Named Entity Results, Moses Coit Tyler

before his return to England by two other books of merit. But it is only in a historical sense that we can call him one of the fathers of American literature. Tyler, History of American literature, i. p. 7. He was, in fact, a sturdy and accomplished Englishman of the best Elizabethan type. The famous story of his rescue by Poommon as taking snuff; in New England, in the age before that, it had become much more common than taking snuff --since there were some who did not take snuff. Tyler, II. p. 267. The New England divine, who had a horror of fine art, could not keep his hand from the making of bad verses. It was, to be sure, a sort of poetry in he year 1620, unto the year of our Lord 1698. It was first published in London in 1702. can now be read only by the special student of history. He was, says Professor Tyler, the last, the most vigorous, and therefore the most disagreeable representative of the fantastic school in literature; he prolonged in New England the method

ed, The poem is as fine a thing as there is of the kind in the language. Mary S. Austin's Life of Freneau, quoted from Duyckinck, pp. 219, 220. Circumstances did not allow Freneau to develop a disinterested poetic art. In those stirring days there was, as he complained, little public favor for anything but satire. He had inherited hatred for tyranny with his Huguenot blood; and there was a vein of bitterness in him which was ready enough to be worked, no doubt, when the time came. Mr. Tyler calls him the poet of hatred rather than of love; certainly his reputation at the moment was won as a merciless satirist. The Hartford wits Freneau was a classmate of James Madison at Princeton. Contemporary with him were three men of Connecticut and Yale,--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, and Jonathan Trumbull. Like Freneau, these writers began by tentative experiments in prose and verse, and like him they were swept into the current of the Revolution and into the service of political

ralist, as (like most great moralists) a humorist, as a statesman, and as perhaps the greatest of autobiographers. Before the beginning of the Revolutionary period he had gained wide reputation in science and in practical affairs; yet, says Professor Tyler, undoubtedly his best work in letters was done after the year 1764, and thenceforward down to the very year of his death; for, to a degree not only unusual but almost without parallel in literary history, his mind grew more and more vivacious with his advancing years, his heart more genial, his inventiveness more sprightly, his humor more gay, his style brighter, keener, more deft, more delightful. Tyler, Literary history of the American Revolution, II. 365. One of the two works of pure literature for which he is now best known, however, Poor Richard. Poor Richard's almanac, belongs to the earlier period. The almanac was an established institution long before Franklin gave it standing as literature. The first mat

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 CyclopediM. 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,

216, 225, 231, 264, 280. Thou art mine, Thou hast given thy word, Stedman's, 264. Ticknor, George, 111, 117, 216. Timrod, Henry, 204-206, 216. To-morrow, Ellery Channing's, 264. Tour of the prairies, Irving's, 240. Transcendentalism, 110, 167, 168, 178, 186. Transcendentalists, 132, 145, 168, 179, 196. True relation of Virginia, Smith's, 7. Trumbull, John, 38, 39-41. Tupper, M. F., 228. Twain, Mark, 236, 245, 246, 247. Twice-told tales, Hawthorne's, 184, 190. Tyler, Moses Coit, 14, 38, 57. Uncle Tom's cabin, Mrs. Stowe's, 126, 127, 128, 241. Unitarianism, 110, 154. Vanished, Emily Dickinson's, 264. Van Wart, Henry, 89. Verplanck, Gulian C., 81. Vining, Miss, 80. Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell's, 164. Voices of the night, Longfellow's, 142. Walden, Thoreau's, 191. Wallace, Horace Binney, 72. Wallace, Lew, 129. Walpole, Horace, 45, 49. Ward, Artemus, 243. Warner, Charles Dudley, 88, 124. Warville, Brissot de, 52. Washington, 51, 6