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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
G. Whittier to write four lines for the Milton window. Mr. Whittier would feel the fullest sympathy for the great Puritan pf the Pilgrim Fathers. I have always loved and admired Mr. Whittier's poems. Could you ask him as a kindness to yourself athan any other. Mr. Childs forwarded this letter to Mr. Whittier, who accepted the commission, and composed the followin to be forwarded to Archdeacon Farrar, in a letter from Mr. Whittier of which the following is a copy:-- I am glad to c, I too have my chapter and freehold of rejoicing. Mr. Whittier suggested to Dr. Farrar that if thought preferable the r freehold, I will retain the latter as the original. Whittier was taken with his last illness while visiting at the houand beautiful of his poems, A Friend's Burial. Fields's Whittier, p. 101. On September 3, he had a slight paralytic st picture of his funeral is from the historical address on Whittier by his friend Robert S. Rantoul. I attended his fun
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
Fredrika, 110. 87 Bright, John, 94, 112; Whittier on, 113. Brown, David Paul, 62. Brown, J.gton, N. J., 131. Burns, Robert, 19, 88,109; Whittier compared with, 152. Burroughs, George, 18,ts Whittier, 108. Cary, Phoebe, 98; visits Whittier, 108. Cassandra, 157-159. Cate, Hon. George W., 126, 179; quoted about Whittier and Amesbury strike, 87,88; quoted about Whittier and spirituWhittier and spiritualism, 127. Century Magazine, mentioned, 137. Channing, Rev. Dr., William Ellery, 81, 103; WhiWhittier writes to, 75; his position on antislavery question, 76. Chapman, Maria Weston, 71, 72, 81; her view of Whittier, 67; of Channing, 76. Charbonnier, J. D., his letter to. Whittier, 167; Whittier's letter to, 167, 168. Chardon Street Chapel, Boston, 81. Chase, G. W., his History o, 75, 76; her account of Thompson mob, 59-61; Whittier's letters to, 78, 79, 90, 91; her generosity, 98; her letters edited by Whittier, 180. Child, Rev. Dr., 84. Childs, George W., gives a Milt[4 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
oils. April 25. The antislavery people through the free States received the tidings with profound gratitude. Their leaders—Chase, Giddings, Seward, the Jays, Whittier, Bryant, Parker, Parker's letter is printed in his Life by Weiss, vol. II. pp. 111, 112. and many more— sent hearty messages of congratulation to the new se of the Compromise. Come what may, our Massachusetts battalion will stand firm. To T. W. Higginson, This letter to Mr. Higginson, as well as another to Mr. Whittier, written a few days later, were intended to remove their doubts as to the policy of further co-operation with the Democrats. September 5:— More than everan party; but made as he was, and seeing things as he saw them, he could not accept the overture. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 433. Whittier, while as positive as other antislavery men against Winthrop's political course at this period, 1846– 1851, regarded him with great respect, and deeply regrette
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
in the business of the Senate. Their recognition of each other was no longer social, but only formal and official. The amenities of life were suspended; and foreign ministers were obliged to invite their guests by sections. Sumner wrote to Whittier, Jan. 27, 1860: Society is dislocated; the diplomats cannot give a dinner without studying their lists as a protocol. Sumner saw in this non-intercourse signs of the rupture which was to come within a twelvemonth. He wrote to David L. Child, Jaqualifications. In his sacred animosity,—a phrase of his own,—he was justified by the example of prophets, Christian fathers, and the reformers of the sixteenth century. Milton justified a sanctified bitterness against the enemies of truth. Whittier wrote of the speech: There is something really awful in its Rhadamanthine severity of justice; but it was needed. Felton, on the other hand, in a friendly letter to Sumner, took exception to it as harsh and too sweeping in its treatment of slav
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Books of permanent interest. (search)
John Burroughs. A beautiful edition of Mr. Burroughs's writings in nine duodecimo volumes. Printed on cream-tinted laid paper, and bound in a simple, but artistic style. With several portraits of Mr. Burroughs and engraved title-pages. Limited to 1,000 sets. Price, cloth, gilt top, $13.50 net, per set; cloth, paper label, untrimmed, $13.50 net; half calf, gilt top, $27.00 net. Cambridge Editions. Comprising in attractive form the Complete Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow, J. G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Each volume has a fine portrait of the author, with a view of his home, a biographical sketch, notes, indexes to titles and first lines, a chronological table of his poems. Each in a single large crown octavo, printed from large type, on opaque paper, and bound so as to be firm yet flexible, cloth, gilt top, $2.00; half calf, gilt top, $3.50; tree calf, or full levant, $5.50. The Cambridge Browning. The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, II (search)
ed the mother country, and this because of the identity of language. All retrospective English literature—that is, all literature more than a century or two old—is common to the two countries. All contemporary literature cannot yet be judged, because it is contemporary. The time may come when not a line of current English poetry may remain except the four quatrains hung up in St. Margaret's Church and when the Matthew Arnold of Macaulay's imaginary New Zealand may find with surprise that Whittier and Lowell produced something more worthy of that accidental immortality than Browning or Tennyson. The time may come when a careful study of even the despised American newspapers may reveal them to have been in one respect nearer to a high civilization than any of their European compeers; since the leading American literary journals criticise their own contributors with the utmost freedom, while there does not seem to be a journal in London or Paris that even attempts that courageous can
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, VI (search)
nners and a European subject. But a simple and home-loving American, who writes upon the themes furnished by his own nation, without pyrotechnics or fantastic spelling, is apt to seem to the English mind quite uninteresting. There is nothing which ordinarily interests Europeans less than an Americanism unaccompanied by a war-whoop. The Saturday Review, wishing to emphasize its contempt for Henry Ward Beecher, finally declares that one would turn from him with relief even to the poems of Whittier. There could hardly have been a more exhaustive proof of this local limitation or chauvinisme than I myself noticed at a London dinner-party some years ago. Our host was an Oxford professor, and the company was an eminent one. Being hard pressed about American literature, I had said incidentally that a great deal of intellectual activity in America was occupied, and rightly, by the elucidation of our own history,—a thing, I added, which inspired almost no interest in England. This fact
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, VII (search)
performance. This is doubtless to be attributed rather to ignorance than to that want of seriousness which Mr. Stedman so justly points out among the younger Englishmen. The Boston of which he speaks was the Boston of Garrison and Phillips, of Whittier and Theodore Parker; it was the headquarters of those old-time abolitionists of whom the English Earl of Carlisle wrote that they were fighting a battle without a parallel in the history of ancient or modern heroism. It was also the place whichan instance where art was its own sufficient stimulus. In the cases of a writer like Poe, we trace no tonic element. The great anti-slavery agitation and the general reformatory mood of half a century ago undoubtedly gave us Channing, Emerson, Whittier, Longfellow, and Lowell; not that they would not have been conspicuous in any case, but that the moral attribute in their natures might have been far less marked. The great temporary fame of Mrs. Stowe was identified with the same influence. H
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XI (search)
ning the only verses by a living author hung up for contemplation in Westminster Abbey—still stands as the highwater mark of his genius, although possibly, so great is the advantage possessed by a shorter poem, it may be superseded at last by his Daughters of Time. No one doubts that Bayard Taylor will go down to fame, if at all, by his brief Legend of Balaklava, and Julia Ward Howe by her Battle Hymn of the Republic. It is, perhaps, characteristic of the even and well-distributed muse of Whittier that it is less easy to select his high-water mark; but perhaps My Playmate comes as near to it as anything. Bryant's Waterfowl is easily selected, and so is Longfellow's Wreck of the Hesperus, as conveying more sense of shaping imagination than any other, while Evangeline would, of course, command the majority of votes among his longer poems. In some cases, as in Whitman's My Captain, the high-water mark may have been attained precisely at the moment when the poet departed from his the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XVIII (search)
d catalogues instead of one, it really would afford as fair an approximation as we are likely to obtain to a National gallery of eminent persons. It is easily to be seen that no similar gallery of living persons would have much value. It is not, ordinarily, until after a man's death that serious criticism or biography begins. Comparing a few living names, we find that there are already, in the Cleveland catalogue, subsidiary references to certain living persons, as follows:— Holmes, Whittier12 Mrs. Stowe8 Whitman5 Ex-President Cleveland4 Harte3 Blaine, Howells, James2 Hale, Parkman1 These figures, so far as they go, exhibit the same combination of public and literary service with those previously given. Like those, they effectually dispose of the foolish tradition that republican government tends to a dull mediocrity. Here we see a people honoring by silent suffrages their National leaders, and recording the votes in the catalogue of every town library. There is n
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