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East Parish (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
y, friend Thayer, the picture is a dark one--but from my heart I believe it to be true. What, then, remains for me? School-keeping -out upon it! The memory of last year's experience comes up before me like a horrible dream. No, I had rather be a tin-peddler, and drive around the country with a bunch of sheepskins hanging to my wagon. I had rather hawk essences from dwelling to dwelling, or practise physic between Colly Hill and Country Bridge [the most sparsely settled portion of the East Parish]. Seriously-the situation of editor of the Philanthropist is not only respectable, but it is peculiarly pleasant to one who takes so deep an interest, as I really do, in the great cause it is labouring to promote. I would enter upon my task with a heart free from misanthropy, and glowing with that feeling that wishes well to all. I would rather have the memory of a Howard, a Wilberforce, and a Clarkson than the undying fame of Byron. ... I should like to see or hear from Mr. Carlto
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
erse, and showed, like the early works of Hawthorne, the influence of Irving. The only things preserved from it, even in the appendix to his collected poems, are two entitled Metacom and Mount Agioochook Works, IV. 343-8.; and he has wisely preserved nothing of the very rhetorical and melodramatic prose writing. Yet he showed in these the desire for home themes and the power to discover them. In The Rattlesnake hunter the theme is an old man who devotes his life, among the mountains of Vermont, to the extirpation of rattlesnakes, one of which has killed his wife. The Unquiet sleeper is based on the tradition of an old man in a New Hampshire village who died suddenly near his home, and whose cries were heard at night from the grave; the author claiming to have known people who had actually heard them. The spectre ship is from a tradition in Mather's Magnalia. The Midnight attack is a narrative of adventure with the Indians on the Kennebec River in 1722, on the part of Captain
Bennington, Vt. (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
range of titles as The Vale of the Merrimack, The death of Alexander, The voice of time, The Burial of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, To the Memory of William Penn, The Shipwreck, Paulowna Memory, and the like; but it is impossible now to find in these the traces of genius which Garrison saw, or thought he saw; nor has their author preserved any of the above, except the first two, even in the appendix to his Riverside edition. Later, when Garrison edited The Journal of the Times at Bennington, Vt., he printed in it four poems by Whittier, and wrote of him, Our friend Whittier seems determined to elicit our best panegyrics, and not ours only, but also those of the public. His genius and situation no more correspond with each other than heaven and earth. But let him not despair. Fortune will come, ere long, with both hands full. Garrison's Journal of the Times, Dec. 5, 1828; Life, I. 115. Whittier was by this time editing the American Manufacturer in Boston. When Garrison w
Lexington (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
h he saved toward paying off the mortgage on his father's farm, and he could avail himself of the Boston libraries which then seemed to him large, though they would now appear small. Then for six months he edited the Haverhill Gazette, and also contributed to the New England Review of Hartford, Conn., then edited by the once famous wit and dashing writer, George D. Prentice. The latter afterward transferred the editorship of the New England Review to Whittier, he himself having gone to Lexington, Ky., to write the Life of Henry Clay, who was expecting a nomination for the Presidency. Nothing in the relation between Prentice and Whittier — the reckless man of the world and the shy young Quaker — seems quite so amusingly inappropriate as Prentice's first letter to him, ere they had even met. It runs thus: Whittier, I wish you were seated by my side, for I assure you that my situation, just now, is very much to my particular satisfaction. Here am I in my hotel, with a good-natur
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
impatient to hear people talk of the dulness and sordidness of young life in New England fifty years ago! There was Nature with its infinite variety; there were boos early poems The song of the Vermonters, 1779, published anonymously in the New England Magazine in 1833. He taught school in a modest way after his first half-yea for six months he edited the Haverhill Gazette, and also contributed to the New England Review of Hartford, Conn., then edited by the once famous wit and dashing wr George D. Prentice. The latter afterward transferred the editorship of the New England Review to Whittier, he himself having gone to Lexington, Ky., to write the Lrd president of Columbia College. Whittier's first thin volume, Legend of New England (Hartford, Hanmer and Phelps, 1831), was published with some difficulty at th haunted his whole life. This obliged him to give up the editorship of the New England Review and to leave Hartford on Jan. 1, 1832. He had been editing the Liter
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
differing from all contemporary American poets-Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Poe, and Lowell. Whittier's desires in youth were almost equally divided between politics and poetry; and there presently appeared a third occupation in the form of that latent physical disease which haunted his whole life. This obliged him to give up the editorship of the New England Review and to leave Hartford on Jan. 1, 1832. He had been editing the Literary remains of J. G. C. Brainard, an early Connecticut poet, and wrote a preface, but did not see it in print until he had returned to Haverhill. He wrote about himself thus frankly to Mrs. Sigourney (Feb. 2, 1832) as to his condition of mind and body at that period. I intended when I left Hartford to proceed immediately to the West. But a continuance of ill health has kept me at home. I have scarcely done anything this winter. There have been few days in which I have been able to write with any degree of comfort. I have indeed th
Newburyport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
d early ventures The whole story of Whittier's beginnings as a poet is like something from an old-fashioned German novel of Friendship — for instance, by Jean Paul — it was the casual discovery of a gifted boy by another barely grown to manhood, this leading to a life-long friendship, occasionally clouded for a time by decided differences of opinion and action. William Lloyd Garrison, a young printer's apprentice, just embarked at twenty-one on a weekly newspaper in his native town of Newburyport, near Haverhill, published in the twelfth number some verses entitled The Exile's departure and signed W., Haverhill, June 1, 1826 ; verses to which the young editor appended this note, If W. at Haverhill will continue to favour us with pieces as beautiful as the one inserted in our poetical department of to-day, we shall esteem it a favour. The poem itself, now interesting chiefly as a milestone, is as follows:-- Fond scenes, which have delighted my youthful existence, With feelings o
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ted poems, are two entitled Metacom and Mount Agioochook Works, IV. 343-8.; and he has wisely preserved nothing of the very rhetorical and melodramatic prose writing. Yet he showed in these the desire for home themes and the power to discover them. In The Rattlesnake hunter the theme is an old man who devotes his life, among the mountains of Vermont, to the extirpation of rattlesnakes, one of which has killed his wife. The Unquiet sleeper is based on the tradition of an old man in a New Hampshire village who died suddenly near his home, and whose cries were heard at night from the grave; the author claiming to have known people who had actually heard them. The spectre ship is from a tradition in Mather's Magnalia. The Midnight attack is a narrative of adventure with the Indians on the Kennebec River in 1722, on the part of Captain Harmon and thirty forest rangers. The human sacrifice records the escape of a young white girl from Indians, who are terrified by rumbling noises t
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ds, and to suggest puzzling doubts and queries. When a wrong was to be righted or an evil to be remedied, he was readier to act than any young man I ever knew, and was very wise in his action, shrewd, sensible, practical. The influence of his Quaker bringing — up was manifest. I think it was always his endeavour To render less The sum of human wretchedness. This, I say, was his stedfast endeavour, in spite of an inborn love of teasing. He was very modest, never conceited, never egotistew to Whittier, he himself having gone to Lexington, Ky., to write the Life of Henry Clay, who was expecting a nomination for the Presidency. Nothing in the relation between Prentice and Whittier — the reckless man of the world and the shy young Quaker — seems quite so amusingly inappropriate as Prentice's first letter to him, ere they had even met. It runs thus: Whittier, I wish you were seated by my side, for I assure you that my situation, just now, is very much to my particular satisf<
Haverhill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
aper in his native town of Newburyport, near Haverhill, published in the twelfth number some versesntitled The Exile's departure and signed W., Haverhill, June 1, 1826 ; verses to which the young editor appended this note, If W. at Haverhill will continue to favour us with pieces as beautiful asyouth should be sent to a better school than Haverhill then afforded. The elder Whittier did not pce between Garrison and some young ladies in Haverhill who called themselves Inquirers after truth. I. 331. Garrison wrote after the visit to Haverhill (1833), To see my dear Whittier once more, fhan I, lived three miles from the village of Haverhill, where my father's home was, and was nearly by posting the ledgers of a business man in Haverhill. Through Garrison he was offered the editorociety! Would to fortune I could come to Haverhill, before my return to Hartford — but the thinnot see it in print until he had returned to Haverhill. He wrote about himself thus frankly to M[2 more...]
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