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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.), Chapter 2: the historians, 1607-1783 (search)
of them were redeemed after years of exile, and they returned with thrilling stories in their mouths. Here was a new field for the historian, and it was well worked. See also Book I, Chap. i. A distinct place must be reserved for Daniel Gookin, a Virginia Puritan who moved to Massachusetts to escape the persecutions of Governor Berkeley. He was made superintendent of Indians in his new home and showed a humane and intelligent interest in the natives that entitles him to rank with John Eliot. The retaliation of the whites in Philip's War grieved him sorely, but the tide of wrath was so strong that his protests only made him unpopular. He wrote two books on the Indians, Historical collections of the Indians in New England, written in 1674 (published 1792), and The doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians, completed in 1677 (published 1836). Gookin also wrote a History of New England which remained in manuscript and was unhappily destroyed without having been published.
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 3: the Puritan divines, 1620-1720 (search)
the emigrants: the theocratic group-john Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, John Eliot; the democratic group-roger Williams, Thomas Hooker. the second s. It was a day and a world of idealists, and of this number was John Eliot, saintly apostle to the Indians, who, in the midst of his mission model. That no mistake should be made in so important a matter, John Eliot sent out of the American wilderness the plan of a Christian Utopied than in the pages of The Christian commonwealth. At the base of Eliot's political thinking were the two germinal conceptions which animatds with the magistrate. In order to secure an adequate magistracy, Eliot proposed to divide society into groups of tens, fifties, hundreds, urious as this little work is-testifying rather to the sincerity of Eliot's Hebraism than to his political intelligence or to his knowledge obellows of their sedition. He drew young men to him-among others John Eliot; and even though he should be silenced, his influence would remai
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 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
her verse. It is rather remarkable that so little purely religious verse was produced in early New England. Quarles, himself a Puritan, was prolific in hymns, divine songs, and paraphrases from the Bible. New England boasted a distinct literary class, not unfamiliar with great religious poetry; but its one biblical paraphrase and its one effort at writing religious song was The Bay Psalm Book. To meet the need for divine songs to sing in the churches, Richard Mather, Thomas Welde, and John Eliot supervised the preparation of a new metrical version of the Psalms. The Bay Psalm Book, as it came to be called, was the first book published on American soil, and passed through twenty-seven editions between 1640 and 1752, when it was superseded by John Barnard's New version of the Psalms of David. It surpasses even Sternhold and Hopkins in uncouthness, and as a monument of bad taste has furnished an easy target for the ridicule of subsequent and less devout generations. It is unfair,
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)
can realism, 289 Early opera in America, 216 n. Early plays at Harvard, 216 n. Early Virginia play, an, 216 n. Echo, the, 175, 261 Edgar Huntly, 291 Edict by the King of Prussia, an, 98, 102 Edinburgh review, the, 90, 206, 207 Edwards, Jonathan, 9, 57-71, 72, 73, 76, 80, 85, 104, 163, 284, 329, 330, 348, 355, 356 Eighth of January, the, 222, 226 Elegy on the times, 171 Elementa Philosophica, 81, 84, 85, 85 n. Elijah's translation, 158 Eliot, George, 279 Eliot, John, 25, 41-43, 46, 156 Ellet, Mrs., Elizabeth, 224 Elliott, Jonathan, 147 n. Ellis, H. M., 233 n. Ellsworth, Oliver, 148 Embargo, 150, 261, 262 Embarkment for Cythera, 110 Emblems (Quarles), 157 Emerson, Mary Moody, 350 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 60, 84, 103, 262, 268, 271, 272, 276, 328, 331, 333, 334, 336, 339, 340, 341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349-362 Emerson, Mrs., William, 350 Emerson, William, 349 Emerson, (younger), 349 Emile, 119 Encyclopedists, I19
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
Commonwealth. 1889. Browning died. 1892. Tennyson died. 1899. South African War. 1901. Queen Victoria died. American 1607. Landing at Jamestown. 1608. John Smith's True relation. 1620. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. 1620. William Bradford's Hitory of Plymouth plantation. 1626. George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1630-1648. John Winthrop's History of New England. 1640. The Bay Psalm book by Richard Mather, John Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of Agawam. 1650. Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. 1662. Michael Wigglesworth's The day of doom. 1664. New Amsterdam became New York. 1673-1729. Samuel Sewall's Diary. 1675. King Philip's War. 1682. Philadelphia founded by Penn. 1689. Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences 1702. Cotton Mather's Magnalia 1706. Franklin born. 1729. Willia
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)
he, 285 Eagle of Corinth, the, 281 Edgarton, Sarah C., 174 Edgeworth, Maria, 397, 399 Edinburgh review, the, 109, 140, 145, Edward Fane's Rosebud, 23 Edwards, Harry Stillwell, 348 Edwards, Jonathan, 150, 196, 196 n., 197, 198, 199, 203, 215 Edwards, Mrs., Jonathan, 199 Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., 198, 207 Eggleston, Edward, 362, 363, 379, 383, 404 Eggleston, G. C., 304, 308, 404 Eight Cousins, 402 Eldorado, 60 Elements of international law, 78 Eleanora, 68 Eliot, John, 203 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 138 Elizabeth Wetherell. See Warner, Susan Ellis, Edward S., 404 Elsie books, 398 Elsie Venner, 3, 224, 228, 232, 233 Elsket, and other stories, 388 Elson, Louis C., 353 Emancipator, the, 188 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 50, 112, 165, 166, 173, 197, 209, 211, 213, 226, 228, 231, 241, 245, 249, 257, 260, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 276, 283, 344, 349, 372 Emerson, Rev., William,
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 2: the first colonial literature (search)
o races and the doom of the native. The noble savage note may be found in John Rolfe, the husband of Pocahontas, with whom, poor fellow, his best thoughts are so intangled and enthralled. Other Virginians, like Smith, Strachey, and Percy, show close naturalistic observation, touched with the abounding Elizabethan zest for novelties. To Alexander Whitaker, however, these naked slaves of the devil were not so simple as some have supposed. He yearned and labored over their souls, as did John Eliot and Roger Williams and Daniel Gookin of New England. In the Pequot War of 1637 the grim settlers resolved to be rid of that tribe once for all, and the narratives of Captain Edward Johnson and Captain John Mason, who led in the storming and slaughter at the Indians' Mystic Fort, are as piously relentless as anything in the Old Testament. Cromwell at Drogheda, not long after, had soldiers no more merciless than these exterminating Puritans, who wished to plough their fields henceforth in
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
e, Bryant 106 Curtis, G. W., 93, 141, 181 Dana, C. A., 141 Day is done, the, Longfellow 156 Day of doom, the, Wigglesworth 35-36 Deerslayer, the, Cooper 99 Democratic review, 199 Dial, 136, 140 Drake, J. R., 107 Drama, American, in the 20th century, 259-60 Dred, Stowe 223 Drum Taps, Whitman 201 Dwight, Timothy, 69 Edict of the King of Prussia against England, Franklin 58 Edinburgh review, the, 88 Edwards, Jonathan, 32, 45, 48-52 Eggleston, Edward, 247 Eliot, John, 19, 38 Elsie Venner, Holmes 168 Embargo, the, Bryant 102 Emerson, R. W., in 1826, 89; a Transcendentalist, 113-17; quoted, 116-17; life and writings, 119-30; died (1882), 255; typically American, 265; argues for American books, 266 England in the 17th century, 13 English traits, Emerson 128 Essay on man, Pope 55 Essays, Emerson 125-26, 127, 128 Essays of the 20th century, 262-63 Eternal Goodness, the, Whittier 161 Ethan Brand, Hawthorne 134 Evangeline, Longfel
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)
s towns developed. It was, however, the Latin grammar school, found in all the colonies, that received the greatest attention, attaining at times the dignity of a newspaper or pamphlet agitation. Cotton Mather has left us the petition which John Eliot offered repeatedly at the synod of churches: Lord, for schools everywhere amongst us! That our schools may flourish! That every member of this assembly go home and procure a good school to be encouraged by the town where he lives! That befothe Lutheran Bible, both Testaments complete, issued in 1743. See also Book III, Chap. XXIX. As the preface stated, this was the first time in the Western Hemisphere that the Scriptures had been printed in a European language; the Bible of John Eliot (Cambridge, 1661-1663), had been a translation and adaptation in the language of one of the North American Indian tribes. Saur's Bible, containing 1272 pages, was printed in quarto form, on paper manufactured in Germantown and with German type
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)
00 Electra, 461 Electricity, 286 Elegie upon the death of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard, 533 Elementary Latin composition (Allen and Greenough), 463 Elements of geography (Morse), 401 Elements of political economy (Newman), 434 Elements of political economy (Perry), 435 Elements of political economy (Raymond), 431 Elements of political economy (Wayland), 434 Elfin knight, the, 507 El Gringo, 132 Eliot, Chas. W., 177, 239, 354, 417 Eliot, Jared, 427 Eliot, John, 389, 575 Ellet, Charles, Jr., 434 Elliott, A. Marshall, 459 Elliott, Maxine, 283 Elliott, T. C., 137 Ellis, A. J., 462 Ellis, Edward S., 66 Ellsworth, 496 Elsie Venner, 306, 416 Ely, R. T., 442 Emerson, E. W., 306 n. Emerson, R. W., 12, 34, 47, 99, 100, 109, 112, 113, 115, 118, 120, 121, 122, 26, 127, 248, 249, 254, 258, 305, 306, 415, 417, 452, 472, 488, 523, 530, 550, 570 Emerson's magazine, 314 Emigrant's guide to the Gold Mines, the, 145 Emigration an
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