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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
s that would be read in England. For by 1826 Hawthorne and Longfellow were out of college and were trying to learn to write. Ticknor, Prescott, and Bancroft, somewhat older men, were settling to their great tasks. Emerson was entering upon his duties as a minister. Edgar Allan Poe, at that University of Virginia which Jefferson had just founded, was doubtless revising Tamerlane and other poems which he was to publish in Boston in the following year. Holmes was a Harvard undergraduate. Garrison had just printed Whittier's first published poem in the Newburyport Free Press. Walt Whitman was a barefooted boy on Long Island, and Lowell, likewise seven years of age, was watching the birds in the treetops of Elmwood. But it was Washington Irving who showed all of these men that nineteenth century England would be interested in American books. The very word Knickerbocker is one evidence of the vitality of Irving's happy imaginings. In 1809 he had invented a mythical Dutch histori
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
ill communicative. Once, toward the close of his too brief life, Thoreau signed on again to an American ideal, and no man could have signed more nobly. It was the cause of Freedom, as represented by John Brown of Harper's Ferry. The French and Scotch blood in the furtive hermit suddenly grew hot. Instead of renouncing in disgust the uncivil chaos called Civil Government, Thoreau challenged it to a fight. Indeed he had already thrown down the gauntlet in Slavery in Massachusetts, which Garrison had published in the Liberator in 1854. And now the death upon the scaffold of the old fanatic of Ossawatomie changed Thoreau into a complete citizen, arguing the case and glorifying to his neighbors the dead hero. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before; for in order to die you must first have lived. ... I hear a good many pretend that they are going to die .... Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They haven't got life enough in them. They'll deliquesce like fungi, and ke
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
oy, School-days, snow-bound, Ramoth Hill, and Telling the Bees. It was a chance copy of Burns that revealed to the farmer lad his own desire and capacity for verse-writing. When he was nineteen, his sister sent his Exile's Departure to William Lloyd Garrison, then twenty, and the editor of the Newburyport free Press. The neighbors liked it, and the tall frail author was rewarded with a term at the Haverhill Academy, where he paid his way, in old Essex County fashion, by making shoes. He h modestly called a knack at rhyming, and much facility in prose. He turned to journalism and politics, for which he possessed a notable instinct. For a while he thought he had done with poetry and literature. Then in 1833, at twenty-six, came Garrison's stirring letter bidding him enlist in the cause of Anti-Slavery. He obeyed the call, not knowing that this new allegiance to the service of humanity was to transform him from a facile local verse-writer into a national poet. It was the ancie
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 9: Union and Liberty (search)
s to pass. We shall observe it in the oratory of Clay and Webster, as they pleaded for compromise; in the editorials of Garrison, a foe to compromise and like Calhoun an advocate, if necessary, of disunion; in the epochmaking novel of Harriet Beeched Mr. Beecher are the people who understand Mr. Bryan. Foremost among the journalists of the great debate were William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley. Garrison was a perfect example of the successful journalist as described by Zola — the man wGarrison was a perfect example of the successful journalist as described by Zola — the man who keeps on pounding at a single idea until he has driven it into the head of the public. Everyone knows at least the sentence from his salutatory editorial in The liberator on January 1, 1831: I am in earnest — I will not retreat a single inch-And xcellent reading for the twentieth century American who perceives that in spite of the triumph of emancipation, in which Garrison had his fair share of glory, many aspects of our race-problem remain unsolved. Horace Greeley, the founder and editor o<
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
e, Lowell 172 Flood of years, the, Bryant 106 Forest Hymn, a, Bryant 106 Franklin, Benjamin, born (1706), 44; attitude toward church, 44; exponent of New England life, 45; life and writings, 52-59; conducts Courant, 61; activity in Philadelphia, 61-62; letter from Washington to, 78-79; typically American, 265 Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 249, 250 Freneau, Philip, 69, 70-72 Frontenac, Parkman 185 Frost, Robert, 258 Fugitive slave act, 144 Fuller, Margaret, 119, 140-41 Garrison, W. L., 89-90, 137, 159, 208, 217-18 Gettysburg address, Lincoln 230-231 Gilded age, the, Clemens 237-238 God glorified in man's Dependence, Edwards 50 Gold Bug, the, Poe 193 Gookin, Daniel, 38 Greeley, Horace, 217-18 Greenslet, Ferris, 169 Hale, E. E., 224 Half-century of conflict, a, Parkman 185 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 107 Hamilton, Alexander, 76-77 Hanging of the Crane, the, Longfellow 156 Harris, J. C., 246 Harte, Bret, 240-42 Harvard, John, 16 Harvard Colle