Clymer's James Fenimore Cooper. (Beacon Biographies.)

Brownell's American Prose Masters. (Cooper.)

Erskine's Leading American Novelists, pp. 51-129. (Cooper.)

Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, edited with Introduction by Halleck.

Godwin's A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, with Extracts from his
Private Correspondence
, 2 vols. (The standard authority.)

Godwin's The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, 2 vols.

Bigelow's William Cullen Bryant. (American Men of Letters.)

Bradley's William Cullen Bryant. (English Men of Letters, American
Series
.)

Chadwick's The Origin of a Great Poem (Thanatopsis), Harper's Magazine,
September, 1894,

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