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VII: Henry David Thoreau
There has been in America no such instance of posthumous reputation as in the case of Thoreau.
Poe and Whitman may be claimed as parallels, but not justly.
Poe, even during his life, rode often on the very wave of success, until it subsided presently beneath him, always to rise again, had he but made it possible.
Whitman gathered almost immediately a small but stanch band of followers, who have held by him with such vehemence and such flagrant imitation as to kWhitman gathered almost immediately a small but stanch band of followers, who have held by him with such vehemence and such flagrant imitation as to keep his name defiantly in evidence, while perhaps enhancing the antagonism of his critics.
Thoreau could be egotistical enough, but was always high-minded; all was open and above-board; one could as soon conceive of self-advertising by a deer in the woods or an otter of the brook.
He had no organized clique of admirers, nor did he possess even what is called personal charm,--or at least only that piquant attraction which he himself found in wild apples.
As a rule, he kept men at a distance,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII : Emerson 's Alcott (search)
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV . a half -century of American literature (1857 -1907 ) (search)