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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 2: the secular writers (search)
isit to Scott, affords assurance that the poet was really indebted to Freneau, and that he would not, on a proper occasion, have hesitated to acknowledge the obligation. Mr. Brevoort was asked by Scott respecting the authorship of certain verses on the battle of Eutaw, which he had seen in a magazine, and had by heart, and which he knew were American. He was told that they were by Freneau, when he (Scott) remarked, The poem is as fine a thing as there is of the kind in the language. Mary S. Austin's Life of Freneau, quoted from Duyckinck, pp. 219, 220. Circumstances did not allow Freneau to develop a disinterested poetic art. In those stirring days there was, as he complained, little public favor for anything but satire. He had inherited hatred for tyranny with his Huguenot blood; and there was a vein of bitterness in him which was ready enough to be worked, no doubt, when the time came. Mr. Tyler calls him the poet of hatred rather than of love; certainly his reputation at
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
merica series, 1891. Allen's Jonathan Edwards, American religious leaders Se-ries, 1889. (B) The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by D. H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867. Mather's Magnalia, 2 vols., Hartford, 1853. Jonathan Edwards's Works, Carvill (New York), 1830. (There is also a Bohn edition, 2 vols.) Many selections from other works in this period will be found in Stedman and Hutchinson; and not a few in Tyler. Chapter 2: the secular writers A. M. S. Austin's Life of Freneau. The Federalist, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1897. (B) Sarah Knight's Journal, reprinted in Albany, 1865. The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Mass. Hist. Soc., 1878-1882. Philip Freneau's Poems, reprinted by J. R. Smith (London), 1861. Sneath and Trumbull's McFingal, edited by B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880. Works of Fisher Ames, 2 vols., Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (A) McMaster's Life of Franklin, American men of l