A History of American LiteratureBoynton, Percy Holmes
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A History of American Literature
Boynton, Percy Holmes
American literature -- History and criticism
STEDMAN and HUTCHINSON. Library of American Literature, Vol.
III, pp. 422-429, and Vol. IV, pp. 46-57.
=_Literary Treatment of the Period_=
=Drama=
In _Representative Plays by American Dramatists_ (edited by M.
J. Moses), Vol. I. 1918.
The Group; a Farce, by Mrs. Mercy Warren.
The Battle of Bunker's Hill, by H. H. Brackenridge.
The Fall of British Tyranny; or, American Liberty, by John
Leacock.
The Politician Outwitted, by Samuel Low.
The Contrast, by Royall Tyler.[3]
André, by William Dunlap.[3]
=Fiction=
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Richard Carvel.
COOPER, J. F. Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston.
COOPER, J. F. The Pilot.
COOPER, J. F. The Spy.
FORD, P. L. Janice Meredith.
HARTE, BRET. Thankful Blossom.
JEWETT, SARAH ORNE. The Tory Lover.
KENNEDY, J. P. Horse Shoe Robinson.
MITCHELL, S. WEIR. Hugh Wynne.
SIMMS, W. GILMORE. The Partisan.
SIMMS, W. GILMORE. The Scout.
=Poetry=
Poems of American History (edited by B. E. Stevenson), pp.
125-265.
American History by American Poets (edited by M. V. Wallington),
Vol. I, pp. 125-293.
[3] Also in _Representative American Plays_ (edited by A. H.
Quinn). 1917.
TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
In a survey course enough material is presented for Hopkinson,
Trumbull, Dwight, and Barlow in the collections mentioned in the
Book List for this chapter. The only reprint available of Lewis's
interesting "Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis" is in "American
Poetry" (P. H. Boynton, editor), pp. 24-29. These poems are chiefly
significant for the combination of English form and American subject
matter.
* * * * *
Compare Trumbull's comments on the education of girls with the
corresponding passage by Mrs. Malaprop, in Sheridan's "The Rivals," and
with Fitz-Greene Halleck's comments on the education of Fanny, in the
poem of that name (see "American Poetry," pp. 127, 128, and 155, 156).
* * * * *
Compare Dwight's "Farmer's Advice to the Villagers," "Greenfield Hill,"
Pt. VI, with Benjamin Franklin's "The Way to Wealth."
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Compare the nationalistic note in the seventh and ninth books of
Barlow's "Vision of Columbus" with that in Timrod's "Ethnogenesis" and
that in Moody's "Ode in Time of Hesitation." Do the dates of the three
poems suggest a progressive change? (See "American Poetry," pp. 123,
349, and 577.)
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Read Freneau's more bitter war satires in comparison with Jonathan
Odell's "Congratulation" and "The American Times," for which see
"American Poetry," pp. 78-83.
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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