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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 76 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 20 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 12 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 9 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.) 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott The phrase foot-note person was first introduced inst likely to have been a country peddler. Mr. Alcott first visited Concord, as Mr. Cabot's memoirow townsman. It is interesting to notice that Alcott, while staying first in Concord, complained of city). Emerson said approvingly to his son : Alcott is right touchstone to test them, litmus to deher time during that same early period (1837), Alcott, after criticising Emerson a little for the pihis may be found in the published memoirs of Mr. Alcott (1.349), but it is quite surpassed by the fo. In debate, the mere presence of Parker made Alcott seem uneasy, as if yielding just cause for Emenified occupation for Alcott, as Emerson said, Alcott wished to have it christened either the Olympieptions of the Rev. Joseph Cook, who flattered Alcott to the highest degree and was met at least hal can testify to the disappointment inspired in Alcott's early friends at his seeming willingness to [27 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
ise; the humanity which it holds is entering into the life of the country, and no material invention, or scientific discovery, or institutional prosperity, or accumulation of wealth will so powerfully affect the spiritual well-being of the nation for generations to come. The geographical headquarters of this particular group was Boston, of which Cambridge and Concord may be regarded for this purpose as suburbs. Such a circle of authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Alcott, Thoreau, Parkman, and others had never before met in America; and now that they have passed away, no such local group anywhere remains: nor has the most marked individual genius elsewhere — such, for instance, as that of Poe or Whitman — been the centre of so conspicuous a combination. The best literary representative of this group of men in bulk was undoubtedly the Atlantic Monthly, to which almost every one of them contributed, and of which they made up the substantial opening strength.