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Hudibras. The
Prose Writers. Thomas Browne. Isaac Walton. Summary of the Period.
Selections for Reading. Bibliography.
CHAPTER VI.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
History of the Period. Eighteenth-Century Classicism. The Meaning of
Classicism in Literature. Alexander Pope. Swift. Addison. Steele.
Johnson. Boswell. Burke. Historical Writing in the Eighteenth Century.
Gibbon.
The Revival of Romantic Poetry. Collins and Gray. Goldsmith. Burns.
Minor Poets of Romanticism. Cowper. Macpherson and the Ossian
Poems. Chatterton. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. William
Blake.
The Early English Novel. The Old Romance and the New Novel. Defoe.
Richardson. Fielding. Influence of the Early Novelists. Summary of the

Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.
CHAPTER VII.
THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
Historical Outline. The French Revolution and English Literature.
Wordsworth. Coleridge. Southey. The Revolutionary Poets. Byron and
Shelley. Keats. The Minor Poets. Campbell, Moore, Keble, Hood,
Felicia Hemans, Leigh Hunt and Thomas Beddoes. The Fiction Writers.
Walter Scott. Jane Austen. The Critics and Essayists. Charles Lamb. De
Quincey. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading.
Bibliography.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Historical Outline. The Victorian Poets. Tennyson. Browning.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Matthew Arnold. The Pre-Raphaelites.
Rossetti. Morris. Swinburne. Minor Poets and Songs in Many Keys.
The Greater Victorian Novelists. Dickens. Thackeray. George Eliot.
Other Writers of Notable Novels. The Brontë Sisters. Mrs. Gaskell.
Charles Reade. Anthony Trollope. Blackmore. Kingsley. Later
Victorian Novelists. Meredith. Hardy. Stevenson.
Victorian Essayists and Historians. Typical Writers. Macaulay. Carlyle.
Ruskin. Variety of Victorian Literature. Summary of the Period.
Selections for Reading. Bibliography.
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

AMERICAN LITERATURE
CHAPTER I.

THE PIONEERS AND NATION-BUILDERS
Unique Quality of Early American Literature. Two Views of the
Pioneers. The Colonial Period. Annalists and Historians. Bradford and
Byrd. Puritan and Cavalier Influences. Colonial Poetry. Wiggles-worth.
Anne Bradstreet. Godfrey. Nature and Human Nature in Colonial
Records. The Indian in Literature. Religious Writers. Cotton Mather
and Edwards.
The Revolutionary Period. Party Literature. Benjamin Franklin.
Revolutionary Poetry. The Hartford Wits. Trumbull's M'Fingal.
Freneau. Orators and Statesmen of the Revolution. Citizen Literature.
James Otis and Patrick Henry. Hamilton and Jefferson. Miscellaneous
Writers. Thomas Paine. Crèvecoeur. Woolman. Beginning of American
Fiction. Charles Brockden Brown. Summary of the Period. Selections
for Reading. Bibliography.
CHAPTER II.
LITERATURE OF THE NEW NATION
Historical Background. Literary Environment. The National Spirit in
Prose and Verse. The Knickerbocker School. Halleck, Drake, Willis
and Paulding. Southern Writers. Simms, Kennedy, Wilde and Wirt.
Various New England Writers. First Literature of the West. Major
Writers of the Period. Irving. Bryant. Cooper. Poe. Summary of the
Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.
CHAPTER III.
THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT
Political History. Social and Intellectual Changes. Brook Farm and
Other Reform Societies. The Transcendental Movement. Literary
Characteristics of the Period. The Elder Poets. Longfellow. Whittier.
Lowell. Holmes, Lanier. Whitman. The Greater Prose Writers.
Emerson. Hawthorne. Some Minor Poets. Timrod, Hayne, Ryan,
Stoddard and Bayard Taylor. Secondary Writers of Fiction. Mrs. Stowe,

Dana, Herman Melville, Cooke, Eggleston and Winthrop. Juvenile
Literature. Louisa M. Alcott. Trowbridge. Miscellaneous Prose.
Thoreau. The Historians. Motley, Prescott and Parkman. Summary of
the Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.
CHAPTER IV.
THE ALL-AMERICA PERIOD
The New Spirit of Nationality. Contemporary History. The Short Story
and its Development. Bret Harte. The Local-Color Story and Some
Typical Writers. The Novel since 1876. Realism in Recent Fiction.
Howells. Mark Twain. Various Types of Realism. Dialect Stories. Joel
Chandler Harris. Recent Romances. Historical Novels. Poetry since
1876. Stedman and Aldrich. The New Spirit in Poetry. Joaquin Miller.
Dialect Poems. The Poetry of Common Life. Carleton and Riley. Other
Typical Poets. Miscellaneous Prose. The Nature Writers. History and
Biography. John Fiske. Literary History and Reminiscence.
Bibliography.
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
William Shakespeare
Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain
Cædmon Cross at Whitby Abbey
Domesday Book
The Norman Stair, Canterbury Cathedral
Chaucer
Pilgrims setting out from the "Tabard"

A Street in Caerleon on Usk
The Almonry, Westminster
Michael Drayton
Edmund Spenser
Raleigh's Birthplace, Budleigh Salterton
The Library, Stratford Grammar School, attended by Shakespeare
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
The Main Room, Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Cawdor Castle, Scotland, associated with Macbeth
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
Ben Jonson
Sir Philip Sidney
Francis Bacon
John Milton
Cottage at Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire
Ludlow Castle
John Bunyan
Bunyan Meetinghouse, Southwark
John Dryden

George Herbert
Sir Thomas Browne
Isaac Walton
Old Fishing House, on River Dove, used by Walton
Alexander Pope
Twickenham Parish Church, where Pope was buried
Jonathan Swift
Trinity College, Dublin
Joseph Addison
Magdalen College, Oxford
Sir Richard Steele
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dr. Johnson's House (Bolt Court, Fleet St.)
James Boswell
Edmund Burke
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Gray
Stoke Poges Churchyard, showing Part of the Church and Gray's Tomb
Oliver Goldsmith
"The Cheshire Cheese," London, showing Dr. Johnson's Favorite Seat

Canonbury Tower (London)
Robert Burns
"Ellisland," the Burns Farm, Dumfries
The Village of Tarbolton, near which Burns Lived
Auld Alloway Kirk
Burns's Mausoleum
William Cowper
Daniel Defoe
Cupola House
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's Desk in Hawkshead School
St.