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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 23 1 Browse Search
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.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
ame from Mayflower stock. His father, Dr. Peter Bryant of Cummington, was a sound country physiciaic inspiration ever visited a poet, and though Bryant wrote verse for more than sixty years after thn vibrated with such communicative passion. Bryant's ensuing career revealed the steady purpose, ssay on American poetry, and this, like all of Bryant's prose work, was admirably written. He delivn trifles and dissipated their moral energies, Bryant held steadily to his daily task. His life in men were destined to meet again in 1860, when Bryant presided at that Cooper Union address of Lincotatue to Mazzini in Central Park in 1878, when Bryant was eightyfour, that a fit of dizziness causedle poet. It was just seventy years since Dr. Peter Bryant had published his boy's verses on The Embargo. Although Bryant's poetry has never roused any vociferous excitement, it has enduring qualitin the same mighty stream of human existence. Bryant faced the thought as calmly, as majestically, [1 more...]
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
Eastern Massachusetts and made its way to other States. Orthodox and liberal Congregational churches split apart, and when Channing preached the ordination sermon for Jared Sparks in Baltimore in 1819, the word Unitarian, accepted by the liberals with some misgiving, became the recognized motto of the new creed. It is only with its literary influence that we are here concerned, yet that literary influence became so potent that there is scarcely a New England writer of the first rank, from Bryant onward, who remained untouched by it. The most interesting and peculiar phase of the new liberalism has little directly to do with the specific tenets of theological Unitarianism, and in fact marked a revolt against the more prosaic and conventional pattern of English and American Unitarian thought. But this movement, known as Transcendentalism, would have been impossible without a preliminary and liberalizing stirring of the soil. It was a fascinating moment of release for some of the