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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 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 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
of Jubilee, which have been already mentioned, the equally favoured The battle Cry of freedom, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, and Just before the battle, mother, of George Frederick Root, and Walter Kittredge's Tenting on the old camp ground. Now forgotten, but famous in its day, was William B. Bradbury's Marching along, most frequently sung by soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. The song perhaps most frequently heard from soldiers of both sides in the conflict was When this Cruel War is over by C. C. Sawyer. In the Northern version blue rhymes with true; with cheerful unconcern for the rhyme, the Southerners substituted gray. This song was sentimental, without poetic merit or rhythm, without even a trick of melody to recommend it, but it voiced the eager longing for peace and was heard in every camp many times every day. Other popular songs were the Song of the soldiers by Halpine and I'd rather be a soldier, A tramping, camping soldier by John Savage. All these are primarily conce
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 3: poets of the Civil War II (search)
neral pyre, And thus, with paean sung and anthem rolled, Give her unspotted to the God of Fire. The fall of Charleston was the beginning of the end. Various poems on Lee, notably Ticknor's Lee, Thompson's Lee to the Rear, and the anonymous Silent March, suggest the last battles in Virginia. The dominant note of the later poetry is that of melancholy, now and then tempered by a sort of pathetic longing for peace. Eggleston tells us that the most popular poem on both sides came to be C. C. Sawyer's When This Cruel War Is Over. See Book III, Chap. II The sentiment of the poem is echoed in poems on peace by George Herbert Sass, Ticknor, Bruns, and Timrod. Very different from the concluding lines of the Cotton boll is Timrod's pathetic yearning for peace, in the poem entitled Christmas: Peace in the quiet dales, Made rankly fertile by the blood of men, Peace in the woodland, and the lonely glen, Peace, in the peopled vales! Peace on the whirring marts, Peace where the scholar
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)
Francis, 328, 345 St. Nicholas, 402 Salesman, the, 264 n. Salmagundi, 162, 368 Sanderson, John, 152 Sands, Robert C., 150, 167, 174 Sapelo, 326 Sappho, 345 Sargent, Epes, 167 Sartain, John, 172, 174 Sartor Resartus, 4, 248 Sass, George Herbert, 309 Saturday Courier (Phil.), 57 Saturday Museum, the, 59 Saturday press, 267 Saturday review, the, 137, 140, 145 Saturday Visiter (Baltimore), 57, 58, 60 Savage, John, 286 Sawyer, Caroline M., 174 Sawyer, C. C., 285, 309 Saxe, J. G., 167, 242-243 Saxe Holm's stories, 377 Scarlet letter, the, 18, 21, 26, 27, 30 Schmidt, Rudolf, 271 Science of English verse, the, 338, 341 Schleiermacher, 209 Scott, Sir, Walter, 16, 102, 254, 260, 316, 332 Scribner's monthly, 383, 384 Scriptural idea of man, the, 220 Scudder, H. E., 250 n., 251 n., 401, 406 Seaside and the Fireside, the, 39 Seccomb, John, 149 Sedgwick, Miss, 167, 173, 397, 398, 399, 406 Select journal of foreign per