Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I, Chapter 5: <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=bryant,i.&n=1&type=person">Bryant</a> and the minor poets, page 283

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Chapter 1 : travellers and explorers, 1583 - 1763

Chapter 2 : the historians, 1607 - 1783

Chapter 4 : Edwards

Chapter 7 : colonial newspapers and magazines, 1704 - 1775

Chapter 3 : early essayists

Chapter 4 : Irving

Chapter 9 : Emerson

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[283] criticism. Moreover, Halleck's Poems, including such unforgotten titles as The field of the grounded arms, Burns, and Red Jacket, still have some literary value as a volume: the anthologies do not exhaust him.

Thus these early minor men left us some things worth keeping; but, nevertheless, taken all in all, they emphasize for us today, as they never could for their contemporaries, the relative greatness of Bryant.

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