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Fanny Kemble (search for this): chapter 2.13
Manhattan could claim little attention from young men of wit and spirit, but leisure and a society both cosmopolitan and congenial afforded them ample opportunity and provocation for literary jeux d'esprit. When the busy savant, Samuel Latham Mitchill, presided at the Sour Krout crowned with cabbage leaves or burlesqued his own erudition in jovial speeches at the Turtle Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot at Dyde's on imperial champagne or to sally out to Kemble's mansion on the Passaic — the original of Cockloft Hall — for a night of high fun and jollification. Dr. Mitchill's Picture of New York, with a wealth of geological and antiquarian lore travestied in the first part of the Knickerbocker History, records the numerous landmarks and traditions of the city. Corlaer's Hook was then something more than a memory, Hell Gate was still a menace to navigation, the Collect was not all filled up, and the tolls levied at Kissing Bridge formed a standin
Edward Johnson (search for this): chapter 2.13
iate Professor of English in Amherst College. The periodical essay in America. Joseph Dennie. William Wirt. James Kirke Paulding. Richard Henry Dana the elder. Nathaniel Parker Willis. Henry Theodore Tuckerman In anticipating Dr. Johnson's advice to fashion his prose style on the model of Addison, Franklin anticipated also the practice of American essay-writers for more than a generation. Like Franklin's Dogood papers, the first essays printed in colonial newspapers were writf of Salmagundi, memories of l'espion turc were evoked by Wirt's Letters of a British spy, and Goldsmith's Lien Chi Altangi dropped a small corner of his mantle on Irving's Mustapha Ruba-Dub Kheli Khan and S. L. Knapp's Shahcoolen. The shade of Johnson dictated the titles of The traveller, the rural Wanderer, The Saunterer, and The Loiterer, and such editorial pseudonyms as Jonathan Oldstyle, Oliver Oldschool, and John Oldbug were significant of the attempt to catch the literary tone of the p
Joseph Dennie (search for this): chapter 2.13
The periodical essay in America. Joseph Dennie. William Wirt. James Kirke Paulding. Rious New England journals. Ellis. H. M., Joseph Dennie and his circle, p. 51. Those of the betterghtly rather than moral. While a law-student, Dennie had supplemented his income by reading sermonsazette, the Philadelphia Port Folio. Though Dennie collaborated with his friend Royall Tyler in aacher (1796), p. 103. In reality, however, Dennie was as fond of conviviality as Steele, and as ccordingly wrote the concluding paragraph, and Dennie never saw it till it was in print. J. T. Bucki of The lay Preacher. The wonder is, not that Dennie should be forgotten, but that, writing so evidme to use their pens while waiting for briefs, Dennie is historically important as one of the first ed from a constitutional profundity which even Dennie could not entirely overcome. It gave to the wn, for instance, appeared-with no reference to Dennie — as the Lay Preacher. Many introductions, ma[2 more...]
me, when I applied for copy, he would ask some one to play his hand for him, while he could give the devil his due. When I called for the closing paragraph of the sermon, he said, Call again in five minutes. No, said Tyler, I'll write the improvement for you. He accordingly wrote the concluding paragraph, and Dennie never saw it till it was in print. J. T. Buckingham, Specimens of newspaper literature (1852), vol. II, p. 197. No trace of the nights of mirth and mind that he shared with Anacreon Moore, none of the ready puns that Irving learned to dread, can be found in the pious columns of The lay Preacher. The wonder is, not that Dennie should be forgotten, but that, writing so evidently against the grain, he should have achieved his extraordinary vogue. Among many young lawyers who found time to use their pens while waiting for briefs, Dennie is historically important as one of the first to adopt literature as a profession. Others who continued to write as an avocation were
Charles Lamb (search for this): chapter 2.13
sh printer once in the employ of The Mirror. In his fondness for the theatre, his devotion to Scott, and his love of old English scenes and customs, Cox had much in common with Irving. Here too should be mentioned the editors, Park Benjamin of The American Monthly magazine and Brother Jonathan, poet and miscellaneous writer; Lewis Gaylord Clark of The Knickerbocker magazine; and his twin brother, Willis Gaylord Clark, a Philadelphia journalist whose Ollapodiana papers inherited something of Lamb and anticipated something of Holmes. See also Book II, Chap. XX. Flashes of cleverness, geniality, and quiet humour, however, could not conceal the lack of originality and barrenness of invention that were becoming more and more apparent among the remoter satellites of Geoffrey Crayon. The stream of discursive literature was indeed running dry when Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-61) burst into prominence like a spring freshet, frothy, shallow, temporary, but sweeping all before it. Th
James Kirke Paulding (search for this): chapter 2.13
in America. Joseph Dennie. William Wirt. James Kirke Paulding. Richard Henry Dana the elder. Nathaniel Pas instruction from writers of the essay. James Kirke Paulding (1779-1860), Washington Irving's chief assisto have been written wholly or in large measure by Paulding indicate that his part in the undertaking was not inferior to Irving's. Nor was Paulding less a master of a graceful and vivacious style, formed by his boyish rctions of the seventeenth Salmagundi paper. There Paulding — who undoubtedly had a hand in it-discovered a hathe frontier. After the second series of Old Sal, Paulding wrote few essays except the unremarkable Odds and cultivating his cosmopolitan fancy in many lands, Paulding grew more and more intensely local. In accepting Book II, Chap. I. Like many of his contemporaries Paulding could not refrain from using his stylus as a daggeturally enough, that the vein opened by Irving and Paulding in Salmagundi was most consistently followed by wr
J. T. Buckingham (search for this): chapter 2.13
ng themselves with cards. It was delivered to me by piece-meal, at four or five different times. If he happened to be engaged in a game, when I applied for copy, he would ask some one to play his hand for him, while he could give the devil his due. When I called for the closing paragraph of the sermon, he said, Call again in five minutes. No, said Tyler, I'll write the improvement for you. He accordingly wrote the concluding paragraph, and Dennie never saw it till it was in print. J. T. Buckingham, Specimens of newspaper literature (1852), vol. II, p. 197. No trace of the nights of mirth and mind that he shared with Anacreon Moore, none of the ready puns that Irving learned to dread, can be found in the pious columns of The lay Preacher. The wonder is, not that Dennie should be forgotten, but that, writing so evidently against the grain, he should have achieved his extraordinary vogue. Among many young lawyers who found time to use their pens while waiting for briefs, Dennie
ess, geniality, and quiet humour, however, could not conceal the lack of originality and barrenness of invention that were becoming more and more apparent among the remoter satellites of Geoffrey Crayon. The stream of discursive literature was indeed running dry when Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-61) burst into prominence like a spring freshet, frothy, shallow, temporary, but sweeping all before it. This prince of magazinists, precociously celebrated as a poet even before his graduation from Yale in 1823, and petted by society in this country and abroad, has suffered the fate of other ten days wonders. Though the evanescent sparkle and glancing brilliance of his A l'abri, less extravagantly known by its later title of Letters from under a Bridge, fully deserved Lowell's praise, though it is possible to understand the popularity of his vivid, vivacious glimpses of European society in Pencillings by the way and the vogue of his clever Slingsby stories in Inklings of adventure, yet it c
Samuel L. Knapp (search for this): chapter 2.13
rks of Yankee homespun with Addisonian finery. During the first decade of the nineteenth century nearly every literary device and favourite character in the long line of British essayists was reproduced in this country. Isaac Bickerstaff owned an American cousin in Launcelot Langstaff of Salmagundi, memories of l'espion turc were evoked by Wirt's Letters of a British spy, and Goldsmith's Lien Chi Altangi dropped a small corner of his mantle on Irving's Mustapha Ruba-Dub Kheli Khan and S. L. Knapp's Shahcoolen. The shade of Johnson dictated the titles of The traveller, the rural Wanderer, The Saunterer, and The Loiterer, and such editorial pseudonyms as Jonathan Oldstyle, Oliver Oldschool, and John Oldbug were significant of the attempt to catch the literary tone of the previous age. But the essay of manners, a product of leisurely urban life, was not easily adapted to the environment of a sparsely settled, bustling young republic. Perhaps, indeed, wrote the Rev. David Graham of
H. M. Ellis (search for this): chapter 2.13
se style on the model of Addison, Franklin anticipated also the practice of American essay-writers for more than a generation. Like Franklin's Dogood papers, the first essays printed in colonial newspapers were written with a conscious moral purpose. With some spice of wit Timothy Dwight and John Trumbull collaborated in an imitation of The Spectator in 1769-70, and between 1785 and 1800 nearly a hundred series of light periodical essays were contributed to various New England journals. Ellis. H. M., Joseph Dennie and his circle, p. 51. Those of the better sort like the Neighbour of The Massachusetts spy or the Metabasist in The Farmer's journal of Danbury, Connecticut, when not discussing politics, filled their columns with grave moralizing or racy satire on manners. They were widely copied and recopied by other papers, and a few such as Noah Webster's Prompter and Mrs. Judith Murray's Gleaner attained the distinction of separate publication by reason either of their plain comm
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