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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.) 160 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 88 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 76 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 10 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ter 12 and they had just come down to breakfast. He and his son both work for morning papers and are up late. Then appeared at the door a great cheery handsome ruddy face with a mass of light gray hair standing out wildly all about it—this was Mrs. M. They are much with all the literary people, Rossettis, etc., and confirmed what I had heard that there is a strong reaction against Dickens—it is not the thing to admire him, his subjects are thought commonplace and his sentiments forced. Walt Whitman among their set is the American poet; the taste for Miller has passed by and though he is here his poetry is forgotten. He was thought original and characteristic and when he came to parties with trousers thrust in his boots, he was thought the only American who dared do in England as he would do at home. Whittier was unknown they said, and Lowell only through the Biglow Papers. Swinburne calls him no poet but a critic who tries to write poetry. （13-14 June) I spent in Conway's Conv<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
n the birth of a beautiful girl baby with abundant black hair and fine health. He wrote in November, 1906:— I may be relied on to keep on working here to the last, for my own pleasure if for nothing else, but the silent and gradual withdrawal from the world in which I was once so active does not trouble me at all. Nor have I the slightest fear of death, whether it be that something or nothing lies beyond it. The former seems to me altogether the more probable. These lines of Walt Whitman's were quoted by him with deep emotion, and he once said that he would like to have them engraved on his memorial stone:— Joy, Shipmate, joy! (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps, She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, Shipmate, joy! December 21, 1907, he wrote:— December 21, 1907. This being the last day of my 84 years, I laid out some pleasant work during the coming<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
etches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） On the Outskirts of Public Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） The First Black Regiment. (In Outlook, July 2.) Anti-Slavery Days. (In Outlook, Sept. 3.) Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) 1899 Contemporaries. Def. II. Contents: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Amos Bronson Alcott. Theodore Parker. John Greenleaf Whittier. Walt Whitman. Sidney Lanier. An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne. Lydia Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anti-Slavery Career. Ulysses Simpson Grant. The Eccentricities of Reformers. The Road to England. Old Cambridge. Contents: I. Old Cambridge. II. Old Cambridge in Three Literary Epochs. III. Holme
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
n, Booker, school, 365; and northern colored people, 366. Washington, D. C., plan for safety of, 203-05. Wasson, David, and T. W. Higginson, 100, 101. Webb, R. D., Higginson visits, 322. Weiss, Rev. Mr., 267. Weld, Samuel, Higginson teaches in school of, 41-46. Wells, William, his school, 14, 15. Wentworth, Sir, John, 4. Wentworth, John, Governor of New Hampshire, 3. Western Reserve University, confers degree on Col. Higginson, 377; Higginson lectures at, 382. Whitman, Walt, 336; Higginson quotes, 395. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 336; Higginson visits, 98, 266; described, 259. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 424; Higginson at work on, 386. Williams, Henry, 233. Wilson, John. See North, Christopher. Woman and the Alphabet, or Ought Women to learn the Alphabet? 407; inquiry about, 156; influence of, 156, 157. Women and Men, 308, 418. Woman Who Most Influenced Me, The, 7, 421. Woman's Suffrage, rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 137, 138, 141; conventi