Index.
Adams, C. F., 7Adams, John, opinion of American independence, 11-12; as a writer, 73
Adams, Samuel, 73-74, 209
Agassiz, Fiftieth birthday of, Longfellow 156
Alcott, Bronson, 118, 119, 139-140
American Anthology, Stedman 256
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 life since the Civil War, 234 et seq.
American literature, the term, 6
American Mercury, 61
American scholar, the, Emerson 123
Andrew Rykman's Prayer, Whittier 161
Anthologies, American, 269
Arsenal at Springfield, the, Longfellow 156
Atala, Chateaubriand 96
Atlantic monthly, 161, 167, 170, 250, 257
Autocrat of the Breakfast table, the, Holmes 164, 167
Ballad of the French Fleet, a, Longfellow 155
Bancroft, George, 89,176, 177-78
Barefoot boy, the, Whittier 158
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Howe 224, 225
Battle of the Kegs, the, Hopkinson 69
Bay Psalm book, 85
Belfry of Bruges, the, Longfellow 156
Biglow papers, the, Lowell 170, 172, 173
Blaine, J. G., quoted, 163
Blithedale romance, the, Hawthorne 145-46, 150-51 [274]
Bridge, the, Longfellow 156
Briggs, C. F., quoted, 190
Brooklyn Eagle, the, 199
Brown University, 62
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
By Blue Ontario's shore, Whitman 204
Calvinism in New England, 18-19
Cambridge thirty years ago, Lowell 174
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 139
Cask of Amontillado, the, Poe 193
Cavell, Edith, quoted, 266
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the, Clemens 237
Century magazine, 256 Changeling, the, Lowell, 172
Channing, W. E., 112, 113, 119, 142
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, 96-97
Children's hour, the, Longfellow 157
Church, Captain, 39
Circuit rider, the, Eggleston 247
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
Commemoration Ode, Lowell 170, 172
Conquest of Granada, Irving 91
Conquest of Mexico, Prescott 179
Conquest of Peru, Prescott 179
Conspiracy of Pontiac, the, Parkman 184
Cotton, John, 18, 32
Courtship of miles Standish, Longfellow 155
“Craddock, C. E.,” see Murfre. Mary N. Mary N.
Cristus, Longfellow 155-56
Crowded Street, the, Bryant 106
Curtis, G. W., 93, 141, 181
Day is done, the, Longfellow 156
Day of doom, the, Wigglesworth 35-36
Deerslayer, the, Cooper 99 [275]
Democratic review, 199
Drama, American, in the 20th century, 259-60
Edict of the King of Prussia against England, Franklin 58
Edwards, Jonathan, 32, 45, 48-52
Eliot, John, 19, 38
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
Essays, Emerson 125-26, 127, 128
Essays of the 20th century, 262-63
Eternal Goodness, the, Whittier 161
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
Fall of the House of Usher, the, Poe 193
Farewell address, Washington 66
Farmer refuted, the, Hamilton 76
Faust (translation), Taylor, 255
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
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
Fugitive slave act, 144
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
Half-century of conflict, a, Parkman 185
Hanging of the Crane, the, Longfellow 156 [276]
Harvard College, 62
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in 1826, 89; opinion of Bryant, 105; opinion of Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings, 144-52; typically American, 265
Hazard of New Fortunes, a, Howells 251
Herons of Elmwood, the, Longfellow 156
Hiawatha, Longfellow 155
Holmes, O. W., in 1826, 89; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings, 163-168; died (1894), 255
Hooker, Thomas, 21-22, 30-31
Hoosier schoolmaster, the, Eggleston 247
House of the seven Gables, the, Hawthorne 145, 150
Howells, W. D., 93, 234-35, 250-51, 265
Humorists, American, 239
Hiyperion, Longfellow 152
Indians, in literature, 37-40; Thoreau's notes on, 136
Innocents abroad, Clemens 237, 239
James, Henry, 250, 251-55
Jay, John,65
Jesuits in North America, the, Parkman 185
John of Barneveld, life and death of, Motley 181
Journal, Emerson 122, 125, 127, 235
Journal and correspondence, Longfellow 216
Journalism, in the colonies, 60-62; in 20th century, 263-64
King, Grace, 247
Knickerbocker group of writers, 89; works by, 270
Languishing commonwealth, Walley 41
Last of the Mohicans, the, Cooper 89, 98, 99
Leatherstocking tales, Cooper 97-99
Leaves of Grass, Whitman 197, 200, 202-203
Letters from an American farmer,
Crevecoeur, 60, 68
Library of American biography, 176
Life on the Mississippi, Clemens 237 [277]
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
Longfellow, H. W., in 1826, 89; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings, 152-57; died (1882), 255; disparagement of, 267
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
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
Mason, John, Captain, 38
Massachusetts to Virginia, Whittier 160
Mather, Cotton, 43, 45-48; diary, 46-47
Minister's black Veil, the, Hawthorne 30
Minister's Wooing, the, Stowe 22
Modern instance, a, Howells 251
Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman 185
Morituri Salutamus, Longfellow 156
Mosses from an Old Manse, Hawthorne 145
Motley, J. L., 143-44, 176, 180-182
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
Mysterious Stranger, the, Clemens 238
National Gazette, 71
National literature, Channing 112
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 [278]
New England Courant, 61
New National period in American literature, 234 et seq.; bibliography, 272
New York at beginning of 18th century, 44
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
Old homestead, the, Thompson 248
Old Swimmina Hole, the, Riley 247
Oldtown fireside stories, Stowe 223
On a certain Condescension in Foreigners, Lowell 174
Oratory in America, 208 et seq.
Oregon Trail, the, Parkman 184
Otis, James, 72, 73
Outcast of Poker Flat, the, Harte 242
Outre-mer, Longfellow 152
Overland monthly, 240
Parker, Theodore, 115, 119, 141, 206
Parkman, Francis, 143-44, 176, 182-86
Passionate Pilgrim, a, James 253
Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow 155
Pennsylvania, University of, 62
Pennsylvania Gazette, 62 Pennsylvania magazine, 74
Philip II, history of the Reign of, Prescott 179
Phillips, Wendell, 208, 215-16
Picture of New York, Mitchill 90
Pioneers, O pioneers, Whitman 204
Pioneers, the, Cooper 97-98, 99
Pioneers of France, the, Parkman 185
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
Prescott, W. H., 89, 143-44, 176, 178-80
Present crisis, the, Lowell 172 Prince of Parthia, the, 260 [279]
Professor at the Breakfast table, the, Holmes 168
Psalm of life, the, Longfellow 156
Purloined letter, the, Poe 193
Quarterly, the, 88
Rainy day, the, Longfellow 156
Reality of spiritual life, the, Edwards 50
Reaper and the Flowers, the, Longfellow 153
Religious freedom in the colonies, 16
Ren, ChAteaubriand 96
Revolution, influence upon literature, 66 et seq.; bibliography, 270
Riley, J. W., 247, 257-59
Rise of Silas Lapham, the, Howells 251
Rise of the Dutch Republic, Motley 180
Romanticism in American literature, 187 et seq.
Rules for Reducing a great Empire to a Small one, Franklin 58
Salmagundi papers, Irving and Paulding 91
Scarlet letter, the, Hawthorne 7, 30, 145, 146, 148, 149-50
Seaweed, Longfellow 156
Simple Cobbler of Agawam, the, Ward 37
Sinners in the hands of an Angry God, Edwards 50
Skeleton in Armor, the, Longfellow 155
Skipper Ireson's Ride, Whittier 161
Slavery, influence on literature, 207 et seq.
Slavery in Massachusetts, Thoreau 137
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
South Carolina in 1724, 44
South, The, in American literature, 245 et seq.
Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 249
Spoon River Anthology, Masters 261
Stamp Act (1765), 59
Star-Spangled banner, the, Key, 107, 225 [280]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 219-23, 249
Summary view of the Rights of British America, a, Jefferson 80
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
Telling the Bees, Whittier 158
Tennessee's partner, Harte 242
Thanatopsis, Bryant 103, 104, 106
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
Tour of the prairies, Irving 91
Transcendentalism, 111 et seq., 218; bibliography, 270-71
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
Uncle Tom's cabin, Stowe 98, 208, 219, 220-23
Union of the colonies, Franklin 59
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
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
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 [281]
Williams, Roger, 2, 16,19, 2-34, 38, 40-41
Winthrop, John, 17, 18, 28-29
Wonder-book, the, Hawthorne 145, 147
Wreck of the Hesprus, the, Longfellow 155
Yale University, 62
Years of my youth, Howells 250 [282]