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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Tales of a Traveler, Irving, 91.
Tales of a Wayside Inn, Longfellow, 155.
Tamerlane and Other Poems, Poe, 89.
Taylor, Bayard, 255.
Telling the Bees, Whittier, 158.
Tennessee's Partner, Harte, 242.
Thanatopsis, Bryant, 103, 104, 106.
Thomas, Edith, 257.
Thompson, Denman, 248.
Thoreau, H. D., representative of New England thought, 119; life and
writings, 130-139; nature-writing, 262; typically American, 265.
Ticknor, George, 89, 111, 178, 216.
Timrod, Henry, 225.
To Helen, Poe, 189, 192.
Tom Sawyer, Clemens, 238.
Tour of the Prairies, Irving, 91.
Transcendentalism, 111 et seq., 218; bibliography, 270-271.
Tritemius, Whittier, 161.
True Relation, Smith, 8-10, 25-26.
True Repertory of the Wrack of Sir Thomas Gates, Kt. vpon and from the
Islands of the Bermudas, Strachey, 26.
Tuckerman, F. G., quoted, 117.
Twain, Mark, see Clemens, S. L.
Twice-Told Tales, Hawthorne, 148.
Tyler, Professor, 64.
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Ulalume, Poe, 192.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, 98, 208, 219, 220-223.
Union of the Colonies, Franklin, 59.
Unitarianism, 112-113.
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Verplanck, J. C., 107.
Very, Jones, 141.
Virginia, a continuation of English society, 14; in 1724, 44.
Virginia House of Burgesses, Address of the, Jefferson, 80.
Virginians, The, Thackeray, 45.
Vision of Sir Launfal, The, Lowell, 170, 172.
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Walden, Thoreau, 131, 134, 135.
Walley, Thomas, 41.
Warner, C. D., 93.
Washington, George, 64-65, 66, 77-78.
Waterfowl, To a, Bryant, 103, 106.
Webster, Daniel, eulogy for Adams and Jefferson, 86-87; civic note in
oratory of, 208; criticism of Clay, 210; his oratory, 211-215.
Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, A, Thoreau, 131.
Wendell, Barrett, 6.
West, The, in American literature, 237 et seq.
Westchester Farmer, The, Seabury, 76.
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed, Whitman, 201.
When the Frost is on the Punkin, Riley, 248.
Whitaker, Alexander, 26-27, 38.
Whitman, Walt, in 1826, 90; in New York, 108; life and writings,
196-205; died (1892), 255; typically American, 265; argues for American
books, 266.
Whittier, J. G., in 1826, 90; attitude towards Transcendentalism, 143;
life and writings, 157-164; died (1892), 255.
William and Mary College, 62.
William Wilson, Poe, 194.
Williams, Roger, 2, 16, 19, 32-34, 38, 40-41.
Willis, N. P., 107.
Winthrop, John, 17, 18, 28-29.
Wirt, William, 245.
Wister, Owen, 243.
Wonder-Book, The, Hawthorne, 145, 147.
Woodberry, George, 257.
Woodworth, Samuel, 107.
Woolman, John, 69.
Wreck of the Hesperus, The, Longfellow, 155.
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Yale University, 62.
Years of my Youth, Howells, 250.
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