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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.) 194 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 112 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 60 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 56 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 52 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 51 1 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.) 44 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 28 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 21 1 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
talls with Cooper's The last of the Mohicans. Irving, Cooper, and Bryant are thus the pioneers in aickerbocker is one evidence of the vitality of Irving's happy imaginings. In 1809 he had invented aMitchill's grave Picture of New York. To read Irving's chapters today is to witness one of the rarel. But the skill was very noticeable also. Irving's prose is not that of the Defoe-Swift-Frankli of the language to the images and ideas which Irving desired to convey. To render the Far West of aps not big and broad enough, but when used as Irving uses it in describing Stratford and Westminstehe voyage across the Atlantic and home again. Irving wrote of England, Mr. Warner once said, as Engcenes and characters. Its key is sympathy. Irving's popularity has endured in England. It suffeo demand more thought and passion than were in Irving's nature. Possibly the nervous, journalistic me home to Cooperstown in 1833, the year after Irving's return to America. He had won, deservedly, [9 more...]
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
for thirteen brooding lonely years in which he tried to teach himself the art of story-writing. His earliest tales, like Irving's, are essays in which characters emerge; he is absorbed in finding a setting for a preconceived moral ; he is in love wir day, and judged by it Hawthorne, who wrote with severity, conscience, and good taste, seems somewhat oldfashioned, like Irving or Addison. He is perhaps too completely a New Englander to be understood by men of other stock, and has never, like Poeike his classmate Hawthorne, he had been a wide and secretly ambitious reader, and had followed the successive numbers of Irving's Sketch book, he tells us, with ever increasing wonder and delight. His college offered him in 1826 a professorship of retouching, perhaps, but the younger historians are incompetent for the task. Prescott died in 1859, in the same year as Irving, and he already seems quite as remote from the present hour. His young friend Motley, of Dutch Republic fame, was anot
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Bibliographic note. (search)
. Smyth, 10 volumes (1907). Chapter 4. Samuel Adams, Works, 4 volumes (1904), John Adams, Works, 10 volumes (1856), Thomas Paine, Life by M. D. Conway, 2 volumes (1892), Works edited by Conway, 4 volumes (1895), Philip Freneau, Poems, 3 volumes (Princeton edition, 1902), Thomas Jefferson, Works edited by P. L. Ford, 10 volumes (1892-1898), J. Woolman, Journal (edited by Whittier, 1871, and also in Everyman's Library), the Federalist (edited by H. C. Lodge, 1888). Chapter 5. Washington Irving, Works, 40 volumes (1891-1897), also his Life and letters by P. M. Irving, 4 volumes （1862-1864). Fenimore Cooper, Works, 32 volumes (1896), Life by T. R. Lounsbury (1883). Brockden Brown, Works, 6 volumes, (1887). W. C. Bryant, Poems, 2 volumes (1883), Prose, 2 volumes (1884), and his Life by John Bigelow (1890). Chapter 6. H. C. Goddard, Studies in New England Transcendentalism (1908). R. W. Emerson, Works, 12 volumes (Centenary edition, 1903), Journal, 10 volumes (1909-1914),
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
Wars, Hubbard 89 Indians, in literature, 37-40; Thoreau's notes on, 136 Innocents abroad, Clemens 237, 239 Irving, Washington, 89, 90-95 Israfel, Poe 189, 192 Jackson, Andrew, 5 Jackson, Helen Hunt, 248 James, Henry, 250, 251-55 Ja, the, Ward 37 Sinners in the hands of an Angry God, Edwards 50 Skeleton in Armor, the, Longfellow 155 Sketch book, Irving 89, 91 Skipper Ireson's Ride, Whittier 161 Slavery, influence on literature, 207 et seq. Slavery in Massachusetts,tish America, a, Jefferson 80 Sumner, Charles, 216 Sunthina in the Pastoral line, Lowell 174 Tales of a traveler, Irving 91 Tales of a Wayside Inn, Longfellow 155 Tamerlane and other poems, Poe 89 Taylor, Bayard, 255 Telling the Bees,George, 89, 111, 178, 216 Timrod, Henry, 225 To Helen, Poe 189, 192 Tom Sawyer, Clemens 238 Tour of the prairies, Irving 91 Transcendentalism, 111 et seq., 218; bibliography, 270-71 Tritemius, Whittier 161 True Relation, Smith 8-10, 2