Iacobus Kirke Paulding
Iacobus Kirke Paulding (natus James Kirke Paulding, 1778–1860) fuit scriptor Americanus et Secretarius Classis Civitatum Foederatarum ad tempus. Sodalis fuit Factionis Democraticae-Republicanae.
Vita
recensereIacobus Kirke Paulding natus est Pleasant Valley in oppido Novi Eboraci die 22 Augusti 1778.[1] Eruditus est plerumque a se ipso. Amicus Vasingtonii Irving factus est, quocum proposuit propositum litterarum: "uno die, lascivo animo, notionem periodiculi solum stupori nostro excogitavimus, stuporique oppidi, quia neuter ulterius studium anticipavit."[2][3] Exitus fuit Salmagundi, "fugax periodicum satiricum, ex quo vocabulum Gotham nomen primum Urbi Novo Eboraco ascriptum est."[4][5] Irving et Paulding cum grege Knickerbockerano consociabantur, grege inter cuius alii sodales erant Gulielmus Cullen Bryant, Gulianus Crommelin Verplanck, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Iosephis Rodman Drake, Robertus Carolus Sands, Lydia Maria Child, et Nathaniel Parker Willis.[6]
Martinus Van Buren praeses Paulding Secretarium Classis Iunio 1838 creavit, qui se a munere Martio 1841 abdicavit. Paulding in eius fundo prope Hyde Park Novi Eboraci obiit, et eius corpus in sepulcreto Green-Wood Brooklynii Novi Eboraci inhumatum est. Navis USS James K. Paulding (DD-238) ex eo appellatus est.
Opera magni momenti
recensere- 1807–1808 – Salmagundi (cum Vasingtonio Irving)
- 1812 – The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan
- 1813 – The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle
- 1818 – The Backwoodsman
- 1820 – Salmagundi. Second Series
- 1822 – A Sketch of Old England by a New England Man[7];
- 1823 – Koningsmarke, the Long Finne
- 1825 – John Bull in America, or the New Munchausen
- 1826 – The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham
- 1828 – The New Mirror for Travellers
- 1829 – Tales of the Good Woman, by a Doubtful Gentleman
- 1830 – Chronicles of the City of Gotham
- 1831 – The Dutchman's Fireside
- 1832 – Westward Ho!
- 1835 – Life of George Washington, in duobus voluminibus
- 1836 – View of Slavery in the United States
- 1836 – The Book of St. Nicholas
- 1838 – A Gift from Fairy Land
- 1846 – The Old Continental, or the Price of Liberty
- 1849 – The Puritan and his Daughter
Notae
recensere- ↑ Nelson 1981: 45.
- ↑ Anglice: "one day in a frolicsome mood, we broached the idea of a little periodical merely for our own amusement, and that of the town, for neither of us anticipated any further circulation."
- ↑ Jones 2008: 57.
- ↑ Anglice: "a short-lived satirical periodical, from which the word 'Gotham' was first ascribed as a name for New York City."
- ↑ Burrows et Wallace 1999: 417.
- ↑ Nelson 1981: 30.
- ↑ "Review of A Sketch of Old England ...". The Quarterly Review 30: 519–542. January 1824
Bibliographia
recensere- Burrows, Edwin G., et Mike Wallace. 1999. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press.
- Jones, Brian Jay. 2008. Washington Irving: An American Original. Novi Eboraci: Arcade Publishing. ISBN 9781559708364.
- Nelson, Randy F. 1981. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos Californiae: William Kaufmann, Inc. ISBN 086576008X.