The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great InterpretersPerry, Bliss
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The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters
Perry, Bliss
American literature -- History and criticism
Chapter 6. H. C. Goddard, Studies in New England Transcendentalism
(1908). R. W. Emerson, Works, 12 volumes (Centenary edition, 1903),
Journal, 10 volumes (1909-1914), his Life by J. E. Cabot, 2 volumes
(1887), by R. Garnett (1887), by G. E. Woodberry (1905); see also Ralph
Waldo Emerson, a critical study by O. W. Firkins (1915). H. D. Thoreau,
Works, 20 volumes (Walden edition including Journals, 1906), Life by F.
B. Sanborn (1917), also Thoreau, A Critical Study by Mark van Doren
(1916). Note also Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm (1900), and The Dial,
reprint by the Rowfant Club (1902).
Chapter 7. Hawthorne, Works, 12 volumes (1882), Life by G. E. Woodberry
(1902). Longfellow, Works, 11 volumes (1886), Life by Samuel Longfellow,
3 volumes (1891). Whittier, Works, 7 volumes (1892), Life by S. T.
Pickard, 2 volumes (1894). Holmes, Works, 13 volumes (1892), Life by J.
T. Morse, Jr. (1896). Lowell, Works, 11 volumes (1890), Life by Ferris
Greenslet (1905), Letters edited by C. E. Norton, 2 volumes (1893). For
the historians, note H. B. Adams, Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 2
volumes (1893). M. A. DeW. Howe, Life and Letters of George Bancroft, 2
volumes (1908), G. S. Hillard, Life, Letters, and Journals of George
Ticknor, 2 volumes (1876), George Ticknor, Life of Prescott (1863), also
Rollo Ogden, Life of Prescott (1904), G. W. Curtis, Correspondence of J.
L. Motley, 2 volumes (1889), Francis Parkman, Works, 12 volumes
(1865-1898), Life by C. H. Farnham (1900), J. F. Jameson, History of
Historical Writing in America (1891).
Chapter 8. Poe, Works, 10 volumes (Stedman-Woodberry edition,
1894-1895), also 17 volumes (Virginia edition, J. A. Harrison, 1902),
Life by G. E. Woodberry, 2 volumes (1909). Whitman, Leaves of Grass and
Complete Prose Works (Small, Maynard and Co.) (1897, 1898), also John
Burroughs, A Study of Whitman (1896).
Chapter 9. C. Schurz, Life of Henry Clay, 2 volumes (1887). Daniel
Webster, Works, 6 volumes (1851), Life by H. C. Lodge (1883). Rufus
Choate, Works, 2 volumes (1862). Wendell Phillips, Speeches, Lectures,
and Letters, 2 volumes (1892). W. L. Garrison, The Story of his Life
Told by his Children, 4 volumes (1885-1889). Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Works, 17 volumes (1897), Life by C. E. Stowe (1889). Abraham Lincoln,
Works, 2 volumes (edited by Nicolay and Hay, 1894).
Chapter 10. For an excellent bibliography of the New National Period,
see F. L. Pattee, A History of American Literature since 1870 (1916).
For further bibliographical information the reader is referred to the
articles on American authors in The Encyclopœdia Britannica and in The
Warner Library (volume 30, The Student's Course, N. Y., 1917).
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