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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 4 0 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.) 2 0 Browse Search
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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.), Index (search)
ipt found, 520 Man who Owns Broadway, the, 289 Man without a country, the, 120, 349 Marble Faun, The, 489, 489 n. March, F. A., 479, 480-81 Marching through Georgia, 497 Marcy, 175 Mardi and a voyage thither, 56 Margaret Fleming, 285 Margery's lovers, 273 Margin of profits, the, 440 Marion Darche, 88 Market-place, the, 92 Markham, Edwin, 312 Markham, Sir, Clements, 626 Marks, Josephine Preston Peabody, 291 Mark Twain. See Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Marlowe, Christopher, 126 Marlowe, Julia, 279, 283 Marlowe, 291 Marquis, Don, 22 Marriage of Guenevere, the, 51 Marsh, George Perkins, 473 Marsh, James, 228 Marshall (Discoverer of Gold in California), 145 Marshall (English playwright), 279 Marshall John, 253 Marshall W. I., 137 Marshall's Own Account of the Gold Discovery, 145 Martin, Edward S., 22 Martin, E. W., 356 Martin, G. M., 420 Martin, Helen R., 585 Martin, W. A. P., 155 Martineau, Harriet, 228 n., 40
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, VI (search)
e that shall sift all true reputations from the chaff; but in fact, I suspect, whatever whims may vary or unsettle immediate reputations on the spot, these disturbing influences are only redistributed, not abolished, by distance. Whether we look to popular preference or to the judgment of high authorities, the result is equally baffling. Napoleon Bonaparte preferred Ossian, it is said, to Shakespeare; and Voltaire placed the latter among the minor poets, viewing him at best as we now view Marlowe, as the author of an occasional mighty line. It was after Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu had been asked to hear Voltaire demolish Shakespeare at an evening party in Paris that she made her celebrated answer, when the host expressed the hope that she had not been pained by the criticism: Why should I be pained? I have not the honor to be among the intimate friends of M. de Voltaire. Even at this day the French journalists are quite bewildered by the Pall Mall Gazette's lists of English immortals
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
Literary pendulum, The, 213. Literary tonics, 62. Liveries, repressive, 75. London, the, of to-day, 80, 93. Longfellow, H. W., 29, 39, 66, 81, 93, 100, 155, 215. Longueville, Duchesse de, 91. Lowell, J. R., 19, 54, 59, 63, 66, 77, 96, 98, 100, 102, 114, 155, 179, 205. Lubbock, James, 217. Lytton, Lord, 179, 180, 181. 182. M. Macaulay, T. B., 25, 197. Madonnas, Emily Dickinson's definition of, 16. Maine, Sir Henry, 5, 32. Make thy option which of two, 170. Marlowe, Christopher, 52. Martel, Charles, 209. Mason, William, 218. Matthews, Brander, 12. Maturin, C. R., 51. McCosh, James, 111. Menzel, C. A., 90. Metropolis, a literary, 77. Millais, .,. E., 53. Miller, Joaquin, 20. Millet, J. F., 53. Miles, see Houghton. Mohammed, 109, 223. Mohammed and Bonaparte, 109. Moliere, J. B. P. de, 92, 186, 229. Montagu, Elizabeth, 52. Moore, Thomas, 178, 179. Morgan, Lady, 59. Morley, John, 167. Morris, William, 68. Motley, J. L., 2, 6, 7,