Cranch, Christopher Pearse - Julie M. Norko (essay date 1992)
Julie M. Norko (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Norko, Julie M. “Christopher Pearse Cranch's Struggle with the Muses.” Studies in the American Renaissance (1992): 209-27.
[In the following essay, Norko discusses Cranch's personal struggle in choosing between a career in the ministry, which he believed was his duty, and art and literature, which he found more appealing.]
In may 1874, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a letter to Christopher Pearse Cranch containing his assessment of the younger man's talents: “I have always understood that you are the victim of your own various gifts; that all the muses, jealous of each other, haunt your brain, and I well remember your speech to the frogs, which called out all the eloquence of the inhabitants of the swamp, in what we call Sleepy Hollow in Concord, many years ago.”1
The critical assessments of the individual who entertained children with sounds of barnyard animals at Brook Farm...
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