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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
ittier called the Aronia-- When the Aronia by the river Lighted up the swarming shad. Professor Woodberry finely says of the Puritans, Their very hymns had lost the sense of poetic form. They had in truth forgotten poetry; the perception of it as a noble and exquisite form of language had gone from them, nor did it come back until Bryant recaptured for the first time its grander lines at the same time that he gave landscape to the virgin horizons of the country. Harper's magazine, July, 1902. He alone, of all the poets, reached far enough into the zenith to touch the annual wonder of migrating wild fowl — what the fine old Transcendentalist, Daniel Ricketson, well calls the sublime chant of wild geese --and to bring it into human song. His merely boyish poems sent by his kindred for publication,--the Thanatopsis in particular, written at seventeen,--have perhaps never been equaled in literature by any boy of that age; his blank verse was beyond that of any American poet. Hi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
rs's Nathaniel Parker Willis, in American men of letters series, 1885. E. Cary's George William Curtis, in American men of letters series, 1894. (B) Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates of the Knickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's Literary history, Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in Hiarper's magazine, July, 1902. Chapter 5: New England period — Preliminary (A) G. T. Curtis's Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1869-1870. W. H. Channing's Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols., Crosby and Nichols, 1848. H. B. Adams's Life and writings of Jared Sparks, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893. George Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Ticknor & Reed, 1863. Mrs. J. T. Fields's Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. (B) Webster's