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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
explorers, 1583-1763 George Parker Winship, A. M., Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard University. The earliest adventurers. Captain John Smith. Newfoundland. William Vaughn. Robert Hayman. Robert Sedgwick. pamphlets of the land companies. narratives of Indian captivities. Mrs. Rowlandson. J the keeping of the English race, thereby adding the great circumnavigator to the American roll. Later came one whom Americans have adopted as a folk hero, Captain John Smith. See also Book I, Chap. II. He risked his life with equal abandon in Flanders and Turkey and Potowatomy's land, but Virginia claims him as her own. He m as much as my memory can call to mind worthie of note; which I have purposely collected, to satisfie my friends of the true worth and qualitie of Virginia. So John Smith wrote at the end of his Description of that colony published in 1612. Yet some bad natures will not sticke to slander the Countrey, that will slovenly spi
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the historians, 1607-1783 (search)
rican History in Smith College. Captain John Smith. his Veracity. early New England histo chiefly through the efforts and good sense of Smith. Of the one hundred and five colonists thir parties his own friends became triumphant and Smith was recognized as president for more than a yeNew England to this region, and to New England Smith transferred his affections, seeking support fois the first printed American book, and of all Smith's writings it is the one which posterity most awakened literary ambitions in its author. Smith's second effort was made in 1612, when he publby some of his friends and are in his praise. Smith calls them examinations and had them taken dow the colony at Plymouth was included in it. Smith was now a confirmed hack writer. Possibly he and they are comparable in style and scope to Smith's True relation, and to any of the other earlytheir kind. They wrote quite as much as Captain John Smith, and their writings are more to be estee[7 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
s of plays dealing with the Pocahontas theme. The best of these are The Indian Princess by Barker (1808), Pocahontas or the settlers of Virginia by George Washington Custis, first played in Philadelphia, 16 January, 1830, Pocahontas, by Robert Dale Owen, acted first 8 February, 1838, in New York, with-Charlotte Cushman as Rolfe, and The forest Princess, by Charlotte Barnes Conner, acted in Philadelphia, 16 February, 1848. They all emphasize the love story of Rolfe and Pocahontas and make John Smith a central character. Mrs. Conner alone takes Pocahontas to England, where she dies. Of the colonial dramas, Barker's Superstition (1824) and R. P. Smith's William Penn (1829) seem the most significant. As was natural, the Revolution was the most appealing theme. Practically every great event from the Boston Tea Party to the Battle of Yorktown was dramatized. The treason of Arnold and Andre's capture was a favourite theme and it is to our credit that Andre usually is a heroic figure.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
h of his young wife. Thence, in 1832, he set out to the North on a career of authorship in which necessity confirmed his training and temper by urging him to immense industry and careless work. It is unnecessary to say more of the miscellaneous tasks of Simms than that he wrote moderate poetry to the end of his life, including three tragedies, that he edited the apocryphal plays of Shakespeare, that he produced popular histories of South Carolina and popular biographies of Marion, Captain John Smith, the Chevalier Layard, and General Greene, and that he kept up a ceaseless flood of contributions to periodicals. His range of interest and information was large, but he commonly dealt with American, and particularly Southern, affairs. His really significant work, as a romancer, he began in 1833 with a Godwinian tale of crime, Martin Faber, which was so well received that he followed it in 1834 with Guy Rivers and in 1835 with The Yemassee, two romances in which almost the full exten
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
s, 183, 282 Candid examination of the neutral claims of great Britain and the colonies, a, 138 Captain Barney's victory over the General monk, 183 Captain John Smith of Virginia, 18 n. Captain Morgan or the Conspiracy Unveiled, 227 Carlyle, 4, 332, 339, 350, 354, 357, 361 Carmen Seculare (Lewis), 151 Cartwnd (Gookin), 25 History of New England (Hubbard), 25, 27 History of New England, a (Withrop), 22, 23 n. History of New Jersey, 27 History of New York (Smith), 27 History of New York (Knickerbocker), 247, 251, 254 History of North Carolina, 26 History of Plymouth plantation, the, 20, 21 History of printing288, 291 Slaves in Algiers, 226 Slender's journey, 182 Smith, Adam, 91, 97 Smith, Elihu Hubbard, 288, 290 Smith, Horace, 281 Smith, James, 281 Smith, Capt., John, 2, 15-18, 19, 225 Smith, Melanchthon, 148 Smith, Samuel, 27 Smith, Sydney, 206, 207, 208 Smith, Rev. William (1721-1803), 85, 122, 123, 216 Smi