The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... DRAMA , 1860-1918 By MONTROSE J. MOSES . The Civil War on the Stage . Black and Red Americans . Dion Bouci- cault . John Brougham . General Unconcern with Native Drama . Edwin Forrest . Charlotte Cushman . Edwin Booth . Lawrence Barrett ...
... DRAMA , 1860-1918 By MONTROSE J. MOSES . The Civil War on the Stage . Black and Red Americans . Dion Bouci- cault . John Brougham . General Unconcern with Native Drama . Edwin Forrest . Charlotte Cushman . Edwin Booth . Lawrence Barrett ...
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... dramatic poem ; and his occasional poems , such as the Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Com- mon - is work in kinds in which other American poets have done better . But none of them has done better than he in vers de ...
... dramatic poem ; and his occasional poems , such as the Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Com- mon - is work in kinds in which other American poets have done better . But none of them has done better than he in vers de ...
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... dramatic lyrics , lyrical dramas , translations , poems in German , poems in every mood and every metre , poems con- sciously or unconsciously imitative of a host of poets ( he had a remarkable but ill - controlled verbal memory ) ...
... dramatic lyrics , lyrical dramas , translations , poems in German , poems in every mood and every metre , poems con- sciously or unconsciously imitative of a host of poets ( he had a remarkable but ill - controlled verbal memory ) ...
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... dramatic critic2 but also the author of verses resembling those of his poet friends : Emma Lazarus ( 1849-87 ) , born in New York of Portuguese Jewish ancestry , some of whose work is remarkable for its Hebraic intensity3 ; and the Cary ...
... dramatic critic2 but also the author of verses resembling those of his poet friends : Emma Lazarus ( 1849-87 ) , born in New York of Portuguese Jewish ancestry , some of whose work is remarkable for its Hebraic intensity3 ; and the Cary ...
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... dramatic work which he had come to regard as his magnum opus , —Launcelot and Guenevere : A Poem in Dramas , which he began to publish in 1891. This was not to be merely a rehandling of ancient poetic material by an idle singer of an ...
... dramatic work which he had come to regard as his magnum opus , —Launcelot and Guenevere : A Poem in Dramas , which he began to publish in 1891. This was not to be merely a rehandling of ancient poetic material by an idle singer of an ...
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