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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 52 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 36 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 34 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 28 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 26 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 24 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 22 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 20 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 20 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 8: appointment at Harvard and second visit to Europe (search)
im was Sweden, but he spent a few weeks in London, where he met, among others, Carlyle. So little has hitherto been recorded of this part of Longfellow's life or ofa more extensive one. He will be in Stockholm in the course of the summer. Mr. Carlyle of Craigenputtock was soon after announced, & passed an half hour with us mund ladies are not half as agreeable people as some of Henry's literary friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle have more genuine worth and talent than half of the nobility inMrs. Carlyle have more genuine worth and talent than half of the nobility in London. Mr. Carlyle's literary fame is very high, and she is a very talented woman —but they are people after my own heart—not the least pretension about them. MrsMr. Carlyle's literary fame is very high, and she is a very talented woman —but they are people after my own heart—not the least pretension about them. Mrs. Carlyle has a pin with Goethe's head upon it, which that great author sent her himself. She is very proud of it I assure you. They live very retired, not wishing Mrs. Carlyle has a pin with Goethe's head upon it, which that great author sent her himself. She is very proud of it I assure you. They live very retired, not wishing to mix with fashionable society, which they regard in its true light; still they have some friends among the nobility who know how to value them. Stockholm, Augus
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 23: Longfellow as a poet (search)
al, boastful, or ignoble in its tone. It would be idle to say that this alone constitutes, for an American, the basis of fame; for the high imaginative powers of Poe, with his especial gift of melody, though absolutely without national flavor, have achieved for him European fame, at least in France, this being due, however, mainly to his prose rather than to his poetry, and perhaps also the result, more largely than we recognize, of the assiduous discipleship of a single Frenchman, just as Carlyle's influence in America was due largely to Emerson. Be this as it may, it is certain that the hold of both Longfellow and Whittier is a thing absolutely due, first, to the elevated tone of their works, and secondly, that they have made themselves the poets of the people. No one can attend popular meetings in England without being struck with the readiness with which quotations from these two poets are heard from the lips of speakers, and this, while not affording the highest test of poetic
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
gfellow's seventy-fifth birthday, 291. Cambridge Tribune, the, 117 note. Cambridge, Eng., 220, 288. Campbell, Thomas, 7, 62. Canova, Anthony, 34. Carey & Lea, 51. Carey and Hart, 166. Caribbean Sea, 266. Carlisle, Eng., 219. Carlyle, Thomas, 87, 90, 92, 259. Carlyle, Mrs., Thomas, 90, 92. Carlyles, the, 91. Carpenter, Prof. George R., 127; his Longfellow, cited, 127 note, 166 note. Carter, Mr. (Longfellow's teacher), 15,17. Carter, James G., 23. Cervantes, Miguel deCarlyle, Mrs., Thomas, 90, 92. Carlyles, the, 91. Carpenter, Prof. George R., 127; his Longfellow, cited, 127 note, 166 note. Carter, Mr. (Longfellow's teacher), 15,17. Carter, James G., 23. Cervantes, Miguel de, 188. Chamberlain Collection of Autographs, 139 note. Channing, W. Ellery, 271. Channing, Rev. William E., 11, 164. Chantrey, Sir, Francis, 90. Charles River, 116, 118. Chasles, Prof., Philarete, 195; describes Longfellow, 196,197. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 249. Chelsea, Eng., 90. Chivers, Dr. Thomas H., 145; his Eonchs of Ruby, mentioned, 143; quoted, 144. Christian Examiner, the, 112,113 note. Christiana, 103. Christus, Longfellow begins, 236; appeared, 242. Civil War, th