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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 12 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
eproached with being wheedled, Who will be kind to him if I am not? There are few finer instances in literature of generosity to an assailant than when he wrote to Poe after the latter's trivial and scurrilous attacks, this answer to a propitiatory letter: You are mistaken in supposing that you are not favorably known to me. On td to stand among the first romance writers of the country, if such be your aim. Life of Longfellow by his brother, I. p. 377. This was written May 19, 1841, when Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque were published, but almost unknown. He fared on the whole mildly with the critics, and the most serious charge made ard critics, who were absolutely powerless to hurt him. He rarely read their attacks, though he had a habit of preserving them; and the really outrageous assaults of Poe, for instance, fell off from him as from a marble statue. He was for the last dozen years of his life distinctly the First Citizen of Cambridge. He was always fai
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
t him that was mighty provoking. The influence of his wife scarcely tempered this, for she saw always his nobler side, and met his impassioned poetry with strains as ardent. She loved him, as she wrote,--- For that great soul whose breath so full and rare Doth to humanity a blessing bear, Flooding its dreary waste with organ tone. That side was undoubtedly the true Lowell; yet it must be remembered that it was a time, in American literature, of defiant and vehement mutual criticism. Poe was disfiguring the press with the bitterness and scurrilous quality of his attacks; it was thought a fine thing to impale somebody, to make somebody writhe, to get even with somebody, and it was hard for younger men to keep clear of this flattering temptation. Years before the founding of the Atlantic Monthly, Lowell once described to Thaxter and myself, at the Isles of Shoals, an imaginary magazine which he would like to edit: We will have in it, he said, a department headed by a vignette
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
friendships, 124; Craigie House, 124-127; appearance, 128-129; second marriage, 130; Hiawatha, 131; Evangeline, 131; Psalm of life, 131-133; Hyperion, 134; diaries, 134-135; troublesome correspondents, 136; influence upon music, 137; kind words to Poe, 137; critics, 138; translations, 140; college work irksome, 141; as a teacher, 142-143; death, 144; 147, 150, 170. Longfellow, Mrs. H. W. (Mary S. Potter), 119, 122. Longfellow, Mrs. H. W. (Frances M. Appleton), 130. Longhorn, Thomas, 9.43. Peirce, C. S., 16. Peirce, J. M., 16. Percival, J. G., 175, 191. Perry, T. S., 70. Petrarch, Francis, 191. Phelps, E. J., 195. Phillips, M. D., 68. Phillips, Wendell, 104, 179. Phillips, Willard, 44. Pierce, Pres., Franklin, 113. Poe, E. A., 137, 144, 173. Pope, Alexander, 90, 91. Popkin, Dr. J. S., 23. Potter, Barrett, 119. Pratt, Dexter, 126. Pratt, Rowena, 126. Putnam, Rev., George, 54, Putnam, Mrs. S. R., 16. Puttenham, George, 159. Quincy, Edmund, 67, 104. Quincy,