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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 178 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 148 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
from the weight and beauty of his elocution. It was in the year 1834 that Emerson retired to his father's birthplace, Concord, and became a dweller for the rest of his life in what was at first a small rural village. If Cambridge was small compared to Boston, Concord was still smaller compared to Cambridge; and, like Cambridge, it held, then or soon after, an unusual proportion of cultivated people. It is said to have been remarked by Bret Harte, when he first came to Cambridge from California, that the town was so full of authors you could not fire a revolver from your front door without bringing down a two-volumer. The same state of things soon presented itself at Concord, although the front doors were fewer, and the dwellers rarely limited themselves to two volumes. Emerson soon sent forth from this new retreat his first thin book, entitled Nature. From the beginning to the end of this first volume, the fact is clear that it was consciously and deliberately a new departure
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
e and America, for a time at least, most nearly united. Bret Harte. Apart from his characterization of such broadly humorous types as Truthful James and Ah sin, Bret Harte deserves to be remembered as the picturesque chronicler of life in California during the early gold-hunting days. His later work leads one to think that it was a lucky stroke of fortune which led the young native of New York with the quick eye and the clever pen, at precisely the right moment, into an uncultivated fieldthe Aroostook, although the voyagers reach the other side at last, the real contrast is found on board ship; and, although he allows his heroine to have been reared in a New England village, he cannot forego the satisfaction of having given her California for a birthplace. Mr. James writes international episodes : Mr. Howells writes inter-oceanic episodes; his best scenes imply a dialogue between the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. In one sense the novels of Mr. Howells have, like those of many
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
Marco Bozzaris (1825); Alnwick castle, with other poems (1827). His Poetical writings (1869) were edited by Gen. J. G. Wilson. He died at Guilford, Conn., Nov. 17, 1867. Harte, Francis Bret Born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839. Went to California in 1854. After attempting various occupations, such as teacher, miner, express-agent and printer's apprentice, he became one of the editors of The golden era, and later editor of The Californian, and The Overland monthly. His first book, Cond, Mass., Jan. 1, 1730. Sill, Edward Rowland Born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1841. Graduating from Yale in 1861, he studied divinity for a time at Harvard and then taught in Ohio; was professor of English literature at the University of California, but resigned to devote himself to literary work. He is the author of The Hermitage and other poems (1867); Venus of Milo and other poems (1883); and Poems (1888), issued after his death. Died in Cleveland, O,, Feb. 27, 1887. Simms, Will
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
ott's Ferdinand and Isa-bella. 1838. Hawthorne's Fanshawe. 1839. Longfellow's Voices of the night. 1840. Cooper's The Pathfinder. 1840. R. H. Dana, Jr.'s, Two years before the Mast. 1841. Emerson's Essays, First Series. 1841. Cooper's The Deerslayer. 1844. Emerson's Essays, Second Series. 1844. Lowell's Poems. 1845. Poe's The Paven, and other poems. 1845. War with Mexico. 1847. Longfellow's Evangeline. 1848. Peace with Mexico. 1848. Gold discovered in California. 1848. E. P. Whipple's Essays and reviews. 1848. Lowell's A Fable for critics and The Biglow papers, First Series. 1849. Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail. 1849. George Ticknor's History of Spanish literature. 1849. Whittier's Voices of freedom. 1850. Hawthorne's Scarlet letter. 1850. Webster's Seventh of March Speech. 1851. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin. 1853. Curtis's Potiphar papers. 1854. Thoreau's Walden. 1855. Whitman's Leaves of grass. 1