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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
was Nathaniel Parker Willis, once so famous that he boasted to Longfellow of making ten thousand dollars a year by his writings at a time when Longfellow wished he himself had made ten hundred. He was also the first to demonstrate the truth, long since so well established by others, that the highest circles of English society are only too easily penetrable by any American not hampered with too much modesty. Still another was Charles Fenno Hoffman, whom Dr. Griswold describes as the Knickerbocker Moore, and who wrote the song Sparkling and Bright. There was no doubt a certain imitativeness about these men which may 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