Perry Bliss
Bliss Perry (25 November 1860 to 13 February 1954), was a United States editor and scholar. Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, as well as the universities of Berlin and Strassburg (then in Germany). Perry taught at Williams from 1886 until 1893. From then until 1900 he taught at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard University between 1907 and 1930 and was Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris from 1909 to 1910. From 1899 to 1909 he was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French. He edited the works of Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From 1905 until 1909 he was general editor of the Cambridge edition of the major American poets. He wrote extensively, including works on Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Carlyle and Emerson. He was also a prolific writer of novels, short fiction, essays, studies in poetry and an autobiography. Perry is also famed in certain Vermont lore for "establishing" the "summer colony" of Greensboro, Vermont. He enjoyed its tranquil setting and its distance from the cares of the busy world of the Atlantic Monthly and his Professorships. Fly fishing was one of his key hobbies, which led to the publication of "Fishing With a Worm." He died in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was the brother of Dr. Lewis Perry, Principal of Exeter Academy from 1914 to 1946.
the plated city
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Sports
A baseball novel by a United States editor and scholar, Bliss Perry. The book deals with labor problems and other social dilemmas in an industrial town, issues of race, gender and sex, one of the first novels featuring racism in pro baseball.
the powers at play
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: History
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Incident of the British Ambassador 7 ITH certain aspects of the famous incident that brought England and the United States to the very verge of war in the closing year of the nineteenth century, the public is already familiar. The cooler heads, on both sides of the Atlantic, had long perceived that a crisis was approaching. Our new policy of territorial expansion, the attitude of the Administration toward Japan, the correspondence with Germany over her interference with South American republics, had all tended to inflame international jealousies. The discovery of gold in Alaska had aroused the old question of the Northwest Boundary, and our irritation against Great Britain was greatly increased by that unlucky after-dinner speech of Lord Rawlins, the British Ambassador,on the subject of seals. Americans were thoroughly angered, and, though it was shown the next day that his lordship had been misreported, there were newspapers from one end of the country to the other that openly talked war. England at first refused to believe that the United States was seriously bent upon hostilities, but day by day the outlook grew more ominous, until at last she was startled by the intelligence, cabled from New York early one October morning, that the British Ambassador had been subjected to gross personal indignity during a visit to one of the foremost American universities. What ensued is well known, but very few have known hitherto the real cause of that dangerous and almost fatal imbroglio. It began in the office of the New York Orbit. The managing editor, standing at a desk in his shirt-sleeves, and, dashing his pencil across some verbose " copy," had said, irritably, without looking up, " Did you get that story, Andrews ? " " No," replied dejectedly the tall young fellow at hi...
the amateur spirit
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Child rearing
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a study of prose fiction
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Books
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walt whitman
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III LEAVES OF GRASS " Like a f omt of type, poetry must be get up over again consistent with American, modern and democratic institutions." Walt Whitman to a New York Herald reporter in 1888. " Yes, Walt often spoke to me of his hooks. I would tell him ' I don't know what you are trying to get at!' And this is the idea I would always arrive at from his reply. All other people in the world have had their representatives in literature : here is a great hig race with no representatives. He would undertake to furnish that representative. It was also his object to get a real human being into a book. This had never been done before." Peter Doyle, street-car conductor and railroad man, in 1895. " A page with as true and inevitable and deep a meaning as a hillside, a book which Nature shall own as her own flower, her own leaves; with whose leaves her own shall rustle in sympathy imperishable and russet; which shall push out with the skunk-cabbage in the spring. I am not offended by the odor of the skunk [-cabbage] in passing by sacred places. I am invigorated rather. It is a reminiscence of immortality borne on the gale. O thou partial world, when wilt thou know God ? I would as soon transplant this vegetable to Polynesia or to heaven with me as the violet." Thoreau's Journal, May, 1850. Unpublished until 1906. In the spring of 1855 Whitman dropped his saw and hammer and began to set up with hisown bands the type for his book, using the printing establishment of Andrew and James Rome at the corner of Cranberry and Fulton Streets, Brooklyn. The first drafts of his " copy " had been written in theatres or ferry-boats and omnibuses, or wherever he happened to be, but it had been revised and elaborated as he afterward told his friend Dr. Bucke no less than fiv...
salem kittredge and other stories
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Literary
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The American Mind
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: United States
CD-ROM Edition. Not a DVD, not an audio CD, no illustrations. Produced in a Microsoft Compatible Format for reading, printing or research. Race, nation, and book -- The American mind -- American idealism -- Romance and reaction -- Humor and satire -- Individualism and fellowship. About the Author: Bliss Perry (25 November 1860 to 13 February 1954), was a United States editor and scholar. Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, as well as the universities of Berlin and Strassburg (then in Germany). Perry taught at Williams from 1886 until 1893. From then until 1900 he taught at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard University between 1907 and 1930 and was Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris from 1909 to 1910. From 1899 to 1909 he was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French. He edited the works of Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From 1905 until 1909 he was general editor of the Cambridge edition of the major American poets. He wrote extensively, including works on Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Carlyle and Emerson. He was also a prolific writer of novels, short fiction, essays, studies in poetry and an autobiography. Perry is also famed in certain Vermont lore for "establishing" the "summer colony" of Greensboro, Vermont. He enjoyed its tranquil setting and its distance from the cares of the busy world of the Atlantic Monthly and his Professorships. Fly fishing was one of his key hobbies, which led to the publication of "Fishing With a Worm." He died in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was the brother of Dr. Lewis Perry, Principal of Exeter Academy from 1914 to 1946.
the broughton house
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: Outdoors & Nature
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park street papers
- Author: Perry Bliss
- Genre: History
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Cheerless Reader One of the most genial of Atlantic essayists has lamented the disappearance of the Gentle Reader. Can it be possible that the Cheerful Reader is disappearing, too? One is loath to believe it; for if the Gentle Reader and the Cheerful Reader are both to vanish, and magazines are to be editedas Dr. Crothers hinted for the benefit of the Intelligent Reading Public merely, the world of periodical literature will be a dismal world indeed. Yet if one were to judge from those Letters to the Editor, which the New York "Sun," for instance, prints, and the Atlantic, for another instance, does not print, the quality of cheerfulness is nowadays sadly strained. What streams of sorrowful correspondence are directed to 4 Park Street after each issue of this magazine! And so few of them seem to flow from the pen of the Cheerful Reader! Perhaps the Cheerful Readeris busy earning his living,too busy to write. It may be that it is only the Cheerless Persons who have leisure to take their pens in hand and "write to the editor." If the Atlantic Monthly were a "repository"; if it confined itself to the discussion of Roman antiquities, or the sonnets of Wordsworth, or the planting of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, none but the specialists would concern themselves with the opinions expressed in its pages. But it happens to be particularly interested in this present world; curious about the actual condition of politics and society, of science and commerce, of art and literature. Above all, it is engrossed with the lives of the men and women who are making America what it is and is to be. The Atlantic is fortunate enough to command the services of many writers who have something to say upon these great and perplexing topics of human interest. It is not to be expected th... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.