A History of American Literature

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Seventeenth Century	1
II.	The Earliest Verse	17
III.	The Transition to the Eighteenth Century	27
IV.	Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin	41
V.	CrÈvecoeur, the “American Farmer”	59
VI.	The Poetry of the Revolution and Philip Freneau	69
VII.	The Early Drama	89
VIII.	Charles Brockden Brown	100
IX.	Irving and the Knickerbocker School	110
X.	James Fenimore Cooper	141
XI.	William Cullen Bryant	158
XII.	Edgar Allan Poe	173
XIII.	The Transcendentalists	190
XIV.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	199
XV.	Henry David Thoreau	221
XVI.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	236
XVII.	John Greenleaf Whittier	252
XVIII.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	267
XIX.	James Russell Lowell	282
XX.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	299
XXI.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	310
XXII.	Some Metropolitan Poets	324
XXIII.	The Poetry of the South	343
XXIV.	Walt Whitman	362
XXV.	The West and Mark Twain	380
XXVI.	The West in Sill and Miller	396
XXVII.	The Rise of Fiction; William Dean Howells	411
XXVIII.	Contemporary Drama	437
XXIX.	The Later Poetry	453
INDEX TO LEADING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS		487
INDEX		503

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