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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Kemble, Fanny, 245-246.
Kennedy, J. P., 245.
King, Grace, 247.
King, Starr, 262.
King Philip's War, 39-40.
King's College (Columbia), 62.
Knickerbocker group of writers, 89; works by, 270.
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Languishing Commonwealth, Walley, 41.
Lanier, Sidney, 255-256.
La Salle, Parkman, 185.
Last Leaf, The, Holmes, 166.
Last of the Mohicans, The, Cooper, 89, 98, 99.
Leather-Stocking Tales, Cooper, 97-99.
Leaves of Grass, Whitman, 197, 200, 202-203.
Letters, Motley, 181.
Letters from an American Farmer, Crèvecœur, 60, 68.
Liberator, The, 137, 217, 218.
Library of American Biography, 176.
Life on the Mississippi, Clemens, 237.
Ligeia, Poe, 193.
Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes uncertainty in the nation, 2; would have
approved Winthrop, 29; address at Cooper Union (1860), 104-105; quoted,
155; as a writer of liberty, 208; character and writings, 226-233;
typically American, 265.
Lionel Lincoln, Cooper, 98.
Literati, Pope, 107.
Little Women, Alcott, 140.
London, Jack, 243-244.
London in 1724, 54-56.
Longfellow, H. W., in 1826, 89; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143;
life and writings, 152-157; died (1882), 255; disparagement of, 267.
Longstreet, A. B., 245.
Louisiana Purchase, 88.
Lowell, J. R., in 1826, 90; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143; life
and writings, 168-174; died (1891), 255; typically American, 265.
Luck of Roaring Camp, The, Harte, 241.
Lyceum system, 175.
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McFingal, Trumbull, 69.
Magazines, in colonies, 60-61; in 20th century, 263-264.
Magnalia Christi Americana, Mather, 46, 47.
Maidenhood, Longfellow, 156.
Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg, The, Clemens, 238.
Man Without a Country, Hale, 224.
Marble Faun, The, Hawthorne, 146, 151.
Marshes of Glynn, The, Lanier, 255.
Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens, 87.
Mason, John, Captain, 38.
Massachusetts to Virginia, Whittier, 160.
Mather, Cotton, 43, 45-48; diary, 46-47.
Mather, Increase, 43.
Maud Muller, Whittier, 5-6.
Memorial Odes, Lowell, 172.
Miller, C. H. (Joaquin), 244.
Minister's Black Veil, The, Hawthorne, 30.
Minister's Wooing, The, Stowe, 223.
Modern Instance, A, Howells, 251.
Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman, 185.
Moody, W. V., 257.
Morituri Salutamus, Longfellow, 156.
Morris, G. P., 107.
Mosses from an Old Manse, Hawthorne, 145.
Motley, J. L., 143-144, 176, 180-182.
Muir, John, 244-245.
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The, Poe, 194.
Murfree, Mary N. (C. E. Craddock), 247.
My Garden Acquaintance, Lowell, 174.
My Literary Friends and Acquaintances, Howells, 251.
My Literary Passions, Howells, 250.
My Lost Youth, Longfellow, 156.
My Mark Twain, Howells, 251.
My Psalm, Whittier, 160.
My Study Windows, Lowell, 170.
Mysterious Stranger, The, Clemens, 238.
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