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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 97 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 46 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.) 37 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 20 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 18 2 Browse Search
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.) 18 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in 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.). You can also browse the collection for George Bancroft or search for George Bancroft in all documents.

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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 17: writers on American history, 1783-1850 (search)
who fall within this chapter's limits is George Bancroft, who, during his lifetime, held a larger the cabinet, supreme court judges, and—Mr. George Bancroft. Bancroft was born in Massachusetts Bancroft was born in Massachusetts in 1800 and died in Washington in 1891. Having graduated from Harvard in 1817, he went to Gottingenorthampton, Massachusetts. As a schoolmaster Bancroft was a failure, and he retired from the schoola ready and effective writer. At this time Bancroft had begun to support the Democratic party. Hken a task like his. They were all didactic. Bancroft produced a work of a different character. ThI am heartily glad to have it nobly treated. Bancroft is less than a quarter of a century dead, andage has accepted other standards than his. Bancroft, our first historian who had studied in Germahistory. In the preface of his first volume, Bancroft wrote: The United States of America constitutto show us how little of an author he was. Bancroft and Sparks collected documents, and Sparks pu[1 more...]
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 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
nture. Once embarked, he sailed on in Spanish interests until his death, although he was not attracted immediately. I am battling with the Spanish, he wrote to Bancroft in 1824, but I have not the heart for it that I had for the Italian. I doubt whether there are many valuable things that the key of knowledge will unlock in tha who hated strife and felt that agitation was disagreeable. Thus nothing of his personal opinions and experience peeps out from between his lines as do those of Bancroft, Motley, and a score of French and Netherland writers whose pages are coloured by their attitude towards their immediate present. Perhaps had Prescott survived his contemporaries over the industry evinced by his later work. Harvard was followed by two years of study at Gottingen and Berlin and of foreign travel. George Bancroft, then fresh from his own German experience, had been a teacher in Motley's school at Northampton. Probably it was due to his influence that German was taught
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)
early contributors includes the names of Edward T. Channing, Richard Henry Dana, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Alexander H. Everett, John Adams, William Cullen Bryant, Gulian C. Verplanck, George Ticknor, Daniel Webster, Nathaniel Bowditch, George Bancroft, Caleb Cushing, Lewis Cass, and many more of the Americans best known in literary and political life. Like most such enterprises it was financially unprofitable at first, and it was never highly remunerative; but its literary importance waspic changes of such ventures as The Atlantic Magazine, The New York Review and Athenaeum Magazine, and The New York literary Gazette, even though the names of Bryant and Sands appear among the editors, and Halleck, Dana, Willis, Longfellow, and Bancroft among the contributors. Of somewhat longer continuance and greater importance was The Democratic review, already mentioned as having absorbed The Boston quarterly review. In 1850, at the very close of the period, Harper's magazine was establis
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 4: the New South: Lanier (search)
graves of Confederate dead, would counsel no oblation save at the shrine of Mammon. This turgid style was much admired for the magniloquent swing of the phrases and the unending procession of lofty and sectional notions. It so well comported with his tall, stately figure and Chesterfieldian manners that he employed it even in his history of the aboriginal, colonial, and Revolutionary epochs of Georgia. The book was the product of careful research in the records then available, so that Bancroft hailed the author as the Macaulay of the South. But he is a Macaulay muffled in a pompous dress. His Antiquities of the Southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia Tribes, which appeared so early as 1873, along with many other monographs established his reputation as an archaeologist. He was, indeed, the most fertile Southern author of the period. His publications numher eighty, including fourteen books, ten pamphlets, twenty-two magazine articles, and twenty-nine addresses. His ind
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)
win, Joseph Glover, 154 Ballad of New Orleans, the, 278, 282 Ballad of trees and the master, 344 Ballads (Longfellow), 63 Ballads and other poems, 36 Ballou, Rev., Hosea, 207 Ballou, Hosea 2d, 207 n. Balzac, 18, 136, 233 Bancroft, George, 110-112, 122, 125, 130, 133, 164, 168, 317 Banner (Nashville), 184 Bannockburn, 298 Barbara Frietchie, 51, 281 Barbauld, Mrs., 397, 400 Barclay of Ury, 48 Barefoot boy, the, 50 Barefooted boys, 307 Barlow, Joel, 150, 207 United States, 112 History of the Insurrection in Massachusetts, 106 History of the Peabody education fund, 320 History of the Revolution of South Carolina, 105 History of the United Netherlands, the, 144 History of the United States (Bancroft), 112 History of the United States (Hildreth), 108, 112 History of the United States (Tucker), 110 History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent, 111 History of the Western Insurrection, 106 History