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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
of Dryden and Milton. Although John Cotton had some correspondence with Quarles, there was not much literary communication of any kind between the colonies and England before the eighteenth century. New England was complete in itself. Dr. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), upon his return from England in 1699, brought with him both Blackmore and Waller. This decisive event in the history of American verse marked the beginning of a new era, that of the heroic couplet. But though Colman praises Colman praises Waller and Blackmore and recommends both to his daughter Jane Turell, he himself, when he wrote his Elijah's translation (1707) on the death of the Rev. Samuel Willard, imitated Dryden in his heroic couplets and his method of applying a Bible story as in Absalom and Achitophel. Jane Turell (1708-1735), whose literary tastes were formed by her father, admired the Matchless Orinda, Blackmore, and Waller; but she wrote the couplet of Pope. Another and even earlier evidence of the influence of Pop
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
Plowboy was played afterward by Henry Placide, G. H. Hill, Joshua Silsbee, and others. In the preface Woodworth, S., The forest Rose, Boston, 1854. For Woodworth, see also Book II, Chaps. v and VI. to the play it is stated that Silsbee played Jonathan for over one hundred consecutive nights in London. The comedy, which was accompanied by songs, is an interesting one, the action is quick and the conversation clever. In 1829 J. H. Hackett transformed the character of Solomon Gundy in Colman's Who wants a Guinea? into Solomon Swop and, rechristening the play Jonathan in England, made a great success in it. Other well-known Yankee parts were Lot Sap Sago in Yankee land (1834) and Deuteronomy Dutiful in The Vermont wool Dealer (1839), both written by C. A. Logan, Jedediah Homebred in The Green Mountain boy (1833) and Solon Shingle in The people's lawyer (1839), both by Joseph S. Jones, and Sy Saco in John A. Stone's prize play of The Knight of the golden Fleece (1834). These play
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Coleridge, S. T., 181, 194, 212, 266, 272, 278, 281, 332, 332 n., 357 Collector, the, 244 Colleen Bawn, 231 Collegians, the, 230 Collins, Anthony, 93, 102 Collins, William, 176, 177, 178, 183 Collinson, Peter, 96, 97, 195 Colman, Dr., Benjamin, 158 Colman, George (the younger), 228 Columbia, 167, 212 Columbiad, the, 170-171 Columbian magazine, the, 288 Columbia's glory, or British pride Humbled, 168-169 Columbus, 181, 257, 287 Columbus, life of, 250, 252, 256 Colman, George (the younger), 228 Columbia, 167, 212 Columbiad, the, 170-171 Columbian magazine, the, 288 Columbia's glory, or British pride Humbled, 168-169 Columbus, 181, 257, 287 Columbus, life of, 250, 252, 256 Combe, George, 190 Comet, the, 160 Commemoration ode, 270 Commonplace Book, 57 Common sense, 120, 141 Common sense in Dishabille, 236 Companions of Columbus, 249 Compensation, 336, 352 Complaint of a Forsaken Indian woman, the, 213 Condorcet, 91 Conduct of life, 359 Confessions (Rousseau), 199 Confidence man, the, 323 Conflagration, the, 160 Congress Canvassed, the, 136 Congreve, 116 Conner, Charlotte Barnes, 223, 224, 225 Conquest of Canaan, the, 165-