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Americanism in Literature. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Copyright, 1871, by James R. Osgood & Co. (E-Text)

"Emily Dickinson's Letters." The Atlantic Monthly 68.4 (Oct 1891): 444-56. (E-Text)

Malbone: An Oldport Romance. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. July, 1997 [Etext #993]

"Negro Spirituals." by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Monthly, June 1867. (E-Text)

Letters and journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906. Edited by Mary Thacher Higginson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. PS1928 .A3

Army life in a black regiment. With notes and a biographical introd. by John Hope Franklin. Foreword by E. Franklin Frazier. Boston: Beacon P, 1962. E492.94 33d .H5

Cheerful yesterdays. NY: Arno P, 1968. PS1927 A4

Part of a man's life. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1971. PS1928 A4

Tales of Atlantis and the enchanted islands. with illustrations by Albert Herter. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo P, 1984, 1977. PS1927 .T3

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Bingham, Millicent Todd. Ancestor's brocade; the literary debut of Emily Dickinson. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1945. PS1541.Z5 B53

Black, David. "Discipline and Pleasure: Or, Sports and the Wild in the Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson." Aethlon 8.2 (Sprg 1991): 1-13.

Brill, Leonard. "Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Atlantic Monthly." DAI 29 (1969): 3605A.

Cameron, Kenneth Walter. ed. "Higginson on Poetry." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 29 (1962): 40-42.

Edelstein, Tilden G. Strange enthusiasm; a life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New Haven: Yale U, 1968. PS1928 E2

Giantvalley, Scott. "'Strict, Straight Notions of Literary Propriety': Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Gradual Unbending to Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Review 4.4 (Sprg 1987): 17-27.

Higginson, Mary Potter Thacher. Thomas Wentworth Higginson; the story of his life. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat P, 1971. PS1928 H5

Ljungquist, Kent P., and Anthony Conti. "'Near My Heart' after Fifty Years: Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Reminiscence of Worcester." The Concord Saunterer 3 (Fall 1995): 120-31.

Looby, Christopher. "'As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philantropist Could Desire': Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment." Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Eds. Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997. 71-115.

Mann, John. "Dickinson's Letters to Higginson." Approaches to Teaching Dickinson's Poetry. Eds. Robin R. Fast and Christine M. Gordon. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1989. 39-46.

Mazurek, Raymond A. "'I Have No Monarch in My Life': Feminism, Poetry, and Politics in Dickinson and Higginson." Patrons and Protegees: Gender, Friendship, and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Shirley Marchalonis. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994. 122-40.

McCormick, Edgar L. "Higginson, Emerson, and a National Literature." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 37 (1964): 71-74.

Meyer, Howard N. "Thomas Wentworth Higginson Checklist." Higginson Jour. 43 (Dec 1985): 42-44.

- - -. "Thomas Wentworth Higginson." The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. Joel Myerson. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of America, 1984. 195-203.

Monteiro, George. "Higginson on Melville." Melville Society Extracts 57 (Feb 1984): 15.

Morse, Jonathan. "Emily Dickinson and the Spasmodic School: A Note on Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Esthetics." New England Quarterly 50 (1977): 505-09.

Olpin, Larry. "In Defense of the Colonel: Col. Higginson and a Problem of Literary Evaluation." Higginson Jour. 42 (Jun 1985); 3-14.

| Top | Picker, John M. "The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12.4 (Sprg 1995): 230-45.

Rodier, Katharine. "'Astra Castra': Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford." Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika M. Elbert. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2000. 50-72.

- - -. "'What Is Inspiration?': Emily Dickinson, T. W. Higginson, and Maria White Lowell." Emily Dickinson Journal 4.2 (1995): 20-43.

- - -. "'A Career of Letters': Emily Dickinson, T. W. Higginson, and Literary Women." DAI 56.10 (Apr 1996): DA9605525.

St.-Armand, Barton L. "Fine Fitnesses: Dickinson, Higginson, and Literary Luminism." Prospects 14 (1989): 141-73.

Tuttleton, James W. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Twayne, 1978. PS1928 .T88

Wells, Anna M. Dear preceptor; the life and times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1963. PS1928 .W4

- - -. "Note on Higginson's Reputation." Dickinson Studies 51 (1984): 20-21.

- - -. "The Soul's Society: Emily Dickinson and Colonel Higginson." Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World. Ed. Rhoda B. Nathan. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 221-29.

Williams, Donald H. "T. W. Higginson on Thoreau and Maine." Colby Library Quarterly 7 (1965): 29-32.

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