The world: historical and actual . J. G. WHITTIER. WILLIAM ClLLEN BRYANT, gland as the Biglow Paper?. But Lowell is some-thing morethan a humor-ist. His poet-ry is beautifuland prose heexcels as acritic. His es-says, publishedoriginally inthe North A-mericanRevie/iv,on literary top-ics, attractedwide and ad-miring atten-tion in En-gland. As anessayist he hasonly one equalin the country, E. P. Whipple, of Boston. Wendell Holmes combines prose and poetry. JAM!-- RUSSELL LOWELL. AMERICAN LITERATURE. 647 While Longfellow and Whittier never venture out-side of verse, and Lowel
The world: historical and actual . J. G. WHITTIER. WILLIAM ClLLEN BRYANT, gland as the Biglow Paper?. But Lowell is some-thing morethan a humor-ist. His poet-ry is beautifuland prose heexcels as acritic. His es-says, publishedoriginally inthe North A-mericanRevie/iv,on literary top-ics, attractedwide and ad-miring atten-tion in En-gland. As anessayist he hasonly one equalin the country, E. P. Whipple, of Boston. Wendell Holmes combines prose and poetry. JAM!-- RUSSELL LOWELL. AMERICAN LITERATURE. 647 While Longfellow and Whittier never venture out-side of verse, and Lowell only entered the smallerfield of criticism, Dr. Holmes boldly launched outU230U the broad ocean ofromance and the exceed-ingly perilous gulf of pro-fessional wit. His ElsieTermor is an admirablestory, and his Autocrat ofthe Breakfast Table is awell of wit untainted byany coarseness. Holmeshas the greatest versatil-ity of genius of any Amer-ican author. This princeof magazinists was bornin 1809. What Goetheand Schiller and theircompeers were to the courtof Weimar, are Longfel-low, Whittier, Lowell andHolmes to the literarycapital of America, Bos-ton, and its immediatevicinity. There are bril-liant and somewhat illustrious representatives ofthe younger and more active school, or set of mag-azinists, but their glory fades and pales in compar-ison with thepoets who havelifted Americanliterature fromthe dust of con-tempt and madethis country thecompanion inliterary reno
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