Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into this, combining national history with his love for literature. - Summary by BellonaTimes
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 Ch 1. Early Colonial Literature. 1607-1700. Pt. 1.The English in Virginia 18 min 3 Ch 1, Pt 2. Pilgrims and Puritans in New England 22 min 4 Ch 1, Pt 3. The New England Clergy 25 min 5 Ch 1, Pt 4. Puritan Poetry in New England 20 min 6 Ch 2. The Eighteenth Century. Pt 1. The First Half of the Century 20 min 7 Ch 2, Pt 2. Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 28 min 8 Ch 2, Pt 3. The Second Half of the Century 14 min 9 Ch 2, Pt 4. Poetry of the Revolution 21 min 10 Ch 2, Pt 5. The Close of the Century 26 min 11 Ch 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Pt 1. The New Literature: The Knickerbocker Group 22 min 12 Ch 3, Pt 2. Washington Irving: 1783-1859 34 min 13 Ch 3, Pt 3. James Fenimore Cooper: 1789-1851 20 min 14 Ch 3, Pt 4. William Cullen Bryant: 1794-1878 38 min 15 Ch 4. Philosophy and Romance. Pt 1. The Literary Development of New England 19 min 16 Ch 4, Pt 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1803-1882 43 min 17 Ch 4, Pt 3. Henry D. Thoreau: 1817-1862 13 min 18 Ch 4, Pt 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne: 1804-1864 35 min 19 Ch 4, Pt 5. Edgar Allan Poe: 1809-1849 33 min 20 Ch 5. The New England Poets. Pt 1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1807-1882 34 min 21 Ch 5, Pt 2. John Greenleaf Whittier: 1807-1892 38 min 22 Ch 5, Pt 3. James Russell Lowell: 1819-1891 32 min 23 Ch 5, Pt 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes: 1809-1894 21 min 24 Ch 6. General Literary Development. Pt 1. The Historians 18 min 25 Ch 6, Pt 2. Orators and Statesmen 7 min 26 Ch 6, Pt 3. Writers of Pennsylvania and New York 28 min 27 Ch 6, Pt 4. Novelists and Humorists 18 min 28 Ch 6, Pt 5. Poetry, South and North 37 min 29 Ch 7. Recent Years. Pt 1. Scholars and Essayists 9 min 30 Ch 7, Pt 2. Poets of this Generation 15 min 31 Ch 7, Pt 3. Contemporary Fiction 48 min
