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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 2: the secular writers (search)
left the shield. In Freneau's poem on the heroes of Eutaw, we have this stanza:--They saw their injur'd country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field, Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear — but left the shield. An anecdote which the late Henry Brevoort was accustomed to relate of his visit 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,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
-Hur, Wallace's, 129, 262. Benjamin, Park, 95. Biglow papers, Lowell's, 164. Billings, Josh, 242, 243. Bishop Blougram's apology, Brown. Blackburn, Senator, 235. Black penitents, 241. Blackwood's magazine, 157, 164. Blake, William, 211, 259. Bold Dragoon, Irving's, 90. Boone, Daniel, 237. Bowdoin College, 139, 140, 184. Bracebridge hall, Irving's, 86. Bradstreet, Anne, 9-13, 18. Bradstreet, Governor, 10. Brahminism, New England, 159. Bremer, Frederika, 245. Brevoort, Henry, 37. Brewster, Elder William, 139. Brook Farm Community, 168, 192. Brown, Brownlee, 264. Brown, Charles Brockden, 51, 69-78, 92, 142, 143. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 129. Browning, Robert, 68, 183, 215, 225, 229, 260-262, 265. Bryant, William Cullen, 81, 100-104. Buckingham, Joseph T., 93. Buel, Rev. J. W., 262. Bunker Hill, Battle of, 61, 135. Burns, Robert, 35, 36, 68, 69, 114, 152, 153. Burroughs, John, 264. Byrd, Col., William, 199. Byron, Lord, 277. Cabot, Geor