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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 52 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 48 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.) 20 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 14 0 Browse Search
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.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 1: the pioneers (search)
shire. The church without a bishop and the state without a king became a different church and state from the old, however loyally the ancient forms and phrases were retained. If the political problems of equality which were latent in Calvinism now began to take on a different meaning under the democratic conditions of pioneer life, the inner, spiritual problems of that amazing creed were intensified. Fallen human nature remained the same, whether in the crowded cosmopolitan streets of Holland and London, or upon the desolate shores of Cape Cod. But the moral strain of the old insoluble conflict between fixed fate and free will was heightened by the physical loneliness of the colonists. Each soul must fight its own unaided, unending battle. In that moral solitude, as in the physical solitude of the settlers upon the far northwestern prairies of a later epoch, many a mind snapped. Unnatural tension was succeeded by unnatural crimes. But for the stronger intellects New England
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation (search)
s were by no means so purely English as the first settlers. The 1,600,000 colonists in 1760 were mingled of many stocks, the largest non-English elements being German and Scotch-Irish--that is, Scotch who had settled for a while in Ulster before emigrating to America. About one-third of the colonists in 1760, says Professor Channing, were born outside of America. Crevecceur's Letters from an American farmer thus defined the Americans: They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed that race now called Americans has arisen. The Atlantic seaboard, with a narrow strip inland, was fairly well covered by local communities, differing in blood, in religion, in political organization-a congeries of separate experiments or young utopias, waiting for that most utopian experiment of all, a federal union. But the dominant language of the promiscuous breed was English, and in the few real centers of intellectual life the English
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
approachable and deferential. He was even interested in local Cambridge politics. On the larger political issues of his day his Americanism was sound and loyal. It is disheartening, he wrote in his Cambridge journal for 1851, to see how little sympathy there is in the hearts of the young men here for freedom and great ideas. But his own sympathy never wavered. His linguistic talent helped him to penetrate the secrets of alien ways of thought and speech. He understood Italy and Spain, Holland and France and Germany. He had studied them on the lips of their living men and women and in the books where soldier and historian, priest and poet, had inscribed the record of five hundred years. From the Revival of Learning to the middle of the nineteenth century, Longfellow knew the soul of Europe as few men have known it, and he helped to translate Europe to America. His intellectual receptivity, his quick eye for color and costume and landscape, his ear for folk-lore and ballad, his
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
Morgue, the, Poe 194 Murfree, Mary N. (C. E. Craddock), 247 My garden acquaintance, Lowell 174 My literary friends and Acquaintances, Howells 251 My literary passions, Howells 250 My lost youth, Longfellow 156 My Mark Twain, Howells 251 My Psalm, Whittier 160 My study windows, Lowell 170 Mysterious Stranger, the, Clemens 238 National Gazette, 71 National literature, Channing 112 National Ode, Taylor 255 Nature, Emerson 123, 128, 131 Nature-writing, 262 Netherlands, history of the United, Motley 181 New England, a digression from English society, 14; at the beginning of 18th century, 43-44; characteristics of the people of, 109-11; in last quarter of 19th century, 248 et seq. New England, history of, Winthrop 28-29 New England Courant, 61 New National period in American literature, 234 et seq.; bibliography, 272 New York at beginning of 18th century, 44 New York Tribune, 140, 218 Newburyport free Press, 90, 159 Newspapers, i