1. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Poems
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 22, 1823; died there, 1911. Minister, reformer, soldier, historian, critic,
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| POEMS BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON: The Snowing of the Pines The Trumpeter HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH . Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 22, 1823; died there, 1911. Minister, reformer, soldier, historian, critic, and poet, Colonel Higginson touched life at many points, both in action and contemplation. He maintained always the happy balance between these phases of experience and neither permitted the lure of scholarship and literature to draw him from life nor the demands of life to rob him of his sanctuary in the arts. The ripeness of culture, the enrichment of great friendships, the association with historic events, gave to his genial age a particular mellowness and beauty. His youth was similar to that of Emerson . He graduated at Harvard, became a teacher, and entered the liberal ministry. Here, however, the parallel ends, since Colonel Higginson's life in the next few years was actively spent in the anti-slavery agitation. In the Civil War, after the Emancipation Proclamation, he was colonel of the first colored regiment of the Federal army and served in the South Carolina and Florida campaigns. After the war he retired to Cambridge where his later years were spent in writing and lecturing. | |
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