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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.) 16 0 Browse Search
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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 6 0 Browse Search
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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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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.), Chapter 10: Thoreau (search)
in the English classics from Chaucer downwards. A few pages of A Week yield quotations from Emerson, Ovid, Quarles, Channing, Relations des Jesuits, Gower, Lydgate, Virgil, Tennyson, Percy's Reliques, Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Simonides. As Lowell remarks, His literature was extensive and recondite. The truth is, Thoreau was a man of letters, whose great ambition was to study and to write books. During and after his college career, Thoreau taught school, like the hero of Elsie Venner. He is quite frank about this episode. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. Brief as was his apprenticeship to the schoolmaster trade, one might possibly conjecture that it left some mark upon him. The many citations of recondite literature do not escape the suspicion of parade and pedantry. There is a certain gusto with which he inserts the botanical name of a plant after the picturesque vernacular, and distinguishes betwe
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.), Chapter 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
writers of familiar verse I. Holmes One of the best known passages in Elsie Venner is that in which Holmes asserted the existence of an aristocracy in New Engltory wedding winds them up at the end; and in his three attempts at fiction, Elsie Venner (1861), The Guardian Angel (1867), and A Mortal Antipathy (1885), the threadondly a story peopled with accusable characters. In one of the prefaces to Elsie Venner Holmes cited the remark of a dear old lady who spoke of the tale as a medicahe were watching instead of contriving the development of a situation. Of Elsie Venner Holmes himself said that the only use of the story is to bring the dogma of hysiological conception, fertilized by a theological dogma. In other words, Elsie Venner is a novel-with-a-purpose; it is a fiction devised by a nineteenth-century ps or her identity in Myrtle Hazard. Yet, when all deductions are made, both Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel have many a chapter that only Holmes could have writt
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.), Index (search)
's Rosebud, 23 Edwards, Harry Stillwell, 348 Edwards, Jonathan, 150, 196, 196 n., 197, 198, 199, 203, 215 Edwards, Mrs., Jonathan, 199 Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404 Eggleston, G. C., 304, 308, 404 Eight Cousins, 402 Eldorado, 60 Elements of international law, 78 Eleanora, 68 Eliot, John, 203 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 138 Elizabeth Wetherell. See Warner, Susan Ellis, Edward S., 404 Elsie books, 398 Elsie Venner, 3, 224, 228, 232, 233 Elsket, and other stories, 388 Elson, Louis C., 353 Emancipator, the, 188 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 50, 112, 165, 166, 173, 197, 209, 211, 213, 226, 228, 231, 241, 245, 249, 257, 260, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 276, 283, 344, 349, 372 Emerson, Rev., William, 162 Emmett, Dan D., 291 Emory College, 153 Endicott and the red Cross, 21, 23, 26 Enfans d'adam, 268, 273 England's Neutrality, 305