1660-1860

BY

Henrietta Christian Wright

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1909
COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
The Early Literature[1]
CHAPTER II
John James Audubon—1780-1851,[14]
CHAPTER III
Washington Irving—1783-1859,[28]
CHAPTER IV
James Fenimore Cooper—1789-1851,[51]
CHAPTER V
William Cullen Bryant—1794-1878,[69]
CHAPTER VI
William H. Prescott—1796-1859, [82]
CHAPTER VII
John Greenleaf Whittier—1807-1892, [96]
CHAPTER VIII
Nathaniel Hawthorne—1804-1864, [108]