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Title: Heralds of American literature; a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Marble, Annie Russell, 1864-1936
Subjects: American literature American literature
Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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I find more & more that a busy set of wrong-heads can at pleasure stir up, for a time, any sentimentsthey please in citiesâand that there is a great aptitude inmost men to consider cities as worlds, or at least as themanufactories of sentiments for whole countriesâandmuch of this may be true in the old world; but in N. ;England the contrary is, and ever will be true, as longas our schools, presses & Town-corporations last. A GROUP OF HARTFORD WITS 189 With his shrewd insight into the diseases ofindividuals and of the nation, with his urgentdesire for progress through education, Dr. Hop-kins was a good type of his time, and especiallyof this group of Connecticut writers. They wereearnest, as well as witty; they sought to use theirtalents for the advance of industry and politicalsanity. Their writings mirrored many of theaspirations and fears of the period which fol-lowed the war and was concerned with the estab-lishment of stable government. JOSEPH DENNIE: THE LAYPREACHER
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JOSEPH DENNIEFrom portrait owned by his family; reproduced from Clapps >Sketch of Dennie, 1880. VI JOSEPH DENOTE: THE LAYPREACHER Journalism is an altar on which have perishedthe hopes and fortunes of many. Today ourlibraries and homes are crowded with magazinesof all degrees of merit and ranges of topics. Pub-lishers announce extraordinary figures of circu-lation of many of these journals; others, of moreintrinsic value, perish after a brief existence.The latter fate was the common lot of many in-teresting ventures in journalism during the earlierdecades of American literature. The studentwho follows the lives of our pioneer authors,from Franklin to Charles Brockden Brown, willbe impressed by the many fitful, short-livedjournals by which these writers sought to pro-mote literary culture and progress in art andscience. Freneau ventured and lost, both hopes andfunds, in his later newspapers, which combinedliterature with politics. Brown devoted his ma-ture years to experiments in re

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