Perry Miller

Perry Miller Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American historian, biographer, literary critic, and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, where he taught an outstanding course on the Romantic literature#United States American Romantics. In 1966 he was posthumously awarded the Pullitzer Prize in History for his book The Life of the Mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, which was completed by his wife. Quotes American capitalism of 1830 to 1860 was a riot of extravagance. Hundreds of those who glistened in New York and Boston in the 1840's are forgotten. A few families—Lowell familty Lowells, Biddle familty Biddles—managed to maintain continuity, but they were few. The number who went down to ruin invited a chronicler equal to Dickens. The Life of the Mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, Books 1-3 Volume 173 of Harvest Books Volume 173 of Harvest book Harcourt, Brace & World 1965 9780156519908 https://books.google.com/books?id=EaZ1AAAAMAAJ&q=biddles (338 pages) Later practitioners improved upon Mitchell and Stoughton only by extending the list of sins, by going into greater detail. Year by year the stock enumeration grew, and once a new sin was added to the series it kept its place in subsequent editions. Nature's Nation Harvard University Press 1967 https://books.google.com/books?id=xceEu-E5ZG0C&q=mitchell+stoughton 24 (314 pages; selected essays) The Raven and the Whale (1956) By the middle of the twentieth century, the world had accepted Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, published in 1851, as an indubitable masterpiece of the nineteenth, even though that world became aware of it only a generation ago. The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville Volume 49 of Harvest Books Harcourt, Brace 1956 https://books.google.com/books?id=3j0GAQAAIAAJ&q=masterpiece+nineteenth 3 (370 pages) Frederick Swartwout Cozzens He deserves credit for his courageous advocacy of the Nicholas Longworth (winemaker) Longworth wines of Ohio, probably more than for his contributions to literature: his trade monthly, published from 1854 t0 1861, Cozzens' Wine Press, is a neglected classic which provides a charming insight into the amenities of the table in a society which devoted considerable care to that department. p. 16; 1st part of quote; last part of quote Quotes about Perry Miller Perry Miller died fifty years ago today at age fifty-eight. After his death, letters of appreciation from friends and former students flooded the desk where Elizabeth Miller was working to complete her husband’s The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. In their letters, students expressed gratitude, friends offered Elizabeth their support, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. confessed that Miller’s death, coming on the heels of Assassination of John F. Kennedy President Kennedy’s assassination, had left him in a deep depression. “Perry, as you well know,” wrote Schlesinger, “was one of the first influences in my life.” “He was a superb teacher,” Schlesinger recalled. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, a frequent correspondent of Miller’s and a careful reader of all Miller’s books, published an obituary for his friend in the New York Herald Tribune. Rivka Maizlish, December 9, 2013 “Into the Blinding Sun:” Philosophical History 50 Years after Perry Miller U.S. Intellectual History Blog, Society for U.S. Intellectual History https://s-usih.org/2013/12/into-the-blinding-sun-philosophical-history-50-years-after-perry-miller/ External links Category:1905 births Category:1963 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Harvard University faculty Category:Historians from the United States Category:Literary critics Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:People from Chicago Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:University of Chicago alumni