A History of American Literature

by Percy Holmes Boynton

Yale Review, The, 1892–1911, 1911——. Issued quarterly.

Continued New Englander and Yale Review. G. P. Fisher and others, editors. In 1900 changed from a “journal of history and political science” to a “Journal for the Scientific Discussion of Economic, Political, and Social Questions”; 1911—— “a quarterly magazine devoted to Literature, Science, History, and Public Opinion.” Yale Publishing Association, Inc., Wilbur D. Cross, chief editor. Not an official publication of Yale University. Made up of serious articles and essays, some light essays and verse, and literary criticism. Leading contributors, prose: W. H. Taft, Norman Angell, Walter Lippman, Simeon Strunsky, Vida D. Scudder; verse: Witter Bynner, Louis Untermeyer, Sara Teasdale, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, John Masefield. Thus its place as a literary periodical has been assumed only within the last decade. The old New Englander (1843–1892) was a substantial and dignified journal but included the work of no writer of even minor literary achievement.

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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]

Footnotes

[1] Rev. ii, 17.

[2] This same discipline was enjoyed—among later American authors—by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, and Walt Whitman, all of whom were scrupulously careful writers.

[3] Also in Representative American Plays (edited by A. H. Quinn). 1917.