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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
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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.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
y by the circumstance that, on visiting their shop one day, during the negotiations, I met for the first and only time Walt Whitman. He was there to consult them about the publication of his poems, and I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handey Lanier's subsequent vigorous phrase, a dandy roustabout. This passing impression did not hinder me from thinking of Whitman with hope and satisfaction at a later day when regiments were to be raised for the war, when the Bowery seemed the very to enlist them, and even Billy Wilson's Zouaves were hailed with delight. When, however, after waiting a year or more, Whitman decided that the proper post for him was hospital service, I confess to feeling a reaction, which was rather increased tspital attendance is a fine thing, no doubt, yet if all men, South and North, had taken the same view of their duty that Whitman held, there would have been no occasion for hospitals on either side. The only persons beside myself who were intimat
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 11 (search)
ix o'clock, at that Club. The Savile Club and Cosmopolitan Club were also attractive. The most agreeable private receptions of poets and artists were then to be found, I think, at the house of William Rossetti, where one not merely had the associations and atmosphere of a brilliant family,--which had already lost, however, its most gifted member,--but also encountered the younger set of writers, who were all preraphaelites in art, and who read Morris, Swinburne, and for a time, at least, Whitman and even Joaquin Miller. There one met Mrs. Rossetti, who was the daughter of Madox Brown, and herself an artist; also Alma Tadema, just returned from his wedding journey to Italy with his beautiful wife. One found there men and women then coming forward into literature, but now much better known,--Edmund Gosse, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Cayley, the translator of Dante, and Miss Robinson, now Madame Darmesteter. Sometimes I went to the receptions of our fellow countrywoman, Mrs. Moulton, the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
shington, George, 16. Wasson, D. A., 112, 169. Watkins, W. I., 217. Watson, Marston, 78. Webb, Seth, 157. Webster, Daniel, 82, 136, 297. Webster, J. W., 27. Weiss, John, 103, 169. Weld, S. M., 78. Weller, Sam, 334. Wells, W. H., 129. Wells, William, 19, 20, 2x. Wendell, Barrett, 52. Wentworth, Amy, 8. Weyman, Stanley, 29. Whewell, William, 92, 101. Whipple, E. P., 170, 176. White, A. D. , 312. White, Blanco, 183. White, William, 126. White fugitive slaves, 146. Whitman, Walt, 230, 231, 289. Whittier, J. G., 8, 111, 128, 132, 133, 134, 135, 168, 171, 178, 179, 180, 185, 237. Whittier, Elizabeth, 133, 134. Wightman, Mayor, 244. Wilberforce, William, 327. Wilder, S. V. S., 10. Willis, Mr. 233. Willis, N. P., 95, 271. Wilson, Billy, 231. Wimpffen, General, 324 Wines, E. C., 310. Winkelried, Arnold, 154. Winnemucca, Sarah, 87. Winthrop, R. C., 53. Winthrop, Theodore, 107. Wise, H. A., 224, 225. Woman's Rights Movement, 120. Woman Suffrage, 121.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
ter 12 and they had just come down to breakfast. He and his son both work for morning papers and are up late. Then appeared at the door a great cheery handsome ruddy face with a mass of light gray hair standing out wildly all about it—this was Mrs. M. They are much with all the literary people, Rossettis, etc., and confirmed what I had heard that there is a strong reaction against Dickens—it is not the thing to admire him, his subjects are thought commonplace and his sentiments forced. Walt Whitman among their set is the American poet; the taste for Miller has passed by and though he is here his poetry is forgotten. He was thought original and characteristic and when he came to parties with trousers thrust in his boots, he was thought the only American who dared do in England as he would do at home. Whittier was unknown they said, and Lowell only through the Biglow Papers. Swinburne calls him no poet but a critic who tries to write poetry. （13-14 June) I spent in Conway's Conv<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
n the birth of a beautiful girl baby with abundant black hair and fine health. He wrote in November, 1906:— I may be relied on to keep on working here to the last, for my own pleasure if for nothing else, but the silent and gradual withdrawal from the world in which I was once so active does not trouble me at all. Nor have I the slightest fear of death, whether it be that something or nothing lies beyond it. The former seems to me altogether the more probable. These lines of Walt Whitman's were quoted by him with deep emotion, and he once said that he would like to have them engraved on his memorial stone:— Joy, Shipmate, joy! (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps, She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, Shipmate, joy! December 21, 1907, he wrote:— December 21, 1907. This being the last day of my 84 years, I laid out some pleasant work during the coming<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
etches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） On the Outskirts of Public Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） The First Black Regiment. (In Outlook, July 2.) Anti-Slavery Days. (In Outlook, Sept. 3.) Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) 1899 Contemporaries. Def. II. Contents: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Amos Bronson Alcott. Theodore Parker. John Greenleaf Whittier. Walt Whitman. Sidney Lanier. An Evening with Mrs. Hawthorne. Lydia Maria Child. Helen Jackson (H. H.) John Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anti-Slavery Career. Ulysses Simpson Grant. The Eccentricities of Reformers. The Road to England. Old Cambridge. Contents: I. Old Cambridge. II. Old Cambridge in Three Literary Epochs. III. Holme
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
n, Booker, school, 365; and northern colored people, 366. Washington, D. C., plan for safety of, 203-05. Wasson, David, and T. W. Higginson, 100, 101. Webb, R. D., Higginson visits, 322. Weiss, Rev. Mr., 267. Weld, Samuel, Higginson teaches in school of, 41-46. Wells, William, his school, 14, 15. Wentworth, Sir, John, 4. Wentworth, John, Governor of New Hampshire, 3. Western Reserve University, confers degree on Col. Higginson, 377; Higginson lectures at, 382. Whitman, Walt, 336; Higginson quotes, 395. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 336; Higginson visits, 98, 266; described, 259. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 424; Higginson at work on, 386. Williams, Henry, 233. Wilson, John. See North, Christopher. Woman and the Alphabet, or Ought Women to learn the Alphabet? 407; inquiry about, 156; influence of, 156, 157. Women and Men, 308, 418. Woman Who Most Influenced Me, The, 7, 421. Woman's Suffrage, rights of women, 73, 92, 93, 137, 138, 141; conventi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8: the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
Chapter 8: the Southern influence---Whitman We have had to speak, thus far, mainly of work doese criticisms is his estimate of Whitman. Whitman represented to Lanier a literary spirit alienracy and a sound republic, than in an army of Whitman's unshaven loafers. This came, be it remembe have followed out this line of thought about Whitman, not merely for its own sake, but because it he Sir Galahad among our American poets. Walt Whitman We may, perhaps, include here what is torevert to the ranks of order before they die. Whitman abstained, through all his later publicationsam or Rabbi Ben Ezra, as the case may be; but Whitman enumerates priests on the earth, oracles, sactic structure or stricturelessness implied in Whitman's volumes, that his warmest admirers usually ethods that it falls naturally into rhyme. Whitman can never be classed as Spinoza was by Schleis has no visible place. When Thoreau says of Whitman, He does not celebrate love at all; it is as [8 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
a fortunate fact that popular judgment, even at the time, is apt to fix upon some one poem by each poet, for instance, and connect the author with that poem inseparably thenceforward. Fate appears to assign to each some one boat, however small, on which his fame may float down towards immortality, even if it never attains it. This is the case, for instance, with Longfellow's Hiawatha, Lowell's Commemoration Ode, Holmes's Chambered Nautilus, Whittier's Snow-bound, Mrs. Howe's Battle Hymn, Whitman's My Captain, Aldrich's Fredericksburg sonnet, Helen Jackson's Spinning, Thoreau's Smoke, Bayard Taylor's Song of the Camp, Emerson's Daughters of time, Burroughs's Serene I Fold my hands, Piatt's The morning Street, Mrs. Hooper's I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, Stedman's Thou art mine, Thou hast given thy word, Wasson's All's well, Brownlee Brown's Thalatta, Ellery Channing's To-morrow, Harriet Spofford's In a summer evening, Lanier's Marshes of Glynn, Mrs. Moulton's The closed g
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
1848-49); selected lectures entitled Literature and life (1849) ; Character and characteristics of men (1866) ; The literature of the age of Elizabeth (1869) ; and Success and its conditions (1871). He also edited with James T. Fields the Family Library of British poetry (1878). There were issued posthumously Recollections of eminent men (1887); American literature, and other papers (1887); and Outlooks on society, literature and politics (1888). Died in Boston, Mass., June 16, 1886. Whitman, Walt Or Walter. Born in West Hills, Long Island, N. Y., May 31, 1819. He was, in early life, a printer in summer and a school teacher in winter, and helped edit several country papers. He served as an army nurse in the Civil War and later held several government positions. His works include Leaves of grass (1855); Drum Taps (1865) ; Memoranda during the War (1867); Democratic Vistas (1870); Passage to India (1870), containing his poem, The burial Hymn of Lincoln; after all, not to crea
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