BOOK II: EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE (CONTINUED) |
Chapter X. |
Thoreau |
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By ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., George Munro Professor of the English Language and Literature in Dalhousie University
- The Village Rebel
- Thoreau’s Youth and Education
- His Reading
- Emerson
- Rebellions: Church; State; Society
- The Experiment at Walden Pond
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Canada
- Walden
- Style
- Thoreau’s Significance
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XI. |
Hawthorne |
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By JOHN ERSKINE, Ph.D., Professor of English in Columbia University
- Hawthorne and Puritanism
- His Relations with the Transcendentalists
- The Facts of his Life
- Early Stories
- Later Romances
- His Close Observation of Life
- Transcendental Doctrines in Hawthorne: Self-Reliance; Compensation; Circles
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XII. |
Longfellow |
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By WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT, M.A., LL.D., Professor of English Literature in Columbia University
- Youthful Environment; Education
- Bowdoin
- Hyperion; Early Poems
- Harvard
- Ballads
- Dramatic Writings
- Evangeline
- Miles Standish
- Hiawatha
- Tales of a Wayside Inn
- Translations
- Sonnets
- Rank and Place
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XIII. |
Whittier |
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By WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, LL.D.
- Quaker Ancestry and Nurture
- Early Poems
- Abolitionism
- Poems (1849)
- Later Honours
- Ballads
- Snow-Bound
- Anti-Slavery Poems
- Occasional Pieces
- Religious Feeling
- Prose
- Standing
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XIV. |
Poe |
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By KILLIS CAMPBELL, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Texas
- Youth
- Education
- Tamerlane and Other Poems
- West Point
- Baltimore
- The Southern Literary Messenger
- Philadelphia
- New York; The Raven; The Broadway Journal
- Later Misfortunes
- Character
- Poe as Critic
- His Creed and Practice of Poetry
- Tales
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XV. |
Publicists and Orators, 1800–1850 |
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By A. C. MCLAUGHLIN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of History in the University of Chicago
- Theory and Practice
- Themes
- Oratorical Methods
- John Marshall
- His Importance
- His Great Opinions
- Marbury vs. Madison
- Cohens vs. Virginia
- McCulloch vs. Maryland; Dartmouth College vs. Woodward; Gibbons vs. Ogden
- Joseph Story: Commentaries on the Constitution
- James Kent: Commentaries on American Law; Conflict of Laws; Equity Jurisprudence
- Henry Wheaton: Elements of International Law
- John C. Calhoun
- The Chief Spokesman of the South
- Nullification
- The Constitutional Guarantees of Minority
- Defence of Slavery
- Style and Language
- Spencer Roane; John Taylor; Robert Y. Hayne
- John Randolph
- Powers of Invective
- Henry Clay; Gifts of Leadership
- His Nationalism
- John Quincy Adams
- “The Old Man Eloquent”
- Albert Gallatin; Roger Brooke Taney; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett
- Thomas H. Benton; His Westernism
- Total Accomplishment of the Period
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XVI. |
Webster |
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By HENRY CABOT LODGE, Ph.D., LL.D., United States Senator from Massachusetts
- Webster not a Writer
- His Knowledge of Literature
- Literature and Oratory
- Webster’s Permanence
- The Plymouth Discourse
- Rhetoric and Literature
- Webster’s Developed Style
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XVII. |
Writers on American History, 1783–1850 |
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By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of American History in Smith College
- Historians of the Revolution
- Gordon; Ramsay; Drayton; Moultrie; Marshall; Wirt
- Mrs. Warren; Weems; State Histories
- Belknap; Trumbull; Proud; Minot; H. M. Brackenridge; Ramsay; Burk; Williamson
- Status of Historical Studies
- General Histories of the United States
- Abiel Holmes
- Pitkin
- Hildreth
- Palfrey
- Tucker
- Bancroft
- Collectors of Materials
- Hazard
- Belknap
- Jedidiah Morse
- Sparks
- Force
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XVIII. |
Prescott and Motley |
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By RUTH PUTNAM
- PRESCOTT
- Youth
- Ill Health
- Self-training
- Choice of a Spanish Theme
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- Its Reception
- The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru
- Philip II
- Style and Methods; His Aloofness from Current Affairs
- MOTLEY
- Youthful Energy
- Studies in Germany
- Novels
- St. Petersburg; Massachusetts Legislature
- The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- Its Reception and Influence
- Dutch and Belgian Critics
- The United Netherlands; Its Critics
- The Causes of the Civil War
- Vienna
- Resignation
- John of Barneveld; Court of St. James; Autobiographical Colouring in Motley’s Histories
- Sectarian Animosities
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XIX. |
Early Humorists |
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By WILL D. HOWE, Ph.D., Professor of English in Indiana University
- Two Forms of American Humour: Classical and Native
- Colonial Humorists
- Revolutionary Satirists
- The New Humour of the Thirties
- Seba Smith; “Jack Downing”; Haliburton
- David Crockett
- Longstreet; Georgia Scenes; W. T. Thompson; Hooper; Charles Henry Smith; “Bill Arp”; Bagby; Harris; Prentice
- Baldwin: The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
- Mrs. Whitcher; “The Widow Bedott”; Cozzens; Goodrich; Wise; Thorpe; Hammett; McConnel
- Shillaber: “Mrs. Partington”
- Halpine: “Miles O’Reilly”; Mortimer Thompson; Newell; “Orpheus C. Kerr”
- Derby: “John Phœnix”
- Shaw: “Josh Billings”
- Locke: “Petroleum V. Nasby”
- Browne: “Artemus Ward”
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XX. |
Magazines, Annuals, and Gift-books, 1783–1850 |
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By WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Literature in the University of Wisconsin
- MAGAZINES
- Experiments before 1815
- Publishing Centres
- Salmagundi
- The Literary Magazine; The Port Folio
- The Monthly Anthology
- After the War of 1812
- South and West
- Types
- New England; The North American Review
- The Dial
- New York: The Knickerbocker Magazine; The Knickerbocker Gallery
- Philadelphia: Godey’s Lady’s Book; Graham’s Magazine
- The South: The Southern Literary Messenger
- The West
- ANNUALS AND GIFT-BOOKS
- Characteristics
- The Atlantic Souvenir
- Engravers; Cheney; Sartain; Ritchie
- The Token
- Religious Annuals
- The Talisman; The Boston Book; The Liberty Bell
- Miscellaneous
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XXI. |
Newspapers, 1775–1860 |
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By FRANK W. SCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Illinois
- Revolutionary Newspapers
- The Pennsylvania Packet—the first daily Newspaper
- Development after the War
- The Farmers’ Museum
- Reporters Admitted to the Debates in Congress
- Partisan Bitterness; Administration Organs; The Gazette of the United States; The National Gazette
- Alien and Sedition Laws
- Spread of Newspapers
- The National Intelligencer (1808); The Globe; The United States Telegraph; The National Intelligencer (1841); Political Editors
- Personal Journalism; Thomas Ritchie; John M. Daniel
- New York: The Evening Post
- James Gordon Bennett—The Herald
- The Sun
- New York Associated Press
- Literary Weeklies: The Mirror
- The Telegraph
- Growth of Specialized Forms of Journalism; Anti-Slavery; The Liberator
- The Great Editors
- Samuel Bowles—The Springfield Republican
- Horace Greeley—The New York Tribune
- Henry Jarvis Raymond—The New York Times
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XXII. |
Divines and Moralists, 1783–1860 |
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By SAMUEL LEE WOLFF, Ph.D., Instructor in English, Extension Teaching, Columbia University
- The Followers of Jonathan Edwards
- Relation between Divinity and Literature
- Samuel Hopkins
- Timothy Dwight
- Unitarianism
- The Buckminsters
- Andover Theological Seminary
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Andrews Norton
- Opposition to Transcendentalism
- Furness
- Horace Bushnell
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Clerical College Presidents
- Mark Hopkins
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XXIII. |
Writers of Familiar Verse |
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By BRANDER MATTHEWS, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University
- HOLMES
- Ancestry
- Education
- Medicine
- Professional Career
- Biographies of Motley and Emerson
- Novels
- Elsie Venner
- The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy
- The Breakfast-Table Series
- Serious Verse
- Occasional Pieces
- Lighter Lyrics
- MINOR WRITERS
- Early Writers
- Lighter Verse of Serious Poets
- Saxe
- Eugene Field
- Bunner
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XXIV. |
Lowell |
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By ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in Columbia University
- Miscellaneous Quality of Lowell’s Work
- Main Facts of his Life
- Early Poems
- Union of Art and Morality
- The Biglow Papers
- The Commemoration Ode
- Lowell as Critic
- The New England Village
- Later Doctrines
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BOOK III: LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART I |
I. |
Whitman |
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By EMORY HOLLOWAY, A.M., Assistant Professor of English in Adelphi College
- Difficulties in Whitman’s Biography
- Youth and Education
- Printer
- Teacher; Editor; Stump Speaker
- Early Writings
- New Orleans
- Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Its Reception
- Lectures
- New Friends
- The Civil War
- Drum-Taps; Democratic Vistas
- The Good Gray Poet
- Foreign Reputation
- Specimen Days and Collect; November Boughs
- Later Friends
- Influence of Whitman
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II. |
Poets of the Civil War I
THE NORTH |
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By WILL D. HOWE
- The Mood of the North
- Effect upon the Poets
- H. H. Brownell
- Boker; Bayard Taylor; Read
- Melville; Halpine
- The Events of the Conflict Traced in Contemporary Poems; John Brown; Secession; The Call to Arms
- The Earliest Fighting in Virginia
- The War in the West; Willson
- The Cumberland and Merrimac; The Capture of New Orleans
- Emancipation
- Gettysburg
- Grant and His Career; Black Soldiers
- Sherman; The Fall of Richmond
- Songs of the Soldiers
- Civil Matters; Peace
- Lincoln
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III. |
Poets of the Civil War II
THE SOUTH |
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By EDWIN MIMS, Ph.D., Professor of English in Vanderbilt University
- Southern Poetry before the War
- Pinkney; Wilde
- The Outbreak of Hostilities
- Soldier Poets
- Dixie; The Bonnie Blue Flag
- Charleston and Its Poets; Simms
- Hayne
- Timrod; The Cotton Boll
- Ethnogenesis
- Randall: My Maryland
- Songs of the Soldiers
- Anthologies
- Frank Moore
- R. G. White
- War Songs and Lyrics of the South
- Emily V. Mason
- Simms
- Sallie A. Brock
- Davidson; Living Writers of the South
- F. F. Browne; Later Anthologies
- Value and Interest of these Poems
- The Events of the Conflict; The War in Virginia
- The West; The Mississippi
- The Death of Stonewall Jackson
- The Attack on Charleston
- Sherman’s March
- Peace; Resignation
- Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery
- The Poets after the War
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IV. |
The New South: Lanier |
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By DUDLEY MILES, Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of English in the Evander Childs High School, New York City
- Conditions of Literature during Reconstruction
- Susan Dabney Smedes
- Survivors of the Old School: Cooke; Bagby
- Johnston
- Jones
- Vance; Hill
- Gordon
- Lamar
- Curry
- The New South
- Grady
- Booker T. Washington
- The Poets
- Carlyle McKinley
- Tabb
- Boner
- Wilson
- Lanier; Youth and Education
- The Confederate Army
- Tiger Lilies
- Law
- Music
- The Peabody Orchestra
- Poems (1877)
- Johns Hopkins; Death
- Hackwork
- Critical Writings
- Shakespeare and His Forerunners
- The English Novel
- The Science of English Verse
- Letters
- Qualities of his Poetry
- Elaboration
- Music and Metrics
- Didacticism
- Idealism
- Ideas of Love and Nature
- Fidelity to his Section
- The Voice of the New South
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V. |
Dialect Writers |
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By C. ALPHONSO SMITH, Ph.D., LL.D., L. H. D., Head of the Department of English in the United States Naval Academy
- NEGRO DIALECT
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Facts of his Life
- Negro Writers; Douglass; Washington; DuBois; Dunbar
- The Negro in Earlier American Literature
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Foster
- Russell
- Uncle Remus
- His Philosophy, Language, and Character
- Importance to Negro Folk lore
- The Negro Dialects in the United States: (1) Virginia; (2) Sea Islands; (3) Louisiana; (4) Inland or Uncle Remus Dialect
- DIALECTS OF THE WHITES
- Dialect and the Short Story
- General Uniformity of American Speech
- Western—a Composite
- New England: Its laws as Summarized by Lowell
- Southern: Its Rules
- The Possibility of a Compromise Dialect in the Middle West
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VI. |
The Short Story |
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By FRED LEWIS PATTEE, A.M., Litt.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the Pennsylvania State College
- Stages in the Development of the American Short Story
- Beginnings
- Irving
- The Annuals; Hawthorne
- Poe; Realism
- Rose Terry Cooke
- O’Brien
- Hale
- Henry James
- Bret Harte
- “Local Colour”
- Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Cable
- The New Art
- Aldrich
- Stockton
- Bunner
- Bierce
- The Eighties
- Charles Egbert Craddock
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Johnston
- Garland; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Kate Chopin
- The Latest Period
- Smith
- London
- Davis
- O. Henry
- Defects of the Type
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VII. |
Books for Children |
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By ALGERNON TASSIN, A.M., Assistant Professor of English in Columbia University
- Didacticism of the Early Attempts
- The Sunday School Books; Miss Sedgwick
- Miss Warner; Mrs. Finley; Mrs. Whitney
- Mrs. Child; The Youth’s Companion; Goodrich; Jacob Abbott
- Cooper; Irving; Dana; Mrs. Stowe; Hawthorne’s Juveniles; Increasing Dignity of Children’s Books; Our Young Folks; St. Nicholas
- Louisa M. Alcott; Mary Mapes Dodge; Hans Brinker
- Dime Novels; Writers for Boys; Kellogg; Goulding; Oliver Optic; Alger
- Later Books of Information
- Revolt against Information; Trowbridge; Kaler; Aldrich; Mark Twain
- Americanism in Books for Children
- Fanciful Tales; Stockton; Uncle Remus
- Poetry for Children; Moore; A Visit from St. Nicholas; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Field; Riley; Butterworth
- Merit of Contemporary Work in Juvenile Literature
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