. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. ome fiction and plays, was largely in the fieldsof description and travel, biography and history. Andfinally, all of the writers followed literature as an avocation,that is as something aside from their principal work or busi-ness in life. There were few books published during theseyears and there were few men interested in , the quality of the literature was good, since nearlyall the authors were men of education and abihty. Most ofthese authors
. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. ome fiction and plays, was largely in the fieldsof description and travel, biography and history. Andfinally, all of the writers followed literature as an avocation,that is as something aside from their principal work or busi-ness in life. There were few books published during theseyears and there were few men interested in , the quality of the literature was good, since nearlyall the authors were men of education and abihty. Most ofthese authors are now not widely known but their work^are still highly regarded and are read by historians andscholars. The two most widely known authors of thlsi periodwere Henry M. Brackenridge and Thomas Hart was a lawyer. He traveled over much of theMississippi valley and one of his authoritative books isRecollections of Persons and Places in the West. Benton,Missouris greatest statesman, compiled a number of authoritative books, among which was his great two volume work, A Century of Journalism and Liteiiature ^21. Thirty Years View; or, a History of the Working of theAmerican Government for Thirty Years from 1820 to 1850. The second period ofliterature in Missouriextended from 1860 to1900. This was in somerespects the GoldenAge of Missouri litera-ture. It was the ageof Samuel LanghornClemens (Mark Twain),Americas greatest hu-morist, and P^ugeneField, Missouris great-est childrens poet. Itwas also the age ofeminent Missouri writ-ers in the fields of fic- , , ., , SAMUEL L. CLEMENS, MAJRK TWAIN tion and philosoph), ethics and education, religion and science. As a wholeit was a period of serious scholarship. The serious sideof life, rather than the lighter and fanciful, was than half of the better works of this period wereon such serious subjects as history, philosophy, religion, andscience. Only about one-fourth of the writers dealt infiction, still the
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