Initial Studies in American Letters. Henry A. Beers

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Название Initial Studies in American Letters
Автор произведения Henry A. Beers
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       Henry A. Beers

      Initial Studies in American Letters

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066163938

       PREFACE.

       INITIAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN LETTERS.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       APPENDIX.

       JONATHAN EDWARDS.

       THE WRATH OF GOD.

       BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

       PAYING TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE.

       PHILIP FRENEAU.

       DANIEL WEBSTER.

       SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHUSETTS.

       WASHINGTON IRVING.

       JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.

       WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

       THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.

       THE UNIVERSAL TOMB.

       RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

       IDEALISM.

       THE RHODORA.[1]

       HYMN.

       NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

       HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

       THE OCCULTATION OF ORION.

       DANTE.

       JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

       OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

       THE LAST LEAF.

       MY AUNT.

       EDGAR ALLAN POE.

       TO ONE IN PARADISE.

       FROM "THE FALL OP THE HOUSE OF USHER."

       NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS.

       NAHANT.

       HENRY DAVID THOREAU.

       WALT WHITMAN.

       O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

       JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

       THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED.

       EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

       FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

       ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.

       CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE.

       SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS.

       INDEX.

       Table of Contents

      This volume is intended as a companion to the historical sketch of English literature, entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson, published last year for the Chautauqua Circle. In writing it I have followed the same plan, aiming to present the subject in a sort of continuous essay rather than in the form of a "primer" or elementary manual. I have not undertaken to describe, or even to mention, every American author or book of importance, but only those which seemed to me of most significance. Nevertheless I believe that the sketch contains enough detail to make it of some use as a guide-book to our literature. Though meant to be mainly a history of American belles-lettres, it makes