Percy Holmes Boynton

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST VERSE

CHAPTER III THE TRANSITION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER IV JONATHAN EDWARDS AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

CHAPTER V CREVECOEUR, THE "AMERICAN FARMER"

CHAPTER VI THE POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION AND PHILIP FRENEAU

CHAPTER VII THE EARLY DRAMA

CHAPTER VIII CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN

CHAPTER IX IRVING AND THE KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL

CHAPTER X JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

CHAPTER XI WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

CHAPTER XII EDGAR ALLAN POE

CHAPTER XIII THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS

CHAPTER XIV RALPH WALDO EMERSON

CHAPTER XV HENRY DAVID THOREAU

CHAPTER XVI NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

CHAPTER XVII JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

CHAPTER XVIII HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

CHAPTER XIX JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

CHAPTER XX HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

CHAPTER XXI OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

CHAPTER XXII SOME METROPOLITAN POETS

CHAPTER XXIII THE POETRY OF THE SOUTH

CHAPTER XXIV WALT WHITMAN

CHAPTER XXV THE WEST AND MARK TWAIN

CHAPTER XXVI THE WEST IN SILL AND MILLER

CHAPTER XXVII THE RISE OF FICTION; WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

CHAPTER XXVIII CONTEMPORARY DRAMA

CHAPTER XXIX THE LATER POETRY

INDEX TO LEADING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS

INDEX

Transcriber's Note

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A HISTORY OF AMERICAN
LITERATURE

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PERCY H. BOYNTON

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

AUTHOR OF “PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION,” “LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE,” EDITOR OF “AMERICAN POETRY”

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