[14] “Self-Reliance” Essays, First Series.
[15] Such abstruse poems as the following are really expounded in corresponding essays: “Written in Naples” and “Written in Rome”—the essay on “History”; “Each and All”—the essay on “Compensation”; “The Problem”—the essays on “Art” and “Compensation”; “Merlin”—the essay on “The Poet”; “The World-Soul”—the essays on “Nominalist and Realist” and “The Over-Soul”; “Hamatreya”—the essay on “Compensation”; “Musketaquid”—the essay on “Nature”; “Étienne de la Boéce”—the essay on “Friendship”; “Brahma”—the essays on “Circles” and “The Over-Soul.”
[16] See his own acknowledgment in the “Proem” to the poems of 1842.
[17] See the first chapter of Holmes’s “Elsie Venner” for a discussion of this New England aristocracy of birth and learning rather than of wealth.
[18] A short list of the chief titles will include Longfellow’s “Hyperion” (1839), Willis’s “Loiterings of Travel” (1840), Taylor’s “Views Afoot” (1846), Curtis’s “Nile Notes of a Howadji” (1851), Mrs. Stowe’s “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands” (1854), Emerson’s “English Traits” (1856), Bryant’s “Letters from Spain and Other Countries” (1859), Norton’s “Notes of Travel and Study in Italy” (1859), Hawthorne’s “Our Old Home” (1863), Howells’s “Venetian Life” (1866), Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” (1869), and so on down to and beyond Holmes’s “Our Hundred Days in Europe” (1887).
[19] See pages 2–7 in T. W. Higginson’s “Longfellow,” American Men of Letters Series.
[20] See Bliss Perry’s “Park Street Papers,” “The Editor who Never was Editor,” pp. 205–277.
[21] W. C. Brownell, “American Prose Masters,” pp. 271, 272.
[22] W. D. Howells, “My Mark Twain,” p. 46.
[23] In view of the lack of any copyright protection it is interesting to record that three of the London publishers offered Mrs. Stowe an interest in the sales of their editions.