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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 11 11 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 8 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 7 7 Browse Search
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.) 5 5 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VII: Henry David Thoreau (search)
be added, of a sort of moral-Oriental, or Puritan Pagan temperament. With a literary feeling even stronger than his feeling for nature,--the proof of this being that he could not, like many men, enjoy nature in silence,--he put his observations always on the level of literature, while Mr. Burroughs, for instance, remains more upon the level of journalism. It is to be doubted whether any author under such circumstances would have been received favorably in England; just as the poems of Emily Dickinson, which have shafts of profound scrutiny that often suggest Thoreau, had an extraordinary success at home, but fell hopelessly dead in England, so that the second volume was never even published. Lowell speaks of Thoreau as indolent ; but this is, as has been said, like speaking of the indolence of a self-registering thermometer. Lowell objects to him as pursuing a seclusion that keeps him in the public eye ; whereas it was the public eye which sought him; it was almost as hard to pe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
XIX. Emily Dickinson Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson many years since into a posthumousEmily Dickinson many years since into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life. The lines which formed a prelude to the first volume of her poems are the only ones that h recede as far as possible from view --in pencil, not in ink. The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have since been soy. Circumstances, however, soon brought me in contact with an uncle of Emily Dickinson, a gentleman not now living: a prominent citizen of Worcester, Massachusetrembling emblems. Your scholar. These were my earliest letters from Emily Dickinson, in their order. From this time and up to her death (May 15, 1886) we corosing, like every human biography, with funerals, yet with such as were to Emily Dickinson only the stately introduction to a higher life — may well end with her de