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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
of ill health has kept me at home. I have scarcely done anything this winter. There have been few days in which I have been able to write with any degree of comfort. I have indeed thrown together a poem of some length, the title of which ( Moll Pitcher ) has very little connection with the subject. This poem I handed to a friend of mine, and he has threatened to publish it. It will not have the advantage or disadvantage of my name, however. I have also written, or rather begun to write, a ing inconsistent in the character of a poet and modern politician. People of the present day seem to have ideas similar to those of that old churl of a Plato, who was for banishing all poets from his perfect republic. Pickard, pp. 100-2. Moll Pitcher was published (Boston, 1832) anonymously, and again, but this time with his name, eight years later, together with The minstrel girl (Philadelphia, 1840). Neither of these has been included in his collected works. No American poet whose fame
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 11: early loves and love poetry (search)
her were frequent, all written in a brotherly tone, and giving the gossip of Haverhill. In one letter, written in 1832, he refers to his just published poem, Moll Pitcher, and says he has in it drawn a portrait of herself. This portrait may be found on pages 26, 27, of the poem, and it is probable that the reason why Moll PitchMoll Pitcher does not appear in any collection of his works is that he used several passages of it in other and later poems. Thus, the first stanza of Memories is copied almost verbatim from these lines in Moll Pitcher : A beautiful and sylph-like girl, With step as soft as summer air- With fresh, young lip and brow of pearl, Shadowed by Moll Pitcher : A beautiful and sylph-like girl, With step as soft as summer air- With fresh, young lip and brow of pearl, Shadowed by many a natural curl Of unconfined and flowing hair-- With the moist eye of pitying care, Is bending like a seraph there: A seeming child in everything Save in her ripening maiden charms; As nature wears the smile of spring, When sinking into summer's arms. It will be noticed that the person described in Memories is remembered