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Mary S. Potter (search for this): chapter 7
American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Essays, then reprinted from the sixteenth English edition, but now forgotten, and Mrs. Barbauld's Legacy for Young Ladies, discussing beauty, fashion, botany, the uses of history, and especially including a somewhat elaborate essay on female studies, on which, perhaps, Judge Potter founded his prohibition of the classics. Mrs. Barbauld lays down the rule that the learned languages, the Greek especially, require a great deal more time than a young woman can conveniently spare. To the Latin, she adds, there is not an equal objection . . . and it will not, she thinks, in the present state of things, excite either a smile or a stare in fashionable company. But she afterwards says, French you are not only permitted to learn, but you are laid under the same necessity o
Mary Storer Potter (search for this): chapter 7
cript lectures delivered by him at Bowdoin College and still preserved there, to find them accompanied by pages of extracts, here and there, in her handwriting. It will therefore be interesting to make her acquaintance a little farther. Mary Storer Potter was the second daughter of the Hon. Barrett Potter and Anne (Storer) Potter of Portland, neighbors and friends of the Longfellow family. She had been for a time a schoolmate of Henry Longfellow at the private school of Bezaleel Cushman in attractive person, blooming in health and beauty, the graceful bride of a very attractive and elegant young man. Some books from her girlish library now lie before me, dingy and time-worn, with her name in varying handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The
William Shakespeare (search for this): chapter 7
ound, as in Longfellow, a well-trained American who could be placed over their heads. There were also text-books and readers to be prepared and edited by the young professor, one of which, as I well remember, was of immense value to students, the Proverbes Dramatiques, already mentioned, a collection of simple and readable plays, written in colloquial French, and a most valuable substitute for the previous Racine and Corneille, the use of which was like teaching classes to read out of Shakespeare. Thus full of simple and congenial work, Longfellow went to housekeeping with his young wife in a house still attractive under its rural elms, and thus described by him:— June 23 [1831]. I can almost fancy myself in Spain, the morning is so soft and beautiful. The tessellated shadow of the honeysuckle lies motionless upon my study floor, as if it were a figure in the carpet; and through the open window comes the fragrance of the wild brier and the mock orange. The birds are carollin
William C. Bryant (search for this): chapter 7
1, 1832) the introduction to his Phi Beta Kappa poem, and during the following year published a volume of poetical translations from the Spanish; thus imitating Bryant, then in some ways his model, who had derived so much of his inspiration from the Spanish muse. It is not unreasonable to recognize something of his young wife'sining of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss With this as a concluding volume, it will be seen that Mary Potter's mind had some fitting preparation for her husband's companionship, and that the influence of Bryant in poetry, and of Austin, the precursor of Hawthorne, in prose, may well have lodged in her mind the ambition, which was always making itself visible in her husba
Emily Taylor (search for this): chapter 7
arriage,—is of an attractive person, blooming in health and beauty, the graceful bride of a very attractive and elegant young man. Some books from her girlish library now lie before me, dingy and time-worn, with her name in varying handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The Wreath, a selection of elegant poems from the best authors, —these poems including the classics of that day, Beattie's Minstrel, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and some lighter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one o
Anna Letitia Barbauld (search for this): chapter 7
ty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Essays, then reprinted from the sixteenth English edition, but now forgotten, and Mrs. Barbauld's Legacy for Young Ladies, discussing beauty, fashion, botany, the uses of history, and especially including a somewhat elaborate essay on female studies, on which, perhaps, Judge Potter founded his prohibition of the classics. Mrs. Barbauld lays down the rule that the learned languages, the Greek especially, require a great deal more time than a young woman can conveniently spare. To the Latin, she adds, there is not an equal objection . . . and it will not, she thinks, in the presenerwards says, French you are not only permitted to learn, but you are laid under the same necessity of acquiring it as your brother is of acquiring the Latin. Mrs. Barbauld's demands, however, are not extravagant, as she thinks that a young person who reads French with ease, who is so well grounded as to write it grammatically, an
Hannah Bowdler (search for this): chapter 7
ter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Essays, then reprinted from the sixteenth English edition, but now forgotten, and Mrs. Barbauld's Legacy for Young Ladies, discussing beauty, fashion, botany, the uses of history, and especially including a somewhat elaborate essay on female studies, on which, perhaps, Judge Potter founded his prohibition of the classics. Mrs. Barbauld lays down the rule that the learned languages, the Greek especially, require a great deal more time than a young woman can conveniently spare
Robert Blair (search for this): chapter 7
er girlish library now lie before me, dingy and time-worn, with her name in varying handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The Wreath, a selection of elegant poems from the best authors, —these poems including the classics of that day, Beattie's Minstrel, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and some lighter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful
Thomas Campbell (search for this): chapter 7
handwriting from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The Wreath, a selection of elegant poems from the best authors, —these poems including the classics of that day, Beattie's Minstrel, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and some lighter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Ess
Thomas Moore (search for this): chapter 7
ng from the early Mary S. Potter to the later Mary S. P. Longfellow. They show many marked passages and here and there a quotation. The collection begins with Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy; then follow somewhat abruptly Sabbath Recreations, by Miss Emily Taylor, and The Wreath, a selection of elegant poems from the best authors, —these poems including the classics of that day, Beattie's Minstrel, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and some lighter measures from Campbell, Moore, and Burns. The sombre muse undoubtedly predominated, but on the whole the book was not so bad an elementary preparation for the training of a poet's wife. It is a touching accidental coincidence that one of the poems most emphatically marked is one of the few American poems in these volumes, Bryant's Death of the Flowers, especially the last verse, which describes a woman who died in her youthful beauty. To these are added books of maturer counsel, as Miss Bowdler's Poems and Essays, the
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