Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911)
Autore di Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Opere di Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One 25 copie
Harvard Memorial Biographies 19 copie
Oldport Days, with Ten Heliotype Illustrations from Views Taken in Newport, R. I., Expressly for This Work (2006) 17 copie
In a Fair Country 17 copie
The New World and the New Book 13 copie
Women and Men 10 copie
The Complete Poems 4 copie
The sympathy of religions : an address delivered at Horticultural Hall, Boston, February 6, 1870 (2012) 2 copie
Woman and her wishes: an essay 2 copie
A Larger History of the United States of America to the Close of President Jackson's Administration (2012) 2 copie
American sonnets 1 copia
Travellers and outlaws,: Episodes in American history; with an appendix of authorities (1889) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
Epictetus - Discourses and Enchiridion (Classics Club) (1944) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 106 copie
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction (The Connoisseur's Collections) (2017) — Collaboratore — 61 copie
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4 (2020) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro (1905) — Introduzione — 13 copie
Representative American Short Stories — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Slave Narrative (Six Pack 7) - My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment,… (2017) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Great Bonanza — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Data di nascita
- 1823-12-22
- Data di morte
- 1911-05-09
- Sesso
- male
- NazionalitÃ
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University
Harvard Divinity School - Attività lavorative
- schoolmaster
pastor
author
abolitionist - Relazioni
- Dickinson, Emily (friend)
Higginson, Stephen (grandfather) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1898)
United States Army (Civil War)
51st Massachusetts Volunteers (Captain)
1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colonel)
Secret Six - Breve biografia
- Preacher and writer Higginson campaigned for the abolition of slavery, including helping to raise money for John Brown. He fought in the U.S. Civil War, and in his later years wrote in support of women's suffrage and had an advice column in the Atlantic Monthly to help writers. It was in response to this advice column that Emily Dickinson first sent him her poems, beginning decades of correspondence and friendship. Higginson was one of Dickinson's first supporters and edited the first publications of her work, although he is also criticized for editing her work too heavily.
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read: [White Heat], Dickinson/Higginson Friendship in Book talk (Giugno 2011)
Recensioni
Livet vid ett svart regemente under det nor… di Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Det första svarta regementet som stred i det amerikanska inbördeskriget sattes upp 1862. Till chef utsÃ¥gs Thomas Wentworh Higginson, en glödande idealist som tvingats lämna sin präst-bana pÃ¥ grund av sina tal om slavarnas frigörelse. Higginsons bok är en amerikansk klassiker som nu utkommer för första gÃ¥ngen i svensk översättning. Cilla Ingvar skriver i sin efterskrift: "Att Thomas Higginson blev ytterligt förvÃ¥nad när han, blott trettiosjuÃ¥rig, utnämndes till överste för det första svarta regementet nÃ¥gonsin i USA:s historia är förstÃ¥eligt; nÃ¥gon yrkesmilitär var han inte. När det hade börjat dra ihop sig kring 1860 utbildade han sig själv bland annat genom att läsa böcker om militär strategi, om principer för attack och försvar samtta fäktlektioner. Egentligen var Higginson ju präst och författare. Men nÃ¥gon fridens man var han inte för den skull. Sitt lÃ¥nga liv igenom stred han för de humanistiska värden han satte högt. Han var en sann antislaverikämpe. De svarta soldaterna, 'sÃ¥ kolsvarta som den mest hängivne abolitionist kunde önska', kunde inte ha fÃ¥tt en bättre vän. Hans sympati genomsyrar hela skildringen."… (altro)
It is truly beautiful how many quotes you can extract from her poems. I decided that she's my favourite poet of all times.
I was very surprised by this book. In regards to subject matter, I found the majority of it to be what I expected, but a bulk of it surprisingly unexpected.
For starters I hoped for more detail about the regiment and the soldiers it was comprised of. While the first several chapters and the last were very explanatory and informative, I wished for more. In some respect, I had also desired more "army" stories; the sense I garnered from the narratives was of little actual battlefield occupation and more guard duty and a handful of excursions into enemy territory. Granted, they might not have had much opportunity to skirmish in high-profile battles, but I was not upset with the essays included in the book.
What was, by far the most surprising, was the author's style. Forget the hard-boiled, gruff General Patton persona, Mr. Higginson's pen flows freely amongst the prose. Chapter Six, A Night in the Water, was an ethereal venture recounting a nighttime swim. Lost in the heady and verbose detail of a foray across a river to evaluate enemy lines, he writes in a vaguely sensual manner. Much of his writing is at times, dare I say, effeminate.
In the beginning of the book he denotes himself to be a philanthropist; I am not sure if that had a different connotation in the 1860's but he tempers his admiration for the Freeman soldiers as he brags about them. I think he is simply working to dispel the myths of the age about the brutish Negros and their uncivilized way. He is careful not to make them sound without human flaws and less than desirable qualities, but stresses they are admirable and worthy to share in the franchise of human society.… (altro)
For starters I hoped for more detail about the regiment and the soldiers it was comprised of. While the first several chapters and the last were very explanatory and informative, I wished for more. In some respect, I had also desired more "army" stories; the sense I garnered from the narratives was of little actual battlefield occupation and more guard duty and a handful of excursions into enemy territory. Granted, they might not have had much opportunity to skirmish in high-profile battles, but I was not upset with the essays included in the book.
What was, by far the most surprising, was the author's style. Forget the hard-boiled, gruff General Patton persona, Mr. Higginson's pen flows freely amongst the prose. Chapter Six, A Night in the Water, was an ethereal venture recounting a nighttime swim. Lost in the heady and verbose detail of a foray across a river to evaluate enemy lines, he writes in a vaguely sensual manner. Much of his writing is at times, dare I say, effeminate.
In the beginning of the book he denotes himself to be a philanthropist; I am not sure if that had a different connotation in the 1860's but he tempers his admiration for the Freeman soldiers as he brags about them. I think he is simply working to dispel the myths of the age about the brutish Negros and their uncivilized way. He is careful not to make them sound without human flaws and less than desirable qualities, but stresses they are admirable and worthy to share in the franchise of human society.… (altro)
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