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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.) 114 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 80 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 50 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 46 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 38 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.) 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 30 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 28 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
early period (1837), Alcott, after criticising Emerson a little for the picture of vulgar life that he draws with a Shakespearian boldness, closes with this fine tribute to the intrinsic qualities of his newly won friend: Observe his style; it is full of genuine phrases from the Saxon. He loves the simple, the natural; the thing is sharply presented, yet graced by beauty and elegance. Our language is a fit organ, as used by him; and we hear classic English once more from northern lips. Shakespeare, Sidney, Browne, speak again to us, and we recognize our affinity with the fathers of English diction. Emerson is the only instance of original style among Americans. Who writes like him? Who can? None of his imitators, surely. The day shall come when this man's genius shall shine beyond the circle of his own city and nation. Emerson's is destined to be the high literary name of this age. Sanborn and Harris's Alcott, i, 264. No one up to that time, probably, had uttered an op
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
storical society. It amused me to find that John Norton, whose reputation is not for romance or for soft-heartedness, took an active interest in pleading his brother's cause with Governor Winthrop, whose niece, Lucy Downing, had won the susceptible heart of W. N. My summer was a very peaceful and pleasant one here in my old home till about six weeks ago, when I was struck down . . . which has left me in a condition of extreme muscular feebleness, but has not diminished my interest in the world and its affairs. Happily my eyes are still good for reading, and I have fallen back, as always on similar occasions, on Shakespeare and Scott, but I have read one or two new books also, the best of which, and a book of highest quality, is the last volume of Morley's essays. But I began meaning only to thank you for your pleasant note and to send a cheer to you from my slower craft as your gallant three-master goes by it with all sails set . ... Always cordially yours, C. E. Norton.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 16 (search)
wo and three hundred thousand copies must have been sold. Of the seventh and eighth editions, as the author himself tells us, forty thousand copies were printed apart from the English reprint. The ninth edition, published in 1891, had three hundred and fifty pages more than its predecessor, and the index was increased by more than ten thousand lines. In 1881 Mr. Bartlett published his Shakespeare Phrase-book, and in February, 1889, he retired from his firm to complete his indispensable Shakespeare Concordance, which Macmillan & Co. published at their own risk in London in 1894. All this immense literary work had the direct support and cooperation of Mr. Bartlett's wife, who was the daughter of Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew in Harvard University, and granddaughter of Joseph Willard, President of Harvard from 1781 to 1804. She inherited from such an ancestry the love of studious labor; and as they had no children, she and her husband could pursue it with the greatest regula
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
read, and he brought Letters from New York, and hid it in the great bush of old-fashioned tree-box beside the front door. After the first book, she thought in ecstasy, This, then, is a book, and there are more of them. But she did not find so many as she expected, for she afterwards said to me, When I lost the use of my eyes, it was a comfort to think that there were so few real books that I could easily find one to read me all of them. Afterwards, when she regained her eyes, she read Shakespeare, and thought to herself, Why is any other book needed? She went on talking constantly and saying, in the midst of narrative, things quaint and aphoristic. Is it oblivion or absorption when things pass from our minds? Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough. When I asked her if she never felt any want of employment, not going off the grounds and rarely seeing a visitor, she answered, I never thought of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 22 (search)
p, of Boston, long eminent as a lecturer on Shakespeare, was one of these boys. In the summer ofy an American edition of Craik's English of Shakespeare. Between 1867 and I 869, in connection witphysics, in six volumes. In 1870 he edited Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice with such success thatr volumes, besides writing for it a Life of Shakespeare which fills a volume of five hundred and fiplete or partial work he has reprinted. In Shakespeare he has, of course, the highest theme to dwefew among many examples. When we turn to Shakespeare, we find less direct service of this kind rhan the new issue of Mr. Rolfe's volumes of Shakespeare's works. The type is clear, the paper good schoolroom. It has been said that every Shakespeare critic ended with the desire to be ShakespeI prefer to believe, with Andrew Lang, that Shakespeare's plays and poems were written by Shakespeaer to believe, with Andrew Lang, that Shakespeare's plays and poems were written by Shakespeare. [4 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
oldly pointed out that we have intellectually grown, as a nation, from the high school of our Revolutionary ancestors to the college; from the college we have grown to the university stage. Now we have grown to a point where we need something beyond the university. What he claims for science is yet more needed in the walks of pure literature, and is there incomparably harder to attain, since it has there to deal with that more subtle and vaster form of mental action which culminates in Shakespeare instead of Newton. This higher effort, which the French Academy alone even attempts,--however it may fail in the accomplished results,--may at least be kept before us as an ideal for American students and writers, even should its demands be reduced to something as simple as those laid down by Coleridge when he announced his ability to inform the dullest writer how he might write an interesting book. Let him, says Coleridge, relate the events of his own life with honesty, not disguising