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Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 1
closely connected with the University of the South its contributors are not all local, and it has maintained its dignity and its literary tradition well. The South Atlantic quarterly, edited at Trinity College, Durham, South Carolina, began publication in 1902, and has also kept to a uniformly high standard. The most importanty bring over an old song; though as time passes the chance for survival grows less. The communities richest in these pieces are, as might be anticipated, the North Atlantic and the Southern; that is, the older, not the more newly settled sections of our country. At present, representatives of nearly eighty of the three hundred ave been salvaged in the United States, besides many not included in his collection, some of which he may not have known. They come from New England, from the Middle Atlantic, North Central, Western, and Southwestern states, and from the Southern mountains. Some of the most popular of these traditional pieces, their popularity var
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
history, there is a notable lack of the warrior themes that occupy the epics of the old world. The Amerind hero is a culture hero, introducer of agriculture, of irrigation, and of improved house-building. Hiawatha, not Longfellow's Ojibway composite, but the original Haion 'hwa'tha of the Mohawks, was a statesman, a reformer, and a prophet. His very name (he makes rivers) refers to his establishment of canoe routes among the Five Nations and with the peoples along the headwaters of the Ohio River. In company with Dekanawida, an Onondaga coadjutor, he formed the original League of Nations with the object of abolishing the wasting evils of inter-tribal blood feuds. We may select for analysis two of the best and best known of these culture epics, the Walam Olum already mentioned as the earliest American book, and the Zuñi Creation Myth as it has been made known to us through the labours of Frank Cushing. The record of the Red Score was obtained by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Maumee (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
pieces, ballads dealing with historical events or important movements occupy but a small corer in American popular song. Captain Kidd has retained currency in New England and in the West, and the collector still comes at times upon ballads of the British highwayman, Dick Turpin. Some widely diffused songs, their authorship and origin now lost, which reflect emigrant and frontier life, especially the rush for gold in 1849, are Joe Bowers, Betsy from Pike, and The days of forty-nine. Pretty Maumee possibly echoes relations with the Miami Indians. The dreary Black hills reflects the mining fever of one period of Western history; and there are other sectional satires, like Cheyenne boys, Mississippi girls, or humorous narratives or complaints, like Starving to death on a government claim. The best-known pieces reflecting pioneer or prairie life are O Bury Me not on the Lone Prairie, and The dying cowboy, or The cowboy's lament, both of which are adaptations. The latter especially has
Poland (Poland) (search for this): chapter 1
e author's portentous Huliet, Huliet, Boese Winten have become national lyrics. The Jewish immigrant in America found his sorrows and sufferings voiced in the songs Yiddish poets generally call their productions lieder and not gedichte of one of the foremost Yiddish poets, Morris Rosenfeld, who in echoing the agonies of his brethren in the foreign land also echoed his own, for he was as much as they a victim of the infamous industrial plague known as the sweat shop. He was born in Russian Poland in 1862. His early education was religious and Talmudical with a smattering of the Polish and the German languages. In 1882 he left his native village of Boksha, in the province of Suvalki, for Amsterdam. He came to New York in 1883, left again for Russia, and in 1886 settled permanently in New York. His debut in America was with a poem called The year 1886 printed in the New Yorker Yiddische Folkszeitung. His talent was quickly recognized and his verse soon appeared in practically
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
nal school—especially Stedman—and the eager modernists who began to attract attention near the close of the century. The odd mixture of loyalties in his verse is paralleled by the curious variety in his life. Born in Illinois, he lived in Washington, D. C., graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, studied at the General Theological Seminary, New York, became lay assistant at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, accepted literature as his profession, and ended his brief career as professamentals of character in his dramatic work. He became interested, as Maeterlinck would say, in conditions of soul. His dialogue in Margaret Fleming (Lynn, Mass., 4 July, 1880), rang true, instinct with homely life; his Griffith Davenport (Washington, D. C., 16 January, 1899）—a drama of the Civil War based not on external action but on inward struggle—was filled with sincerity; his Shore Acres (Chicago, 23 May, 1892）—which, because of the precieuse success of Margaret Fleming, made conc
Panama City (Panama) (search for this): chapter 1
vided himself with means to travel, and revisited his home, returning by way of Panama and New York. In May, 1867, he published his first book, The celebrated Jumpinen days of '49 there was a road to the Californian Eldorado by way of the Isthmus of Panama. There were no Indians that way but there was the Chagres River, until as (1853) was written by Joseph Warren Fabens; and an even earlier one The Isthmus of Panama and what I saw there (1839) is by Chauncey D. Griswold. Then there is Five years at Panama (1889) by Wolfred Nelson, and numerous others between these dates, including an exceedingly scarce volume, The Panama massacre (1857), which presenPanama massacre (1857), which presents the evidence in the case of the massacre of Americans in 1856. A few years after this event Tracy Robinson appeared on the Isthmus and for forty-six years he made it his home. This veteran published his Panama, a personal record of forty-six years, 1861–;1907 only a short time before his death. Frederick Law Olmsted was sp
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (search for this): chapter 1
Bayard Taylor's The land of the Saracens (1855). Raphael Pumpelly went Across America and Asia and tells about it in the book of that title published in 1870; W. W. Rockhill made many journeys in Oriental lands. He published Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891–;1892 (1894). Sunset [S. S.] Cox tells of the Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey (1887); Charles Dudley Warner See Book III, Chap. XIII. of In the Levant (1895); W. T. Hornaday of Two years in the jungle [India, Ceylon, etc.] (1886); and Samuel M. Zwemer of Arabia the cradle of Islam (1900). The last named has also written on Arabia, which he has studied long at first hand, other important volumes, beyond the horizon of this chapter. Many Americans travelled in Russia, too, and wrote volumes about that enigmatical country: Nathan Appleton, Russian life and Society as seen in 1866–;67 and A journey to Russia with general Banks 1869 (1904); Edna Dean Proctor, A Russian journey (1873); Miss Isabel Hapgood,
Platte River (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
and largely determining the form. To a very remarkable degree the verse contours conform to the contours of the country traversed, either actually or imaginatively, throughout the performance. It is probable that this correspondence of form is unconscious on the part of the Pawnee authors, for, as with most folk-drama, many minds must have gone to the making of it. The Pawnees and cognate tribes who use the Hako have lived so long exposed to the influence of the open country about the Platte River that their songs unconsciously take the shape of its long undulations. Miss Fletcher has not always been successful in preserving the poetic quality of the songs, but their rhythms are most faithfully worked out, as in the following, one of a series of songs describing the journey of the Father group to the group called The Children: Dark against the sky yonder distant line Runs before, trees we see, long the line of trees Bending, swaying in the breeze, which accurately represents t
China Town (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ncert troups and minor singers of many types. The once popular negro minstrels helped to universalize many pseudo-negro songs, and real negro singers, like the Jubilee singers and the Hampton Institute singers, have kept alive many songs. A striking text or a tuneful melody, given some impetus in diffusion, lingers when its history has been forgotten. After the ball and Two little girls in Blue, popular stage songs of the 1890's—the first sung all over the country in the farce A trip to China town—are heard no longer in the cities, but they are still vigorous in village communities and on Western ranches. The name American ballads is now often applied to a body of cowboy, lumbermen, and negro songs, recovered. chiefly by John A. Lomax, in Texas, New Mexico, Montana, and other States. These make when brought together an interesting and picturesque display. They reflect the life, tastes, narrative themes, and metrical modes of the singers. Cowboy life is communal, and it is viv
Alleghany River (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
he possessions of great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains (1878). Previously the boundary along the 49th parallel had been surveyed to the Gulf of Georgia in settling the Oregon question. A volume published for the author, Philip Tome, in Buffalo in 1854, now very rare, is Pioneer life, or thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome, fifteen years interpreter for Cornplanter and George Blacksnake, Chiefs on the Alleghany River. Cornplanter, a half-breed Seneca, was one of the most distinguished of the Iroquois leaders. In the early fifties Joaquin Miller See Book III, Chap. x. was taken to California overland by his parents, and the impressions he received coloured his entire life. His poem, The ship in the desert (1875), is a string of these scenes and descriptions of a mighty land of mystery, and wild and savage grandeur. What scenes they passed, what camps at morn, What weary columns kept the r
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