| Description |
xxii, 539 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Colonial historians / Kenneth B. Murdock -- Jonathan Edwards / Edward Hooker Dewey -- Thomas Paine / Carl Van Doren -- Washington, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson / Rupert Hughes -- V. Irving / Henry Walcott Boynton -- Cooper / Alfred Stanford -- Emerson / Henry Hazlitt -- Hawthorne / Louis Bromfield -- Longfellow / Howard Mumford Jones -- Whittier / Will D. Howe -- Poe / Edwin Markham -- Holmes / Harold de Wolf Fuller -- Thoreau / Gilbert Seldes -- Lowell / Robert Morss Lovett -- Melville / Raymond Weaver -- Orators / Brand Whitlock -- Prescott, Motley, Parkman / Allan Nevins -- Lincoln / Allen Sinclair Will -- Whitman / James Oppenheim -- Mark Twain / C. Hartley Grattan -- Howells / Hamlin Garland -- Henry James / Robert Herrick -- Henry Adams / William MacDonald -- Lanier / Stanley T. Williams -- American journalism / Don C. Seitz -- Modern American philosophers / T.V. Smith -- Poetry after the Civil War / George F. Whicher -- Fiction of the eighties and nineties / William Allen White -- New England stories / F.O. Matthiessen -- Literature on the Pacific coast / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Aboriginal American literature / Mary Austin -- Negro literature / Walter White -- Yiddish literature / Jacob C. Rich -- Literary magazines / Arthur Bartlett Maurice -- American drama / Percy H. Boynton -- Contemporary fiction / Llewellyn Jones -- Contemporary poetry / Louis Untermeyer. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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