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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.) 32 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
e had no more right to say that this liberta was the boldest of the daughters of Tyndarus— when she was none of them—than Milton had to call Adam the goodliest man of men since born his sons. The cases, you must confess, are parallel, and, to save your feelings, literary vanity, etc., etc., I will acknowledge that the case of Milton is the strongest and most obvious. Homer, however, settles the whole question. He says that Thetis went to heaven and implored Jupiter to honor her son, tellithe Grecian heroes, and assigning them their several qualities and virtues, he gives Nereus beauty. Here it is again. Milton is a fool to this! The example is tangible,—it cannot be evaded; you may as well try to jump clear of space, or forget yo expect in such a case; but still, in spite of precedent and authority, I calculate on your submission to Horace, Homer, Milton, and George Ticknor! Vive atque vale. To Charles S. Daveis, Portland. Boston, February 8, 1814. If all the world <
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
the whole day, where candles must be burnt till nine in the morning and lighted again at three,— here the darkness becomes a burden of which I shall rejoice to be rid. It no longer seems to me like that grateful vicissitude of day and night that Milton says flows from the very throne of God, but like the Cimmerian darkness in which Homer has involved the gloomy regions of death and despair. I would not write thus to you, my dear father, if I did not know that, when you receive this letter, yoch I still have at least six volumes of notes, besides two miscellaneous volumes on Rome, and other separate cities and towns of Italy. . . . . But in Spain and Portugal I was reduced very low, travelling much on horseback, though with a postilion, who took a good deal of luggage; but I like to remember that even in those countries I carried a few books, and that I never separated myself from Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, and the Greek Testament, which I have still in the same copies I then used
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
nd it passed away too quickly in work and reading. French was the language of conversation, but all the party understood English, and therefore Shakespeare and Milton came in for their share. This naturally produced discussions of the relative merits of the two literatures; and, though I found myself alone, you do credit enougfrom maintaining the supremacy of English literature in defiance of them all . . . . The affair ended by a challenge, given and accepted, to stake Shakespeare and Milton against the whole body of French poetry. The French party was to begin by reading the best passages in their language, taking none but of the very first order, ilization and refinement in which it is produced. . . . . After all, I had rather go to the French theatre than the English, as an entertainment. Shakespeare and Milton have more poetry than all France can show from the time of the Troubadours and Fabliaux to Delille and Chateaubriand; but no nation, I think, has hit like them th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
side of the Alps, and I thought that I recognized beauties which Virgil boasted when Italy was mistress of the world, and which Filicaja lamented when they had become only a temptation to violence which she could no longer resist. Among other things, I observed that the millet,—the potato of the ancients,—which Strabo says grew abundantly here, is no less abundant now; and that the vine is wedded to the elm as in the days of Horace, and passes from tree to tree in graceful festoons as when Milton crossed the same plains a hundred and fifty years ago. If, amidst these more classical fields, I saw for the first time in Europe the cultivation of Indian corn, the recollections it awakened of homely happiness were not discordant from the feelings with which they were associated, and I can truly say that I have seen few things since I left that home which have given me more heartfelt pleasure. Milan, October 1.—We again commenced our journey early this morning, and when the sun rose fou<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
aura will retain in heaven the features he loved on earth, and that he shall see and love them again, is no doubt eminently natural; but it is applied, in Southey's Curse of Kehama, by one imaginary being to another, and therefore might have been well applied by a real poet to a fancied mistress. I remember, too, to have seen, somewhere, great trust put upon the exquisite phrase, lasciando tenebroso, onde si move, as too fresh from the heart of a lover to be considered mere poetry; and yet Milton has made Adam say of Eve, She disappeared, and left me dark, and Spenser, reversing the medal, says, yet more beautifully, of Una, that her angel's face Could make a sunshine in the shady place. In short, this argument of internal evidence seems to me to be very little applicable to poetry like that in question; because, in truth, as the Clown says in As You Like It, what is most feigning is most poetical, and because the Platonizing period, in which Petrarch lived, filled the world with
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
and a spoken tongue. This lecture was published in Boston in 1833. He mentions to Mr. Daveis some other occupations of his summer's holidays, writing September 19, 1833:— Among other things I have made a thorough study of the works of Milton and Shakespeare, as nearly three hundred pages of notes and memoranda will testify. It was delicious. Last summer I did the same for Dante, working on each, often twelve and fourteen hours a day, with uninterrupted and equable pleasure. If I aton, April 13, 1832. I am sure, my dear Mrs. Gardiner, the kindly influences of this beautiful spring day must reach to the Kennebec. At any rate, it reminds us of your beautiful domains, at the same time it inspires that vernal delight which Milton seems to have placed above every other, when he says it is able to drive all sadness but despair. . . . . We have just been taking a two-hours' drive over the hills of Brookline and Dorchester, with the chaise-top down, and we have certainly f
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
scripts in old English literature, and especially the old English drama. Few Englishmen have so fine a library in this department as he has; fewer still have a knowledge in it at all to be compared to his. Many of his notions are very bold; as, for instance, that the Fair Emm A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, with the Love of William the Conqueror. Acted by the Lord Strange his Servants. 4to. 1631. is by Shakespeare. He told me to-day that he thinks Milton superintended the edition of Shakespeare to which his sonnet is prefixed, because the changes and emendations made in it, upon the first folio, are poetical and plainly made by a poet. It would be a beautiful circumstance if it could be proved true. When Tieck was in England, in 1817, he bought a great many curious books, and even had eight or ten manuscript plays copied in the British Museum, so far and so thoroughly has he pushed his inquiries on this interesting and delightful subject
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
382. Meredith, Mrs., William, 15. Meredith, William, 15. Meredith, William, Jr., 15. Meyer, 115. Mezzofanti, Abbate, 166. Michaelis, J. D., 76, 77, 127. Milan, visits, 161. Millbank, Sir R and Lady, 67, 68. Miltitz, Baron, 501. Milton, study of, 394. Milton, Viscount, death of, 456. Minto, Countess of, 408, 412. Minto, Earl of, 408. Mitford, Miss, 418, 419 and note. Mitscherlich, Professor, 92. Moller, 124. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, 271. Monroe, J., PreMilton, Viscount, death of, 456. Minto, Countess of, 408, 412. Minto, Earl of, 408. Mitford, Miss, 418, 419 and note. Mitscherlich, Professor, 92. Moller, 124. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, 271. Monroe, J., President of the United States, 349. Mont Blanc, 154, 156. Montgomery, James, 440, 441. Montgomery, Mrs., 386. Monticello, 30; visits, 34-38. Montijo. See Teba. Montmorency, Duc Mathieu de, 304 and note. Montmorency-Laval. See Laval. Moore's Charity School, Elisha Ticknor head of, 1; connected with Dartmouth College, 2. Moore, Thomas, 420, 422, 425. Moratin, L. F., 252. Moreau, General, 488. Morehead, Rev Dr., 280, 414. Morgan, Lady, 425. Morley, First Earl and Countess