Childhood in literature and art, with some observations on literature for children - Horace Elisha Scudder

[28] C. E. Norton’s translation.

[29] Studies in the History of the Renaissance, p. 84.

[30] Sketches of the History of Christian Art, iii. 270.

[31] Legends of the Madonna, Part III.

[32] On Reading Shakespeare Through. The [London] Spectator, August 26, 1882.

[33] Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa.

[34] Essays, Historical and Theological. By J. B. Mozley, i. 430, 431.

INDEX.

Admetus, [19], [20].
Æneas, [31], [32].
Æneid, childhood in the, [31], [32].
Agamemnon, belief in, not dependent on the spade, [6].
Alice Fell, [3], [147].
Alkestis, a scene from the, [19], [20].
Amelia, Fielding’s, [135].
Amor, the myth of, [36-38];
as treated by Raphael, [99];
in the Elizabethan lullabies, [116], [117];
in Shakespeare, [124];
in Thorwaldsen’s art, [201].
Anchises, [31].
Ancient Leaves, cited, [31], [33].
Andersen, Hans Christian, the unique contribution of, to literature, [201];
the distinction between his stories and fairy tales, [202];
the basis of his fame, [207];
the life of his creations, [208];
their relation to human beings, [209];
the spring in his stories, [211];
his satires, [212];
the deeper experience in them, [213];
his essential childishness, [214];
his place with novelists, [215];
his interpretation of childhood, [216].
Andromache, the parting of, with Hector, [11], [12];
the scene compared with one in the Œdipus Tyrannus, [16-18];
and contrasted with Virgil, [31].
Angels of children, [144], [145].
Anna the prophetess, [47].
Anthology, the Greek, [28-30].
Antigone, [18].
Apocryphal Gospels, the legends of the, [57-64].
Art, American, as it relates to children, [237], [238].
Art, modern, the foible of, [38].
Arthur, in King John, [120].
Ascanius, [31], [32].
Askbert, [68], [69].
Astyanax, [11];
a miniature Hector, [14].
Atlantic Monthly, The, cited, [34].
Austin, Alfred, cited, [38].
Ballads relating to children, [106-108];
characteristics of, [113].
Barbauld, Mrs., [173];
her relation to the literature of childhood, [175];
Coleridge and Lamb on, [174].
Bathsheba’s child, [42].
Beatrice, first seen by Dante, [77].
Better Land, The, [222].
Bible, the truth of the, not dependent on external witness, [6];
the university to many in modern times, [41], [42].
Blake, William, [163-165].
Boccaccio, [79].
Browning, Robert, as an interpreter of Greek life, [27];
his Pied Piper, [237].
Bryant, William Cullen, [217].
Bunyan, childhood in, [129-133].
Byzantine type of the Madonna, [83], [84].
Catullus, [33].
Chapman’s translation of Homer, quoted, [8], [9], [10], [16];
the quality of his defects, [9], [10].
Chaucer’s treatment of childhood, [108-111];
compared with the Madonna in art, [113].
Childhood, discovered at the close of the last century, [4];
in literature as related to literature for children, [4];
in Greek life, how attested, [7];
indirect reference to it in Homer, [8-11];
the direct reference, [11], [12];
in the Greek tragedians, [16-21];
in Plato, [22-26];
in the Greek Anthology, [29], [30];
in Virgil, [31], [32];
conception of, in Roman literature, [32], [33];
in Catullus, [33];
in epitaphs, [33], [34];
in Lucretius, [34];
in Juvenal, [35];
in classic conception of the supernatural, [34-36];
in the myth of Amor, [36-38];
in Old Testament literature, [42-46];
in New Testament literature, [48], [49];
attitude of the Saviour toward, [49];
as a sign of history, [52];
in the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels, [57-64];
of saints, [65-71];
under the forming power of Christianity, [73];
in Dante, [75-78];
in the representations of the Holy Family, [83-87];
in the art of the northern peoples, [87-92];
in the Madonnas of Raphael, [92-98];
in Raphael’s Amor, [98], [99];
in his representations of children generally, [100], [101];
in the art of Luca della Robbia, [101], [102];
its elemental force the same in all literatures, [105];
in ballad literature, [106-108];
in Chaucer, [108-111];
its character in early English literature, [112], [113];
in Spenser, [114], [115];
in the lighter strains of Elizabethan literature, [116], [117];
in Shakespeare, [117-126];
its absence in Milton, [127], [128];
how regarded in Puritanism, [128], [129];
in Bunyan, [129-133];
in Pope, [133], [134];
in Fielding, [135];
in Gray, [135-137];
in Goldsmith, [137-140];
in Cowper, [140], [141];
in the art of Reynolds and Gainsborough, [141], [142];
in Wordsworth, [144-157];
in De Quincey, [158-162];
in William Blake, [163-165];
in Dickens, [165-170];
in Paul and Virginia, [181-183];
in Lamartine, [184-186];
in Michelet de Musset, and Victor Hugo, [186], [187];
in German sentiment, [189];
illustrated by Luther, [190], [191];
in Richter, [191], [192];
in Goethe, [194-196];
in Froebel’s system, [197], [198];
in Overbeck’s art, [199], [200];
in Hans Christian Andersen, [201-216];
in Emerson, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes, [217], [218];
in Whittier, [218], [219];
in Longfellow, [219-222];
mistakenly presented in sentimental verse, [222-225];
in Hawthorne, [225-234].
Child-Life in Poetry, [219].
Child-Life in Prose, [219].
Children, books for, the beginning of, [171], [172];
the characteristics of this beginning, [173];
their revolutionary character, [174];
the sincerity of the early books, [175];
the union of the didactic and artistic in, [177];
a new branch of literature, [177], [178];
art in connection with, [179].
Children’s Hour, The, [220].
Child’s Last Will, The, [106].
Christ, the childhood of, [48];
his scenes with children, [48], [49];
his attitude toward childhood, [49-52];
an efficient cause of the imagination, [55];
legends of, in the Apocryphal Gospels, [57-64];
his symbolic use of the child, [81];
his infancy the subject of art, [82];
especially in Netherlands, [89];
his words illustrative of human history, [102].
Christianity and French sentiment, [182].
Christianity, living and structural, [53];
its supersedure of ancient life, [54];
its germinal truth, [55];
its operative imagination, [56];
its care of children, especially orphans, [73];
its office of organization, [74];
its influence on the family, [75];
its insistence on death, [79];
in what its power consists, [81];
its ideals, [82];
its type in the Madonna, [83];
does not interfere with elemental facts, [105].
Christmas in Germany, [189].
Cimabue, [84].
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on Mrs. Barbauld, [176];
on Christmas in Germany, [189].
Comus, [127].
Confidences, Les, [184].
Coriolanus, [118].
Cornelius, [88].
Courtship of Miles Standish, The, [226].
Cowper, William, [140], [141].
Cruel Mother, The, ballad of, [106].
Cupid and Psyche, [36].
Danaë, the, of Euripides, [20];
of Simonides, [30].
Dante, childhood in, [75-78].
Day, Thomas, author of Sanford and Merton, [3].
Death of children, how regarded by Dickens, [167];
by Wordsworth, [168].
Democracy revealed in the French Revolution, [143].
De Quincey, Thomas, reflections of, on his childhood, [158-162].
Deserted Village, The, [137].
Dickens, Charles, his naturalization of the poor in literature, [165];
his report of childhood, [166];
the children created by, [166-170];
compared with Wordsworth, [168], [169].
Distant Prospect of Eton College, On a, [136].
Dolliver Romance, The, [234].
Doyle, Richard, [179].
Drama, children in, [20].
Dying Child, The, [222].
Edgeworth, Maria, and Wordsworth, [174].
Edward Fane’s Rosebud, [231].
Elegy, Gray’s, [135], [136].
Elijah, the prophet, [42];
the incident of the boys and, [43].
Elisha, [43].
Elizabethan era, characteristics of, [113], [116].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [217].
English race, characteristics of the, exemplified in literature, [111-113].
Eros, the myth of, [36-38].
Erotion, [34].
Essay on Man, The, [134].
Euripides, in his view of children, [19];
examples from, [20].
Evangeline, [226].
Excursion, The, [151], [152].
Fables, Andersen’s stories distinguished from, [210], [211].
Faery Queen, The, [114], [115].
Fairy-tales, Andersen’s stories distinguished from, [202];
the origin of, [203];
fading out from modern literature, [204];
upon the stage, [204], [205];
the scientific fairy-tale, [206].
Fénelon, [180].
Fielding, Henry, in his Amelia, [135].
Fitzgerald, Edward, [27].
Flaxman, John, his illustration of Homer in outline, [12].
French literature as regards childhood, [180-188].
French Revolution, the, a sign of regeneration, [52];
a day of judgment, [142];
the name for an epoch, [143];
synchronous with a revelation of childhood, [144];
its connection with English literature, [162];
the eruption of poverty in, [165].
Froebel’s kindergarten system, [197], [198].
From my Arm Chair, [220], [221].
Gainsborough, Thomas, [141].
Gascoigne, George, [117].
Gentle Boy, The, [231].
Germanic peoples, home-cultivating, [88].
German literature and childhood, [188-198].
Giotto, [84].
Goethe, compared with Richter as regards memory of childhood, [194];
his Mignon, [194];
his indebtedness to the Vicar of Wakefield, [195];
his Sorrows of Werther, [195];
compared with Luther, [196].
Goldsmith, Oliver, avant-courier of Wordsworth, [3];
the precursor of the poets of childhood, [137];
his position in literature, [138];
his Vicar of Wakefield, [138-140].
Goody Two Shoes, [3].
Grandfather’s Chair, [226].
Gray, Thomas, [135-137].
Gray, Thomas, borrowing possibly from Martial, [34].
Greece, life in ancient, how illustrated, [7];
silence of the child in the art of, [21];
our relation to, [21];
modern interpretations of, [27], [28];
compared with Rome, [31];
compared with Judæa, [42].
Greenaway, Kate, [179].
Greene, Robert, [117].
Greenwell, Dora, her poem, A Story by the Fire, an example of pernicious literature, [222-225].
Grimm, the brothers, [207].
Hannah, the song of, [44], [47].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, the most abundant of American authors in his treatment of childhood, [225];
his use of New England history, [226];
his rendering of Greek myths, [226], [227];
his observation of childhood, [228], [229];
his relation to children, [229], [230];
his apologue in The Snow-Image, [232];
children in his romances, [232], [233];
his Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, [233], [234];
his Pansie in The Dolliver Romance, [234].
Hebrew life, in its influence on modern thought, [39-41];
the child in, [46], [47];
its transformation into Christianity, [47], [48], [53].
Hector parting with Andromache, [11], [12];
face to face with Ajax, [14];
comforts his wife, [16], [17].
Hemans, Felicia, [222].
Hen and chickens, in the Bible and Shakespeare, [122].
Herakles, [36].
Hermes, [36].
Hiawatha, [221].
Hilarion, [67].
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [218].
Holy Family, the child in the, [83];
character of the early type of the, [83];
emblematic of domesticity, [86], [87].
Homer, authenticity of the legend of, supposed to be proved by Schliemann, [6];
a better preserver of Greek womanhood than antiquaries, [7];
the value of his similes, [7], [8];
passages in illustration of his indirect reference to childhood, [8-11];
the elemental character of, [12];
the peril of commenting on, [13];
the nurse in, [14];
his view of childhood, [15];
compared with that of the tragedians, [16-18];
with that of Virgil, [31], [32].
Hosea, quoted, [44].
House of the Seven Gables, The, [232], [233].
Hubert, [120].
Hugh of Lincoln, [108].
Hugo, Victor, [187].
Iliad, the swarm of bees in the, [8];
the passage describing the brushing away of a fly, [9];
the ass belabored by a pack of boys, [9];
Achilles chiding Patroclos, [10];
Hector parting with Andromache, [11], [12];
statuesque scenes in, [12].
Imaginary Conversations, quoted, [153].
Imagination, the, abnormal activity of, in early Christianity, [54];
the direction of its new force, [56], [57].
Intimations of Immortality, [154], [156], [157].
Irving, Washington, [217].
Isaiah, quoted, [45].
Ishmael, [42].
Ismene, [18].
Jacob, the two wives of, [44].
James, Henry, alluded to, [236].
Jeffrey, Francis, [169].
Jerusalem, the entry into, [49], [52].
John the Baptist, [81].
Jonson, Ben, [37].
Jonson, Ben, Venus’ Runaway of, [116].
Jowett, Benjamin, translation by, [22-26].
Juvenal, [35], [227].
Kenwulf of Wessex, [68].
Kindergarten, the, fortified by reference to Plato, [24];
in connection with politics, [197], [198].
King John, [119], [120].
Kriss Kringle, [189].
La Farge, John, [237].
L’Allegro, [127].
Lamartine, Alphonse de, [184-186].
Lamb, Charles, on Mrs. Barbauld’s work, [176], [177];
his and his sister’s books, [177].
Lambdin, George C., [237].
Lamkin, the ballad of, [107], [108].
Landor, Walter Savage, remark of, on children, [153].
Laokoön, [21].
Laws, Plato’s, cited, [22], [24], [25].
Legends of the Madonna, [89].
Leslie, C. R., on Raphael’s children, [100].
Lindsay, Lord, quoted, [88].
Lines on the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture, [141], [142].
Literature for children in the United States, [235], [236];
some of its tendencies, [239], [240];
measures for its enrichment, [240].
Literature, the source of knowledge, [7];
of Christendom, the exposition of the conception of the Christ, [50];
inaction in, [54];
fallacy in the study of the development of, [104];
its bounds enlarged, [163].
Little Annie’s Ramble, [231].
Little Daffydowndilly, [231].
Little Girl’s Lament, The, [222].
Little People of the Snow, [217].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, childhood in the writings of, [219-221].
Love, the figure of, in classic and modern art, [37].
Lowell, James Russell, [217].
Loyola, [91].
Luca della Robbia, the children of, [101].
Lucretius, [34], [35].
Lucy Gray, [3], [148].
Luther, Martin, an exponent of German character, [190];
his treatment of childhood, [190].
Macbeth, [121], [123].
Madonna, development of the, [84-87];
treatment of by Raphael, [92-98];
a domestic subject, [98].
Magnificat, The, [44], [47].
Man of Law’s Tale, The, [110].
Marcius, [118].
Martial, [34].
Martin, Theodore, translation by, [33].
Mary, the Virgin, legends concerning, in the Apocryphal Gospels, [58-60];
her childhood, [65];
her appearance in early art, [83];
her motherhood, [84];
her relation to Jesus, [85].
May Queen, The, [222].
Medea, The, cited, [19].
Menaphon, [117].
Mercurius, [36].
Messiah, Pope’s, [133], [134].
Michelet, [186].
Midsummer Night’s Dream, [124].
Millais, John Everett, [179].
Milton, John, quoted, [46];
the absence of childhood in, [127], [128];
compared with Bunyan, [129];
with Pope, [133].
Moses, [42].
Moth, Shakespeare’s, [118].
Mozley, T. B., quoted, [190], [191], [235].
Musset, Alfred de, [186].
My Lost Youth, [221].
Netherland family life, pictured in the life of our Lord, [89-92].
New Testament, childhood in the, [47-52].
Nicodemus, [50].
Niebuhr, B. G., [28].
Norton, Charles Eliot, translation by, [78].
Note-Books, Hawthorne’s, [228], [229].
Nurse, the, in Greek life, [14];
in the Odyssey, [14], [15].
Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, [127], [133].
Odysseus and his nurse, [15].
Odyssey, memorable incidents in the, [14], [15].
Œdipus Tyrannus contrasted with the Iliad, [16-18].
Old Testament, childhood in the, [42-46].
Our Old Home, [230].
Overbeck, [88], [199-201].
Palmer, George Herbert, as a translator of Homer, [28].
Parkman, Francis, [226].
Pater, Walter, quoted, [79].
Patient Griselda, [111].
Paul and Virginia, representative of innocent childhood, [180];
an escape from the world, [181];
an attempt at the preservation of childhood, [183].
Pet Lamb, The, [149].
Pheidias, [26], [28].
Pied Piper, The, [237].
Pilgrim’s Progress, The, [130-133].
Plato, references of, to childhood, [22-26];
compared with artists, [26];
can be read by children, [242].
Pope, Alexander, [133];
compared with Milton, [133], [134];
with Shakespeare, [134].
Prelude, The, [151].
Princess, The, [170].
Puritanism, the attitude of, toward childhood, [128], [129].
Queen’s Marie, the ballad of the, [106].
Raphael, an exponent of the idea of his time, [92];
the Madonnas of, [92];
in the Berlin Museum, [93];
Casa Connestabile, [93];
del Cardellino, [93];
at St. Petersburg, [93];
della Casa Tempi, [94];
at Bridgewater, [95];
del Passegio, [96];
San Sisto, [97], [98];
treatment by, of Amor, [99];
his children, [100].
Reaper and the Flowers, The, [220], [222].
Renaissance, the spirit of the, in Raphael’s work, [98];
childhood in its relation to the, [102].
Republic, Plato’s, cited, [23].
Resignation, [220].
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [141], [142].
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, autobiography of, [191];
early birth of consciousness in, [192];
compared with Goethe, [194].
Riverside Magazine for Young People, The, [237], [238].
Roman literature, childhood in, [31-38].
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [180], [182], [184].
Ruskin, John, [242].
Samuel, [42].
Sanford and Merton, [3].
Sarah, the laugh of, [44].
Scarlet Letter, The, [233], [234].
Schliemann, Dr., [6].
School, great literature in, [242].
Sella, [217].
Sellar, John Y., quoted, [35].
Sentiment, French and German, as seen by the English and American, [188].
Shadow, A, [220].
Shakespeare, childhood in, [117];
limitations of the exhibition, [117], [118];
his Moth, [118];
his Coriolanus, [118], [119];
his King John, [119], [120];
his Titus Andronicus, [120], [121];
his Macbeth, [121];
his Richard III., [122];
random passages in, relating to childhood, [123-125];
reasons for the scanty reference, [125], [126];
compared with Pope, [134].
Shunamite, the, [43].
Simeon, [47].
Simonides, [20];
quoted, [30].
Sketches of the History of Christian Art, [88].
Smith, Goldwin, translation by, [20].
Snow-Bound, [218].
Snow-Image, The, [232].
Solitude, the, of childhood, [160-162].
Songs of Innocence, [164].
Sophocles, the Œdipus Tyrannus of, [16].
Sparrows, the story of the miraculous, [61], [62].
Spectator, The, a writer in, quoted, [38].
Spenser, Edmund, his Faery Queen, [114], [115].
Statius, [33].
Story by the Fire, A, an example of what a poem for a child should not be, [222-225].
Supernaturalism in ancient literature, [35], [36].
Suspiria de Profundis, [158-162].
Swedenborg, a saying of, [142].
Symonds, John Addington, translation by, [20].
S. Bernard, [76], [77].
S. Catherine, [65].
S. Christina, [70].
S. Elizabeth of Hungary, [65], [66].
S. Francis of Assisi, [71], [72].
S. Genevieve, [66].
S. Gregory Nazianzen, [66].
S. John Chrysostom, [66].
S. Kenelm, [68-70].
St. Pierre, Bernardin, [180-183].
Tanagra figurines, [28].
Tanglewood Tales, [226].
Tennyson, Alfred, makes a heroine of the babe, [170];
his May Queen, [222].
Thompson, D’Arcy W., translation by, [31], [33].
Thoreau, Henry David, [217].
Thorwaldsen, [37], [201].
Tirocinium, [140].
Titus Andronicus, [120], [121].
To a Child, [220].
Translations, the great, of the Elizabethan era, [116].
Twice-Told Tales, [231].
Two Gentlemen of Verona, [124].
Ugly Duckling, The, [213];
compared with The Snow-Image, [232].
Ugolino, Count, [76].
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [3], [137-140], [142].
Village Blacksmith, The, [221].
Virgil, contrasted with Homer, [31], [32];
his treatment of childhood, [32].
Virgilia, [118], [119].
Volumnia, [118], [119].
We are Seven, [168-224].
Weariness, [220], [221].
Whittier, John Greenleaf, childhood in the writings of, [218], [219].
Wonder-Book, Hawthorne’s, [226], [227], [232].
Wordsworth, William, the creator of Alice Fell and Lucy Gray, [3];
quoted, [3];
the ridicule of his Lyrical Ballads, [145];
his defensive Preface, [145-147];
his apology for Alice Fell, [147], [148];
his poem of Lucy Gray, [148], [149];
his poem of The Pet Lamb, [149], [150];
his treatment of incidents of childhood, [150];
the first to treat the child as an individual, [151];
his draft on his own experience, [152];
his poetic interpretation of childhood, [153-156];
his ode, Intimations of Immortality, [156], [157];
his treatment of death, [168];
his We are Seven contrasted with A Story of the Fire, [224], [225].
Wreck of the Hesperus, The, [221].
Zarephath, the widow of, [42].
Zechariah, quoted, [45].