Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Papa's Fifty Grand. The Atlantic's nervous force was apparent in its first year, when Editor Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name...
This new interest was noted the next year. Although Barrett Wendell had retired from teaching, English 33hf-was expanded to a full course; it was taken over by Greenough, another somewhat charismatic individual, who had headed English A and was later to become Dean of the College and the first...
But it was Wendell who can truly be called the founder, and the main supporter of American literature at Harvard in its early years. Kenneth Murdock has said that the history of the teaching of American literature at Harvard is not the story of "general attitudes, but of men," and...
Wendell and "Copey" continued their trilogy alone until 1911, when the second great name in the teaching of American Literature at Harvard, Bliss Perry, began teaching a graduate course on Emerson. This was the first non-survey U.S. literature course to be offered and one of the few non-survey...
By this time there was an informal Big Three in the American Literature field at the University: Greenough, and Murdock, and Bliss Perry. Perry, who had made his entrance into the field at about the same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow...