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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8: the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
on Longfellow as a willful plagiarist, denouncing the trivial resemblance between his Midnight Mass for the dying year and Tennyson's Death of the old year, as belonging to the most barbarous class of literary piracy. To make this attack was, as he boasted, to throttle the guilty; and while dealing thus ferociously with Longfellow, thus condescendingly with Hawthorne, he was claiming a foremost rank among American authors for obscurities now forgotten, such as Mrs. Amelia B. Welby and Estelle Anne Lewis. No one ever did more than Poe to lower the tone of literary criticism in this country; and the greater his talent, the greater the mischief. Poe's criticisms sprang from prejudice and the narrow logical faculty in which his intellect mainly consisted, while the poetry upon which his fame rests was the product of true creative power. That poetry is of small bulk and of smaller range. Most of it is based on neither deep thought, nor passionate feeling, nor spiritual insight. Its
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
rsonal narratives in the woods, beginning in 1831--and Timothy Flint, who wrote Ten years in the Valley of the Mississippi (1826), and also who wrote from Cincinnati to the London Athenaeum and had his books translated into French. These books, with those of Peter Parley (sometimes written by Hawthorne), gave a most vivid charm to the Western wilds and rivers. In The pioneers Cooper made us already conscious citizens of a great nation, and took our imagination as far as the Mississippi. Lewis and Clark carried us beyond the Mississippi (1814). About 1835 Oregon expeditions were forming, and I remember when boys in New England used to peep through barn doors to admire the great wagons in which the emigrants were to travel. Then came Mrs. Kirkland's A New home, Who'll follow? （1839). Besides this we had Irving's Tour of the prairies (1835) and his Astoria the following year. The West was still a word for vast expeditions, for the picturesqueness and the uncertainty of Indian li
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
ns of a Preceptress, Hannah Webster's, 92. Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, Dickinson's, 54. Letters from New York, Mrs. Child's, 126. Letters from Silesia, J. Q. Adams's, 66. Lettersfrom under a Bridge, Willis's, 261. Lewis, Estelle Anne, 210. Lewis and Clark, 239. Lexington, Battle of, 41, 59. Library of American biography, Sparks's, 71. Life and light, White's, 263. Life of Columbus, Irving's, 87, 119. Lincoln, Earl of, 10. Literary magazine and AmericLewis and Clark, 239. Lexington, Battle of, 41, 59. Library of American biography, Sparks's, 71. Life and light, White's, 263. Life of Columbus, Irving's, 87, 119. Lincoln, Earl of, 10. Literary magazine and American Register, 70. Little boy Blue, Field's, 264. Little Giffen, Ticknor's, 216. Living world, Buel's, 263. London monthly Review, 69. London times, 95. Longfellow, Heury Wadsworth, 89, 90, 104, 105, 131, 135-145, 152, 153, 161, 170, 184, 197, 203, 210, 235, 258, 264. Lowell, James Russell, 50, 89, 95, 126, 133, 135, 137, 146, 152, 153, 160-166, 178, 192-197, 216, 242, 264. MacBETHeth, 279. McFingal, Trumbull's, 41. Madison, James, 38. Magazines, New England, 131-133. Alagn
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Poe. (search)
resemblance between his Midnight Mass for the Dying year and Tennyson's Death of the Old year, as belonging to the most barbarous class of literary piracy. Works, ed. 1853, III., 325. To make this attack was, as he boasted, to throttle the guilty; Works, ed. 1853, III., 300. and while dealing thus ferociously with Longfellow, thus condescendingly with Hawthorne, he was claiming a foremost rank among American authors for obscurities now forgotten, such as Mrs. Amelia B. Welby and Estelle Anne Lewis. No one ever did more than Poe to lower the tone of literary criticism in this country; and the greater his talent, the greater the mischief. As a poet he held for a time the place earlier occupied by Byron, and later by Swinburne, as the patron saint of all wilful boys suspected of genius, and convicted at least of its infirmities. He belonged to the melancholy class of wasted men, like the German Hoffman, whom perhaps of all men of genius he most resembled. No doubt, if we are