A History of American Literature

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

BY PERCY H. BOYNTON

CONTENTS

Preface
I.
The Seventeenth Century
II.
The Earliest Verse
III.
The Transition to the Eighteenth Century
IV.
Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
V.
Crèvecœur, the “American Farmer”
VI.
The Poetry of the Revolution and Philip Freneau
VII.
The Early Drama
VIII.
Charles Brockden Brown
IX.
Irving and the Knickerbocker School
X.
James Fenimore Cooper
XI.
William Cullen Bryant
XII.
Edgar Allan Poe
XIII.
The Transcendentalists
XIV.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
XV.
Henry David Thoreau
XVI.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
XVII.
John Greenleaf Whittier
XVIII.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
XIX.
James Russell Lowell
XX.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
XXI.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
XXII.
Some Metropolitan Poets
XXIII.
The Poetry of the South
XXIV.
Walt Whitman
XXV.
The West and Mark Twain
XXVI.
The West in Sill and Miller
XXVII.
The Rise of Fiction; William Dean Howells
XXVIII.
Contemporary Drama
XXIX.
The Later Poetry
INDEX TO LEADING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS