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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.) 50 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.) 40 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 27 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 22 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 16 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
with Anne Bradstreet, who, indeed, represents a second step toward a type of writing which should be in some sense American in quality as well as in birthplace. Though born in England, she became absolutely identified with American thought and life, exerted an immense influence in her day, and was the ancestor of five especially intellectual families in New England, counting among her descendants William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Henry Dana, Wendell Phillips, and Andrews Norton. She was born in 1612 of Puritan stock, her father being steward of the estates of the Puritan nobleman, the Earl of Lincoln. She was married at sixteen and came to America with her husband, Governor Bradstreet, in 1630. It is evident that, in spite of her Puritan sense of duty, she could not leave England for the raw life of the colonies without a pang. After a time, she wrote many years later, I changed my condition and was married, and came into this country, where I found a new w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
to produce a literature which, even if not, so far as we can now see, of the very highest type, possessed genuine depth and power. Before actually engaging with this important subject, however, it may be as well to clear the decks by considering some of the minor figures which belong to that period. Minor writers. There are plenty of them; indeed, one who moved in the active literary society of the Boston of that day might well say, as the Duke of Wellington did when the Honorable Mrs. Norton, the poet, wished to be presented to him, that he had been very much exposed to authors. Nothing is more striking in history than the rapid concentration of fame upon a few leaders and the way in which all who represent the second class in leadership fall into oblivion. Thus it is in public affairs. In the great liberal movement in England men remember only Cobden and Bright, and in the American anti-slavery movement, Garrison and Phillips, and forget all of that large class whom we m
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
o literature. He contributed to The liberty Bell, anti-slavery standard, and the Boston Courier in which the Biglow papers appeared (1846-48). He issued his first collection of verse, A year's life, in 1841; A legend of Brittany (1844); Conversations with some of the old poets (1845); The vision of Sir Launfal (1845); A Fable for critics (1848); and Poems (1848). He became professor of modern languages at Harvard, was the first editor of the Atlantic Mlonthly, and was joint editor with Professor Norton of the North American Review. Fireside travels appeared in 1864; a second series of Biglow papers (1866); Under the Willows (1869); Among my books (1870); and My study Windows (1871). He was minister to Spain, and later was transferred to England. Democracy and other addresses was issued in 1887; Heartsease and Rue (1888); and Political essays (1888). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1891. Mather, Cotton Born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1663. Graduating from Harvard in 1678
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
Yorker, Greeley's, 95. New York Literati, Poe's, 209. New York Mirror, 105. Notes a mbrosianse, 157. Norris, Frank, 254, 256. North, Christopher, 157, 164. North, Lord, 60. North American Review, 132. North Church, Boston, 16. Norton, Andrews, 10. Norton, Hon. Mrs., 123. O'Connor's child, Campbell's, 36. Ode to light, Schiller's, 280. Ode to sleep, Trumbull's, 40. Odyssey, Bryant's, 104. Old Manse, 184. Old Sergeant, Willson's, 264. Oratory, printed, 41-45. Norton, Hon. Mrs., 123. O'Connor's child, Campbell's, 36. Ode to light, Schiller's, 280. Ode to sleep, Trumbull's, 40. Odyssey, Bryant's, 104. Old Manse, 184. Old Sergeant, Willson's, 264. Oratory, printed, 41-45. Ormond, Brown's, 70. Orpheus C. Kerr, 243. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 179, 180, 232. Outre-Mer, Longfellow's, 140. Ovid, 8. Paine, Thomas, 54, 55. Palfrey, John Gorham, 117. Paracelsus, Browning's, 262. Paradise lost, Milton's, 15. Parker, Theodore, 176, 178, 179, 233, 270. Parkman, Francis, 98, 118-121. Peter, 239. Parton, James, 119. Pater, Walter, 166. Pathfinder, Cooper's, 99. Pendennis, Thackeray's, 258. Penn, William, 74, 147. Pepper, Colonel, 235. Perkins