. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. nts of the Old Brown Took Harper sFerry, Wanted — a Man, andthe Cavalier Song are amongthe best poems of this banking experiences sug-gested the graceful poem Panin Wall Street, which in its lighthumor and fancy is equal toHolmes at his best. As he grew older, criticism divided his attention withpoetry. In 1875 he published Victorian Poets, a criticalsurvey of English poets of the period. This was
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. nts of the Old Brown Took Harper sFerry, Wanted — a Man, andthe Cavalier Song are amongthe best poems of this banking experiences sug-gested the graceful poem Panin Wall Street, which in its lighthumor and fancy is equal toHolmes at his best. As he grew older, criticism divided his attention withpoetry. In 1875 he published Victorian Poets, a criticalsurvey of English poets of the period. This was enlargedsome years later, and followed by a companion volume,Poets of America, which included writers from the begin-ning of our literature to the present. A third volume,Nature and Elements of Poetry, discusses the principlesof poetic art. In these volumes Stedman has producedprobably the most notable criticism that has been writtenin America. The only author who can be compared withhim is Lowell, and while Lowell has the advantage in hisracy style, Stedmans criticism is more deliberate, betterbalanced, than Lowells. Stedman has laid lovers of literature under a further. 230 NEW ENGLAND SINCE 1870 obligation by his work as editor and compiler. A VictorianAnthology is a selection from the works of English poets ofthe period, a very treasure-house of poetry, the best thingsculled from a thousand volumes. An American Anthologydoes a similar work for American poetry; the two volumesare invaluable to students of literature. In connection withothers Stedman also edited A Library of American Lit-erature, in ten volumes, givingselections and biographicalsketches of all our authors. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), the second in this groupI of New England poets, was bornI in Portsmouth, His par-I ents were unable to send him tocollege, and he went to NewYork as a clerk in a beautiful Ballad of BabieBell and other poems, publishedin newspapers, soon made him<j7\\ O
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