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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.) 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 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
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 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 24: Lowell (search)
, disregardful of the past, and careless of reflection, but it has inspired us with a faith in our power to rebuild and move on. The evils which beset us do not daunt us, and the virtues we possess we would fain impose upon others. We believe in propaganda, we are uneasy without some cause to further, some improvement to promote. If we ever determine what the American idea is, we shall evangelize the world. It was perhaps this spirit of reform which Lowell had sought to express in his Prometheus and which he had in mind when in another letter to Briggs he declares I am the first who has endeavoured to express the American Idea, and I shall be popular by and by. Ibid. Popularity came first, however, when fervour was linked with wit and humour in The Biglow papers with their racy Yankee dialect and their burning zeal against the aggressiveness of the slave-holding South. The art of these verses has no resemblance to the art of Keats, and their gospel of reform is not a glorious
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)
ses Ridicules, 234 Prentice, George Denison, 153 Prenticeana, 153 Prescott, F. C., 63 n. Prescott, William Hickling, 123-131, 132, 136, 137, 249 Preston, Margaret J., 288, 290, 300, 302, 305, 306, 307, 309, 311 Prince, Thomas, 113 Prince and the Pauper, the, 406 Princeton, 198, 208, 219, 316 Princeton review, the, 208 Princeton Theological Seminary, 208 Proceedings of the Cambridge historical Society, 77 n. Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The, 228, 234 Prometheus (Lowell), 250 Prometheus Vinctus, 2 Prophetic pictures, the, 24 Proud, Robert, 106 Providence Gazette, the, 178 Psalm of life, the, 35 Psalm of the West, the, 338 Puck, 386 Punch, 158 Putnam's monthly, 247, 371, 372, 373 Pyle, Howard, 408 Q. C. Philander Doesticks, P. B. See Thompson, Mortimer Quarles, 3 Queechy, 398 Queen's twin, the, 383 Quincy, Edmund, 192 Quincy, Josiah, 89, 90 Rabelais Club, 229 Raleigh, 124 Rambler, 367 Ramona, 383