American literary masters

by Leon H. Vincent

[69] ‘Conversations with George W. Whitman,’ In Re Walt Whitman, p. 36.

[70] ‘... It is therefore deemed needful only to say in relation to his [Whitman’s] removal, that his Chief—Hon. Wm. P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian affairs, who was officially answerable to me for the work in his Bureau, recommended it, on the ground that his services were not needed. And no other reason was ever assigned by my authority.’ Extract from a letter from James Harlan to Dewitt Miller, dated Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, July 18, 1894.

[71] So called in the edition of 1856. In the edition of 1897 it is entitled ‘Song of Myself.’

[72] See, for example, Stedman’s tribute in Poets of America.

[73] Calamus, p. 27.

Index

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, [9], [27].
• Abolitionists, [260].
• Afloat and Ashore, [71], [88].
• Aftermath, [226], [245].
• ‘Ages, The,’ Bryant’s Phi Beta Kappa poem, [38].
• Agnew, Mary, [406].
• Alhambra, The, [9], [24].
• Allan, Mr. and Mrs. John, befriend Poe, [190], [191].
• Allegiance, treaty with Germany concerning, [107].
• American Anti-Slavery Society in New York, Whittier secretary of, [260].
• American Democrat, The, [70], [94].
• American Lands and Letters, [449].
• American Loyalists, Irving’s attitude towards, [30];
• in Westchester County, N. Y., [75].
• American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, [292], [315].
• ‘American Scholar, The,’ Emerson’s Phi Beta Kappa oration, [152], [162].
• Among My Books, [458], [475], [476].
• Among the Hills, [263], [280].
• Amory, Susan, wife of William Hickling Prescott, [125].
• ‘Analectic Magazine,’ conducted by Irving, [6].
• André, Major John, Irving’s treatment of, [29].
• Anti-slavery movement, Whittier’s connection with, [259], [273–277];
• Thoreau’s, [331];
• Curtis’s, [420], [421];
• Lowell’s, [456], [466], [479].
• Anti-Slavery Papers, Lowell’s, [459], [479].
• Appleton, Frances, wife of Longfellow, [225], [226].
• Archæological Institute of America, [383].
• Armada, the, [374].
• Arnold, Benedict, Irving’s treatment of, [29].
• Arnold, Matthew, [232].
• Astor, John Jacob, his commercial enterprise in the Northwest, the subject of Astoria, [28].
• At Sundown, [263], [282].
• ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ founding of, and Whittier’s contributions to, [262];
• Lowell editor of, [458].
• Autocrat, The, of the Breakfast-Table, [340], [345], [355].
• Autumn, Thoreau’s, [324], [331].
• Bachiler, Stephen, [256].
• Bancroft, Aaron, father of George Bancroft, [101].
• Bancroft, George: his ancestry, [101];
• education and foreign travel, [102];
• tutor at Harvard, [103];
• the Round Hill School, [103];
• early works, [104];
• political appointments, [105], [107];
• founds United States Naval Academy, [105];
• brings about treaty with Germany, [107];
• last years, [107];
• death, [108];
• character, [108];
• criticism of the History, [110–119].
• ‘Barbara Frietchie,’ remark of Whittier concerning, [265];
• popularity of, [276].
• Battle Summer, [440], [444].
• Belfry, The, of Bruges, [225], [236].
• Benjamin, Mary, wife of John Lothrop Motley, [360];
• her death, [364].
• Bigelow, Catharine, wife of Francis Parkman, [381].
• Biglow Papers, The, [456], [458], [466].
• Bismarck, his student life with Motley, [360].
• Bliss, Elisabeth (Davis), wife of George Bancroft, [105].
• Blithedale Romance, The, [291], [309].
• Bonneville, [28].
• Book of the Roses, [381] (note).
• Borrow, George, Emerson’s knowledge of, [182].
• Boston Lyceum, Poe’s appearance before, [197], [200].
• Bracebridge Hall, [7], [17].
• Bravo, The, [69], [89], [96].
• ‘Broadway Journal, The,’ Poe’s connection with, [196].
• Bronson, W. C., quoted, on Bryant, [43].
• Brook Farm, Emerson’s sympathy with, [154];
• Hawthorne’s connection with, [289].
• Brown, John, Thoreau’s acquaintance with, [323].
• Bryant, Peter, father of William Cullen Bryant, [35].
• Bryant, Stephen, ancestor of William Cullen Bryant, [35].
• Bryant, William Cullen: his ancestry, [35];
• early verses, [36];
• education, [36], [37];
• law practice, [37];
• marriage, [38];
• editorial work, [38–41];
• political affiliations, [39], [40];
• works published, [41];
• travel, [42];
• death, [43];
• character, [44];
• quarrel with an opponent, [45];
• criticism of his work, [46–62];
• his translations, [58];
• quoted, on Cooper’s quarrel with the Press, [70].
• Burr, Aaron, Washington Irving among counsel for defence of, [5].
• Burroughs, John, [243].
• ‘Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly,’ Poe’s connection with, [194].
• Byron, George Gordon Noel, visits American flagship, [103].
• Cabot, Sebastian, passage on, from Bancroft, [110].
• Cambridge (England), University of, confers degree on Holmes, [340];
• on Lowell, [459].
• Cape Cod, [324], [331].
• Caraffa, Motley’s picture of, [371].
• Carlyle, Thomas, Emerson’s meeting with, [150];
• correspondence with Emerson, [156];
• quotation from, applied to Whitman, [495].
• Cathedral, The, [458], [470].
• Cavalier and Puritan, Bancroft’s comparison of, [111].
• Chainbearer, The, [71], [95].
• Champlain, Samuel, [392].
• Charles the Fifth, Prescott’s continuation of Robertson’s history of, [127].
• Children of the Lord’s Supper, The, [231], [236].
• Christus, a Mystery, [226], [245].
• Civil Service reform, Curtis’s work for, [421].
• Clemm, Maria, [192], [194], [198].
• Clemm, Virginia, [192];
• her marriage to Edgar Allan Poe, [193];
• her death, [197].
• Clough, Arthur Hugh, effect on, of reading Evangeline, [232];
• visits America, [457].
• Cogswell, Joseph G., [103].
• Columbus, Irving’s life of, [8], [20].
• Commemoration Ode, [458], [470].
• Conduct of Life, [156], [175].
• Conkling, Roscoe, his attack on Curtis, [423].
• Conquest, The, of Granada, [8], [22].
• Conquest, The, of Mexico, [127], [134].
• Conquest, The, of Peru, [127], [138].
• Conspiracy, The, of Pontiac, [381], [387].
• Constitution of the United States, history of, by Bancroft, [108].
• Cooper, James Fenimore: his ancestry, [65];
• boyhood and education, [66];
• enters the navy, [66];
• marries and leaves the service, [67];
• his first books, [67];
• life abroad, [68];
• return to America, [69];
• quarrel with the Press, [69];
• list of works, [70];
• character, [72];
• style, [74];
• criticism of his works, [75–97].
• Cooper, William, father of James Fenimore Cooper, [65].
• Cortés, Prescott’s estimate of, [136].
• Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, [382], [391], [393].
• Courtship of Miles Standish, The, [226], [242].
• Craigie, Mrs., her reception of Longfellow, [224].
• Crater, The, [71], [95].
• Croker, J. W., quoted, on Irving, [13].
• Curtis, George William: his ancestry, [417];
• education, [418];
• at Brook Farm and Concord, [418];
• foreign travel, [418];
• newspaper work, [419];
• the ‘Easy Chair,’ 419;
• books published, [419], [422];
• orations, [420];
• marriage, [420];
• political work and Civil Service reform, [421];
• character, [423];
• style, [424];
• criticism of his works, [427–435].
• Curtis family, [417].
• Dante, Longfellow’s translation of, [226], [249].
• Davis, Elisabeth, wife of George Bancroft, [105].
• Deerslayer, The, [66], [71], [81].
• Defoe, Poe compared with, [203].
• De Lancey, Susan, wife of James Fenimore Cooper, [67];
• her family, [75].
• ‘Democracy,’ 480.
• ‘Dial, The,’ 153.
• Dickens, Charles, dinner to, in New York, [46];
• quotation from letter of, to Longfellow, [228];
• greeting to, by O. W. Holmes, [350].
• Divine Tragedy, The, [226], [245].
• ‘Divinity Address,’ Emerson’s, [152], [163].
• Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret, [292], [316].
• Doctor Johns, [441], [448].
• Dolliver Romance, The, [292], [316].
• Doyle, Peter, quoted, on Whitman, [504].
• Dream Life, [440], [443], [447].
• Drum-Taps, [488], [502].
• Duelling, Bryant’s farce in ridicule of, [38].
• Dunlap, Frances, wife of James Russell Lowell, [457].
• Dutch life, Irving’s treatment of, [32].
• Duyckinck, E. A., [42].
• Dwight, Sarah, wife of George Bancroft, [105].
• Early Spring in Massachusetts, [324], [331].
• ‘Easy Chair’ papers, [419], [422], [425], [430].
• Edinburgh, University of, confers degree on Holmes, [341].
• El Dorado, [403].
• Elsie Venner, [340], [352].
• Embargo, The, [36].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo: his ancestry, [147];
• boyhood, [148];
• education, [149];
• ordination and withdrawal from the ministry, [149], [150];
• begins lecturing, [151];
• settles in Concord, [151];
• notable addresses, [152];
• connection with Transcendental movement, [152];
• lecture tour in England, [154];
• position on slavery, [155];
• list of his works, [155];
• visitor to West Point and overseer of Harvard, [156];
• nominated for Lord Rector of Glasgow University, [156];
• death, [157];
• character, [157];
• criticism of his works, [160–186];
• quoted, on Bancroft, [103], [109];
• club meetings in his library, [418];
• Holmes’s life of, [354].
• Emerson family, [147].
• English Lands, Letters, and Kings, [449].
• English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, [292], [315].
• English Traits, [156], [173].
• Evangeline, [225];
• metre of, [231];
• stimulating effect of, on Clough, [232];
• popularity of, [240].
• Everett, Alexander, influential in Irving’s going to Spain, [8].
• Everett, Edward, [102].
• Excursions, Thoreau’s, [324], [330], [332].
• Fable, A, for Critics, [456], [458], [468].
• Fairchild, Frances, wife of William Cullen Bryant, [38].
• Familiar Letters, Thoreau’s, [324], [326], [332].
• Fanshawe, [288].
• Faust, Taylor’s translation of, [405], [410].
• Ferdinand and Isabella, Prescott’s history of, [127], [131], [132].
• ‘Fighting parson, the,’ 148.
• Fireside Travels, [459], [474].
• Fiske, John, cited, on Longfellow’s treatment of Cotton Mather in The New England Tragedies, [247].
• Fitzgerald, Edward, [237].
• French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, [292], [315].
• Freeman, Edward A., quoted, [31].
• Fresh Gleanings, [439], [443], [444].
• ‘Frogpondians,’ 200.
• Frontenac, Count, in the New World, [393].
• Fudge Doings, [441], [445].
• Fuller, Margaret, [153];
• Emerson’s Memoirs of, [156];
• her attack on Longfellow, [229];
• schoolmate of Holmes, [338].
• Gardiner, John, [124].
• Garnett, Richard, quoted, on Emerson, [185].
• Garrison, William Lloyd, his relations with Whittier, [257], [258].
• Gay, Sidney Howard, [42], [456].
• Giles Corey of the Salem Farms, [246].
• Gleanings in Europe, Cooper’s, [94].
• Godwin, Parke, quoted, on Bryant, [44].
• Goethe, Emerson’s estimate of, [173].
• ‘Gold-Bug, The,’ wins prize, [196].
• Golden Legend, The, [225], [245], [246].
• Goldsmith, Irving’s life of, [27];
• reference to his work, [449].
• ‘Graham’s Magazine,’ Poe’s connection with, [195].
• Grandfather’s Chair, [289], [300].
• Greeley, Horace, his advice to Taylor on writing letters of travel, [402].
• Green, John Richard, quoted, on Motley, [364].
• Greenough, Horatio, quotation from letter of, to Cooper, [93].
• Griswold, Rufus W., [196].
• Guardian Angel, The, [340], [352].
• Guide, A, in the Wilderness, [66] (note).
• Gulliver’s Travels, Irish bishop’s remark concerning, [76].
• Half-Century, A, of Conflict, [382], [391], [394].
• Hannah Thurston, [405].
• Hansen, Marie, wife of Bayard Taylor, [406].
• Harlan, James, extract from letter of, concerning Walt Whitman’s removal from government clerkship, [488] (note).
• ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and ‘Harper’s Monthly,’ Curtis’s connection with, [419], [421], [422].
• Harrison, Frederic, his criticism of Evangeline, [251].
• Haweis, H. R., [460].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: his ancestry, [287];
• boyhood and college life, [288];
• his first book, [288];
• collector of the Port of Boston, [289];
• joins Brook Farm Community, [289];
• marriage, [290];
• Surveyor of Customs at Salem, [290];
• consul at Liverpool, [291];
• failing health and death, [293];
• his character, [293];
• style, [296];
• criticism of his works, [298–317];
• his refusal to write an Acadian story, [240].
• Hawthorne family, [287].
• ‘Haverhill Gazette,’ Whittier’s connection with, [258], [259].
• Headsman, The, [69], [91].
• Heartsease and Rue, [459], [473].
• Heidenmauer, The, [69], [91].
• Henry, Prince, of Hoheneck, the subject of The Golden Legend, [246].
• ‘Heroes, The,’ 38.
• Hiawatha, [225];
• the metre of, [232];
• popularity of, [240];
• sources and purpose of, [242].
• History, The, of the Navy of the United States of America, [70], [93].
• History of the United Netherlands, [362], [369], [373].
• Holmes, Abiel, father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, [337].
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell: his ancestry, [337];
• education, [338];
• professor at Dartmouth College, [338];
• marriage, [339];
• professor at Harvard, [339];
• contributions to the ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ 340;
• list of his works, [340];
• death, [341];
• character, [341];
• style, [344];
• criticism of his works, [345–355];
• his ‘occasional’ poems, [350];
• his fiction, [352];
• his biography, [354];
• quoted, on Longfellow, [230];
• his explanation of the ease of the metre of Hiawatha, [232].
• Home as Found, [70], [92], [96].
• Home Ballads, [263], [277].
• Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics, [405], [412].
• Homeward Bound, [70], [92].
• House, The, of the Seven Gables, [290], [305].
• Howadji, The, in Syria, [419], [428].
• Howe, Judge Samuel, anecdote of, as Bryant’s instructor in law, [37].
• Howells, William Dean, his description of Thoreau, [326].
• ‘Hub of the Solar System,’ 347.
• Hyperion, [225], [233].
• In the Harbor, [227], [250].
• In War Time, [263], [276].
• Indian life as shown in Cooper’s novels, [79–82];
• in Hiawatha, [242];
• in Parkman’s histories, [380], [387–389].
• Ireland, Alexander, arranges lecturing trip for Emerson in England, [154].
• Irish Presbyterians in New Hampshire, [268].
• Irving, Peter, brother of Washington Irving, [5–7].
• Irving, Pierre M., makes first draft of Astoria, [27].
• Irving, Washington: his ancestry, [3];
• childhood and education, [4];
• early writings, [5–7];
• Secretary of American Legation in London, [8];
• Minister to Spain, [9], [10];
• political opportunities, [9];
• death, [10];
• character, [10];
• criticism of writings, [13–32];
• assists Bryant, [41];
• mention of Bryant’s oration on, [43];
• reference to his style, [116].
• Irving, William, father of Washington Irving, [3].
• Irving, William T., brother of Washington Irving, [6].
• Ivry, battle of, [374].
• Jack Tar, [71], [95].
• Jackson, Amelia, wife of O. W. Holmes, [339].
• Jackson, Lydia, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson, [151].
• James, Henry, reference to his story, ‘The Death of the Lion,’ 297.
• Jameson, J. F., quoted, on Bancroft, [117] (note).
• Jesuits, The, in North America, [382], [391], [392].
• John Endicott, [246], [247].
• John Godfrey’s Fortunes, [405], [406].
• John of Barneveld, [363], [369], [375].
• ‘Jonathan Oldstyle’ letters, [5].
• Jones, John Paul, [82].
• Journal, The, of Julius Rodman, [204].
• Judas Maccabeus, [248].
• Kavanagh, [225], [235].
• Kennedy, John P., [193], [194].
• Kéramos, [226], [250].
• Knickerbocker’s New York, [6], [14].
• Lafayette, defended by Cooper, [69];
• Emerson’s meeting with, [150];
• visits David Poe’s grave, [189].
• Lamb, Charles, [449].
• Lars, [405], [412].
• La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, [382], [391], [392].
• Last, The, of the Mohicans, [68], [79].
• Leather-Stocking Tales, [77–81].
• Leaves of Grass, [487], [490], [494], [503].
• Legends of New England, [259], [261];
• Whittier’s opinion of, [267];
• partial suppression of, [270].
• Legends of the Conquest of Spain, [9], [26].
• Leggett, William, his attack on Irving, [12];
• assists Bryant in editing the ‘New York Evening Post,’ 39;
• Whittier pays tribute to, [269].
• Letter, A, to his Countrymen, Cooper’s, [70], [93].
• Letters and Social Aims, [156], [182].
• Letters of a Traveller, [41], [47].
• Letters to Various Persons, Thoreau’s, [324].
• Library of Poetry and Song, Bryant’s connection with, [42].
• Lincoln, Abraham, Lowell’s tribute to, [471].
• Linzee, Captain, [125].
• Lionel Lincoln, [68], [77].
• Lisfranc, Jacques, Holmes’s feeling towards, [341].
• Literary Recollections and Miscellanies, Whittier’s, [262], [269].
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: his ancestry, [221];
• education and early poems, [222];
• professorship at Bowdoin, [223];
• marriage, [223];
• Harvard professorship, [224], [225];
• death of his wife, [224];
• occupancy of the Craigie House, [224];
• second marriage, [225];
• lists of books published, [225], [226];
• death of Mrs. Longfellow, [226];
• honors conferred on Longfellow, [227];
• his death, [227];
• character, [228];
• poetical style, [230];
• criticism of his works, [233–250].
• Lorgnette, The, [440], [445], [446].
• Lotus-Eating, [419], [429].
• Louisbourg, siege of, [394].
• Lowell, James Russell: his ancestry, [453];
• education, [454];
• starts ‘The Pioneer,’ 454;
• first books, [455];
• connection with ‘The National Anti-Slavery Standard,’ 456;
• winter abroad, [456];
• death of Mrs. Lowell, [457];
• Harvard professor, [457];
• second marriage, [457];
• editor of Atlantic Monthly’ and ‘North American Review,’ 458;
• list of books published, [458];
• Minister to Spain, [459];
• Minister to England, [460];
• last years, [460];
• character, [461];
• style, [463];
• criticism of his works, [465–482].
• Lowell family, [453].
• ‘Lynn Pythoness,’ 259.
• Mahomet and his Successors, [9], [23].
• Maine Woods, The, [324], [330].
• ‘MS. Found in a Bottle,’ wins prize, [193].
• Marble Faun, The, [291], [310].
• Margaret Smith’s Journal, Leaves from, [262], [267], [268].
• Masque, The, of Pandora, [226], [248].
• Masque, The, of the Gods, [405], [413].
• Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, its treatment of Emerson, [155].
• Mather, Cotton, Longfellow’s treatment of, in The New England Tragedies, [247].
• Mercedes of Castile, [71], [92].
• Merry-Mount, [360], [361].
• Michael Angelo, [227], [248].
• Miles Wallingford, [71], [88].
• Miriam, [263], [280].
• Mitchell, Donald Grant: his ancestry and education, [439];
• his first book, [439];
• consul at Venice, [441];
• marriage, [441];
• list of his books, [441];
• editorial work and lecturing, [442];
• his character and literary style, [442];
• criticism of his works, [444–450].
• Mogg Megone, [261];
• Whittier’s objection to reprinting, [266], [270].
• Monikins, The, [70], [92].
• Montaigne, as one of Emerson’s Representative Men, [172].
• Montcalm and Wolfe, [382], [391], [395].
• Moody, Father, [148].
• ‘Morituri Salutamus,’ anecdote of the reading of, at Bowdoin, [229].
• Morris, William, reference to his Earthly Paradise, [244].
• Mortal Antipathy, A, [340], [353].
• Mosses from an Old Manse, [290], [299].
• Motley, John Lothrop: his ancestry and education, [359];
• foreign study, [360];
• intimacy with Bismarck, [360];
• admission to the bar, [360];
• marriage, [360];
• publication of novels and essays, [360];
• Secretary to American Legation in St. Petersburg, [361];
• member of Massachusetts legislature, [361];
• residence abroad for historical study, [362];
• scholastic honors, [363];
• Minister to Austria, [363];
• to England, [364];
• death, [364];
• his character, [365];
• style, [367];
• criticism of his histories, [369–376];
• Holmes’s memoir of, [354].
• Murat, Achille, meets Emerson, [149].
• My Farm of Edgewood, [441], [448].
• My Study Windows, [458], [475].
• Napoleon, Emerson’s estimate of, [172].
• Narrative, The, of Arthur Gordon Pym, [194], [203].
• ‘National Anti-Slavery Standard,’ Lowell’s connection with, [456].
• Natural History of Intellect, [156], [183].
• Nature, Emerson’s, [151], [155], [160], [176].
• Ned Myers, [66], [71].
• Netherlands, Motley’s history of, [362], [369], [373].
• ‘Neutral ground, The,’ 75.
• New England Tragedies, The, [226], [245].
• ‘New York Evening Post,’ Bryant’s connection with, [39].
• ‘New York Review and Athenæum Magazine,’ Bryant’s editorship of, [38].
• Nile Notes of a Howadji, [419], [427].
• ‘North American Review,’ Bryant’s early contributions to, [37];
• Lowell’s connection with, [458].
• Norton, Andrews, his disagreement with Emerson, [152].
• Oak Openings, The, [71], [95].
• ‘Old Manse, The,’ 147;
• Hawthorne’s occupancy of, [290].
• Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, [262], [269].
• Old Régime, The, [382], [391], [393].
• ‘On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners,’ 460.
• Oregon Trail, The, [381], [387].
• Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. See [Fuller, Margaret].
• Otsego Hall, home of the Coopers, [66], [69].
• Our Hundred Days in Europe, [340], [348].
• Our Old Home, [292];
• anecdote of the dedication of, to Franklin Pierce, [295];
• character of, [314].
• Outre-Mer, [225], [233], [234].
• Over the Teacups, [340], [348], [355].
• Oxford, University of, confers degree on Longfellow, [227];
• on Holmes, [340];
• on Motley, [363];
• on Lowell, [459].
• Parkman, Francis: his ancestry, [379];
• education, [380];
• interest in Indian life, [380];
• first book, [381];
• marriage, [381];
• ill health, [381];
• list of his works, [382];
• honors, [383];
• character, [383];
• literary style, [385];
• criticism of his works, [387–398].
• Parkman family, [379].
• Pastorius, Daniel, the subject of the Pennsylvania Pilgrim, [280].
• Pathfinder, The, [67], [71], [81].
• Paulding, J. K., [6].
• Peabody, Sophia, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, [289].
• ‘Penn Magazine, The,’ projected by Poe, [195].
• Pennsylvania Hall, sacking of, by a pro-slavery mob, [260].
• Pennsylvania Pilgrim, The, [263], [280].
• Phi Beta Kappa poem by Bryant, [38].
• Philip the Second, Bancroft’s history of, [127], [131], [141];
• Motley’s treatment of, [372–375].
• Picture, The, of St. John, [405], [409], [412].
• Pierce, Franklin: his friendship with Hawthorne, [288], [293];
• Hawthorne’s life of, [292].
• Pilot, The, [67], [71], [82].
• ‘Pioneer, The,’ Lowell’s magazine, [454].
• Pioneers, The, [66], [67], [71], [77].
• Pioneers, The, of France in the New World, [382], [391].
• Pizarro, Francisco, his exploits in Peru, [138].
• Pizarro, Gonzalo, his march across the Andes, [140].
• Plato, Emerson on, [171].
• Poe, Edgar Allan: his ancestry, [189];
• adoption by the Allans, [190];
• education, [190];
• enters West Point, [191];
• early writings, [192];
• marriage, [193];
• editorial work, [193];
• lecturing, [196];
• affair of the Boston Lyceum, [197], [200];
• death of his wife, [197];
• proposal of marriage to Mrs. Shelton, [198];
• death, [198];
• character, [198];
• style, [201];
• criticism of his works, [203–211];
• his work as a critic, [211–215];
• quality of his poetry, [215].
• Poems of Home and Travel, [405], [410].
• Poems of the Orient, [405], [411].
• Poet, The, at the Breakfast-Table, [340], [347].
• Poetry, quality, of, [49];
• Bryant’s theory of, [48–50];
• Poe’s, [213].
• Poet’s Journal, The, [405], [411].
• Poets and Poetry of Europe, [225], [237].
• Potiphar Papers, The, [419], [429].
• Potter, Mary Storer, wife of Longfellow, [223], [224].
• Prairie, The, [68], [80].
• Precaution, [67].
• Prentice, George, [259].
• Prescott, William Hickling: his ancestry, [123];
• education, [124];
• accident to his eyes, [125];
• marriage, [125];
• beginning of his literary work, [126];
• list of his works, [127];
• death, [127];
• character, [128];
• his style, [130];
• criticism of his works, [132–143];
• his aid to Motley, [361].
• Prescott family, [123].
• Prince Deukalion, [405], [413].
• Professor, The, at the Breakfast-Table, [340], [347].
• Prophet, The, [405], [413].
• Prue and I, [419], [430].
• Puritan and Cavalier, Bancroft’s comparison of, [111].
• ‘Putnam’s Magazine,’ Curtis’s connection with, [419]; Lowell’s, [457].
• ‘Quaker Poet,’ 256.
• Quakers, Longfellow’s treatment of, in John Endicott, [246];
• relations of the Whittier family to, [257], [262], [272].
• ‘Raven, The,’ 196, [215].
• Red Rover, The, [68], [71], [84], [86].
• Redskins, The, [71], [95].
• Representative Men, [155], [171].
• Reveries of a Bachelor, [440], [443], [446], [450].
• Ripley, George, [153].
• Rise, The, of the Dutch Republic, [362], [369].
• Rogers, Samuel, Bryant dedicates book to, [41].
• Round Hill School for Boys, Bancroft’s connection with, [103], [104];
• Longfellow considers buying, [224];
• Motley a student at, [359].
• St. Boniface, Church of, Winnipeg, honors Whittier, [263].
• St. Botolph Club, Boston, Parkman’s connection with, [383].
• Salmagundi, [6].
• Satanstoe, [71], [95], [96].
• ‘Saturday Visitor, The,’ offers prizes, for which Poe competes, [192].
• Scarlet Letter, The, [290], [302].
• Sea Lions, The, [71], [96].
• Seaside, The, and the Fireside, [225], [237].
• Septimius Felton, [292], [316].
• Seven Stories, [441], [447].
• Shakespeare, Emerson’s estimate of, [172].
• Shaw, Anna, wife of George William Curtis, [420].
• Shays’s Rebellion, incident of, [102].
• Simms, William Gilmore, his advice to Poe, [201].
• Sketch Book, The, [7], [15], [234].
• Sketches of Switzerland, Cooper’s, [94].
• Smith, Goldwin, [300].
• Smithell’s Hall, Bolton-le-Moors, tradition connected with, [316].
• Snow Image, The, [292], [301].
• Snow-Bound, [263], [267], [278].
• Society and Solitude, [156], [182].
• Songs of Labor, [262], [276].
• ‘Southern Literary Messenger, The,’ Poe’s connection with, [193].
• Spanish Student, The, [225], [239].
• Specimen Days and Collect, [489], [503].
• Spy, The, [67], [71], [75].
• Stanley, Dean, quoted, on Motley, [364].
• Stedman, Edmund C., quoted on Poe, [212].
• Stephen, Leslie, quoted, [32].
• Story, The, of Kennett, [406].
• Summer, Thoreau’s, [324], [331].
• ‘Sunnyside,’ Irving’s home, [9].
• Supernaturalism, The, of New England, [261], [268].
• Swedenborg, Emanuel, [172].
• Swinburne, A. C., quotation from, applied to Whitman, [495].
• Tâché, Archbishop, [263].
• Tales of a Traveller, [7], [18].
• Tales of a Wayside Inn, [226], [243].
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, [195], [203–211].
• ‘Talisman, The,’ Bryant’s editorial work on, [39].
• Tamerlane, [191].
• Tanglewood Tales, [292], [301].
• Taylor, Bayard: birth and education, [402];
• travels on foot, [402];
• journalistic work, [403];
• extensive travels, [403];
• lists of his books, [403], [405], [406];
• marriages, [406];
• Minister to Germany, [407];
• death, [407];
• character, [407];
• style, [409];
• criticism of his poetical works, [410–414].
• Tennyson, Emerson’s attitude toward, [183].
• Tent, The, on the Beach, [263], [272];
• Whittier’s remark on the popularity of, [278];
• scheme of, [279].
• ‘Thanatopsis,’ 36, [37], [57].
• Thoreau, Henry David: his ancestry, [321];
• early occupations, [321];
• outdoor life, [322];
• first book, [322];
• lecturing, [323];
• abolition sympathies, [323];
• acquaintance with John Brown, [323];
• list of his works, [324];
• travels, [324];
• death, [324];
• character, [325];
• criticism of his works, [327–333].
• Three Books of Song, [226], [245].
• Three Memorial Poems, [459], [471].
• Three Mile Point, Cooperstown, N. Y. controversy concerning, [69].
• Ticknor, George, his friendship with Prescott, [126];
• resigns professorship in favor of Longfellow, [224].
• Tories of the American Revolution, Irving’s attitude towards, [29], [30].
• Transcendental movement, [152], [165].
• Transformation. See [Marble Faun].
• Travelling Bachelor, Notions of the Americans picked up by a, [68], [93].
• Trumps, [419], [430].
• Tucker, Ellen, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson, [149].
• Twice-Told Tales, [289], [298].
• Two Admirals, The, [71], [86].
• Ultima Thule, [227], [250].
• United Netherlands, History of the, [362], [369], [373].
• United States, Bancroft’s history of, [104], [110], [113].
• ‘United States Literary Gazette,’ Longfellow’s contributions to, [222].
• United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, founding of, [105].
• ‘Upside Down, or Philosophy in Petticoats,’ 71.
• Vassall Morton, [380], [381], [390].
• Views Afloat, [402], [404].
• Vision of Echard, The, [263], [281].
• Vision of Sir Launfal, The, [456], [468].
• Voices of Freedom, [261], [274].
• Voices of the Night, [223], [236].
• Voyages of the Companions of Columbus, [8], [22].
• Walden, [323], [324], [329], [332].
• Wansey, Henry, mention of his Excursion to the United States, [48].
• Ware, Henry, Emerson colleague of, [149].
• Washington, Irving’s life of, [28];
• Lowell’s tribute to, [472].
• Water-Witch, The, [68], [71], [85].
• Ways of the Hour, [71], [95].
• Wayside Inn, the, [244].
• Weed, Thurlow, quoted, [69].
• Week, A, on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, [322], [324], [328], [331].
• Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The, [68], [71], [81].
• Wet Days at Edgewood, [441], [448].
• Whewell, William, makes inquiries about Evangeline, [241].
• White, Maria, wife of James Russell Lowell, [455];
• her death, [457].
• White, T. W., his association with Poe, [193].
• Whitman, Walt: his ancestry, [485];
• education and early occupations, [486];
• journeyings in the United States, [486];
• publication of Leaves of Grass, [487];
• work as army nurse and government clerk, [487];
• life in Camden, N. J., [488];
• list of his writings, [488];
• subsidence of opposition, [489];
• growth of his reputation, [490];
• English admirers, [491];
• his Boston publisher threatened with prosecution, [492];
• criticism of his work, [492–496];
• his character, [504];
• mention of, in comparison with Longfellow, [250].
• Whitman family, [485].
• Whittier, John Greenleaf; his ancestry, [255];
• boyhood, [256];
• early writings, [257];
• beginning of acquaintance with Garrison, [258];
• attends Haverhill Academy, [258];
• editorial work, [259–261];
• beginning of anti-slavery work, [259];
• encounters with mobs, [260];
• love of country life, [260];
• lists of his works, [261], [263];
• contributions to ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ 262;
• overseer of Harvard College, [262];
• places of residence, [262];
• death, [263];
• character, [264];
• his literary art, [266];
• criticism of his works, [269–283];
• his description of Bayard Taylor, [408].
• Whittier family, [255].
• Wing-and-Wing, [66], [71], [86].
• Winter, Thoreau’s, [324], [331].
• Wolfert’s Roost, [27].
• Wonder-Book, The, [292], [301].
• Worsley, Philip S., quoted, [58].
• Wyandotté, [71], [81].
• Ximenes, Mateo, his association with Irving, [25].
• Yankee, A, in Canada, [324], [331].
• Year’s Life, A, [455].

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.