Meaning of tuckermanity | Babel Free

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Poetry or literature, especially that which is excessively proper or moralist; literature by or in the style of Henry T. Tuckerman.

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“The general tuckermanities are arrant / Bubbles — ephemeral and so transparent”

“From his comments on Henry T. Tuckerman, his source for the word “Tuckermanities,” it is manifest that Poe never had any respect for his work.”

“Also in 1852 came Henry T. Tuckerman's school manual "Sketch of American Literature" appended to Shaw's Outline of American Literature. Written in the starch-collared prose that gave rise to the term Tuckermanity, the sketch was an old-fashioned blend of literary history and moral precept”

“Some wag coined the word "tuckermanity," formed on his [Henry Theodore Tuckerman's] name and on the analogy of "humanity," and meaning excessive propriety and conventionality in the literary treatment of love.”

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