An introduction to American literature
Pancoast, Henry Spackman, 1858-1928
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NEW EN LITERA •".' o ' c JS* V pS^S&V , •otn w .Kas''. « Ss^s'i w g^sSe £K5S£ >•<) = ^ § >; t» " S"1 E.IS5 i „•§« « ,x S - « ^J BO. W < INDEX. Abolition, influence on litera ture. See SLAVERY. Acadia, 179 Adams, Charles F., cited, 77 Adams, Henry, 315 ; cited, 72, 157, 162 Adams; Herbert B., 315 Adams, John, 99 ; Works (C. F. Adams), 77 Adams, Samuel, 93, 99, 150 Addison, Joseph, influence on American literature, 252 ; imitated, 83, 85, 91, 119, 123 Ages, The (Bryant), 142, 147 Al Ara(if(Poe), 265 Alcott, A. Bronson, 172 Ale n in, a Dialogue on tlie KigJits of Women (C. B. Brown), 109 Alden, John, 180 Alden, Joseph, cited, 148 Allan, John, 265, 266 Allen, A. V. G., cited, 72 Allen, James Lane, 319 Allston, Washington, 155 Almanac, the first American, 26 Almrick Castle (Halleck), 152 America, scope of the term, 1 etseq.; growth of education in, 18, 19, 24-26, 28, 33-35 ; the printing-press in, 18, 19, 26, 34 the first newspaper in, 26 ; the first American book, 37; the establishment of nationality, 75 et seq. America (Dwight), 103 America Independent (Fre- neau), 103 American authors, despised abroad, 115 American Biography (Sparks), 49, 112 American books, despised abroad, 115 " American Cicero," the, 93 A m erican Commomrealtli (Bryce), 37, 228 American Flag, The (Drake), 153 American history, 8 American humor, 152, 207, 211-216, 326-331 ; the first masterpiece of, 120, 121 American Humorists (Haweis), 244, 245 American literature, the term, 1 et seq.; its growth, 2 et seq., 13 et seq.; takes place among the literatures of the world, 115 American Literature (Nichols), 112 American Literature (Rich ardson), 72, 112 American Literature (Tyler). See HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. American Literature (Whip- pie), 130, 178, 247 American Magazine, The, 70 American Note-Book (Haw thorne), 194 369 370 INDEX. American Notes (Dickens), quoted, 171 American Philosophical So ciety, 85 American Political Ideas (Fiske), 24 American Revolution (Fiske), 99, 100 American Scholar, The (Emer son), 170, 176, 177 41 American Scott," the, 135 American War Ballads and Lyrics (Eggleston), 112 Ames, Fisher, 150 Ancient Psalmody and Hym- nology of New England (Staples), 55 Annabel Lee (Poe), 272, 274 Annals of the American Pul pit, 48 Arabian Nights' Entertain ments, imitated, 129 Arena, The, 326 Areopagitica (Milton), 19 Arnold, Matthew, cited, 28, 176 Artemus Ward. See BROWNE. Arthur Mervyn (C. B. Brown), 109, 110 Atlantic Monthly, The, 207, 209, 216, 312 Authors at Home (Gilder), 246 Autobioqraphia, or the Story of^a Life (Whitman), 303 Autobiography of Franklin, The, 82-84, 87, 89, 90, 92 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, T/ie (Holmes), 211, 214, 216, 217, 245 Backward Glance o'er Trav elled Roads (Whitman), 298, 303 Bacon's Rebellion, 40 Bancroft, George, 200, 228 , cited, 73 , Study List, 246 Barbara Frietchie (Whittier), 245 Barbary, war with, 114 Barclay of Ury (Whittier), 245 Barefoot Boy, The (Whittier), 224, 245 Barlow, Joel, 102, 106, 110, 112, 146, 150, 186 Barnaby Ruclge (Dickens), mentioned, 269 Bartram, John, 68 Baskervill, William Malone, cited, 262, 283 Battle of the Kegs, The (Hop- kinson), 102 Bay Psalm Book, The 26, 54, 55, 70 Beach Bird, The (Dana), 155 Bedouin Song, Tlie (Taylor), 292, 302 Beers, Prof., 153, 259, 260 Beginnings of New England, The (Fiske), 73 Belfry of Bruges, The (Long fellow), 186 Bells, The (Poe), 274 Berenice, (Poe) 272 Berkeley, George, mentioned, 112 Berkeley, Sir William, 40 ; quoted, 18, 19 Bernard, Sir Francis, quoted, 78 Betsey and I Are Out (Carle ton), 324 Beverly, Robert, cited, 27 Bigelow, John, cited, 92 Biglow Papers (Lowell), 202, 205-207, 244, 328 Billings, Josh. See SHAW, HENRY W. " Bill Nye." See NYE, EDGAR W. Birds of Passage (Longfel low), 187 INDEX. 371 Birrell, Augustine, cited, 178 Black Cat, The (Poe), 274 Blitlu dale Romance, The (Haw thorne), 194, 195 Boker, George Henry, 28G, 287 Boone, Daniel, 188 Boston, as a literary center, 21, 32, 155, 160 et seq., 213, 219, 240, 250, 254, 312 ; literature in, 159 Bonton Courier, The, 205 Boatou Neirs Letter, The, 26 Bracebridge Hall (Irving), 123, 129 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 102, 103 Bradford, William (governor of Massachusetts), 42, 43 Bradford, William (of Phila delphia), 34 Bradstreet, Anne ("The Tenth Muse "), 57-59, 212 Breakfast-Table Series, The (Holmes), 245 Bridal of Pennacook, The (VVhittier), 222 Bridge, The (Longfellow), 189 Bridges, Horatio, cited, 199 Brief Biographical Memoir of Life of James Otis, A (Tu dor), 17 Brief Description of New York, A (Uenton), 67 Broad-Axe, The (Whitman), 300 Brook Farm, Mass., 172, 173. 178, 194, 201 Brown, Charles Brockden, 108- 112, 115, 141, 143, 150; Life (Sparks), 112; Study List, 112 Brown, E. E., cited, 245 Browne, Charles Farrar (" Ar- tetnus Ward " ), 328 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, imitated, 273 Browning, Robert, compared, 261, 281; quoted, 279, 280 Bryant, William Cullen, 140- 148. 151, 284, 289, 307; cited, 130, 140, 148 ; coin- pared, 140, 154, 180; Life: (Bigelow) 148, (Godwin) 148, (Hill), 148 ; Study List, 147, 148 Bryce, James, 37 ; cited, 228 Buccaneer, The (Dana), 155 Buckminster, J. S., quoted, 162, 163 Bunker's Hill (Brackenridge), 103 Bunyan, John, influence on American literature, 83 Burdette, Robert J., 328 Burke, Edmund, mentioned, 97 Bucke, Richard Maurice, cited, 296, 304 Burlington Hawkeye, The, 328 Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, quoted, 68 Burns, Robert, compared, 224, 225, 245, 264, 302 ; influence on American literature, 164, 220, 221 Burns (Halleck), 152 Burns (Whittier), 245 Burroughs, John, cited, 295, 304 Busybody Papers, The (Frank lin), 85 ; compared, 119 Butler, Samuel, imitated, 106 ; compared, 206 Byron, Lord, compared, 152, "206, 264 ; imitated, 266 C Cable, George W., 249, 318, 319, 321 Cabot, James Elliot, cited, 177 Calhoun, John C., compared, 236 California, in American litera ture, 322, 323 372 INDEX. Calvinism, influence on litera ture, 65 Cambridge, Mass., as a literary center, 11, 26, 165, 183, 211, 213, 219, 240 Cambridge University, in fluence on American litera ture, 24, 26, 43, 54 Campbell, Thomas, compared, 152 ; mentioned, 107 Carleton, Will, 324 Carlyle, Thomas, influence on American literature, 164, 168, 169, 253 ; quoted, 172, 237, 238 Carlyle-and-Emerson Corre spondence (Norton), quoted, 238 Carsol (C. B. Brown), 109 Cassandra Southirick (Whit- tier), 222, 245 Cathedral, The (Lowell), 242 Cato's Distiches (trans. Logan), 68 Celtic literature, 4 Century Magazine, The, 308 Chambered Nautilus, The (Holmes), 215, 244 Channing, William Ellery, 163, 167, 180 ; compared, 66, 252 Character and Characteristic Men (Whipple), 199 Charleston, as a literary center, 255-259 Chaucer, Geoffrey, compared, 116 ; imitated, 71 ; Works (ed. Lounsbury), 293, 294 Chicago as a literary center, 21, 307 Child, Francis J., 200 Children's Hour, The (Longfel low), 189 Christabel (Coleridge), com pared, 153 Chita (Hearn), 321 "Cicero, The American," 93 Cicero's De Senectute (trans. Logan), 68 Cities, their influence on litera ture, 20 Citizen of the World, The (Goldsmith), imitated, 119 Ciy in the Sea, The (Poe), 271 , 274 Civil War, tlie, influence on American literature, 249, 256-259, 261, 275-277, 279, 286, 297, 303, 317-319, 322 ; American literature since, 305-333 Clara Howard (C. B. Brown), 109 Clarke, J. T., cited, 262 Clarke, William, cited, 304 Clay, Henry, compared, 238 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"), 211, 328- 330 ; cited, 140 ; compared, 152 Clemrn, Mrs., 267, 268 Clemm, Virginia, 266, 267 Clergy, the, influence on lit erature, 18, 28, 29, 42, 46- 50, 60, 67, 102 Cliff- Direllers, The (Fuller), 325 Clifton, William, 150, 158 Closing Scene, The (Read), 286 Coffin, Joshua, quoted, 55 Culeridge, Samuel Taylor, 145; compared, 153 ; imitated, 173, 273 ; influence on American literature, 163, 164, 166, 252, 293 ; men tioned, 145 College of William and Mary, the, 19, 25 Collins, Anthony, mentioned, 84 Collins, William, compared, 286 Colonial Era, The (Fisher), 73 Colonial literature, 13 et seq. , 36 et seq., 75 INDEX. 373 Colonies, the union of the, 113 Colonies, The (Thvvaite), 73 Columbia (Dwight), 103 Colttmbiad, The (Barlow), 104, 106 Columbus, Life of (Irving), 124 Come up from the Fields, Fa ther (Whitman), 303 Commemoration Address on Bryant (Curtis), quoted, 141 Commemoration Ode, The (Lowell), 207, 244 Companions of Columbus (Ir ving), 124 Concord, Mass , as a literary center, 11, 165, 168, 169, 194, 219, 240 Concord Hymn, The (Emerson), 169, 177 Conquest of Canaan, The (Dwight), 103, 106 Conquest of Granada, The (Ir ving), 124, 129 Conquest of Mexico, The (Pres- cott), 246 Conquest of Peru, The (Pres- cott), 229, 230 Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Con quest of Canada (Parkinan), 235, 246 Contemplations (Bradstreet), 50 Con way, Moncure IX, cited, 199 Cooke, John Esten, 259, 260 ; cited, 73, 253, 262 ; com pared, 318 Cooper, James Fenimore, 107, 115, 130-140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 151, 152, 284, 289, 310 ; compared, 110, 140, 255, 256; Life (Lounsbury), 140; Study List, 139, 140 Cooper, Susan Fenimore, cited, 140 Corn (Lanier). 277, 283 Cotter's Saturday Night, The (Burns), compared, 245 Cotton, John, mentioned, 56 Cotton Boll, The (Timrod), 257 Count Frontenac, or New France under Louis XIV. (Parkinan), 235 Country Church, The (Irving), 123, 129 Co urtin', The (Lowell), 207, 244 Court of Fancy, The (God frey), 71 Court of Love, Tlie (Godfrey) 71 Courtship of Miles Standish, The (Longfellow), 180, 189; compared, 206 Cowper, William, compared, 225; imitated, 106, 146 " Craddock, Charles Egbert." See MURFHEE, MARY N. Crashaw, Richard, compared, 56 Crawford, F. Marion, 308 Creoles, The, in literature, 318, 319, 321 Critical Miscellanies (Morley), cited, 178 Critical Period of American History (Fiske), 100 Croaker Poems, The. (Halleck), 152 Crumbling Idols (Garland), 326 Culprit Fay, The (Drake), 153 Curtis, George William, 201, 308; cited, 90, 130, 141, 148, 177, 190, 199, 244-247; com pared, 238; quoted, 208, 212 D Dana, Richard Henry, 155 Dante, compared, 60, 61 Dante (trans. Longfellow), 185, 189 Darwin, Erasmus, mentioned, 106 374 INDEX. Davis, Jefferson, quoted, 90 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 314 Davis, Richard Harding, 308 Day, Mary, 277 Day of Doom, The (Wiggles- worth), 53, 59-62, 65, 70 Death of the Flowers, The (Bryant), 147 Declaration- of Independence, The, 96, 97,' 99, 150 Deer slayer, The (Cooper), 136, 137 Defoe, Daniel, imitated, 270? influence on American lit erature, 118; mentioned, 138 Deland, Margaret, 314 Delaware, Lord, 17 Democracy, the literature of, 203, 205-207, 210, 211, 294- 296, 298-304, 324-331 Democratic Vistas (Whitman), 294, 295, 303 Demonology, 52, 53, 62 Dennie, Joseph, 157 Denton, Daniel, 67 De Quincey, Thomas, com pared, 196 De Sencctute, Cicero's (trans. Logan), 68 Dial, The, 172 Dialect, 287, 320 Dickens, Charles, compared, 213; mentioned, 269; quoted, 171 Dickenson, Jonathan, 67 Dickinson, John, 78 Dictionary of Hymnology (Julian), cited, 55 Discourse on Cooper (Bryant), cited, 140 Discussions in History and Theology (Fisher), cited, 73 Distiches, Cato's (trans. Logan), 68 Divine Comedy, The (trans. Longfellow), 185 Divine Weeks and Works (Du Bartas), imitated, 59 Dobson, Austin, compared 215, 245 Dolph Heyligcr (Irving), 129 Donne, Rev. John, compared, 56 Dorothy Q. (Holmes), 215, 244 Dowden, Edward, cited, 112, 304 Doyle, John Andrew, cited, 16, 73 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 151- 153 Drama, the, 286, 287 Dray ton, Michael, compared, 153 Drifting (Read), 286 Drum-Taps (Whitman), 297, 303 Dryden, John, compared, 206; imitated, 69 Du Bartas, Guillaume de S., imitated, 59 Dwight, Timothy, 102, 103, 105, 106, 110, 111, 146, 150. 186 Dyer, Rev. John, imitated, 106 E Eastward Ho! (Marston), 16 Eaton, Sir Thomas, mentioned, 40 Ecclesiastical History of New England. See MAGNALIA CHKISTI AMEKICANA. Edgar Iluntly (C. B. Brown), 109-111 Education, growth in America, 18, 19, 24-26, 28, 33-35, 98, 306, 307 Edwards, Jonathan, 63-67, 103, 115, 212 ; compared, 72, 82, 91 ; Essay on (Holmes), 72; Life (Allen), 72 ; Study List, 72, 73 INDEX. 375 Eggleston, Edward, 112, 824, 325 Eighty Years' War for Libert// (Motley), 232 E^egy in a Country Church yard (Gray), imitated, 69 Eliot, George, compared, 139 Eliot, John, 26, 54 Elsie. Ve nner (Holmes), 217, 245 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 7, 11, 143, 151, 156, 160, 162, 164- 178, 202, 214, 240-242, 285, 297; compared, 66, 180, 185, 190, 198, 199, 211, 218, 219, 252, 264, 316 ; quoted, 199, 204 ; Life : (Cabot) 177, (Garnett) 177, (Grimm) 177, (Holmes) 177; Study List, 177, 178 Emerson the Lecturer (Lowell), quoted, 166 Encyclopedia Britannica, cit ed, 112 England, American literature in, 295, 302; civil conflict in, 14; colonization of America, 14 et seq. ; decline of Pope's influence in, 145; expansion of, 5, 6, freedom of the press in, 19 ; its literature com pared, 243; the literature of, 2, 149, 248, 249, 332, 333 ; slow rise of the literary pro fession in, 36; war of 1812, 114 England and English litera ture, influence of, on Am erican literature, 69, 71, 72, 75-77, 83-85, 91, 92, 96, 97, 101-103, 105-109, 111, 112, 119, 121, 128, 130, 182, 146, 147, 163, 164, 169, 173. 195, 196, 209, 248;. 249, 252, 253, 265, 266, 278, 292, 293, 326 English colonial literature, 5, 6 English Colonies in America (Doyle), 16, 73 English Colonies in America (Lodge), 17, 19, 73 English colonization, 5, 6 English Culture in Virginia (Trent), 262 English Novel, The (Lauier), 278 English Portraits, 92 English Traits (Emerson), 173, 177, 242 Ephemera, The (Franklin), 91 Epigram, 176, 329 Epitaphs, 54 Erie Canal, the, 158 Essay on Addison (Macaulay), cited, 69 Essay on Jonathan Edwards (Holmes), 72 Essay on Man (Pope), imi tated, 91 Essay on Rousseau (Lowell), quoted, 211 Exsay on Thoreau (Lowell), quoted, 171 Essays (Emerson), 177 Essays and Reviews (Whip- pie), 148, 190, 245-247 Essays in Literary Criticism (Button), cited, 199 Essays in London (James), 244 Essays Speculative and Sug gestive (Symonds), cited, 304 Eternal Goodness, The (Whit- tier), 227, 245 Eulahe (Poe), 274 Europe, influence on American literature, 134, 152, 155, 163, 164, 173, 178, 179, 181-187, 195, 196, 203, 218, 242, 243, 248, 249, 288-292, 294, 314 European literature, 5 Eutaw Springs (Freneau), 107, 112 Ecangeline (Longfellow), 188, 189; compared, 292 376 INDEX. Evening Post, The, 142 Everett, Edward, 164, 236, 238, 246, 247 Exaggeration, the American spirit of, 330, 331 Excelsior (Longfellow), 184 Excursions in Criticism (Wat son), cited, 244 F Fable for Critics (Lowell), 130 140, 148, 161, 244 Fable of the Bees, TJie (Man- deville), mentioned, 85 Fall of the House of Usher, The (Poe), 270, 272, 274 Farmer's Allminax, The, 329 Farmer's Letter, The (Dickiu son), 78 " Father of American Song, The," 140 Faust, Goethe's (trans. Tay lor), 290 Federalist, The, 94, 95, 99, 150 Felton, Cornelius Conway, 200 Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Clemens — "Mark Twain "), cited, 140 Ferdinand and Isabella. See HISTORY, etc. Fiction, growth of, 309 et seq. Field, Eugene, 324 Fields, James Ticknor, cited, 199 Finland, influence on Ameri can literature, 186 Fisher, George P., cited, 73 Fiske, John, 815; cited, 24, 73, 99, 100 Florida, Spanish occupation of, 76 Florida Sunday, A (Lanier), 281 Folger, Peter, mentioned, 82 Folk-lore, 320 Foote, Mary Hallock, 325 Footsteps of Angels (Longfel low), 182, 183 For Annie (Poe), 272 Ford, Paul Leicester, cited, 92, 98, 99 Forest Hymn, A (Bryant), 147 Formation of the Union, The (Hart), 100 Forum, The, cited, 326 Four Elements, The (Brad- street), 58 Four Monarchies, The (Brad- street), 58 Four Seasons, The (Brad- street), 59 France, American literature in, 263; influence on Ameri can literature, 96, 182, 183, 185, 186, 195, 196, 261, 310; literature in, 149; posses sions in America, 76, 77 France and England in NortJi, America (Parkman), cited, 73 Franklin, Benjamin, 26, 72, 76, 77, 79-92, 115, 118, 143, 150; compared, 119, 329; quoted, 82; Autobiography, 82-84, 87, 89, 90, 92; Life: (McMaster) 92; (Morse) 92, (Parton) 92; Study List, 92. Franklin Bibliography, The (Ford), cited, 92 Franklin, James, mentioned, 84 Franklin, Josiah, mentioned, 81 Freedom of the Will, On the (Edwards), 66 French, Alice ("Octave Tha- net"), 325 French Revolution, influence on American literature, 101 French War and the Revolu tion, The (Sloane), 73 Freneau, Philip, 102, 103, 107, INDEX. 110-112, 115, 150; Study List, 112 Froissart's Chronicles (ed. La- nier), 278 Frothingham, O. B., cited, 178 Fuller, II. B., 325 Fuller, Margaret (Countess Ossoli), 172, 178; Life (Hig- ginson), cited, 178 Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 38, 39 Furness, Horace Howard, 293 Garland, Hamlin, 325, 326; cited, 186 Garnett, Richard, cited, 177 Garrison, William Lloyd, 201, 202, 220 Gates, Merrill E., cited, 283 Georgia, colonization of, 14; in literature, 319; literature in, 248, 254, 260, 261, 275 Georgia Scenes (Lougstreet), 261 Germany, influence on Ameri can literature, 33, 163, 164, 166, 169, 171, 182-186, 196, 252, 287 Gilder, J. B., cited, 246 Gilder, J. S., cited, 246 Gilder, Richard Watson, 308 Godfrey, Thomas (Mathema tician), 69 Godfrey, Thomas, Jr. (Poet), 70, 71 Godkin, E. L., 308 God's Controversy trith New England (Wigglesworth), 62 God's Protective Providence Man's Surest Help and De fence (Dickenson), 67 Godwin, Mary (Wollstone- craft), followed, 108 Godwin, Parke, cited, 148 Godwin, William, 108, 109, 111, 112 Goethe, translated, 290 Gold Bug, The (Poe), 269, 274 Gold-discoveries, influence oil American literature, 322, 323, 325 Goldsmith, Oliver, imitated, 106, 119, 12:j; Life (Irving), 126 Gosse, Edmund, cited, 275 Graham's Magazine, 158 Grandissimes, The (Cable), 321 Gray, Thomas, compared, 286; imitated, 69; Works (Reed), 293 Greece, the literature of, 4, 333 Greenfield Hill (Dwight), 106 Green River (Bryant), 147 Grimm, Herman, cited, 177 Griswold, Rufus Grinnell, cited, 246 Guardian Angel, The (Holmes), 217 Guenn (Howard), 315 Gulliver's Travels (Swift), imitated, 91 H Hail Columbia (Hopkinson), 102 Hale, Edward Everett, 201 Half Century of Conflict, A (Parkman), 235 Ilalleck, Fitz-Greene, 151-153, 289 Hamilton, Alexander, 94, 95, 99 Hamlet (Shakespeare), imi tated, 71 Hampden, John, compared, 24, 29 Hans Breitman Ballads, The (Leland), 287 3r*-Q I O INDEX. Hardy, Arthur Sherburne, 314 ' ' Harland, Marion. " See TER- HUXE, M. V. Harper's New Monthly Maga zine, 90, 308, 312 Harris, Joel Chandler, 261, 262, 319, 320 Hart, Albert Bushnell, cited, 100 Harte, Francis Bret, 323, 324 Harvard Book, The, quoted, 62 Harvard College, foundation of, 25; influence on American literature, 26, 28, 162, 213, 240 Haunted Palace, The(Poe), 274 Haunts and Homes of Our Elder Poets (Stoddard), 246 Haweis, Hugh Reginald, cited, 244, 245 Hawthorne, Julian, cited, 199 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7, 11, 46, 156, 160, 168, 181, 190- 199, 240, 242, 243, 268, 285, 310; compared, 111, 205, 211, 259, 264, 310, 320 ; quoted, 166, 174; Life: (Conway) 199, (Julian Hawthorne) 199, (James) 109; Study List, 199 Hay, John, 324 Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 256- 259; quoted, 251; Study List, 262 Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells), 313 Hearn, Lafcadio, 249, 321 Henley, W. E., cited, 190 Henry", Patrick, 7, 21, 77, 78, 99, 150; compared, 238; quoted, 93 ; Life (Wirt), 253 Herbert, Rev. George, com pared, 56 Heywood, John, imitated, 59 Hiawatha (Longfellow), 4, 186, 206 Higginson, Thomas Went- worth, 178, 201 Hildreth, Richard, cited, 73 Hill, David J., cited, 129, 148 Historical, etc., Account of . .. Pennsylvania and West New Jersey (Thomas), 67 Historical Essays (Adams), 72 History, the study of, 246, 315 History of American Literature (Tyler), 20, 24, 40, 41, 72, 112 History of Cooper slow n (Liver- more), 140 History of E/igland(M&c&u\ay), quoted, 35 History of My Own Times (Bur- net), quoted, 68 History of Newbury (Coffin), quoted, 55 History of New England (Pal frey), 55, 73 History of New England (Win- throp), 43-45 History of New York (Irving), 120-123, 133, 328 History of Plymouth (Brad ford), 42 History of Hie Conquest of Mexico (Prescott), 229 History of the Inquisition dur ing the Middle Ages (Lea), 293 History of the People of the United States (McMaster), 100, 118 History of the Reign of Ferdi nand and Isabella (Prescott), 228, 229, 246 History of the Reign of Philip II. (Prescott), 229 History of the United States (Adams), quoted, 157, 162 History of the United States (Bancroft), 73, 228, 246 History of the United States (Hildreth), 73 History of the United States Navy (Cooper), 134 INDEX. 379 History of the World '(Raleigh), followed, 58 lliittory of Virginia (Cooke), 253, 262 Hobbes, Thomas, influence on American literature, 96 Hoffman, Matilda, 120 Holland, influence on American literature, 81, 82, 85, 117, 120-122, 124, 128, 231-233 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 11, 160, 165, 211-218, 239, 240, 312; cited, 72, 177, 233, 242, 246; compared, 200, 218, 328; quoted, 167; Life: (Brown) 245, (Kennedy) 245; Life and Letters (Morse), 245; Study List, 244, 245 Holy Grail, Tie (Tennyson), compared, 244 Homer, compared, 320 Homes and Haunts of our Elder Poets (Stoddard), 190 Honeybee, To a (Freueau), 112 Hood, Thomas, compared, 215 Hoosier Schoolmaster, The (Eg- gleston), 325 Hopkinson, Francis, 102 Hopkinson, Joseph, 102 Horse Shoe Robinson (Kenne dy), 254 Hoars in a Library (Stephen), cited, 199 House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 195 Howard, Blanche Willis, 314, 315 Howe, E. W., 325 Howells, William Dean, 308, 309, 311-313; cited, 130; c >mpared, 321 Hotc to Tell a Story (Clemens) 140 Iludibras (Butler), imitated, 106 Hume, David, mentioned, 86 Humor. See AMERICAN Hu- MOK. Humphrey Clinker (Smollett), mentioned, 188 Hunt, Leigh, compared, 257 Hutchiuson, Col., compared, 29 Hutton, Richard Holt, cited, 199 Hylas (Taylor), 302 Hymns of the Marshes (Lan- ier), 281 Hyperion (Longfellow), 183, 184, 242 Ichdbod (Whittier), 245, 247 Idealistic philosophy, 163 Iliad, The (trans. Bryant) 143 Indiana, literature in, 261 Indian Burying Ground, The (Freneau), 107, 112 Indians and Indian legends, influence on and relation to American literature, 107, 110, 179, 222, 234, 235, 256, 310 Inferno (Dante), compared, 60 Innocents Abroad, The (Clem ens), 329, 330 International novel, the, 314 In the Harbor (Longfellow), 184 Irving, Pierre M., cited, 129 Irving, Washington, 10, 11, 115-130, 141, 142, 144, 148, 151, 179, 242, 284, 289, 306, 310; compared, 121, 140, 152, 212, 229, 259, 264, 328; the father of American prose, 116, 284; Life: (Hill) 129, (P. M.Irving) 129, (Warner) 94, 117, 129; Study List, 129, 130 Irving, William, 119 380 IKDEX. Italy, influence on American literature, 182, 183, 185, 195, 196, 312; poetic instinct in, 61 Jackson, Helen Hunt, 314 James, Henry, 309, 311, 313, 314; cited, 178, 199, 244 Jamestown, settlement of Vir ginia at, 15 Jane Talbot (C. B. Brown), 109 Janvier, Thomas A., 308 Jay, John, 94 Jefferson, Thomas, 95-99, 118, 150; Life: (Morse) 99, (Schouler) 99; Study List, 99; Works (Ford's ed.), 98, 99 Jesuits in North America, The (Parkman), 235 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 314 John of Barneveld, Life of (Motley), 246 Johns Hopkins University, 262, 278, 315 Johnson, Capt. Edward, quot ed, 26 Johnson, Samuel, compared, 213 Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 261, 319 "Josh Billings." See SHAW, HENHY W. Julian, cited. 55 Julius C(fsar (Shakespeare), imitated, 71 Junto, the, 85 K Kalevala, The, imitated, 186 Kalin, Peter de, quoted, 75 Kavanagh (Longfellow), quot ed, 186 Keats, John, compared, 203 Keith, George, 68 Kemble, John, mentioned, 119 Kennedy, JohnPeudleton, 254, 267 Kennedy, William S. (?), cited, ^245 Kentucky, the literature of, 261, 319 Key, Francis Scott, 102 King, Charles, 325 King, Grace, 319 Kirk, Ellen Olney, 314 Kirk, John Foster, 277 Kirkland, Joseph, 325 Knickerbocker school of liter ature, 11, 140. See also IRV ING, W. ; NEW YOKK. Laboulaye, Edouard, quoted, 81 Lady of the Aroostook, The (Howells), 313 La GriseUe (Holmes), 215, 244 Lamb, Charles, compared, 213 Lang, Andrew, cited, 275, 327 Lanier, Robert S., mentioned, 276 Lanier, Sidney, 261, 275-283; compared, 257; Biography (Baskervill), 283; Memorial (Ward), 283 ; Study List, 283 Lapland, influence on Ameri can literature, 186 Lars, a Pastoral of Norway (Taylor), 292, 302 La Salle, or the Discovery of the Great West (Parkman), 235 Last Leaf, The (Holmes), 214, 215, 244 Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 136, 139 Last Walk in Autumn, The (Whittier), 224 INDEX. 381 Lathrop, George Parsons, cited, 199 Laua Deo (VVhittier,) 223, 245 Lea, Henry C. , 293 Leather stocking Talcs, The (Cooper), 136, 137, 139, 140 Leaves of Grans (Whitman), 297, 298, 303 Led Horse Claim, The (Foote), 325 Lee, Richard Henry, 21, 93, 150; quoted, 78 Legend of Brittany (Lowell), 203 Lei/end of Sleepy Hollow, The (Irving), 123, 125, 129 Leland, Charles Godfrey, 286, 287 Letters of a British Spy ( Wirt), 253 Letters to Dead A utJiors ( Lang), cited, 275 Letter to GeorgeWythe (Jeffer son), 98 Liberator, 2%e (Garrison), men tioned, 2U2 Library of American Litera ture (Stedman and Hutcliin- son), cited 26, (51, 65, 112 Life in the Iron Mills ( Rebecca H. D.ivis), 314 Life of— — . For Lives of authors mentioned in this volume, see their names. Liyeia (Poe), 272, 274 Lincoln, Abraham, 167,238,329 Lincolnshire, England, influ ence on American settle ment, 23 Link, Samuel A., cited, 250, 262 Linnaeus, Charles von, quoted, 68 Lippincott's Magazine, 277, 278 Literary and Social Essays (Curtis), 130, 148, 177, 190, 199, 244, 245 Literary Emancipation of the West, The (Garland), 326 Literary Histoiy of tlce Ameri can Revolution, The (Tyler), 112 Literary movements, causes of, 156 Literary Recreations (Whit- tier), 190 Literati of New York, The (Poe), 268 Literature, what is, 7 Literature and Life (Whip- pie), 148 Literature of New York, The (Poe), 151 Little Giffen (F.O.Ticknor), 261 Little Sandpiper, The (Thax- ter), 316 Livermore, T. S., cited, 140 Locke, David Ross, 328 Locke, John, influence on American literature, 96 Locker- Lam pson, Frederick, compared, 245 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 315; cited. 73, 247; quoted, 17, 19, 237 Logan, James, 68 London, a literary center, 149 Longfellow, Henry Wads- worth, 4, 11, 144, 151, 156, 160, 165, 178-190, 208, 240- 243, 284, 312, 315; com pared, 107, 185, 187, 188, 190, 193, 202, 208, 218, 222, 259 264,301; Life; , Samuel Longfellow) 181, 189, 190, (Robertson) 190, Study List, 189, 190 Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, cited, 181, 189, 190 Longstreet, A. B., 261 Lost Leaders (Lang), quoted, 326 Louisiana, literature in, 254, 261, purchase of, 114, 137 382 INDEX. Lounsbury, Thomas R., 293, 294; cited, 140 Lowell, James Russell, 7, 11, 160, 167, 200, 202-211, 216, 240-243, 312, 315; cited, 130, 140, 148, 177, 178; com pared, 211, 218, 220, 221, 258, 264, 268, 301, 328; quoted, 31, 57, 62, 154, 161, 166, 171; Letters of (Norton), 244; Recollections and Ap preciations of (Underwood), 244; Study List, 244 Luck of Roaring Camp, The (Hart'e), 323 Lyra Elegantiarum (Locker- Lampson), cited, 245 Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), mentioned, 141 M Mabel Martin (Whittier), 222 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, cited, 35. 69 McFingal (Trtimbull), 104, 106 McMaster, John Bach, 315; cited, 92, 100, 118, 159 Madison, James, 94, 99, 150 Magnolia Christi Americana, 29, 47, 50-52, 56 Making of the Nation, The (Walker), 100 Mandeville, Bertrand, men tioned, 85 Manrique, Coplas de (trans. Longfellow), 184 Manuscript found in a Bottle (Poe), 266 Marble Faun, The (Haw thorne), 192, 195-199, 243 Marco Bozzaris (Halleck), 152 " Marion Harland." See TER- HTJNE, M. V. " Mark Twain." See CLEM ENS, S. L, Marlowe, Christopher, com pared, 264 Marmion (Scott), mentioned, 107 Mars' Chan' (Page), 320 Marshall, John, 22, 150, 253 Marston, John, quoted, 16 Martin Faber (Simms), 255 Marvin, Rev. A. P., cited, 72 Masque of the Red Death, Tlie (Poe), 271, 274 Massachusetts, as a literary center, 239-241 (see also BOSTON; CAMBRIDGE; COX- CORD; PLYMOUTH; SALEM); in the Revolution, 77, 78; the settlement of, 15, 25, 27, 29, 33, 42-49 Mather, Rev. Cotton, 46-53, 62 162; compared, 66, 72, 83, quoted, 29, 47-49, 56, 57, 60, 82; Life: (Peabody) 49. (Wendell) 72; Life and Times (Marvin), 72; Study List, 72 Mather, Rev. Increase, 46-48 Mather, Rev. Richard, 46, 47, 54 Mather, Rev Samuel, 47 Matthews, Brander, mentioned, 309 Maud Muller (Whittier), cited, 245 "Mayflower," the, 25, 42 Meh Lady (Page), 320 Memoires de Franklin (Auto biography, ed. Laboulaye), quoted, 81 Memoir of Motley (Holmes), 233 Memoranda During the War (Whitman), 297 Men and Letters (Scudder), 190 Merry Mount (Motley), 230 Michael Angelo, compared, 60 Middle Ages, influence on American literature, 183 INDEX. 383 Middle Colonies, literature of the, 67-72, 78 Middle States, the literature of the, 9, 11,102, 113 etseq., 150, 151, 155-159, 165, 242, 284-304, 309, 314-317, 332 Niggles (llarte), 323 Miller, Cincinnatus Ileiney (" Joaquin Miller "), 323, 324 Milton, John, 19, 30,42; cited, 179, 180; compared, 281; imitated, 69, 145, 146 Minister's Charge, The (How- ells), 313 Miscellanies (Prescott), 112 Monroe, James, 150 Montcalm and Wolfe (Park- man), 235 Moore, Frank, cited, 112 Moore, Thomas, imitated, 266, mentioned, 107, 157 Moritnri Salutamus (Longfel low), 189 Morley, John, cited, 178 Morris, George P., 154 Morris, William, compared, 257 Morse, John T. , Jr., cited, 92, 100, 245 Mortal Antipathy, A (Holmes), 217 Mortons Hope (Motley), 230 Mortuary poetry, 54-57 Mosses from an Old Manse (Hawthorne), 168, 194, 199; quoted, 166, 174 Motley, John Lothrop, 160, 200 230-233, 243; Correspond ence (Curtis), 246; Memoir (Holmes), 246; Study List, 246 Murfree, Mary N. (" Charles Egbert Crad'dock"), 318, 319 Music, in New England, 55 My Literary Passions (How- ells), 130 My Lost Youth (Longfellow), 181, 186, 189 My Springs (Lanier), 282, 283 Mystery of Marie llogel, The (Poe), 269 Mystic Trumpeter, The (Whit man), 303 My Study Windows (Lowell), 178 N Narrative and Critical History of America (\Vinsor), 73 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe), 270 " Nasby, Petroleum V." See LOCKE, D. R. Nation, The, 308 Nature (Emerson), 168, 169, 177, 202, 214 Nature (Longfellow), 189 Negro, influence on American literature, 311, 317-320. See also SLAVERY New England, the "academic" families of, 167, 202, 212, 218, 219, 240-242, 263; as a literary center, 239-243 (see also BOSTON; CAMBRIDGE, CONCORD ; MASSACHUSETTS ; PLYMOUTH; SALEM); early poetry of, 53-61; influence on American literature, 140, 141, 146, 147, 190-192, 311, 313-317; the literature of, 11, 22-26, 28, 30, 34, 41-67, 102, 149-151, 154^156, 159- 247, 252, 284-286, 307. 314, 320, 321, 332; music in, 55; the settlement of, 15, 25, 27, 29, 33-35, 42-49 New England Courant,The, 84 New Engla nd's First- Fru its , 25 New England Two Centuries Ago (Lowell), 31 New Jersey, 150 Newspaper, the first, in Am erica, 26 INDEX. Newtown, Mass., founding of Harvard College at, 26. See also CAMBRIDGE " New World of Letters The," 128 New York (city) as a literary center, 11, 21, 140, 151, 152", 154, 157-160, 250, 254, 256, 289, 307-310, 316, 317; founding of, 31; History of (Irving), 120-123; literature in, 285, 286, 289, 296, 297 New York Review and Athe- nceum Magazine, The, 142 New York (State), settlement of, 23, 31, 32, 35 New York Tribune, The, 288 Nichol, John, cited, 112 Nil Nisi Bonum (Thackeray), cited, 130 North, the literature of the, 9-11, 22-26, 28, 30, 32-35, 41-49, 72, 251 ; influence on American literature, 79. See also MASSACHUSETTS ; NEW ENGLAND North American Review, Tl/e, 142, 155, 209; quoted, 133 Norton, Charles Eliot, 200; cited. 238, 244 Norway, influence on Ameri can literature, 302 Notes on Virginia (Jefferson), 97,98 Nubia (Taylor), 292, 302 Nuremburg (Longfellow), 186 Nye, Edgar Wilson ("Bill Nye"), 328 Nymphidia (Drayton), com pared, 153 O Obiter Dicta (Birrell), cited, 178 0 Captain, My Captain (Whit man), 303 O'Connor's Child (Campbell), mentioned, 107 Odyssey, The (trans. Bryant), 143 Old Clock on the Stairs, The (Longfellow), 186 Old Ironsides (Holmes), 214, 244 Old Oaken Bucket, The (Wood- worth), 154 Old Regime in Canada, The (Parkman), 235 One-IIoss Shay, The (Holmes), 215, 244 Old South, The (Page), 251, 260, 262 One Summer (Howard), 314 Orations and Arguments by English and American States men (Bradley), 247 Orations of Edward Everett, 246 Oratory, influence on and rela tion to literature, 156, 235- 239 Oregon Trail, The (Parkman), 234 Orientalism, influence on Am erican literature, 166 Ormond(£. B. Brown), 109 " Orphic utterances," 171, 172 Ossoli, Countess. See FULLER, MARGARET. Otis, James, 77, 93, 150; Brief Biographical Memoir of Life of i Tudor), 77 Otsego Lake, 131, 137, 289 Our Dear Old Home (Haw thorne), 242 Our Hundred Days in Europe (Holmes), 242 Outcasts of Poker Flat, The (Harte), 323 Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics (Whipple), ,44 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Whitman), 303 INDEX. 385 Outre- Mer (Longfellow), 182, 183, 242 Overland Monthly, The, 323 Over the Teacups (Holmes), 216 Ovid (trans. Sandys), 40 Oxford University, influence on American literature, 24; recognizes American litera ture, 125 Page, Thomas Nelson, 249, 251, 260, 26'3, 319, 320 Pages from an Old Volume of Life (Holmes), 72 Palfrey, John Qorham, cited, 55, 73 Parker, Rev. Thomas, quoted, 29 Parkman, Francis, 200, 233- 235; cited, 73; Study List, 246 Parliament of Fowles, The (Chaucer), imitated, 71 Partial Portraits (James), 178 Partisan, The (Simms), 256 Par ton, James, cited, 92 Passionate Pilgrim, A (James), 313 Pathfinder, The (Cooper), 135, 136, 139 Patriotism, influence on Ameri can literature, 79. 101 etseq. , 113-115, 149, 153, 201-207, 210, 211, 214, 223, 236-239, 255, 256, 294, 297-299, 303 Paulding, James K., 119, 152 Paul Revere 's Hide (Longfel low), 189 Peabody, Oliver W. B., quoted, 49 Peal of Hells, On a (Thacker ay), cited, 140 Pen'n, William, 32, 33, 68 Pennsylvania, in literature, 110; in the Revolution, 77, 78; literature in, 67-72, 157, 285-293; settlement of, 23, 32-35. See also PHILADEL PHIA. Pennsylvania Freeman, The, 221 Pennsylvania Gazette. The, 85 Percival, James G., 155 " Petroleum V. Nasby." See LOCKE, D. R. Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. See WARD, E. S. P. Philadelphia, as a literary cen ter, 20, 32-35, 68-70, 85, 86, 151, 156-160, 250 ; influence on literature, 150; poetry in, 69-71. See also PENNSYL VANIA. Philadelphia Library, the, 86 PItiladelpJda Magazines and their Contributors, The (Smyth), 158 Philistine, the American, 330 Phillips, Wendell, 201, 236, 238; compared, 238 Phips, Sir William, men- tioned, 55 Pickard, Samuel T., cited, 246 Pierrepont, Sarah, mentioned, 65 Pike County Ballads (Hay), 324 Pilot, TJie (Cooper), 134, 138, 139 Pinknev, Edward Coate, 155, 253 Pioneers, 0 Pioneers (Whit, man), 303 Pioneers, The (Cooper), 131, 134, 136, 137 Pioneers of France in the New World (Parkmau), 235 Pioneers of Southern Litera ture (Link), 250, 262 Pirate, The (Scott), compared, 138 INDEX. Plato, influence on American literature, 166 Play of the Weather, The (Hey- wood), imitated, 59 Plymouth, Mass., the settle ment of, 15, 27, 29, 42, 43 Poe, David, 264, 265 Poe, Edgar Allan, 151, 251, 260, 262-275, 285, 310; com- pared, 111, 275, 280, 310; criticised, 278 ; Life (Steel - man and Woodberry), 274, 275; Study List, 274, 275 Poems of the Orient (Taylor), 292 Poet at the Breakfast- Table, The (Holmes), 216 Poetry, growth of, 150; patri otic stimulus to American, 101 et seq. Poetry, a Metrical Essay (Holmes), 214 Poets and Novelists (Smith), 199 Poets of America (Stedrnan), 148, 178, 190, 244-246, 275, 291, 302 Political literature, 92 et seq. Politics, influence on Ameri can literature, 195, 251 Poor Richard's Almanach (Franklin), 87-89, 92; com pared, 329 Pope, Alexander, compared, 206 ; imitated, 69, 71, 91, 105, 106, 145 ; influence on American literature, 164, 252; decline of his influence, 145 Portfolio, The, 157, 158 Portland Gazette, The, 181 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, compared, 215 Prairies, The (Bryant), 147 Prairies, The (Cooper), 136, 137 Precaution (Cooper), 132, 152 Presbyterian Review, The, 283 Prescott, William Hickling, 160,200,228-230; cited, 112, compared, 233 ; Life (Tick- nor), 246; Miscellanies, 112; Study List, 246 Present Crisis, The (Lowell), 204, 244 Present State of Virginia, The (Beverly), cited, 27 Prince Deukalion (Taylor), 290 Prince of Parthia, The (God frey), 71 Printing-press, introduction into America, 18, 19, 26, 34 Prior, Matthew, compared, 215, 245 " Priscilla," 180; compared, 321 Professor at the Breakfast- Table, The (Holmes), 216 Prophet, The (Taylor), 290 Prose Writers of America, (Griswold), 246 Proverbs, 88 Psalm of Life (Longfellow), 184, 189 Psalm of the West, The (Lan- ier), 278, 281, 283 Psalms, metrical versions of the, 26, 54, 55, 70 Puritan influences on literature, 14-16, 19-35, 41-49, 52, 53, 55, 59, 63, 65, 72, 82, 83, 127, 140, 141, 147, 150, 155, 156, 159, 160 et seq., 187, 190-193, 198,203, 212, 217-219, 239- 241, 243, 316 Putnam, George P., cited, 130 Q Quakers, influence on Ameri can literature, 33, 35, 67, 68, 218, 219, 221, 222, 226, 287, 288,303 INDEX. 38: Quaker Widow, The (Taylor), 202 Questions at Issue (Gosse), cited, 275 R Radcliffe, Ann, 110 Rain in, Summer (Longfellow), 189 Raleigh, Sir Walter, followed, 58 Raven, The (Poe), 263, 272, 274 Read, Thomas Buchanan, 286 Realistic school of fiction, the, 310 et seq. 