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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 31: the prejudice in favor of retiracy (search)
side of himself, and, when it is done, his ordinary life is but the nest from which that bird of fancy has flown. Why then should he dwell upon it, or give its precise measurements? The poem comes to him; he cannot sit down and make it by an effort of will. It is strange to him that the word poet should mean maker, when his experience is that the poem, even if a poor one, makes itself. Its production also affords a relief; and this explains the many cases where-as, in America, with Emily Dickinson and Francis Saltus-one may spend a whole lifetime in making verses, and yet let almost nothing be published until after death. This explains also why their own works often seem to authors so remote and worthless; they feel as an apple-tree might feel, if it were human, towards a barrel of its own apples of last season. When to all this is added a woman's lingering tradition of the seclusion due to her sex, it is not strange if authors of that sex hide themselves under initials or feig
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
s God expecting those gentlemen to-day? or this: she saw at an English seaside place a series of iron chains along the beach with the motto, Given to the town of by Thomas Jones. The sea is his and he made it. Also some one spoke of an Irishman who saw the winged Victory of Samothrace and said, Begorra, it's meself would like to see the other lady that was in the scratch The letters to Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd were written while she and Colonel Higginson were editing the poems of Emily Dickinson. November 12, 1890 Dear Mrs. Todd: I am distressed exceedingly to find that among E. D.'s countless letters there are poems as good as any we printed--one on the Blue Jay, one on the Humming Bird, etc. This shows we must have another volume by and by, and must include prose from her letters, often quite as marvellous as her poetry. Howells is doing missionary work in private, and that lovely child Mildred selected as her chief favorite today, in talking with me, your favorite about
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
81; on emancipation, 164; in barracks, 170-81; takes command 1st S. C. Vols. 181, 182; with the regiment, 182-221; up the St. Mary's, 185; up the St. John's, 185-91; wounded and on leave, 209, 210; returns to regiment, 210; resigns commission, 221; at Newport, 224-32, 235-74; and Julia Ward Howe, 228-35; and Harvard Memorial Biographies, 242; refers to Helen Hunt, 244-46; honors received, 252; at Mt. Auburn, 256, 257; and Thomas Hughes, 258, 259; and Woman's Suffrage, 263, 265, 270; and Emily Dickinson, 268; and Philological Convention, 271, 272; on T. G. Appleton, 272-74; in Europe in 1872, 275-77; in Chester, 275, 276; at London, 276, 277; in Europe in 1878, 278-302; at Aldershot review, 278, 279; in London, 279-83, 286-88, 294; in France, 283-85; at Reading, 285; at Oxford, 286, 290-92; at Windsor, 288; in Scotland, 293, 294; in Normandy, 297-99; in Germany, 300, 301; in Switzerland, 301,302; in Europe in 1897, 303, 304; in England, 303; in London, 303; in Paris, 303; in Scotland,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
e that he had just taken Cheerful Yesterdays from the library and that it was the third book of mine he had read. He spoke especially of the anti-slavery part and has been sorry not to hear me on Irish wrongs at Town Hall. In May, 1886, Emily Dickinson died. Her acquaintance with Colonel Higginson began in 1862, when she wrote to him enclosing some poems and asking his opinion of her verse. While he was in camp in South Carolina she wrote again to ask if he would be her preceptor. Henceholar. One summer he made his unseen correspondent a long-delayed visit which he has described in the volume called Carlyle's Laugh. He wrote in his diary after her death:— To Amherst to the funeral of that rare and strange creature Emily Dickinson. .. . E. D.'s face a wondrous restoration of youth—she is 54 and looked 30, not a gray hair or wrinkle, and perfect peace on the beautiful brow. There was a little bunch of violets at the neck and one pink cypripedium; the sister, Vinnie, p
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
889, Colonel Higginson began what proved to be a four years task of editing, with Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd of Amherst, Emily Dickinson's poems and letters. Of this work he wrote Mrs. Todd:— I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the poems. Thto hear that the book is so nearly ready; it will be the last, I suppose, and will not only yield the final news of Emily Dickinson, but take from me a living companionship I shall miss. After the volume of letters was published, of which Mrs. Toddinal work. He wrote in July, 1890:— I am now to correct proof of three books– Epictetus, American Sonnets and Emily Dickinson's poems. And in November:— I was about writing the determination never again to have three books on hand at sah and concerning John Brown was given to the Boston Public Library; also collections of Margaret Fuller Ossoli's and Emily Dickinson's letters. December 1st he recorded, My office of Military and Naval Historian expired, much to my satisfaction,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
a. (In Cambridge Tribune, Dec. 20.) （Ed. with Mrs. Ellen H. Bigelow.) American Sonnets. Preface by Higginson. （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. Preface by Higginson. 1891 Life of Francis Higginson. (In Makers of America.) On the Steps of the Hall (University Hall, Aug. 28, 1837). Privatelyniversary of the National Woman's Rights Convention. (In Woman's Journal, Feb. 14.) Rabiah's Defence. [Poem.] (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.) Def. VI. Emily Dickinson's Letters. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） The Two Lessons. [Sonnet.] (In Century Magazine, Dec.) Def. VI. Glimpses of Authors. (In Brains, Oct. 15-Jan. 1, 1892.) （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. 2d series. （Ed. in part.) The Rindge Gifts to Cambridge. [City publication.] Articles. (In Harper's Bazar, Independent.) 1892 Concerning All of Us. The New World and the New Book: An Address delivered before the Nineteenth Century Club of N
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
, 301; summers at Holden, Mass., 305-07; a week's work, 307, 308; Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 307, 308; writes Women and Men, 308; in politics, 308-10, 317, 318; company reunion, 310; on dreams, 310, 311; Monarch of Dreams, 311, 312; and Emily Dickinson, 312, 313; edits her letters and poems, 368, 369; confused with Maj. Higginson, 313, 314; love of music, 314; interest in many organizations, 314, 315; in public affairs, 316, 320; western lecture tour, 316, 317; Afternoon Landscape, 319; stfor Higginson, 23; and Isles of Shoals, 108, 109; the Higginsons on, 109. Thayer, Abbot, at Dublin, 373. Things I Miss, The, a poem, account of, 273. Thoreau, Henry D., 129, 139; account of, 98. Todd, Mabel Loomis, edits poems of Emily Dickinson, 368, 369. Topeka, Kan., letter from, 172, 173; account of, 175, 176. Travellers and Outlaws, 319, 418. Tubman, Harriet, 219. Twain, Mark, account of, 259, 260, 373, 374. Tyndall, John, 335; Higginson hears, 324; letter from, 32
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
ree other women, whose names are, for different reasons, still remembered: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Jackson, and Emily Dickinson. Harriett Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Stowe was born in New England. If she had spent her life there she might prob-Hovel-writing, and is therefore likely to outlive many books which, while more skillful, are also more artificial. Emily Dickinson. Among other New England women of that period perhaps the most remarkable of all was Emily Dickinson. Though a fEmily Dickinson. Though a fellow-townswoman and schoolmate of Helen Jackson's, she had little else in common with her. She was, in fact, a woman of a far less easily intelligible type: a strange, solitary, morbidly sensitive, and pitifully childlike poetic genius. She shrankwn companionship, and the companionship of animals, without caring to grow in wisdom, was of no ordinary character. Emily Dickinson never quite succeeded in grasping the notion of the importance of poetic form. The crudeness which an Emerson could
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
e Brown's Thalatta, Ellery Channing's To-morrow, Harriet Spofford's In a summer evening, Lanier's Marshes of Glynn, Mrs. Moulton's The closed gate, Eugene Field's Little boy Blue, John Hay's The Stirrup Cup, Forceythe Willson's Old Sergeant, Emily Dickinson's Vanished, Celia Thaxter's Sandpiper, and so on. All of these may not be immortal poems, but they are at least the boats which seem likely to bear the authors' names into the future. If it is hard to make individual predictions, when we . Libraries, galleries, museums, and fine buildings, with all their importance, are all secondary to that great human life of which they are, indeed, only the secretions or appendages. My Madonnas --thus wrote that recluse woman of genius, Emily Dickinson--are the women who pass my house to their work, bearing Saviours in their arms. Words wait on thoughts, thoughts on life; and after these, technical training is an easy thing. The art of composition, wrote Thoreau, is as simple as the disc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
; and six years later he published at Boston a collective edition of his Poems and prose writings. Died in Boston, Feb. 2, 1879. Dickinson, Emily Born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 10, 1830. A recluse by temperament, she rarely went beyond her father's grounds, and, although she wrote many verses, was with the greatest difficulty persuaded to print three or four poems during her lifetime. Her Poems (1890) and Poems (1892) were edited by M. L. Todd and T. W. Higginson; and Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vols., 1894) by M. L. Todd. She died at Amherst, May 15, 1886. Dickinson, John Born in Maryland, Nov. 13, 1732. He studied law in Philadelphia and in London and practiced successfully in Philadelphia; was a member of the First Continental Congress and the author of a series of state papers put forth by that body. In 1788, he wrote nine letters signed Fabius, and was the author of Letters from a Pennsylvania farmer to the inhabitants of the British colonies (1767); Essays on
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