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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VII: Henry David Thoreau (search)
ur of his posthumous volumes; but it is also true that he had against him the vehement voice of Lowell, whose influence as a critic was at that time greater than Emerson's. It will always remain a puzzle why it was that Lowell, who had reviewed Thoreau's first book with cordiality in the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, and had said to me afterwards, on hearing him compared to Izaak Walton, There affairs when the great crisis of John Brown's execution had found him far more awake to it than Lowell was,--this was only explainable by the lingering tradition of that savage period of criticism, iome, but fell hopelessly dead in England, so that the second volume was never even published. Lowell speaks of Thoreau as indolent ; but this is, as has been said, like speaking of the indolence of a self-registering thermometer. Lowell objects to him as pursuing a seclusion that keeps him in the public eye ; whereas it was the public eye which sought him; it was almost as hard to persuade him
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
ack on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew up with the protection and stimulus of parents and teachers; their early biographies offer nothing startling. Among them appeareguage. When the Town and Country Club was organized in Boston, and had been, indeed, established largely to afford a dignified occupation for Alcott, as Emerson said, Alcott wished to have it christened either the Olympian Club or the Pan Club. Lowell, always quick at a joke, suggested the substitution of Club of Hercules instead of Olympian ; or else that, inasmuch as the question of admitting women was yet undecided, The Patty-Pan would be a better name. But if Alcott's words were large, h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
walking tour in the same company. All instruction was to be thorough; there was to be no direct emulation, and no flogging. There remain good delineations of the school in the memoirs of Dr. Cogswell, and in a paper by the late T. G. Appleton, one of the pupils. It is also described by Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in his Travels. The material of the school was certainly fortunate. Many men afterwards noted in various ways had their early training there: J. L. Motley, H. W. Bellows, R. T. S. Lowell, F. Schroeder, Ellery Channing, G. E. Ellis, Theodore Sedgwick, George C. Shattuck, S. G. Ward, R. G. Shaw, N. B. Shurtleff, George Gibbs, Philip Kearney, R. G. Harper. At a dinner given to Dr. Cogswell in 1864, the most profuse expressions of grateful reminiscence were showered upon Mr. Bancroft, though he was then in Europe. The prime object of the school, as stated by Mr. Ticknor, was to teach more thoroughly than has ever been taught among us. How far this was accomplished can on
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
ante, explains why there are comparatively few entries under his name in Atlantic Indexes for later years. Again, he and Lowell took charge of the North American Review in 1864, and retained it until 1868, during which period Norton unquestionably sibility of being practically the literary executor or editor of several important men of letters, as of Carlyle, Ruskin, Lowell, Curtis, and Clough; and that in each case the work was done with absolute thoroughness; and that even in summer he becamabout him. His inherited estate was so large that he led a life absolutely free in respect to the study of nature, and as Lowell, too, had the same advantage, they could easily compare notes. In answer to a criticism of mine with reference to Longfemps east of Fresh Pond, he writes to me (January 4, 1899): I cannot swear that I ever saw a heron's nest at Elmwood. But Lowell told me of their nesting there, and only a few weeks ago Mrs. Burnett told me of the years when they had built in the pin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
shall correct. Another friend has written me to say that Lowell's father was a Unitarian — not a Congregationalist. But Lowell himself told me, the other day, that his father never would call himself a Unitarian, and that he was old-fashioned in hias some of his chapters demand. Opening at random his Poets of America, one may find the author deep in a discussion of Lowell, for instance, and complaining of that poet's prose or verse. Not compactly moulded, Stedman says, even of much of Lowele perplexed the poet's friends and teased his reviewers. Yet Lowell's critic is more chargeable with diffuseness than is Lowell himself in prose essays, which is saying a good deal. Stedman devotes forty-five pages to Lowell and thirty-nine even toLowell and thirty-nine even to Bayard Taylor, while he gives to Thoreau but a few scattered lines and no pretense at a chapter. There are, unquestionably, many fine passages scattered through the book, as where he keenly points out that the first European appreciation of America
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 17 (search)
ose title was perhaps a weight upon it, and which yet contained some of the very best of American thought and criticism. It manifests even more than his Life of Lowell that faculty of keen summing up and epigrammatic condensation which became so marked in him that it was very visible, I am assured, even in the literary councils omplete work as a whole is undoubtedly, apart from his biographies, the volume entitled Childhood in literature and art (1894). This book was based on a course of Lowell lectures given by him in Boston, and is probably that by which he himself would wish to be judged, at least up to the time of his excellent biography of Lowell. Lowell. He deals in successive chapters with Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Mediaeval, English, French, German, and American literary art with great symmetry and unity throughout, culminating, of course, in Hawthorne and analyzing the portraits of children drawn in his productions. In this book one may justly say that he has added himself, in a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
Wood. Came twice To Dunsinane. I thought and went about my work. ... The vein cannot thank the artery, but her solemn indebtedness to him, even the stolidest admit, and so of me who try, whose effort leaves no sound. You ask great questions accidentally. To answer them would be events. I trust that you are safe. I ask you to forgive me for all the ignorance I had. I find no nomination sweet as your low opinion. Speak, if but to blame your obedient child. You told me of Mrs. Lowell's poems. Would you tell me where I could find them, or are they not for sight? An article of yours, too, perhaps the only one you wrote that I never knew. It was about a Latch. Are you willing to tell me? [Perhaps A sketch. ] If I ask too much, you could please refuse. Shortness to live has made me bold. Abroad is close to-night and I have but to lift my hands to touch the Heights of Abraham. Dickinson. When I said, at parting, that I would come again some time, she rep
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
tructures are to rise; the humanity which it holds is entering into the life of the country, and no material invention, or scientific discovery, or institutional prosperity, or accumulation of wealth will so powerfully affect the spiritual well-being of the nation for generations to come. The geographical headquarters of this particular group was Boston, of which Cambridge and Concord may be regarded for this purpose as suburbs. Such a circle of authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Alcott, Thoreau, Parkman, and others had never before met in America; and now that they have passed away, no such local group anywhere remains: nor has the most marked individual genius elsewhere — such, for instance, as that of Poe or Whitman — been the centre of so conspicuous a combination. The best literary representative of this group of men in bulk was undoubtedly the Atlantic Monthly, to which almost every one of them contributed, and of which they made up the substantial