Document · book

John Sullivan Dwight, Brook-farmer, editor, and critic of music : a biography

Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923, 1898. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

Document

Type

book

Author

Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923

Publisher

Boston : Small, Maynard & Co.

Published, as stated

1898

Language

en

Media type

text/plain; charset=utf-8

Size

537360 bytes

Preservation

preserved

Digest (SHA-256)

fb7f131e7593b5189bcd7180079c1ea744a7a71adc68bb4560ad360b37426b8e

Text

Extracted text, as held. Quoted without alteration.

Special ^0ofe Colledton ''The search for truth even unto its innermost parts' In Honor of Mrs. Rose Gorfinkle New York City The Gift of Executive Board of Manliattan Chapter The National Women's Committee of Brandeis University JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT A BIOGRAPHY vLl. of(X4^UU---^^ ^'^('^^■^^y>i^'<i^ , ^^^i^^juXL^ kj-U^ t^^-^^ ^ Fi^om a Painting by Ca7^oline Cranch, 1884, in the possession of the Harvard Afusical Association, JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT Brook-Farmer, Editor, and Critic of Music A BIOGRAPHY By GEORGE WILLIS COOKE BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY 1898 COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY All rights reserved A^ A r .^ PRESS OF GEORGE H. ELLIS, BOSTON, U. S. A. TO THE HARVARD MUSICAL ASSOCIATION, WITH WHICH THE SUBJECT OF THIS BIOGRAPHY WAS INTIMATELY CONNECTED, FROM THE DAY OF ITS INCEPTION UNTIL HIS DEATH, SERVING IT IN EVERY OFFICIAL CAPACITY, BEING ITS PRESIDENT FOR TWENTY YEARS, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY HELP TO INDICATE HOW INTI- MATELY THE MAN, THE ASSOCIATION, AND THE ART THEY AIMED TO SERVE WERE UNITED TO EACH OTHER. 1 R 1 r? o -*. ^ ^'i^ <^'j j-V CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Ancestry, Youth, and College Life . i II. Preaching and Translating ii III. At Northampton 31 IV. Brook Farm 4^ V. A Time of Experiments 129 VI. ''Dwight's Journal of Music" . . . 146 VIL A Year in Europe 168 VIII. Years of Toil for Music . . . . . 186 IX. The Autocrat of Music 214 X. The Saturday Club 237 XI. Personal Traits 265 XII. The Closing Years 282 IVhen Nature was shaping him, clay zvas not granted For making so full-sized a mail as she wanted. So, to fill 021 1 her inodel, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared ; And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so much delight That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight : Only, while she was kneading and shapi^ig the clay^ She sang to her work in her sweet, childish way. And fou7id, when she d put the last touch to his soul, That the music had somehow got mixed with the whole. A Fable for Critics. PREFACE. This biography of John S. Dzvight was under- takejt at the suggestion and request of Mrs, Ednah D, Cheney, and it has secured the be^iefit of her aid and revision. The aim kept in view in its prepara- tion was to permit Dwight to speak for himself as far as it could be done, and to make the work auto- biographic in so far as this was possible of accom- plishment. As he was not a frequent letter-writer, resource has been had to the published words of his which throw light upon his career. Many of these are of a7i autobiographic nature, and they have been drawn upon frequently. The letters written to Dwight by his friends have been freely used, especially where they interpret his own life or aid us in U7ider standing his connection with men and women well know7i to the public. Among these will be found letters from Carlyle, Emerson, Dr, C handling, Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, Theodore Parker, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, W. W, Story, Lydia M, Child, Elizabeth Peabody, Christopher P, Cranch, George W, Curtis, Charles T. Brooks, Henry James, William Henry Channing, E, P. Whipple, and Richard Grant White, The work contains at l

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:document:john-sullivan-dwight-brook-farmer-editor-and-critic-of-music-a-biography

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/document/john-sullivan-dwight-brook-farmer-editor-and-critic-of-music-a-biography

As JSON

https://boston.fyi/document/john-sullivan-dwight-brook-farmer-editor-and-critic-of-music-a-biography.json

Version

1 · last changed 5 September 2026