...have done better than the world knows yet, but the past seems so little compared with the future. ... I am the first poet who has endeavored to express...first. But I do not want anything more than I have. Never had poet better friends, and never poet loved them better. . . . for a second edition if he likes....

...round the world." Lowell said once, "I know Yankee, if I know nothing else." "I am the first poet that has endeavored to express the American idea, and I...by and by ; only I suppose I must be dead first." That he did know Yankee he has proved by " Biglow Papers"; and before his death he became so popular...

...done better than the world knows yet; but the past seems so little compared with the future. . . . lam the first poet who has endeavored to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by." It is not very likely that Lowell was thinking of Sir Launfal when he wrote this last sentence, yet...

...little brook which runs too swiftly for Frost to catch it. My picture of the brook in ' Sir Launf al ' was drawn from it. But why do I send you this description...more likely that he would have named " Prometheus," " Columhus," or " Freedom " if he had been asked to name names ; and yet it is not straining language...

...have done better than the world knows yet, but the past seems so little compared with the future. ... I am the first poet who has endeavored to express...first. But I do not want anything more than I have. Never had poet better friends, and never poet loved them better. . . . If you ever see Bartlett, the...

...which he had in mind when in another letter to Briggs he declares "I am the first who has endeavoured to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by. " * Popularity came first, however, when 1 Scudder, Life, Vol. I, p. 267. • Ibid. fervour was linked...

...which he had in mind when in another letter to Briggs he declares "I am the first who has endeavoured to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by." * Popularity came first, however, when 1 Scudder, Life, Vol. I, p. 267. *Ibid. fervour was linked with...

...on his moonlight walk to Watertown over the snow in December of 1846« In the same letter he says, " I am the first poet who has endeavored to express...first. But I do not want anything more than I have. Never had poet better friends, and never 1 poet loved them better." In the year 1850 the happiness...

...and useful and ready to the hand. (Letters, Vol. I, p. 73.) Six years later he asserted confidently, "I am the first poet who has endeavored to express...American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by." Yet within a few months he found the vein nearing exhaustion. In a survey of his course up to 1850,...

...praised egalitarian political and social movements. Populism also influenced his literary aspirations. "I am the first poet who has endeavored to express the American Idea," he declared with a Whitmanesque flourish that later horrified Old Guard intellectuals, "and I shall...