A History of American Literature

Chronological Chart Transcriptions

Any dates have been derived from the graphs themselves.

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Chronological Chart I. American Literature, 1600–1800

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Thomas Morton	(1575?-1646)
Nathaniel Ward	(1578-1652?)
Roger Williams	(1604-1683)
Michael Wigglesworth	(1631-1705)
Anne Bradstreet	(1612-1672)
Increase Mather	(1639-1723)
Cotton Mather	(1663-1728)
Samuel Sewall	(1652-1730)
Sarah Kemble Knight	(1666-1727)
Jonathan Edwards	(1703-1758)
Benjamin Franklin	(1706-1790)
Michel de Crèvecoeur	(1731-1813)
Francis Hopkinson	(1737-1791)
John Trumbull	(1750-1831)
Philip Freneau	(1752-1832)
Timothy Dwight	(1752-1817)
Joel Barlow	(1754-1812)
Brockden Brown	(1771-1810)
Washington Irving	(1783-1859)
Fitz-Greene Halleck	(1790-1867)
Joseph Rodman Drake	(1795-1820)
J. Fenimore Cooper	(1789-1851)
Wm. Cullen Bryant	(1794-1878)

Reigns of English Monarchs

JAMES I	1603-1625
CHARLES I	1625-1649
PROTECTORATE	1649-1660
CHARLES II	1660-1685
JAMES II	1685-1689
WM.-MARY	1689-1702
ANNE	1702-1714
GEORGE I	1714-1727
GEORGE II	1727-1760
GEORGE III	1760-1820
American Revolution	1775-1780

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Chronological Chart II, American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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The dates in the table below are derived from the printed chart and are limited to the period defined there.

	Life Span	Active Authorship	Most Important Period
Brockden Brown	1771–1810	–1810	–1801
Washington Irving	1783–1859	1807-1858	1819-1832
Fitz-Greene Halleck	1790–1867	1819-1866	1819-1831
Joseph Rodman Drake	1795–1820	1816-1820	1816-1820
J. Fenimore Cooper	1789–1851	1820-1850	1821-1831
Wm. Cullen Bryant	1794–1878	1811-1878	1831-1843
Edgar Allan Poe	1808–1849	1827–1849	1836–1849
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803–1882	1835–1870	1835–1848
Henry David Thoreau	1817–1862	1839–1862	1849–1862
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804–1864	1829–1864	1850–1860
John G. Whittier	1807–1892	1829–1892	1849–1866
Henry W. Longfellow	1807–1882	1824–1882	1847–1862
James R. Lowell	1819–1891	1838–1888	1848–1866
Harriet B. Stowe	1811–1896	1842–1881	1852–1861
Oliver W. Holmes	1809–1894	1836–1891	1859–1872
Richard H. Stoddard	1825–1903	1849–1890	1851–1862
Thomas B. Aldrich	1836–1907	1855–1896	1861–1873
Edmund C. Stedman	1833–1908	1860–	1862–1875
Henry Timrod	1829–1867	1857–1867	1858–1867
Paul Hamilton Hayne	1830–1886	1855–1880	1856–1872
Sidney Lanier	1842–1881	1869–1881	1869–1881
Walt Whitman	1819–1892	1855–1890	1855–1871
Bret Harte	1839–1902	1867–	1870–1880
Mark Twain	1835–1910	1867–	1869–1884
Edward Rowland Sill	1841–1887	1868–1888	1878–1883
“Joaquin” Miller	1841–1913	1869–	1881–1892
Richard Watson Gilder	1844–1909	1875–	1889–1892
Wm. Dean Howells	1837–	1849–	1883–1895
Wm. Vaughn Moody	1869–1910	1891–	1899–

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Chronological Chart III, Leading Periodicals Established Since 1800 Which Have Served as Vehicles for American Writings

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	Years of Publication
New York Evening Post	1801–
The Portfolio	1806–1827
North American Review	1815–
Saturday Evening Post	1821–
New York Mirror	1823–1846
New York Review and Athenæum Magazine	1826–1827
Casket	1826–1840
Godey’s Lady’s Book	1830–1898
New England Magazine	1831–1835
Liberator	1831–1865
Baltimore Saturday Visiter	1833–?
Western Monthly Magazine	1833–1836
Knickerbocker Magazine	1833–1865
Southern Literary Messenger	1834–1865
Western Messenger	1835–1841
Gentleman’s Magazine	1837–1841
Democratic Review	1837–1859
Dial (Boston)	1840–1844
Graham’s Magazine	1841–1859
Brooklyn Daily Eagle	1841–
New York Tribune	1841–
New Englander	1843–1892
Littell’s Living Age	1844–
Broadway Journal	1845
Home Journal	1847–
Independent	1848–
Congregationalist	1849–
Harper’s Magazine	1850–
Putnam’s Magazine	1853–1858, 1868–1870, 1906–1910
Russell’s Magazine	1857–1860
Atlantic Monthly	1857–
Saturday Press	1858–1860
Round Table	1864–1869
Every Saturday	1865–1874
Nation	1865–
Galaxy	1866–1878
Overland Monthly	1868–1875, 1883–
Lippincott’s Magazine	1868–1916
Scribner’s Monthly	1870–1881
Outlook	1870–
Southern Magazine	1871–1875
American Magazine	1875–
Dial (Chicago–New York)	1880–
Critic	1881–1906
Century Magazine	1881–
Scribner’s Magazine	1886–
Poet–Lore	1889–
Conservator	1890–
Yale Review	1892–
McClure’s Magazine	1893–
Everybody’s Magazine	1899–
Poetry Magazine	1912–
New Republic	1914–

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Chronological Chart II. American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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The dates in the table below are derived from the printed chart and are limited to the period defined there.

	Life Span	Active Authorship	Most Important Period
Brockden Brown	1771–1810	–1810	–1801
Washington Irving	1783–1859	1807-1858	1819-1832
Fitz-Greene Halleck	1790–1867	1819-1866	1819-1831
Joseph Rodman Drake	1795–1820	1816-1820	1816-1820
J. Fenimore Cooper	1789–1851	1820-1850	1821-1831
Wm. Cullen Bryant	1794–1878	1811-1878	1831-1843
Edgar Allan Poe	1808–1849	1827–1849	1836–1849
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803–1882	1835–1870	1835–1848
Henry David Thoreau	1817–1862	1839–1862	1849–1862
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804–1864	1829–1864	1850–1860
John G. Whittier	1807–1892	1829–1892	1849–1866
Henry W. Longfellow	1807–1882	1824–1882	1847–1862
James R. Lowell	1819–1891	1838–1888	1848–1866
Harriet B. Stowe	1811–1896	1842–1881	1852–1861
Oliver W. Holmes	1809–1894	1836–1891	1859–1872
Richard H. Stoddard	1825–1903	1849–1890	1851–1862
Thomas B. Aldrich	1836–1907	1855–1896	1861–1873
Edmund C. Stedman	1833–1908	1860–	1862–1875
Henry Timrod	1829–1867	1857–1867	1858–1867
Paul Hamilton Hayne	1830–1886	1855–1880	1856–1872
Sidney Lanier	1842–1881	1869–1881	1869–1881
Walt Whitman	1819–1892	1855–1890	1855–1871
Bret Harte	1839–1902	1867–	1870–1880
Mark Twain	1835–1910	1867–	1869–1884
Edward Rowland Sill	1841–1887	1868–1888	1878–1883
“Joaquin” Miller	1841–1913	1869–	1881–1892
Richard Watson Gilder	1844–1909	1875–	1889–1892
Wm. Dean Howells	1837–	1849–	1883–1895
Wm. Vaughn Moody	1869–1910	1891–	1899–