. 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. lections 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\\ OiL^ known as a writer, and he re-ceived an editorial pos
. 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. lections 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\\ OiL^ known as a writer, and he re-ceived an editorial he went to Boston as editor of Every Saturday, andin 1881 succeeded W. D. Howells as editor of the AtlanticMonthly, a position which he held until 1889. He did not write much, but he was scrupulously carefulto perfect all that he did. Perhaps no other Americanpoet took such pains with his work; he wrote a poem asone would cut and polish a diamond. Babie Bell, his best-known poem, is as delicate and tender as childhood group of poems dealing with Oriental themes — Dress-ing the Bride, When the Sultan goes to Ispahan — aremarked by passion and ALDRICH, HALE, WARNER 231 His sonnets are among the best in American poetry;Fredericksburg in particular shows his power of handlinga large theme in brief compass. Aldrich is equally well known for his prose Story of a Bad Boy, which tells of his own boyhood inPortsmouth, has always been a favorite book with volumes of short stories show his power of com-pression and the exquisite finish of his style. MarjorieDaw, in the volume of thatname, is one of the brightestand most artistic short storiesin our literature. Edward Everett Hale (1822- ), a native of Boston, au-thor, editor, preacher, and chap-lain of the United States Senate,is the author of more than fiftybooks, but he is chiefly remem-bered by a single story, The Manwithout a Country. The story iswholly imaginary, but so stron
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