Polyhymnia
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Polyhymnia, a poem by
Peele written in 1590. It contains at the end the beautiful song ‘His Golden lockes, | Time hath to Silver turn’d', made widely known by Thackeray's quotation of part of it in
The Newcomes, ch. 76.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Radical leader of the antislavery movement.(LOCAL NEWS)
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.(Book review)
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Her own society: when Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time.
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The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.(Review) (book review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2001; ; 371 words
; ...Magnificent Activist: The Writing of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). Ed. Howard N...Meyer, author of a biography of Higginson, has done an admirable job of tracking down Higginson's widely scattered work and has...
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Memory and the abolitionist heritage: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the uncertain meaning of the Civil War.
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Flowers of manhood: race, sex and floriculture from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Robert Mapplethorpe.
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`White Heat' forges friendship; BOOK REVIEW: A new book examines the correspondence between Emily Dickinson and writer Thomas Higginson -- and blasts a few myths in the process.(VARIETY)
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Wentworth Higginson American reformer and editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) led the first...in 1968. Additional Sources Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Army life in a Black regiment...
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow (1823–1911) US social reformer. A Unitarian...experience recorded in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870). Higginson was a close friend of many writers, notably Emily Dickinson , and...
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Dickinson, Emily
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...initiated a correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) of...series of letters ensued in which Higginson offered cautious encouragement...to World War I . Bibliography Thomas H. Johnson, ed., The Poems...
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Anthony Burns
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...by force if necessary. Thomas Wentworth Higginson led a group of blacks and...1882 (1961); John L. Thomas, The Liberator, William...Strange Enthusiasm: A Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1968). □
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