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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 1.9 (search)
ular. Poe began to contribute to the Messenger in 1835, and later in the same year became editor. His tales and poems, and particularly his reviews, which were more independent in tone than had been common in America, added greatly to the fame of the magazine, but his editorship ceased with the beginning of the year 1837. Among later editors were Benjamin Blake Minor, who was both editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who later wrote a reminiscent history of the magazine; and John R. Thompson, who was Minor's immediate successor. Though it was distinctly Southern in tone the Messenger numbered among its contributors many distinguished Northerners—more, probably, than any other Southern magazine. The rapid development of a distinctive Western literature and of Western periodicals is partly explained by the comparative isolation of the country west of the Alleghanies. In the early years of the century settlers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys found difficulty in obtain
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 3: poets of the Civil War II (search)
w of Stonewall Jackson, and the friend of Lee. John R. Thompson, successor to Poe as the editor of The Southerh by Hayne, Hope, Flash, Meek, Pike, Simms, and J. R. Thompson, Timrod's A Cry to Arms and Palmer's Stonewall the South during the war—seven each by Randall, J. R. Thompson, and Simms himself, six by Hayne, three by Ticko wrote of the early battles on Virginia soil, John R. Thompson (1822-73) and Mrs. Preston (1820-97) stand outity than the crude rhymes already referred to were Thompson's humorous poems on some of the early Southern vic to the more heroic and tragic aspects of the war. Thompson himself wrote dirges for Ashby and Latane, both ofThen the fighting changed to the West, and we have Thompson's poem on Joseph E. Johnston in which he exhorts t end. Various poems on Lee, notably Ticknor's Lee, Thompson's Lee to the Rear, and the anonymous Silent March,ft all his better works undone. Meek, O'Hara, John R. Thompson, and Henry Timrod were all dead by 1875. Rand
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)
tures, the, 24 Proud, Robert, 106 Providence Gazette, the, 178 Psalm of life, the, 35 Psalm of the West, the, 338 Puck, 386 Punch, 158 Putnam's monthly, 247, 371, 372, 373 Pyle, Howard, 408 Q. C. Philander Doesticks, P. B. See Thompson, Mortimer Quarles, 3 Queechy, 398 Queen's twin, the, 383 Quincy, Edmund, 192 Quincy, Josiah, 89, 90 Rabelais Club, 229 Raleigh, 124 Rambler, 367 Ramona, 383 Ramsay, Dr., David, 104, 105, 106 Randall, James Ryder, 291ded, 286 Terrell, Uncle, George, 354 Thackeray, 153, 172, 232, 371, 384, 391 Thayer and Eldridge, 268 Theology explained and defended, 200 Thierry, 128 Thirty years view, 90 Thomas, Isaiah, 180 Thomas, Theodore, 335 Thompson, J. R., 169, 290, 298, 301, 305, 306, 308, 311 Thompson, Maurice, 303 Thompson, Mortimer, 156 Thompson, W. H., 284 Thompson, William Tappan, 153, 347-348 Thoreau, Helen, 2 Thoreau, Henry David, 1-15, 20, 165, 245, 267 Thoreau, John, 9