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Elmwood, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
and as Lowell, too, had the same advantage, they could easily compare notes. In answer to a criticism of mine with reference to Longfellow's poem, The herons of Elmwood, on my theory that these herons merely flew over Elmwood and only built their nests in what were then the dense swamps east of Fresh Pond, he writes to me (JanuaElmwood and only built their nests in what were then the dense swamps east of Fresh Pond, he writes to me (January 4, 1899): I cannot swear that I ever saw a heron's nest at Elmwood. But Lowell told me of their nesting there, and only a few weeks ago Mrs. Burnett told me of the years when they had built in the pines and of the time of their final desertion of the place. To this he adds in a note dated five days later: As to the night-heronElmwood. But Lowell told me of their nesting there, and only a few weeks ago Mrs. Burnett told me of the years when they had built in the pines and of the time of their final desertion of the place. To this he adds in a note dated five days later: As to the night-herons lighting on pines, for many years they were in the habit of lighting and staying for hours upon mine and then flying off towards the [Chelsea] beach. This taste accounts for the immense zest and satisfaction with which Norton edited a hitherto unknown manuscript of the poet Gray's on natural history, with admirable illustrations
Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
X. Charles Eliot Norton It is a tradition in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Howells used to exult, on arriving from his Western birthplace, in having at length met for the first time, in Charles Eliot Norton, the only man he had ever seen who had been cultivated up to the highest point of which he was capable. To this the verdict of all Cambridge readily assented. What the neighbors could not at that time foresee was that the man thus praised would ever live to be an octogenaall summer, I did not know that he had been at Cambridge or ill, and on my writing to him received this cheerful and serene answer, wholly illustrative of the man, although the very fact that it was dictated was sadly ominous:-- Shady Hill, Cambridge, Mass., 6 October, 1908. My dear Higginson,--Your letter the other day from Ipswich gave me great pleasure. ... It had never occurred to me that you were associated with Ipswich through your Appleton relatives. My association with the old to
Shady Hill (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
one I've watched from childhood, free of guile, His man's firm courage and his woman's smile. His portals open to the needy still, He spreads calm sunshine over Shady Hill. The reference to the combined manly and womanly qualities of Norton spoke for itself, and won applause even before the place of residence was uttered; and I r memorial of our hereditary friendship. They bring to mind my Mother's affection for your Mother, and for Aunt Nancy, who was as dear an Aunt to us children at Shady Hill as she was to you and your brothers and sisters. What dear and admirable women! What simple, happy lives they led! No one's heart will be more deeply touchedon my writing to him received this cheerful and serene answer, wholly illustrative of the man, although the very fact that it was dictated was sadly ominous:-- Shady Hill, Cambridge, Mass., 6 October, 1908. My dear Higginson,--Your letter the other day from Ipswich gave me great pleasure. ... It had never occurred to me tha
Ashfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
nshine over Shady Hill. The reference to the combined manly and womanly qualities of Norton spoke for itself, and won applause even before the place of residence was uttered; and I received from Norton this recognition of the little tribute:-- Ashfield, 2 July, 1904. My dear Higginson,--Your friendly words about me in your Phi Beta poem give me so much pleasure that I cannot refrain from thanking you for them. I care for them specially as a memorial of our hereditary friendship. They brin singular felicity which characterizes him, says of Norton: He has been an epitome of the world's best thought brought to our own doors and opened for our daily use. Edith Wharton with equal felicity writes from Norton's well-known dwelling at Ashfield, whose very name, High Pasture, gives a signal for what follows: Come up — come up; in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ttractive. He was born in Cambridge, November 16, 1827, and died in the very house where he was born, October 21, 1908. He was descended, like several other New England authors, from a line of Puritan clergymen. He was the son of Professor Andrews Norton, of Harvard University, who was descended from the Rev. John Norton, bornuritan poetess, was also an ancestress of Charles Norton. His mother, Mrs. Caroline (Eliot) Norton, had also her ancestry among the most cultivated families in New England, the name of Eliot having been prominent for successive generations in connection with Harvard College. His parents had a large and beautiful estate in Cambridhe climax of them all, and the best illustration of the essential Americanism of Norton's career. He indeed afforded a peculiar and almost unique instance in New England, not merely of a cultivated man who makes his home for life in the house where he was born, but of one who has recognized for life the peculiar associations of
Vernon River, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
the early volumes of the Atlantic Monthly and see how largely he was relied upon for literary notices. If we examine, for instance, the fifth volume (1860), we find in the first number a paper on Clough's Plutarch's Lives, comprising ten pages of small print in double columns. There then follow in the same volume papers on Hodson's Twelve years of a Soldier's life in India, on Friends in council, on Brooks's Sermons, on Trollope's West Indies and the Spanish main, on Captain John Brown, on Vernon's Dante, and one on Model Lodging-houses in Boston. When we remember that his Notes of travel and study in Italy was also published in Boston that same year, being reviewed by some one in a notice of two pages in this same volume of the Atlantic, we may well ask who ever did more of genuine literary work in the same amount of time. This was, of course, before he became Professor in the college (1874), and his preoccupation in that way, together with his continuous labor on his translations
West Indies (search for this): chapter 11
preparation of Norton's mind, a student must take one of the early volumes of the Atlantic Monthly and see how largely he was relied upon for literary notices. If we examine, for instance, the fifth volume (1860), we find in the first number a paper on Clough's Plutarch's Lives, comprising ten pages of small print in double columns. There then follow in the same volume papers on Hodson's Twelve years of a Soldier's life in India, on Friends in council, on Brooks's Sermons, on Trollope's West Indies and the Spanish main, on Captain John Brown, on Vernon's Dante, and one on Model Lodging-houses in Boston. When we remember that his Notes of travel and study in Italy was also published in Boston that same year, being reviewed by some one in a notice of two pages in this same volume of the Atlantic, we may well ask who ever did more of genuine literary work in the same amount of time. This was, of course, before he became Professor in the college (1874), and his preoccupation in that w
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
merely of a cultivated man who makes his home for life in the house where he was born, but of one who has recognized for life the peculiar associations of his boyhood and has found them still the best. While Ruskin was pitying him for being doomed to wear out his life in America, Norton with pleasure made his birthplace his permanent abode, and fully recognized the attractions of the spot where he was born. What a fine microcosm, he wrote to me (January 9, 1899), Cambridge and Boston and Concord made in the 40's. Norton affords in this respect a great contrast to his early comrade, William Story, who shows himself in his letters wholly detached from his native land, and finds nothing whatever in his boyhood abode to attract him, although it was always found attractive, not merely by Norton, but by Agassiz and Longfellow, neither of whom was a native of Cambridge. The only safeguard for a solitary literary workman lies in the sequestered house without a telephone. This security
Puritan (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ed long enough to say with Goethe, It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed which I have not committed myself. This milder and more genial spirit increased constantly as Norton grew older, until it served at last only to make his high-bred nature more attractive. He was born in Cambridge, November 16, 1827, and died in the very house where he was born, October 21, 1908. He was descended, like several other New England authors, from a line of Puritan clergymen. He was the son of Professor Andrews Norton, of Harvard University, who was descended from the Rev. John Norton, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1651. The mother of the latter was the daughter of Emanuel Downing, and the niece of Governor John Winthrop. Mrs. Bradstreet, the well-known Puritan poetess, was also an ancestress of Charles Norton. His mother, Mrs. Caroline (Eliot) Norton, had also her ancestry among the most cultivated families in New England, the name of Eliot h
Addison, Steuben County, New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
more interesting studies in the development of literary individuality than are to be found in the successive works bearing Norton's name, as one looks through the list of them in the Harvard Library. The youth who entered upon literature anonymously, at the age of twenty-five, as a compiler of hymns under the title of Five Christmas hymns in 1852, and followed this by A book of hymns for young persons in 1854, did not even flinch from printing the tragically Calvinistic verse which closes Addison's famous hymn, beginning The Lord my pasture shall prepare, with a conclusion so formidable as death's gloomy horrors and dreadful shade. In 1855 he edited, with Dr. Ezra Abbot, his father's translations of the Gospels with notes (2 vols.), and his Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels (3 vols.). Charles Norton made further visits to Europe in 1855-57, and again resided there from 1868 until 1873; during which time his rapidly expanding literary acquaintanceships quite weaned his mi
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