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Four Famous American Writers

by Sherwin Cody

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  1. 1The Story of James Russell Lowell — The Story of Bayard Taylor
  2. 2Chapter II — Irving’s First Voyage Up the Hudson River
  3. 3Chapter III — A Trip to Montreal
  4. 4Chapter IV — Irving Goes to Europe
  5. 5Chapter V — “Salmagundi”
  6. 6Chapter VI — “Diedrich Knickerbocker”
  7. 7Chapter VII — A Comic History of New York
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Five Uneventful Years
  9. 9Chapter IX — Friendship With Sir Walter Scott
  10. 10Chapter X — “Rip van Winkle”
  11. 11Chapter XI — Literary Success in England
  12. 12Chapter XII — Irving Goes to Spain
  13. 13Chapter XIII — “The Alhambra”
  14. 14Chapter XIV — The Last Years of Irving’s Life
  15. 15The Story of Edgar Allan Poe — Chapter I — The Artist in Words
  16. 16Chapter II — Poe’s Father and Mother
  17. 17Chapter III — Young Edgar Allan
  18. 18Chapter IV — College Life
  19. 19Chapter V — Fortune Changes
  20. 20Chapter VI — Living by Literature
  21. 21Chapter VII — Poe’s Early Poetry
  22. 22Chapter VIII — Poe’s Child Wife
  23. 23Chapter IX — Poe’s Literary History
  24. 24Chapter X — Poe as a Story-Writer
  25. 25Chapter XI — How “The Raven” Was Written
  26. 26Chapter XII — Music and Poetry
  27. 27Chapter XIII — Poe’s Later Years
  28. 28The Story of James Russell Lowell — Chapter I — Elmwood
  29. 29Chapter II — An Impetuous Young Man
  30. 30Chapter III — College and the Muses
  31. 31Chapter IV — How Lowell Studied Law
  32. 32Chapter V — Love and Letters
  33. 33Chapter VI — The Uncertain Seas of Literature
  34. 34Chapter VII — Hosea Biglow, Yankee Humorist
  35. 35Chapter VIII — Parson Wilbur
  36. 36Chapter IX — A Fable for Critics
  37. 37Chapter X — The Truest Poetry
  38. 38Chapter XI — Professor, Editor, and Diplomat
  39. 39The Story of Bayard Taylor
  40. 40Chapter II — School Life
  41. 41Chapter III — His First Poem
  42. 42Chapter IV — Self-Education and Ambition
  43. 43Chapter V — A Traveler at Nineteen
  44. 44Chapter VI — Two Years in Europe for Five Hundred Dollars
  45. 45Chapter VII — The Hardship of Tramp Travel
  46. 46Chapter VIII — His First Love and Greatest Sorrow
  47. 47Chapter IX — “The Great American Traveler”
  48. 48Chapter X — His Poetry
  49. 49Chapter XI — “Poems of the Orient”
  50. 50Chapter XII — Bayard Taylor’s Friendships
  51. 51Chapter XIII — Last Years

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