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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
he meanwhile general consent was being given to a song and to a hymn which are more and more popular with the lapse of time. These are Dixie and The battle hymn of the Republic. The original Dixie was composed on forty-eight hours notice by Dan D. Emmett in September, 1859. He was then under contract with Bryant's Minstrels, New York, as musician and composer of negro melodies and plantation walk-arounds. On a bleak northern Sunday he composed this rush order around the showman's autumnal af which is known everywhere in America. Fanny J. Crosby's attempt to regain the tune for the North with her On ye patriots to the battle was wholly unsuccessful; the other Southern variants died away; Pike's version is now a literary memory; but Emmett's original words and music still bring people to their feet as no other song in America does. They stand in deference to the tradition of The Star Spangled banner, but they rise to Dixie itself. The melody for The battle hymn of the Republic
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
arles, Jr., 434 Elliott, A. Marshall, 459 Elliott, Maxine, 283 Elliott, T. C., 137 Ellis, A. J., 462 Ellis, Edward S., 66 Ellsworth, 496 Elsie Venner, 306, 416 Ely, R. T., 442 Emerson, E. W., 306 n. Emerson, R. W., 12, 34, 47, 99, 100, 109, 112, 113, 115, 118, 120, 121, 122, 26, 127, 248, 249, 254, 258, 305, 306, 415, 417, 452, 472, 488, 523, 530, 550, 570 Emerson's magazine, 314 Emigrant's guide to the Gold Mines, the, 145 Emigration and immigration, 442 Emmett, Dan D., 495 Emmy Lou, 420 Emory, W. H., 144, 153 Enamoured Architect of Airy rhyme, 37 Encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences, the, 247 End of the World, the, 76 Englehardt, Fr. Zephyrin, 139 English and Scottish popular ballads, 484, 485 English grammar (Murray), 401 English-Greek Lexicon (Yonge), 461 English lands, letters, and kings, 112 English Phonology, 448 English reader (Murray), 401 Enquiry into the principles and tendencies of certain public measures, 432