath
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 8: Poe and Whitman (search)
led at twenty-five, that he was pitiably poor, and that the slightest indulgence in drink set his over-wrought nerves jangling. Ferguson, the former office-boy of the Literary Messenger, judged this man of letters with an office-boy's firm and experienced eye: Mr. Poe was a fine gentleman when he was sober. He was ever kind and courtly, and at such times everyone liked him. But when he was drinking he was about one of the most disagreeable men I have ever met. I am sorry for him, wrote C. F. Briggs to Lowell. He has some good points, but taken altogether, he is badly made up. Badly made up, no doubt, both in body and mind, but all respectable and prosperous Pharisees should be reminded that Poe did not make himself; or rather, that he could not make himself over. Very few men can. Given Poe's temperament, and the problem is insoluble. He wrote to Lowell in 1844: I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any continuous effort t
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
Republic, Howe 224, 225 Battle of the Kegs, the, Hopkinson 69 Bay Psalm book, 85 Beecher, H. W., 216-17 Belfry of Bruges, the, Longfellow 156 Bells, the, Poe 5-6,192 Biglow papers, the, Lowell 170, 172, 173 Black Cat, the, Poe 194 Blaine, 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 Briggs, C. F., quoted, 190 Brook Farm, 140, 143 Brooklyn Eagle, the, 199 Brown, Alice, 249, 250 Brown University, 62 Brownell, H. H., 225 Brownson, Orestes, 141 Bryant, W. C., one of the Knickerbocker Group, 89; personal appearance, 101; life and, writings, 101-106; died (1878), 255 Buffalo Bill, see Cody, W. F. Building of the ship, the, Longfellow 155 Burroughs, John, 262 By Blue Ontario's shore, Whitman 204 Byrd, William, 44 Cable, G. W., 246 Calef, Robert, 43 C
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)
they did this by securing the best available literary material, and developing illustrations that were not unworthy to accompany it. In so doing they indirectly and unconsciously helped to prepare the way for the cheaper magazines which sprang into such prominence a few years later. Among the less successful attempts at a literary magazine were three which bore the name of another distinguished New York publishing house. Putnam's monthly magazine first appeared in January, 1853, with C. F. Briggs as editor and George William Curtis and Parke Godwin as assistant editors. In introducing itself it said, with an evident glance at Harper's, then so conspicuous and so irritating a figure in the magazine world: A man buys a Magazine to be amused—to be instructed, if you please, but the lesson must be made amusing. He buys it to read in the cars, in his leisure hours at home—in the hotel, at all chance moments. It makes very little difference to him whether the article date from Gr
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.), Index (search)
aking the wilderness, 138 Breen, Patrick, 146 Breitmann's going to Church, 24 Breitmann in a Balloon, 24 Breitmann in Maryland, 24 Brevoort, J. C., 185, 186 Brewerton, George D., 150 Bridges, Robert, 555 Bridgman, Dr., 144 Brief examination of Lord Sheffield's observations on the Commerce of the United States, 430 Brief history of the English language, 462 Brief narrative (Zenger trial), 535 Briefwechsel (Schlozer), 577 Briggs, C. A., 203-4, 205, 206, 207 Briggs, C. F., 313 Brigham's destroying angel, 143 Bright, James Wilson, 459, 480 n. Brighton, 275 Brinsley, George, 183 Brinton, Daniel, 619, 620 Brisbane, Albert, 437 Brisk young lover, a, 510 Bristed, John, 432 Broadhurst, George, 289, 293 Brodhead, J. R., 173, 175, 179 Brooks, A. H., 167 Brooks, Phillips, 218-225 Brotherhead, W., 545 n. Brother Jonathan, 547 Brothers, Thos., 437 Brougham, John, 267, 268 Brown, A. J., 165 Brown, Alice, 291, 294 Brown, C. B.,