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Appendix 2.
lists for study and reading
I. General authorities and References
(A)
C. F. Richardson's
American literature, 2 vols.,
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887.
M. C. Tyler's
History of American literature during the Colonial time, 2 vols.,
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878.
M. C. Tyler's
Literary history of the American Revolution, 2 vols.,
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.
Wendell's
Literary history of America,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
(B)
E. A. and
G. L. Duyckinck's
Cyclopedia of American literature, 2 vols.,
Charles Scribner, 1855.
E. C. Stedman and
E. M. Hutchinson's
Library of American literature, 11 vols.,
Webster & Co., 1887-90.
E. C. Stedman's
American Anthology,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1900.
Ii.
Special authorities and references
Chapter 1: the Puritan writers
(A)
Campbell's
Anne Bradstreet and her time,
D. Lothrop & Co., 1891.
B. Wendell's
Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest, “Makers of
America series,” 1891.
Allen's
Jonathan Edwards, “American religious leaders Se-ries,” 1889.
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(B)
The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by
D. H. Ellis,
Charlestown, 1867.
Mather's
Magnalia, 2 vols.,
Hartford, 1853.
Jonathan Edwards's
Works,
Carvill (New York), 1830.
(There is also a Bohn edition, 2 vols.) Many selections from other works in this period will be found in
Stedman and
Hutchinson; and not a few in
Tyler.
Chapter 2: the secular writers
A.
M. S. Austin's
Life of Freneau. The Federalist, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1897.
(B)
Sarah Knight's
Journal, reprinted in
Albany, 1865.
The
Diary of
Samuel Sewall, Mass.
Hist. Soc., 1878-1882.
Philip Freneau's
Poems, reprinted by
J. R. Smith (
London), 1861.
Sneath and
Trumbull's
McFingal, edited by
B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880.
Works of Fisher Ames, 2 vols., Little,
Brown & Co., 1854.
Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period
(A)
McMaster's
Life of Franklin, “American men of letters series,” 1887.
Morse's
Life of Franklin, “American statesmen series,” 1889.
William H. Prescott's
Life of Charles Brockden Brown (printed in
Sparks's
Library of American biography, and in
Prescott's
Biographical and critical Miscellanies,
Lippincott, 1845).
(B)
Poor Richard's Almanack, “Thumb-Nail series,” The Century Co., 1898.
Franklin's
Life, written by himself, edited by
John Bigelow, 3 vols.,
J. B. Lippincott, 1874.
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Franklin's
Works, edited by
John Bigelow, 3 vols.,
Lippincott, 1875.
Charles Brockden Brown's
Novels, 6 vols.,
McKay,
Philadelphia, 1887.
Chapter 4: the New York period
(A)
Life and letters of Washington Irving, by
Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols.,
G. P. Putnam, 1862-64.
C. D. Warner's
Washington Irving, in “American men of letters series,” 1881.
T. R. Lounsbury's
James Fenimore Cooper, in “American men of letters series,” 1883.
P. Godwin's
Life of Bryant, 2 vols.,
D. Appleton, 1878.
H. A. Beers's
Nathaniel Parker Willis, in “American men of letters series,” 1885.
E. Cary's
George William Curtis, in “American men of letters series,” 1894.
(B)
Good editions of
Irving and
Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification.
The standard edition of
Bryant is
P. Godwin's, 4 vols.,
D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884.
For critical estimates of the
Knickerbocker School, see particularly
Wendell's
Literary history, Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E.
Woodberry's essay in
Hiarper's magazine, July, 1902.
Chapter 5: New England period — Preliminary
(A)
G. T. Curtis's
Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols.,
D. Appleton & Co., 1869-1870.
W. H. Channing's
Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols.,
Crosby and
Nichols, 1848.
H. B. Adams's
Life and writings of Jared Sparks,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1893.
George Ticknor's
Life of William Hickling Prescott,
Ticknor &
Reed, 1863.
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Mrs. J. T. Fields's
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1897.
(B)
Webster's
Works, 6 vols., Little &
Brown, 1851.
Channing's
Works, 1 vol., American Unitarian Association, 1886.
Prescott's
History of the conquest of Mexico, 3 vols., New York, 1843.
Parkman's
Works, 12 vols., Little,
Brown & Co., 1865-1898.
E. P. Whipple's
Essays and reviews, 2 vols., 1848-1849.
Chapter 6: the Cambridge group
(A)
S. Longfellow's
Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3 vols.,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1891.
T. W. Higginson's
Longfellow, in “American men of letters series,” 1901.
E. S. Robertson's
Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in “Great writers series,”
Walter Scott (
London), 1887.
S. T. Pickard's
Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, 2 vols.,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1894.
T. W. Higginson's
Whittier, in “English men of letters series,” 1901.
J. T. Morse's
Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2 vols.,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1896.
Horace E. Scudder's
James Russell Lowell, 2 vols.,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1901.
(B)
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., are the authorized publishers of the works of
Longfellow,
Whittier,
Holmes,
Lowell,
Hawthorne,
Emerson, and
Thoreau.
The standard edition in each case is the Riverside edition.
Chapter 7: the Concord group
(A)
O. W. Holmes's
Emerson, in “American men of letters series,” 1885.
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The
Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols.,
Osgood & Co., 1883.
Henry James's
Life of Hawthorne, in “English men of letters series,” 1880.
C. E. Woodberry's
Hawthorne, in “American men of letters series,” 1902.
F. B. Sanborn's
Thoreau, in “American men of letters series,” 1882.
F. B. Sanborn and
W. T. Harris's
Life and philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols.,
Roberts Bros., 1893.
(B)
Theodore Parker's
Works, 12 vols.,
Trubner & Co. (
London), 1863-1865.
A. Bronson Alcott's
Table talk,
Roberts Bros., 1877.
Chapter 8: the Southern influence.--Whitman
(A)
W. P. Trent's
Simms, in “American men of letters series,” 1902.
W. M. Baskervill's
Life of Sidney Lanier, in “Southern writers series,”
Barber &
Smith (
Nashville), 1897.
G. E. Woodberry's
Poe, in “American men of letters series,” 1885.
John Burroughs's
Study of Walt Whitman,
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1896.
H. Ellis's
The New spirit,
Walter Scott (
London), 1890.
(B)
W. G. Simms's
Poems, 2 vols.,
Redfield (New York), 1853.
W. G. Simms's
Novels, 18 vols.,
Redfield (New York), 1884-1886.
H. B. Timrod's
Poems, 1860.
P. H. Hayne's
Poems,
D. Lothrop & Co., 1882.
Sidney Lanier's
Poems,
Charles Scribner, 1884.
Walt Whitman's
Leaves of grass, 1855.
Walt Whitman's
Complete prose works, 1898.
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Chapter 9: the Western influence
(A)
This period is too recent to possess “authorities.”
There is an excellent chapter in
Wendell's
Literary history.
(B)
C. F. Browne's (
Artemus Ward)
Complete works,
Dillingham & Co., 1898.
Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. are the
American publishers of
Bret Harte's
Complete works.
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Chronological table: events in American and English history and literature.
1603-1625. James I.
1608.
Milton born.
1610-1614.
Chapman's
Homer.
1611. The “King James”
Bible.
1616.
Shakespeare died.
1623. The
Shakespeare Folio.
1625-1649. Charles I.
1625.
Bacon's
Esays.
1626.
Bacon died.
1632.
Milton's
L'allegro and
Il Penseroso.
1642. Beginning of Civil War.
1642.
Newton born.
1644.
Milton's
Areopagitica.
1649. Charles I. executed.
1649-1660. The Commonwealth.
1658.
Cromwell died.
1660-1686. Charles II.
1663-1678.
Butler's
Hudibra.
1667.
Milton's
Paradise Lot.
1667.
Swift born.
1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate.
1671.
Milton's
Paradise Regained,
1671. and
Samson Agonises.
1674.
Milton and
Herrick died.
1678-1684.
Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progres.
1685-1688. James II.
1688. The English Revolution.
1688.
Pope and
Gay born.
1700.
Dryden died.
1700.
Thomson born.
1703-1714. Queen Anne.
1704.
Swift's
Battle of the books and
Tale of a Tub.
1707. Union of
Scotland and
England.
1707.
Fielding born.
1709.
The Tatler, edited by
Steele.
1814.
Wordsworth's
The excursion.
1814.
Scott's
Waverley.
1815.
Battle of Waterloo.
1817.
Keats's
Poems.
1817.
Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria.
1820-1830. George IV.
1821.
De Quincey's
Confessions of an English opium Eater.
1822-1824.
Lamb's
Essays of Elia.
1824-1828.
Landor's
Imaginary Conversations.
1826.
E. B. Browning's
Poems.
1829. Catholic Emancipation Act.
1830.
Tennyson's
poems, chiefly lyrical.
1832. Reform Bill passed.
1833.
R. Browning's
Pauline.
1833.
Carlyle's
Sartor Resartus.
1836.
Dickens's
Pickwick papers.
1837-1900.
Victoria.
1841. Robert Peel Prime Minister.
1841.
Punch established.
1842.
Darwin's
Coral Reefs.
1843. Wordsworth Poet-Laureate.
1843.
Macaulay's
Essays.
1843-1860.
Ruskin's
Modern Painters.
1846. Repeal of Corn Laws.
1847.
Miss Bronte's
Jane Eyre.
1847.
Thackeray's
Vanity Fair.
1848-1876.
Macaulay's
History of England.
1850.
Wordsworth died.
1850. Tennyson Poet-Laureate.
1850.
Tennyson's
In Memoriam.
1852.
Thackeray's
Henry Esmond.
1853.
Kingsley's
Hypatia.
1854-1856. Crimean War.
1856.
Matthew Arnold's
Poems.
1857. Indian Mutiny.
1859.
Darwin's
Origin of species.
1859.
George Eliot's
Adam Bede.
1862.
Spencer's
First principles.
1864.
Ruskin's
Sesame and Lilies.
1864.
Newman's
Apologia.
1865.
Matthew Arnold's
Essays in criticism.
1866.
Swinburne's
Poems and ballads.
1867. Disraeli Prime Minister.
1867. Parliamentary Reform Bill.
1868.
Browning's
The Ring and the book.
1868. Gladstone Prime Minister.
1870.
D. G. Rossetti's
Poems.
1873.
Walter Pater's
Studies in the Renaissance.
1873.
J. S. Mill's
Autobiography.
1874.
Green's
Short history of the English people.
1878.
Hardy's
Return of the native.
1879.
Meredith's
The Egoist.
1881.
D. G. Rossetti's
Ballads and Sonnets.
1881.
Stevenson's
Virginibus Puerisque.
1881.
Carlyle died.
1885.
Austin Dobson's
At the sign of the Lyre.
1887.
Kipling's
Plain tales from the Hills.
1887.
Matthew Arnold died.
1888.
Bryce's
The American Commonwealth.
1889.
Browning died.
1892.
Tennyson died.
1899. South African War.
1901. Queen Victoria died.
American
1607. Landing at
Jamestown.
1608.
John Smith's
True relation.
1620. Landing of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth.
1620.
William Bradford's
Hitory of Plymouth plantation.
1626.
George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of
Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
1630-1648.
John Winthrop's
History of New England.
1640. The
Bay Psalm book by
Richard Mather,
John Eliot, etc.
1640. (The first book printed in America.)
1647.
Nathaniel Ward's
The simple Cobbler of Agawam.
1650.
Anne Bradstreet's
The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America.
1662.
Michael Wigglesworth's
The day of doom.
1664. New Amsterdam became New York.
1673-1729.
Samuel Sewall's
Diary.
1675. King Philip's War.
1682.
Philadelphia founded by
Penn.
1689. Cotton
Mather's
Memorable Providences
1702. Cotton
Mather's
Magnalia
1706.
Franklin born.
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1729.
William Byrd's
History of the dividing line.
1732.
Washington born.
1732.
Franklin's
Poor Richard's almanac begun.
1745.
Braddock defeated.
1754.
Jonathan Edwards's
Freedom of the will.
1764.
Otis's
Rights of the British colonies.
1766. The Stamp Act repealed.
1770. The Boston Massacre.
1771.
Franklin's
Autobiography (incomplete).
1773. The “Boston Tea-party.”
1774. First Continental Congress.
1775. Battles of
Lexington and
Bunker Hill.
1775.
John Trumbull's
McFingal (Canto 1).
1776.
Declaration of Independence.
1776.
Thomas Paine's
Common sense.
1776.
Boston evacuated by the
British.
1777. Surrender of
Burgoyne.
1779.
Hopkinson's
Battle of the Kegs.
1781. Surrender of Cornwallis.
1782. Independence of
America acknowledged by
England.
1787. The Federal Constitution framed.
1789.
Washington inaugurated.
1790.
Mrs. Rowson's
Charlotte Temple.
1795.
Philip Freneau's
New poems.
1798.
Charles Brockden Brown's
Wieland.
1801.
Brown's
Edgar Huntley, Clara Howard, and
Jane Talbot.
1803.
Louisiana Purchase.
1807.
Joel Barlow's
The Columbiad.
1809.
Fisher Ames's
Speeches and writings.
1809.
Lincoln born.
1809.
Irving's
Knickerbocker's history of New York.
1812. War with
England.
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1814. Peace with
England.
1817.
Monroe President.
1820.
Irving's
Sketch book.
1821.
Bryant's
Poems.
1821.
Cooper's
The spy.
1821.
James G. Percival's
Poems.
1821.
R. H. Dana's
Dying Buccaneer.
1826.
Longfellow's
Poems.
1827.
Fitz-Greene Halleck's
Poems.
1827.
Miss Sedgwick's
Hope Leslie.
1827.
N. P. Willis's
Sketches.
1830.
W. E. Channing's
Discourses, reviews, and Miscellanies.
1831.
Whittier's
Legends of New England.
1833.
Poe's
Ms. Found in a Bottle.
1835.
Drake's
The Culprit Fay and other poems.
1835.
Emerson's
Historical discourse at Concord.
1835.
W. G. Simms's
The Yemassee and the Partisan.
1836.
Holmes's
Poems.
1837.
Prescott's
Ferdinand and Isa-bella.
1838.
Hawthorne's
Fanshawe.
1839.
Longfellow's
Voices of the night.
1840.
Cooper's
The Pathfinder.
1840.
R. H. Dana, Jr.'s,
Two years before the Mast.
1841.
Emerson's
Essays, First Series.
1841.
Cooper's
The Deerslayer.
1844.
Emerson's
Essays, Second Series.
1844.
Lowell's
Poems.
1845.
Poe's
The Paven, and other poems.
1845. War with
Mexico.
1847.
Longfellow's
Evangeline.
1848. Peace with
Mexico.
1848. Gold discovered in
California.
1848.
E. P. Whipple's
Essays and reviews.
1848.
Lowell's
A Fable for critics and
The Biglow papers, First Series.
1849.
Parkman's
The California and Oregon Trail.
1849.
George Ticknor's
History of Spanish literature.
1849.
Whittier's
Voices of freedom.
1850.
Hawthorne's
Scarlet letter.
1850.
Webster's Seventh of March Speech.
1851.
Mrs. Stowe's
Uncle Tom's cabin.
1853.
Curtis's
Potiphar papers.
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1854.
Thoreau's
Walden.
1855.
Whitman's
Leaves of grass.
1855.
Longfellow's
Hiawatha.
1857. The Dred Scott Decision.
1857.
Atlantic monthly founded.
1858.
Holmes's
Autocrat of the breakfast table.
1858. Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
1859.
John Brown's Raid.
1860.
Hawthorne's
Marble Faun.
1860.
Stedman's
Poems, lyric and Idyllic.
1861.
Lincoln President.
1861. Confederacy organized.
1861. Beginning of the
War of the
Rebellion.
1863.
Emancipation Proclamation.
1863.
Battle of Gettysburg.
1865. Surrender of
Lee.
1865. Assassination of
Lincoln.
1865.
Lowell's
Commemoration Ode.
1866.
Whittier's
Snow-bound.
1866.
Howells's
Venetian days.
1868.
E. E. Hale's
The man without a country.
1869.
Aldrich's
Story of a bad boy.
1869. “
Mark Twain's”
Innocents abroad.
1870.
Bret Harte's
Luck of roaring Camp.
1876.
Lanier's
Poems.
1876.
Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia.
1878.
Henry James's
Daisy Miller.
1879.
Stockton's
Rudder Grange.
1880. Cable's
The Grandissimes.
1882.
Longfellow and
Emerson died.
1884. “
Mark Twain's”
Huckleberry Finn.
1885.
Howells's
Rise of Silas Lapham.
1891.
Lowell died.
1892.
Whittier and
Whitman died.
1893. World's Fair at
Chicago.
1894.
Holmes died.
1898. Spanish-American War.
1901.
Theodore Roosevelt,
President.
1902.
Bret Harte died.
