Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The good life of old New England that was expressed in a good literature was brisk, independent, self-confident, self-sacrificing. After the War of 1812 New Englanders were feeling the first consciousness of victory and stability, and more & more citizens were becoming aware of the great gap between the...
Towering over New England's minor characters are Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Longfellow Mr. Brooks finds a charming, almost saintly spirit, a great figure, if not always a great poet. Never roused to malice even after his fame had become worldwide, he befriended cranks and freaks...
Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits...
To Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where Educator McGuffey once taught classics, some 3,000 members of the Federated McGuffey Societies of America last week repaired to celebrate the Readers' 100th anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio'...
In his Ohio youth, William Holmes McGuffey, son of a Scotch-Irish Indian fighter from Pennsylvania, never set eyes on the two books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's...