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
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Cable, G. W., 246.
Calef, Robert, 43.
Calhoun, J. C., 215.
Calvinism in New England, 18-19. Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, Lowell,
174.
Captain Bonneville, Irving, 91.
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 139.
Cask of Amontillado, The, Poe, 193.
Cavell, Edith, quoted, 266.
Cawein, Madison, 257.
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The, Clemens, 237.
Century Magazine, 256.
Changeling, The, Lowell, 172.
Channing, Edward, 13.
Channing, W. E., 112, 113, 119, 142.
Châteaubriand, Vicomte de, 96-97.
Children's Hour, The, Longfellow, 157.
Chita, Hearn, 248.
Chinese Ghosts, Hearn, 248.
Choate, Rufus, 215.
Church, Captain, 39.
Circuit Rider, The, Eggleston, 247.
City in the Sea, The, Poe, 189.
Clark, Roger, 41.
Clarke, J. F., 141.
Clay, Henry, 208, 209-211.
Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain), attacks Cooper's novels, 99; quoted, 236;
life and writings, 237-240; typically American, 265.
Cobbler Keezar's Vision, Whittier, 161.
Cody, W. F. (Buffalo Bill), 243.
Columbus, Life of, Irving, 91.
Commemoration Ode, Lowell, 170, 172.
Common Sense, Paine, 75.
Conquest of Granada, Irving, 91.
Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, 179.
Conquest of Peru, Prescott, 179.
Conspiracy of Pontiac, The, Parkman, 184.
Cooke, Rose Terry, 249.
Cooper, J. F., 95-101, 265.
Cotton, John, 18, 32.
Courtship of Miles Standish, Longfellow, 155.
"Craddock, C. E.," see Murfree, Mary N.
Cranch, C. P., 141.
Crisis, The, Paine, 75.
Cristus, Longfellow, 155-156.
Cromwell, Oliver, 10.
Crothers, S. M., 262-263.
Crowded Street, The, Bryant, 106.
Curtis, G. W., 93, 141, 181.
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Dana, C. A., 141.
Day is Done, The, Longfellow, 156.
Day of Doom, The, Wigglesworth, 35-36.
Deerslayer, The, Cooper, 99.
Democratic Review, 199.
Dial, 136, 140.
Drake, J. R., 107.
Drama, American, in the 20th century, 259-260.
Dred, Stowe, 223.
Drum Taps, Whitman, 201.
Dwight, Timothy, 69.
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Edict of the King of Prussia against England, Franklin, 58.
Edinburgh Review, The, 88.
Edwards, Jonathan, 32, 45, 48-52.
Eggleston, Edward, 247.
Eliot, John, 19, 38.
Elsie Venner, Holmes, 168.
Embargo, The, Bryant, 102.
Emerson, R. W., in 1826, 89; a Transcendentalist, 113-117; quoted,
116-117; life and writings, 119-130; died (1882), 255; typically
American, 265; argues for American books, 266.
England in the 17th century, 13.
English Traits, Emerson, 128.
Essay on Man, Pope, 55.
Essays, Emerson, 125-126, 127, 128.
Essays of the 20th century, 262-263.
Eternal Goodness, The, Whittier, 161.
Ethan Brand, Hawthorne, 134.
Evangeline, Longfellow, 155.
Evening Revery, An, Bryant, 106.
Everett, Edward, Oration at Cambridge (1826), 86; quoted, 87; lectures,
111-112; estimate of, 215; quoted, 230.
Excelsior, Longfellow, 5-6, 156.
Exiles' Departure, Whittier, 159.
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