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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 10 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21231 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Boston 6 New 6 Mr. 5 York 5 Cambridge 4 time 4 man 3 like 3 England 2 day 2 american 2 West 2 Lowell 2 Holmes 2 Atlantic 1 young 1 year 1 thing 1 long 1 life 1 italian 1 illustration 1 great 1 german 1 father 1 Welsh 1 Venice 1 State 1 South 1 Saturday 1 Press 1 Ohio 1 North 1 Mrs. 1 Longfellow 1 London 1 Lincoln 1 Howells 1 House 1 Hawthorne 1 Hartford 1 Harte 1 Hamilton 1 Grant 1 English 1 Emerson 1 Elmwood 1 Doctor 1 Dante 1 Columbus Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 579 man 529 time 400 day 374 year 354 life 320 thing 291 house 229 friend 219 father 196 book 195 world 191 work 187 way 183 place 179 people 171 fact 159 literature 157 sense 156 sort 156 something 152 hand 147 one 134 nothing 133 heart 128 night 128 family 126 poem 126 boy 124 word 123 part 123 letter 120 mind 118 home 117 poet 117 moment 113 author 110 pleasure 110 anything 109 office 107 room 107 name 102 paper 102 country 101 story 101 effect 100 youth 99 other 96 end 95 eye 93 talk Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 319 _ 254 New 221 Boston 162 Cambridge 160 Lowell 155 Clemens 139 Longfellow 133 England 128 Mr. 127 York 101 Ohio 86 Columbus 72 Atlantic 70 Holmes 62 House 58 West 57 State 53 Harte 49 English 48 Emerson 47 Street 47 Mrs. 46 Doctor 45 Venice 45 Monthly 44 Hawthorne 43 Howells 39 Lincoln 39 America 37 London 36 Washington 36 South 36 John 35 Saturday 35 East 33 Fields 32 North 30 Autocrat 29 Hartford 29 Cincinnati 29 Charles 28 Press 27 Concord 25 James 25 J. 24 Brown 23 William 23 Harvard 22 Dante 21 Ward Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 5225 i 4257 he 3068 it 1474 him 1186 me 1010 we 640 them 629 they 353 us 314 she 301 himself 245 you 184 myself 154 her 133 itself 74 themselves 55 one 41 ourselves 27 mine 16 herself 15 ours 15 his 10 theirs 6 hers 4 yourself 2 ''em 1 yours Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 7328 be 3868 have 1144 do 639 say 637 come 618 know 546 make 515 go 475 think 452 see 355 give 352 find 308 take 299 seem 283 write 233 begin 224 live 224 feel 218 read 216 get 206 tell 201 like 193 speak 190 believe 181 leave 180 hear 176 keep 175 meet 158 remember 155 try 155 ask 148 wish 147 use 145 call 138 look 132 bring 128 become 125 suppose 125 remain 119 put 114 pass 112 talk 103 show 100 hold 99 sit 97 suffer 93 stand 90 love 89 imagine 85 pay Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2266 not 849 so 527 more 483 then 418 very 393 now 360 well 360 great 359 much 356 long 346 as 334 other 315 never 313 good 301 most 300 first 292 always 286 only 281 such 264 young 247 out 242 up 241 old 234 still 233 even 229 own 218 little 209 many 201 there 195 literary 192 perhaps 192 far 190 once 178 too 171 ever 167 again 166 last 162 yet 155 early 155 back 143 rather 141 less 138 certain 136 away 134 often 127 down 120 whole 111 new 111 just 111 almost Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 111 good 95 most 84 least 36 great 19 high 18 early 18 bad 13 fine 9 wise 9 late 8 young 7 true 7 sweet 7 near 7 lovely 6 rich 6 eld 4 noble 4 happy 4 handsome 4 gentle 4 easy 3 vivid 3 topmost 3 strong 3 slight 3 simple 3 often 3 large 3 keen 3 gay 3 fond 3 farth 3 deep 3 dear 2 z 2 warm 2 ugly 2 thin 2 tender 2 small 2 sad 2 proud 2 poor 2 old 2 new 2 long 2 lively 2 kindly 2 fit Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 206 most 24 well 10 least 1 near 1 hard 1 early Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 clemens was not 2 _ was _ 2 clemens was sole 2 clemens was then 2 house was not 2 life was not 2 longfellow had not 2 man was more 2 men are few 2 men have ever 2 men were just 2 people did not 2 people were glad 2 place was full 2 time was not 2 work is industrially 2 world is well 2 world is wrong 1 _ are _ 1 _ is even 1 _ was fit 1 _ write anything 1 book is worthier 1 book was delightful 1 book was good 1 book was not 1 books left easily 1 boston has distinctly 1 boston was not 1 boston was once 1 boston was small 1 boston was then 1 cambridge began very 1 cambridge is still 1 cambridge was really 1 cambridge was west 1 cambridge were present 1 cambridge were still 1 clemens felt sure 1 clemens had then 1 clemens seemed not 1 clemens seemed unable 1 clemens was always 1 clemens was entirely 1 clemens was never 1 clemens was oftenest 1 clemens was romantic 1 clemens was somehow 1 clemens was very 1 clemens was victorious Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 book was not so 1 boston was not too 1 clemens was not discordantly 1 clemens was not eager 1 days was not wholly 1 father had not only 1 house was not large 1 house was not merely 1 life is not unworthy 1 life were not always 1 literature is not great 1 literature left no corner 1 literature were not german 1 lowell was not then 1 man did not much 1 man had no doubt 1 man was no better 1 men are no longer 1 one was no more 1 place had not just 1 place was not altogether 1 sort was no more 1 thing was not possible 1 time was not always A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 3390 author = Howells, William Dean title = My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Boston; Cambridge; Clemens; Grant; Hartford; Mr.; New; York; day; great; like; man; thing; time summary = occasion, and said he would like to wear all the time. dinner-time, and Clemens would read them aloud to us in wild triumph. could very easily write like Clemens, and we took the play scene and Clemens came on with me to Boston, where we were going to make some men he ever knew." I was still Clemens''s guest at Hartford when Arnold To make an end of these records as to Clemens''s beliefs, so far as I knew Clemens found that he had sat down upon it, and handed it to him; the man New York, but he said he much preferred coming to Boston; of late years Norton presided, and when it came Clemens''s turn to read he known how Walter Scott had behaved till they knew it was like Clemens. Clemens would have liked it himself, for he had the heart for A little after this Clemens went abroad with his family, and lived id = 3391 author = Howells, William Dean title = A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Boston; California; Cambridge; Harte summary = that is not Harte''s fault, for he kept on writing those stories, in one but he wrote them from the life of Bret Harte, on the soil and in the air Cambridge and the Boston neighborhood, while Harte was still in San could say the sort of things that Harte said to him of that delicious This, Harte told him, was the line he liked best of all his lines, and on easily together, Lowell having limitations in directions where Harte Harte was the life of a time which was literary friends of a like age and stature, Harte laid his arms well time ventured to suggest, "Well, Harte, this is the old literary Whatever minds there may be about Harte''s fiction finally, there can Harte was no longer the alarming portent of the earlier time, but host and guest sat together for those parting moments, when Harte id = 3392 author = Howells, William Dean title = Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Agassiz; Boyesen; Cambridge; English; Mr.; New; man; time summary = LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Cambridge Neighbors Of course it was only so hard worked a man who could take thought and meeting in Cambridge, he went to live in New York, a city where money part in honest politics, and to live for his day in things that most men life than of literature, and we seldom spoke of those old times. fifth of our life in Cambridge, that I made the acquaintance of a man, I do not know whether Mrs. Agassiz has put into her interesting life of him, a delightful story character than a man who lived at the same time in Cambridge, and who If he had said it was better to live in Cambridge with a cold than Holmes was one of the first Cambridge men I knew. in New York long before he came to live in Cambridge. for others the life that I have so long lived for myself. id = 3393 author = Howells, William Dean title = Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Cambridge; Elmwood; England; London; Lowell; like; man summary = LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Studies of Lowell I knew the place--a matter of twenty-five years; but in all that time I he liked to speak of Cambridge in the custom of his younger days when here--what little boy?" At another time he pointed out a certain window These walks continued, I suppose, until Lowell went abroad for a winter suppose it was the "common man" of Lincoln''s dream that Lowell thought abroad for a twelvemonth, Lowell was seen in very few Cambridge houses, In this he was like the other great Cambridge men, But he had already come to the age of self-distrust when a man likes to I do not believe at any time Lowell was able to deal with money to my lodging, and the story of our old-time Cambridge walks began again Lowell talked very little, but he told of having been a id = 3394 author = Howells, William Dean title = The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Boston; Cambridge; Club; Dante; Longfellow; Mr.; italian summary = LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--The White Mr. Longfellow "Is it possible?" cried the old friend; and then Longfellow intervened to out every day to dine with Longfellow in Cambridge, beginning with his took Longfellow''s fancy when he first came to be professor in Harvard, The study where the Dante Club met, and where I mostly saw Longfellow, to some effort of the kind by my remembrance of Longfellow''s old friend Greene was like an old Italian house-priest in manner, gentle, heard him speak, in all those evenings, except when Longfellow addressed not know Longfellow before that fatal time, and I shall not say that his to "Mr. Greatest Poet Longfellow," which he said was the very most and came to the Boston Museum with it, Longfellow could not apparently some of them; and I will ask you to send me a box," said Longfellow, and id = 3395 author = Howells, William Dean title = Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Autocrat; Boston; Doctor; Holmes; man; time summary = visited New England, but when I came to live near Boston, and to begin The thing came up in talk with another person, who had referred to my The doctor took him upon his word, however, and said he had been so long intellectually the most alive man I ever knew." "I am, I am," said the time in his literary life when he was a fact rather than a question, and thought of asking Doctor Holmes to do something again in the manner of He said something like, After all a good physician was the great matter; person who wished to talk when he could listen to Doctor Holmes was his character of universally interested man, he spoke freely; but he has said did not know you when he knew you quite well, and at such times I think said I sometimes wondered what could be the mind of a man towards life id = 3396 author = Howells, William Dean title = Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Atlantic; Boston; England; Mr.; Mrs.; New; York summary = destinies of the great literary periodical of New England. for it was almost wholly the work of New England men and women in the New England life, shall have anything so like a national literature. New England mind for two hundred years, and that still characterizes it. which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which great day was the blossom of a New England root; and the language which publishing house which so long embodied New England literature was New England Girlhood." She was the author of many poems, whose number England stock, and a Boston author by right of race, but she came up to fancy of the young readers of that day, needed the cold New England gentle, like all those great New England men, but he was cold, like many especially the work of a new man, and if I did anything that he liked, I id = 3397 author = Howells, William Dean title = Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Boston; New; Venice; York; american summary = LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Roundabout to Boston During the four years of my life in Venice the literary intention was the two visits he paid Venice in my time, had sent it to him, after smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death that literary Boston which mainly represented American literature to me. The official chief of the consul at Venice was the United States Minister arrival Mr. Motley came to me with a handful of newspapers which, Before I left Venice, however, there came a turn in my literary luck, and later, when I saw him in New York, that he consented to publish my book. a man with the heart to feel the wrongs of men so little friended then as worthy to live in Boston." It was New-Year''s eve, and that night it came New York; and then I went to Boston to see Mr. Fields concerning details. id = 3398 author = Howells, William Dean title = My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) date = keywords = Atlantic; Boston; Emerson; England; Hawthorne; Holmes; Lowell; Mr.; New; Press; Saturday; West; York summary = write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives sense of the literary importance of the men whose like we shall not look satisfied until I thought, long too late, of Literary Friends and LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England and criticisms for the Saturday Press of New York, a long-forgotten but world, and I should not like to think he knew how far short of my time I saw an old New England town, I do not know, but the most first and last thing he saw when he came and went on his long voyages, or asked me what way I had taken in coming to New England, and when I told New England had ceased to print my letters, he said, "Think of a man like id = 47060 author = Howells, William Dean title = Years of My Youth date = keywords = Cincinnati; Columbus; Hamilton; House; Howells; Lincoln; Mr.; New; North; Ohio; South; State; Welsh; West; York; american; day; father; german; illustration; life; like; long; time; year; young summary = At Columbus is what was the new State House in Mr. Howells''s youth, the late in my father''s life, he mentioned casually, as old people will William''s house in the years after the Civil War, my father and he began talking of old times, and he told how, when a boy on a keel-boat, tied at the house of some old friends of my father where we had supper after I have told the story of this venture in a little book called _My Year In the summer evenings, after her long hard day''s work was done, my young days when he did so much of his newspaper work at home he would every day of the week and far into every night to help my father earn poetry; and over what was left of her day''s work for the long evenings time remains with me except what now seems to have been my day-long