Boston: Voices and Visions

Acknowledgments

xi Boston: Voices and Visions had its origins in many essays and reviews on Greater Boston writers I have published in various journals, but particularly in an essay I wrote for New England Journal of Public Policy, “Imagining Boston ” (Summer/Fall 1986), for which I thank NEJPP editor Padraig O’Malley. I am grateful to Dan Wakefield for encouraging me to expand this essay into a book and for bringing the project to the attention of Beacon Press. The result was Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape (Beacon Press, 1990), for which I thank Beacon Press editor Wendy Strothman. Students and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Boston have enriched my sense of Greater Boston. UMB administrations—chancellors, provosts, Arts and Sciences deans, and English Department chairs—have supported and encouraged this effort for the last decade. I am particularly grateful to Katherine D. Scheuer for her scrupulous reading of this manuscript and to Duncan Nelson, my UMB colleague and friend, for the keen and sensitive editorial attention he has given the sections I have written for this anthology. At University of Massachusetts Press, I am deeply indebted to Bruce Wilcox and Paul Wright for their sustained support of this large and long-delayed project. Finally, I must again salute the three great teachers who taught me to see the city upon a hill and the New England mind anew: Professors Sidney Kaplan, Jules Chametzky, and Perry Miller. I thank the following publishers and individuals for permission to reprint material included in this collection: Excerpts from Letters (1935) of Fred Allen. From Fred Allen: His Life and Wit by Robert Taylor. Copyright © 1989 by Robert Taylor. By permission of Little, Brown and Company. “The Hub,” from The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory. Copyright 1947, renewed © 1975 by Cleveland Amory. Used by permission of Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “Quiet Has a Hidden Sound.” From Selected Poems. Copyright 1948 by William Stanley Braithwaite, copyright renewed © 1975 by Katherine K. Arnold and Arnold D. Braithwaite. Used by permission of Coward-McCann, Inc., a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. acknowledgments xii “148 Charles Street.” From Not Under Forty by Willa Cather. Copyright © 1936 by Willa S. Cather, renewed 1964 by Edith Lewis and the City Bank Farmers Trust Co. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpt from “A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the Nineteenth Century” (1960) by W. E. B. Du Bois. Copyright © 1969 by The Massachusetts Review, published by the University of Massachusetts Press. “The Boston Evening Transcript” and “Cousin Nancy.” From Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1930, 1939, 1943, 1950 by T. S. Eliot. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Excerpt from Boston Boy by Nat Hentoff. Copyright © 1986 by Nat Hentoff. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc., New York, New York. Excerpts from The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession by Arthur C. Inman, edited by Daniel Aaron, pp. 178–179, 828–829, 891–892. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1985 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Eve LaPlante, Introduction (pp. xv–xxi). From American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante. Copyright © 2004 by Eve LaPlante. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from “91 Revere Street.” From Life Studies by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 1959 by Robert Lowell. Copyright renewed 1987 by Harriet Lowell, Sheridan Lowell, and Caroline Lowell. “For the Union Dead.” From Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpt from Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas. Copyright © 1985 by J. Anthony Lukas. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Excerpt from All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald. Copyright © 1999 by Michael Patrick MacDonald. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. acknowledgments “Night Watch in the City of Boston.” From Collected Poems, 1917–1982 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1985 by the Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Excerpt from The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by John P. Marquand. Copyright © 1936, 1937...