Complete Poetical Works - Bret Harte

Complete Poetical Works

Although Bret Harte's name is identified with Californian life, it was not till he was fifteen that the author of Plain Language from Truthful James saw the country of his adoption. Francis Bret Harte, to give the full name which he carried till he became famous, was born at Albany, New York, August 25, 1839. He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner, school-teacher, express messenger, printer, and journalist. The types which live again in his pages are thus not only what he observed, but what he himself impersonated in his own experience.
He began trying his pen in The Golden Era of San Francisco, where he was working as a compositor; and when The Californian, edited by Charles Henry Webb, was started in 1864 as a literary newspaper, he was one of a group of brilliant young fellows—Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, Webb himself, and Prentice Mulford—who gave at once a new interest in California beside what mining and agriculture caused. Here in an early number appeared The Ballad of the Emeu, and he contributed many poems, grave and gay, as well as prose in a great variety of form. At the same time he was appointed Secretary of the United States Branch Mint at San Francisco, holding the office till 1870.
But Bret Harte's great opportunity came when The Overland Monthly was established in 1868 by Anton Roman. This magazine was the outgrowth of the racy, exuberant literary spirit which had already found free expression in the journals named. An eager ambition to lift all the new life of the Pacific into a recognized place in the world of letters made the young men we have named put their wits together in a monthly magazine which should rival the Atlantic in Boston and Blackwood in Edinburgh. The name was easily had, and for a sign manual on the cover some one drew a grizzly bear, that formidable exemplar of Californian wildness. But the design did not quite satisfy, until Bret Harte, with a felicitous stroke, drew two parallel lines just before the feet of the halting brute. Now it was the grizzly of the wilderness drawing back before the railway of civilization, and the picture was complete as an emblem.

Bret Harte
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COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


POEMS


I. NATIONAL


JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG


"HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?"


BATTLE BUNNY


THE REVEILLE


OUR PRIVILEGE


RELIEVING GUARD


THE GODDESS


ON A PEN OF THOMAS STARR KING


A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY


THE COPPERHEAD


A SANITARY MESSAGE


THE OLD MAJOR EXPLAINS


CALIFORNIA'S GREETING TO SEWARD


THE AGED STRANGER


THE IDYL OF BATTLE HOLLOW


CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD


POEM


MISS BLANCHE SAYS


AN ARCTIC VISION


ST. THOMAS


OFF SCARBOROUGH


CADET GREY


II. SPANISH IDYLS AND LEGENDS


THE MIRACLE OF PADRE JUNIPERO


THE WONDERFUL SPRING OF SAN JOAQUIN


THE ANGELUS


CONCEPCION DE ARGUELLO


"FOR THE KING"


RAMON


DON DIEGO OF THE SOUTH


AT THE HACIENDA


FRIAR PEDRO'S RIDE


IN THE MISSION GARDEN


THE LOST GALLEON*


III. IN DIALECT


"JIM"


CHIQUITA


DOW'S FLAT


IN THE TUNNEL


"CICELY"


PENELOPE


PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES


THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS


LUKE


"THE BABES IN THE WOODS"


THE LATEST CHINESE OUTRAGE


TRUTHFUL JAMES TO THE EDITOR


AN IDYL OF THE ROAD


THOMPSON OF ANGELS


THE HAWK'S NEST


HER LETTER


HIS ANSWER TO "HER LETTER"


"THE RETURN OF BELISARIUS"


FURTHER LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES


AFTER THE ACCIDENT


THE GHOST THAT JIM SAW


"SEVENTY-NINE"


THE STAGE-DRIVER'S STORY


A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE


THE THOUGHT-READER OF ANGELS


THE SPELLING BEE AT ANGELS


ARTEMIS IN SIERRA


JACK OF THE TULES


IV. MISCELLANEOUS


A GREYPORT LEGEND


A NEWPORT ROMANCE


SAN FRANCISCO


THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE


GRIZZLY.


MADRONO


COYOTE


TO A SEA-BIRD


WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG


DICKENS IN CAMP


"TWENTY YEARS"


FATE


GRANDMOTHER TENTERDEN


GUILD'S SIGNAL


ASPIRING MISS DE LAINE


A LEGEND OF COLOGNE


THE TALE OF A PONY


ON A CONE OF THE BIG TREES


LONE MOUNTAIN


ALNASCHAR


THE TWO SHIPS


ADDRESS


DOLLY VARDEN


TELEMACHUS VERSUS MENTOR


WHAT THE WOLF REALLY SAID TO LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD


HALF AN HOUR BEFORE SUPPER


WHAT THE BULLET SANG


THE OLD CAMP-FIRE


THE STATION-MASTER OF LONE PRAIRIE


THE MISSION BELLS OF MONTEREY


"CROTALUS"


ON WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT


THE BIRDS OF CIRENCESTER


LINES TO A PORTRAIT, BY A SUPERIOR PERSON


HER LAST LETTER


V. PARODIES


BEFORE THE CURTAIN


TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL*


THE BALLAD OF MR. COOKE


THE BALLAD OF THE EMEU


MRS. JUDGE JENKINS


A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL


AVITOR


THE WILLOWS


NORTH BEACH


THE LOST TAILS OF MILETUS


THE RITUALIST


A MORAL VINDICATOR


CALIFORNIA MADRIGAL


WHAT THE ENGINES SAID


THE LEGENDS OF THE RHINE


SONGS WITHOUT SENSE


MASTER JOHNNY'S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR


MISS EDITH'S MODEST REQUEST


MISS EDITH MAKES IT PLEASANT FOR BROTHER JACK


MISS EDITH MAKES ANOTHER FRIEND


WHAT MISS EDITH SAW FROM HER WINDOW


ON THE LANDING


NOTES

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Язык

Английский

Год издания

2001-02-01

Темы

American poetry

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