Thomas wentworth higginson

betekenis & definitie

noordamerikaansch schrijver, geb. 22 Dec. 1823 te Cambridge bij Boston, was predikant, nam deel aan den abolitie-oorlog, wijdde zich daarop geheel aan de letteren; hij gaf in het licht: Outdoor Papers (1863), Harvard memorial biographies (1866), Malbone, an Oldport romance (1869), Army life in a black regiment (1870), Young folk’s history of the United Stales (1875), Young folk’s book of American explorers (1877), Short studies of American authors (1880), Common sense about women (1881), Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884), Larger history of the United States (1885), Wendell Philipps (1884), The monarch of dreams (1886), Hints on writing and speech-making (1887), The afternoon landscape (gedichten en vertalingen, 1889), The New World and the new book (1892), Concerning all of us (1892), Such as they are (gedichten 1893), English history for American readers (met Channing, 1894), Book and Heart (Essays, 1897), Procession of the Flowers and kindred papers (1897), Tales of the enchanted islands of the Atlantic (1899), Old Cambridge (1899), Contemporaries (1899). Zijn Collected works verschenen in 1900 in 7 din.