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Definition of Stephen Collins Foster
1. Noun. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864).
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Literary usage of Stephen Collins Foster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Poems, 1776-1900: With Notes and Biographies by Augustus White Long (1905)
"25 Stephen Collins Foster 1826-1864 FOSTER was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
and died in New York city. ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"CHAPTER VIII AMERICAN SONGS AND SONG-WRITERS (CONTINUED) Stephen Collins Foster—Negro
Minstrels—John Howard Payne and "Home, Sweet Home"—"Ben Bolt"—"Rock Me ..."
3. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1903)
"Stephen Collins Foster (1826-64), author of many of the most popular American
songs, was born ¡n Pittsburgh, and was for some time a merchant's clerk or ..."
4. Golden Poems by British and American Authors by Francis Fisher Browne (1906)
"Stephen Collins Foster. IN A STRANGE LAND OH, to be home again, home again, home
again 1 Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill; Mother is calling me, ..."
5. Poems that Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Poems of All by Mary Elizabeth Burt (1904)
"Weep no more, my lady, O, weep no more to-day! We will sing one song for the old
Kentucky home, For the old Kentucky home, far away. Stephen Collins Foster. ..."
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