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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 0 Browse Search
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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
hed work, The dialogue of Alcuin (1797), dealt with questions of marriage and divorce, and he was also the author of several essays on political, historical, and geographical subjects. His novels followed each other with astonishing rapidity: Sky Walk; or the man unknown to himself (1798, not published), Wieland; or the Transformation (1798), Ormond ; or the secret witness (1799), Arthur Mervyn ; or Mlemoirs of the year 1793 (1799-1800), Edgar Huntly; or memoirs of a sleep Walker (1801), Jane Talbot (1801), and Clara Howard; or the enthusiasm of love (1801). When, thirty years later, in 1834, the historian Jared Sparks undertook the publication of a Library of American biography, he included in the very first volumewith a literary instinct most creditable to one so absorbed in the severer tasks of history -a memoir of Charles Brockden Brown by W. H. Prescott. It was an appropriate tribute to the first writer of imaginative prose in America, and also the first to exert a positive
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
e was editor. Died in Charlestown, Mass., June 27, 1841. Brown, Charles Brockden Born in Philadelphia, Jan. 17, 1771, of Quaker parents. He was really the first American to make a profession of literature. He first undertook the study of law, and it was not till 1798 that Wieland, his first romance, was published. The rest of his works followed in quick succession: Ormond in 1799; Arthur Mervyn, Part I in 1798, Part II in 1800; Edgar Huntley in 1799; Clara Howard in 1801 ; and Jane Talbot in 1704. In the mean time he had become an editor, having in charge between 1799 and 1808 The monthly magazine and American Review (New York) and The literary magazine and American Register (Philadelphia). He wrote also Alcuin, a dialogue on the rights of women (1797); several political pamphlets ; a General Geography; and a treatise on Rome during the age of the Antonines. Died of consumption, Feb. 22, 1810. Bryant, William Cullen Born in Cummington, Mass., Nov. 3, 1794. His fat
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
nce. 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. 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
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
, Pinkney's, 216. In a summer evening, Harriet Prescott Spofford's, 264. Indian Burying-ground, Freneau's, 36. Ingraham, Joseph Holt, 129. Innocents abroad, Mark Twain's, 248. Irving, Washington, 83-92, 94, 119, 140, 142, 161, 240. I sing the body Electric, Whitman's, 230. I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, Mrs. Hooper's, 264. Israfel, Poe's, 212. Jackson, Helen, 126-128, 264. James, Henry, 161, 246, 249-251. James, William, 18. James River Massacre, 9. Jane Talbot, Brown's, 70. Jay, John, 40, 53. Jefferson, Thomas, 46, 48, 80, 82, 221. Jeffrey, Lord, 69, 82. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 253. Joan of Arc, Mark Twain's, 248. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 57, 67, 216. Johnston, Lady, 53. Jonson, Ben, 174. Josh Billings, 242, 243. Keats, John, 225, 279. Kenton, Simon, 237. Kerr, Orpheus C., 243. King, Clarence, 278. Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline M., 240. Knickerbocker literature, 106. Knickerbocker magazine, 106, 132. Knickerbocker's history of N