Poems of American Patriotism

by Brander Matthews

Overview

James Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 - March 31, 1929) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University in New York and played a significant role in establishing theater as a subject worthy of formal study by academics. His interests ranged from Shakespeare, Molière, and Ibsen to French boulevard comedies, folk theater, and the new realism of his own time.

Matthews began a literary career, writing novels, plays, short stories, books about drama, and biographies of actors during the 1880s and 1890. He wrote three books of sketches of city life. One of these, Vignettes of Manhattan (1894), was dedicated to his friend Theodore Roosevelt.

Brander Matthews was a prolific and varied writer, author of more than thirty books. His own novels and plays are undistinguished and long-forgotten (the claim to fame of one of his plays is its footnote status in Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie: it is the melodrama, A Gold Mine, which the character Carrie attends and which causes her to consider a drama career). Some of his surveys of American literature and drama sold very well as high-school and college texts. One of his earliest books, French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century (1881), is a scholarly study of the subject and was revised and reprinted twice during two decades, while his 1919 autobiography, These Many Years, is a story of an education in the arts by a man who lived a rich and productive life. It also offers an evocation of life in Manhattan c. 1860-1900. Matthews published a biography of Molière in 1910 and a biography of Shakespeare in 1913. (wikipedia.org)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888303030
Publisher:	Bibliotech Press
Publication date:	01/09/2023
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Source: Wikipedia James Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 - March 31, 1929) was an American writer and educator. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at an American university and played a significant role in establishing theatre as a subject worthy of formal study in the academic world. His interests ranged from Shakespeare, Molière, and Ibsen to French boulevard comedies, folk theatre, and the new realism of his own day.

Table of Contents

BOSTON, RALPH WALDO EMERSON PAUL REVERE'S RIDE, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, SIDNEY LANIER HYMN, RALPH WALDO EMERSON TICONDEROGA, V. B. WILSON GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE AS SHE SAW IT FROM THE BELFRY, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES WARREN'S ADDRESS, JOHN PIERPONT THE OLD CONTINENTALS, GUY HUMPHREY McMASTER NATHAN HALE , FRANCIS MILES FINCH THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL, WILL CARLETON MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH, WILLIAM COLLINS SONG OF MARION'S MEN , WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO THE MEMORY OF THE AMERICANS WHO FELL AT EUTAW, PHILIP FRENEAU GEORGE WASHINGTON, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE, JAMES GATES PERCIVAL THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, THOMAS DUNN ENGLIS THE CUMBERLAND , HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW KEARNEY AT SEVEN PINES, EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER, GEORGE H. BOKER BARBARA FRIETCHIE, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER FREDERICKSBURG, THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH MUSIC IN CAMP, JOHN R. THOMPSON KEENAN'S CHARGE, GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP THE BLACK REGIMENT, GEORGE H. BOKER JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG, BRET HARTE TWILIGHT ON SUMTER, RICHARD HENRY STODDARD THE BAY-FIGHT, HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL SHERIDAN'S RIDE, THOMAS BUCHANAN READ CRAVEN, HENRY NEWBOLT SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, SAMUEL H. M. BYERS O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, WALT WHITMAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, FRANCIS MILES FINCH AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, ROBERT BRIDGES GRANT, H. C. BUNNER THE BURIAL OF SHERMAN, RICHARD WATSON GILDER THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS, JOHN JEROME ROONEY THE REGULAR ARMY MAN, JOSEPH C. LINCOLN WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN, GUY WETMORE CARRYL AD FINEM FIDELES, GUY WETMORE CARRYL GROVER CLEVELAND, JOEL BENTON A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND, ROBERT BRIDGES FIFTY YEARS, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS, MARIE VAN VORST I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH, ALAN SEEGER THE CHOICE, RUDYARD KIPLING ANNAPOLIS, WALDRON KINSOLVING POST YANKS, JAMES W. FOLEY ANY WOMAN TO A SOLDIER, GRACE ELLERY CHANNING TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY, CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON YOU AND YOU, EDITH WHARTON WITH THE TIDE, EDITH WHARTON AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME ,HENRY VAN DYKE THE UNKNOWN SOLIDER, ANGELA MORGAN