One in a Judaean manger,which he declared was more than the Atlantic could be held responsible for. Emerson, who really knew little as to what the public thought of him, was for once indignant. He said: “I ”
And one by Avon stream,
One over against the mouths of Nile,
And one in the Academe.
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poem answering her objections in the form of an allegory, and that this finally convinced her. If he had considered material interests he would have married differently.
In November, 1857, the firm of Phillips & Sampson issued the first number of the Atlantic Monthly in the cause of high-minded literature, --a cause which ultimately proved to be their ruin.
Lowell accepted the position of editor, and such a periodical as it proved to be under his guidance could not have been found in England, and perhaps not in the whole of Europe; but it could not be made to pay, and two years later Phillips & Sampson failed,--partly on that account, and partially the victims of a piratical opposition.
Lowell published Emerson's “Brahma” in spite of the shallow ridicule with which he foresaw it would be greeted; but when Emerson sent him his “Song of nature” he returned it on account of the single stanza:
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