. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. y Garrisons influence he was sent to schooland later entered upon editorial work. He wrote many ring-ing anti-slavery poems. In 1866 his Snow-Bound touched theheart of the country. Many of his ballads are of rare excel-lence. Mrs. Stowe founded Uncle Totrfs Cabin upon the stories ofescaped slaves. Its enormous sale was due to its humor,pathos, and earnestness, and to the time of its best literary success was in her New England stories. During this period New England was also rich in them
. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. y Garrisons influence he was sent to schooland later entered upon editorial work. He wrote many ring-ing anti-slavery poems. In 1866 his Snow-Bound touched theheart of the country. Many of his ballads are of rare excel-lence. Mrs. Stowe founded Uncle Totrfs Cabin upon the stories ofescaped slaves. Its enormous sale was due to its humor,pathos, and earnestness, and to the time of its best literary success was in her New England stories. During this period New England was also rich in them were Garrison, Everett, Phillips, Sumner,Choate, and Webster. Not all oratory is literature, but manyof Websters orations are also literature. He was equallyeloquent in occasional addresses and in legal and politicalspeeches. CHAPTER VI THE NATIONAL PERIOD, 1815— I. EARLIER YEARS, 1815-1865D. THE CAMBRIDGE POETS 31. The Cambridge Poets. To this period belongs thegreater part of the work of the three New England poets,Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. In the early lives of. CAMBRIDGE IN 1824 these three there was a somewhat remarkable were all descendants of New England families ofculture and standing. They grew up in homes of plenty,but not of undignified display. They were surroundedby people of education and intellectual ability. They 328 AMERICAS LITERATURE [1807-1839 came to feel, as Holmes puts it, as much at ease amongbooks as a stable boy feels among horses. Each held aprofessorship at Harvard. Here the resemblance ends,for never were three poets more unlike in work and dis-position than the three who are known as the CambridgePoets. 32. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882. The birthplace of Longfellow was Portland, Maine,which he calls the beautiful town that is seated by thesea. He had all the advantages of books, college, andhome culture ; and he made such good use of them thatwhile he was journeying homeward from Bowdoin Col-lege with his diploma i
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