American literary mastersVincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)
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American literary masters
Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)
American literature -- History and criticism; Authors, American
Lowell, James Russell: his ancestry, 453;
education, 454;
starts ‘The Pioneer,’ 454;
first books, 455;
connection with ‘The National Anti-Slavery Standard,’ 456;
winter abroad, 456;
death of Mrs. Lowell, 457;
Harvard professor, 457;
second marriage, 457;
editor of Atlantic Monthly’ and ‘North American Review,’ 458;
list of books published, 458;
Minister to Spain, 459;
Minister to England, 460;
last years, 460;
character, 461;
style, 463;
criticism of his works, 465–482.
Lowell family, 453.
‘Lynn Pythoness,’ 259.
_Mahomet and his Successors_, 9, 23.
_Maine Woods, The_, 324, 330.
‘MS. Found in a Bottle,’ wins prize, 193.
_Marble Faun, The_, 291, 310.
_Margaret Smith’s Journal, Leaves from_, 262, 267, 268.
_Masque, The, of Pandora_, 226, 248.
_Masque, The, of the Gods_, 405, 413.
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, its treatment of Emerson, 155.
Mather, Cotton, Longfellow’s treatment of, in _The New England
Tragedies_, 247.
_Mercedes of Castile_, 71, 92.
_Merry-Mount_, 360, 361.
_Michael Angelo_, 227, 248.
_Miles Wallingford_, 71, 88.
_Miriam_, 263, 280.
Mitchell, Donald Grant: his ancestry and education, 439;
his first book, 439;
consul at Venice, 441;
marriage, 441;
list of his books, 441;
editorial work and lecturing, 442;
his character and literary style, 442;
criticism of his works, 444–450.
_Mogg Megone_, 261;
Whittier’s objection to reprinting, 266, 270.
_Monikins, The_, 70, 92.
Montaigne, as one of Emerson’s _Representative Men_, 172.
_Montcalm and Wolfe_, 382, 391, 395.
Moody, Father, 148.
‘Morituri Salutamus,’ anecdote of the reading of, at Bowdoin, 229.
Morris, William, reference to his _Earthly Paradise_, 244.
_Mortal Antipathy, A_, 340, 353.
_Mosses from an Old Manse_, 290, 299.
Motley, John Lothrop: his ancestry and education, 359;
foreign study, 360;
intimacy with Bismarck, 360;
admission to the bar, 360;
marriage, 360;
publication of novels and essays, 360;
Secretary to American Legation in St. Petersburg, 361;
member of Massachusetts legislature, 361;
residence abroad for historical study, 362;
scholastic honors, 363;
Minister to Austria, 363;
to England, 364;
death, 364;
his character, 365;
style, 367;
criticism of his histories, 369–376;
Holmes’s memoir of, 354.
Murat, Achille, meets Emerson, 149.
_My Farm of Edgewood_, 441, 448.
_My Study Windows_, 458, 475.
Napoleon, Emerson’s estimate of, 172.
_Narrative, The, of Arthur Gordon Pym_, 194, 203.
‘National Anti-Slavery Standard,’ Lowell’s connection with, 456.
_Natural History of Intellect_, 156, 183.
_Nature_, Emerson’s, 151, 155, 160, 176.
_Ned Myers_, 66, 71.
Netherlands, Motley’s history of, 362, 369, 373.
‘Neutral ground, The,’ 75.
_New England Tragedies, The_, 226, 245.
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