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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 5: dialect writers (search)
ot a suitable theatre for the display of negro character, neither is the comic minstrel show. The songs written by Stephen Collins Foster (1826-64) retain still their deserved popularity but they do not portray the negro from within. Old black Joe, Old Uncle Ned, My old Kentucky home, Old Folks at home, or Way down upon the Suwanee River are the best-known songs ever written by an American. Words, music, and sentiment are welded into perfect unity and harmony. Old Folks at home, says Louis C. Elson, History of American music (1904). is the chief American folk-song, and Stephen Collins Foster is as truly the folk-song genius of America as Weber or Silcher have been of Germany. On the contrary, Foster can hardly be called a writer of folk-songs at all. His songs are pure sentimentality. The old-time negro, however, was religious, musical, humorous, loyal, emotional, improvident, diplomatic, philosophical, almost everything in fact except sentimental. These songs are not folk-song
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)
196, 196 n., 197, 198, 199, 203, 215 Edwards, Mrs., Jonathan, 199 Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404 Eggleston, G. C., 304, 308, 404 Eight Cousins, 402 Eldorado, 60 Elements of international law, 78 Eleanora, 68 Eliot, John, 203 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 138 Elizabeth Wetherell. See Warner, Susan Ellis, Edward S., 404 Elsie books, 398 Elsie Venner, 3, 224, 228, 232, 233 Elsket, and other stories, 388 Elson, Louis C., 353 Emancipator, the, 188 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 50, 112, 165, 166, 173, 197, 209, 211, 213, 226, 228, 231, 241, 245, 249, 257, 260, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 276, 283, 344, 349, 372 Emerson, Rev., William, 162 Emmett, Dan D., 291 Emory College, 153 Endicott and the red Cross, 21, 23, 26 Enfans d'adam, 268, 273 England's Neutrality, 305 English, James, 126 English, Thomas Dunn, 60, 281 English novel, the