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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.) 18 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 12 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 7 5 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 6 0 Browse Search
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.) 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 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. 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 2 0 Browse Search
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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 12: Longfellow (search)
mpression. This is about all that may justly be said with regard to the twelve poems collected in Flower-de-luce (1867); it is more than should be said of The New England tragedies, the third part of Christus, consisting of John Endicott and Giles Cory of the Salem farms. These, with the first part of the ambitious trilogy, The divine tragedy (1871), constitute what may best be ambiguously denominated efforts. Longfellow was more fortunately employed when he put himself in the company of Cowper and Bryant, and sought solace for his private woes in an extensive piece of poetical translation. Perhaps his true genius as a translator, seen early in the Coplas de Manrique (1833), is better exemplified in his numerous renderings of lyrics, particularly, as in Uhland's The Castle by the sea, from the German, than in the faithful, meritorious version of The divine comedy, which appeared in three volumes between 1867 and 1870; but, despite a certain lack of metrical charm resulting from th
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 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
lar and yet perhaps also of Americans in general, that we Boston people are so bright and wide-awake . . . that we have been in danger of thinking our local scale was the absolute one of excellence—forgetting that 212 Fahrenheit is but 100 centigrade. There is one department of poetry in which Holmes can withstand without any danger of shrinking the application of the centigrade scale; this is the department of vers de societe;, so called, although it is never merely society terse. Perhaps Cowper's term best describes it, familiar verse, the lyric commingled of humour and pathos, brief and brilliant and buoyant, seemingly unaffected and unpremeditated, and yet— if we may judge by the infrequency of supreme success—undeniably difficult, despite its apparent ease. Dr. Johnson, who was himself quite incapable of it, too heavy footed to achieve its lightness, too polysyllabic to attain its vernacular terseness, was yet shrewd enough to see that it is less difficult to write a volum<
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)
, 168, 316, 356, 381, 401 Cooper, Thomas, 181 Copeland, C. T., 388 Coplas de Manrique, 40 Copperhead, the, 286 Copperhead Convention, the, 286 Corn, 337, 343 Correspondence of the American Revolution, the, 117 Cortes, Hernando, 128, 129 Cotter's Saturday night, the, 50, 353 Cotton, John, 396 Cotton boll, the, 293, 309 Countryman, the, 348, 350 Courier (Louisville), 296 Courier and Enquirer, 183, 187, 193 Courtship of Miles Standish and other poems, the, 38 Cowper, 40, 238 Cox, Palmer, 408 Cox, William, 151 Cozzens, Frederick Swartout, 154 Crabbe, George, 50 Cranch, C. P., 166, 183 Crashaw, 343 Crayon sketches, 151 Crismus times is come, 330 Critic, the, 263 n. Crockett, David, Autobiography, 151 Cross, Marian Evans, 172, 371, 372, 375 Cross of snow, the, 40 Crossing at Fredericksburg, the, 281 Cruise of the Monitor, the, 282 Crumbling Idols, 390 Cry to Arms, a, 295, 298, 303 Crystal, the, 344 Cudjo's Cave, 4