Some Notable American Authors of 1897

Title : Some Notable American Authors of 1897  
Author : James Ramsay
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 7
Image Count : 9
Word Count : 4098
File Size in MB : 3.7
File Type : PDF

"Americans like England at this present moment: her literary giants are all dead, and she is not quite sure who, if any, of her striplings are to take their place. And so, if you go to Sleepy Hollow Churchyard, at Concord, where Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau lie, the well-worn paths leading up to the pine-clad ridge where they are buried may be taken to indicate not only that the sleepers are not forgotten, but that literary America worships at the graves of the dead and not at the shrines of the living. Within a few minutes’ walk from Sleepy Hollow, on the bank of the Concord River — I cannot say whether the right or the left bank, for the stream flows even more slowly now than it did in Hawthorne’s day — lives Mr. Sanborn, ever genial and ready to tell to every sympathetic ear of the days he spent with the Concord worthies , especially with Thoreau ; but Hawthorne’s old manse and Emerson’s house tell only of a day that is dead. Boston, like Edinburgh, is becoming a city of ..."