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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.) 11 1 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 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
s. Rowlandson. John Gyles. Jonathan Dickinson. the Quakers. Alice Curwen. George Keith. Sarah Knight. William Byrd. Dr. Alexander Hamilton The English folk who became Americans during the e shores of the Atlantic. One of these is addressed To the right Honourable, Sir George Calvert, Knight, Baron of Baltimore, and Lord of Avalon in Britaniola, who came over to see his Land there, 1627ons and amusing descriptions preserved by one of the sprightliest of New England matrons, Madame Sarah Knight. During the winter of 1704-5, Mrs. Knight was obliged to go to New York to attend to somMrs. Knight was obliged to go to New York to attend to some business affairs. The trip from Boston followed the shore line, and was accomplished as expeditiously as her energetic nature, bored by the humdrum happenings along the way, could hurry it along, an travellers, appears to advantage even beside the urbanity of Byrd and the sprightliness of Mrs. Knight. Bent upon no special errand, he observed freely, and all the more so, one suspects, because
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)
Keats, John, 260, 262, 264, 265 Keene, Laura, 232 Keimer, Samuel, 94, 95, 115, 161 Keith, George, 9 Keith, Sir, William, 94 Kelly, Miss, 221 Kemble, Fanny, 189, 191 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 231, 240, 307, 308, 311-312 Kent, James, 288 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-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 Granville (1667-1735), 159 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 91, 190 Last Leaf, th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
d married in October, 1852, Capt. Edward B. Hunt, and October, 1875, William S. Jackson. Contributed poems and prose articles to the N. Y. Nation, independent, and Atlantic monthly. She was greatly interested in the Indians, and her works dealing with that subject are A century of Dishonor (1881), and Ramona (1884); other works are Verses by H. H. （1870); Bits of travel (1872); Bits of talk about home matters (1873); Sonnets and Lyrics (1886). Died in San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1885. Knight, Sarah Born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1666. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Kemble and wife of Richard Knight, and taught school in Boston, counting among her pupils Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Mather. Her Journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704,from the original manuscript, including the diary of the Rev. John Buckingham of a journey to Canada in 1710, was published in 1825. Died at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 25, 1727. Lanier, Sidney Born in Macon, Ga., Feb. 3, 1842. H
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
(B) The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by D. H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867. Mather's Magnalia, 2 vols., Hartford, 1853. Jonathan Edwards's Works, Carvill (New York), 1830. (There is also a Bohn edition, 2 vols.) Many selections from other works in this period will be found in Stedman and Hutchinson; and not a few in Tyler. Chapter 2: the secular writers A. M. S. Austin's Life of Freneau. The Federalist, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1897. (B) Sarah Knight's Journal, reprinted in Albany, 1865. The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Mass. Hist. Soc., 1878-1882. Philip Freneau's Poems, reprinted by J. R. Smith (London), 1861. Sneath and Trumbull's McFingal, edited by B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880. Works of Fisher Ames, 2 vols., Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (A) McMaster's Life of Franklin, American men of letters series, 1887. Morse's Life of Franklin, American statesmen series, 1889. William H
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
way, and not conventionally. It was destined, as Cicero said of ancient Rome, to produce its statesmen and orators first, and its poets later. Literature was not inclined to show itself with much promptness, during and after long years of conflict, first with the Indians, then with the mother country. There were individual instances of good writing: Judge Sewall's private diaries, sometimes simple and noble, sometimes unconsciously eloquent, often infinitely amusing; William Byrd's and Sarah Knight's piquant glimpses of early Virginia travel; Cotton Mather's quaint and sometimes eloquent passages; Freneau's poetry, from which Scott and Campbell borrowed phrases. Behind all, there was the stately figure of Jonathan Edwards standing gravely in the background, like a monk at the cloister door, with his treatise on the Freedom of the will. Thus much for the scanty literary product; but when we turn to look for a new-born statesmanship in a nation equally new-born, the fact suddenly