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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 40 0 Browse Search
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.) 14 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 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
self until the Civil War. For a Hartford paper he composed a rhymed version of Farragut's orders to his fleet before the attack upon New Orleans. The verses so pleasand the Vulture and Weir Mitchell's Kearsarge echoed the doom of the Alabama. Farragut was so fortunate as to have two poets among his officers at Mobile Bay: William Tuckey Meredith, who wrote Farragut—— Farragut, Farragut, Old Heart of Oak, Daring Dave Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke—— and Brownell, whose The Bay fight, thoughFarragut, Farragut, Old Heart of Oak, Daring Dave Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke—— and Brownell, whose The Bay fight, though perhaps too long, can hardly be matched for martial energy. In the armies themselves the most popular verses were naturally less fine than those which have chieflFarragut, Old Heart of Oak, Daring Dave Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke—— and Brownell, whose The Bay fight, though perhaps too long, can hardly be matched for martial energy. In the armies themselves the most popular verses were naturally less fine than those which have chiefly been remembered as the poetic fruits of the war. It was to furnish more worthy words to the tune of John Brown's body that Julia Ward Howe wrote her noble poem The Dave Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke—— and Brownell, whose The Bay fight, though perhaps too long, can hardly be matched for martial energy. In the armies themselves the most popular verses were naturally less fine than those which have chiefly been remembered as the poetic fruits of the war. It was to furnish more worthy words to the tune of John Brown's body that Julia Ward Howe wrote her noble poem The battle hymn of the republic, but the words proved too fine to suit the soldiers, who would not sing of grapes of wrath or the beauty of the lilies. The
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)
ss of the Gospels, 210 Evolution and religion, 214, 217 Ewing. William. 55 Examiner (Richmond), 184, 296 Excelsior, 36 Express (N. Y.), 187 Eyes and ears, 215 Fable for critics, a, 246, 250 Fairy Book, the, 400 Faith Gartney's girlhood, 398 Fall of Richmond, the, 279, 285 Fall of the House of Usher, the, 68 Fanshawe, 19 Farewell to Pope, 305 Farewell to the world, 200 Farmer and the cities, the, 322 Farmer's Allminax, 157 Farmer's Museum, the, 179 Farragut, 277, 285 Father Abbey's will, 149 Faxon, F. N., 171 Federalist, the, 74, 180 Femmes Savantes, 234 Fenno, John, 180, 181, 182 Ferdinand, King, 125 Ferdinand and Isabella, 126, 128 Ferussac, Baron de, 209 Field, Eugene, 242, 243, 409 Fielding, Henry, 340 Fields, James T., 49, 167 Finch, Francis Miles, 286, 303 Finley, Martha, 398 Fish, Hamilton, 144 Fiske, John, 222 Flash, Henry Linden, 291, 298, 300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 309, 311 Flint, Timothy, 167 Fl