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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
all. The volume edited by Longfellow and Johnson, called Hymns of the spirit (1864), has twenty-two from Whittier; the Unitarian hymn and tune book of 1868, has seven, and Dr. Martineau's Hymns of praise has seven. As has elsewhere been stated, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Mead reported, after attending many popular meetings in England, in 1901, that they heard Whittier and Longfellow quoted and sung more freely than any other poets. It is especially to be noticed that in Whittier's poems of theMrs. Edwin D. Mead reported, after attending many popular meetings in England, in 1901, that they heard Whittier and Longfellow quoted and sung more freely than any other poets. It is especially to be noticed that in Whittier's poems of the sea there is a salt breath, a vigorous companionship-perhaps because he was born and bred near it — not to be found in either of his companion authors. There is doubtless a dramatic movement, an onward sweep in Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesperus and Sir Humphrey Gilbert such as Whittier never quite attained, and the same may be true of the quiet, emotional touch in Longfellow's The fire of Driftwood ; nor was there ever produced in America, perhaps, any merely meditative poem of the sea so tho
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
suggested by the present Crisis, mentioned, 160. Lowell, Mass., 87. Loyal Legion, the, 176. M. Mabel Martin, 165. Macaulay, T. B., quoted, 7. McKim, J. Miller, describes Whittier, 54. Maine, 53. Martineau, Dr., James, 163. Massachusetts, 3, 41, 44, 45, 50, 83, 85, 94, 110. Massachusetts Colony, 84. Massachusetts Historical Society, 83, 86, 176. Mather, Cotton, his Magnalia, mentioned, 35. May, Rev. Samuel J., 52, 59-62; reads Declaration, 53; mobbed, 56,57. Mead, Edwin D., 163. Melrose Abbey, 174. memories, 147-149. Merrill, John, 42. Merrimac River, 4; valley of, 53, 155. Milton, John, 139, 152; G. W. Childs gives window as memorial of, 181; Whittier writes inscription for memorial window, 182; Dr. Farrar's letter about, 183. Minot, George, 30. Minot, Harriet. See Pitman. Minot, Hon., Stephen, 29. Montaigne, Michel de, 179. Mott, Lucretia, letter of, 71. Mt. Agamenticus, 173. Music Hall, Boston, 110. My birthday, 132-134. my