Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers
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Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers
American literature
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
⭘ An Author at Fourteen
⭘ The Influence of his Father
⭘ Bryant’s Best Known Poems
⭘ Personal Appearance
⭘ A Long and Useful Life
⭘ ‘Thanatopsis’
⭘ ‘Waiting By the Gate
⭘ ‘Blessed are They That Mourn’
⭘ ‘Antiquity of Freedom’
⭘ ‘To a Water Fowl’
⭘ ‘Robert of Lincoln’
⭘ ‘Drought’
⭘ ‘The Past’
⭘ ‘The Murdered Traveler’
⭘ ‘The Battle-Field’
⭘ ‘The Crowded Street’
⭘ ‘Fitz Greene Halleck (Notice of)’
⭘ ‘A Corn-Shucking in South Carolina’
EDGAR ALLEN POE.
⭘ Comparison with Other American Poets
⭘ Place of Birth and Ancestry
⭘ Career as a Student
⭘ The Sadness of his Life and Its Influence Upon his Literature
⭘ Conflicting Statements of his Biographers
⭘ Great as a Story Writer and as a Poet
⭘ His Literary Labors and Productions
⭘ ‘The City in the Sea’
⭘ ‘Annabel Lee’
⭘ ‘To Helen’
⭘ ‘Israfel’
⭘ ‘To One in Paradise’
⭘ ‘Lenore’
⭘ ‘The Bells’
⭘ ‘The Raven’
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
⭘ His Place in Literature
⭘ Comparison With American and English Poets
⭘ His Education, Collegemates and Home
⭘ His Domestic Life. His Poems
⭘ Prose Works and Translations
⭘ The Wayside Inn (A view of)
⭘ His Critics, Poe, Margaret Fuller, ♦Duyckinck
♦ ‘Duyckink’ replaced with ‘Duyckinck’
⭘ Longfellow’s Genius
⭘ ‘The Psalm of Life’
⭘ ‘The Village Blacksmith’
⭘ ‘The Bridge’
⭘ ‘Resignation’
⭘ ‘God’s Acre’
⭘ ‘Excelsior’
⭘ ‘The Rainy Day’
⭘ ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’
⭘ ‘The Old Clock On the Stairs’
⭘ ‘The Skeleton in Armour’
⭘ ‘King Witlaf’s Drinking Horn’
⭘ ‘Evangeline On the Prairie’
⭘ ‘Literary Fame (Prose)’
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
⭘ The Difficulty of Classifying Emerson
⭘ The Liberator of American Letters
⭘ A Master of Language
⭘ Emerson and Franklin
⭘ Birth, Education, Early Life
⭘ Home at Concord, Brook-Farm Enterprise
⭘ Influence on Other Writers
⭘ Modern Communism and the New Theology
⭘ ‘Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument (1836)’
⭘ ‘The Rhodora’
⭘ ‘A True Hero’
⭘ ‘Mountain and Squirrel’
⭘ ‘The Snow-Storm’
⭘ ‘The Problem’
⭘ ‘Traveling’
⭘ ‘The Compensation of Calamity’
⭘ ‘Self Reliance’
⭘ ‘Nature’
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
⭘ Whittier’s Humble Birth, Ancestry, Education
⭘ Poet of the Abolitionists
⭘ His Poems and His Prose
⭘ New England’s History Embalmed in Verse
⭘ Our Most Distinctively American Poet
⭘ ‘My Playmate’
⭘ ‘The Changeling’
⭘ ‘The ♦Worship of Nature’
♦ ‘Workskip’ replaced with ‘Worship’
⭘ ‘The Bare-foot Boy’
⭘ ‘Maud Muller’
⭘ ‘Memories’
⭘ ‘In Prison For Debt’
⭘ ‘The Storm’ (From ‘Snow Bound’)
⭘ ‘Ichabod’
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