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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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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 7: books for children (search)
Harris. See also Book III, Chap. V. He was far more successful than Hawthorne in the setting he gave these tales, which, like the Greek myths, are the common property of a race; Uncle Remus himself is a fine characterization, well-observed, humorous, and full of reverent kindliness. The class of juvenile poetry furnished no writer distinguished by any body of work, but an anthology of high order could be compiled. First in time and perhaps in merit would come a one-poem writer, Clement C. Moore (1779-1863). In December, 1823, he published A Visit from St. Nicholas, which is unique for its period in being entirely free from didacticism and from laboured inanity masquerading as simplicity; it still remains unexcelled in America as a joyous narrative of childhood. Mrs. Hale's Mary had a little Lamb yet gambols in children's hearts—for as inexplicable a reason as much of the mechanical nonsense of Mother Goose. The longevity of jingles has never been an indication of their merit
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)
m'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, 399 Morgan, Gen. J. H., 306 Morituri Salutamus, 40 Morris, George P., 152 Morris, Wm., 245, 254 Morse, Jedidiah, 115 Morse, S. F. B., 174 Mortal Antipathy, a, 228, 233 Morton's hope, 134, 145 Moses Adams. See Bagby, George W. Mosses from an old Manse, 20 Mother Goose, 397, 408 Motley, John Lathrop, 129, 130, 131– 47, 228, 230, 231 Motle