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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Wentworth Morton | These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington
as Columbia's guardian God, Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel. 180 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Cook | Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | |
Textual Production | Anne Bannerman | |
Textual Features | Gertrude Stein | As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog... |
Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS
was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington
) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery... |
Publishing | Judith Sargent Murray | The set was dedicated to John Adams
, and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton
and her husband
, Susanna Haswell Rowson
, and George
and Martha Washington
.... |
politics | Anna Seward | AS
was at first a strong supporter of the cause of American independence. Her Monody on Major André reflects disillusion with the colonists following their treaty with France, which seemed to her to negate or... |
politics | Tabitha Tenney | An equally suspect anecdote from the same source represents TT
fainting away when she heard of George Washington
's death (in December 1799), as did several ladies who were present and who heard the news... |
politics | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
, as an American patriot married to a British officer, now found her political position almost untenable. She seems to have hoped to become a mediator between the two sides, though she made herself... |
Performance of text | Judith Sargent Murray | An ode by JSM
on the death of George Washington
was sung at the First Universal Church, Boston. Hymns and Odes, Composed on the Death of Gen. George Washington. Charles Peirce. 10-11 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Critical thought this even better than AS
's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 51 (1781): 230-2 |
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