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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Preface (search)
on represented in Rufus Wilmot Griswold's introduction to his Prose writers of America (1847). Since this old demand is still reasserted from year to year, it may nowell framed to exclude from his consideration most of the important writing in America before the nineteenth century: Literature is the written record of valuable th in asserting that if a certain space be devoted to the colonial literature of America, then, on the same perspective ten times as much is needed to bring the recordte critic. Professor Barrett Wendell in his interesting Literary history of America, published in 9000, presents with even sharper emphasis than Professor Richardhe total effect of the narrative is an impression that the literary history of America is essentially a history of the birth, the renaissance, and the decline of Newre no longer sympathetically understood. To write the intellectual history of America from the modem aesthetic standpoint is to miss precisely what makes it signifi
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
34 Ollapodiana, 241 Omoo, 321 On conciliation with America, 212 On the Conqueror of America shut up in Boston, 139 America shut up in Boston, 139 On the death of Captain Nicholas Biddie, 183 On the five points of Calvinism, 66 On the human understanding, 57 On ess, 79 On the prospect of planting Arts and learning in America, 214 On the rise and progress of the differences betweenellaneous (Mercy Warren), 179 Poem on the happiness of America, 169 Poems by several hands (1744), 159, 160 Poems on 345 Rip Van Winkle, 221, 231, 256, 259 Rising glory of America, 182 Ritter, Karl, 187 River, the, 271 Rivington, Ja 191 Stanton, T., 324 n. Stanzas on the emigration to America and Peopling the Western country, 212 Steele, Richard, 163, 264, 269, 271, 335 Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in America, the, 154 Teresa Contarini, 224 Terrible Tractoratioe Dooryard Bloomed, 270 When was the drama introduced in America? 216 n. Whipple, E. P., 244 Whistle, the, 101 Whitby,