II LISTS FOR STUDY AND READING I. GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND REFERENCES (A) C. F. Richardson's American Literature, 2 vols., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. M. C. Tyler's History of American Literature during the Colonial Time, 2 vols., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. M. C. Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution, 2 vols., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Wendell's Literary History of America, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. (B) E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck's Cyclopedia of American Literature, 2 vols., Charles Scribner, 1855. E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson's Library of American Literature, 11 vols., Webster & Co., 1887-90. E. C. Stedman's American Anthology, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900. II. SPECIAL AUTHORITIES AND REFERENCES CHAPTER I. THE PURITAN WRITERS (A) Campbell's Anne Bradstreet and Her Time, D. Lothrop & Co., 1891. B. Wendell's Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest, 'Makers of America Series," 1891. Allen's Jonathan Edwards, "American Religious Leaders Series," 1889. (B) The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, edited by D. H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867. Mather's Magnalia, 2 vols., Hartford, 1853. Jonathan Edwards's Works, Carvill (New York), 1830. (There is also a Bohn edition, 2 vols.) Many selections from other works in this period will be found in Stedman and Hutchinson; and not a few in Tyler. CHAPTER II. THE SECULAR WRITERS M. S. Austin's Life of Freneau. (A) The Federalist, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1897. (B) Sarah Knight's Journal, reprinted in Albany, 1865. The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Mass. Hist. Soc., 1878-1882. Philip Freneau's Poems, reprinted by J. R. Smith (London), 1861. Sneath and Trumbull's McFingal, edited by B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880. Works of Fisher Ames, 2 vols., Little, Brown & Co., 1854. CHAPTER III. THE PHILADELPHIA PERIOD (A) McMaster's Life of Franklin, "American Men of Letters Series," 1887. Morse's Life of Franklin, " American Statesmen Series," 1889. William H. Prescott's Life of Charles Brockden Brown (printed in Sparks's Library of American Biography, and in Prescott's Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, Lippincott, 1845). (B) Poor Richard's Almanack, "Thumb-Nail Series," The Century Co., 1898. Franklin's Life, Written by Himself, edited by John Bigelow, 3 vols., J. B. Lippincott, 1874. Franklin's Works, edited by John Bigelow, 3 vols., Lippincott, 1875. Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 6 vols., McKay, Philadelphia, 1887. CHAPTER IV. THE NEW YORK PERIOD (A) Life and Letters of Washington Irving, by Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols., G. P. Putnam, 1862-64. C. D. Warner's Washington Irving, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1881. T. R. Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1883. P. Godwin's Life of Bryant, 2 vols., D. Appleton, 1878. H. A. Beers's Nathaniel Parker Willis, in " American Men of Letters Series," 1885. E. Cary's George William Curtis, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1894. (B) Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates of the Knickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's Literary History, Bk. IV., vi.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in Harper's Magazine, July, 1902. CHAPTER V. NEW ENGLAND PERIOD - PRELIMINARY (A) G. T. Curtis's Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1869-1870. W. H. Channing's Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols., Crosby and Nichols, 1848. H. B. Adams's Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893. George Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Ticknor & Reed, 1863. C. H. Farnham's Life of Francis Parkman, Little, Brown & Co., 1900. Mrs. J. T. Fields's Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. (B) Webster's Works, 6 vols., Little & Brown, 1851. Channing's Works, 1 vol., American Unitarian Association, 1886. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, 3 vols., New York, 1843. Parkman's Works, 12 vols., Little, Brown & Co., 1865-1898. CHAPTER VI. THE CAMBRIDGE GROUP (A) S. Longfellow's Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891. T. W. Higginson's Longfellow, in “American Men of Letters Series," 1901. E. S. Robertson's Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in "Great Writers Series," Walter Scott (London), 1887. S. T. Pickard's Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. T. W. Higginson's Whittier, in " English Men of Letters Series," 1901. J. T. Morse's Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896. Horace E. Scudder's James Russell Lowell, 2 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. (B) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., are the authorized publishers of the works of Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau. The standard edition in each case is the Riverside edition. CHAPTER VII. THE CONCORD GROUP (A) O. W. Holmes's Emerson, in" American Men of Letters Series," 1885. The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, 2 vols., Osgood & Co., 1883. Henry James's Life of Hawthorne, in "English Men of Letters Series," 1880. C. E. Woodberry's Hawthorne, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1902. F. B. Sanborn's Thoreau, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1882. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris's Life and Philosophy of Alcott, 2 vols., Roberts Bros., 1893. (B) Theodore Parker's Works, 12 vols., Trübner & Co. (London), 1863-1865. A. Bronson Alcott's Table Talk, Roberts Bros., 1877. W. P. Trent's Simms, in "American Men of Letters Series," 1902. W. M. Baskervill's Life of Sidney Lanier, in "Southern Writers Series," Barber & Smith (Nashville), 1897. G. E. Woodberry's Poe, in "American Men of Letters Series,” 1885. John Burroughs's Study of Walt Whitman, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896. H. Ellis's The New Spirit, Walter Scott (London), 1890. (B) W. G. Simms's Poems, 2 vols., Redfield (New York), 1853. W. G. Simms's Novels, 18 vols., Redfield (New York), 18841886. H. B. Timrod's Poems, 1860. P. H. Hayne's Poems, D. Lothrop & Co., 1882. Walt Whitman's Complete Prose Works, 1898. |