. 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. eck (i 790-1867) and Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820). A spirited poem of Hallecks called Marco Boz-zaris has often been declaimed in schoolrooms, and hispoem on Burns contains some good stanzas. Drake wasthe finer poet of the two. His most artistic work is TheCulprit Fay. It was written after a conversation withCooper, Halleck, and others, who maintained that Americanstreams afforded no such material for poetry as di
. 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. eck (i 790-1867) and Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820). A spirited poem of Hallecks called Marco Boz-zaris has often been declaimed in schoolrooms, and hispoem on Burns contains some good stanzas. Drake wasthe finer poet of the two. His most artistic work is TheCulprit Fay. It was written after a conversation withCooper, Halleck, and others, who maintained that Americanstreams afforded no such material for poetry as did thoseof the old world, with their many legends. Drake opposedthis view, and in three days produced this graceful fairytale in verse, with its scenes in the Highlands of theHudson. Another of Drakes poems, The American Flag,is among our best poems of patriotism. Drakes earlydeath cut short work that might have given him an impor-tant place in American literature. His friend Halleckmourned his loss in the tender lines beginning : Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ;None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 161. We have noted that with Irving American fiction fairlybegan, in the form of the short story. The first novelist whohandled plot and character on a large scale, like Scotts,was James Fenimore Cooper (1789-18 51). Cooper was bornin Burlington, , Sept. 15, 1789. His father owned alarge tract of land in the central part of New York state,where Cooperstown now stands, and to this he removedwith his family when Fenimore was less than two yearsold. In this little settlement, with forests all about, wherewild beasts and Indians werethe sole inhabitants, he grew toboyhood. He was sent to schoolat Albany, and later to independence of spirit whichearly showed itself led to hisdismissal from Yale for someslight offense. Desirous of anactive life, he went to sea, andlater obtained a place as midship-man in th
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