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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.), Chapter 22: divines and moralists, 1783-1860 (search)
nker, whose importance in the history of American thought has perhaps not been generally recognized. In many ways he suggests William James. Moreover, he has a style, nervous, clean, and racy. Kept fresh by its antiseptic virtue, his Literary Varieties—the volumes of essays entitled Work and play (1864), and Moral uses of dark things (1868) and Building Eras in religion (1881）—will still richly reward a reader. Indeed, all of Bushnell's prose, though manifestly influenced by Emerson, by Carlyle, and by Ruskin, yet possesses its own peculiar vitality, a pulsation that at its best may be likened, to use a metaphor of his own, to the beat of wings. Henry Ward Beecher, too, was born in the orthodox uplands of Litchfield, and of a strictly Calvinistic sire. Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) had studied theology under Timothy Dwight at Yale; had occupied, after 1798, first the Presbyterian pulpit at Easthampton, Long Island, next the Congregational pulpit at Litchfield, and lastly that of <
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)
nglish poetry had opened out a new world inviting to fresh beauty and new enterprise. And this world of British letters had added since then the clarion voice of Carlyle and the exquisite art of Keats himself and of Tennyson. It is easy to trace in Lowell's early verse imitation and reminiscence of the English poets of the preced All is descriptive or reflective; there is no narrative except when 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 fifor Arnold to preach the value of medieval art. The Middle Ages were still very much present in England, and they had been summoned for various purposes by Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Ruskin, and Morris. In the United States, the Middle Ages are as remote as Persia or Egypt, and their significance for us discernible mainly through l
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: Whitman (search)
lar metre, stanza forms, literary allusions, and stock poetical touches in general, it frequently achieved, nevertheless, a deep and satisfying rhythm of its own—sometimes pregnant gnomic utterances, sometimes a chant or recitative, occasionally a burst of pure lyricism. Just where, if anywhere, Whitman found the hint for this flexible prose-poetic form critics have not agreed. Perhaps Biblical prosody, Ossian, the blank verse of Shakespeare and Bryant, the writings of Blake, the prose of Carlyle and Emerson, and his own impassioned declamation all assisted; but full allowance must be made for the unquestioned originality of his own genius, working slowly but courageously for the fuller liberation of song. In one of the anonymous reviews which Whitman saw fit to write, in 1855, of his own first edition, he disclaims any model: The style of these poems, therefore, is simply their own style, just born and red. Nature may have given the hint to the author of Leaves of Grass, but the
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)
04, 409 Byers, S. H. M., 284 Byrd, William, 149 Byron, 3, 33, 45, 57, 66, 99, 237 By the Potomac, 281 Cabet,Étienne, 188 Cable, George W., 351, 359, 360, 365, 379, 380, 383-384, 390 Calamus, 268, 271 Calhoun, J. C., 70, 71, 78-84, 85, 86, 93 n., 319, 320 California, University of, 212 Call to true men, a, 280 Callender, J. T., 181 Calvin, 197 Campbell, Thos., 237 Candor, 244 Career of Puffer Hopkins, 152 Carey, H. C., 173 Carey, Matthew, 368 Carlyle, Thomas, 4, 165, 213, 248, 249, 254, 266 Carmen Triumphale, 307 Carolina, 295, 308 Carpenter, Edward, 263 n. Carpenter, G. R., 53 Carryl, Charles, 408 Cary, Alice, 408 Cary, Phoebe, 408 Cary sisters of Baltimore, 295 Cask of Amontillado, the, 68 Casket, the, 168 Cass, Lewis, 121, 164 Castle by the sea, the, 40 Cassandra Southwick, 48 Castlemon, Harry, 404 Castle nowhere, 381 Catawba wine, 241 Cathedral, the, 247 Causes of the Civil War, the, 142 Centenni
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation (search)
in full, records his concern for the chief political events in Europe in his day, no less than his brooding solicitude for the welfare of his townspeople, and his agony of spirit over the lapses of his wayward eldest son. A sincere man, then, as Carlyle would say, at bottom; but overlaid with such Jewish old clothes, such professional robings and personal plumage as makes it difficult, save in the revealing Diary, to see the man himself. The Magnalia Christi Americana, treating the history l world he had no patience or understanding. To these defects of his century we must add some failings of his own. He was not always truthful. He had an indelible streak of coarseness. His conception of the art of virtue was mechanical. When Carlyle called Franklin the father of all the Yankees, we must remember that the Scotch prophet hated Yankees and believed that Franklin's smooth, plausible, trader type of morality was only a broad way to the everlasting bonfire. But it is folly to
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 4: the revolution (search)
n have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please. . . When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary consent. Jean-Jacques himself could not be more bland, nor at heart more fiercely demagogic. Tom Paine would have been no match for Sam Adams in a town-meeting, but he was an even greater pamphleteer. He had arrived from England in 1774, at the age of thirty-eight, having hitherto failed in most of his endeavors for a livelihood. Rebellious Staymaker; unkempt, says Carlyle; but General Charles Lee noted that there was genius in his eyes, and he bore a letter of introduction from Franklin commending him as an ingenious, worthy young man, which obtained for him a position on the Pennsylvania magazine. Before he had been a year on American soil, Paine was writing the most famous pamphlet of our political literature, Common sense, which appeared in January, 1776. A style hitherto unknown on this side of the Atlantic, wrote Edmund Randolph. Yet this style of fa
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
n our literature was Ralph Waldo Emerson, as its chief exponents in England were Coleridge and Carlyle. We must understand its meaning if we would perceive the quality of much of the most noble andl words like senses, experience, fact, logic to lower-case type, one may do it because he is a Carlyle or an Emerson, but the chances are that he is neither. Transcendentalism, like all idealistic and, a memorable journey which gave him an acquaintance with Landor, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle, but which was even more significant in sending him, as he says, back to himself, to the resourvinity School, he roused a storm of disapproval. A tempest in our washbowl, he wrote coolly to Carlyle, but it was more than that. The great sentence of the Divinity School address, God is, not wasp. They are a very mixed company, noble, whimsical, queer, impossible. The good Alcott, wrote Carlyle, with his long, lean face and figure, with his gray worn temples and mild radiant eyes; all ben
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 9: Union and Liberty (search)
evelopment of political thought. What were the secrets of that power that held Webster's hearers literally spellbound, and made the North think of him, after that alienation of 1850, as a fallen angel? No one can say fully, for we touch here the mysteries of personality and of the spoken word. But enough survives from the Webster legend, from his correspondence and political and legal oratory, to bring us into the presence of a superman. The dark Titan face, painted by such masters as Carlyle, Hawthorne, and Emerson; the magical voice, remembered now but by a few old men; the bodily presence, with its leonine suggestion of sleepy power only half put forth-these aided Webster to awe men or allure them into personal idolatry. Yet outside of New England he was admired rather than loved. There is still universal recognition of the mental capacity of this foremost lawyer and foremost statesman of his time. He was unsurpassed in his skill for direct, simple, limpid statement; but h
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
, 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 Calhoun, J. C., 215 Calvinism in New England, 18-19 Cambridge thirty years ago, Lowell 174 Captain Bonneville, Irving 91 Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 139 Cask of Amontillado, the, Poe 193 Cavell, Edith, quoted, 266 Cawein, Madison, 257 Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the, Clemens 237 Century magazine, 256 Changeling, the, Lowell, 172 Channing, Edward, 13 Channing, W. E., 112, 113, 119, 142 Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, 96-97 Children's hour, the, Longfellow 157 Chita, Hearn 248 Chinese Ghosts, Hearn 248 Choate, Rufus, 215 Church, Captain, 39 Circuit rider, the, Eggleston 247
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
I afterwards found to be the simple roof of the poetess, that he did not know the residence of the greatest ornament of his town! Another morning was devoted to Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle, 1795—.He had, prior to 1839, published besides miscellaneous papers the Sartor Resartus, and French Revolution. His Burns had been read with Thomas Carlyle, 1795—.He had, prior to 1839, published besides miscellaneous papers the Sartor Resartus, and French Revolution. His Burns had been read with great interest by Sumner when in College, ante, Vol. I., p. 50. The following was written to Sumner (the newspaper fragment referred to is Professor Andrews Norton's reply to George Ripley in a discussion concerning The Latest Form of Infidelity):— Chelsea, Feb. 14, 1839. my dear Sir,—Could you return this newspaper fragmen cold, and is not equal to any call beyond a few rods distant at present. We calculate on seeing you soon, and wish you always right well. Yours very truly, T. Carlyle. His manners and conversation are as unformed as his style; and yet, withal, equally full of genius. In conversation, he piles thought upon thought and imagin
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