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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
xpansion of self ended in hard Spartan repression, even in inhibition of emotion. Becoming enamoured of the woods at sixteen, Parkman chose his life work at eighteen, and he was a man who could say proudly: I have not yet abandoned any plan which I ever formed. Before the end of the sophomore year, he wrote in his autobiography, my various schemes had crystallized into a plan of writing the story of what was then known as the Old French War, that is, the war that ended in the conquest of Canada, for here, as it seemed to me, the forest drama was more stirring and the forest stage more thronged with appropriate actors than in any other passage of our history. It was not till some years later that I enlarged the plan to include the whole course of the American conflict between France and England, or, in other words, the history of the American forest: for this was the light in which I regarded it. My theme fascinated me, and I was haunted with wilderness images day and night. To u