American Literature

American literature Atlantic Monthly Ballads Bayard Taylor beauty biography born Boston Bret Harte Brook Farm Bryant century chapter character Charles Brockden Brown charm Collateral reading Concord Cooper Cotton Mather criticism death early edition editor Emerson England English essays fame fancy fiction Franklin genius Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Holmes humor imagination Indian interest Irving James James Russell Lowell John Journalist later lecturer letters literary lived Longfellow Lowell Lowell's lyric melody moral nature never novels once orator Philadelphia Philip Freneau philosophy Poe's poems poetic poetry Poets of America popular Professor prose published Puritan readers romance scarcely scenes seems Sir Launfal sketches song South spirit Stedman story style tale theme things Thoreau tion Transcendental Club verse vols volume W. D. Howells Walt Whitman Webster Whitman Whittier William writers written wrote York youth