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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.) 12 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thompson, Daniel Pierce 1795-1868 (search)
Thompson, Daniel Pierce 1795-1868 Author; born in Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 1, 1795; graduated at Middlebury College in 1820; admitted to the bar in 1823, and practised in Montpelier, Vt.; was register of probate in 1824; clerk of the legislature in 1830-33; and was appointed to compile the Laws of Vermont from 1824 down to and including the year 1834. He was judge of probate in 1837-40; clerk of the Supreme and county courts in 1843-45, and Secretary of State in 1853-55. He was a popular lecturer; edited the Green Mountain Freeman in 1849-56; and was author of The Green Mountain boys; The history of Montpelier, 1781–;1860, etc. He died in Montpelier, Vt., June 6, 186
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)
ontier. the sections celebrated by the romancers. John Neal. Mrs. Child. Miss Sedgwick. D. P. Thompson. Paulding. Bird. Kennedy. Judge Beverley Tucker. Caruthers. William Gilmore Simms. hiper had many helpers in his great task. In New England Neal, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs. Child, and D. P. Thompson had already set outposts before Hawthorne came to capture that section for classic ground. ne novelist of New England before Hawthorne, however, still has a wide, healthy public. Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) knew the Vermont frontier as Cooper knew that of New York. After many strugendence first from New York and second from Great Britain; its hero is the famous Ethan Allen. Thompson had none of Cooper's poetry and was little concerned with the magic of nature. He took over mochool of Cooper. The Middle States had no secondary novelist who has survived so sturdily as Thompson. Charles Fenno Hoffman See also Book II, Chap. V. is remembered for his lyrics, not for Gr
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)
r, 318 Tales of the Glauber Spa, 278 n. Talisman, the, 240 Taller, I 115, I 16 Tears and Smiles, 220, 227 Tennent, Gilbert, 77 Tenney, Tabitha, 292 Tennyson, 261, 263, 264, 269, 271, 335 Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in America, the, 154 Teresa Contarini, 224 Terrible Tractoration, 174 Thacher, Oxenbridge, 127, 128, 131 Thackeray, 279 Thanatopsis, 163, 212, 262, 262 n., 263, 265, 267 Thomas, Isaiah, 112 n., 120, 123 Thompson, Benjamin, 152, 158 Thompson, D. P., 307, 308, 310 Thomson, Charles, 98 Thomson, James, 161, 162, 163, 181, 215, 262 n., 263, 271 Thoreau, 271, 333, 340, 341, 345, 346, 347 Thoughts on the poets, 243 Thoughts on the revival of religion, 62, 63 Thurloe, John, 4 Thwaites, R. G., 205 Ticknor, George, 332 Tilden, Stephen, 166 n. Tillotson, Bishop, 109 Time, 263, 270 n., 271 Times, the (Rev. Benjamin Church), 171 Times (Peter Markoe), 175 Times or life in New York, the, 228 Timon of Ath
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
one in our American literature. Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast table and Longfellow's Outre-Mer give the flavour of this life and make the nearest approach to the subject of the technical educator; perhaps by the same measure they fall below the literary standard of the other writings of these professors. The one ambitious attempt to draw the materials of fiction from the life of the school is found in Locke Amsden, or the schoolmaster (1847), See Book II, Chap. VII. by Daniel Pierce Thompson. The old district school finds here its fullest literary presentation. Though the mid-century popularity of this book was sufficient to call forth many editions, it is now nearly forgotten, and its author is remembered, if at all, by his more stirring Green Mountain boys. At the close of this period, but drawing its inspiration from the frontier conditions of the early portion of this period in the Middle West, appeared Edward Eggleston's The Hoosier schoolmaster (1871). See B
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.), Index (search)
uage, the, 480 These many years, 273 Thier Numer, 1, 606 Thierry, Augustin, 456 Thierry, Camille, 596 Thilly, 261 n. Third degree, the, 287 13th Chair, The, 293 Thirty-one years on the Plains and Mountains, 153 $30,000 Bequest, The, 14 Thirty years of labour, 358 Thirty years view . . . 1820 to 1850, 139 Thoburn, J. M., 212 Thomas, Augustus, 278, 279, 280, 282– 83, 284, 285, 287 Thomas, A. E., 294 Thomas, Edith, 312 Thomas, Isaiah, 537 n. Thompson, D. P., 416 Thompson, Denman, 285 Thompson, Maurice, 91 Thompson, R. E., 436 Thompson, S., 28 n., 29 n. Thompson, Waddy, 132, 133 Thomson, James, 539, 452 Thoreau, 112, 115, 116, 162, 313, 415 Thorndike, E. L., 422 Thorpe, 479 Those extraordinary Twins, 18 Thoughts and things, 257 Thoughts suggested by Mr. Froude's progress, 124 Thoughts on the present collegiate system of the United States, 413 Thoughts on the study of political economy, 431 Thoughts on the