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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 56 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 14 2 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.) 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 12 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 9 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 9 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 6 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Hawthorne. (search)
conscientious fidelity of Puritanism in his veins, a thing equally important for literature and for life: without it he might have lavished and wasted himself like Poe. He had what Emerson once described as the still living merit of the oldest New-England families; The Dial, III.101. he had moreover the unexhausted wealth of tpossible to find a publisher for Twice-told tales in 1837, and I can myself remember how limited a circle greeted the reprint in the enlarged edition of 1841. When Poe, about 1846, wrote patronizingly of Hawthorne, he added, It was never the fashion, until lately, to speak of him in any summary of our best authors. Poe's Works Poe's Works (ed. 1853), III. 189. Whittier once told me that when he himself had obtained, with some difficulty, in 1847, the insertion of one of Hawthorne's sketches in The National Era, the latter said quietly, There is not much market for my wares. It has always seemed to me the greatest triumph of his genius, not that he bore poverty w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Poe. (search)
Poe. It happens to us rarely in our lives to come consciously into the presence of that extraas Rome, a permanent phrase in our language. Poe's place in purely imaginative prose-writing is so that all his work is solid as masonry, while Poe's is broken and disfigured by all sorts of ineqind the Journey into the Blue distance to which Poe refers in the House of Usher; and how one of thw their interest after the answer is known; but Poe's can be read again and again. It is where spirmed you by his simplicity. The truth is, that Poe lavished on things comparatively superficial thmar it, this is the lesson of the two lives. Poe makes one of his heroes define another as that lis might find herself placed among the Muses. Poe complimented and rather patronized Hawthorne, b Estelle Anne Lewis. No one ever did more than Poe to lower the tone of literary criticism in thishis heart unspoiled, and this cannot be said of Poe. After all, the austere virtues — the virtues o[15 more...]