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Updated: May 5, 2025
'Sophy Wackles, said the sharp child, with a superior smile, as she sucked her thumb just pricked by a too eager pull at the thorny branches. 'What are you at here, Mischief? asked Demi, with an Irvingesque start, as he felt rather than saw a disturbing influence in his day-dream.
The combination of Irvingesque romantic glamor and Dickensian bitter-sweet humor, applied to picturesquely novel material, with the addition of a trick ending, was fantastically popular. Harte's star was, briefly, in the ascendant. The East, however, was financially unappreciative. Harte wrote an unsuccessful novel and collaborated with Mark Twain on an unremunerative play.
He early published two prose volumes, "Hyperion" and "Outre-mer," Irvingesque romances of European travel. Then came, after ten years of teaching and the death of his young wife, the sudden impulse to write poetry, and he produced, "softly excited, I know not why," "The Reaper and the Flowers, a Psalm of Death." From that December morning in 1838 until his death in 1882 he was Longfellow the Poet.
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