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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
this respect worse than English toryism, -that it does not even retain a hearty faith in the past. It is better that a man should have eyes in the back of his head than that he should be taught to sneer at even a retrospective vision. One may believe that the golden age is behind us, or before us, but alas for the forlorn wisdom of him who rejects it altogether! It is not the climax of culture that a college graduate should emulate the obituary praise bestowed by Cotton Mather on the Rev. John Mitchell of Cambridge, a truly aged young man. Better a thousand times train a boy on Scott's novels or the Border ballads than educate him to believe, on the one side, that chivalry was a cheat and the troubadours imbeciles, and on the other hand, that universal suffrage is an absurdity and the one real need is to get rid of our voters. The alleged obstacle of material prosperity. 2. It is further alleged that there is serious danger to literature in a period of overwhelming material
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
alvern Hill, Battle of, 217. Marble Faun, Hawthorne's, 185. Marennes, Billaud de, 82. Marie Antoinette, 80. Mark Twain, 236, 245, 246-247. Marmion, Scott's, 37. Marshes of Glynn, Lanier's, 264. Massachusetts to Virginia, Whittier's, 152. Masson, David, 165. Mather, Cotton, 12, 15, 18-20, 269. Merry wives of Windsor, 1. .Metamonphoses, Ovid's, Sandys's translation of, 8, 9. Midnight Mass for the dying year, Longfellow's, 210. Milton, 15, 35, 165, 277. Mitchell, Rev., John, 269. Mitchell, Dr., S. Weir, 155. Mocking bird, Hayne's, 204. Montagu, Lady, Mary, 13. Monthly magazine and American Review, 70. Morris, G. P., 105. Morris, William, 220. Mosses from an old Manse, Hawthorne's, 185. Mother Goose, 220, 224. Motley, John Lothrop, 87, 91, 118, 156. Moulton, Mrs., Louise Chandler, 264. My Captain, Whitman's, 230. Nails Fastened, etc., Mather's, 17. Nation, 106. National era, 128, 190. New England Galaxy, 188. New England magazi