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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 18: birds of passage (search)
of a Wayside Inn, through the urgency of Charles Sumner. It is the common fate of those poets who live to old age, that their critics, or at least their contemporary critics, are apt to find their later work less valuable than their earlier. Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne, to mention no others, have had to meet this fate, and Longfellow did not escape it. Whether it is that the fame of the earlier work goes on accumulating while the later has not yet been tested by time, or that contemporded as altogether successful literary undertakings. It is obvious that historic periods differ wholly in this respect; and all we can say is that while quite mediocre poets were good dramatists in the Elizabethan period, yet good poets have usually failed as dramatists in later days. Longfellow's efforts on this very ground were not less successful, on the whole, than those of Tennyson and Swinburne; nor does even Browning, tried by the test of the actual stage, furnish a complete exception.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 23: Longfellow as a poet (search)
own judgment, and did not make them, as Whittier and even Browning often did, in deference to the judgment of dull or incompke ships upon the sea. But it is a vast step from this to Browning's mountain picture Toward it tilting cloudlets prest Like Persian ships to Salamis. In Browning everything is vigorous and individualized. We see the ships, we know the nationaongfellow for Tennyson, just as they forsake Tennyson for Browning. As to action, the tonic of life, so far as he had it, reater than himself. He was one of the first students of Browning in America, when the latter was known chiefly by his Bellone must say who reads it. He is an extraordinary genius, Browning, with dramatic power of the first order. Paracelsus he d, with some justice, as very lofty, but very diffuse. Of Browning's Christmas Eve he later writes, A wonderful man is BrownBrowning, but too obscure, and later makes a similar remark on The Ring and the Book. Of Tennyson he writes, as to The Princess,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
r, Elder, 13. British Museum, 5. Brittany, 158. Brock, Thomas, 249. Brookline, Mass., 146, 284. Brown, Charles Brockden, 132, 143. Brown, John, 271. Browning, Robert, 3, 6, 216, 218, 267; compared with Longfellow, 270; Longfellow a student of, 272, 273. Brownson, Orestes A., 125. Bruges, 161. Brunswick, Me., 18, 64al affairs, 260; dislikes English criticism of our literature, 263, 264; manner in which his poems came to him, 264,265; his alterations, 266, 267; compared with Browning, 270; relations with Whittier and Emerson, 271, 272; on Browning, 272, 273; on Tennyson, 273; his table-talk, 273-275; unpublished poems, 276; descriptions of, 2Browning, 272, 273; on Tennyson, 273; his table-talk, 273-275; unpublished poems, 276; descriptions of, 278, 279; his works popular, 280; Cardinal Wiseman on, 281; resembles Turgenieff, 282; home life, 282-285; member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Academy, 288; removal of spreading chestnut-tree and armchair made, 289, 290; his speech at Cambridge anniversary, 290, 291; his study, 291, 292; as a man, 292, 293; sickne
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The funeral of Thackeray. (search)
ens was naturally present at the solemnity. Some who were aware of the long-established friendship between the deceased and the author of "sartor Resartus," looked for him, too, in the group; but Mr. Carlyle dislikes crowds; and is all but a septuagenarian, and he was not recognized among the spectators. Among other mourners were Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. John Leech, Mr. Tennie., Mr. Horace Mayhew, in short, the whole staff of contributors to Punch; Mr. Robert Browning, the poet; Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. John Hollingshead, Mr. G. H Lewes, Mr. Dallas, Dr. W Russell, Sir James Carmichael, Mr. H Cole, Mr. Robert Bell, Or Creswick, R A; Mr. George Cruikshank, Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E Piggot, Mr. Louis Blane, &c. The numbers present amounted to nearly a thousand. The scene at the grave, both during and after the ceremony of interment, was extremely affecting. The silence was profound, and every countenance bespoke a deep sense o
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