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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
Longfellow journeyed in Spain with Lieutenant Alexander Slidell (afterward Mackenzie), who says of him in his book, A year in Spain : He was just from college, full of all the ardent feeling excited by classical pursuits, with health unbroken, hope that was a stranger to disappointment, curiosity that had never yet been fed to satiety. Then he had sunny locks, a fresh complexion, and a clear blue eye, all indications of a joyous temperament. Longfellow enjoyed the cheery society of Washington Irving, whom he describes as one of those men who put you at ease with them in a moment. He thus states the sum of his European work, in writing to his father:-- I feel no kind of anxiety for my future prospects. Thanks to your goodness, I have received a good education. I know you cannot be dissatisfied with the progress I have made in my studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly. With the French and Spanish languages I am familiarly conversant, so as to speak them correctly, an
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
literary opinions, 90-91; characteristics, 92-93; relations to science, 94-96; heresies, 96-98; Elsie Venner, 98; religion, 98-102; Little Boston, his favorite character, 103; clubs, 104-105; wit, 106; later life, 107-108; death, 108; 111, 114, 125, 127, 135, 136, 147, 148, 155, 158, 185, 186, 188. Holmes, O. W., Jr., 105. Horace, 55, 113. Howe, Dr. S. G., 104. Howells, W. D., 69, 70. Hughes, Thomas, 177. Hurlbut, W. H., afterward Hurlbert, 66. Ingraham, J. H., 139. Irving, Washington, 35, 117. Jackson, Miss, Harriot, 75. Jacobs, Miss S. S., 58. James, Henry, Sr., 70. James, Henry, Jr., 70. James, William, 70. Jennison, William, 23. Jewett, J. P., 65, 67, 68. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 90. Johnson, Eastman, 170. Keats, John, 174. Kimball, J. W., 99. Kirk, J. F., 190. Kirkland, Pres. J. T., 116. Kneeland, Dr., 23. Kossuth, Louis, 46. Lachapelle, Madame, 96. Langdon, Pres., Samuel, 21. Lathrop, G. P., 70. Lechmere, Mrs., 151. Lechmere, Richard, 150.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 9: a literary club and its organ. (search)
three centuries of romantic and picturesque pioneer history behind them. We now recognize that Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Whittier did not create their material; they simply used what they found; and Lhe turned from Bruges and Nuremberg, and chose his theme among the exiles of Acadia. It was not Irving who invested the Hudson with romance, but the Hudson that inspired Irving. In 1786, when Mrs. JIrving. In 1786, when Mrs. Josiah Quincy, then a young girl, sailed up that river in a sloop, she wrote: Our captain had a legend for every scene, either supernatural or traditional, or of actual occurrence during the war; and not a mountain reared its head, unconnected with some marvelous story. Irving was then a child of three years old, but Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane — or their equivalents — were already on the spel,--was then a young woman, and the fellow-student of Margaret Fuller. Charles Brockden Brown, Irving, Cooper — these were our few literary heroes. Fortunately for Margaret Fuller, she had been led<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
; his magazine, 140, 145, 160. Herschel, F. W., 45. Higginsons, The, 52. Hoar, Elizabeth, letters from, 64, 119; other references, 8, 248, 249. Holmes, John, 24. Holmes, O. W., 24, 26, 80 84, 86. Hooper, Ellen (Sturgis), 154, 166. Houghton, Lord (R. M. Milnes), 69. Howe, Julia (Ward), 2. Howitts, the, 229. Hudson, H. N., 211. Hunt, Leigh, 146. Hutchinson Family, the, 176. I. Indians, study of the, 196. Ireland, Mr., 221. Irish, defense of the, 214. Irving, Washington, 181, 132. J. Jacobs Sarah S., 80, 84. Jahn, F. L., 46. James, Henry, 134. Jameson, Anna, 195. Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 16, 45, 308. Jonson, Ben, 69, 134. K. Kant, Immanuel, 45, 282, 288. Kinney, Mr., letter from, 247. Kittredge, Rev. Mr., 63. Knapp, J. J., 39. Kneeland, Abner, 77. L. Lafarge, John, 134. Lafayette, Marquis de, 15. La Mennais, H. F. R. de, 280. Lane, Charles, 160, 166. Leonidas, 47. Lewes, G. H., 229. Longfellow H. W., criticisms
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
ngland and America. the answers of Cooper and Irving. the influence of the travellers. the travelk in the Astoria Settlement, later recorded by Irving. Then comes the War of 1812-14, and after it debtor out of hand. So late as the year 1836, Irving could employ good sources in his own way, witherprise of John Jacob Astor, and reappeared in Irving's Astoria. Carver's volume still fastens upon the literary work of Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, who are more fully treated elsewhere incted that life with more truth and spirit than Irving. From the noisy disputes between John Bull anafter an absence in Europe of seventeen years, Irving found his countrymen expecting him to vindicatver about the confines of light and darkness. Irving's next task was to write the history of John Jbooks of travel, beginning with Carver's, that Irving may be allowed to explain it in his own words: of every history. While engaged upon Astoria, Irving had met at the house of Colonel Astor the pict[1 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 3: early essayists (search)
ltangi dropped a small corner of his mantle on Irving's Mustapha Ruba-Dub Kheli Khan and S. L. Knappal speeches at the Turtle Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot atay. James Kirke Paulding (1779-1860), Washington Irving's chief assistant in this youthful ventuis part in the undertaking was not inferior to Irving's. Nor was Paulding less a master of a gracefutook the likeness of a real uncle as deftly as Irving portrayed the lively Mrs. Cooper in Sophie spanifest his delight in American scenes. Unlike Irving, he never travelled, and the beauties of his nere, naturally enough, that the vein opened by Irving and Paulding in Salmagundi was most consistentcenes and customs, Cox had much in common with Irving. Here too should be mentioned the editors, Pahen compared to the sure classic perfection of Irving's style, we must remember that fluidity is ess As a critic Tuckerman earned the praise of Irving for his liberal, generous, catholic spirit. T[2 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4: Irving (search)
Chapter 4: Irving Major George Haven Putnam, Litt.D. Early years. first voyage to Europethe Prairies. a New publisher. later years. Irving's cosmopolitanism. a history of New York. th which they had been fighting for seven years, Irving may be regarded as the first author produced i, under the title of Salmagundi. In this work, Irving had the collaboration of his brother William asome essays later included in The sketch Book, Irving enjoyed for a few months the excitement of milI will come with the first troops. In 1834, Irving declined a Democratic nomination for Congress,rst rank among historians. In this biography, Irving gave ample evidence of his power of reconstitudil, the last monarch of Granada. Granada was Irving's favourite production, and he found himself fn to the literary labours of its author. When Irving penned the last word of the fifth volume of th true man of letters. For the world at large, Irving will, however, doubtless best be known by his [53 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: Bryant and the minor poets (search)
nd, too, long so important an influence on American judgments of American products, early accorded him a measure of honour and thanks. It is well known that Washington Irving secured the English reprinting of the volume of 1832 in the same year, with a brief criticism by way of dedication to Samuel Rogers, whose reading of the contative, are the most exquisite of all his poems. And no reminder should be needed that he knew best the American scene, and was the first to reveal it in art. Irving, in the London edition of 1832, naturally emphasized this claim to distinction; and Emerson, many years later, at an after-dinner speech on the poet's seventieth lso as critic. He was never, to be sure, the professional guide of literary taste, like Arnold and Lowell. Apart from sensible but obvious memorial addresses on Irving, Halleck, and Cooper, his best known essay is introductory to his Library of poetry and song; it enunciates fewer keen judgments on individuals, fewer profound pr
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
lled its mother Virginia. Bird ventured into Mexico at a time when Irving and Prescott were writing romantic histories of the Spanish discoveding, See also Book II. Chaps. I, III, IV, and V. though nearer Irving than Cooper, had considerable merit as a novelist, particularly inry tales but not of permanent merit. To the school of his friend Irving may be assigned the urbane John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870). Of er of 1812 and been admitted to the bar, Kennedy lived as merrily as Irving in the chosen circles of his native town. With Peter Hoffman Crusea magazine, and served as interpreter between West and East much as Irving did between America and Europe. Hall's manner, indeed, is like IrvIrving's in its leisurely, genial narrative, its abundant descriptions, and its affection for supernatural legends which could be handled smilingut one novelist of first rank could show three such tale-tellers as Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. The annuals and magazines met the demand for s
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
241 Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, 263 n. Inscriptions, 263 n. Institutes (Calvin), 71 Interest of great Britain considered with regard to her colonies, the, 97 Intimations of immortality, 337 Introduction to the study of philosophy, 82 Invention of letters, the, 179 Iredell, James, 148 Ireland, J. N., 221, 221 n., 223 n., 228, 228 n., 229 n., 231 n. Irving, Ebenezer, 248, 251 Irving, John Treat, 251 Irving, Peter, 220, 248 Irving, Pierre, 259 Irving, Washington, 185, 191, 194, 208, 209, 21O, 233, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245-259, 264, 272, 276, 309, 310, 311, 318, 324 Irving, William, 246, 247 Isaac Bickerstaff, 111, 233 Isabella, Queen of Spain, 257 Israel Potter, 323 Italian sketch Book, an, 243 J Jack Cade, 222, 224 Jack Tier, 302 Jackson, Andrew, 186, 190, 222, 313 Jackson, Richard, 97 James, William, 348 Jane Talbot, 292 Jay, John, 91, 135, 144, 146, 148, 149, 294 Jefferson, Joseph (eld
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