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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 4 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 4 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
terature and art had prevailed throughout the colonies. It is even said that America did not possess a copy of Shakespeare till a hundred years after his death. In the eighteenth century the colonists were by no means slow in getting the latest fashions and the latest delicacies from London; yet they displayed a surprising apathy toward the books which were then to be found on every London table. In 1723 the best college library in America contained nothing by Addison, Pope, Dryden, Swift, Gay, Congreve, or Defoe. Ten years later Franklin founded the first public library in America by an importation of some forty-five pounds' worth of English books; among which the work of many of those authors was doubtless included. They were, in fact, the authors upon whom the taste of our best writers during the next century was to be formed. They were the fashionable English models for the cultivation of polite letters. But whatever the pursuit of such a practical ideal might be able to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
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'
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
. Coquette, Hannah Webster's, 92. Cotton Boll, Timrod's, 205. Courtship of miles Standish, Longfellow's, 142, 144. Crayon M31scellanies, Irving's, 87. Curtis, George William, 88, 124. Dana, R. H., 10, 124. Darest thou now, O soul? Whitman's, 230. Darwin, Charles, 276, 277. Darwinian period, 174. Daughters of time, Emerson's, 264. Dawn, Lanier's, 225. Day of doom, Wigglesworth's, 14. Death of the old year, Tennyson's, 210. Declaration of rights and Grievances, Gay's, 44. Dennett, John Richard, 106. Denny, Joseph, 65. De Vere, Aubrey, 142. Dial, 132, 168, 173, 178, 179, 262. Dialogue of Alcuin, Brown's, 70, 72. Dickens, Charles, 74, 186, 203. Dickinson, Emily, 126, 130, 131, 264, 281. Dickinson, John, 44, 54. Dismal Swamp, 200, 201. Drake, Joseph Rodman, 104. Drayton, Michael, 8. Drewry's Bluffs, Battle of, 217. Drum Taps, Whitman's, 233. Dunning, Lord, 60. Dwight, Timothy, 38. Edgar Huntly, Brown's, 70. Edinburgh Review, 69,