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Chapman was born in New York City on March 2, 1862. [2] He was a son of Henry Grafton Chapman Jr. (1833–1883), [3] a broker who became president of the New York Stock Exchange, [1] and Eleanor Kingsland Jay (1839–1921). His paternal grandmother, Maria Weston Chapman, was one of the leading campaigners against slavery and worked with William ...
27 de fev. de 2024 · John Jay Chapman (born March 2, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 4, 1933, Poughkeepsie, New York) was an American poet, dramatist, and critic who attacked the get-rich-quick morality of the post-Civil War “Gilded Age” in political action and in his writings.
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1 de jan. de 2001 · John Jay Chapman. Brief life of a neglected critic: 1862-1933. "Great men," wrote John Jay Chapman, A.B. 1884, "are often the negation and opposite of their age. They give it the lie." He was writing in 1897 about Ralph Waldo Emerson, but the remark states the theme of his own life and its defect.
By Edmund Wilson. November 1937 Issue. IT is probable at the present time that hardly one reader in a million has ever read a word by or even heard the name of John Jay Chapman. His later...
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Overview. John Jay Chapman. (1862—1933) Quick Reference. (1862–1933), literary critic, translator, essayist, was a strong individualist in his eclectic criticism based on an “essentially aristocratic” and Emersonian appreciation of individualism. His books include Emerson and Other Essays ...
Includes autograph manuscript and typescript articles, essays, plays, poems, and reviews by John Jay Chapman as well his notebooks, among other items. Finding Aid: Correspondence and Compositions, 1841-1940.
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