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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 10: Thoreau (search)
ugitive slaves escaping to the free North, and, through the action of Northern courts, dragged back into slavery. The State was clearly in the wrong; Thoreau, in his own phrase, declared war on the State, by refusing to pay his poll-tax. He believed that such passive resistance by a number of taxpayers would bring about the abolition of slavery. He was therefore quite consistent with himself when he stood forth from the crowd as the champion of John Brown in his history-making raid on Harper's Ferry. Public opinion, North and South, condemned the raid as the outrage of a fanatic attempting to kindle a servile war. Thoreau was of the remnant who saw its true bearing. It was in the first year of his Walden hermitage that Thoreau was arrested and lodged in jail for refusing to pay his poll-tax. He tells how he was going to the cobbler's, with a shoe to be mended, when the Law laid hold of him, how he spent the evening very pleasantly with the other inmates of the lock-up, how he w
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)
nion army and became a brigadier-general. Although his verse lacks metrical skill, it is vigorous and full of feeling, generally free of animosities, and in the tone of the soldier rather than of the bitter poet who stays at home. To get a really vivid idea of the lyric expression of the time one should look less to individual writers or groups of writers than to the subjects which were most commonly their themes. The John Brown affair found many poets: Stedman in How old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Brownell in The battle of Charlestown, fiercely ironic, Whittier in Brown of Ossawatomie, and, above all, the anonymous author (he may have been Charles Sprague Hall) of John Brown's body, which, set to the air of an old Methodist hymn, became the most popular marching song of the Union armies, and survived innumerable parodies and rival versions—to be sung not only by American but by British troops in the present war. The secession of South Carolina called forth the earnest, affectiona
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)
211, 219-223 Hopkins, Samuel, 197, 198-200, 206, 219 Hopkinson, Francis, 150 Hood, Thomas, 148, 242 Hood, Tom (younger), 387 Hood, Gen. J. B., 290 Hooker's across, 283 Hooper, Johnson J., 153 Hoosiers, the, 364 Hoosier schoolmaster, the, 362, 383 Horace, 234, 240 Houghton, Lord, 268 House of the seven Gables, the, 21, 28 Howard, John, 45 Howe, Julia Ward, 285 Howells, W. D., 229, 237, 284, 351 n., 377, 383 Howe's Masquerade, 25 How old Brown took Harper's Ferry, 276, 279 How the Cumberland went down, 282 How to make books, 405 Huckleberries gathered from New England Hills, 373, 388 Huckleberry Finn, 405 Hugo, Victor, 51, 384 Human wheel, its Spokes and Felloes, the, 229 Humble-Bee, The, 241 Humble romance, a, 390 Humboldt, Alexander von, 130 Hume, David, 399 Hume, Martin, 129 Hunter, General, 155 Hutchinson, Thomas, 104, 106, 113 Hyacinth, the, 174 Hymns to the gods, 290 Hyperion, 34 Ichabod, 51 Iduna and