Category: American Literature
Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies found in the original book have been maintained in this version. A complete list is found at the end of the text.
Born at Canandaigua, New York, 1883. Both his parents were Congregationalist preachers. A.B., Williams College, 1905. From 1907 to 1911, associate in philosophy at Columbia. In...
8. Chapter 8Boynton. Arena, 40 ('08): 18 (portrait), 20. Atlan. 103 ('09): 73. Dial, 45 ('08): 36. Ind. 72 ('12): 725. R. of Rs. 37 ('08): 757; 45 ('12): 633; 49 ('14): 501. (Portraits.)
7. Chapter 7Poems by Two Friends. 1860. (With John J. Piatt.) Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1860. Venetian Life. 1866. Italian Journeys. 1867. No Love Lost: A Romance of Travel. 1869. (Poems.) S...
10. Chapter 101. The following influences have entered largely into Oppenheim's work: Whitman, the Bible, and the theories of psycho-analysis developed by Freud and Jung. Without considering...
2. Chapter 2In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called _Silence_, which is one of the sculptor...
9. Chapter 9Danny's Own Story. 1912. Dreams and Dust. 1915. (Poems.) The Cruise of the Jasper B. 1916. *Hermione and her Little Group of Serious Thinkers. (Satire.) 1916. *Prefaces. 1919. C...
4. Chapter 4Even for those, however, who perceive that he belongs intellectually to a middle class which is neither very subtle nor very profound on the one hand nor very shrewd or very dow...
11. Chapter 11Bookm. 47 ('18): 389 (Phelps); 52 ('21): 242, 285 (_for_ 385); 53 ('21) 389 (portrait); 54 ('21): 360. Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 15. (Fletcher.) Dial, 61 ('16): 528; 65 ('18): 2...
12. Chapter 12Mr. Traubel is best known for his association with Whitman as friend, secretary, and literary executor. When Whitman went to Camden in 1873, he became a member of the Traubel ho...
3. Chapter 3Types of American Character. 1895. A Pageant of Life. 1904. The Private Tutor. 1904. Between Two Masters. 1906. Matthew Porter. 1908. Lee, the American. 1912. Confederate Portra...
6. Chapter 6Born in the Abruzzi, Italy, 1884, of a family of good social standing, his father and one of his brothers being doctors, and another brother a lawyer. Educated in a local Italia...
1. Chapter 1Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies found in the original book have been maintained in this version. A complete list is found at the end of...
13. Chapter 13Mr. Woodberry has published many volumes of poetry and criticism. His critical writings were brought together in his _Collected Essays_ (six volumes) in 1921. His most recent vo...
14. Chapter 14ITALY AND ITALIANS Daly, T.A. Fuller, Henry B. Howells, William Dean (A Foregone Conclusion) James, Henry (Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a...