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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 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
d Holmes in the delicate blending of pathos with humour, as exemplified most strikingly in The last leaf, in which fantasy plays hide and seek with sentiment. Scarcely less delightful in its eighteenth-century quaintness is the family portrait, Dorothy Q; and close to those two masterpieces are lesser lyrics like Contentment, Bill and Joe, and the lines On Lending a Punch Bowl and To an Insect: I love to hear thine earnest voice, Wherever thou art hid, Thou testy little dogmatist, Thou prettr cities have been inspired to risk the dangers of familiar verse and to rhyme the sayings and doings of their fellow citizens. Sometimes they give to their airy nothings a local habitation and a name as easily recognizable as the background of Dorothy Q. Could Nothing to wear, detailing the sad plight of Miss Flora McFlimsy of Madison Square, and the Visit from Saint Nicholas on the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse —could e
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 7: books for children (search)
rity and was translated into many languages. The public kept demanding other stories; and An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1874), Rose in Bloom (1876), and Under the Lilacs (1878) were almost as popular and as meritorious. Some of these were written for St. Nicholas, in which Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge was nearly equalling her achievement. The two books which next to Miss Alcott's have the most assured position are Mrs. Dodge's Hans Brinker (1865) and Donald and Dorothy (1883). The former still remains the best story about Holland, and was awarded a prize by the French Academy; the latter runs it close for naturalness and interest. A little later these artistic successes were matched by Betty Leicester of Sarah Orne Jewett, See also Book III, Chap. VI. whose work for young people has the charm and distinction of her short stories for adults. St. Nicholas became in itself a library of choice literature for children, and many of the books which this ch
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)
e comedy, the, 40 Divine tragedy, the, 39 Divinity School address, 20, 209 Dixie, 291, 292, 303, 305 Dobson, Austin, 243 Doctor Byles's cat, 149 Dodd, W. E., 75 n. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 402, 409 Dodgson, C. L., 408 Donald and Dorothy, 402 Donne, 343 Dorothy Q., 239, 341 Dotty Dimple books, 402 Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William HenrDorothy Q., 239, 341 Dotty Dimple books, 402 Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William Henry, 104, 105 Dreaming in the trenches, 291, 303 Dream-Land, 66 Dred Scott case, 89 Driving home the Cows, 286 Drum, the. See Reveille, the Drummer boy's burial, the, 286 Drummond of Hawthornden, 340 Drum Taps, 269, 270 Dryden, 5, 125, 237 Duane, Wm., 181 Dublin University, 373 DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, 351 Dubourg, Miss, 55 Dudley, Anne, 225 Dudley, Thomas, 225 Duganne, A. J. H., 280 Dukesborough tales, the, 347, 389 Dulham ladies, the, 383 Dum Vivi