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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.) 2 2 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 2 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 13: Whittier (search)
of the poems occasioned by these themes are too entirely of and for the moment to have any lasting value, but their immediate effect was potent in strengthening the mighty moral resolve of the nation, and they made Whittier perhaps the best beloved of contemporary American poets. When this mass of work is sifted by criticism, only a few pieces seem to preserve much of the fire which made them so effective at the time of their publication. We may still be stirred by the stanzas of Le Marais du Cygne and the marching-song of The Kansas Emigrants: We cross the prairies as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free! The ballad of Barbara Frietchie still has power to thrill its readers, and the terrible Ichabod, occasioned by Webster's willingness to make terms with the abhorred evil of slavery, has lost little or none of its original force. It is a fearful thing, says Swinburne, paraphrasing the Scriptures in praise of Victor H
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)
ine, 384, 385 Made in France; French Tales with a U. S. Twist, 386 Madison, James, 180 Madisonian, the, 183 Maeterlinck, 22 Magazine of useful and entertaining knowledge, the, 165 Magnolia, the, 175 Mahon, Lord, 18 Maidenhood, 36 Main-Travelled Roads, 388, 390 Maitland, F. W., 130 Main Street, 22 Major Jones's courtship, 153, 348 Malmesbury, Earl of, 141 Malvern Hill, 281 Manly, Louise, 304 Mann, Horace, 320 Man without a country, the, 374 Marais du Cygne, Le, 51 Marble faun, the, 21, 30 Marbury vs. Madison, 73-74 Marching along, 285 Marching through Georgia, 284, 285 March to Moscow, 305 Marcy, W. L., 120 Marchen und Sagen der afrikanischen Neger, 357 n. Marginalia (Poe), 63 Marion, General, 306, 308 Marjorie Daw, 385 Mark Twain. See Clemens, S. L. Marse Chan, 389 Marshall, John, 71, 72-76, 77, 84, 88, 104, 105 Marshes of Glynn, 345 Maryland Gazette, the, 178 Mary had a little Lamb, 408 Mason