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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 3: early essayists (search)
ed waistcoats, pink champagne, and the tinkle of serenades, Willis found a setting for some of his most characteristic writing. Jaunty and impermanent as the society it portrayed, his pages yet contain the most valuable deposit left by what Professor Beers has happily called the Albuminous age of American literature. Professor H. A. Beers has in every respect said the last word on Willis in his Life (American men of letters) and Introduction to Selected prose (1885). A more reserved, thProfessor H. A. Beers has in every respect said the last word on Willis in his Life (American men of letters) and Introduction to Selected prose (1885). A more reserved, though hardly less voluminous writer than Willis, was the critic, biographer, and essayist, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, born in Boston in 1813 and from 1845 until his death in 1871 a resident of New York. As a young man he twice spent a year or two abroad, of which the fruits were an Italian sketch Book in 1835 and several other volumes of travel. Meanwhile he had been reading widely, studying art, and meeting authors and painters. These things combined with a native fineness of temperament to p
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
1 Barrett, Lawrence, 223 Barrow, Robert, 8 Bartram, John, 194-195, 201 Bartram, William, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191,192, 194, 195-198,212,213 Batchelor's Hall, 161 Byteman, Mrs. Sidney F., 230 Battle of Brooklyn, the, 218 Battle of Lovell's Pond, the, 166 Battle of the kegs, 167 Baviad, 178 Bay Psalm Book, the, 156 Beattie, William, 163 Beauchamp, Colonel, 224 Beauchampe, 225 n., 317 Beauties of Santa Cruz, the, 181 Beaux-Stratagem, the, 117 Beers, Professor H. A., 243, 243 n. Beginnings of American dramatic literature, the, 215 n. Benevolence of the Deity, 77 n., 78 n. Benjamin, Park, 241 Bentham, Jeremy, 309 Bentley, Richard, 252, 255 Beppo, 282 Berber, the, 320 Bergman, T. O., 186 Berkeley, Bishop, 57, 58, 67, 81, 83, 84, 191, 214, 266 Berkeley, Gov., William, 25 Bernard, Governor, 125, 132 Bernard, John, 189, 292 Betrothal, the, 223, 230 Beverley, Robert, 26 Bianca Visconti, 224 Biddle, Nicholas, 204, 205