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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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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 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 5: Bryant and the minor poets (search)
et they are remembered no less for achievements more noteworthy than those of the other minor men in this sketch. Drake's Culprit Fay is the best and in fact the one fairy story in American verse, if we except Bryant's Sella and The little people of the snow, which are indeed rather stories of mortals in fairyland than of the tiny, tricksy creatures themselves. Though in a sense exotic, for it roots in no folklore despite the setting on the Hudson, The Culprit Fay reports quite as well as Drayton's Nimphidia, its nearest analogue, the antic characteristics of the elfland of man's universal fancy. But it is most remarkable for its reading of nature. The Culprit Fay's adventures take him through woods, waters, and air, on to the stars above, amid the iridescent, elusive, darting, rended, prickly little objects of the real universe that heavy-lidded folk seldom observe. There are also-and this before Bryant's first volume — the American plant, bird, and insect: the chickweed and sas
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)
of virtue, 60 Dithyrambic on wine, 176 Divine comedy, the, 266 Divine Goodness, 79 n., 80 n. Divine weeks, 154 Divinity School address, 334 Dogood papers, 94 n., 233 Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians, the, 25 Dolph Heyliger, 256 Domestic life, 240 Don Carlos, 219 Don Juan, 265, 280, 282 Don Quixote, 236 Douglass, David, 216, 217 Dowden, Edward, 277 Down-Easters, the, 309 Drake, Sir, Francis, 2, 194 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 262, 280-281 Drayton, Michael, 28 Dreams and Reveries of a quiet man, 241 Dryden, 112, I16, 152, 157, 158, 161, 162, 176, 182 Dry goods clerk of New York, the, 229 Du Bartas, 154, 155 Dubourg, Jacques Barbeu, 119 Duche, Rev., Jacob, 216 Dudley, Thomas, 154 Dulany, Daniel, 130, 131 Dunciad, the, 118, 171, 174 Dunlap, William, 219-220, 219 n., 223 n., 224, 226, 228, 228 n., 231, 232, 288 Dunlap Soc. Pub., 216 n., 225 n. Dunster, John, 156 Dunton, John, 54 Durang, C., 221, 221 n., 2
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (search)
or expression to embellish his bluff narrative with a romantic incident. The first person of professedly literary pursuits to come to America was George Sandys, already a poet of recognized standing when, in 1621, he crossed the ocean as an official under the Governor of Virginia. The first five books of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses had just been published in England, and had been received with enthusiasm. On his departure for America he was sped by a rhymed tribute from Michael Drayton, exhorting him to go on with the same work in Virginia:-- Entice the Muses thither to repair; Entreat them gently; train them to that air, he urges. It was a rude air. To the ordinary privations of the pioneer, and the wearing routine of official duties, were added the sudden horrors of the James River massacre (March, 1622), and the stress of the troubled days which followed. Yet when Sandys returned to England in 1625, he brought with him the ten books which completed his versio
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
ers of time, Emerson's, 264. Dawn, Lanier's, 225. Day of doom, Wigglesworth's, 14. Death of the old year, Tennyson's, 210. Declaration of rights and Grievances, Gay's, 44. Dennett, John Richard, 106. Denny, Joseph, 65. De Vere, Aubrey, 142. Dial, 132, 168, 173, 178, 179, 262. Dialogue of Alcuin, Brown's, 70, 72. Dickens, Charles, 74, 186, 203. Dickinson, Emily, 126, 130, 131, 264, 281. Dickinson, John, 44, 54. Dismal Swamp, 200, 201. Drake, Joseph Rodman, 104. Drayton, Michael, 8. Drewry's Bluffs, Battle of, 217. Drum Taps, Whitman's, 233. Dunning, Lord, 60. Dwight, Timothy, 38. Edgar Huntly, Brown's, 70. Edinburgh Review, 69, 99, 164. Edwards, Jonathan, 15, 19, 20-23, 114. Eidolons, Whitman's, 233. E Lia, Lamb's, 261. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 115, 118, 131, 137, 145, 146, 168-177, 192, 196, 215, 229, 232, 234, 235, 261, 264, 265, 283. English novel and its development, Lanier's, 221. English traits, Emerson's, 169. Eulogium on Rum, Sm
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
who was by this time in a way of recovery, and, on his return, learned that the prosecution had been abandoned. At about this date his narrative ceases. We learn, from other sources, that he continued to write and print in defence of his religious views up to the year of his death, which took place in 1713. One of his productions, a poetical version of the Life of David, may be still met with, in the old Quaker libraries. On the score of poetical merit, it is about on a level with Michael Drayton's verses on the same subject. As the history of one of the firm confessors of the old struggle for religious freedom, of a genial-hearted and pleasant scholar, the friend of Penn and Milton, and the suggester of Paradise Regained, trust our hurried sketch has not been altogether without interest; and that, whatever may be the religious views of our readers, they have not failed to recognize a good and true man in Thomas Ellwood. James Nayler You will here read the true story o
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], News of Literature. (search)
"cannon to right of them," "to left of them," "in front of them," are not rhymes at all. In the first stanza, as originally published, instead of "charge for the guns, he said," the line ran, "Take the guns! Nolan said." We suppose that as Nolan was only a subaltern, it was held, on second thought, that his name was not worthy of being preserved. Had he been a general, it might have been different, perhaps. Even the metre of Tennyson's lyric is not original. An English essay writer, in a volume just published in London by Stahan & Co., and entitled "Table Talk," quotes a verse from a ballad, "The Battalion of Agincourt," by Michael Drayton, and published in 1627, which shows from what source the form of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was derived. It runs thus: "They now to fight are gone, Armor on armor shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder-- That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake-- Thunder to thunder!"