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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 9: Union and Liberty (search)
to sing it, as the Marseillaise, for example, does express the very spirit of revolutionary republicanism. But in true pioneer fashion we get along with a makeshift until something better turns up. The lyric and narrative verse of the Civil War itself was great in quantity, and not more inferior in quality than the war verse of other nations has often proved to be when read after the immediate occasion for it has passed. Single lyrics by Timrod and Paul Hayne, Boker, H. H. Brownell, Read, Stedman, and other men are still full of fire. Yet Mrs. Howe's Battle Hymn, scribbled hastily in the gray dawn, interpreted, as no other lyric of the war quite succeeded in interpreting, the mystical glory of sacrifice for Freedom. Soldiers sang it in camp; women read it with tears; children repeated it in school, vaguely but truly perceiving in it, as their fathers had perceived in Webster's Reply to Hayne thirty years before, the idea of union made simple, sensuous, passionate. No American po
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Bibliographic note. (search)
re, 3 volumes edited by Trent, Erskine, Sherman, and Van Doren. The best collection of American prose and verse is E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson's Library of American literature, 11 volumes (1888-1890). For verse alone, see E. C. Stedman, AnE. C. Stedman, An American Anthology (1900), and W. C. Bronson, American poems, 1625-1892 (1912). For criticism of leading authors, note W. C. Brownell, American prose masters (1909), and Stedman, Poets of America (1885). Chapters 1-3. Note W. Bradford, JourStedman, Poets of America (1885). Chapters 1-3. Note W. Bradford, Journal (1898), J. Winthrop, Journal (1825, 1826), also Life and letters by R. C. Winthrop, 2 volumes (1863), G. L. Walker, Thomas Hooker (1891), 0. S. Straus, Roger Williams (1894), Cotton Mather, Diary, 2 volumes (1911, 1912), also his Life by BarrettFarnham (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 vol
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
al, Lowell 172 Agassiz, Fiftieth birthday of, Longfellow 156 Age of reason, Paine 75 Ages, the, Bryant 104 Alcott, Bronson, 118, 119, 139-140 Aldrich, T. B., 256-57 Alhambra, the, Irving 91 Allen, J. L., 247 American Anthology, Stedman 256 American characteristics, 8-5 American colonies, literature in the 17th century, 25-42; journalism, 60-62; education, 62-63; science, 63-64; bibliography of the literature, 269-270 American colonists, predominantly English, 12-25; South, The, in American literature, 245 et seq. Sparks, Jared, 176 Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 249 Spoon River Anthology, Masters 261 Spy, the, Cooper 89, 97, 98 Stamp Act (1765), 59 Star-Spangled banner, the, Key, 107, 225 Stedman, E. C., 225, 256 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 219-23, 249 Strachey, William, 26, 38 Summary view of the Rights of British America, a, Jefferson 80 Sumner, Charles, 216 Sunthina in the Pastoral line, Lowell 174 Tales of a traveler, Irving 91