Henry Theodore Tuckerman ( born April 20, 1813 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA - d. December 17, 1871 in New York , USA) is an American writer, essayist, literary and art critic [2] .
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman | |
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| English Henry Theodore Tuckerman | |
 Henry T. Tuckerman, 1860 | |
| Birth name | Henry Theodore Tuckerman |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | New York , NY , USA |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | writer , essayist , critic |
| Years of creativity | 1835-1871 |
| Direction | prose, poetry, journalism |
| Language of Works | English |
| Debut | The Italian Sketch-Book, 1835 |
| Autograph |  |
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Biography
Born in 1811 (in 1813? [2] ) in Boston [3] . He studied at the Boston Latin school. In 1833, he was forced to interrupt his studies due to poor health, after which he went to Italy, where he was imbued with an interest in art [4] .
Impressed by several trips to Europe [2] in 1835 he wrote his debut art essay The Italian Sketch-Book. In subsequent years, Tuckerman studied art in more detail, met with writers and artists. One of the subsequent works, “Thoughts on the Poets”, was highly appreciated, including outside the United States, being translated in Germany. The critical essays Characteristics of Literature and Essays, Biographical and Critical were even more successful [3] .
As a prose writer, Henry Tuckerman became famous for his books The Optimist, The Criterion, or the Test of Talk about Familiar Things. [3] He showed himself as a poet ("The Spirit of Poetry", "Poems") [2] .
In addition to literary criticism, Tuckerman was also known as an art critic [2] . One of Tuckerman's most famous works remains the Book of the Artists, written in 1867, in which the author describes his views on American painting from colonial times to paintings by his contemporaries [4] . Despite the importance of the work for its time, modern researchers evaluate it mainly as incompetent [5] . Tuckerman was a supporter of the development of the national school of American art, in which he put landscape painting to the forefront [4] .
Since 1845 he lived and worked in New York, where he died in 1871 [3] .
Bibliography
- The Italian Sketch-Book (1835)
- Isabel, or Sicily: a Pilgrimage (1839)
- Rambles and Reveries (1841)
- Thoughts on the Poets (1846)
- “Artist Life, or Sketches of American Painters” (1847)
- Characteristics of Literature (1849-51)
- The Optimist (1850)
- "Life of Commodore Silas Talbot" (1851)
- Poems (1851)
- "A Month in England" (1853)
- Memorial of Horatio Greenough (1853)
- “Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer” (1853)
- “Mental Portraits, or Studies of Character” (1853)
- The Character and Portraits of Washington (1859)
- America and Her Commentators (1864)
- “A Sheaf of Verse Bound for the Fair” (1864)
- "The Criterion, or the Test of Talk about Familiar Things" (1866)
- Maga Papers about Paris (1867)
- Book of the Artists (1867)
- "Life of John Pendleton Kennedy" (1871)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 retro | bib - Seite aus Meyers Konversationslexikon: Tuchel - Tudor
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 § 7. Henry Theodore Tuckerman. III. Early Essayists. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and Ame ...
- ↑ 1 2 3 Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Oxford Reference
- ↑ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Literature
- Tuckerman, Henry Theodore. In: Samuel Austin Allibon: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors .... Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia 1871. (Werkverzeichnis)
- James Thomas Flexner: Tuckerman's “Book of the Artists” In: American Art Journal 1: 2, 1969. p. 53-57.
- Charles M. Lombard: A Neglected Critic: Henry T. Tuckerman. In: Etudes Anglaises 22: 4, 1969. p. 362-69.
- Charles M. Lombard: Gallic Perspective in the Works of Henry T. Tuckerman. In: Bulletin of Bibliography 27, 1970. p. 106-7.