Each of the nineteen chapters in this volume treats of the life and works of some American author of the period 1809–1860. The writers considered are: Irving, Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Poe, Bancroft, Prescott, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, Emerson, Thoreau, Taylor, Mitchell, Curtis, Lowell, Whitman and Parkman.
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