BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Anauthoritative account of American Literature to the close of the Revolution is given in M. C. Tyler'sHistory of American Literature during the Colonial Time, 2 volumes (1878) andLiterary History of the American Revolution, 2 volumes (1897). For a general survey see Barrett Wendell,A Literary History of America(1900), W. P. Trent,American Literature(1903), G. E. Woodberry,America in Literature(1903), W. C. Bronson,A Short History of American Literature(1903), with an excellent bibliography, W. B. Cairns,History of American Literature(1912), W. P. Trent and J. Erskine,Great American Writers(1912), and W. Riley,American Thought(1915). The most recent and authoritative account is to be found inThe Cambridge History of American Literature, 3 volumes edited by Trent, Erskine, Sherman, and Van Doren.
The best collection of American prose and verse is E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson'sLibrary of American Literature, 11 volumes (1888-1890). For verse alone, see E. C. Stedman,An American Anthology(1900), and W. C. Bronson,American Poems, 1625-1892(1912). For criticism of leading authors, note W. C. Brownell,American Prose Masters(1909), and Stedman,Poets of America(1885).
Chapters 1-3.Note W. Bradford,Journal(1898), J. Winthrop,Journal(1825, 1826), alsoLife and Lettersby R. C. Winthrop, 2 volumes (1863), G. L. Walker,Thomas Hooker(1891), O. S. Straus,Roger Williams(1894), Cotton Mather,Diary, 2 volumes (1911, 1912), also hisLifeby Barrett Wendell (1891), Samuel Sewall,Diary, 3 volumes (1878). For Jonathan Edwards, seeWorks, 4 volumes (1852), hisLifeby A. V. G. Allen (1889),Selected Sermonsedited by H. N. Gardiner (1904). The most recent edition of Franklin'sWorksis edited by A. H. Smyth, 10 volumes (1907).
Chapter 4.Samuel Adams,Works, 4 volumes (1904), John Adams,Works, 10 volumes (1856), Thomas Paine,Lifeby M. D. Conway, 2 volumes (1892),Worksedited by Conway, 4 volumes (1895), Philip Freneau,Poems, 3 volumes (Princeton edition, 1902), Thomas Jefferson,Worksedited by P. L. Ford, 10 volumes (1892-1898), J. Woolman,Journal(edited by Whittier, 1871, and also inEveryman's Library),The Federalist(edited by H. C. Lodge, 1888).
Chapter 5.Washington Irving,Works, 40 volumes (1891-1897), also hisLife and Lettersby P. M. Irving, 4 volumes (1862-1864). Fenimore Cooper,Works, 32 volumes (1896),Lifeby T. R. Lounsbury (1883). Brockden Brown,Works, 6 volumes, (1887). W. C. Bryant,Poems, 2 volumes (1883),Prose, 2 volumes (1884), and hisLifeby John Bigelow (1890).
Chapter 6.H. C. Goddard,Studies in New England Transcendentalism(1908). R. W. Emerson,Works, 12volumes (Centenary edition, 1903),Journal, 10 volumes (1909-1914), hisLifeby J. E. Cabot, 2 volumes (1887), by R. Garnett (1887), by G. E. Woodberry (1905); see alsoRalph Waldo Emerson, a critical study by O. W. Firkins (1915). H. D. Thoreau,Works, 20 volumes (Walden edition includingJournals, 1906),Lifeby F. B. Sanborn (1917), alsoThoreau, A Critical Studyby Mark van Doren (1916). Note also Lindsay Swift,Brook Farm(1900), andThe Dial, reprint by the Rowfant Club (1902).
Chapter 7.Hawthorne,Works, 12 volumes (1882),Lifeby G. E. Woodberry (1902). Longfellow,Works, 11 volumes (1886),Lifeby Samuel Longfellow, 3 volumes (1891). Whittier,Works, 7 volumes (1892),Lifeby S. T. Pickard, 2 volumes (1894). Holmes,Works, 13 volumes (1892),Lifeby J. T. Morse, Jr. (1896). Lowell,Works, 11 volumes (1890),Lifeby Ferris Greenslet (1905),Lettersedited by C. E. Norton, 2 volumes (1893). For the historians, note H. B. Adams,Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 2 volumes (1893). M. A. DeW. Howe,Life and Letters of George Bancroft, 2 volumes (1908), G. S. Hillard,Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, 2 volumes (1876), George Ticknor,Life of Prescott(1863), also Rollo Ogden,Life of Prescott(1904), G. W. Curtis,Correspondence of J. L. Motley, 2 volumes (1889), Francis Parkman,Works, 12 volumes (1865-1898),Lifeby C. H. Farnham (1900), J. F. Jameson,History of Historical Writing in America(1891).
Chapter 8.Poe,Works, 10 volumes (Stedman-Woodberry edition, 1894-1895), also 17 volumes (Virginiaedition, J. A. Harrison, 1902),Lifeby G. E. Woodberry, 2 volumes (1909). Whitman,Leaves of GrassandComplete Prose Works(Small, Maynard and Co.) (1897, 1898), also John Burroughs,A Study of Whitman(1896).
Chapter 9.C. Schurz,Life of Henry Clay, 2 volumes (1887). Daniel Webster,Works, 6 volumes (1851),Lifeby H. C. Lodge (1883). Rufus Choate,Works, 2 volumes (1862). Wendell Phillips,Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, 2 volumes (1892). W. L. Garrison,The Story of his Life Told by his Children, 4 volumes (1885-1889). Harriet Beecher Stowe,Works, 17 volumes (1897),Lifeby C. E. Stowe (1889). Abraham Lincoln,Works, 2 volumes (edited by Nicolay and Hay, 1894).
Chapter 10. For an excellent bibliography of the New National Period, see F. L. Pattee,A History of American Literature since 1870(1916).
For further bibliographical information the reader is referred to the articles on American authors inThe Encyclopœdia Britannicaand inThe Warner Library(volume 30,The Student's Course, N. Y., 1917).
INDEX
Adams, C. F,7.Adams, John, opinion of American independence,11-12; as a writer,73.Adams, Samuel,73-74,209.After the Burial, Lowell,172.Agassiz, Fiftieth Birthday of, Longfellow,156.Age of Reason, Paine,75.Ages, The, Bryant,104.Alcott, Bronson,118,119,139-140.Aldrich, T. B.,256-257.Alhambra, The, Irving,91.Allen, J. L.,247.American Anthology, Stedman,256.American characteristics,3-5.American colonies, literature in the 17th century,25-42; journalism,60-62; education,62-63; science,63-64; bibliography of the literature,269-270.American colonists, predominantly English,12-25; motives for emigration,16; moulded by pioneer life,17-23; in 1760,59-60."American idea,"206-207.American life since the Civil War,234et seq.American literature, the term,6.American Mercury,61.American Scholar, The, Emerson,123.Ames, Fisher,88.Among my Books, Lowell,170.Andrew Rykman's Prayer, Whittier,161.Annabel Lee, Poe,192.Anthologies, American,269.Arsenal at Springfield, The, Longfellow,156.Assignation, The, Poe,193.Astoria, Irving,91.Atala, Châteaubriand,96.Atlantic Monthly,161,167,170,250,257.Autobiography, Franklin,58-59.Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, Holmes,164,167.
Bacchus, Emerson,129.Ballad of the French Fleet, A, Longfellow,155.Bancroft, George,89,176,177-178.Barefoot Boy, The, Whittier,158.Bartol, C. A.,115.Battle Hymn of the Republic, Howe,224,225.Battle of the Kegs, The, Hopkinson,69.Bay Psalm Book,35.Beecher, H. W.,216-217.Belfry of Bruges, The, Longfellow,156.Bells, The, Poe,5-6,192.Biglow Papers, The, Lowell,170,172,173.Black Cat, The, Poe,194.Blaine, J. G., quoted,163.Blithedale Romance, The, Hawthorne,145-146,150-151.Boston News-Letter,60.Boy's Town, A, Howells,250.Bracebridge Hall, Irving,91.Bradford, William,28.Bradstreet, Anne,36-37.Bridge, The, Longfellow,156.Briggs, C. F., quoted,190.Brook Farm,140,143.Brooklyn Eagle, The,199.Brown, Alice,249,250.Brown University,62.Brownell, H. H.,225.Brownson, Orestes,141.Bryant, W. C., one of the Knickerbocker Group,89; personal appearance,101; life and, writings,101-106; died (1878),255."Buffalo Bill,"seeCody, W. F.Building of the Ship, The, Longfellow,155.Burroughs, John,262.By Blue Ontario's Shore, Whitman,204.Byrd, William,44.
Cable, G. W.,246.Calef, Robert,43.Calhoun, J. C.,215.Calvinism in New England,18-19.Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, Lowell,174.Captain Bonneville, Irving,91.Carlyle, Thomas, quoted,139.Cask of Amontillado, The, Poe,193.Cavell, Edith, quoted,266.Cawein, Madison,257.Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The, Clemens,237.Century Magazine,256.Changeling, The, Lowell,172.Channing, Edward,13.Channing, W. E.,112,113,119,142.Châteaubriand, Vicomte de,96-97.Children's Hour, The, Longfellow,157.Chita, Hearn,248.Chinese Ghosts, Hearn,248.Choate, Rufus,215.Church, Captain,39.Circuit Rider, The, Eggleston,247.City in the Sea, The, Poe,189.Clark, Roger,41.Clarke, J. F.,141.Clay, Henry,208,209-211.Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain), attacks Cooper's novels,99; quoted,236; life and writings,237-240; typically American,265.Cobbler Keezar's Vision, Whittier,161.Cody, W. F. (Buffalo Bill),243.Columbus, Life of, Irving,91.Commemoration Ode, Lowell,170,172.Common Sense, Paine,75.Conquest of Granada, Irving,91.Conquest of Mexico, Prescott,179.Conquest of Peru, Prescott,179.Conspiracy of Pontiac, The, Parkman,184.Cooke, Rose Terry,249.Cooper, J. F.,95-101,265.Cotton, John,18,32.Courtship of Miles Standish, Longfellow,155."Craddock, C. E.,"seeMurfree, Mary N.Cranch, C. P.,141.Crisis, The, Paine,75.Cristus, Longfellow,155-156.Cromwell, Oliver,10.Crothers, S. M.,262-263.Crowded Street, The, Bryant,106.Curtis, G. W.,93,141,181.
Dana, C. A.,141.Day is Done, The, Longfellow,156.Day of Doom, The, Wigglesworth,35-36.Deerslayer, The, Cooper,99.Democratic Review,199.Dial,136,140.Drake, J. R.,107.Drama, American, in the 20th century,259-260.Dred, Stowe,223.Drum Taps, Whitman,201.Dwight, Timothy,69.
Edict of the King of Prussia against England, Franklin,58.Edinburgh Review, The,88.Edwards, Jonathan,32,45,48-52.Eggleston, Edward,247.Eliot, John,19,38.Elsie Venner, Holmes,168.Embargo, The, Bryant,102.Emerson, R. W., in 1826,89; a Transcendentalist,113-117; quoted,116-117; life and writings,119-130; died (1882),255; typically American,265; argues for American books,266.England in the 17th century,13.English Traits, Emerson,128.Essay on Man, Pope,55.Essays, Emerson,125-126,127,128.Essays of the 20th century,262-263.Eternal Goodness, The, Whittier,161.Ethan Brand, Hawthorne,134.Evangeline, Longfellow,155.Evening Revery, An, Bryant,106.Everett, Edward, Oration at Cambridge (1826),86; quoted,87; lectures,111-112; estimate of,215; quoted,230.Excelsior, Longfellow,5-6,156.Exiles' Departure, Whittier,159.
Fable for Critics, Lowell,170.Fall of the House of Usher, The, Poe,193.Farewell Address, Washington,66.Farewell Sermon, Edwards,51.Farmer Refuted, The, Hamilton,76.Faust (translation), Taylor,255.Federalist,65,76,77.Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Reign of, Prescott,179.Fiction of the 20th century,261-262.Fire of Driftwood, The, Longfellow,156.First Snowfall, The, Lowell,172.Flood of Years, The, Bryant,106.Forest Hymn, A, Bryant,106.Franklin, Benjamin, born (1706),44; attitude toward church,44; exponent of New England life,45; life and writings,52-59; conductsCourant,61; activity in Philadelphia,61-62. letter from Washington to,78-79; typically American,265.Freeman, Mary Wilkins,249,250.Freneau, Philip,69,70-72.Frontenac, Parkman,185.Frost, Robert,258.Fugitive slave act,144.Fuller, Margaret,119,140-141.
Garrison, W. L.,89-90,137,159,208,217-218.Gettysburg Address, Lincoln,230-231.Gilded Age, The, Clemens,237-238.God Glorified in Man's Dependence, Edwards,50.Gold Bug, The, Poe,193.Gookin, Daniel,38.Greeley, Horace,217-218.Greenslet, Ferris,169.
Hale, E. E.,224.Half-Century of Conflict, A, Parkman,185.Halleck, Fitz-Greene,107.Hamilton, Alexander,76-77.Hanging of the Crane, The, Longfellow,156.Harris, J. C.,246.Harte, Bret,240-242.Harvard, John,16.Harvard College,62.Haunted Palace, The, Poe,192.Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in 1826,89; opinion of Bryant,105; opinion of Transcendentalism,143; life and writings,144-152; typically American,265.Hayne, Paul,225.Hazard of New Fortunes, A, Howells,251.Hearn, Lafcadio,248.Hecker, Father,141.Henry, Patrick,72,209.Herons of Elmwood, The, Longfellow,156.Hiawatha, Longfellow,155.Higginson, T. W.,142,262.Holmes, O. W., in 1826,89; attitude toward Transcendentalism,143; life and writings,163-168; died (1894),255.Home Sweet Home, Payne,107.Hooker, Thomas,21-22,30-31.Hoosier Schoolmaster, The, Eggleston,247.House of the Seven Gables, The, Hawthorne,145,150.Hovey, Richard,257.Howells, W. D.,93,234-235,250-251,265.Hubbard, William,39.Huckleberry Finn, Clemens,238.Humorists, American,239.Hutchinson, Anne,32.Hutchinson, Thomas,12.Hyperion, Longfellow,152.