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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 11: Hyperion and the reaction from it (search)
about his private life to a public on which he had as yet established no claim. . . . Indeed this book will not add to the reputation of its author, which stood so fair before its publication. Boston Quarterly Review, January, 1840, III. 128. This is the criticism of which Longfellow placidly wrote, I understand there is a spicy article against me in the Boston Quarterly. I shall get it as soon as I can; for, strange as you may think it, these things give me no pain. Life, i. 354. Mr. Howells, in one of the most ardent eulogies ever written upon the works of Longfellow, bases his admiration largely upon the claim that his art never betrays the crudeness or imperfection of essay, —that is, of experiments. North American Review, CIV. 537. It would be interesting to know whether this accomplished author, looking back upon Hyperion more than thirty years later, could reindorse this strong assertion. To others, I fancy, however attractive and even fascinating the book may still r
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
Hawthorne, warm with early friendship, pronounces it a most precious and rare book, as fragrant as a bunch of flowers and as simple as one flower. . . . Nobody but yourself would dare to write so quiet a book, nor could any other succeed in it. It is entirely original, a book by itself, a true work of genius, if ever there was one. Nothing, I think, so well shows us the true limitations of American literature at that period as these curious phrases. It is fair also to recognize that Mr. W. D. Howells, writing nearly twenty years later, says with almost equal exuberance, speaking of Kavanagh, It seems to us as yet quite unapproached by the multitude of New England romances that have followed it in a certain delicate truthfulness, as it is likely to remain unsurpassed in its light humor and pensive grace. North American Review, CIV. 534. The period following the publication of Evangeline seemed a more indeterminate and unsettled time than was usual with Longfellow. He began a d
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
1. Heidelberg, 111, 113, 128. Herwegh, Georg, 161. Hiawatha, 187, 221, 258; commenced, 208; newspapers on, 209. Hillard, George S., 168, 284. Hilliard, Gray & Co., 69. Hingham, Mass., 61. Hirm, Me., 12. Holm, Saxe, 122. Holmes, Dr., Oliver Wendell, 1, 6, 57, 68, 146, 197, 273, 285, 294; on Evangeline, 194; on Longfellow, 287. Home Circle, the, quoted, 279. Homer, 5, 235. Hook, Theodore, 10. Horace, 19, 45. Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 284. Howe family, 214. Howells, William D., 126, 198; on Kavanagh, 200. Hudson River, 132, 248. Hughes, Mr., 96. Hugo, Victor, 3, 5, Humphreys, David, 23. Hunt, Helen, 122. Huron, Lake, 209. Hyperion, 55, 112, 113, 127, 134, 137-139, 171, 175, 260, 288; new literary style in, 70; development of, 124; criticism of, 125, 126; turgid rhetoric of, 128. India, 215. Indians, 18, 79, 129,132; Longfellow's plea for, 21; Longfellow plans poem about, 207, 208. Innsbruck, 223. Interlaken, 8. Irving, Washington, 7,