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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
liar value to a biographer which comes from a distinct, unequivocal, low water mark in the intellectual product with which he has to deal. This book, Kavanagh, had the curious fate of bringing great disappointment to most of his friends and admirers, and yet of being praised by the two among his contemporaries personally most successful in fiction, Hawthorne and Howells. Now that the New England village life has proved such rich material in the hands of Mary Wilkins, Sarah Jewett, and Rowland Robinson, it is difficult to revert to Kavanagh (1849) without feeling that it is from beginning to end a piece of purely academic literature without a type of character, or an incident—one might almost say without a single phrase—that gives quite the flavor of real life. Neither the joys nor the griefs really reach the reader's heart for one moment. All the characters use essentially the same dialect, and every sentence is duly supplied with its anecdote or illustration, each one of which is
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
etter to Longfellow offering professorship, 84, 85; Longfellow's letters to, 85-87, 155, 157, 158; his letter to Longfellow about absence, 159, 160. Quincy, Mrs., Josiah, 133, 158. Quincy, Miss, 158. Racine, Jean, 65, 176. Raleigh, Va., 82. Raynes, Capt., 131. Reboul, of Nimes, 191. Reed, E. J., 224. Revolution, American, the, 12,117. Rhine River, 131, 170, 193. Richter, Jean Paul, 64, 112, 113, 127. Riddle, George, 290. Riedesel, Baroness, 117. Robert College, 3. Robinson, Rowland, 198. Rolfe, Prof. William J., 8; on Longfellow, 287, 288. Rome, 132, 148, 215, 223. Rosendale, 94. Rossetti, Dante G., 190. Rotterdam, 107, 111. Round Hill School, 81. Routledge, Mr., 245. Rubens, Peter P., 161. Ruskin, John, 238, 262, 286; his Modern Painters, quoted, 237. Russia, 43. Russia, steamer, 219. Sachs, Hans, 234. Sacobezon, an Indian chief, 207. Sailly, Madame de, 47. St. Gothard Pass, 223. Salem, Mass., 240. Sannazaro, J., 54. Savannah, G