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Topic: Hamlin Garland


  
  WER: Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland was born at West Salem in the beautiful La Crosse valley, September 16, 1860, and lived there until he was eight years old.
Hamlin Garland knew the joys of these contests on the pioneer farm, and he also knew the sordid side of the narrow and cramped life of the early settler.
Garland began his career as an author with the publication of his poem, "Lost in a Norther," in Harper's Weekly.
www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER0051-1.html   (520 words)

  
 Travel: 'Roads full of delicious surprises'
Author Hamlin Garland, who was born in West Salem, Wis., left the area for some time but later returned and purchased this property at 357 W Garland St. He used it as a summer home from 1893 to 1915.
Garland identified with the poor who made their homes here, interspersing his essays on the beauty of the land with moving tales of the struggles it took to tame that same earth.
Garland, the oldest of the family's four youngsters was born on Sept. 14, 1860, in a cabin on the east side of town.
www.stpetetimes.com /2004/09/12/Travel/_Roads_full_of_delici.shtml   (2319 words)

  
 Home: The Hamlin Garland Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), an author who put his own part of the country on the literary map, is best remembered by the title he gave his autobiography, Son of the Middle Border.
Garland, however, looked to his roots in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, urging the idea that this, too, had been borderland in his own lifetime.
In later years Garland wrote extensively about Indian affairs, conservation, art, and literary trends; he also expanded his geographic range to include romances of the Far West, yet it was his reminiscences of his early years which stamped him in the public mind, and to which he turned again and again for inspiration.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/findingaids/garland   (701 words)

  
 Fiction: Hamlin Garland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was born in West Salem, Wisconsin, the son of a New England father lured west by the prospect of cheap land.
Garland's bitter picture of farmers caught in the grip of relentless capitalism provoked a storm of denials, but the author was established as the voice of the rebellious Populists, a political party urging agricultural reform.
Garland published four other books of realistic short stories in the 1890s, but he turned to other literary forms for the remainder of his long life, including several memoirs and his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border (1917).
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/garland.htm   (341 words)

  
 West Salem, Wisconsin: History of West Salem
Hamlin Garland, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Daughter of the Middle Border, was born in West Salem.
Hamlin Garland, one of Wisconsin's foremost authors, was born early in the morning of September 14.
Hamlin Garland's early success as an author enabled him in 1893 to purchase a house and four acres in West Salem as a homestead for his parents.
www.westsalemwi.com /wshist.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Garland (Hannibal) Hamlin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Garland, (Hannibal) Hamlin (1860-1940), American writer, born in West Salem, Wisconsin.
Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-91), 15th vice president of the United States, born in Paris Hill, Maine.
Hamlin studied law in Portland, Maine, and was...
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 Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Garland's profound empathy for the life situation of the rural and small-town midwestern farm woman requires discussion and may be productively studied in relation to Garland's biography.
Garland's theme of white America's injustice to Indians, apparent in his novel The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop and his collection the Book of the American Indian, is very important though neglected in teaching and writing about Garland.
If the instructor is interested in such conventions as "realism" and "naturalism," Garland may be taught as a transitional figure between the relatively genteel realism of William Dean Howells and the harsher naturalism we associate with Stephen Crane (as in Maggie, 1893) and Theodore Dreiser (as in Sister Carrie, 1900).
college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/garland.html   (762 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans
Garland was born in West Salem, Wis., coming to Iowa at age 8 with his parents, Richard, a native of Maine, and Isobelle McClintock.
Hamlin Garland, right, is shown in 1935 with his daughter, Mrs.
Garland continued his studies at the Boston School of Oratory and joined its faculty as an instructor of English and American literature.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/garland.html   (317 words)

  
 Archibald Lampman and Hamlin Garland
Garland's native America middle west and Lampman's eastern Ontario were both sufficiently rural, under-populated, demographically mobile, and close to their respective wilderness regions to be roughly comparable in social and economic atmosphere.
Garland's capacity for sympathetic listening, and general amiability for which he was noted among his friends, obviously did much to increase the cordiality between Lampman and himself.
Garland to Lampman, 2 May and 14 May, 1889, S.F.U. This correspondence is part of the Archibald Lampman Manuscript Group held in Special Collections, W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, and is used with the permission of Percilla Groves, Special Collections Librarian.
www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol16/doyle.htm   (3927 words)

  
 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureHamlin Garland - Author Page
Garland's lifelong sensitivity to the situation of women appears to have stemmed from his view of his mother's suffering and hardship in attempting to establish a home on these farms on the raw prairie.
Garland's growing dissatisfaction with what he took to be the bleakness of upper-midwestern farm life together with his fresh, favorable impressions of the more settled and established East crystallized in 1884 with a decision to move to Boston to pursue further education and to attempt to establish a career.
Garland's career as novelist climaxed in 1895 with the publication of Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, which presents, in a sense, a female alter ego to Garland.
college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/garland_ha.html   (858 words)

  
 Garland in Virgin Land
Garland's work is characterized by Vernon Parrington as torn between a "stark realism" and an "ethical romanticism." What sets Garland apart from the other writers in the "local-color" genre is his heartfelt, passionate reaction to the environment.
Garland's own family had been broken by a failed attempt to establish themselves on the Dakota plains, and Joseph Kirkland encouraged Garland to make use of this painful experience in his fiction.
Garland, for his part, believed wholly in the single tax as a panacea for America's social ills; he was convinced that democratic progress relied heavily on such reform, which would weaken the Butlers of the world and extend a much-needed hand to the suffering agrarian Haskinses.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/CONTEXTS/Garland/vland.html   (1200 words)

  
 Garland, Hamlin - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
GARLAND, HAMLIN [Garland, Hamlin] 1860-1940, American author, b.
Garland is perhaps best remembered for his two autobiographical works, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) and A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921, Pulitzer Prize).
Melodramatist of the middle border: Hamlin Garland's early work reconsidered.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-garlandh1.html   (346 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Inspirational highlights of the Garland Days were the talk by Wisconsin author and Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin Jerry Apps at the Homestead on Sunday afternoon, as well as presentations the previous day by the finalists in a successful poetry contest which had drawn nearly a hundred entries.
Recalling Hamlin Garland's frequent appearances on stage with his daughter Mary Isabel in the early 1920s, two actors in period costume read from the author's writings in a program conceived and implemented by William "Gene" Aisenbrey, who directs the Garland Memorial Society in Aberdeen.
Early on, Hamlin Garland was aware of "outmigration" as he himself joined this group in 1883, heading for Boston after an especially harsh winter in McPherson County.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/findingaids/garland/newsletter   (1745 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland
Most people remember Hamlin Garland today chiefly for his innovative collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads (1891), and his memoir A Son of the Middle Border (1917).
But during the eighty years of his life (1860-1940) Hamlin Garland was intimately involved with the major literary, social, and artistic movements in American culture.
For a more exhaustive collection of resources devoted to Garland, please travel to the site of the Hamlin Garland Society.
people.uncw.edu /newlink/garland   (178 words)

  
 Famous Men Authors - Hamlin Garland
HAMLIN GARLAND is Western in every sense of that broad term.
There is something truly Western in the fact that Garland was attracted to Dakota by the land boom of 1883.
Garland was married a few years ago to Miss Zuleme Taft, of Chicago, who has achieved some fame as a sculptor.
www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/famous-authors-16.shtml   (1774 words)

  
 PAL: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
PS1733.P5 "Hamlin Garland's A Son of the Middle Border: An Appreciation." South Atlantic Quarterly 65 (1966): 448-59.
In his treatment of the people and the conditions of the West, Garland's tone was harsher than Howells' treatment of the "smiling aspects of life." But at the same time it was not the brutal naturalism of Zola.
Garland's theory of veritism shows that he was substantially a realist - not a naturalist - and a realist very much after the manner of Howells.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/garland.html   (1801 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamlin Hannibal Garland (born September 14, 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin; died March 4, 1940 in Hollywood, California) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer.
In 1917, Garland published his autobiography based on his own life and his family, as well as the American Midwest, titled A Son of the Middle Border.
Hamlin Garland died at age seventy-nine, after moving to Hollywood, California, where he devoted his remaining years to investigating psychic phenomenon, an enthusiasm he first undertook in 1891.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamlin_Garland   (328 words)

  
 Biography of Hamlin Garland
The Hamlin Garland Society exists today to disseminate information on Garland’s literary works, and his early home in West Salem, Wisconsin is a national historic landmark and museum.
Garland was one of the early members of the American Psychical Society (APS) - a group in Boston, Mass.
Garland concluded Buried Crosses more convinced that the communication was coming from spirits than from the subconscious of the medium, but still couldn’t bring himself to say that he accepted it as proof of life after death.
www.survivalafterdeath.org /researchers/garland.htm   (508 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Crumbling Idols, by Hamlin Garland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
...Garland's boast is that his ideas are generated more or less spontaneously by interaction with the environment...
...by 1900 Garland was busy turning out just the sort of hackneyed romances he had deprecated, and although he lived until 1940, he never again associated himself with the advance party in literature...
...Garland's allegiance to Populism was genuine enough, but his literary doctrine was, in the pure sense of the word, reactionary...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V30I3P94-1.htm   (1368 words)

  
 PAL: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
In his treatment of the people and the conditions of the West, Garland's tone was harsher than Howells' treatment of the "smiling aspects of life." But at the same time it was not the brutal naturalism of Zola.
According to Ahnebrink, Garland was one of the first novelists to use impressionistic technique in his work (Crane was another).
Garland's theory of veritism shows that he was substantially a realist - not a naturalist - and a realist very much after the manner of Howells.
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/garland.html   (1052 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland: Poems
Garland was chiefly known as a novelist, although he has written some stirring poetry of the great West.
His early youth was spent in teaching in Illinois and in Boston at the School of Oratory, but during this period he was also engaged in literary work which he pursued exclusively after that time.
Hamlin Garland: Bibliography - A bibliography of the works of Hamlin Garland; includes a list of biographical and critical resources.
www.poetry-archive.com /g/garland_hamlin.html   (112 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland
The Hamlin Garland Society site offers information about Garland, links to collections, and much more.
"Hamlin Garland and Midwestern Farm Fiction" from A Literary History of the American West.
The Hamlin Garland Project at the University of Southern California includes many pictures as well as a biographical sketch and a description of the Garland Collection.
www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/garland.htm   (192 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland
Garland wuchs auf verschiedenen Farmen in Wisconsin, Minnesota und Iowa auf.
Hamlin Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland: A Daughter of the Middle Border.
www.lesekost.de /amlit/local/HHK0506.htm   (96 words)

  
 (Hannibal) Hamlin Garland Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Hamlin Garland wrote over forty books, two of which remain important today.
Because much of his work was mediocre and has faded in interest, Garland is recognized, not as an artist, but rather as a representative mind and career.
Until 1895 (when he was thirty-five), he wrote reform journalism and realistic fiction set in the recently settled areas of the Middle West, and it is for this early work that he has always been most admired.
www.bookrags.com /biography/hannibal-hamlin-garland-dlb   (223 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland Memorial highway, S.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In June 1936, the Brown County Commissioners named a section of Brown County Highway 11, for a total of 10 miles, "the Hamlin Garland Memorial Highway." This section travels past the homestead of Garland's father, Richard, who homesteaded in 1881.
In 1998, new signs were placed along this stretch of paved road noting the name of the highway.
GARLAND TOWNSHIP--This township was named after Hamlin Garland, a novelist, who lived in this area with his pioneer parents, Mr.
www.uncw.edu /garland/highway.htm   (123 words)

  
 The Infography about Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Hamlin Garland.
Hamlin Garland and the Critics: An Annotated Bibliography.
"This Spreading Radicalism": Hamlin Garland's A Spoil of Office and the Creation of True Populism." Studies in American Fiction 26 (1998): 29-50.
www.infography.com /content/106391808067.html   (88 words)

  
 Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop, Hamlin Garland, review
Garland's books were socially critical as they described events and people (I base this assertion on reading this one book and from scanning the Garland web pages.)
I don't know Garland's actual attitude toward the Indians: Curtis is passionately interested in the "vanishing" and "small" people, in letting them live out their quaint unsuccessful evolution in peace, somewhat like hospice care for a tribe.
Garland certainly had a huge contempt for the settlers - violent, criminal, ignorant, drunken, obscene.
www.capecodhistory.us /books/CaptainGrayHorse.htm   (991 words)

  
 Hamlin Garland
Unable to afford a university education, Garland moved to Boston where he spent 14 hours a day reading in the public library.
A brilliant teacher, Garland became a touring lecturer where he gave public talks on American, French and German authors.
Garland's novels were criticised as being overtly political propaganda.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgarland.htm   (689 words)

  
 Society of Midland Authors
In 1913, after much debate, wrote Hamlin Garland (winner of a 1922 Pulitzer Prize), the National Institute of Arts and Letters agreed to trek west to hold its annual meeting in Chicago.
When Garland was appointed arrangements chairman, his first thought was to make the Cliff Dwellers' Club, of which he was president, host for the occasion.
Hamlin Garland, the leading voice in the early management of the Cliff Dwellers, caused discomfort by his austere views on serving cocktails and wine.
www.midlandauthors.com   (496 words)

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