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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 2 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 14: Poe (search)
ing with the chief living writers of Gotham; and the year was further made memorable by the controversy with Thomas Dunn English engendered by the publication of the Literati, and by a scandal growing out of his friendship with the poetess, Mrs. F. S. Osgood. Early in 1847 the poet's wife died, and throughout the year, as indeed during the preceding year, the family suffered keenly from the pinch of poverty. The year 1848 saw the culmination of two unhappy love-affairs—first, with Mrs. Shew, most of his earlier verses are manifestly imitative, Byron and Moore and Coleridge and Shelley being his chief models; while much of his earlier work, including all of the volume of 1827, and some of his latest— notably the verses addressed to Mrs. Osgood and Mrs. Shew and Mrs. Lewis—are either fragmentary and incondite or mere verses, or both. It has been justly said that there is almost no poet between whose best and worst verse there is a wider disparity. J. M. Robertson, New essays, p. <
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)
seph Oliver Optic. See Adams, W. T. Ollapodiana papers, 152 Olmsted, F. L., 190 Omnium gatherum, the, 162 On a certain condescension in foreigners, 255 On Board the Cumberland, 278, 282 Once I Pass'd through a Populous city, 258 n. On Lending a Punch Bowl, 239 On the argument from nature for the Divine existence, 221 On to Richmond, 305 One, two, three, 244 Only a private, 306 Opal, the, 174 O'Reilly, J. B., 281 Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, The, 156 Osgood, Mrs. F. S., 60, 66, 286 Ossian, 10, 266 Otis, James, 105 Otto the Knight, 388 Our city by the sea, 308 Our country's call, 280, 303 Our hundred days in Europe, 228 Our left, 306 Our old home, 21 Our young Folks, 401 Outcasts of Poker flat, the, 380 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 267 Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd, 259 n. Outre-Mer: a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea, 34 Overland monthly, 378, 381, 386 Over the Teacups, 228, 234 Ovid, 3 Packet (N. Y