قراءة كتاب A History of American Literature
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A HISTORY OF AMERICAN
LITERATURE
BY
PERCY H. BOYNTON
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
AUTHOR OF “PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION,” “LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE,” EDITOR OF “AMERICAN POETRY”
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PREFACE
The general purpose in the preparation of this book has been to eliminate negligible detail and to subordinate or omit authors of minor importance in order to stress the men and the movements that are most significant in American intellectual history. The book has therefore been written with a view to showing the drift of American thought as illustrated by major writers or groups and as revealed by a careful study of one or two cardinal works by each. In this sequence of thought the growth of American self-consciousness and the changing ideals of American patriotism have been kept in mind throughout. The attempt is made to induce study of representative classics and extensive reading of the American literature which illuminates the past of the country—chiefly, of course, in reminiscent fiction, drama, and poetry.
As an aid to the student, there are appended to each chapter (except the last three) topics and problems for study, and book lists which summarize the output of each man, indicate available editions, and point to the critical material which may be used as a supplement, but not as a substitute, for first-hand study. This critical material has been selected with a view, also, to suggesting books which might reasonably be included in libraries of normal schools and colleges, as well as in universities.
As further aids to the student, there have been included two maps, three chronological charts, and, in an appendix, a brief characterization of the American periodicals which have been most significant in stimulating American authorship by providing a market for fiction, poetry, and the essay.
In the writing of the book the author’s chief obligation has naturally been to the many university classes who have stimulated its preparation, not only by their attention but by their free discussion. Special acknowledgment is gratefully made to Mr. William W. Ellsworth for a careful reading of all the manuscript and to Miss Marie Gulbransen for the initial work in formulating the appendix on the American magazines.
Acknowledgment is due to the publishers of The Nation and The New Republic for portions of the chapters on Crèvecœur, the Poetry of the Revolution, Emerson, Lowell, Whitman, Sill, and Miller, which originally appeared in these weeklies.
PERCY H. BOYNTON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I. | The Seventeenth Century | 1 |
II. | The Earliest Verse | 17 |
III. | The Transition to the Eighteenth Century | 27 |
IV. | Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin | 41 |
V. | Crèvecœur, the “American Farmer” | 59 |
VI. | The Poetry of the Revolution and Philip Freneau | 69 |
VII. | The Early Drama | 89 |
VIII. | Charles Brockden Brown | 100 |
IX. | Irving and the Knickerbocker School | 110 |
X. | James Fenimore Cooper | 141 |
XI. | William Cullen Bryant | 158 |
XII. | Edgar Allan Poe | 173 |
XIII. | The Transcendentalists | 190 |
XIV. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 199 |
XV. |