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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 0 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)
on with friends Wirt wrote ten essays, collected as The Rainbow, dealing with sundry political and social questions. These, like The old bachelor, in which he set himself to follow more closely the admired model of Addison, were too thickly studded with florid passages, oratorical climaxes, and didactic fulminations. Wirt's natural charm of manner survived only in his playful private letters. See also Book II, Chaps. I and XVII. Nothing of permanent mark came from the facile pen of William Crafts, editor of the Charleston Courier, and the ornate prose of Hugh Swinton Legare is that of the scholar rather than of the familiar essayist. New York and Philadelphia were comparatively free from the blight of theology and the bane of eloquence, though the latter city seems to have suffered from a constitutional profundity which even Dennie could not entirely overcome. It gave to the world nothing better than the Didactics of Robert Walsh. The commercial interests of Manhattan could
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)
320,322,324,325 Cooper, Myles, 138 Cooper, Thomas, 202 Cooper, Judge, William, 293, 294 Coquette, the, 285, 286 Cornwallis, 144, 145 Cortez, 287, 319 Cotton, Rev.John, 21, 35-38, 43,50, 158 Count Julian, 317 Countryman, Letters of A, 148 Courier (Charleston), 237 Court of fancy, the, 176 Cousin, Victor, 332 Cowley, 112, 177 Cowper, 166, 178 n., 180, 263, 273, 276 Cox, Ross, 210 Cox, William, 241 Coxe, Tench, 148 Crabbe, George, 279 Crafts, William, 237 Cranch, Christopher P., 333, 341 Crater, the, 302 Crayon sketches, 241 Crevecoeur, St. Jean de, 184, 189, 190, 191, 198-201, 211, 212 Crisis, the, 144, 145 Criterion, the, 244 Critique of practical reason, 334 Critique of pure reason, 334 Croaker and Co., 281 Crockett, David, 319 Cromwell,--4, 5, 41 Cruse, Peter Hoffman, 311 Culprit Fay, 281 Curiosa Americana, 55 Curtis, G. W., 345 Curwen, Alice, 8 Cushman, Charlotte, 225 Custis, George Washi