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TABLE SHOWING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THE LIVES OF THE CHIEF AMERICAN WRITERS.

A CLASSIFIED LIST OF LATE AND CONTEMPORARY

WRITERS*

POETS

THE EAST

See text for STODDARD, STEDMAN, and ALDRICH.

RICHARD WATSON GILDER, b. Bordentown, N..J., 1844. Journalist and reformer. Associate editor and later editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly, now The Century. "The New Day," 1875; "Lyrics, and Other Poems," 1885; "Two Worlds," 1891; "The Great Remembrance," 1893; etc.

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JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, b. Ireland, 1844; d. Hull, Mass., 1890. An Irish revolutionist, transported to Australia, whence he escaped to the United States, 1869. Edited the Boston Pilot. Published Songs of the Southern Seas," 1873, and other poems and sketches. LLOYD MIFFLIN, b. Columbia, Pa., 1846. Painter and poet. A studious cultivator of the sonnet. "The Hills," 1895; "At the Gates of Song," 1897; "The Slopes of Helicon," 1898; "Echoes of Greek Idyls," 1899; "The Fields of Dawn," 1900.

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GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, b. Beverly, Mass., 1855. Professor of English Literature at Columbia University. "The North Shore Watch (a threnody, 1883), and Other Poems," 1890; "Wild Eden,' 1899. Essays: "Studies in Letters and Life," 1890; "Heart of Man," 1899; "Makers of Literature," 1900.

The principle of classification adopted here is for the most part apparent. Poets and novelists are subdivided geographically, the miscellaneous writers are not. Further, the men are separated from the women. Lastly, in each small group the order is chronological, except that in the case of the novelists, because of the rapid changes in the character of fiction, the writers born before 1860, both men and women, are separated from those born since. A few slight departures from exact chronology, made to secure better classification, may be noted, especially among the miscellaneous writers.

HENRY CUYLER BUNNER, b. Oswego, N. Y., 1855; d. N. J., 1896. Editor of Puck. Author of "Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere," 1884; "Rowen," 1892; also several volumes of fiction: "The Story of a New York House," 1887; "Zadoc Pine and Other Stories," 1891.

FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN, b. Peekskill, N. Y., 1860. Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. "Madrigals and Catches," 1887; "Lyrics for a Lute," 1890; "Little-Folk Lyrics,"

1892.

CLINTON SCOLLARD, b. Clinton, N. Y., 1860. Professor of English Literature at Hamilton College. "With Reed and Lyre," 1886; "Songs of Sunrise Lands," 1892; "The Hills of Song," 1895; etc.

GEORGE SANTAYANA, b. Madrid, Spain, 1863. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. "Sonnets and Other Poems," 1894; "Lucifer, a Theological Tragedy," 1899; "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" (essays), 1899.

RICHARD HOVEY, b. Normal, Ill., 1864; d. N. Y., 1900. Graduate of Dartmouth. Journalist, actor, dramatist, lecturer on English at New York, poet. "Seaward" (elegy upon the death of Thomas William Parsons), 1893; "" "Songs from Vagabondia" (with Bliss Carman), 1893; "Launcelot and Guenevere," a poem in dramas, 1891-98; "Along the Trail," 1898; "Taliesin: a Masque," 1899.

LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON, b. Conn., 1835. Literary correspondent and editor. Author of various volumes of poems, stories, and essays, from "This, That, and the Other," 1854, to "At the Wind's Will," 1900.

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CELIA THAXTER, b. N. H., 1836; d. Appledore Island, 1894. Artistauthor of poems and sketches of the north-east coast and the Isles of Shoals, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Among the Isles of Shoals" (papers), 1873; " Poems," 1874; "Drift-Weed," 1878; "Poems for Children," 1883.

EMMA LAZARUS, 1849-1887. A Jewess of New York, who wrote in protest against the persecutions of her race. Author of "The Spagnoletto," a tragedy, 1876, and various poems and translations.

EDITH M. THOMAS, b. O., 1854. A writer of New York City. "Lyrics and Sonnets," 1887; "The Inverted Torch," 1890; and other volumes of verse and prose.

HELEN GRAY CONE, b. New York, 1859. Teacher. "Oberon and Puck," 1885; “The Ride to the Lady, and Other Poems,” 1891.

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY, b. Boston, 1861.

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"Songs at the Start,"1884

DORA READ GOODALE, b. Mass., 1866. Published, with her elder sister, Elaine Goodale, "Apple Blossoms," 1878, and several other volumes. Also, separately, "Heralds of Easter," 1887.

THE SOUTH

See text for HAYNE, TIMROD, and LANIER.

ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN, "Father Ryan," b. Va., 1839; d. Ky., 1886. A Catholic priest, chaplain in Confederate army, and editor of religious periodicals. "The Conquered Banner, and Other Poems," 1880.

JOHN BANNISTER TABB, b. Va., 1845. A Catholic priest, and Professor of English Literature at St. Charles College, Md. Served in Civil War. "Poems," 1894; "Lyrics," 1897; Child Verse," 1900.

SAMUEL MINTURN PECK, b. Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1854. Bells," 1886; "Rhymes and Roses," 1895; etc.

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FRANK LEBBY STANTON, b. Charleston, S. C., 1857. On the staff of the Atlanta Constitution. Author of popular verse, often in dialect. "Songs of the Soil," 1894; "Comes One with a Song," 1899.

LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE, Baltimore, Md. "A Branch of May," 1887; "A Handful of Lavender," 1891; "A Quiet Road," 1896.

THE WEST

See text for HARTE, MILLER, SILL, and FIELD.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR, b. Lowville, N. Y., 1819; d. Cleveland, O., 1887. War Correspondent for Chicago Journal; writer of poems and travel sketches. "Pictures of Life in Camp and Field," 1871; "Songs of Yesterday," (including "Isle of the Long Ago"), 1877; etc.

RICHARD REALF, b. Sussex, England, 1834; d. Oakland, Cal., 1878. Steward of Lady Byron; emigrant to Kansas, 1854; follower of Johr Brown; soldier in Union army. Scattering poems, “The Children,'"Indirection," etc., were collected posthumously, 1899.

JOHN JAMES PIATT, b. Ind., 1835. Served in several official capac ities at Washington, and as U. S. consul at Cork, Ireland. Published

at Columbus, Ohio, with W. D. Howells, "Poems of Two Friends," 1860; also several volumes with his wife, and a number independently-"Western Windows, and Other Poems," 1869; "Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley," 1884; etc. "The Mower in Ohio" is a touching idyl worthy of Whittier.

JOHN HAY, b. Salem, Ind., 1838. Early years spent in Illinois. A private secretary of Lincoln; major and brevet colonel in the Civil War; editor and diplomat; Ambassador to Great Britain, 1897; Secretary of State, 1898. "Pike County Ballads," 1871; "Poems," 1890; "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (with J. G. Nicolay), 1887. Mr. Hay is best known by his poems in homely western dialect, written in his earlier years, particularly "Little Breeches," and "Jim Bludso." WILL CARLETON, b. Mich., 1845. Journalist and lecturer. His poems are largely in dialect. " Poems," 1871; "Farm Ballads," 1873; "Farm Legends," 1875; " City Ballads," 1885; etc.

CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, b. Rochester, N. Y., 1843. Resident for a time in the Hawaiian Islands. Foreign correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. Lecturer on English Literature at Notre Dame College, Ind., and at the Catholic University, Washington, D. C. "Poems," 1867; "South Sea Idyls" (romantic prose), 1873.

WILLIAM RUFUS Perkins, 1847-1895. Professor at Cornell and at the State University of Iowa. "Eleusis and Lesser Poems," 1892; "Eleusis," privately printed in 1890, is a long poem, dealing with the mystery of life, in the stanza and in the lofty key of "In Memoriam."

JOHN VANCE CHENEY, b. Groveland, N. Y., 1848. Librarian at San Francisco and Chicago. "Thistle-Drift, 1887; "Wood-Blooms," 1888; "Out of the Silence," 1897; etc.

EDWIN MARKHAM, b. Oregon City, Ore., 1852. Teacher in the California schools; resident of Brooklyn since 1899. "The Man with the Hoe (1899) and Other Poems," 1900; "Lincoln, and Other Poems," 1900.

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, b. Greenfield, Ind., 1853. Strolling vender, sign-painter, actor, journalist. Writer of poetry and prose. "The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems," 1883; "Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury," 1889; "Rhymes of Childhood Days," 1890; "Armazindy," 1894; "Home Folks," 1900; etc.

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