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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.) 92 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 40 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
g, Cooper, and Bryant are thus the pioneers in a new phase of American literary activity, often called, for convenience in labeling, the Knickerbocker Group because of the identification of these men with New York. And close behind these leaders come a younger company, destined likewise, in the shy boyish words of Hawthorne, one of the number, to write books that would be read in England. For by 1826 Hawthorne and Longfellow were out of college and were trying to learn to write. Ticknor, Prescott, and Bancroft, somewhat older men, were settling to their great tasks. Emerson was entering upon his duties as a minister. Edgar Allan Poe, at that University of Virginia which Jefferson had just founded, was doubtless revising Tamerlane and other poems which he was to publish in Boston in the following year. Holmes was a Harvard undergraduate. Garrison had just printed Whittier's first published poem in the Newburyport Free Press. Walt Whitman was a barefooted boy on Long Island, and
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
ccident that Sparks and Ticknor, Bancroft and Prescott, Motley and Parkman, were Massachusetts men. some ways the finest figure of the well-known Prescott-Motley-Parkman group of Boston historians. Aof the rich Judge Prescott of Salem, William Hickling Prescott was born in 1796, and was graduated way, without over-exertion or fatigue, wrote Prescott, or any sense of obligation to complete it inwith England, in praising the new book. Then Prescott turned to the Conquest of Mexico, the Conquesger historians are incompetent for the task. Prescott died in 1859, in the same year as Irving, ands another Boston Brahmin, born in the year of Prescott's graduation from college. IHe attended Geornd review-writing, and finally, encouraged by Prescott, settled down upon Dutch history, went to Eurall for an American than the themes chosen by Prescott and Ticknor and Motley, and precisely adaptewas wrought manfully by such admirable men as Prescott and Parkman. Trained intelligence, deliberat[3 more...]
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Bibliographic note. (search)
te H. B. Adams, Life and writings of Jared Sparks, 2 volumes (1893). M. A. DeW. Howe, Life and letters of George Bancroft, 2 volumes (1908), G. S. Hillard, Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor, 2 volumes (1876), George Ticknor, Life of Prescott (1863), also Rollo Ogden, Life of Prescott (1904), G. W. Curtis, Correspondence of J. L. Motley, 2 volumes (1889), Francis Parkman, Works, 12 volumes (1865-1898), Life by C. H. Farnham (1900), J. F. Jameson, History of historical writing in AmerPrescott (1904), G. W. Curtis, Correspondence of J. L. Motley, 2 volumes (1889), Francis Parkman, Works, 12 volumes (1865-1898), Life by C. H. Farnham (1900), J. F. Jameson, History of historical writing in America (1891). Chapter 8. Poe, Works, 10 volumes (Stedman-Woodberry edition, 1894-1895), also 17 volumes (Virginia edition, J. A. Harrison, 1902), Life by G. E. Woodberry, 2 volumes (1909). Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Complete prose works (Small, Maynard and Co.) (1897, 1898), also John Burroughs, A study of Whitman (1896). Chapter 9. C. Schurz, Life of Henry Clay, 2 volumes (1887). Daniel Webster, Works, 6 volumes (1851), Life by H. C. Lodge (1883). Rufus Choate, Works, 2 volumes (18
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
91 Commemoration Ode, Lowell 170, 172 Common sense, Paine 75 Conquest of Granada, Irving 91 Conquest of Mexico, Prescott 179 Conquest of Peru, Prescott 179 Conspiracy of Pontiac, the, Parkman 184 Cooke, Rose Terry, 249 Cooper, J. F.,Prescott 179 Conspiracy of Pontiac, the, Parkman 184 Cooke, Rose Terry, 249 Cooper, J. F., 95-101, 265 Cotton, John, 18, 32 Courtship of miles Standish, Longfellow 155 Craddock, C. E., see Murfre. Mary N. Mary N. Cranch, C. P., 141 Crisis, the, Paine 75 Cristus, Longfellow 155-56 Cromwell, Oliver, 10 Brothers, S. M., 262lton 76 Faust (translation), Taylor, 255 Federalist, 65, 76, 77 Ferdinand and Isabella, history of the Reign of, Prescott 179 Fiction of the 20th century, 261-262 Fire of Driftwood, the, Longfellow 156 First Snowfall, the, Lowell 172 riswold 107 Poor Richard, Franklin 20, 57 Pory, John, 27 Prairie, the, Cooper 98, 99 Precaution, Cooper 97 Prescott, W. H., 89, 143-44, 176, 178-80 Present crisis, the, Lowell 172 Prince of Parthia, the, 260 Professor at the Breakfas