THE RECLUSE
- (b) His Novel:
- “The Algerine Captive” (Guilford period) 1797.
- (c) Journalistic activity: (with Joseph Dennie)
- Founding the Farmer’s Weekly Museum; or N. H. and Vermont Journal.
- (d) Poetic expression: Founding “The Guilford School”.
- (b) His Novel:
- (Reference: Hem. Gaz., Vol. 5; Brattleboro, pgs. 86–101; and Guilford, pgs. 42–3)
Query: In what sense, and to what extent can we call the Connecticut Valley
the “Cradle of American Literature”?
II Thomas Green Fessenden: 1771—1835.
- (a) Early days at Walpole, N. H., at Dartmouth; at Rutland; contributions to the Weekly Museum, etc.—1795—1801.
- (b) Experience in Engand; his satires.—1801—4.
- “Terrible Tractoration”,—1804.
- “Democracy Unveiled”, about 1805.
- (c) Editorial career, New York: 1806—7; and in Philadelphia 1807—11, “Pills”.
- “Original Poems”, 1804; their reception in England: 2nd edition, 1806.
- (d) Legal, poetical and journalistic career in Vermont, at Bellows Falls and Brattleboro, 1812—22.
- “The Ladies’ Monitor” (poems), 1818.
- (e) Boston epoch: 1822—37.
- The New England Farmer.
- Fesenden’s Almanac and other works.
- His place in American Literature:
- (a) As the first noteworthy American satirist—“The American Butler”.
- (b) As first American poet to paint New England manners and customs.
Secondary Poets:
- 1: Anthony Haswell: 1756—1816.
- (a) The Vermont Gazette, Bennington, 1783, and its influence.
- (b) Haswell as a Ballader.
- 2: Selleck Osborne: 1783—1826. “Poems”, 1823. His satires.
- 3: Refine Weeks: His Poetry: various books.
- 4: Selah Gridley: 1767—1826. “The Mill of the Muses”, 1827.
- 6: Almira Selden: Her “Effusions of the Heart” 1820.
5: The Guilford School:
- James Elliott: 1775—1839.
- Youth at Guilford; military and literary career; legal and political record.
- “Poetical and Miscellaneous Works”, 1798.
- Samuel Elliott: 1777—1845.
- Legal, oratorical and poetical career. “An Humble Tribute to My Country”, 1842.
- John Phelps: Lawyer and friend of Royall Tyler.
- “New England”, a poem.
- “Book of Rights and Duties”.
- Political pamphlets and church hymns.
- Almira Phelps:
- Her “Botany”, 1833; “Chemistry”, 1834; “Familiar Lecturer”, 1838. 1838.
- Poems: “Our Country in its Relation to Past, Present and Future”, 1864.
- Stella Phelps: Poems.
- John Shepardson: 1718—1813. Lawyer; Judge Supreme Court.
- Elizabeth Peck: 1780—1824.
- Early Poetical work; career smothered by marriage.
- Henry Dennison: 1796—1819.
- Early life, education; emigration to Georgia; starts literary journal; “Poems”, published posthumously in The Columbian Lyre, Glasgow, 1828. Bulk of his MSS. lost.
- (Reference for above “School” Hem. Gaz., Vol. 5).
- James Elliott: 1775—1839.
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