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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
istory of the Byron controversy (1869); Pink and White tyranny (1871); Religious poems (1865); Men of our times (1868); Footsteps of the masters (1876); Poganuc people (1878); and a Dog's Mission (1881). Died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896. Taylor, Bayard Born in Kennett Square, Chester Co., Penn., Jan. 11, 1825. He received a high-school education and contributed poems to local papers, bringing out his first volume, Ximena, and other poems, in 1844. Some of his publications are Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and staff (1846); and many other accounts of travel, the tnal one being Egypt and Iceland (1874). Among his novels are Hannah Thurston (1863); John Godfrey's fortunes (1864); The story of Kennett (1866); Joseph and his friend (1870); and Beauty and the Beast, and tales of home (1872). His books of poetry, by which he is, perhaps, best known, include The poet's journal (1862); Poems (1865); The Masque of the Gods (1872); Lars: a pastoral of Norway (1873); Hom
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)
as intended to supply the means necessary for the voyage abroad that he had long cherished for its own sake and for its educational value. At a time when American pilgrims were a curiosity, he wandered through Europe for two years, virtually without funds, enduring and enjoying every manner of hardship and adventure. Particularly in Germany, where he was subsequently to marry and to find the material for his most ardent literary studies, he felt more at home than in repressive Kennett. Views Afoot (1846) told the story of these years, and launched Taylor upon a career of travel and journalistic distinction that made his fame international. Of all the lands that he lived in or roamed through, the countries of the Orient captivated this eager romanticist most completely. It needed not [says Stedman] Hicks's picture of the bronzed traveller, in his turban and Asiatic costume, smoking, cross-legged, upon a roof-top of Damascus, to show us how much of a Syrian he was. We saw it in
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)
93 Venetian life, 78, 164 Verfassung undDemokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 586 Verga, 81 Verlaine, 50 Vermont Wool-Dealer, the, 285 Verplanck, G. C., 481, 543 Verrazano, the navigator, 185 Versterter Saboth, 606 Verzweiflung, 602 Vespuccius, 185 Vethake, H., 434 Via Crucis, 88 Victor, Mrs., Frances Fuller, 153 Victor, Mrs. M. V., 71 Victor Durand, 278 Victorian poets, 127 Viereck, G. S., 581 View of the United States, a, 431, 432 Views Afoot, 39 Viking age, the, 163 Village life in China, 212 Villeneufve, Le Blanc de, 591 Vincent, M. R., 208 Virey, 579 Virgil, 463 Virgilio, Giovanm del, 489 Virginia (University of), 339, 397, 412, 447, 449, 453, 459, 463 n., 465, 465-6 n., 478 Virginia, a history of the people, 68 Virginia comedians, the, 67 Virginian, the, 95, 162 Visions and Tasks, 218 n. Visions of Moses, the, 519 Visit to India, China, and Japan in 1853, a, 155 Vita Nuova, 49, 489 V