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Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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raised by Southey. These descriptions of the NiagaraFalls, White Mountains, and the Catskills exerted influencein calling attention to the grandeur and inspiring char-acter of American scenery. James Hall, in his Lettersfrom the West, had before this written, The vicinity ofPittsburg may one day wake the lyre of the Pennsylvaniabard to strains as martial and as sweet as Scott; . . .believe me, I should tread with as much reverence over themausoleum of a Shawnee chief, as among the catacombsof Egypt, and speculate with as much delight upon thatsite of an Indian village as in the gardens of Tivoli, orthe ruins of Herculaneum. The first collection of Amer-ican poems was selected and edited by Elihu H. Smithas far back as 1793, and a second collection, the Colum-bian Muse, appeared in the year following. CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN It is necessary to turn now to the true pioneer in therealm of the American novel. Charles Brockden Brown,the first American professional man of letters, as well as
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AMERICAN 401 first of all Cis-Atlantic writers of fiction, was born inPhiladelphia in 1771, was educated in the school of RobertProud, the historian of Pennsylvania, and would haveentered the bar but for ill health. His first published articleappeared in the Columbian Magazine of August, 1789,and in 1806 he himself became an editor. Perhaps hisinvalidism put him in peculiar sympathy with thoseghostly, ghastly, clumsy-horrible English romancesbefore Scotts Waverley Novels—those of Monk Lewis,Walpole, and Mrs. Radcliffe. From William Godwin itwas that Brown caught the style of his first work, Alcuin,a Dialogue on the Rights of Women (1797). GodwinsFalkland and Caleb Williams furnished the modelsfor Browns Wieland (1798), a story of crime com-mitted by means of ventriloquism, and Ormond (1799).Shelley was under the spell of Wieland, according tohis own confession, in writing Zastrozzi and St.Irvyne. Godwins influence on Brown thus returnedupon Godwins son-in-law. Sir Walter Scott alsoa

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