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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 194 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 112 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 60 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 56 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 52 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 51 1 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.) 44 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 28 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 21 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
past manners. It is an interesting fact that Irving's first work of merit was done in precisely thominant. Everybody felt that in these stories Irving had come back to his own. The material was veriscellanies (1835) and Wolfert's Roost (1855), Irving's work was to be almost entirely in biography in the national memory, a mere great man, when Irving turned him from cold bronze to flesh and blood again. Irving's services to America in diplomacy were not small. In spite of his long absencestic then to be found in the English language. Irving did not create the legends of the Hudson, for as Mrs. Josiah Quincy tells us, writing when Irving was a little boy, the captains on the Hudson hadit of Irving hanging on one side and one of Mrs. Irving on the other. No opinion of Irving's wash over European criticism, though as stormy as Irving's was peaceful, was the career of James Fenimoon and the establishment of the new republic. Irving's first book appeared just twenty years afterw[19 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
on wisely pointed out, however, historical work is to be ranked rather with science than with literature, though it obtains, like scientific writing, additional influence when possessing also a charm of utterance. In his Life of Columbus Washington Irving had produced a narrative which has in the main stood the test of subse-Francis quent investigation, and which is Parkman. also, by virtue of his style, literature. But Irving was a literary man first, and his fame does not rest upon his wIrving was a literary man first, and his fame does not rest upon his work in history. America has, indeed, produced only one professional historian whose work is equally admirable for its accuracy and thoroughness and for its literary charm. Francis Parkman was the product of generations of New England character and cultivation. He was born in Boston, Sept. 16, 1823, and died there, Nov. 8, 1893. Before his graduation at Harvard (1844) his mind had turned toward the long conflict between the French and the English in America; and thereafter for half a century
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
In 1835, some years after his return to America, appeared Outre Mer, a book of sketches which did for the Continent what Irving, somewhat too obviously his model, had done for England. In the mean time he had been appointed to the chair of Modern Lhe period, found his themes among the American Indians and in the scenes of the yellow fever in Philadelphia. It was not Irving who invested the Hudson with romance, but the Hudson that inspired Irving. Longfellow's first book of original verse, Irving. Longfellow's first book of original verse, Voices of the night, containing such wellknown poems as the Hymn to the night, the Beleaguered City, and The Skeleton in armor, gave him immediate popularity as a poet. It was in later work, however, especially in Hiawatha, Evangeline, and The Courthat to some yearning young persons, he made the taste of knowledge sweeter, almost, than it was ever to be again. Like Irving and Longfellow and Holmes, he first turned to the law for support, and went so far as to be admitted to the bar; but he h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
charm to the Western wilds and rivers. In The pioneers Cooper made us already conscious citizens of a great nation, and took our imagination as far as the Mississippi. Lewis and Clark carried us beyond the Mississippi (1814). About 1835 Oregon expeditions were forming, and I remember when boys in New England used to peep through barn doors to admire the great wagons in which the emigrants were to travel. Then came Mrs. Kirkland's A New home, Who'll follow? （1839). Besides this we had Irving's Tour of the prairies (1835) and his Astoria the following year. The West was still a word for vast expeditions, for the picturesqueness and the uncertainty of Indian life, and not for the amenities of a civilized condition. Aspirants for literary fame were not long lacking, to be sure, but as most of their work was based upon reading rather than experience, it had nothing characteristically Western about it. Most of them turned instinctively, ere long, to the Atlantic coast for sympathy
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
o issued Urania, poem (1846); Astrcea, poem (1850); Songs in many keys (1862); Soundings from the Atlantic, essays (1863); Mechanism in thought and morals (1871); Songs of many seasons (1875); The schoolboy (1878); John Lothrop Motley, a memoir (1878); The iron gate, and other poems (1880); Pages from an old volume of life (1883); Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884); Our hundred days in Europe (1887); and Before the Curfew, and other poems (1888). Died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1894. Irving, Washington Born in New York City, April 3, 1783. At the age of sixteen he studied law, but never practiced. His first literary work, which took the form of letters, was published under the pen-name of Jonathan Oldstyle. In 1807, he issued, with others, a periodical called Salmagundi, or the whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. A history of New York, . . . By Diedrich Knickerbocker, appeared in 1809; and during the war of 1812 he wrote for the Analectic magazine. The Sketch-
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
McKay, Philadelphia, 1887. Chapter 4: the New York period (A) Life and letters of Washington Irving, by Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols., G. P. Putnam, 1862-64. C. D. Warner's Washington Irving,Washington Irving, in American men of letters series, 1881. T. R. Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper, in American men of letters series, 1883. P. Godwin's Life of Bryant, 2 vols., D. Appleton, 1878. H. A. Beerary's George William Curtis, in American men of letters series, 1894. (B) Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. w's The Columbiad. 1809. Fisher Ames's Speeches and writings. 1809. Lincoln born. 1809. Irving's Knickerbocker's history of New York. 1812. War with England. 1814. Peace with England. 1817. Monroe President. 1820. Irving's Sketch book. 1821. Bryant's Poems. 1821. Cooper's The spy. 1821. James G. Percival's Poems. 1821. R. H. Dana's Dying Buccaneer. 1826. Longfel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
164. Blake, William, 211, 259. Bold Dragoon, Irving's, 90. Boone, Daniel, 237. Bowdoin College, 139, 140, 184. Bracebridge hall, Irving's, 86. Bradstreet, Anne, 9-13, 18. Bradstreet, Governngfellow's, 142, 144. Crayon M31scellanies, Irving's, 87. Curtis, George William, 88, 124. Da and light, White's, 263. Life of Columbus, Irving's, 87, 119. Lincoln, Earl of, 10. LiteraOsten, 275. Salem Lyceum, 170. Salmagundi, Irving's, 84, 85. Salut au Monde, Whitman's, 229. n in armor, Longfellow's, 142. Sketch book, Irving's, 85, 86, 90, 103. Sky Walk, Brown's, 70. 221. Tacitus, 175. Tales of a Traveller, Irving's, 86, 87. Tales of the Alhambra, Irving's,Irving's, 86, 87. Talisman, Francis Herbert's, 81. Talleyrand, Prince, 52, 82. Taylor, Bayard, 264. Tlery Channing's, 264. Tour of the prairies, Irving's, 240. Transcendentalism, 110, 167, 168, 1, 264. Winsor, Justin, 119. Wolfert's Roost, Irving's, 87. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 72. Woodberry[4 more...]