INDEX
Reading edition
INDEX
A
Adams, C. F,
7
.
Adams, John, opinion of American independence,
11
-
12
; as a writer,
73
.
Adams, Samuel,
73
-
74
,
209
.
After the Burial
, Lowell,
172
.
Agassiz, Fiftieth Birthday of
, Longfellow,
156
.
Age of Reason
, Paine,
75
.
Ages, The
, Bryant,
104
.
Alcott, Bronson,
118
,
119
,
139
-
140
.
Aldrich, T. B.,
256
-
257
.
Alhambra, The
, Irving,
91
.
Allen, J. L.,
247
.
American Anthology
, Stedman,
256
.
American characteristics,
3
-
5
.
American colonies, literature in the 17th century,
25
-
42
; journalism,
60
-
62
; education,
62
-
63
; science,
63
-
64
; bibliography of the literature,
269
-
270
.
American colonists, predominantly English,
12
-
25
; motives for emigration,
16
; moulded by pioneer life,
17
-
23
; in 1760,
59
-
60
.
"American idea,"
206
-
207
.
American life since the Civil War,
234
et seq
.
American literature, the term,
6
.
American Mercury
,
61
.
American Scholar, The
, Emerson,
123
.
Ames, Fisher,
88
.
Among my Books
, Lowell,
170
.
Andrew Rykman's Prayer
, Whittier,
161
.
Annabel Lee
, Poe,
192
.
Anthologies, American,
269
.
Arsenal at Springfield, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Assignation, The
, Poe,
193
.
Astoria
, Irving,
91
.
Atala
, Châteaubriand,
96
.
Atlantic Monthly
,
161
,
167
,
170
,
250
,
257
.
Autobiography
, Franklin,
58
-
59
.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The
, Holmes,
164
,
167
.
B
Bacchus
, Emerson,
129
.
Ballad of the French Fleet, A
, Longfellow,
155
.
Bancroft, George,
89
,
176
,
177
-
178
.
Barefoot Boy, The
, Whittier,
158
.
Bartol, C. A.,
115
.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
, Howe,
224
,
225
.
Battle of the Kegs, The
, Hopkinson,
69
.
Bay Psalm Book
,
35
.
Beecher, H. W.,
216
-
217
.
Belfry of Bruges, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Bells, The
, Poe,
5
-
6
,
192
.
Biglow Papers, The
, Lowell,
170
,
172
,
173
.
Black Cat, The
, Poe,
194
.
Blaine, J. G., quoted,
163
.
Blithedale Romance, The
, Hawthorne,
145
-
146
,
150
-
151
.
Boston News-Letter
,
60
.
Boy's Town, A
, Howells,
250
.
Bracebridge Hall
, Irving,
91
.
Bradford, William,
28
.
Bradstreet, Anne,
36
-
37
.
Bridge, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Briggs, C. F., quoted,
190
.
Brook Farm,
140
,
143
.
Brooklyn Eagle, The
,
199
.
Brown, Alice,
249
,
250
.
Brown University,
62
.
Brownell, H. H.,
225
.
Brownson, Orestes,
141
.
Bryant, W. C., one of the Knickerbocker Group,
89
; personal appearance,
101
; life and, writings,
101
-
106
; died (1878),
255
.
"Buffalo Bill,"
see
Cody, W. F.
Building of the Ship, The
, Longfellow,
155
.
Burroughs, John,
262
.
By Blue Ontario's Shore
, Whitman,
204
.
Byrd, William,
44
.
C
Cable, G. W.,
246
.
Calef, Robert,
43
.
Calhoun, J. C.,
215
.
Calvinism in New England,
18
-
19
.
Cambridge Thirty Years Ago
, Lowell,
174
.
Captain Bonneville
, Irving,
91
.
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted,
139
.
Cask of Amontillado, The
, Poe,
193
.
Cavell, Edith, quoted,
266
.
Cawein, Madison,
257
.
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The
, Clemens,
237
.
Century Magazine
,
256
.
Changeling, The
, Lowell,
172
.
Channing, Edward,
13
.
Channing, W. E.,
112
,
113
,
119
,
142
.
Châteaubriand, Vicomte de,
96
-
97
.
Children's Hour, The
, Longfellow,
157
.
Chita, Hearn
,
248
.
Chinese Ghosts
, Hearn,
248
.
Choate, Rufus,
215
.
Church, Captain,
39
.
Circuit Rider, The
, Eggleston,
247
.
City in the Sea, The
, Poe,
189
.
Clark, Roger,
41
.
Clarke, J. F.,
141
.
Clay, Henry,
208
,
209
-
211
.
Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain), attacks Cooper's novels,
99
; quoted,
236
; life and writings,
237
-
240
; typically American,
265
.
Cobbler Keezar's Vision
, Whittier,
161
.
Cody, W. F. (Buffalo Bill),
243
.
Columbus, Life of
, Irving,
91
.
Commemoration Ode
, Lowell,
170
,
172
.
Common Sense
, Paine,
75
.
Conquest of Granada
, Irving,
91
.
Conquest of Mexico
, Prescott,
179
.
Conquest of Peru
, Prescott,
179
.
Conspiracy of Pontiac, The
, Parkman,
184
.
Cooke, Rose Terry,
249
.
Cooper, J. F.,
95
-
101
,
265
.
Cotton, John,
18
,
32
.
Courtship of Miles Standish
, Longfellow,
155
.
"Craddock, C. E.,"
see
Murfree, Mary N.
Cranch, C. P.,
141
.
Crisis, The
, Paine,
75
.
Cristus
, Longfellow,
155
-
156
.
Cromwell, Oliver,
10
.
Crothers, S. M.,
262
-
263
.
Crowded Street, The
, Bryant,
106
.
Curtis, G. W.,
93
,
141
,
181
.
D
Dana, C. A.,
141
.
Day is Done, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Day of Doom, The
, Wigglesworth,
35
-
36
.
Deerslayer, The
, Cooper,
99
.
Democratic Review
,
199
.
Dial
,
136
,
140
.
Drake, J. R.,
107
.
Drama, American, in the 20th century,
259
-
260
.
Dred
, Stowe,
223
.
Drum Taps
, Whitman,
201
.
Dwight, Timothy,
69
.
E
Edict of the King of Prussia against England
, Franklin,
58
.
Edinburgh Review, The
,
88
.
Edwards, Jonathan,
32
,
45
,
48
-
52
.
Eggleston, Edward,
247
.
Eliot, John,
19
,
38
.
Elsie Venner
, Holmes,
168
.
Embargo, The
, Bryant,
102
.
Emerson, R. W., in 1826,
89
; a Transcendentalist,
113
-
117
; quoted,
116
-
117
; life and writings,
119
-
130
; died (1882),
255
; typically American,
265
; argues for American books,
266
.
England in the 17th century,
13
.
English Traits
, Emerson,
128
.
Essay on Man
, Pope,
55
.
Essays
, Emerson,
125
-
126
,
127
,
128
.
Essays of the 20th century,
262
-
263
.
Eternal Goodness, The
, Whittier,
161
.
Ethan Brand
, Hawthorne,
134
.
Evangeline
, Longfellow,
155
.
Evening Revery, An
, Bryant,
106
.
Everett, Edward, Oration at Cambridge (1826),
86
; quoted,
87
; lectures,
111
-
112
; estimate of,
215
; quoted,
230
.
Excelsior
, Longfellow,
5
-
6
,
156
.
Exiles' Departure
, Whittier,
159
.
F
Fable for Critics
, Lowell,
170
.
Fall of the House of Usher, The
, Poe,
193
.
Farewell Address
, Washington,
66
.
Farewell Sermon
, Edwards,
51
.
Farmer Refuted, The
, Hamilton,
76
.
Faust (translation), Taylor,
255
.
Federalist
,
65
,
76
,
77
.
Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Reign of
, Prescott,
179
.
Fiction of the 20th century,
261
-
262
.
Fire of Driftwood, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
First Snowfall, The
, Lowell,
172
.
Flood of Years, The
, Bryant,
106
.
Forest Hymn, A
, Bryant,
106
.
Franklin, Benjamin, born (1706),
44
; attitude toward church,
44
; exponent of New England life,
45
; life and writings,
52
-
59
; conducts
Courant
,
61
; activity in Philadelphia,
61
-
62
. letter from Washington to,
78
-
79
; typically American,
265
.
Freeman, Mary Wilkins,
249
,
250
.
Freneau, Philip,
69
,
70
-
72
.
Frontenac
, Parkman,
185
.
Frost, Robert,
258
.
Fugitive slave act,
144
.
Fuller, Margaret,
119
,
140
-
141
.
G
Garrison, W. L.,
89
-
90
,
137
,
159
,
208
,
217
-
218
.
Gettysburg Address
, Lincoln,
230
-
231
.
Gilded Age, The
, Clemens,
237
-
238
.
God Glorified in Man's Dependence
, Edwards,
50
.
Gold Bug, The
, Poe,
193
.
Gookin, Daniel,
38
.
Greeley, Horace,
217
-
218
.
Greenslet, Ferris,
169
.
H
Hale, E. E.,
224
.
Half-Century of Conflict, A
, Parkman,
185
.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene,
107
.
Hamilton, Alexander,
76
-
77
.
Hanging of the Crane, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Harris, J. C.,
246
.
Harte, Bret,
240
-
242
.
Harvard, John,
16
.
Harvard College,
62
.
Haunted Palace, The
, Poe,
192
.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in 1826,
89
; opinion of Bryant,
105
; opinion of Transcendentalism,
143
; life and writings,
144
-
152
; typically American,
265
.
Hayne, Paul,
225
.
Hazard of New Fortunes, A
, Howells,
251
.
Hearn, Lafcadio,
248
.
Hecker, Father,
141
.
Henry, Patrick,
72
,
209
.
Herons of Elmwood, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Hiawatha
, Longfellow,
155
.
Higginson, T. W.,
142
,
262
.
Holmes, O. W., in 1826,
89
; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143
; life and writings,
163
-
168
; died (1894),
255
.
Home Sweet Home
, Payne,
107
.
Hooker, Thomas,
21
-
22
,
30
-
31
.
Hoosier Schoolmaster, The
, Eggleston,
247
.
House of the Seven Gables, The
, Hawthorne,
145
,
150
.
Hovey, Richard,
257
.
Howells, W. D.,
93
,
234
-
235
,
250
-
251
,
265
.
Hubbard, William,
39
.
Huckleberry Finn
, Clemens,
238
.
Humorists, American,
239
.
Hutchinson, Anne,
32
.
Hutchinson, Thomas,
12
.
Hyperion
, Longfellow,
152
.
I
Indian Wars
, Hubbard,
39
.
Indians, in literature,
37
-
40
; Thoreau's notes on,
136
.
Innocents Abroad
, Clemens,
237
,
239
.
Irving, Washington,
89
,
90
-
95
.
Israfel
, Poe,
189
,
192
.
J
Jackson, Andrew,
5
.
Jackson, Helen Hunt,
248
.
James, Henry,
250
,
251
-
255
.
Jay, John,
65
.
Jefferson, Thomas,
79
-
85
,
265
.
Jesuits in North America, The
, Parkman,
185
.
Jewett, Sarah Orne,
249
,
250
.
John of Barneveld, Life and Death of
, Motley,
181
.
Johnson, Edward, Captain,
38
.
Joshua Whitcomb
, Thompson,
248
.
Journal
, Emerson,
122
,
125
,
127
,
235
.
Journal
, Thoreau,
134
,
135
.
Journal
, Woolman,
69
.
Journal and Correspondence
, Longfellow,
216
.
Journalism, in the colonies,
60
-
62
; in 20th century,
263
-
264
.
K
Kemble, Fanny,
245
-
246
.
Kennedy, J. P.,
245
.
King, Grace,
247
.
King, Starr,
262
.
King Philip's War,
39
-
40
.
King's College (Columbia),
62
.
Knickerbocker group of writers,
89
; works by,
270
.
L
Languishing Commonwealth
, Walley,
41
.
Lanier, Sidney,
255
-
256
.
La Salle
, Parkman,
185
.
Last Leaf, The
, Holmes,
166
.
Last of the Mohicans, The
, Cooper,
89
,
98
,
99
.
Leather-Stocking Tales
, Cooper,
97
-
99
.
Leaves of Grass
, Whitman,
197
,
200
,
202
-
203
.
Letters
, Motley,
181
.
Letters from an American Farmer
, Crèvecœur,
60
,
68
.
Liberator, The
,
137
,
217
,
218
.
Library of American Biography
,
176
.
Life on the Mississippi
, Clemens,
237
.
Ligeia
, Poe,
193
.
Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes uncertainty in the nation,
2
; would have approved Winthrop,
29
; address at Cooper Union (1860),
104
-
105
; quoted,
155
; as a writer of liberty,
208
; character and writings,
226
-
233
; typically American,
265
.
Lionel Lincoln
, Cooper,
98
.
Literati
, Pope,
107
.
Little Women
, Alcott,
140
.
London, Jack,
243
-
244
.
London in 1724,
54
-
56
.
Longfellow, H. W., in 1826,
89
; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143
; life and writings,
152
-
157
; died (1882),
255
; disparagement of,
267
.
Longstreet, A. B.,
245
.
Louisiana Purchase,
88
.
Lowell, J. R., in 1826,
90
; attitude toward Transcendentalism,
143
; life and writings,
168
-
174
; died (1891),
255
; typically American,
265
.
Luck of Roaring Camp, The
, Harte,
241
.
Lyceum system,
175
.
M
McFingal
, Trumbull,
69
.
Magazines, in colonies,
60
-
61
; in 20th century,
263
-
264
.
Magnalia Christi Americana
, Mather,
46
,
47
.
Maidenhood
, Longfellow,
156
.
Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg, The
, Clemens,
238
.
Man Without a Country
, Hale,
224
.
Marble Faun, The
, Hawthorne,
146
,
151
.
Marshes of Glynn, The
, Lanier,
255
.
Martin Chuzzlewit
, Dickens,
87
.
Mason, John, Captain,
38
.
Massachusetts to Virginia
, Whittier,
160
.
Mather, Cotton,
43
,
45
-
48
; diary,
46
-
47
.
Mather, Increase,
43
.
Maud Muller
, Whittier,
5
-
6
.
Memorial Odes
, Lowell,
172
.
Miller, C. H. (Joaquin),
244
.
Minister's Black Veil, The
, Hawthorne,
30
.
Minister's Wooing, The
, Stowe,
223
.
Modern Instance, A
, Howells,
251
.
Montcalm and Wolfe
, Parkman,
185
.
Moody, W. V.,
257
.
Morituri Salutamus
, Longfellow,
156
.
Morris, G. P.,
107
.
Mosses from an Old Manse
, Hawthorne,
145
.
Motley, J. L.,
143
-
144
,
176
,
180
-
182
.
Muir, John,
244
-
245
.
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
, Poe,
194
.
Murfree, Mary N. (C. E. Craddock),
247
.
My Garden Acquaintance
, Lowell,
174
.
My Literary Friends and Acquaintances
, Howells,
251
.
My Literary Passions
, Howells,
250
.
My Lost Youth
, Longfellow,
156
.
My Mark Twain
, Howells,
251
.
My Psalm, Whittier
,
160
.
My Study Windows
, Lowell,
170
.
Mysterious Stranger, The
, Clemens,
238
.
N
National Gazette
,
71
.
National Literature
, Channing,
112
.
National Ode
, Taylor,
255
.
Nature
, Emerson,
123
,
128
,
131
.
Nature-writing,
262
.
Netherlands, History of the United
, Motley,
181
.
New England, a digression from English society,
14
; at the beginning of 18th century,
43
-
44
; characteristics of the people of,
109
-
111
; in last quarter of 19th century,
248
et seq
.
New England, History of
, Winthrop,
28
-
29
.
New England Courant
,
61
.
New National period in American literature,
234
et seq
.; bibliography,
272
.
New York at beginning of 18th century,
44
.
New York Tribune
,
140
,
218
.
Newburyport Free Press
,
90
,
159
.
Newspapers, in colonies,
60
-
61
; in 20th century,
263
-
264
.
North American Review
,
88
,
103
,
104
,
112
,
170
.
North Carolina in 1724,
44
.
North of Boston
, Frost,
261
.
Norwood, Colonel,
27
.
O
Oakes, Urian,
41
.
Old Creole Days
, Cable,
246
.
Old Homestead, The
, Thompson,
248
.
Old Ironsides
, Holmes,
166
.
Old Manse,
119
,
120
,
145
.
Old Régime, The
, Parkman,
185
.
Old Swimmin' Hole, The
, Riley,
247
.
Oldtown Fireside Stories
, Stowe,
223
.
Oldtown Folks
, Stowe,
223
.
Olmsted, F. L.,
246
.
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners
, Lowell,
174
.
Oratory in America,
208
et seq
.
Oregon Trail, The
, Parkman,
184
.
Otis, James,
72
,
73
.
Our Hundred Days
, Holmes,
168
.
Outcast of Poker Flat, The
, Harte,
242
.
Outre-mer
, Longfellow,
152
.
Overland Monthly
,
240
.
P
Page, T. N.,
246
,
247
.
Paine, Thomas,
74
-
76
.
Parker, Theodore,
115
,
119
,
141
,
209
.
Parkman, Francis,
143
-
144
,
176
,
182
-
186
.
Passage to India
, Whitman,
204
.
Passionate Pilgrim, A
, James,
253
.
Pathfinder, The
, Cooper,
99
.
Pattee, F. L.,
236
.
Paul Revere's Ride
, Longfellow,
155
.
Paulding, J. K.,
107
.
Payne, J. H.,
107
.
Pennsylvania, University of,
62
.
Pennsylvania Gazette
,
62
.
Pennsylvania Magazine
,
74
.
Pequot War (1637),
38
-
39
.
Percy, George,
27
,
38
.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart,
249
.
Philip II, History of the Reign of
, Prescott,
179
.
Phillips, Wendell,
208
,
215
-
216
.
Picture of New York
, Mitchill,
90
.
Pilot, The
, Cooper,
98
.
Pioneers, O Pioneers
, Whitman,
204
.
Pioneers, The
, Cooper,
97
-
98
,
99
.
Pioneers of France, The
, Parkman,
185
.
Pirate, The
, Scot,
98
.
Plymouth Plantation, History of
, Bradford,
28
-
29
.
Poe, E. A., "literature of escape,"
8
; in 1826,
89
; in New York,
108
; life and writings,
187
-
196
.
Poet at the Breakfast Table, The
, Holmes,
168
.
Poetry, Revolutionary verse,
69
-
72
; of freedom,
223
et seq
.; of the 20th century,
260
-
261
.
Poets and Poetry of America
, Griswold,
107
.
Poor Richard
, Franklin,
20
,
57
.
Pory, John,
27
.
Prairie, The
, Cooper,
98
,
99
.
Precaution
, Cooper,
97
.
Prescott, W. H.,
89
,
143
-
144
,
176
,
178
-
180
.
Present Crisis, The
, Lowell,
172
.
Prince of Parthia, The
,
260
.
Professor at the Breakfast Table, The
, Holmes,
168
.
Psalm of Life, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Psalm of the West
, Lanier,
255
.
Publick Occurrences
,
60
.
Puritans, The,
34
-
35
.
Purloined Letter, The
, Poe,
193
.
Q
Quarterly, The
,
88
.
R
Rainy Day, The
, Longfellow,
156
.
Ramona
, Jackson,
248
.
Ramoth Hill
, Whittier,
138
.
Raven, The
, Poe,
192
.
Read, T. B.,
225
.
Reality of Spiritual Life, The
, Edwards,
50
.
Reaper and the Flowers, The
, Longfellow,
153
.
Red Rover, The
, Cooper,
98
.
Religious freedom in the colonies,
16
.
René
, Châteaubriand,
96
.
Repplier, Agnes,
262
.
Revolution, influence upon literature,
66
et seq
.; bibliography,
270
.
Rights of Man, The
, Paine,
75
.
Riley, J. W.,
247
,
257
-
259
.
Ripley, George,
141
.
Rise of Silas Lapham, The
, Howells,
251
.
Rise of the Dutch Republic
, Motley,
180
.
Rivulet, The
, Bryant,
106
.
Robinson, John,
11
.
Roderick Hudson
, James,
253
.
Rolfe, John,
38
.
Romanticism in American literature,
187
et seq
. Roosevelt, Theodore,
243
.
Roughing It
, Clemens,
10
,
237
.
Rowlandson, Mary,
39
.
Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One
, Franklin,
58
.
Russell, Irwin,
246
.
S
Salem "witchcraft,"
43
.
Salmagundi Papers
, Irving and Paulding,
91
.
Sanborn, F. B.,
142
.
Sandys, George,
27
.
Scarlet Letter, The
, Hawthorne,
7
,
30
,
145
,
146
,
148
,
149
-
150
.
School-Days
, Whittier,
158
.
Scott, Sir Walter,
95
.
Scribner's Monthly
,
256
.
Scudder, Horace,
169
.
Seaweed
, Longfellow,
156
.
Sewell, Samuel, Judge,
47
-
48
.
Shepard, Thomas,
16
,
31
-
32
.
Short story, the,
261
-
262
.
Sill, E. R.,
257
.
Simms, W. G.,
245
,
246
.
Simple Cobbler of Agawam, The
, Ward,
37
.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
, Edwards,
50
.
Skeleton in Armor, The
, Longfellow,
155
.
Sketch Book
, Irving,
89
,
91
.
Skipper Ireson's Ride
, Whittier,
161
.
Slavery, influence on literature,
207
et seq
.
Slavery in Massachusetts
, Thoreau,
137
.
Smith, F. H.,
247
.
Smith, John,
8
-
10
,
20
,
38
.
Smith, Sydney, quoted,
88
-
89
.
Snow-Bound
, Whittier,
158
,
161
-
162
.
Snow-Image and Other Tales, The
, Hawthorne,
145
.
Songs of Labor
, Whittier,
161
.
South Carolina in 1724,
44
.
South, The, in American literature, 245
et seq
. Sparks, Jared,
176
.
Spofford, Harriet Prescott,
249
.
Spoon River Anthology
, Masters,
261
.
Spy, The
, Cooper,
89
,
97
,
98
.
Stamp Act (1765),
59
.
Star-Spangled Banner, The
, Key,
107
,
225
.
Stedman, E. C.,
225
,
256
.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
219
-
223
,
249
.
Strachey, William,
26
,
38
.
Summary View of the Rights of British America, A
, Jefferson,
80
.
Sumner, Charles,
216
.
Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line
, Lowell,
174
.
T
Tales of a Traveler
, Irving,
91
.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
, Longfellow,
155
.
Tamerlane and Other Poems
, Poe,
89
.
Taylor, Bayard,
255
.
Telling the Bees
, Whittier,
158
.
Tennessee's Partner
, Harte,
242
.
Thanatopsis
, Bryant,
103
,
104
,
106
.
Thomas, Edith,
257
.
Thompson, Denman,
248
.
Thoreau, H. D., representative of New England thought,
119
; life and writings,
130
-
139
; nature-writing,
262
; typically American,
265
.
Ticknor, George,
89
,
111
,
178
,
216
.
Timrod, Henry,
225
.
To Helen
, Poe,
189
,
192
.
Tom Sawyer
, Clemens,
238
.
Tour of the Prairies
, Irving,
91
.
Transcendentalism,
111
et seq.
,
218
; bibliography,
270
-
271
.
Tritemius
, Whittier,
161
.
True Relation
, Smith,
8
-
10
,
25
-
26
.
True Repertory of the Wrack of Sir Thomas Gates, Kt. vpon and from the Islands of the Bermudas
, Strachey,
26
.
Tuckerman, F. G., quoted,
117
.
Twain, Mark,
see
Clemens, S. L.
Twice-Told Tales
, Hawthorne,
148
.
Tyler, Professor,
64
.
U
Ulalume
, Poe,
192
.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
, Stowe,
98
,
208
,
219
,
220
-
223
.
Union of the Colonies
, Franklin,
59
.
Unitarianism,
112
-
113
.
V
Verplanck, J. C.,
107
.
Very, Jones,
141
.
Virginia, a continuation of English society,
14
; in 1724,
44
.
Virginia House of Burgesses, Address of the
, Jefferson,
80
.
Virginians, The
, Thackeray,
45
.
Vision of Sir Launfal, The
, Lowell,
170
,
172
.
W
Walden
, Thoreau,
131
,
134
,
135
.
Walley, Thomas,
41
.
Warner, C. D.,
93
.
Washington, George,
64
-
65
,
66
,
77
-
78
.
Waterfowl, To a
, Bryant,
103
,
106
.
Webster, Daniel, eulogy for Adams and Jefferson,
86
-
87
; civic note in oratory of,
208
; criticism of Clay,
210
; his oratory,
211
-
215
.
Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, A
, Thoreau,
131
.
Wendell, Barrett,
6
.
West, The, in American literature,
237
et seq
.
Westchester Farmer, The
, Seabury,
76
.
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed
, Whitman,
201
.
When the Frost is on the Punkin
, Riley,
248
.
Whitaker, Alexander,
26
-
27
,
38
.
Whitman, Walt, in 1826,
90
; in New York,
108
; life and writings,
196
-
205
; died (1892),
255
; typically American,
265
; argues for American books,
266
.
Whittier, J. G., in 1826,
90
; attitude towards Transcendentalism,
143
; life and writings,
157
-
164
; died (1892),
255
.
William and Mary College,
62
.
William Wilson
, Poe,
194
.
Williams, Roger,
2
,
16
,
19
,
32
-
34
,
38
,
40
-
41
.
Willis, N. P.,
107
.
Winthrop, John,
17
,
18
,
28
-
29
.
Wirt, William,
245
.
Wister, Owen,
243
.
Wonder-Book, The
, Hawthorne,
145
,
147
.
Woodberry, George,
257
.
Woodworth, Samuel,
107
.
Woolman, John,
69
.
Wreck of the Hesperus, The
, Longfellow,
155
.
Y
Yale University, 62. Years of my Youth, Howells, 250.