On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833: With Especial Reference to Periodicals

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The University, 1898 - American literature - 87 pages
 

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Page 73 - Sunday School Magazine. Monthly.1 1823. Boston — The Boston Medical Intelligencer. Weekly.1 1823. Philadelphia — The Christian Advocate; being a continuation of the Presbyterian Magazine. Conducted by Ashabel Green, DD (Suspended at end of 12th volume, 1834.) 1823. New York — The New York Mirror and Ladies' Literary Gazette: being a repository of miscellaneous literary productions in prose and verse.
Page 31 - ... to form and maintain, as far as practicable, an English standard of writing and pronunciation, cor1 S. Longfellow, Life of HW Longfellow, L, 87. • Philadelphia, 1827. ' Literary and Scientific Hopository, ii., 83. rect, fixed, and uniform, throughout our extensive territory.
Page 30 - Criticism there was none, and what assumed its function was half provincial self-conceit, half patriotic resolve to find swans in birds of quite another species. Above all, we had no capital toward which all the streams of moral and intellectual energy might converge to fill a reservoir on which all could draw. There were many careers open to ambition, all of them more tempting and more gainful than the making of books. Our people were of...
Page 87 - No. 2. On the Quartz Keratophyre and Associated Rocks of the North Range of the Baraboo Bluffs, by Samuel Weidmau.
Page 27 - The successful booksellers of the country were for the most part the mere reproducers and sellers of English books. It was positively injurious to the commercial credit of a bookseller to undertake American works, unless they might be Morse's Geographies, classical books, school-books, devotional books, or other utilitarian works.
Page 87 - Price 35 cents. No. 9. The Problem of Economical Heat, Light, and Power Supply for Building Blocks, School Houses, Dwellings, Etc., by G. Adolph Gerdtzen, BS, Alumni Fellow in Engineering Pp.
Page 61 - ... Hugh Peters, a young lawyer of great literary promise and much admired by his contemporaries, wrote his best pieces for Hall's publication. His poem, " Connecticut," enjoyed a school reader immortality. Late in the year 1832 Judge Hall removed to Cincinnati, where he soon after began the publication of " The Western Monthly Magazine, a Continuation of the Illinois Monthly Magazine.
Page 26 - The same journal,2 reviewing a forgotten poem, Ontwa, says: "Half of the trash which, sanctioned by the title of English novels, circulates through the union, paying its way as it goes, if it was of American origin, would meet with the contempt it deserves.

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