A History of American LiteratureBoynton, Percy Holmes
History
A History of American Literature
Boynton, Percy Holmes
American literature -- History and criticism
themes in no way related to the war.
BOOK LIST
=_General References_=
ADAMS, H. B. Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia. 1888.
FISKE, JOHN. The Critical Period of American History. Chap. ii. 1888.
OTIS, WILLIAM BRADLEY. American Verse, 1625-1807. 1909.
PATTERSON, SAMUEL WHITE. The Spirit of the American Revolution as
Revealed in the Poetry of the Period (contains good bibliography).
1915.
RICHARDSON, C. F. American Literature. Chaps. i, vi, viii. 1887.
TUCKER, S. M. In chap. ix of Cambridge History of American
Literature, Vol. I, Bk. I.
TYLER, M. C. The Literary History of the American Revolution, chaps.
ix, xix, xx, xxi, xxvi, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxii. 1897.
VAN TYNE, C. H. The Loyalists in the American Revolution. 1902.
WENDELL, BARRETT. Literary History of America, chaps. vii, viii, ix.
1900.
For spirit of the times read Familiar Letters of John and Abigail
Adams. 1876.
=General Bibliography=
Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 457-467.
=_Individual Authors_=
FRANCIS HOPKINSON. Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings.
1792. 3 vols. The latter half of the third volume contains in
separate paging (1-204) his Poems on Several Subjects. (There has
been no reprinting.)
=Available Edition=
The Old Farm and the New Farm: a Political Allegory (edited by
B. J. Lossing). 1864.
=Biography and Criticism=
HILDEBURN, C. R. A Biographical Sketch of Francis Hopkinson.
1878.
MARBLE, MRS. A. R. Francis Hopkinson, Man of Affairs and
Letters. _New England Magazine_, Vol. XXVII, p. 289.
TYLER, M. C. The Literary History of the American Revolution,
Vol. I, chap. viii, pp. 163-171; chap. xii, pp. 279-292; chap.
xxii, pp. 487-490; and Vol. II, chap. xxx, pp. 130-157.
=Collections=
BOYNTON, PERCY H. American Poetry, pp. 35-42, 604-606.
CAIRNS, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 372-383.
DUYCKINCK, E. A. and G. L. Cyclopedia of American Literature,
Vol. I, pp. 209-219.
STEDMAN and HUTCHINSON. Library of American Literature, Vol.
III, pp. 236-251.
JOHN TRUMBULL. Poetical Works. 2 vols. Hartford, 1820. Progress of
Dulness. Part I, The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless, 1772;
Part II, The Life and Character of Dick Hairbrain of Finical
Memory, 1773; Part III, The Adventures of Miss Harriet Simper,
1773. M'Fingal: a Modern Epic Poem. Canto I; or, The Town Meeting
(includes what is now Cantos I and II). 1776. Completed with
Cantos III and IV. 1782.
=Available Edition=
M'Fingal; an Epic Poem (edited by B. J. Lossing). 1860, 1864,
1881.
=Collections=
BOYNTON, PERCY H. American Poetry, pp. 43-57, 58-88, 606-610,
611-614.
CAIRNS, W. B. Early American Writers, pp. 395-408.
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