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Showing posts with label Bret Harte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bret Harte. Show all posts
March 4, 2014

Harte on King: a star was falling

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Thomas Starr King had been preaching in San Francisco, California, only for about four years before he died on March 4, 1864. A dynamic c...
April 5, 2013

Harte: As Yerba Buena is the good herb known

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Bret Harte published his poem "The Yerba Buena" in the April 5, 1863 issue of the Golden Era in California. The title, Spanish...
January 15, 2013

I am not in the imitation business

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Mark Twain was not too happy to be accused of writing "a feeble imitation" of Bret Harte 's poem " The Heathen Chinee ...
December 12, 2012

Bret Harte: Yet we can never agree

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The California-based Golden Era was one of the main literary outlets of Bret Harte , who contributed over 100 original pieces to that jo...
August 3, 2012

Bret Harte: the worst poem anyone ever wrote

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Which I wish to remark,      And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark      And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chine...
June 24, 2012

Harte, Washington, and a simple, patriotic act

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"I have been to [ George ] Washington 's Headquarters, at Morristown ," begins an account by Bret Harte dated June 24, 1873...
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May 28, 2012

Harte: game for the famous Emeu!

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The first issue of The Californian was published on May 28, 1864, under the editorship of Charles Henry Webb . Contributors to the San F...
February 17, 2012

He who knoweth Which and what is Which

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On February 17, 1861, the California-based Golden Era published a poem titled "My Soul to Thine" with the subheading "A Tran...
October 19, 2011

Harte: a gloomy spectacle of myself

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As he recorded in his journal entry for October 19, 1857, Bret Harte "commenced school" in Uniontown, California. The young Harte...
August 12, 2011

Harte: goblins and ghosts

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The Golden Era for August 12, 1860 included " A Child's Ghost Story ," a short tale by Bret Harte . The tale features a pecul...
July 16, 2011

Harte: a snug little cottage

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The July 16, 1864 issue of the Californian included a short sketch by Bret Harte entitled " Fixing Up an Old House ." The light-...
June 17, 2011

Harte: Tossed them on the flowing sea

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The June 17, 1860 issue of the Golden Era included the poem "Question" by Bret Harte : When I meet her little figure, Simple, ...
May 13, 2011

Bret Harte: I am not an opera critic

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Bret Harte became the editor of the San Francisco-based Californian shortly after its inception. For the weekly newspaper, he also contrib...
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March 16, 2011

Harte: no longer a rough Westerner

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The March 16, 1896 issue of The Critic printed a short article that was, ostensibly, a review of The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other...
March 15, 2011

Bierce: Very cheerfully yours

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Ambrose Bierce contributed a series of "Grizzly Papers" under the name "Ursus," published in the Overland Monthly in C...
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October 8, 2010

Blackened and bleeding in Chicago

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The Great Chicago Fire burned for three days beginning on October 8, 1871. As with many other national tragedies, several poets were inspire...
June 20, 2010

Harte: Let the stately Polar bears waltz

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In a move later called "Seward's Folly" in reference to Secretary of State William Seward , Alaska officially became a territo...