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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: fiction I — Brown, Cooper. (search)
New York and in Boston. But the only other novels printed in America before the Declaration of Independence seem to have been Robinson Crusoe (1768), Rasselas (1768), The Vicar of Wakefield (1772), Juliet Grenville (1 774), and The works of Laurence Sterne M. A. （1774). Publishers, however, were less active than importers, for diaries and library catalogues show that British editions were on many shelves. The Southern and Middle colonies may have read more novels than did New England, yet Johe field of criticism with occasional efforts to distinguish good novels from bad. No critical game was more frequently played than that which compared Fielding and Richardson. Fielding got some robust preference, Smollett had his imitators, and Sterne fathered much sensibility, but until Scott had definitely set a new mode for the world, the potent influence in American fiction was Richardson. The amiable ladies who produced most of these early novels commonly held, like Mrs. Rowson, that the
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
arlotte, 286 Stansbury, Joseph, 173 Stansbury, Philip, 191 Stanton, T., 324 n. Stanzas on the emigration to America and Peopling the Western country, 212 Steele, Richard, 112, 116, 235, 238 Steere, Richard, 9 Sterling, James, 122 Sterne, 285 Sternhold, Thomas, 156 Stevenson, Marmaduke, 8 Stiles, Ezra, 91, 103 Stith, Rev., William, 26, 27 Stoddard, Solomon, 57, 61, 64 Stone, John Augustus, 221, 225, 226, 230 Stoughton, William, 48 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 231 S Word of Congress, 174 Wordsworth, 183, 188, 194, 197, 212, 213,240, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 279, 332, 337 Works (Poe), 230 n. Works in prose and verse (Paine, R. T.), 179 Works of John Adams, 125 n., 129 n., 147 n. Works of Laurence Sterne M. A., the, 284 Wrangham, Archdeacon, 213 Wright, Fanny, 190 Writings of Benjamin Franklin, the, 94 n., 97 n., 139 n. Writings of John Dickinson, 130 n., 131 n. Wyandotte, 304 Wyclif, 34 X Xenophon, 93 Y Yankee Ch
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
is poem I handed to a friend of mine, and he has threatened to publish it. It will not have the advantage or disadvantage of my name, however. I have also written, or rather begun to write, a work of fiction, which shall have for its object the reconciliation of the North and the South,being simply an endeavour to do away with some of the prejudices which have produced enmity between the Southron and the Yankee. The style which I have adopted is about halfway between the abruptness of Laurence Sterne and the smooth gracefulness of W. Irving. I may fail,indeed, I suspect I shall,--but I have more philosophy than poetry in my composition, and if I am disappointed in one project, I have only to lay it aside and take another up. If I thought I deserved half the compliments you have been pleased to bestow upon my humble exertions, I should certainly be in danger of becoming obnoxious to the charge of vanity. The truth is, I love poetry, with a love as warm, as fervent, as sincere, as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 8: personal qualities (search)
arrowness was to be derived from his Quaker training. One sees how a fine mind may be limited in influence through the want of humour when considering such a case as that of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing, for instance, whose writings, otherwise powerful, have gradually diminished in influence through such a deficiency. Possibly even Tufts and Burroughs may have been in some degree useful in their post-mortem career, by helping to cultivate this trait in the young poet. That he read Sterne and Swift with enjoyment, we know. There is little evidence, however, that his early writings showed any trace of this gift. The dozen poems which he had written at eighteen, and the ninety-six printed within two years (1827-28) in the Haverhill Gazette alone, were apparently quite serious and sometimes solemn. Exile, Benevolence, Ocean, The Deity, The Sicilian Vespers, The Earthquake, The Missionary, Judith and Holofernes, these were the themes which, with much rhetoric and personific
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
American literature, his rare versatility is the cause. In view of the inimitable prose-writer, we forget the poet; in our admiration of his melodious verse, we lose sight of Elsie Venner and The Autocrat of the breakfast-table. We laugh over his wit and humour, until, to use his own words,-- We suspect the azure blossom that unfolds upon a shoot, As if Wisdom's old potato could not flourish at its root; and perhaps the next page melts us into tears by a pathos only equalled by that of Sterne's sick Lieutenant. He is Montaigne and Bacon under one hat. His varied qualities would suffice for the mental furnishing of half a dozen literary specialists. To those who have enjoyed the privilege of his intimate acquaintance, the man himself is more than the author. His genial nature, entire freedom from jealousy or envy, quick tenderness, large charity, hatred of sham, pretense, and unreality, and his reverent sense of the eternal and permanent, have secured for him something more and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
ily, 52. Shakespeare, William, 19, 150, 152, 154. Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, 112. Shipley, Thomas, 52. Sigourney, Mrs. L. H., 35; Whittier's letter to, 37, 38. Sims, Thomas, case of, 46. Sisters, the, 145-147. Smalley, George W., 94. Smith, Mary Emerson, the object of Whittier's poem Memo ries, 137, 138. Snow-bound, quoted, 6,8-13. Southampton, England, 4. South Carolina, 60, 115. Stanton, Henry B., 77. Stedman, Edmund C., 185; his opinion of Whittier, 154-157. Sterne, Laurence, 37, 103, 179. Stetson, Mr., 59. Stoddard, R. H., 178. Story, W. W., 178. Stowe, Dr. C. E., 104. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 104; acquaintance with Whittier, 112. Sumner, Charles, 44, 46, 47, 102, 103; elected to U. S. Senate, 45. Swift, Jonathan, 94, 103. T. Tennyson, Alfred, 36, 142, 152; on Whittier's My Playmate, 141. Thaxter, Mrs., Celia, Whittier at home of, 127, 128, 179. Thayer, Abijah W., 27, 42, 88; tries to publish Whittier's poems, 29; Whittier's letter t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, English men of letters. (search)
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
rience warrants, in any degree, the old and commonly received idea that sorrow loses half its poignancy by its revelation to others. It was a humorous opinion of Sterne, that a blessing which ties up the tongue, and a mishap which unlooses it, are to be considered equal; and, indeed, I have known some people happy under all the c to pay for them, seating themselves at the hearth or table with the air of Falstaff,—, Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? Others, poor, pale, patient, like Sterne's monk, came creeping up to the door, hat in hand, standing there in their gray wretchedness with a look of heartbreak and forlornness which was never without itsin to godliness. A well-dressed man, all other things being equal, is not half as likely to compromise his character as one who approximates to shabbiness. Laurence Sterne used to say that when he felt himself giving way to low spirits and a sense of depression and worthlessness,—a sort of predisposition for all sorts of little