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Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
l Parker Willis (1806-61) burst into prominence like a spring freshet, frothy, shallow, temporary, but sweeping all before it. This prince of magazinists, precociously celebrated as a poet even before his graduation from Yale in 1823, and petted by society in this country and abroad, has suffered the fate of other ten days wonders. Though the evanescent sparkle and glancing brilliance of his A l'abri, less extravagantly known by its later title of Letters from under a Bridge, fully deserved Lowell's praise, though it is possible to understand the popularity of his vivid, vivacious glimpses of European society in Pencillings by the way and the vogue of his clever Slingsby stories in Inklings of adventure, yet it cannot be denied that Willis too often merited the charges of affectation and mawkishness which we still instinctively associate with the elaborately gilded backs of his many volumes. Unluckily he wrote himself out just at the time when his necessities compelled him to have c
Hell Gate (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
le Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot at Dyde's on imperial champagne or to sally out to Kemble's mansion on the Passaic — the original of Cockloft Hall — for a night of high fun and jollification. Dr. Mitchill's Picture of New York, with a wealth of geological and antiquarian lore travestied in the first part of the Knickerbocker History, records the numerous landmarks and traditions of the city. Corlaer's Hook was then something more than a memory, Hell Gate was still a menace to navigation, the Collect was not all filled up, and the tolls levied at Kissing Bridge formed a standing jest. In such an environment the tradition of Steele and Goldsmith culminated not unworthily with Salmagundi, a buoyant series of papers ridiculing the follies of 1807. Thereafter imitation of Addison could no further go. Moreover, in announcing with mock gravity their intention simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age
Trenton Falls (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
h his rapid glances into the kaleidoscope of society he combined — for his readers-views of famous places, anecdotes of travel, reflections by the way, descriptions of scenery, and observations on customs and characters, in all a delightfully varied mixture and exactly suited to his tastes and abilities. In America he wrote with the same minuteness and freshness of his rural life and rural neighbours at Glenmary and Idlewild, painted vivid word-pictures of such beauty spots as Nahant or Trenton Falls, or sketched fashionable life at Ballston and Saratoga in the days when those watering places were in their first glory. There where woods and streams were enlivened by flowered waistcoats, pink champagne, and the tinkle of serenades, Willis found a setting for some of his most characteristic writing. Jaunty and impermanent as the society it portrayed, his pages yet contain the most valuable deposit left by what Professor Beers has happily called the Albuminous age of American literatu
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
catch the literary tone of the previous age. But the essay of manners, a product of leisurely urban life, was not easily adapted to the environment of a sparsely settled, bustling young republic. Perhaps, indeed, wrote the Rev. David Graham of Pittsburg, it is impossible to give interest and standing popularity, to a periodical essay paper, constructed upon the model of the British Essayist, in an infant country. The Pioneer, consisting of Essays, Literary, Moral and Theological, Pittsburg,Pittsburg, 1812. P. 31. Even in the populous cities where the inhabitants amount to several thousand there was little interest in the art of living. Reprehensible luxury and eccentric characters were hard to discover. But by dint of persistent attempts the essay of manners was made to grow in the new soil. Perhaps the most successful American Addison was Joseph Dennie (1768-1812), who was reasonably tinged with literature while resisting a Harvard education, and after a short trial of the law, devot
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
Chapter 3: early essayists George Frisbie Whicher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Amherst College. The periodical essay in America. Joseph Dennie. William Wirt. James Kirke Paulding. Richard Henry Dana the elder. Nathaniel Parker Willis. Henry Theodore Tuckerman In anticipating Dr. Johnson's advice to r the pulpit. The lay Preacher, commenced in 1795, won immediate applause. Seven years later John Davis, the traveller, declared it the most widely read work in America, and its popularity contributed largely to the author's success as editor, first of The Farmer's weekly Museum at Walpole, New Hampshire, and finally of that notatone, two volumes of Don Quixote, and a volume of Tristram Shandy, gave sufficient attention to the first item of his library to become Attorney-General of the United States, and left as his chief literary monument a biography of Patrick Henry. The letters of a British spy, first printed in the Richmond Argus for 1803, justly gai
Ballston (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
society he combined — for his readers-views of famous places, anecdotes of travel, reflections by the way, descriptions of scenery, and observations on customs and characters, in all a delightfully varied mixture and exactly suited to his tastes and abilities. In America he wrote with the same minuteness and freshness of his rural life and rural neighbours at Glenmary and Idlewild, painted vivid word-pictures of such beauty spots as Nahant or Trenton Falls, or sketched fashionable life at Ballston and Saratoga in the days when those watering places were in their first glory. There where woods and streams were enlivened by flowered waistcoats, pink champagne, and the tinkle of serenades, Willis found a setting for some of his most characteristic writing. Jaunty and impermanent as the society it portrayed, his pages yet contain the most valuable deposit left by what Professor Beers has happily called the Albuminous age of American literature. Professor H. A. Beers has in every res
America City (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
rs and men of the world. After such models Willis shaped his own career. He luxuriated in drawing-rooms and shone at dinners, The topmost bright bubble on the wave of The Town. With his rapid glances into the kaleidoscope of society he combined — for his readers-views of famous places, anecdotes of travel, reflections by the way, descriptions of scenery, and observations on customs and characters, in all a delightfully varied mixture and exactly suited to his tastes and abilities. In America he wrote with the same minuteness and freshness of his rural life and rural neighbours at Glenmary and Idlewild, painted vivid word-pictures of such beauty spots as Nahant or Trenton Falls, or sketched fashionable life at Ballston and Saratoga in the days when those watering places were in their first glory. There where woods and streams were enlivened by flowered waistcoats, pink champagne, and the tinkle of serenades, Willis found a setting for some of his most characteristic writing. J
Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
of William Crafts, editor of the Charleston Courier, and the ornate prose of Hugh Swinton Legare is that of the scholar rather than of the familiar essayist. New York and Philadelphia were comparatively free from the blight of theology and the bane of eloquence, though the latter city seems to have suffered from a constitutional profundity which even Dennie could not entirely overcome. It gave to the world nothing better than the Didactics of Robert Walsh. The commercial interests of Manhattan could claim little attention from young men of wit and spirit, but leisure and a society both cosmopolitan and congenial afforded them ample opportunity and provocation for literary jeux d'esprit. When the busy savant, Samuel Latham Mitchill, presided at the Sour Krout crowned with cabbage leaves or burlesqued his own erudition in jovial speeches at the Turtle Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot at Dyde's on imperial champagne or to sally out to Kemble's
Launcelot Langstaff (search for this): chapter 2.13
disonian finery. During the first decade of the nineteenth century nearly every literary device and favourite character in the long line of British essayists was reproduced in this country. Isaac Bickerstaff owned an American cousin in Launcelot Langstaff of Salmagundi, memories of l'espion turc were evoked by Wirt's Letters of a British spy, and Goldsmith's Lien Chi Altangi dropped a small corner of his mantle on Irving's Mustapha Ruba-Dub Kheli Khan and S. L. Knapp's Shahcoolen. The shad he who first sketched the characters of the Cockloft family, and in the case of Mine uncle John he took the likeness of a real uncle as deftly as Irving portrayed the lively Mrs. Cooper in Sophie sparkle or the fastidious Joseph Dennie in Launcelot Langstaff. Aunt Charity, who died of a Frenchman, was apparently a joint production. The two writers might have acquired from Steele and his successors the art of drawing crotchety characters, if not the fondness for detecting them, but the inevit
Washington Irving (search for this): chapter 2.13
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...]
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