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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
erland, Running the Batteries, Sheridan at Cedar Creek, The fall of Richmond, and The surrender at Appomattox. Most intimately associated with hostilities of all was Charles Graham Halpine, See also Book II, Chap. XIX. better known as Miles O'Reilly, who entered the Union army and became a brigadier-general. Although his verse lacks metrical skill, it is vigorous and full of feeling, generally free of animosities, and in the tone of the soldier rather than of the bitter poet who stays at hplayed a large part in holding California loyal. The advance of Lee to Antietam, his repulse there, and his retreat found a record in Whittier's Barbara Frietchie, Melville's The Victor of Antietam, Boker's The crossing at Fredericksburg, John Boyle O'Reilly's At Fredericksburg, and Aldrich's exquisite sonnets Fredericksburg and By the Potomac. Meanwhile the war in the West was not without its poet— annalists, of whom the most notable perhaps was Forceythe Willson (1837-67), a native of New
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
r, Thaddeus, 280, 303 n. Oliver Oldschool. See Dennie, Joseph Oliver Optic. See Adams, W. T. Ollapodiana papers, 152 Olmsted, F. L., 190 Omnium gatherum, the, 162 On a certain condescension in foreigners, 255 On Board the Cumberland, 278, 282 Once I Pass'd through a Populous city, 258 n. On Lending a Punch Bowl, 239 On the argument from nature for the Divine existence, 221 On to Richmond, 305 One, two, three, 244 Only a private, 306 Opal, the, 174 O'Reilly, J. B., 281 Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, The, 156 Osgood, Mrs. F. S., 60, 66, 286 Ossian, 10, 266 Otis, James, 105 Otto the Knight, 388 Our city by the sea, 308 Our country's call, 280, 303 Our hundred days in Europe, 228 Our left, 306 Our old home, 21 Our young Folks, 401 Outcasts of Poker flat, the, 380 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 267 Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd, 259 n. Outre-Mer: a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea, 34 Overland monthly, 378, 38