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, 3d, 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

Notes in this chapter

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