The Biglow papers
1995; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/indexer.1995.19.4.16
ISSN1756-0632
Autores Tópico(s)American and British Literature Analysis
ResumoIn the correspondence column of The lndexer 4 (3), Spring 1965, Karl Heumann of Bethesda, Maryland wrote of the index to The Biglow papers as one of 'the great examples of the deliberately humorous index'. We have obtained a copy of this work by the American poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell, published by George Routledge and Sons in 1886, 5.75 x 4, 384 pages (many of them uncut). It consists of satirical prose and verse of the period of the American war with Mexico and the American civil war, partly written in the Yankee dialect. The 1886 edition has two series each of 11 papers (poems, purported letters and speeches), each preceded by a lengthy introduction and reviews (45/57 pages), followed by a five-page glossary and 35-page 'copious index' (so described on the title page). As a sample of the glossary we quote from the sec tion under W:
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