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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
s — blossoms in giant tree-tops and snow-eddies blowing round the shoulders of Alaskan peaks. Here is a West as far above Jack London's and Frank Norris's as the snow-line is higher than the jungle. The rediscovery of the South was not so much an exploration of fresh or forgotten geographical territory, as it was a new perception of the romantic human material offered by a peculiar civilization. Political and social causes had long kept the South in isolation. A few writers like Wirt, Kennedy, Longstreet, Simms, had described various aspects of its life with grace or vivacity, but the best picture of colonial Virginia had been drawn, after all, by Thackeray, who had merely read about it in books. Visitors like Fanny Kemble and Frederick Law Olmsted sketched the South of the mid-nineteenth century more vividly than did the sons of the soil. There was no real literary public in the South for a native writer like Simms. He was as dependent upon New York and the Northern market
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
248 James, Henry, 250, 251-55 Jay, John,65 Jefferson, Thomas, 79-85, 265 Jesuits in North America, the, Parkman 185 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 249, 250 John of Barneveld, life and death of, Motley 181 Johnson, Edward, Captain, 38 Joshua Whitcomb, Thompson 248 Journal, Emerson 122, 125, 127, 235 Journal, Thoreau 134, 135 Journal, Woolman 69 Journal and correspondence, Longfellow 216 Journalism, in the colonies, 60-62; in 20th century, 263-64 Kemble, Fanny, 245-46 Kennedy, J. P., 245 King, Grace, 247 King, Starr, 262 King Philip's War, 39-40 King's College (Columbia), 62 Knickerbocker group of writers, 89; works by, 270 Languishing commonwealth, Walley 41 Lanier, Sidney, 255-56 La Salle, Parkman 185 Last Leaf, the, Holmes 166 Last of the Mohicans, the, Cooper 89, 98, 99 Leatherstocking tales, Cooper 97-99 Leaves of Grass, Whitman 197, 200, 202-203 Letters, Motley 181 Letters from an American farmer, Crevecoeur, 60, 68 L
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
aught dancing by the elder Papanti, as now by his son; and his hall, now resorted to only by youths, was before 1850 often the scene of assemblies where one might see the wit, beauty, and fashion of the town. The household life of Boston at this time was most attractive. Travellers have noted the perfect politeness, courtesy, and good breeding which prevailed in it. The Virginian, An account of William Wirt's impressions during his sojourn in Boston in 1829 is given in his Life by J. P. Kennedy. who had been taught that there was nothing good in Yankees, and the Englishman, Dickens's American Notes. The best description of the literary life of Boston at this period, given by any foreign visitor, is by John G. Kohl, a German, in his paper entitled The American Athens, contributed to Bentley's Miscellany, and reprinted in Littell's Living Age, Jan. 18, 1862, and H. T. Tuckerman's America and her Commentators, pp. 311-318. His visit was made in 1857. who was filled with equal