Word: bret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Early Writers of the West--Bret Harte", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Early Writers of the West--Bret Harte", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...lost to large circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing...
Lewis Carroll, Bret Harte, and even Tennyson flirted with him for his musical collaboration; but he was faithful to his intention of doing something in the grand manner. The result was an unsuccessful opera, after which Sullivan returned to his Gilbert. The librettist was only too eager for reconciliation, because he too had been making false pretenses to the greater heights of legitimate stage...
Died. Mrs. B. H. Wyman, 89, California pioneeress, sister of Writer Bret Harte; in Victoria...