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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Fable for Critics, Lowell, 170.
Fall of the House of Usher, The, Poe, 193.
Farewell Address, Washington, 66.
Farewell Sermon, Edwards, 51.
Farmer Refuted, The, Hamilton, 76.
Faust (translation), Taylor, 255.
Federalist, 65, 76, 77.
Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Reign of, Prescott, 179.
Fiction of the 20th century, 261-262.
Fire of Driftwood, The, Longfellow, 156.
First Snowfall, The, Lowell, 172.
Flood of Years, The, Bryant, 106.
Forest Hymn, A, Bryant, 106.
Franklin, Benjamin, born (1706), 44; attitude toward church, 44;
exponent of New England life, 45; life and writings, 52-59; conducts
Courant, 61; activity in Philadelphia, 61-62. letter from Washington to,
78-79; typically American, 265.
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 249, 250.
Freneau, Philip, 69, 70-72.
Frontenac, Parkman, 185.
Frost, Robert, 258.
Fugitive slave act, 144.
Fuller, Margaret, 119, 140-141.
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Garrison, W. L., 89-90, 137, 159, 208, 217-218.
Gettysburg Address, Lincoln, 230-231.
Gilded Age, The, Clemens, 237-238.
God Glorified in Man's Dependence, Edwards, 50.
Gold Bug, The, Poe, 193.
Gookin, Daniel, 38.
Greeley, Horace, 217-218.
Greenslet, Ferris, 169.
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Hale, E. E., 224.
Half-Century of Conflict, A, Parkman, 185.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 107.
Hamilton, Alexander, 76-77.
Hanging of the Crane, The, Longfellow, 156.
Harris, J. C., 246.
Harte, Bret, 240-242.
Harvard, John, 16.
Harvard College, 62.
Haunted Palace, The, Poe, 192.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in 1826, 89; opinion of Bryant, 105; opinion of
Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings, 144-152; typically American,
265.
Hayne, Paul, 225.
Hazard of New Fortunes, A, Howells, 251.
Hearn, Lafcadio, 248.
Hecker, Father, 141.
Henry, Patrick, 72, 209.
Herons of Elmwood, The, Longfellow, 156.
Hiawatha, Longfellow, 155.
Higginson, T. W., 142, 262.
Holmes, O. W., in 1826, 89; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143; life
and writings, 163-168; died (1894), 255.
Home Sweet Home, Payne, 107.
Hooker, Thomas, 21-22, 30-31.
Hoosier Schoolmaster, The, Eggleston, 247.
House of the Seven Gables, The, Hawthorne, 145, 150.
Hovey, Richard, 257.
Howells, W. D., 93, 234-235, 250-251, 265.
Hubbard, William, 39.
Huckleberry Finn, Clemens, 238.
Humorists, American, 239.
Hutchinson, Anne, 32.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 12.
Hyperion, Longfellow, 152.
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Indian Wars, Hubbard, 39.
Indians, in literature, 37-40; Thoreau's notes on, 136.
Innocents Abroad, Clemens, 237, 239.
Irving, Washington, 89, 90-95.
Israfel, Poe, 189, 192.
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Jackson, Andrew, 5.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 248.
James, Henry, 250, 251-255.
Jay, John, 65.
Jefferson, Thomas, 79-85, 265.
Jesuits in North America, The, Parkman, 185.
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 249, 250.
John of Barneveld, Life and Death of, Motley, 181.
Johnson, Edward, Captain, 38.
Joshua Whitcomb, Thompson, 248.
Journal, Emerson, 122, 125, 127, 235.
Journal, Thoreau, 134, 135.
Journal, Woolman, 69.
Journal and Correspondence, Longfellow, 216.
Journalism, in the colonies, 60-62; in 20th century, 263-264.
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