Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
[NOTE: There are short lists of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the major sections for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]
The beautiful elms that shaded great part of the way massed themselves in the "groves of academe" at the Square, and showed pleasant glimpses of "Old Harvard's scholar factories...
7. Chapter 7The editor passed away too, not long after, and the thing that he had inspired altogether ceased to be. He was a man of a certain sardonic power, and used it rather fiercely and...
4. Chapter 4As it fell out, I lived without farther difficulty to the day and hour of the dinner Lowell made for me; and I really think, looking at myself impersonally, and remembering the...
5. Chapter 5I wonder if there is a stage that still runs between Lowell and Concord, past meadow walls, and under the caressing boughs of way-side elms, and through the bird-haunted gloom o...
6. Chapter 6It was his great fortune to have been mostly misunderstood, and to have reached the dense intelligence of his fellow-men after a whole lifetime of perfectly simple and lucid app...
2. Chapter 2I have followed him far from the moment of our first meeting; but even on my way to venerate those New England luminaries, which chiefly drew my eyes, I could not pay a less dev...
1. Chapter 1[NOTE: There are short lists of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the major sections for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them...
8. Chapter 8I suppose it was he who introduced me to the Stoddards, whom I met in New York just before I sailed, and who were then in the glow of their early fame as poets. They knew about...