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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
town life seems the merest dream, and it appears a conventionalism only in us when we recognize any world beyond this valley. The following spring he wrote, still in love with the Mills : . .. That subterranean fire in Nature of which Thoreau speaks seems very near the surface; the buds and catkins are unusually large; we bring in alder blooms, in their winter dress, stiff and black, nearly an inch long, and the water soon brings them out, till they droop to long yellow tresses and tything in nature. It separates you directly from men, if you care anything about it; you are unsocial and puzzle them. Beauty is just as hard as Emerson is on his side, but his is the popular side — all this humanitarianism business. There is Thoreau, he knows about it — give him sunshine and a handful of nuts, and he has enough. . .. Walking in the Joppa street . . he said, Do you feel as if these New England people were your countrymen? I do not — the Irish and English seem to be so; <
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
plest and truest of men, beautiful at home, but without fluency of expression, and with rather an excess of restraint. Thoreau is pure and wonderfully learned in nature's things and deeply wise, and yet tedious in his monologues and cross-questionpse of it in their books; almost all is' second-hand and vague. ... The only thoroughly outdoor book I have ever seen is Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, which is fascinating beyond compare to any one who knows Nature, though the He has led a strange Indian life, the author, and his errors and extremes are on the opposite from most people's. . . Thoreau has sent me his book [ Walden ], which I have enjoyed as much, I think, as the other; it is calmer and more whole, crammises kept regularly on. January 29, 1862 . . Snow [an essay of Higginson's in the Atlantic ] seems quite popular and Thoreau likes it, the only critic whom I should regard as really formidable on such a subject. By the way, he is fatally ill wi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
e went to the lake, some to fish, some to bathe. Had a delicious swim, while fish flapped rapidly on our lines. This was a work of necessity; so I learned afterwards to dress the fish. The mountain this morning was a new wonder. Instead of the radiant outline of filmy brightness, there was a vast tower of chill cloud, with dark towers of precipice showing here and there between. It was no longer our summer friend, but the dark and awful home of the Indian's Pomola. I remembered what Thoreau said, that perhaps it was an insult to the Gods to climb their mountains, and shuddered to think that our night's camp would be within that skirt of white, soft, impenetrable material. Should we dare it? But moment by moment clouds went and came, and always more went than came, and at last the sunlight came and shone brightly on the wood-fringed lakes; and meanwhile we bathed and fished and dressed our fish and went up to breakfast. An adventure! . . Last night we heard mysterious ste
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
y at the wine in a style which is quite vivacious; they use a dozen bottles for several hundred people, and then take up a collection to pay for it. Camp Shaw, November 13 . . . There is a perpetual chatter of jackdaws, a black, glossy bird, intermediate between the blackbird and crow in size, which congregates in immense flocks at this season, soaring and alighting in great armies. November 21 I believe I have a constitutional affinity for undeveloped races, though without any of Thoreau's anti-civilization hobby. I always liked the Irish and thought them brilliant. It is the fashion with philanthropists who come down here to be impressed with the degradation and stupidity of these people. I often have to tell them that I have not a stupid man in the regiment. Stupid as a man may seem if you try to make him take a thing in your way, he is commonly sharp enough if you will have patience to take him in his own. ... A figure, a symbol, they always comprehend, and sometime
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
I met Yeats several times while in this country, and though I had always admired a few of his things, found him more and more likable, at least. He amused us here by going up to Concord for a Sunday and searching out the minutest memorials of Thoreau, while not interesting himself in the least in anything connected with Emerson and Hawthorne. The following was written in a copy of The Monarch of Dreams which was given to Stedman: Cambridge, October 24, 1887 This is rather my favorite To a literary fame, death comes like the leaves in Alice's adventures, by eating which one suddenly grew tall or short. How instantaneously Bayard Taylor's shrunk when he died; when he went to Berlin he had a series of parting fetes as if he were a leader in literature; the moment he died he became an insignificant figure. It was equally instantaneous with Willis and Tuckerman, before him. ... On the other hand, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and even Poe, suddenly rose in dimensions. The End
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
ary of, 321. Canada, descriptions of, 94-98. Carlyle, Thomas, 322. Channing, Barbara, sketch of, 64, 65. Channing, Ellery, quoted, 7; on Emerson, 42; on Thoreau, 42, 43. Channing, Mrs., Susan, 255. Channing, William Henry, at Rochester, 66, 67. Chapman, Mrs. Maria W., described by Whittier, 9-11; letter to, 68, 69.num, 80, 81; and the John Browns, 77, 84-88; and Sanborn, 86; preaching, 91; notes on contemporaries, 93, 94; in Canada, 94-101; and Harriet Prescott, 103-11; and Thoreau, 105; and Emerson, 105, 106; at Atlantic dinners, 106-11; and Atlantic Monthly, 111, 112; his essay on Snow, 114; travels, 117-53; goes to Mt. Katahdin, 117-20; eelia Leighton, described; 25, 29; marriage of, 27, 28. Thaxter, Levi, 24-29. Thayer, Abbott, in Paris, 284, 285; daughter of, 329. Thayer, Perry, 63. Thoreau, Henry D., 119; Channing on, 42, 43; described, 94; works of, 105. Todd, Mabel Loomis, letters to, 331. Tracys, the, of Newburyport, 7. Tubman, Harriet, fugit