6. Joel Barlow's _Hasty Pudding_. Francis Hopkinson's _Modern Learning_. Philip Freneau's _Indian Student_, _Indian Burying-Ground_, and _White Honeysuckle_: in Vol. I of Duyckinck's _Cyclopedia of American Literature_. New York: Charles Scribner. 1866. 7. _Arthur Mervyn_. By Charles Brockden Brown. Boston: S. G. Goodrich. 1827. 8. _The Journal of John Woolman_. With an Introduction by John G. Whittier. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1871. 9. _American Literature_. By Charles F. Richardson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1887. 10. _American Literature_. By John Nichol. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. 1882. CHAPTER III. THE ERA OF NATIONAL EXPANSION. 1815-1837. The attempt to preserve a strictly chronological order must here be abandoned. About all the American literature in existence that is of any value as _literature_ is the product of the past three quarters of a century, and the men who produced it, though older or younger, were still contemporaries. Irving's _Knickerbocker's History of New York_, 1809, was published within the recollection of some yet living, and the venerable poet Richard H. Dana--Irving's junior by only four years--survived to 1879, when the youngest of the generation of writers that now occupy public attention had already won their spurs. Bryant, whose _Thanatopsis_ was printed in 1816, lived down to 1878. He saw the beginnings of our national literature, and he saw almost as much of the latest phase of it as we see to-day in this year 1891. Still, even within the limits of a single life-time, there have been progress and change. And so, while it will happen that the consideration of writers, a part of whose work falls between the dates at the head of this chapter, may be postponed to subsequent chapters, we may in a general way follow the sequence of time.