Cato
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Cato, a tragedy by
Addison, produced 1713.
It deals with the death of Cato the republican, who commits suicide rather than submit to the dictator Caesar. Dr
Johnson described it as ‘rather a poem in dialogue than a drama’. It owed its success partly to the political intentions imputed to it.
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Browning and Bret Harte.(19th-century poets Robert Browning and Bret Harte)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...story "The Poet of Sierra Flat," Bret Harte satirized his own early literary...Byers, Twenty Years 175; Byers "Bret Harte" 295). More to the point, Browning...Crescent. W. April 3. '84 My dear Mr Bret Harte, I had not been to the Club for...
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Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History; 10/1/2001; ; 684 words
; BRET HARTE Opening the American Literary West Gary Scharnhorst University of...knows his subject well. He has already written extensively about Bret Harte, including Bret Harte (1992), a critical biography, and edited two volumes of Harte...
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Bret Harte. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; Bret Harte's stories and Bret Harte himself continue to be subjects of considerable interest. In spite...earlier material is cited. The indexing is complete and efficient. Bret Harte is a valuable addition to the Twayne series. It provides a good...
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Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward's Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte's "An Arctic vision".
Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...writer and journalist, (Francis) Bret Harte. Harte, author of such stories...1995:339). In his biography of Bret Harte. Richard O'Connor appraised Harte's notoriety: "Bret Harte had become the most famous writer...
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Selected Letters of Bret Harte
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History; 7/1/2001; ; 573 words
; SELECTED LETTERS OF BRET HARTE Gary Scharnhorst, Editor University...34.95. In "Rehabilitating Bret Harte" (Documentary Editing, March 1997), Gary Scharnhorst, author of Bret Harte's California (1990), lamented...
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The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and The American Woman's Home.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; 1 More than any other author, Bret Harte was responsible for literary representation...prostitution and miscegenation. Harte, of course, ran a calculated risk...between piquancy and propriety, than Bret Harte. As it turned out, the time was...
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Irony lost. Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee and the popularization of the comic coolie as trickster in frontier melodrama.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...possibly the worst poem anyone ever wrote." (1) Bret Harte readily admitted that the poems publication in the September...Margaret Duckett explains in "Plain Language from Bret Harte" that in the context of his life work the poem can only...
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Bret Harte board to consider superintendent's resignation.
Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA); 12/17/2005; 557 words
; ...17--ANGELS CAMP -- Longtime Bret Harte Union High School District Superintendent...showcase performing arts center at the Bret Harte Union High School campus in Angels...Under Wilimek's leadership, Bret Harte Union High School became the only...
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Bret Harte kids piece together Community Peace Wall.(SAN FRANCISCO FRIDAY)(SCHOOL NOTES)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Heather Knight For students at Bret Harte Elementary in Bayview-Hunters Point, the sound of...Every Child Can Learn Foundation, for five years. The Bret Harte creation was the project's 34th mural at a public school...
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Bret Harte honors boy who drowned
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 6/13/2007; ; 352 words
; OAKLAND -- Eighth-graders from Bret Harte Middle School ended their year on a positive note...with video cameras. "I am proud to be the principal of Bret Harte Middle School," said Teresa Williams, who has held...
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Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
Book article from: American Eras
Bret Harte (1836-1902) Writer Western Legacy. Bret Harte, the first American writer from the West...which he wrote became known as “ Bret Harte Country. ” Harte used a detached...
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Bret Harte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Harte) , 1836-1902, American...Bibliography: See his letters, ed. by G. B. Harte (1926); biographies by R. O'Connor (1966...Nissen (2000); M. Duckett, Mark Twain and Bret Harte (1964).
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Harte, (Francis) Bret(T)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Harte, [Francis] Bret[T] (1836–1902), born...were his first books. The following year Harte became editor of the newly founded Overland...to an end. During subsequent years, Harte collected his magazine contributions in...
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Harte, (Francis) Bret
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Harte, (Francis) Bret (1836–1902), born at Albany, New York, is remembered for his short stories, notably ‘The Luck of Roaring...
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Francis Brett Harte
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Francis Brett Harte Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized...writers in the era following the Civil War. Bret Harte, born in Albany, N.Y., had a somewhat sketchy...
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