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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.) 32 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 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
ular. Most important in this class was the genesis of Rip Van Winkle. As early as 26 May, 1828, Thomas Flynn seems to have played a version of Rip Van Winkle in Albany. It was written by an native of Albany. Phelps, H. S., Players of a century, Albany, 1880. In October, 1829, there was produced in Philadelphia Durang, Second Series, Chap. L. a version written in whole or part by John Kerr, in which W. Chapman and later J. H. Hackett played Rip Van Winkle and J. Jefferson played Knickerbocker. This version was very popular and was afterward played in New York. A later play by Charles Burke is an adaptation of this one, with certain changes, notably the preservation of Dame Van Winkle, and the final version of Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson the younger is a development in its turn from Burke's play. The farce as a species of comedy in the broader sense has already been spoken of in connection with the treatment of certain comic themes. Payne developed a form of farce la
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 3: early essayists (search)
l Latham Mitchill, presided at the Sour Krout crowned with cabbage leaves or burlesqued his own erudition in jovial speeches at the Turtle Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot at Dyde's on imperial champagne or to sally out to Kemble's mansion on the Passaic — the original of Cockloft Hall — for a night of high fun and jollification. Dr. Mitchill's Picture of New York, with a wealth of geological and antiquarian lore travestied in the first part of the Knickerbocker History, records the numerous landmarks and traditions of the city. Corlaer's Hook was then something more than a memory, Hell Gate was still a menace to navigation, the Collect was not all filled up, and the tolls levied at Kissing Bridge formed a standing jest. In such an environment the tradition of Steele and Goldsmith culminated not unworthily with Salmagundi, a buoyant series of papers ridiculing the follies of 1807. Thereafter imitation of Addison could no further go. Moreover
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 4: Irving (search)
arly years. first voyage to Europe. Salmagundi. Diedrich Knickerbocker. England. Spain. the Spanish books. a Tour on The mystery surrounding the disappearance of old Diedrich Knickerbocker, to whom was assigned the authorship, was preserve and Philadelphia papers an advertisement describing Mr. Knickerbocker and asking for information about him. When acknowledghe old Dutch families. In the veracious chronicle of Mr. Knickerbocker free use was made of the names of these historic fami, the students saluted him with cries of Here comes old Knickerbocker, How about Ichabod Crane? Has Rip Van Winkle waked up d now by publishers of experience that The sketch Book, Knickerbocker, Columbus, and the other books, notwithstanding their obook on the other side of the Atlantic, the humour of Mr. Knickerbocker was accepted as a contribution to the literature of t the students in the gallery in Oxford who chaffed Diedrich Knickerbocker as he was receiving his degree were probably right
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)
owell pilloried him in an essay; Bryant was perhaps juster in his kindlier obituary criticism in The evening Post. He was once a famous man. Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842） See Book II, Chaps. II and VI. and George P. Morris (1802-1864), Knickerbocker editors of literary journals See Book II, Chap. XX. and charitably remembered respectively for The old Oaken Bucket and Woodman, Spare that Tree, were popular song writers in the sentimental fashion (perhaps more developed in America than have originated with Tom Moore. Yet such songs had music, point, and refinement that sets them far above their popular descendants — the raucous, vulgar inanities born of vaudeville and cabaret. Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884), another Knickerbocker editor See Book II, Chaps. VII and XX. and a song-writer, who, says a recent critic, Trent, W. P., in American literature, p. 457. possessed a lyric note almost completely unknown in the America of his time, --by which is meant a cert
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 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
the whalers still lacked any such romantic record as the frontier had. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. Moby Dick, the strange, fierce white whale that Captain Ahab pursues with such relentless fury, was already a legend among the whalers, who knew him as Mocha Dick. See Reynolds, J. N., Mocha Dick, Knickerbocker magazine, May, 1839. It remained for Melville to lend some kind of poetic or moral significance to a struggle ordinarily conducted for no cause but profit. As he handles the story, Ahab, who has lost a leg in the jaws of the whale, is driven by a wild desire for revenge which has maddened him and which makes him identify Moby Dick with the very spirit of evil and hatred. Ahab, not Melville, is to blame if the story seems an allegory, which Melville plainly declared it was not Moby
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)
nd (Hubbard), 25, 27 History of New England, a (Withrop), 22, 23 n. History of New Jersey, 27 History of New York (Smith), 27 History of New York (Knickerbocker), 247, 251, 254 History of North Carolina, 26 History of Plymouth plantation, the, 20, 21 History of printing in America, 112 n. History of the Am88 Kerr, John, 221, 231 Key into the languages of America, 4 Kinsmen, the, 315 Kirkland, Mrs. C. M. S., 318 Knapp, Francis, 159 Knapp, S. H., 233 Knickerbocker History, 237 Knickerbocker magazine, the, 241, 312 n., 322 n. Knight, Sarah, 10, 13 Knight of the golden Fleece, the, 228 Knights of the Hlorse-ShoeKnickerbocker magazine, the, 241, 312 n., 322 n. Knight, Sarah, 10, 13 Knight of the golden Fleece, the, 228 Knights of the Hlorse-Shoe, the, 312 Koningsmarke, 311 Kotzebue, 219, 231 Kropf, Lewis L., 18 n. L Ladd, Joseph Brown, 178 Lady Jane, 280 Lafayette, 9, 231, 259, 297 Lafayette or the Castle of Olmutz, 231 Lahontan, 193 Lamb, Charles, 86, 212, 241 Landholder, Letters of A, 148 La Nouvelle Heloise, I 19 Lansdowne, George G
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
The Knickerbocker history. The Salmagundi papers amused the town for a time, and were suddenly discontinued. The Knickerbocker history of New York, published two years later, brought Irving his first real fame. He employed his theme, a burlesq humor, though the result was never very happy. The Knickerbocker group. Bryant, though sometimes classed among Knickerbocker authors, did not really belong to that clique; not being a native of New York, as were Halleck and Drake, both of whong and Bright. There was no doubt a certain imitativeness about these men which may well be called provincial. The Knickerbocker magazine, for instance, they liked to personify as Maga after the fashion of Blackwood; the only bit of such affectater, has undergone a reaction in fame, a reaction perhaps excessive and best exhibited in the brilliant article called Knickerbocker literature published many years ago in the Nation, Dec. 5, 1867 (Xix. 362). written by a young Harvard graduate n
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
eculation; and the pages of the Dial, like the pages of the Pre-Raphaelite organ, the Germ, are of undying interest as they indicate certain important forces which were at work in their respective periods. The Atlantic monthly. Scholarship and philosophy, however, can make contributions to pure literature only by inadvertence. The establishment of the Atlantic monthly in 1857 marks the attainment of a distinct standard of pure literature among the descendants of the Puritans. The Knickerbocker magazine was breathing its last in New York, and Harper's magazine (1850) was as yet producing little literature of power. The Atlantic monthly, on the other hand, was able to depend at once upon an established constituency of writers. Lowell was its first editor, and his stipulation in accepting the position -that Holmes should be the first contributor engaged — suggests a range of choice upon which no American editor had hitherto been able to rely. In fiction and in verse it must b
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
osiah Gilbert Born in Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819. Graduating from the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1844, he contributed to the Knickerbocker, became associate editor of the Springfield Republican, and published his History of Western Massachusetts in 1855; then followed Timothy Titcomb's letters to 1807, he issued, with others, a periodical called Salmagundi, or the whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. A history of New York, . . . By Diedrich Knickerbocker, appeared in 1809; and during the war of 1812 he wrote for the Analectic magazine. The Sketch-book was published in 1819. It was followed by Bracebridgeis Born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1823. Graduating at Harvard in 1844, he studied law, but devoted himself to literary work, contributing articles to the Knickerbocker magazine, which were collected and published as The Oregon Trail (1849). Other publications are The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851) ; Pioneers of France in the Ne
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
248. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 57, 67, 216. Johnston, Lady, 53. Jonson, Ben, 174. Josh Billings, 242, 243. Keats, John, 225, 279. Kenton, Simon, 237. Kerr, Orpheus C., 243. King, Clarence, 278. Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline M., 240. Knickerbocker literature, 106. Knickerbocker magazine, 106, 132. Knickerbocker's history of New York, Irving's, 85. Knickerbocker School, 83, 104. Kubla Khan, Coleridge's, 212. Laco Letters, 48. Lady of the Aroostook, Howells's, 251. Lake Knickerbocker magazine, 106, 132. Knickerbocker's history of New York, Irving's, 85. Knickerbocker School, 83, 104. Kubla Khan, Coleridge's, 212. Laco Letters, 48. Lady of the Aroostook, Howells's, 251. Lake poets, 69. Lamb, Charles, 171, 260, 261. Landor, Walter Savage, 124, 169. Lane Seminary, 127. Lanier, Sidney, 215-227, 264. Last leaf, Holmes's, 159. Last man, Mrs. Shelley's, 72. Leather-Stocking tales, Cooper's, 97. Leaves of grass, Whitman's, 221. Lectures on English poets, Hazlitt's, 251. Lee, Richard Henry, 44. Lessons of a Preceptress, Hannah Webster's, 92. Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, Dickinson's, 54. Letters from New York, Mrs. Child's, 126. Let
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