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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.) 14 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 1.9 (search)
ted what was in many ways the best general literary magazine. The Knickerbocker Gallery, an elaborate gift book published for the benefit of the editor in 1855, and made up of brief poems and essays donated by contributors to the magazine, contained pieces by Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, N. P. Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Donald Grant Mitchell, George H. Boker, Bayard Taylor, T. W. Parsons, Epes Sargent, J. G. Saxe, James T. Fields, Charles Godfrey Leland, George William Curtis, Park Benjamin, Rufus W. Griswold, Richard Henry Stoddard, C. F. Briggs, and many more; and among other contributors of the early time were Miss Sedgwick, James Gates Percival, Richard Henry Wilde, Mrs. Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, J. G. Whittier, Horace Greeley, and James Fenimore Cooper. The importance of The Knickerbocker magazine may be judged by this list of names; yet in dignity of tone and especially in the qualit
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 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
other fields. Three of our lighter lyrists demand a little more detailed consideration,—John Godfrey Saxe (1816-87), Eugene Field See also Book III, Chap. IX. (1850-95), and Henry Cuyler Bunneast two belong to a period somewhat later than that chiefly considered in this chapter. Of these Saxe is the earliest and the least important. He is not only the earliest, he is also the most old-fang into mere fun, while it ought also to be pathetic without slop ping over into sentimentality. Saxe is quite free from sentimentality, in fact he does not often succeed in suggesting sentiment. Hla Mode that he has echoed the more worldly manner of mere society verse. Eugene Field is like Saxe in one respect at least,—that his verse is frankly comic more often than not. His humour is bold,uine sentiment without foregoing either blitheness or brilliancy. He had far more freshness than Saxe, a more fertile originality, and knowledge of men and of books both wider and deeper. He is supe
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)
. 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 periodical literature, the,