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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 7: the corner stone laid (search)
, its gloomy misanthropist in song, and that even Wordsworth, in some respects an antidote to Byron, was as yet a very unsafe model for imitation; and he farther points out how invariably those who have imitated him have fallen into tedious mannerisms. He ends with a moral, perhaps rather tamely stated: We hope, however, that ere long some one of our most gifted bards will throw his fetters off, and relying on himself alone, fathom the recesses of his own mind, and bring up rich pearls from the secret depths of thought. lb. 78. The true glory of a nation—this is his final attitude—is moral and intellectual preeminence; thus distinctly foreshadowing the title of his friend Charles Sumner's later oration, The True Grandeur of Nations. American literature had undoubtedly begun to exist before this claim was made, as in the prose of Irving and Cooper, the poetry of Dana and Bryant. But it had awaited the arrival of some one to formulate its claims, and this it found in Longfell
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 11: Hyperion and the reaction from it (search)
not a mountain reared its head unconnected with some marvellous story. Irving was then but three years old, yet Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle or their prototypes were already on the spot waiting for biographers; and it was much the same with Cooper, who was not born until three years later. What was needed was self-confidence and a strong literary desire to take the materials at hand. Irving, Cooper, Dana, had already done this; but Longfellow followed with more varied gifts, more thorougCooper, Dana, had already done this; but Longfellow followed with more varied gifts, more thorough training; the Dial writers followed in their turn, and a distinctive American literature was born, this quality reaching a climax in Thoreau, who frankly wrote, I have travelled a great deal—in Concord. And while thus Longfellow found his desire for a national literature strengthened at every point by the example of his classmate Hawthorne, so he may have learned much, though not immediately, through the warning unconsciously given by Bryant, against the perils of undue moralizing. Bryant'
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
Clark, Mr., 221. Clemens, Samuel L., 198. Cleveland, Henry R., 139, 284. Cogswell, Joseph G., 71, 81, 82. Coleridge, Samuel T., 262, 291; his Ancient Mariner, mentioned, 149. Coleridge, Sara, 141. Colman, Samuel, Longfellow's letter to, 139, 140. Cologne, 8. Columbian Muse, the, a collection of poems, 23. Como, Lake of, 223. Concord, Mass., 133, 271. Condry, Capt., 102. Congress, U. S., 11, 13. Connecticut, 90. Conolly, Rev. H. L., 194,195. Constantinople, 3. Cooper, James F., 80, 133. Copenhagen, 93, 98, 100, 103, 105, 106. Corby Castle, 219. Corneille, Pierre, 65. Cowley, Abraham, 249. Cowper, William, 9, 15. Craigenputtock, 90. Craigie, Mrs., 147; Longfellow's description of, 118-120. Craigie, Andrew, 117, 118, 122. Craigie House, 116-123,272,279,281, 283,291; resembles Mt. Vernon in situation, 116; various occupants of, 121; Longfellow's letter about elms for, 122, 123. Crebillon, Prosper J., 121. Cross of Snow, the, 211, 212. Crow