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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 40 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 30 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
me to them, as it is now to the British Canadian or Australian. Circumstances were of course bringing about a gradual divergence in manners and in special sympathies between the colonist of Massachusetts or Virginia and the Englishman of London. Even the shock of the Revolution could, so far as literature was concerned, only hasten that divergence of type — not transform it into a difference of type. To this day, indeed, the course of that divergence has been so slow that we still find Mr. Howells uttering the opinion, not quite justly, that American literature is merely a condition of English literature. American literature. It would be a remarkable fact if America had, in so short a time, created an altogether new and distinct type of literature. What Fisher Ames said nearly a century ago is still true : It is no reproach to the genius of America, if it does not produce ordinarily such men as were deemed the prodigies of the ancient world. Nature has provided for the p
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
ft American shores forever. Mark Twain and Mr. Howells were born east of the Missouri, which comesic extravaganzas like Innocents abroad. W. D. Howells. The first Western writer really recognliterary leader at the East was, of course, Mr. Howells, who came East in 1860 and has always remained. The peculiar charm of Howells's prose style has, doubtless, had its effect in disarming critiatifies us almost more than wit or wisdom. Mr. Howells is without an equal among his English-speakomparison in some respects underrates that of Howells; but his field is the little bit of ivory. has permanently set up his easel in Europe, Mr. Howells in America; and the latter has been, from t Mr. James writes international episodes : Mr. Howells writes inter-oceanic episodes; his best scecific slopes. In one sense the novels of Mr. Howells have, like those of many other writers of Wgan to find direct expression in literature. Howells can never represent it; he came East too soon
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
. Beginning of the War of the Rebellion. 1863. Emancipation Proclamation. 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. 1865. Surrender of Lee. 1865. Assassination of Lincoln. 1865. Lowell's Commemoration Ode. 1866. Whittier's Snow-bound. 1866. Howells's Venetian days. 1868. E. E. Hale's The man without a country. 1869. Aldrich's Story of a bad boy. 1869. Mark Twain's Innocents abroad. 1870. Bret Harte's Luck of roaring Camp. 1876. Lanier's Poems. 1876. Centennial Exhibition nier's Poems. 1876. Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1878. Henry James's Daisy Miller. 1879. Stockton's Rudder Grange. 1880. Cable's The Grandissimes. 1882. Longfellow and Emerson died. 1884. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Howells's Rise of Silas Lapham. 1891. Lowell died. 1892. Whittier and Whitman died. 1893. World's Fair at Chicago. 1894. Holmes died. 1898. Spanish-American War. 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President. 1902. Bret Harte died.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
Holland, J. G., 124. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 10, 133, 135, 137, 143, 146, 152-160, 161, 162-164, 197, 242, 264. Hooper, Mrs., 264. Hopkinson, Francis, 54, 55. House of the seven Gables, Hawthorne's, 185. Howe, Mrs., Julia Ward, 264. Howells, W. D., 3, 236, 248-252. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's, 248. Hudibras, Butler's, 41. Hugo, Victor, 233. Hunt, Leigh, 66. Hymns of the marshes, Lanier's, 225. Hymn to the night, Longfellow's, 142. Hyperion, Keats's, 225. HIyperion,e M., 240. Knickerbocker literature, 106. Knickerbocker magazine, 106, 132. Knickerbocker's history of New York, Irving's, 85. Knickerbocker School, 83, 104. Kubla Khan, Coleridge's, 212. Laco Letters, 48. Lady of the Aroostook, Howells's, 251. Lake poets, 69. Lamb, Charles, 171, 260, 261. Landor, Walter Savage, 124, 169. Lane Seminary, 127. Lanier, Sidney, 215-227, 264. Last leaf, Holmes's, 159. Last man, Mrs. Shelley's, 72. Leather-Stocking tales, Cooper's, 97