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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Riley, James Whitcomb 1853- (search)
Riley, James Whitcomb 1853- Poet; born in Greenfield, Ind., in 1853; is the author of The old Swimmina —— hole; Rhymes of childhood; Old-fashioned Roses,
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 5: dialect writers (search)
ght demand, is not surprising. Investigation has shown that of Bret Harte's three hundred dialect words and phrases a mere handful remain unidentified as American. The term Western, however, usually has reference not to the Pacific slope but to the Middle West and South-west. The Western dialect is currently understood to be the dialect found in the writings of Mark Twain, See Book III, Chap. VIII. Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, See Book III, Chap. VI. Owen Wister, and James Whitcomb Riley. See Book III, Chap. X. But this dialect is also composite. The original sources are chiefly New England and the South, with a mingling here and there of German and Scandinavian elements. Thus the pioneer dialect of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was mainly Southern, while the northern portions of these States reflect the New England influence. The speech of Nebraska shows the influence of Swedish and Pennsylvania German settlers. Western and Central New York was settled
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 7: books for children (search)
little Lamb yet gambols in children's hearts—for as inexplicable a reason as much of the mechanical nonsense of Mother Goose. The longevity of jingles has never been an indication of their merit, as witness the permanence of such ditties as Upidee and Good-bye, my Lover, Good-bye. Lucy Larcom and Alice and Phoebe Cary published books of childhood songs; and other women followed with no particular success. Eugene Field See also Book II, Chap. XXIII, and Book III, Chap. IX. and James Whitcomb Riley See also Book III, Chap. X. wrote many tender and charming poems about children, but with some notable exceptions they are as much from the adult point of view as were Longfellow's. The point of view of youthful patriots was skilfully considered in Poems and ballads upon important episodes in American history (1887) by Hezekiah Butterworth, long connected with The youth's companion. The best verse is scattered in magazines and newspapers, particularly as publishers have learned f
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)
, 3 Remarkable Wreck of the Thomas Hyke, The, 386 Remember Me, the, 175 Remember the Maine, 331 Reminiscences of the Civil War, 318 Repetition and parallelism in English verse, 66 n. Repplier, Agnes, 172 Republican (Springfield), 190, 191 264 n. Requier, A. J., 306, 309 Resignation, 39 Reveille The (The Drum), 281 Rhetoric (Blair), 124 Rhode Island to the South, 286 Rhodes, J. F., 193 Richardson, Samuel, 340, 391 Richmond Enquirer, the, 183 Riley, James Whitcomb, 363, 409 Rill from the town Pump, a, 22 Rip Van Winkle, 368, 401 Ripley, George, 9, 166, 192, 197, 210, 211 Rise of the Dutch republic, 129, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141 Ritchie, Alexander H., 172 Ritchie, Thomas, 183, 184, 185 River fight, the, 282 Rives, J. C., 120 Rives, John P., 183 Roane, Judge, Spencer, 84-85 Robert of Lincoln, 241 Robertson, J. M., 63 n., 66 n., 67 n. Robertson, William, 129 Robinson Crusoe, 12, 401 n. Robin Hood, 408 Roderick Hud
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
880 to 1890 show the complete triumph of dialect and local color, and this movement, so full of interest to students of the immense divergence of American types, owed much of its vitality to the talent of Southern writers. But the impulse spread far beyond the South. Early in the seventies Edward Eggleston wrote The Hoosier schoolmaster and The Circuit rider, faithful and moving presentations of genuine pioneer types which were destined to pass with the frontier settlements. Soon James Whitcomb Riley was to sing of the next generation of Hoosiers, who frequented The Old Swimmina Hole and rejoiced When the Frost is on the Punkin. It was the era of Denman Thompson's plays, Joshua Whitcomb and The Old homestead. Both the homely and the exotic marched under this banner of local color: Hamlin Garland presented Iowa barnyards and cornfields, Helen Hunt Jackson dreamed the romance of the Mission Indian in Ramona, and Lafcadio Hearn, Irish and Greek by blood, resident of New Orleans an
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
Purloined letter, the, Poe 193 Quarterly, the, 88 Rainy day, the, Longfellow 156 Ramona, Jackson 248 Ramoth Hill, Whittier 138 Raven, the, Poe 192 Read, T. B., 225 Reality of spiritual life, the, Edwards 50 Reaper and the Flowers, the, Longfellow 153 Red Rover, the, Cooper 98 Religious freedom in the colonies, 16 Ren, ChAteaubriand 96 Repplier, Agnes, 262 Revolution, influence upon literature, 66 et seq.; bibliography, 270 Rights of man, the, Paine 75 Riley, J. W., 247, 257-59 Ripley, George, 141 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, Howells 251 Rise of the Dutch Republic, Motley 180 Rivulet, the, Bryant 106 Robinson, John, 11 Roderick Hudson, James 253 Rolfe, John, 38 Romanticism in American literature, 187 et seq. Roosevelt, Theodore, 243 Roughing it, Clemens 10, 237 Rowlandson, Mary, 39 Rules for Reducing a great Empire to a Small one, Franklin 58 Russell, Irwin, 246 Salem witchcraft, 43 Salmagundi papers, Irving and Paul
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
one time with Mark Twain and again with James Whitcomb Riley See Book III. Chap. X. and Eugene Fof the West, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, Sill, Riley, and Moody. For the South, see Book III, Chplingese and to the negligee dialect of James Whitcomb Riley, but he himself went to the other extreoets of the Middle West,—the Piatts, Carleton, Riley, and Moody. The wedded poets, John James Piatf his own verse, the People's Laureate, James Whitcomb Riley. Of Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish stocktation as a lawyer and orator. In his boyhood Riley was, as he says, always ready to declaim and te of the Indiana capitol. The impression that Riley made—and still makes—on the American public wah century, that offers some justification for Riley's enormous vogue. Though there are capacities even the name of Santayana. See the works of Riley, Thilly, Perry, and McIntosh mentioned in the ng. But apart from the books of Albee, Husik, Riley, and Salter (mentioned in the bibliography to <
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
-82, 285, 289 Beldonald Holbein, the, 104 Belknap, Jeremy, 172, 176, 535, 546 Bell, Robert, 535 Bell, William A., 157 Bellamy, Edward, 82, 86, 360 Bellman, 333 Bells, the, 35 Ben-Hur, 74, 75, 86 Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone. See Riley, J. W. Benn, 264 n. Bennett, Arnold, 567 Bennett, J. G., 322, 328 Benrimo, J. H., 290, 292 Benson, Frank, 291 Bent, George, 148 Bent, Col. William, 148 Bentham, 233 Bentley, 475, 487 Benton, Thomas Hart, 139, 140, 146 the Rocky Mountains, A, 150 Riedesel, Baroness von, 577 Rien on Moi, 596 Rigdon, Sidney, 520 Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 288 Rights of man to property, the, 436 Rihbany, Abraham M., 421 Riis, Jacob, 420 Riley, J. I., 7 Riley, James Whitcomb, 27, 31, 37, 59-62, 261 n., 264 n. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 295 Ripley, George, 472 Rip Van Winkle, 268 Rise and fall of the Confederate government, 182, 351 Rise of David Levinsky, the, 606, 607 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, 80