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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 30 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchell, Donald Grant 1822- (search)
Mitchell, Donald Grant 1822- (pen-name Ik marvel), author; born in Norwich, Conn., April 12, 1822; studied at Judge Hall's Ellington School in 1830-37, and graduated at Yale College in 1841. After spending three years in farm-work he studied law in New York in 1846. He was United States consul in Venice in 1853-55. Returning to the United States he settled on his farm at Edgewood and devoted himself to literature. His publications include Fresh Gleanings; The battle summer, or Paris in 1848; Reveries of a bachelor; Dream life; Fudge doings; My farm of Edgewood; Seven stories with basement and Attic; Dr. Johns; Out-of-town places; English lands; Letters and Kings; American lands and letters, etc.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), chapter 1.9 (search)
for many years the co-operation of the best writers of the country, and conducted what was in many ways the best general literary magazine. The Knickerbocker Gallery, an elaborate gift book published for the benefit of the editor in 1855, and made up of brief poems and essays donated by contributors to the magazine, contained pieces by Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, N. P. Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Donald Grant Mitchell, George H. Boker, Bayard Taylor, T. W. Parsons, Epes Sargent, J. G. Saxe, James T. Fields, Charles Godfrey Leland, George William Curtis, Park Benjamin, Rufus W. Griswold, Richard Henry Stoddard, C. F. Briggs, and many more; and among other contributors of the early time were Miss Sedgwick, James Gates Percival, Richard Henry Wilde, Mrs. Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, J. G. Whittier, Horace Greeley, and James Fenimore Cooper. The importance of The Knickerbocker magazine may be ju
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
lk for Babes, drawn out of the breast, of both Testaments, 396 Milman, Dean, 128 Milton, 3, 63, 124, 254, 399 Minerva, 180 Mingo and other sketches, 389 Minister's Wooing, the, 200 Minor, Benjamin Blake, 169 Minot, George Richards, 106 Mirror (N. Y.), 151, 152, 164, 187 Miss Lucinda, 373 Miss Tempy's Watchers, 383 Mr. Dooley, 151 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, 23 Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of The Atlantic monthly, 287 Mr. Rabbit at Home, 350 Mitchell, D. G., 167 Mitchell, S. Weir, 242, 282, 285 Modern English grammar, 365 Mogg Megone, 46 Moliere, 234 Moll Flanders, 396 Moll Pitcher, 345 Monroe, James, 119 Monsieur Motte, 390 Montaigne, 229, 234, 236, 258 Montcalm, 11 Montesquieu, 126 Monthly Anthology, the, 162, 162 n., 163 Monthly magazine and American review, the, 161 Moore, Clement C., 408 Moore, Frank, 298, 299 Moore, Thomas, 57, 66, 230 Moral uses of dark things, 213 More, Hannah, 367, 397
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
—the almost equally tender and tearful Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel） See Book III, Chap. XIthe decade was eminently clerical, and though Mitchell and Curtis might recall Irving and Thackeray bachelor (1850) and Dream life (1851), which Mitchell, as a young writer, issued under the pseudony books. These themes are repeatedly found in Mitchell's later writings; and My Farm of Edgewood (18ving around agricultural and rural themes. Mitchell's own experiences with the soil of his nativeings had in no small measure developed. Thus Mitchell figures in a very personal way in the large g itself. Towards the end of his long life, Mitchell wrote four volumes on English lands, letters,Tales of a traveller, are more in accord with Mitchell's fame as the author of the Reveries and Drea the creative imagination. Before we leave Mitchell there is, however, to be noted one point whiccan essayists. Again like Irving, whose life Mitchell's parallels in details of ill health, early t[4 more...]<
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ter's charge, the, 81 Minister's Wooing, the, 72 Minnesota (University), 412 Mirele Efros, 608 Miscellaneous writings (Mrs. Eddy), 526 Miss Bellard's inspiration, 84 Missionary Herald, the, 155 Missions and missionaries of California, the, 139 Missions from the modern view, 213 Mississippi Basin, the. 187 Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, the, 193 Miss Multon, 271 Missouri (University), 6 Miss Ravenel's Convcrsion from Secession to Loyalty, 76 n. Mitchell, Donald Grant, 69, 110-113 Mitchell, John Ames, 22 Mitchell, Langdon, 276, 288, 294 Mitchell, Samuel L., 179, 445, 446 Mitchell, Silas Weir, 90-91, 287 Mittelberger, Gottlieb, 577 Moby Dick, 92, 156 Modern English, 475 Modern instance, a, 79, 311 Mod. Lang. Ass. Pub., 459, 480 n. Modern language notes, 459 Modern painters, 489 Modest inquiry into the nature and necessity of paper currency, a, 426 Modjeska, 48, 49 Moerder aus Liebe, a, 605 Mogulesko, 608 Mohun, 6