A History of American Literature

by Percy Holmes Boynton

INDEX

• “Abraham Davenport” (Whittier), [261]
• “Acknowledgment” (Lanier), [355], [356]
• Adams, John, [68], [69], [343]
• Addison, Joseph, [45], [47], [48], [102], [116], [123], [163], [166], [191], [254], [317], [343]
• “Adios” (Miller), [407]
• Agassiz, Louis, [229], [294]
• “Agile Sonneteer, The” (Sill), [401]
• “Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems” (Poe), [176]
• Alcott, Bronson, [195], [196]
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [324], [327–331], [332], [411], [453]
• “Alectryon” (Stedman), [333]
• “Algerine Captive, The” (Tyler), [103]
• Allan, John, [174], [175], [176], [179]
• Allston, Washington, [313]
• Almanacs, colonial, [50], [51]
• “American Anthology, An” (Stedman), [332]
• American Anti-Slavery Society, [257], [258]
• “American Claimant, The” (Twain), [383]
• American deference to Old World culture, [70], [78], [79],94, [108], [111–114], [120], [121], [133], [142], [143], [152], [153], [154], [163], [168], [177], [190], [201], [204], [268], [272], [292], [333], [336], [367], [389], [419], [433], [438]
• American isolation, [111]
• “American Literature, Library of” (Stedman), [332]
• American Magazine, The, [487]
• American Manufacturer, The, [255]
• American Monthly Magazine, The, [239]
• “American Notebooks” (Hawthorne), [241]
• “American Register, The” (Brown), [102]
• “American Scholar, The” (Emerson), [204]
• “American, The” (James), [423]
• Ames, Nathaniel, [50], [51]
• Amesbury (Mass.), [253]
• “Among my Books” (Lowell), [289]
• “Among the Redwoods” (Sill), [399]
• Andover (Mass.), [22], [304]
• “André” (Dunlap), [96]
• Andros, Governor, [27]
• “Annabel Lee” (Poe), [179]
• “Annie Kilburn” (Howells), [419]
• “Antiquity of Freedom, The” (Whittier), [166]
• “April Hopes” (Howells), [418]
• Arcturus, [283]
• Arnold, Matthew, [213], [216]
• “Arrow and the Song, The” (Longfellow), [272]
• “Arthur Mervyn” (Brown), [105], [106]
• Atlantic Monthly, The, [232], [265], [267], [288], [305], [314], [317], [327], [329], [345], [381], [397], [415], [416], [478], [488]
• Austen, Jane, [107], [249]
• “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The” (Holmes), [316–318]
• “Autumn” (Thoreau), [230]
• “Awkward Age, The” (James), [423]
• Bakst, Leon, [184]
• “Ballad of Babie Bell, The” (Aldrich), [330]
• “Ballad of the Oysterman, The” (Holmes), [315]
• “Ballads and other Poems” (Longfellow), [271]
• Baltimore Saturday Visiter, The, [176], [488]
• “Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier), [260]
• Barlow, Joel 65, [76], [86], [111]
• “Baroness of New York, The” (Miller), [404], [406]
• “Battlefield, The” (Whittier), [166]
• “Bay Psalm Book,” 5, [19], [21]
• “Beat! Beat! Drums!” (Whitman), [366]
• Beaumont and Fletcher, [92]
• “Bee, The” (Lanier), [354]
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [299]
• “Bells, The” (Poe), [179], [183]
• “Bells: a Collection of Chimes, The” (Aldrich), [330]
• Bennett, James Gordon, [385]
• Bierce, Ambrose, [187]
• “Biglow Papers” (Lowell), [284], [285], [286]
• “Bill and Joe” (Holmes), [320]
• Bird, Robert M., [93], [97]
• “Black Cat, The” (Poe), [186]
• Blake, William, [182]
• “Blithedale Romance, The,” (Hawthorne), [241], [244], [245]
• Bohemia, [328], [335], [345], [363]
• Boker, George H., [93]
• Book Lists, [13], [24], [37], [57], [58], [67], [84–87], [98], [108], [137–139], [155], [156], [171], [188], [197], [218], [233], [249], [265], [279], [296], [308], [321], [340], [358], [377], [393], [408], [434], [451], [484]
• Boston, [5], [8], [28], [34], [42], [50], [77], [91], [173], [199], [240], [252], [261], [267], [306], [307], [310], [332], [343], [416]
• Boston Miscellany, The, [283]
• Boucicault, Dion, [437]
• Bowdoin College, [238], [268], [301], [325]
• “Bracebridge Hall” (Irving), [117], [417]
• Brackenridge, H. H., [97], [103]
• Bradford, William, [7], [8]
• Bradstreet, Anne, [21–26], [83], [301]
• Bradstreet, Simon, [21]
• “Brahma” (Emerson), [214]
• “Bravo, The” (Cooper), [153]
• Bridge, Horatio, [240]
• “Bridge, The” (Longfellow), [272]
• Broadway Journal, The, [178], [488]
• “Broker of Bogota, The” (Bird), [97]
• Brook Farm, [196], [197], [240]
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The, [363], [488]
• “Broomstick Train, The” (Holmes), [320]
• “Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline” (Holmes), [319]
• Brown, Charles Brockden, [100–109], [412]
• Brown, John, “of Harper’s Ferry,” [232]
• Brownell, Henry Howard, [331]
• Browning, Robert, [261], [358]
• “Brutus” (Payne), [97]
• Bryant, William Cullen, [110], [158]–171, [190], [191], [269], [277], [292], [324], [325], [357], [414]
• Buffalo Express, The, [384]
• Bunyan, John, [47], [274]
• Burke, Edmund, [58]
• Burns, Robert, [255], [256], [262], [264]
• Burroughs, John, [229], [364], [375]
• Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, [177], [491]
• Bynner, Witter, [453], [482–484]
• Byron, Lord, [175], [256], [370], [405], [406]
• Cable, George W., [412], [424], [425]
• California, [380], [381], [383], [396], [397], [398], [399], [400], [403], [406]
• Cambridge, England, [10]
• Cambridge (Mass.), [50], [211], [267], [282], [310], [397]
• Campbell, Thomas, [316], [317]
• Carlyle, Thomas, [191], [202], [228], [253], [275], [364]
• “Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), [179], [182], [183], [186]
• “Cassandra Southwick” (Whittier), [261]
• “Celestial Pilot, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Century, The, [336], [489]
• Century Club, [170]
• “Chambered Nautilus, The” (Holmes), [319]
• Channing, William Ellery, [229], [231]
• Charles I, [47]
• Charles II, [30]
• “Charles II” (Payne-Irving), [97]
• Charleston (S. C.), [45], [77], [89], [91], [344], [345]
• “Charlotte” (Rowson), [103]
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [22]
• Chesterfield, Lord, [53], [95]
• Chesterton, Gilbert, [187]
• “Christmas in California” (Sill), [399]
• “Christus: a Mystery” (Longfellow), [274], [278]
• Chronological charts, [90]
• Church of England, [10], [27], [33]
• Churchill, Winston, [420], [431], [432]
• Cincinnati, [300]
• Citizen of the World, [116]
• Civil War, [73], [94], [168]
• Clemm, Virginia, [179]
• “Clocks of Gnoster Town, The” (Sill), [398]
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [191], [202], [405]
• Collins, Wilkie, [187]
• Colonization, [4], [5], [61], [66]
• Columbia University (Oregon), [402]
• “Columbiad, The” (Barlow), [76]
• “Comet, The” (Holmes), [315]
• “Commemoration Ode” (Lowell), [289], [294]
• “Compensation” (Emerson), [212]
• “Concord Centennial, The” (Lowell), [289]
• “Concord Hymn, The” (Emerson), [214]
• Conservator, The, [489]
• Concord (Mass.), [191], [192–194], [202], [210], [221], [236], [245], [267], [282], [283], [332]
• Congregationalist and Christian World, [489]
• “Conqueror Worm, The” (Poe), [185]
• “Conquest of Granada” (Irving), [117]
• Consular service, [118], [241], [416]
• “Contentment” (Holmes), [320]
• “Contrast, The” (Tyler), [91], [94–96]
• “Conversations on some of the Old Poets” (Lowell), [283]
• “Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Cooper, James Fenimore, [6], [75], [94], [108], [110], [130], [141–157], [170], [190], [200], [269], [292]
• “Corn” (Lanier), [354]
• “Cotton Boll, The” (Timrod), [346]
• Cotton, Reverend John, [11]
• Craig, Gordon, [184]
• Crawford, F. Marion, [424], [426]
• “Credo” (Gilder), [340]
• Crèvecœur, M. G. St. J., [59–68], [69], [83], [227], [229]
• “Crisis, The” (Churchill), [259], [427]
• Critic, The, [490]
• “Croaker Papers” (Halleck and Drake), [134], [314]
• “Culprit Fay, The” (Drake), [135–136], [181]
• “Daily Trials” (Holmes), [315]
• Dante, [267], [271"], [277]
• Dartmouth College, [312]
• “Dawn” (Gilder), [337]
• “Day is Done, The” (Longfellow), [272]
• “Day of Doom, The” (Wigglesworth), [18–21], [51], [83]
• “Deacon’s Masterpiece, The” (Holmes), [305], [315], [318], [320]
• “Death of Slavery, The” (Bryant), [168]
• “Deerslayer, The” (Cooper), [144]
• Deland, Margaret, [307], [428], [430]
• “Demagogue, The” (Gilder), [338]
• Democracy, [27], [65], [116]
• “Democracy” (Lowell), [293]
• Democratic Review, The, [362], [490]
• Defoe, Daniel, [47]
• “Departure of the Pilot, The” (Sill), [399]
• De Quincey, Thomas, [202], [415]
• “Destiny” (Aldrich), [331]
• Detective story, the, [186]
• Dial, The (Boston), [195], [196], [314], [345]
• Dial, The (Chicago), [490]
• Dickens, Charles, [119], [186], [381], [416], [418]
• Diction, literary, [10–11], [49], [81], [106], [119], [130], [131], [212], [263], [370], [400], [406]
• Diplomatic service, [117], [118], [290]
• “Divinity School Address” (Emerson), [206]
• “Doctor Grimshaw’s Secret” (Hawthorne), [241]
• “Dolliver Romance, The” (Hawthorne), [241]
• “Domestic Life” (Emerson), [223]
• “Dorothy Q.” (Holmes), [320]
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, [187]
• Drake, Joseph Rodman, [134–136], [164], [176]
• Drama, [89–99], [338], [344], [437–452]
• Dramatic producers, [91], [96], [437], [443–444]
• “Dred, a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp” (Stowe), [305]
• “Drum-Taps” (Whitman), [365]
• Dryden, John, [78]
• Dunlap, William, [91], [96], [100], [437], [439]
• Dwight, James S., [313]
• Dwight, Timothy, [65], [75], [85], [103], [111]
• “Earth” (Bryant), [168]
• “Earth Song” (Emerson), [253]
• “Edgar Huntly” (Brown), [106]
• Edinburgh Review, The, [119]
• Edwards, Jonathan, [41], [43], [56], [102], [103]
• Egan, Pierce, [95], [103]
• Eliot, George, [307], [416]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [2], [4], [24]
• “Elsie Venner” (Holmes), [312], [315]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [60], [136], [190], [191], [195], [196], [199–220], [221], [222], [223], [225], [227], [229], [230], [232], [236], [252], [279], [287], [288], [293], [311], [339], [340], [364], [369], [375], [453]
• “Emigrants, The” (Imlay), [103]
• English recognition of American authors, [107], [111], [118], [119], [150]
• “Essay for the recording of Illustrious Providences, An” (I. Mather), [29], [30], [31]
• “Essays to Do Good” (C. Mather), [47]
• “Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” (Whitman), [368]
• “Ethnogenesis” (Timrod), [346]
• European travel, [115], [132], [151], [202], [241], [268], [269], [286], [383], [389]
• “Evangeline” (Longfellow), [273], [274], [276]
• Evelyn, John, [33]
• Evening Mirror, The, [178], [327]
• Every Saturday, [327], [328], [491]
• Everybody’s Magazine, [491]
• “Excelsior” (Longfellow), [271]
• “Eye of a Needle, The” (Howells), [419]
• “Fable for Critics, A” (Lowell), [151], [284], [285]
• “Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe), [182]
• “Familiar Portraits” (Stevenson), [228]
• “Fanny” (Halleck), [134], [135], [334]
• “Fanshawe” (Hawthorne), [239]
• “Farewell to Agassiz” (Holmes), [320]
• “Fashion” (Mowatt), [95]
• “Fearful Responsibility, A” (Howells), [417]
• Fielding, Henry, [415], [418]
• Fields, James T., [238], [241], [288], [328], [333]
• Fitch, Clyde, [438], [439], [440], [444]
• “Five Lives” (Sill), [400]
• “Flood of Years, The” (Bryant), [169]
• “Fool’s Errand, A” (Tourgée), [348]
• “Force” (Sill), [400]
• “Foregone Conclusion, A” (Howells), [417]
• “Franklin, Autobiography of,” 49, [50], [51], [52–55]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [43–57], [69], [83], [254], [387]
• “Freedom of the Will” (Edwards), [42]
• Freneau, Philip, [69], [72–82], [83], [85], [100], [163], [168], [261]
• “Fringed Gentian, The” (Bryant), [162]
• Frost, Robert, [453], [466–469]
• Fuller, Margaret, [195], [196]
• Garland, Hamlin, [412], [429–430], [441]
• Galaxy, The, [491]
• Garrison, William Lloyd, [254], [255], [256], [302]
• “Garrison of Cape Ann” (Whittier), [261]
• George III, [66]
• German influence, [97], [127], [191], [271], [272]
• “Gilded Age, The” (Twain and Warner), [382]
• Gilder, Richard Watson, [324], [336–340]
• Gilman, President Daniel C., [397]
• Godey’s Lady’s Book, [178], [180], [491]
• Godfrey, Thomas, [91], [92], [96]
• Godwin, William, [101], [104], [105], [106], [107]
• “Gold Bug, The” (Poe), [178], [186]
• “Golden Legend, The” (Longfellow), [274]
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [116], [123], [163], [191], [249], [262], [268], [316], [317], [416], [441]
• Goodrich, S. G., [239]
• “Good Shepherd, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Gothic romance, [104], [107]
• Graham’s Magazine, [178], [283], [492]
• “Grandissimes, The” (Cable), [425]
• “Grave, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Greeley, Horace, [325], [328], [385]
• “Greenfield Hill” (Dwight), [75]
• “Guardian Angel, The” (Holmes), [313]
• “Gulliver’s Travels,” [122], [274]
• “Hail Columbia,” [96]
• Halleck, Fitz-Greene, [113], [133–137], [181], [324], [325], [328], [330], [334]
• “Hampton Beach” (Whittier), [261]
• “Happiest Land, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Hardy, Thomas, [187]
• Harper’s Magazine, [419], [492]
• Harris, Joel Chandler, [412], [424], [425]
• Harte, Bret, [49 (note)], [151], [380], [381], [411], [412], [415]
• Hartford (Conn.), [261], [299], [305], [332], [384]
• Harvard College, [28], [29], [33], [42], [200], [204], [206], [207], [221], [268], [269], [270], [280], [287], [310], [312], [315], [325], [327]
• Haverhill, [252], [253], [332]
• Haverhill Gazette, The, [255], [256]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [36], [108], [118], [190], [191], [196], [200], [236–251], [252], [411], [412]
• Hay, John, [118], [431]
• Hayne, Paul Hamilton, [347–349], [350]
• “Hazard of New Fortunes, A” (Howells), [419]
• “Headsman, The” (Cooper), [153]
• “Heartsease and Rue” (Lowell), [291]
• “Heidenmauer, The” (Cooper), [153]
• “Her Explanation” (Sill), [400]
• “Heredity” (Aldrich), [331]
• “Hermitage, The” (Sill), [397], [398], [400]
• “Heroic Age, The” (Gilder), [338]
• “Hiawatha, The Song of” (Longfellow), [273], [275], [276], [364], [369]
• Histories, American, [7], [29], [32]
• “History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, The” (Irving), [117]
• “History of Plimouth Plantation, A” (Bradford), [7]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [170], [190], [228], [252], [267], [310–323], [325], [328], [329], [333], [412], [431]
• “Home Acres” (Gilder), [337]
• “Home as Found” (Cooper), [75], [153], [190]
• Home Journal, The, [492]
• “Homeward Bound” (Cooper), [153], [190]
• Hopkinson, Francis, [68], [69], [70], [84], [92]
• Hopkinson, Joseph, [96]
• Hours at Home, [336]
• “House of the Seven Gables” (Hawthorne), [241], [242], [245], [246]
• Hovey, Richard, [93], [444], [445], [454–457]
• “How Love Looked for Hell” (Lanier), [355]
• “How to Tell a Story” (Twain), [386]
• Howard, Bronson, [437]
• Howe, Julia Ward, [93]
• Howells, William Dean, [49 (note)], [118], [249], [293], [328], [339], [384], [393], [413–422], [427]
• “Hugh Wynne” (Mitchell), [426]
• “Hymn of the City” (Bryant), [165]
• “Hymn to Death” (Bryant), [161]
• “Hyperion” (Longfellow), [270]
• “I’ll not Confer with Sorrow” (Aldrich), [331]
• “Image of God, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• Imagists, [231], [479]
• Imlay, G., [103]
• Immigration to America, [61]
• “Imp of the Perverse, The” (Poe), [185]
• “In Helena’s Garden” (Gilder), [337]
• “In School Days” (Whittier), [261]
• “In Times of Peace” (Gilder), [338]
• “In War Time” (Stedman), [333]
• Independent, The, [492]
• “Indian Burying-Ground, The” (Freneau), [80]
• Indians, [8], [66], [93], [94], [143], [144], [146]
• “Innocents Abroad, The” (Twain), [383], [388]
• “Inside of the Cup, The” (Churchill), [420], [431]
• International copyright, [119], [139], [302 (note)]
• Internationalism, [56]
• “Iron Woman, The” (Deland), [307]
• Irving, Washington, [6], [115–133], [170], [190], [249], [269], [292], [324], [325], [385], [411], [416]
• “Isles of the Amazons” (Miller), [404]
• “Italian Journeys” (Howells), [417]
• “Italian Notebooks” (Hawthorne), [241]
• James I, [30]
• James II, [47]
• James, Henry, [417], [418], [422–424]
• James, William, [372]
• “Janice Meredith” (Ford), [426]
• Jefferson, Thomas, [343]
• “Joan of Arc” (Twain), [388]
• “Joaquin et al.” (Miller), [403]
• “John Marvel, Assistant” (Page), [420]
• “John Phœnix,” 385, [388]
• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, [53], [73], [163]
• Jonson, Ben, [22]
• “Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, A” (Lewis), [81]
• “Jumping Frog, The” (Twain), [384]
• “June” (Bryant), [182]
• “Jungle, The” (Sinclair), [420]
• “Justice and Expediency” (Whittier), [257]
• “Kavanagh” (Longfellow), [270]
• Keats, John, [338]
• Kennedy, Charles Rann, [447–450]
• “Kentons, The” (Howells), [422]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [187]
• “Knickerbocker’s History of New York” (Irving), [117]
• Knickerbocker Magazine, The, [239], [493]
• Knickerbocker school, [177]
• Knight, Mrs. Sarah Kemble, [35–36], [83]
• “Lakeside, The” (Whittier), [261]
• Lanier, Sidney, [168], [349–358]
• “Last of the Mohicans, The” (Cooper), [144], [150]
• “Last Leaf, The” (Holmes), [314]
• “Last Taschastas, The” (Miller), [404]
• “Last Walk in Autumn, The” (Whittier), [261]
• “Latter-Day Warnings” (Holmes), [315]
• Leacock, John, [97]
• “Leatherstocking” series, the (Cooper), [143]
• “Leatherwood God, The” (Howells), [422]
• “Leaves of Grass” (Whitman), [363]
• Lee, Gerald Stanley, [131]
• “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), [129]
• “Leon” (Drake), [176]
• “Letters from an American Farmer” (Crèvecœur), [59]
• “Letter from a Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,” etc. (Whittier), [259]
• Lewis, “Monk,” [104]
• Lewis, R., [81]
• Liberator, The, [257], [493]
• “Life on the Mississippi” (Twain), [382]
• “Life Amongst the Modocs” (Miller), [404]
• “Life of Washington, The” (Irving), [118]
• “Lifetime, A” (Bryant), [169]
• “Ligeia” (Poe), [185]
• “Light” (Miller), [405]
• “Light of Stars, The” (Longfellow), [270]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [168], [254], [294], [310], [343], [350], [366], [385], [387], [416]
• Lindsay, Vachel, [453], [474–478]
• Lippincott’s Magazine, [493]
• “Literary Importation” (Freneau), [78]
• Literary Magazine and American Register, The, [101]
• “Literati, The” (Poe), [179], [284], [285]
• Littell’s Living Age, [493]
• Locke, John, [47]
• London, [8], [9], [45], [46], [56], [66], [91], [93]
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [179], [190], [240], [252], [267–281], [293], [348], [349], [369], [399], [414], [416], [419], [437], [453]
• “Lost Occasion, The” (Whittier), [259]
• “Lovers of Louisiana” (Cable), [425]
• Low, Samuel, [97]
• Lowell, Amy, [461], [478–482]
• Lowell, James Russell, [21], [112], [118], [151], [155], [168], [170], [179], [182], [190], [211], [213], [252], [262], [267], [277], [282–298], [306], [316], [317], [325], [328], [333], [349], [385], [419]
• “Luck of Roaring Camp, The” (Harte), [381]
• “Lyrics and Epics” (Aldrich), [331]
• Macaulay, Thomas B., [11], [417]
• McClure’s Magazine, [494]
• “M’Fingal” (Trumbull), [71]
• MacKaye, Percy, [446–447]
• “Madame Delphine” (Cable), [425]
• “Magnalia Christi Americana” (Mather), [29], [31], [32], [34]
• “Mahomet and his Successors” (Irving), [118]
• “Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, The” (Twain), [388]
• Map of Concord (Mass.), [223]
• Map of New England, [42]
• “Marble Faun, The” (Hawthorne), [241], [242], [245]
• “Marble Pool, The” (Gilder), [337]
• Mark Twain, [49 (note)], [150], [290], [293], [294], [362], [367], [380–395], [396], [407], [408], [411], [412], [419], [426], [441]
• “Marshes of Glynn, The” (Lanier), [26], [354], [357–359]
• Massachusetts, [5], [8]
• “Massachusetts to Virginia” (Whittier), [253]
• “Mason and Slidell: a Yankee Idyll” (Lowell), [289]
• “Masque of the Red Death, The” (Poe), [182]
• Masters, Edgar Lee, [454], [469–473]
• Mather, Cotton, [28–32], [35], [47], [83], [129]
• Mather Increase, [28–31], [35], [83], [380]
• Medicine, practice of, [29], [30]
• “Memories” (Whittier), [261]
• “Memory” (Aldrich), [331]
• “Merlin” (Emerson), [213]
• Merry Mount, [8], [242]
• Metropolitan poets, [324–342]
• “Midnight Consultations, The” (Freneau), [73]
• “Miles Standish, The Courtship of” (Longfellow), [273], [276]
• Miller, Joaquin, [367], [401–410], [419]
• Milton, John, [26], [47], [48], [70], [78], [80], [165], [200], [238], [245], [254], [264], [275], [415]
• “Minister’s Wooing, The” (Stowe), [305]
• Mirror, The (N. Y.), [362], [494]
• Mirror, The (Reedy’s, St. Louis), [470]
• Mitchell, Weir, [320]
• “Modern Chivalry” (Brackenridge), [103]
• “Modern Instance, A” (Howells), [417]
• “Momentous Words” (Sill), [401]
• Monthly Magazine and American Review, The, [101]
• Moody, William Vaughn, [330], [445], [446], [457–461]
• “Moral Bully, The” (Holmes), [319]
• “Morning” (Sill), [398]
• “Mortal Antipathy, A” (Holmes), [313]
• Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth, [103]
• Morton, Thomas, [8], [9], [21], [32], [83]
• Motley, John Lothrop, [118]
• Mowatt, Anna C. O., [95], [181]
• “Mr. Britling sees it Through” (Wells), [72]
• “MS. Found in a Bottle” (Poe), [176]
• Muir, John, [229]
• “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Poe), [186]
• Murray, John, [118]
• Murray, John, [3]d, [403]
• Music, [338], [349], [351], [405], [462]
• “Music Grinders, The” (Holmes), [315]
• “My Aunt” (Holmes), [315], [320]
• “My First Literary Venture” (Twain), [382]
• “My Life Among the Indians” (Miller), [404]
• “My Literary Passions” (Howells), [419]
• “My Own Story” (Miller), [404]
• “Myself and Mine” (Whitman), [367]
• “Mysterious Illness, The” (Holmes), [312]
• “Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The” (Poe), [186]
• “My Study Windows” (Lowell), [289]
• Nation, The, [494]
• National Advocate, The, [134]
• National Era, The, [302]
• National Gazette, The, [77]
• “Nature” (Emerson), [203]
• “New English Canaan” (Thomas Morton), [8], [32]
• New England Courant, The, [45], [494]
• New England Magazine, The, [239], [317], [495]
• New England Review, The, [256]
• “New England Tragedies” (Longfellow), [273], [277]
• “New Politician, The” (Gilder), [338]
• New Republic, The, [496]
• “New Roof, The” (Hopkinson), [70]
• New York City, [45], [50], [89], [91], [100], [110], [165], [170], [190], [222], [325], [327], [328], [332], [334], [336], [351], [363], [418], [444]
• New York Evening Post, The, [134], [160], [192], [495]
• New York Review and Athenæum Magazine, The, [160], [495]
• New York Tribune, The, [306 (note)], [332], [495]
• “Nigger, The” (Sheldon), [94]
• “Night and Day” (Lanier), [355]
• “Non-Resistance” (Holmes), [319]
• Norris, Frank, [432]
• North American Review, The, [159], [160], [163], [289], [496]
• Norton, Charles Eliot, [215], [277], [290], [292]
• “Nux Postcœnatica” (Holmes), [312]
• “O Captain! My Captain!” (Whitman), [368]
• “O Mother of a Mighty Race” (Bryant), [168], [170]
• “Octoroon, The” (Boucicault), [94]
• “Ode in Time of Hesitation” (Moody), [330]
• Odell, Jonathan, [73]
• “Old Clock on the Stairs, The” (Longfellow), [272]
• “Old Creole Days” (Cable), [425]
• “Old Ironsides” (Holmes), [314], [319]
• “Old Place, The” (Gilder), [337]
• “Oldtown Folks” (Stowe), [306]
• “Oliver Goldsmith” (Irving), [118]
• “On a Honey Bee” (Freneau), [80]
• “Ormond” (Brown), [105]
• “Our Country’s Call” (Bryant), [168]
• “Our Old Home” (Emerson), [241], [417]
• “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Whitman), [369]
• Outlook, The, [496]
• “Outre-Mer” (Longfellow), [269], [270], [417]
• Overland Monthly, The, [381], [397]
• “Over the Teacups” (Holmes), [318]
• Oxford University, [384]
• “Pacific Poems” (Miller), [403]
• Page, Thomas Nelson, [118], [412]
• Parker, Theodore, [195], [196]
• “Pathfinder, The” (Cooper), [144]
• “Pauline Pavlovna” (Aldrich), [330]
• Payne, John Howard, [91], [97], [98], [437], [439]
• Peabody, Elizabeth, [313], [314]
• Peabody, Sophia, [240]
• “Pearl of Orr’s Island, The” (Stowe), [306]
• Pennsylvania, [45], [46]
• Pennsylvania Freeman, The, [283]
• Pennsylvania Gazette, The, [45], [50], [496], [497]
• Periodical editorship, [45], [72], [73], [77], [101], [160], [168], [173], [176], [253], [257], [283], [327], [332], [347], [363], [397], [487–501]
• Periodicals, leading nineteenth-century, [487–501]
• Perry, Bliss, [427], [433]
• “Petroleum V. Nasby,” 385, [388]
• Pfaff’s restaurant, [328], [345]
• Philadelphia, [45], [50], [91], [100], [110]
• Philadelphia Saturday Courier, The, [176]
• Phillips, Wendell, [313]
• “Philosophy of Composition, The” (Poe), [180], [186]
• “Physiology of Versification, The” (Holmes), [312]
• “Pictures of Columbus” (Freneau), [76]
• Pierce’s Almanack, [50]
• Pierce, Franklin, [240], [241]
• “Pillared Arch and Sculptured Tower” (Aldrich), [331]
• “Pilot, The” (Cooper), [144]
• Pinkney, William, [65]
• “Pioneer, The” (Cooper), [143], [152], [190], [283]
• Place-names, [4], [5]
• “Planting of the Apple Tree, The” (Bryant), [169]
• Plymouth, [5], [7], [8], [42]
• “Pocahontas” (Custis), [94]
• Poe, Edgar Allan, [108], [173–189], [242], [343], [411], [481], [482]
• “Poems on Slavery” (Longfellow), [273]
• “Poems of Two Friends” (Howells-Piatt), [415]
• “Poet of the Breakfast Table, The” (Holmes), [318]
• “Poetic Principal, The” (Poe), [180]
• Poetry, [497]
• “Poetry” (Holmes), [315], [316]
• “Poetry, The Nature and Elements of” (Stedman), [332]
• Poetry, folk, [1]
• Poetry of the South, [343–361]
• “Poets of America” (Stedman), [332]
• “Political Balance, The” (Freneau), [74], [77]
• “Political Justice” (Godwin), [104]
• “Ponteach” (Rogers), [91], [93], [94], [96]
• Poor Richard’s Almanac, [45], [50–52], [497]
• Pope, Alexander, [47], [48], [78], [102], [163], [164], [191], [254], [279], [316], [317], [343], [356], [414], [416]
• Popular poetry, [20–21], [263], [274], [278]
• Port Folio, The, [497]
• “Power of Fancy, The” (Freneau), [80]
• “Power of Sympathy, The” (Morton), [103]
• “Prairie, The” (Cooper), [144], [190]
• “Precaution” (Cooper), [143], [151], [153]
• “Present Crisis, The” (Lowell), [283]
• “President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn” (Whitman), [366]
• “Pretty Story, A” (Hopkinson), [70]
• “Prince of Parthia, The” (Godfrey), [91], [92]
• Princeton College, [72]
• Printing and authorship, [48], [49], [381]
• “Prisoner’s Thought, The” (Gilder), [338]
• “Private History of a Campaign that Failed, The” (Twain), [383]
• “Proem” (Whittier), [262]
• “Progress of Balloons, The” (Freneau), [77]
• “Progress of Dulness, The” (Trumbull), [71], [103]
• Progress in thought, [7], [128], [166], [167]
• “Prophecy, A” (Hopkinson), [70]
• Providence, Personal, [6], [46], [47]
• Providence (R. I.), [5], [42]
• “Psalm of Life, A” (Longfellow), [270]
• Puritans, [4–16], [17–26], [27–40], [41]–42, [82–83], [161], [166], [191], [194], [203], [216], [228], [237], [245], [277], [299], [305]
• Purpose novel, the, [108], [247], [303], [427]
• Putnam’s Magazine, [497]
• “Quality of Mercy, The” (Howells), [419]
• Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne, [104]
• “Raven, The” (Poe), [178], [180], [183], [185], [186]
• “Rebellion: its Cause and Consequences, The” (Lowell), [289]
• “Red Rock” (Page), [348]
• “Reform” (Gilder), [338]
• “Remonstrance” (Lanier), [355]
• Restoration, the, [27]
• “Retirement” (Freneau), [79]
• “Revenge of Hamish, The” (Lanier), [355]
• Revolution, Period of, [6], [56], [69–88]
• “Richard Carvel” (Churchill), [426]
• Richardson, Samuel, [103], [104], [418]
• Richmond (Va.), [174], [176]
• Ripley, Reverend George, [196], [311]
• “Rip van Winkle” (Irving), [127–129], [306]
• “Rise of Silas Lapham, The” (Howells), [416], [418]
• “Rising Glory of America, The” (Freneau), [76]
• “Rival Suitors for America, The” (Freneau), [96]
• “Robert of Lincoln” (Whittier), [169]
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington, [462–466]
• Rogers, Robert, [91], [93], [96]
• “Roughing It” (Twain), [383]
• Round Table, The, [350], [498]
• Rowson, Susanna, [103]
• Royalists, [5], [21]
• Ruskin, John, [303]
• Russell’s Magazine, [345], [498]
• Sacramento Union, The, [383]
• Salem, [5], [28], [34], [42], [236], [237], [238], [239], [332]
• Salmagundi Papers (Washington Irving et al.), [116]
• Saturday Club, The, [267], [332]
• Saturday Evening Post, The, [498]
• Saturday Press, The, [327]
• “Scarlet Letter, The” (Hawthorne), [36], [241], [242], [245]
• “School for Scandal, The” (Sheridan), [95]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [108], [118], [279], [405], [406], [415], [416]
• Scribner’s Magazine, [499]
• Scribner’s Monthly, [336], [499]
• “Seaweed” (Longfellow), [272]
• “Self-Reliance” (Emerson), [208]
• “Selling of Joseph, The” (Sewall), [34]
• Sentimentalism, [126], [162], [163], [345]
• “Septimius Felton” (Hawthorne), [241]
• Sewall, Samuel, [32], [35], [65], [83], [91]
• Shakespeare, William, [48], [92], [164], [184], [238], [355], [356], [363], [387], [414], [463], [472]
• “Shaw Memorial Ode” (Aldrich), [330]
• Sheldon, Edward, [94]
• Shelley, Percy B., [108], [175]
• Sill, Edward Rowland, [396–401]
• Simms, William Gilmore, [344], [412]
• “Simple Cobler of Aggawam, The” (Ward), [9–11]
• Sinclair, Upton, [432]
• “Singer in the Prison, The” (Whitman), [368]
• “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards), [42]
• “Skeleton in Armor, The” (Longfellow), [271]
• “Sketch Book, The” (Irving), [117–131], [191], [403]
• “Sketches New and Old” (Twain), [382]
• “Skipper Ireson’s Ride” (Whittier), [261]
• Slavery, discussion of, [34], [65], [73], [167], [257–259], [273]
• Smith, John, [6]
• Smith, Sidney, [118]
• Smollett, Tobias, [106]
• “Snow-Bound” (Whittier), [261], [263]
• “Society and Solitude” (Emerson), [209]
• “Song of the Banner at Daybreak, The” (Whitman), [366]
• “Song of the Chattahoochee, The” (Lanier), [355]
• “Song of Early Autumn, A” (Gilder), [339]
• “Song of Myself” (Whitman), [368]
• “Song of the South, The” (Miller), [404]
• “Songs of the Sierras” (Miller), [403]
• “Sonnet, The” (Gilder), [339]
• “South Carolina to the States of the North” (Hayne), [348]
• Southern Literary Messenger, The, [176], [177], [180], [344], [499]
• Southern Magazine, The, [500]
• “Specimens” (Miller), [403]
• Spectator, The, [47], [49], [116]
• “Spring in Massachusetts” (Thoreau), [230]
• “Spring in New England” (Aldrich), [330]
• “Spy, The” (Cooper), [143], [150]
• Standish, Miles, [9]
• “Statesman’s Secret, The” (Holmes), [319]
• Stedman, Edmund Clarence, [135], [279], [324], [329], [331–336], [385], [399], [453]
• Steele, Richard, [71], [116], [343]
• “Stethoscope Song, The” (Holmes), [312], [315]
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, [187], [228]
• “Stirrup Cup, The” (Lanier), [355], [356]
• Stoddard, Richard Henry, [324], [453]
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [108], [299–309], [412], [416], [431]
• Stowe, Reverend Calvin E., [300]
• “Stricken South to the North, The” (Hayne), [348]
• Structure, literary, [104], [150], [180], [211], [213], [248], [249], [274], [294–296], [318], [320], [356], [368], [369], [386]
• “Summer” (Thoreau), [230]
• Sumner, Charles, [273], [284], [313]
• “Sun-Day Hymn, A” (Holmes), [319]
• “Sundial, The” (Gilder), [337]
• Superstition, [29], [30], [31], [129]
• Swedenborg, Emanuel, [209]
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [375]
• “Symphony, The” (Lanier), [355], [356]
• “System of General Geography” (Brown), [102]
• “Tales of a Traveller” (Irving), [117]
• “Tales of a Wayside Inn” (Longfellow), [273]
• “Tamerlane and Other Poems” (Poe), [175]
• Tatler, The, [116]
• Taylor, Bayard, [118], [181], [277], [324], [350], [385], [431]
• Tennyson, Alfred, [260], [274], [275], [333], [416], [453]
• “Terrestrial Paradise, The,” [271]
• Thacher, Anthony, [6]
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, [249], [416], [418], [423]
• “Thanatopsis” (Bryant), [22], [26], [161], [163], [182], [357], [358]
• “Thistledown” (Gilder), [337]
• Thomas, Augustus, [439], [440–442], [444]
• Thoreau, Henry David, [190], [191], [195], [196], [200], [221–235], [244], [252], [311], [364]
• “Three Memorial Poems” (Lowell), [289]
• Ticknor, George, [314], [346]
• Ticknor and Field’s, [288], [314]
• “Tiger Lilies” (Lanier), [349], [350]
• Timrod, Henry, [168], [176], [345–347]
• “To a Caty-did” (Freneau), [80]
• “To Canaan” (Holmes), [319]
• “To Have and to Hold” (Johnston), [426]
• “To Helen” (Poe), [179], [184], [185]
• “To Sir Toby,” [77]
• “To a Waterfowl” (Bryant), [162], [182]
• Token, The, [239]
• Tolstoi, Lyof, [217], [419]
• “Tom Sawyer” (Twain), [382]
• “Tool, The” (Gilder), [338]
• Topics and Problems, [15], [26], [39], [58], [67], [68], [87], [88], [99], [109], [139–140], [156], [157], [172], [189], [219], [234], [250], [266], [280], [297], [309], [322], [341], [361], [378], [395], [409]
• “Tramp Abroad, A” (Twain), [384]
• Transcendentalism, [194], [195]
• Transcendentalists, [190–197], [431]
• “Traveler from Altruria, A” (Howells), [419], [420–422]
• Trollope, Anthony, [106], [418]
• Trumbull, John, [71], [72], [85], [103], [111], [119], [141], [164]
• “Turn of the Balance, The” (Whitlock), [420]
• “Twice-Told Tales” (Hawthorne), [240], [241]
• Tyler, Royall, [91], [94], [103]
• “Ulalume” (Poe), [179], [183], [184], [185]
• “Uncle Remus, his Songs and Sayings” (Harris), [425]
• “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (Stowe), [72], [94], [299], [300–304]
• University of California, [397]
• University of Missouri, [384]
• University of Pennsylvania, [45]
• University of Virginia, [174], [344]
• Untermeyer, Louis, [462]
• “Unwritten History, Paquita” (Miller), [404]
• “Urania” (Holmes), [315], [316]
• “Vale! America” (Miller), [403]
• “Venetian Life” (Howells), [417]
• “Verse, The Science of English” (Lanier), [350]
• “Victor and Vanquished” (Longfellow), [273]
• “Victorian Anthology, A” (Stedman), [332]
• “Victorian Poets” (Stedman), [332]
• “Violet, The” (Gilder), [337]
• Virginia City Enterprise, The, [383]
• “Vision of Poesy, A” (Drake), [176]
• “Vision of Sir Launfal, The” (Lowell), [284]
• “Voice of the Pine, The” (Gilder), [339]
• “Voyager, The” (Gilder), [338]
• “Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus, The” (Irving), [117]
• “Waiting, The” (Whittier), [260]
• “Walden” (Thoreau), [224], [232]
• “Walden Pond,” [224–227]
• Wallace, Lew, [108]
• Walpole, Horace, [104]
• Ward, Nathaniel, [9–11], [21], [83], [380]
• Ware, Reverend Henry, [207]
• Warner, Charles Dudley, [384]
• Warren, Mercy, [97]
• Washington (D. C.), [110]
• Washington, George, [111], [118], [127]
• “Way to Wealth, The” (Franklin), [51]
• Webster, Daniel, [259], [301], [319]
• “Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, A” (Thoreau), [224]
• Wells, H. G., [187]
• West Point Military Academy, [174], [176]
• Western Messenger, The, [500]
• Western Monthly Magazine, The, [300], [500]
• Wharton, Edith, [428], [429]
• “Whisperers, The” (Gilder), [338]
• White, Kirke, [161]
• Whitlock, Brand, [118], [420], [432]
• Whitman, Walt, [49 (note)], [137], [173], [232], [279], [295], [328], [334], [339], [340], [362–379], [405], [407], [408], [414], [419], [453]
• Whittier, John Greenleaf, [73], [114], [130], [168], [170], [190], [252–266], [288], [302], [304], [319], [331], [348], [453]
• “Wieland” (Brown), [104]
• Wigglesworth, Michael, [18–21], [25]
• “Wild Honeysuckle, The” (Freneau), [80]
• William and Mary College, [89]
• “Williams, Caleb” (Godwin), [104], [105], [106]
• Williams, Roger, [11], [21], [83], [203]
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker, [93], [175], [178], [328]
• “Winter” (Thoreau), [230]
• Witchcraft, [28], [29]
• Woman, estimate of, [10–11], [23–24], [95–148], [433]
• “Woman’s Reason, A” (Howells), [417]
• “Woman’s Thought, A” (Gilder), [339]
• “Wonders of the Invisible World, The” (Cotton Mather), [29]
• Woolman, John, [65]
• Wordsworth, William, [165], [202], [369]
• “World of Chance, The” (Howells), [419]
• “Wreck of Rivermouth, The” (Whittier), [261]
• Yale College, [141], [334], [384], [396], [397], [398]
• Yale Review, [499]
• “Year’s Life, A” (Lowell), [283]
• “Yellow Violet, The” (Bryant), [162]