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A History of American Literature

by Percy Holmes Boynton

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph — Chapter I — The Seventeenth Century
  3. 3Chapter II — The Earliest Verse
  4. 4Chapter III — The Transition to the Eighteenth Century
  5. 5Chapter IV — Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
  6. 6Chapter V — Crèvecœur, the “American Farmer”
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Poetry of the Revolution and Philip Freneau
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Early Drama
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Charles Brockden Brown
  10. 10Chapter IX — Irving and the Knickerbocker School
  11. 11Chapter X — James Fenimore Cooper
  12. 12Chapter XI — William Cullen Bryant
  13. 13Chapter XII — Edgar Allan Poe
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Transcendentalists
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  16. 16Chapter XV — Henry David Thoreau
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Nathaniel Hawthorne
  18. 18Chapter XVII — John Greenleaf Whittier
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  20. 20Chapter XIX — James Russell Lowell
  21. 21Chapter XX — Harriet Beecher Stowe
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Some Metropolitan Poets
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Poetry of the South
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Walt Whitman
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The West and Mark Twain
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The West in Sill and Miller
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Rise of Fiction; William Dean Howells
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Contemporary Drama
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The Later Poetry
  31. 31Chronological Chart Transcriptions

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