s been produced on this side of the Atlantic, and the deeper notes and occasional darker questionings of his later verse are embodied in lines of impeccable workmanship.
Aloof from the social and political conflicts of his day, he gave himself to the fastidious creation of beautiful lines, believing that the beautiful line is the surest road to Arcady, and that Herrick, whom he idolized, had shown the way.
To some readers of these pages it may seem like profanation to pass over poets like Sill, George Woodberry, Edith Thomas, Richard Hovey, William Vaughn Moody, Madison Cawein — to mention but half a dozen distinguished names out of a larger company — and to suggest that James Whitcomb Riley, more completely than any American poet since Longfellow, succeeded in expressing the actual poetic feelings of the men and women who composed his immense audience.
Riley, like Aldrich, went to school to Herrick, Keats, Tennyson, and Longfellow, but when he began writing newspaper verse in hi
on, Mary, 39
Rules for Reducing a great Empire to a Small one, Franklin 58
Russell, Irwin, 246
Salem witchcraft, 43
Salmagundi papers, Irving and Paulding 91
Sanborn, F. B., 142
Sandys, George, 27
Scarlet letter, the, Hawthorne 7, 30, 145, 146, 148, 149-50
School-days, Whittier 158
Scott, Sir, Walter, 95
Scribner's monthly, 256
Scudder, Horace, 169
Seaweed, Longfellow 156
Sewell, Samuel, Judge, 47-48
Shepard, Thomas, 16, 31-32
Short story, the, 261-62
Sill, E. R., 257
Simms, W. G., 245, 246
Simple Cobbler of Agawam, the, Ward 37
Sinners in the hands of an Angry God, Edwards 50
Skeleton in Armor, the, Longfellow 155
Sketch book, Irving 89, 91
Skipper Ireson's Ride, Whittier 161
Slavery, influence on literature, 207 et seq.
Slavery in Massachusetts, Thoreau 137
Smith, F. H., 247
Smith, John, 8-10, 20,38
Smith, Sydney, quoted, 88-89
Snow-bound, Whittier 158, 161-162
Snow-image and other tales, the, Hawthorne 145
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