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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
ns a hatred of kingcraft and priestcraft, the inward moral freedom of the Quaker touched with humanitarian passion. The spirit of a boyhood in this homestead is veraciously told in The Barefoot boy, School-days, snow-bound, Ramoth Hill, and Telling the Bees. It was a chance copy of Burns that revealed to the farmer lad his own desire and capacity for verse-writing. When he was nineteen, his sister sent his Exile's Departure to William Lloyd Garrison, then twenty, and the editor of the Newburyport free Press. The neighbors liked it, and the tall frail author was rewarded with a term at the Haverhill Academy, where he paid his way, in old Essex County fashion, by making shoes. He had little more formal schooling than this, was too poor to enter college, but had what he modestly called a knack at rhyming, and much facility in prose. He turned to journalism and politics, for which he possessed a notable instinct. For a while he thought he had done with poetry and literature. Th
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
128, 131 Nature-writing, 262 Netherlands, history of the United, Motley 181 New England, a digression from English society, 14; at the beginning of 18th century, 43-44; characteristics of the people of, 109-11; in last quarter of 19th century, 248 et seq. New England, history of, Winthrop 28-29 New England Courant, 61 New National period in American literature, 234 et seq.; bibliography, 272 New York at beginning of 18th century, 44 New York Tribune, 140, 218 Newburyport free Press, 90, 159 Newspapers, in colonies, 60-61; in 20th century, 263-64 North American review, 88, 103, 104, 112, 170 North Carolina in 1724, 44 North of Boston, Frost 261 Norwood, Colonel, 27 Oake, Urian, 41 Old Creole days, Cable 246 Old homestead, the, Thompson 248 Old Ironsides, Holmes 166 Old Manse, 119-20, 145 Old Regime, the, Parkman 185 Old Swimmina Hole, the, Riley 247 Oldtown fireside stories, Stowe 223 Oldtown Folks, Stowe 223 Olmsted, F.