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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
—Mr. George Bancroft. Bancroft was born in Massachusetts in 1800 and died in Washington in 1891. Having graduated from Harvard in 1817, he went to Gottingen on funds subscribed by Harvard and its friends. Back in America in 1822 with a doctor's degree, he settled for a year at Harvard as tutor in Greek. He brought home from Europe many affectations of manner and such marked eccentricities that his influence at Harvard was undermined; at the end of a year he left, to become, with Joseph G. Cogswell, proprietor of a boys' school at Northampton, Massachusetts. As a schoolmaster Bancroft was a failure, and he retired from the school in 1831. Meanwhile, he had begun to write. School-books, translations, and articles for The North American review came out in rapid succession. By 1831 he had established the literary habit and had the reputation of being a ready and effective writer. At this time Bancroft had begun to support the Democratic party. He was accused of doing it to o
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)
66, 226 Clarke, Jennie T., 304 Clarke, Joseph H., 56 Clarke, Matthew St. Clair, 119, 120 Clarke, Rebecca, 402 Clarke, Thomas, 286 Clarkson, Thomas, 45 Clay, Henry, 45, 50, 71, 86-88, 90, 93 n., 116, 135 Clemens, S. L., 157, 159, 360, 363, 379, 405, 406 Clemm, Virginia, 58, 58 n. Cleveland plain dealer, the, 158 Clouds in the West, 306 Cobbett, Wm., 181 Cobwebs from an empty Skull, 387 Coercion, 305 Coffin, Charles Carleton, 404 Coffin, Joshua, 44 Cogswell, Joseph G., 111 Cohens vs. Virginia, 74 Coke, Sir, Edward, 77 Coleman, William, 184 Colenbrander, H. T., 146 Coleridge, 65, 66, 197, 213 College of California, 212 Colonial ballads, 311 Columbia, 298 Columbian Centinel, 180 Columbian magazine, the, 114, 161, 368 Columbus, 128, 254 Columbus, 128 Commemoration ode, 252, 256, 279, 303 Commentaries on American law, 77 Commentaries on the Constitution, 76, 77 Commercial Advertiser. See Minerva, 180 Compendious