| Description |
xvi, 500 pages 18 cm. |
| Series |
Documents in American civilization series
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [499]-500. |
| Contents |
Advice to authors / by the late Mr. Robert Slender -- Introduction to The vision of Columbus / Joel Barlow -- Introduction to Greenfield Hill / Timothy Dwight -- Preface to The Algerian captive / Royall Tyler -- To the public, from Edgar Huntley / Charles |
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A discourse concerning the influence of America on the mind / Charles Jared Ingersoll -- Phi Beta Kappa oration on the peculiar motives to intellectual exertion in America / Edward Everett -- Essay on American drama / Robert Walsh (?) -- Preface to An American dictionary of the English language / Noah Webster -- Remarks on national literature, a review of Ingersoll's Discourse / William Ellery Channing -- The author's account of himself, from The sketch book / Washington Irving -- National literature, from Salmagundi, second series / James Kirke Paulding -- Bowdoin oration on Our native writers / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Essays on the literary situation, from Notions of the Americans, letters #23 and #24 / James Fenimore Cooper -- Essay on patriotism and the poetic sentiment, a review of the poems of Drake and Halleck / Edgar Allan Poe -- Phi Beta Kappa address on The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The United States Copyright Act of 1790 -- Book order lists from the archives of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1790 and 1800 -- from the Monthly anthology, January 1810 -- from the North American review, January 1820 -- from the North American review, January 1830 -- Standard of taste, from Elements of criticism / Henry Home, Lord Kames -- On the nature of the emotions of sublimity and beauty, from The nature and principles of taste / Archibald Alison -- Fancy and imagination, from Biographia literaria / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783.
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