American Literature ; An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880
The book American Literature ; An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 was written by author Nichol, John, 1833-1894 Here you can read free online of American Literature ; An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is American Literature ; An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 a good or bad book?
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Lewis, Harriet Spofford, and Celia Thaxter, Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs. M. J. Preston, Mrs. Helen Hunt; and Mrs. Whitman. A more ambitious effort is the strange and richly- coloured Eastern romance of ZopMel — on a theme similar to that of Moore's Loves of the Angels and Byron's Heaven and Earth — by " Maria del Occidente " (Mrs. Brooks), whom, with some exaggeration of friendship, Southey, one of her English hosts and admirers, declared to be "the most im- passioned and imaginative of all poetesse...s." We may add one other name, that of Mrs. Sigourney, whose blank verse descriptions of nature approach those of Bryant, and con- clude with the following specimen of one of her lighter pieces, to illustrate the use that the poets of the West have made of the musical nomenclature of their country : — Indian Names. " Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave ; That their light canoes have vanished. From off the crested wave. That 'mid the forests where they roamed. There rings no hunter's shout ; But their name is on your waters.
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