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Index.
Adams, C. F.,
7
Adams, John, opinion of American independence,
11-12; as a writer,
73
Adams, Samuel,
73-
74,
209
After the Burial, Lowell 172
Agassiz, Fiftieth birthday of, Longfellow 156
Age of reason, Paine 75
Ages, the, Bryant 104
Alcott, Bronson,
118,
119,
139-
140
Aldrich, T. B.,
256-
57
Alhambra, the, Irving 91
Allen, J. L.,
247
American Anthology, Stedman 256
American characteristics,
8-
5
American colonies, literature in the 17th century,
25-
42; journalism,
60-
62; education, 62-
63; science,
63-
64; bibliography of the literature,
269-
270
American colonists, predominantly
English,
12-
25; motives for emigration,
16; moulded by pioneer life,
17-
23; in 1760,
59-
60
“American idea,”
206-
207
American life since the
Civil War,
234 et seq.
American literature, the term,
6
American Mercury,
61
American scholar, the, Emerson 123
Ames, Fisher,
88
Among my books, Lowell 170
Andrew Rykman's Prayer, Whittier 161
Annabel Lee, Poe 192
Anthologies, American,
269
Arsenal at Springfield, the, Longfellow 156
Assignation, the, Poe 193
Astoria, Irving 91
Atala, Chateaubriand 96
Atlantic monthly,
161,
167,
170,
250,
257
Autobiography, Franklin 58-
59
Autocrat of the Breakfast table, the, Holmes 164,
167
Bacchus, Emerson 129
Ballad of the French Fleet, a, Longfellow 155
Bancroft, George,
89,176,
177-
78
Barefoot boy, the, Whittier 158
Bartol, C. A.,
115
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Howe 224,
225
Battle of the Kegs, the, Hopkinson 69
Bay Psalm book,
85
Beecher, H. W.,
216-
17
Belfry of Bruges, the, Longfellow 156
Bells, the, Poe 5-
6,192
Biglow papers, the, Lowell 170,
172,
173
Black Cat, the, Poe 194
Blaine, J. G., quoted,
163
Blithedale romance, the, Hawthorne 145-
46,
150-
51
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Boston news-letter,
60
Boy's town, a, Howells 250
Bracebridge Hall, Irving 91
Bradford, William,
28
Bradstreet, Anne,
36-
37
Bridge, the, Longfellow 156
Briggs, C. F., quoted,
190
Brook Farm,
140,
143
Brooklyn Eagle, the,
199
Brown, Alice,
249,
250
Brown University,
62
Brownell, H. H.,
225
Brownson, Orestes,
141
Bryant, W. C., one of the
Knickerbocker Group,
89; personal appearance,
101; life and, writings,
101-
106; died (1878),
255
“Buffalo Bill,”
see Cody, W. F.
Building of the ship, the, Longfellow 155
Burroughs, John,
262
By Blue Ontario's shore, Whitman 204
Byrd, William,
44
Cable, G. W.,
246
Calef, Robert,
43
Calhoun, J. C.,
215
Calvinism in
New England,
18-
19
Cambridge thirty years ago, Lowell 174
Captain Bonneville, Irving 91
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted,
139
Cask of Amontillado, the, Poe 193
Cavell, Edith, quoted,
266
Cawein, Madison,
257
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the, Clemens 237
Century magazine, 256 Changeling, the,
Lowell,
172
Channing, Edward,
13
Channing, W. E.,
112,
113,
119,
142
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de,
96-
97
Children's hour, the, Longfellow 157
Chita, Hearn 248
Chinese Ghosts, Hearn 248
Choate, Rufus,
215
Church,
Captain,
39
Circuit rider, the, Eggleston 247
City in the sea, the, Poe 189
Clark, Roger,
41
Clarke, J. F.,
141
Clay, Ienry,
208,
209-
11
Clemens, S. L. (
Mark Twain), attacks
Cooper's novels,
99; quoted,
236; life and writings, 237-
40; typically American,
265
Cobbler Keezar's vision, Whittier 161
Cody, W. F. (Buffalo Bill),
243
Columbus, life of, Irving 91
Commemoration Ode, Lowell 170,
172
Common sense, Paine 75
Conquest of Granada, Irving 91
Conquest of Mexico, Prescott 179
Conquest of Peru, Prescott 179
Conspiracy of Pontiac, the, Parkman 184
Cooke, Rose Terry,
249
Cooper, J. F.,
95-
101,
265
Cotton, John,
18,
32
Courtship of miles Standish, Longfellow 155
“
Craddock, C. E.,” see Murfre.
Mary N. Mary N.
Cranch, C. P.,
141
Crisis, the, Paine 75
Cristus, Longfellow 155-
56
Cromwell, Oliver,
10
Brothers, S. M.,
262-
63
Crowded Street, the, Bryant 106
Curtis, G. W.,
93,
141,
181
Dana, C. A.,
141
Day is done, the, Longfellow 156
Day of doom, the, Wigglesworth 35-
36
Deerslayer, the, Cooper 99
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Democratic review,
199
Dial,
136,
140
Drake, J. R.,
107
Drama, American, in the 20th century,
259-
60
Dred, Stowe 223
Drum Taps, Whitman 201
Dwight, Timothy,
69
Edict of the King of Prussia against England, Franklin 58
Edinburgh review, the,
88
Edwards, Jonathan,
32,
45,
48-
52
Eggleston, Edward,
247
Eliot, John,
19,
38
Elsie Venner, Holmes 168
Embargo, the, Bryant 102
Emerson, R. W., in 1826,
89; a Transcendentalist,
113-
17; quoted,
116-
17; life and writings,
119-
30; died (1882),
255; typically American,
265; argues for American books,
266
England in the 17th century,
13
English traits, Emerson 128
Essay on man, Pope 55
Essays, Emerson 125-
26,
127,
128
Essays of the 20th century,
262-
63
Eternal Goodness, the, Whittier 161
Ethan Brand, Hawthorne 134
Evangeline, Longfellow 155
Evening Revery, an, Bryant 106
Everett, Edward, Oration at
Cambridge (1826),
86; quoted, 87; lectures,
111-
12; estimate of,
215; quoted,
230
Excelsior, Longfellow 5-
6,
156
Exiles' Departure, Whittier 159
Fablefor critics, Lowell 170
Fall of the House of Usher, the, Poe 193
Farewell address, Washington 66
Farewell sermon, Edwards 51
Farmer refuted, the, Hamilton 76
Faust (translation),
Taylor,
255
Federalist,
65,
76,
77
Ferdinand and Isabella, history of the Reign of, Prescott 179
Fiction of the 20th century,
261-
262
Fire of Driftwood, the, Longfellow 156
First Snowfall, the, Lowell 172
Flood of years, the, Bryant 106
Forest Hymn, a, Bryant 106
Franklin, Benjamin, born (1706),
44; attitude toward church,
44; exponent of
New England life, 45; life and writings,
52-
59; conducts
Courant,
61; activity in
Philadelphia,
61-
62; letter from
Washington to,
78-
79; typically American,
265
Freeman, Mary Wilkins,
249,
250
Freneau, Philip,
69,
70-
72
Frontenac, Parkman 185
Frost, Robert,
258
Fugitive slave act,
144
Fuller, Margaret,
119,
140-
41
Garrison, W. L.,
89-
90,
137,
159,
208,
217-
18
Gettysburg address, Lincoln 230-
231
Gilded age, the, Clemens 237-
238
God glorified in man's Dependence, Edwards 50
Gold Bug, the, Poe 193
Gookin, Daniel,
38
Greeley, Horace,
217-
18
Greenslet, Ferris,
169
Hale, E. E.,
224
Half-century of conflict, a, Parkman 185
Halleck, Fitz-Greene,
107
Hamilton, Alexander,
76-
77
Hanging of the Crane, the, Longfellow 156
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Harris, J. C.,
246
Harte, Bret,
240-
42
Harvard, John,
16
Harvard College,
62
Haunted Palace, the, Poe 192
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in 1826,
89; opinion of
Bryant,
105; opinion of Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings,
144-
52; typically American,
265
Hayne, Paul,
225
Hazard of New Fortunes, a, Howells 251
Hearn, Lafcadio,
248
Hecker, Father,
141
Henry, Patrick,
72,
209
Herons of Elmwood, the, Longfellow 156
Hiawatha, Longfellow 155
Higginson, T. W.,
142,
262
Holmes, O. W., in 1826,
89; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143; life and writings,
163-
168; died (1894),
255
Home sweet home, Payne 107
Hooker, Thomas,
21-
22,
30-
31
Hoosier schoolmaster, the, Eggleston 247
House of the seven Gables, the, Hawthorne 145,
150
Hovey, Richard,
257
Howells, W. D.,
93,
234-
35,
250-
51,
265
Hubbard, William,
39
Huckleberry Finn, Clemens 238
Humorists, American,
239
Hutchinson, Anne,
32
Hutchinson, Thomas,
12
Hiyperion, Longfellow 152
Indian 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
Jay, John,65
Jefferson, Thomas,
79-
85,
265
Jesuits in North America, the, Parkman 185
Jewett, Sarah Orne,
249,
250
John of Barneveld, life and death of, Motley 181
Johnson, Edward, Captain,
38
Joshua Whitcomb, Thompson 248
Journal, Emerson 122,
125,
127,
235
Journal, Thoreau 134,
135
Journal, Woolman 69
Journal and correspondence, Longfellow 216
Journalism, in the colonies,
60-
62; in 20th century,
263-
64
Kemble, Fanny,
245-
46
Kennedy, J. P.,
245
King, Grace,
247
King,
Starr,
262
King Philip's War,
39-
40
King's College (
Columbia),
62
Knickerbocker group of writers,
89; works by,
270
Languishing commonwealth, Walley 41
Lanier, Sidney,
255-
56
La Salle, Parkman 185
Last Leaf, the, Holmes 166
Last of the Mohicans, the, Cooper 89,
98,
99
Leatherstocking tales, Cooper 97-
99
Leaves of Grass, Whitman 197,
200,
202-
203
Letters, Motley 181
Letters from an American farmer,
Crevecoeur,
60,
68
Liberator, the,
137,
217,
218
Library of American biography,
176
Life on the Mississippi, Clemens 237
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Ligeia, Poe 193
Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes uncertainty in the nation,
2; would have approved
Winthrop,
29; address at
Cooper
Union (1860),
104-
105; quoted, 155; as a writer of liberty,
208; character and writings,
226-
233; typically American,
265
Lionel Lincoln, Cooper 98
Literati, Pope 107
Little women, Alcott 140
London, Jack,
243-
44
London in 1724,
54-
56
Longfellow, H. W., in 1826,
89; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143; life and writings, 152-
57; died (1882),
255; disparagement of,
267
Longstreet, A. B.,
245
Louisiana Purchase,
88
Lowell, J. R., in 1826,
90; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143; life and writings, 168-
74; died (1891),
255; typically American,
265
Luck of Roaring camp, the, Harte 241
Lyceum system,
175
McFingal, Trumbull 69
Magazines, in colonies,
60-
61; in 20th century,
263-
64
Magnalia Christi Americana, Mather 46,
47
Maidenhood, Longfellow 156
Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg, the, Clemens 238
Man without a country,
Hale,
224
Marble Faun, the, Hawthorne 146,
151
Marshes of Glynn, the, Lanier 255
Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens 87
Mason, John,
Captain,
38
Massachusetts to Virginia, Whittier 160
Mather, Cotton,
43,
45-
48; diary,
46-
47
Mather, Increase,
43
Maud Muller, Whittier 5-
6
Memorial Odes, Lowell 172
Miller, C. H. (Joaquin),
244
Minister's black Veil, the, Hawthorne 30
Minister's Wooing, the, Stowe 22
Modern instance, a, Howells 251
Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman 185
Moody, W. V.,
257
Morituri Salutamus, Longfellow 156
Morris, G. P.,
107
Mosses from an Old Manse, Hawthorne 145
Motley, J. L.,
143-
44,
176,
180-
182
Muir, John,
244-
45
Murders in the Rue Morgue, the, Poe 194
Murfree, Mary N. (
C. E. Craddock),
247
My garden acquaintance, Lowell 174
My literary friends and Acquaintances, Howells 251
My literary passions, Howells 250
My lost youth, Longfellow 156
My Mark Twain, Howells 251
My Psalm, Whittier 160
My study windows, Lowell 170
Mysterious Stranger, the, Clemens 238
National Gazette,
71
National literature, Channing 112
National Ode, Taylor 255
Nature, Emerson 123,
128,
131
Nature-writing,
262
Netherlands, history of the United, Motley 181
New England, a digression from English society,
14; at the beginning of 18th century,
43-
44; characteristics of the people of,
109-
11; in last quarter of 19th century,
248 et seq.
New England, history of, Winthrop 28-
29
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New England Courant,
61
New National period in American literature,
234 et seq.; bibliography,
272
New York at beginning of 18th century,
44
New York Tribune,
140,
218
Newburyport free Press,
90,
159
Newspapers, in colonies,
60-
61; in 20th century,
263-
64
North American review,
88,
103,
104,
112,
170
North Carolina in 1724,
44
North of Boston, Frost 261
Norwood, Colonel,
27
Oake, Urian,
41
Old Creole days, Cable 246
Old homestead, the, Thompson 248
Old Ironsides, Holmes 166
Old Manse,
119-
20,
145
Old Regime, the, Parkman 185
Old Swimmina Hole, the, Riley 247
Oldtown fireside stories, Stowe 223
Oldtown Folks, Stowe 223
Olmsted, F. L.,
246
On a certain Condescension in Foreigners, Lowell 174
Oratory in
America,
208 et seq.
Oregon Trail, the, Parkman 184
Otis, James,
72,
73
Our hundred days, Holmes 168
Outcast of Poker Flat, the, Harte 242
Outre-mer, Longfellow 152
Overland monthly,
240
Page, T. N.,
246,
247
Paine, Thomas,
74-
76
Parker, Theodore,
115,
119,
141,
206
Parkman, Francis,
143-
44,
176,
182-
86
Passage to India, Whitman 204
Passionate Pilgrim, a, James 253
Pathfinder, the, Cooper 99
Pattee, F. L.,
236
Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow 155
Paulding, J. K.,
107
Payne, J. H.,
107
Pennsylvania, University of,
62
Pennsylvania Gazette, 62 Pennsylvania magazine,
74
Pequot War (1637),
38-
39
Percy, George,
27,
38
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart,
249
Philip II, history of the Reign of, Prescott 179
Phillips, Wendell,
208,
215-
16
Picture of New York, Mitchill 90
Pilot, the, Cooper 98
Pioneers, O pioneers, Whitman 204
Pioneers, the, Cooper 97-
98,
99
Pioneers of France, the, Parkman 185
Pirate, the, Scott 98
Plymouth plantation, history of, Bradford 28-
29
Poe, E. A., “literature of escape,”
8; in 1826,
89; in New York,
108; life and writings,
187-
96
Poet at the Breakfast table, the, Holmes 168
Poetry, Revolutionary verse,
69-
72; of freedom,
223 et seq.; of the 20th century,
260-
61
Poets and poetry of America, Griswold 107
Poor Richard, Franklin 20,
57
Pory, John,
27
Prairie, the, Cooper 98,
99
Precaution, Cooper 97
Prescott, W. H.,
89,
143-
44,
176,
178-
80
Present crisis, the, Lowell 172 Prince of Parthia, the,
260
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Professor at the Breakfast table, the, Holmes 168
Psalm of life, the, Longfellow 156
Psalm of the West, Lanier 255
Publick Occurrences,
60
Puritans, The,
34-
35
Purloined letter, the, Poe 193
Quarterly, the,
88
Rainy day, the, Longfellow 156
Ramona, Jackson 248
Ramoth Hill, Whittier 138
Raven, the, Poe 192
Read, T. B.,
225
Reality of spiritual life, the, Edwards 50
Reaper and the Flowers, the, Longfellow 153
Red Rover, the, Cooper 98
Religious freedom in the colonies,
16
Ren, ChAteaubriand 96
Repplier, Agnes,
262
Revolution, influence upon literature,
66 et seq.; bibliography,
270
Rights of man, the, Paine 75
Riley, J. W.,
247,
257-
59
Ripley, George,
141
Rise of Silas Lapham, the, Howells 251
Rise of the Dutch Republic, Motley 180
Rivulet, the, Bryant 106
Robinson, John,
11
Roderick Hudson, James 253
Rolfe, John,
38
Romanticism in American literature,
187 et seq.
Roosevelt, Theodore,
243
Roughing it, Clemens 10,
237
Rowlandson, Mary,
39
Rules for Reducing a great Empire to a Small one, Franklin 58
Russell, Irwin,
246
Salem “witchcraft,”
43
Salmagundi papers, Irving and Paulding 91
Sanborn, F. B.,
142
Sandys, George,
27
Scarlet letter, the, Hawthorne 7,
30,
145,
146,
148,
149-
50
School-days, Whittier 158
Scott, Sir, Walter,
95
Scribner's monthly,
256
Scudder, Horace,
169
Seaweed, Longfellow 156
Sewell, Samuel, Judge,
47-
48
Shepard, Thomas,
16,
31-
32
Short story, the,
261-
62
Sill, E. R.,
257
Simms, W. G.,
245,
246
Simple Cobbler of Agawam, 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, Thoreau 137
Smith, F. H.,
247
Smith, John,
8-
10,
20,38
Smith, Sydney, quoted,
88-
89
Snow-bound, Whittier 158,
161-
162
Snow-image and other tales, the, Hawthorne 145
Songs of labor, Whittier 161
South Carolina in 1724,
44
South, The, in American literature,
245 et seq.
Sparks, Jared,
176
Spofford, Harriet Prescott,
249
Spoon River Anthology, Masters 261
Spy, the, Cooper 89,
97,
98
Stamp Act (1765),
59
Star-Spangled banner, the, Key,
107,
225
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Stedman, E. C.,
225,
256
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
219-
23,
249
Strachey, William,
26,
38
Summary view of the Rights of British 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, Whittier 158
Tennessee's partner, Harte 242
Thanatopsis, Bryant 103,
104,
106
Thomas, Edith,
257
Thompson, Denman,
248
Thoreau, H. D., representative of
New England thought,
119; life and writings,
130-
39; nature-writing,
262; typically American,
265
Ticknor, 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,
25-
26
True Reportory of the Wrack of Sir Thomas Gates, Kt. Vpon and from the Islands of the Bermudas, Strachey 26
Tuckerman, F. G., quoted,
117
Twain, Mark,
see Clemens, S. L.
Twicetold tales, Hawthorne 148
Tyler, Professor,
64
Ulalume, Poe 192
Uncle Tom's cabin, Stowe 98,
208,
219,
220-
23
Union of the colonies, Franklin 59
Unitarianism,
112-
13
Verplanck, J. C.,
107
Very,
Jones,
141
Virginia, a continuation of English society,
14; in 1724,
44
Virginia House of Burgesses, address of the, Jefferson 80
Virginians, the, Thackeray 45
Vision of Sir Launfal, the, Lowell 170,
172
Walden, Thoreau 131,
134,
135
Walley, Thomas,
41
Warner, C. D.,
93
Washington, George,
64-
65,
66,
77-
78
Waterfowl, to a, Bryant 103,
106
Webster, Daniel, eulogy for
Adams and
Jefferson,
86-
87; civic note in oratory of,
208; criticism of
Clay,
210; his oratory,
211-
15
Week on the Concord and Merrimac rivers, a, Thoreau 131
Wendell, Barrett,
6
West, The, in American literature,
237 et seq.
Westchester farmer, the, Seabury 76
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed, Whitman 201
When the Frost is on the Punkin, Riley 248
Whitaker, Alexander,
26-
27,
38
Whitman, Walt, in 1826,
90; in New York,
108; life and writings,
196-
205; died (1892),
255; typically American,
265; argues for American books,
266
Whittier, J. G., in 1826,
90; attitude towards Transcendentalism,
143; life and writings 157-
64; died (1892),
255
William and Mary College,
62
William Wilson, Poe 194
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281]
Williams, Roger,
2,
16,19,
2-
34,
38,
40-
41
Willis, N. P.,
107
Winthrop, John,
17,
18,
28-
29
Wirt, William,
245
Wister, Owen,
243
Woodberry, George,
257
Woodworth. Samuel,
107
Woolman, John,
69
Wonder-book, the, Hawthorne 145,
147
Wreck of the Hesprus, the, Longfellow 155
Wister, Owen,
243
Yale University,
62
Years of my youth, Howells 250
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