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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
ay well be called provincial. The Knickerbocker magazine, for instance, they liked to personify as Maga after the fashion of Blackwood; the only bit of such affectation, it may be said, which survived long enough to disfigure even the early Atlantic. The whole New York school, apart from Irving and Cooper, has undergone a reaction in fame, a reaction perhaps excessive and best exhibited in the brilliant article called Knickerbocker literature published many years ago in the Nation, Dec. 5, 1867 (Xix. 362). written by a young Harvard graduate named John Richard Dennett, long since dead. He sums up his diatribe — perhaps rather exaggerated — by saying that all these men were our first crop and very properly were ploughed in, and though nothing of the same sort has come up since, and we may be permitted to hope that nothing of just the same sort will ever come up, yet certainly they did something toward fertilizing the soil. All this period is now removed by half a century; and