Volume 7 — HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS
Reading edition
A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers.
Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672.
Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.
B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers.
I. The Earlier Group.
William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842.
WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859.
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.
William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.
William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.
II. The Civil War Group.
George Bancroft, 1800-1891.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894.
John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891.
Francis Parkman, 1823-1893.
III. Later Writers.
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892.
Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903.
Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908.
Mark Twain, 1835-1910.
Eugene Field, 1850-1895.