to 1900 AMERICAN HISTORY 1880 Population, 50,000,000, growing to 76,000,000 Civil Service Reform Bill, 1883 Inter State Commerce Act, 1887 Catholic University, Washington, opened, 1890 InternationalCopy. right Act, 1891 World's Fair at Chicago, 1893 Klondike Excitement, 1897 Spanish -American War, and acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines, 1898 Annexation of Hawaii, 1898 Troubles in China, 1900 Cable's The Grand-Lang's Ballades in Blue issimes, 1880 George's Progress and Poverty, 1880 Harris's Uncle Re mus, 1880 Howells's A Modern Instance, 1882; Rise of Silas Lapham, 1885 Helen Fiske Jackson's Ramo na, 1884 MarkTwain'sHuckleberry Finn, 1884 Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884 Stedman's Poets of America, 1885 Lowell's Democracy, 1886 Mary E. Wilkins's Humble Romance, 1887 Whitman's November Boughs, 1888 Fiske's Beginnings of New England, 1889 Field's Little Book of Western Verse, 1890 Holmes's Over the Tea-cups, 1890 Curtis's Orations and Addresses, 1893-94 Lowell's Letters, 1893 Holland, Lanier, Emerson, Longfellow, Mrs. Jackson, Sill, Lowell, Curtis, Whittier, Whitman, Parkman, Holmes, Mrs. Stowe died China, 1880 Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque, 1881; Treasure Island, 1883 Tennyson'sLocksley Hall Sixty Years After, 1886 Bryce's American Commonwealth, 1888 Kipling'sPlainTales from the Hills, 1888; Ballads, 1892 Watson's Wordsworth's Austin poet laureate, 1895 win, Rossetti, Arnold, Browning died, (188089) Newman, Tennyson, Froude, Pater, Stevenson, Morris, Ruskin died, (1890-1900) REFERENCES HISTORY AND CRITICISM A Literary History of America. Barrett Wendell. A complete survey, biographical and critical, exclusive of writers still living in 1900. (Scribner.) American Literature: 1607-1885. Charles F. Richardson. Critical only. Inclusive of living writers. (Putnam.) A History of American Literature During the Colonial Time, 1607-1765. Moses Coit Tyler. Biographical and critical, with liberal extracts. Exhaustive and indispensable for the careful study of the early period. (Putnam.) The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783. Moses Coit Tyler. A continuation of the above. (Putnam.) Poets of America. Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1885. Critical, with special chapters on Bryant, Whittier, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Taylor. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) National Studies in American Letters. Edited by G. E. Woodberry. A series of volumes treating American authors in groups: "Old Cambridge,' ," T. W. Higginson; "Brook Farm," Lindsay Swift; "The Clergy in American Life and Letters," D. D. Addison; "The Hoosiers," M. Nicholson. Others in preparation: "The Knickerbockers," H. van Dyke; "The American Historical Novel," P. L. Ford; "Southern Humorists," J. K. Bangs; "Flower of Essex," G. E. Woodberry. SELECTIONS Library of American Literature. Stedman and Hutchinson. In eleven volumes; both poetry and prose, of all periods; the only easily accessible collection of specimens from the early period. Contains also, in the last volume, brief biographical notices. An American Anthology. Edmund C. Stedman. Specimens of American poetry from 1787 to 1900. Intended to accompany the critical volume, "Poets of America." The minor poets are freely represented, about six hundred names being included. Contains also brief biographical notices. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) American Prose. Edited by G. R. Carpenter. Selections from twentyfive representative authors from Cotton Mather to Parkman (living authors not included), with critical introductions by various writers. -(Macmillan.) Cyclopædia of American Literature. E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck. Two large volumes; revised edition, 1875. Extended personal and critical notices, with liberal selections. Criticism somewhat antiquated. Most useful for biographies and selections from the works of early or less important and even quite forgotten writers. Library of Poetry and Song. William Cullen Bryant. Selections from British and American poets; also translations. Published 1870. Selections and sometimes entire works of standard authors may be found in inexpensive form in the "Lake English Classics;" "Riverside Literature Series;" and "Cassell's National Library" (paper). BIOGRAPHY There are standard and authorized biographies of the following writers: Alcott, Louisa M. Life, Letters, and Journals, by Mrs. E. D. Cheney. Bryant. By Parke Godwin, 2 vols. Channing, Dr. Wm. E. By W. H. Channing. Dana, R. H., Jr. By C. F. Adams. Edwards, Jonathan. By A. V. G. Allen, in American Religious Leaders series. Emerson. Memoir, by J. E. Cabot, 2 vols. Emerson in Concord, by E. W. Emerson. Franklin. Life, by Jared Sparks, 1844; by James Parton, 1864. Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by Julian Hawthorne, 2 vols. Holmes. Life and Letters, by J. T. Morse, Jr., 2 vols. Irving. By Pierre M. Irving, 3 vols. Longfellow. By Samuel Longfellow, 3 vols. Lowell. Letters, edited by C. E. Norton, 2 vols. Mather, Cotton. By Barrett Wendell. Motley. Correspondence, edited by G. W. Curtis. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. Memoirs, by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke. Parkman. By C. H. Farnham. Paulding. Literary Life, by W. I. Paulding. Payne, John Howard. Life and Writings, by Gabriel Harrison. Prescott. By George Ticknor. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. By C. E. Stowe. Taylor. Life and Letters, by Marie Hansen Taylor and H. E. Scudder, 2 vols. Thoreau. By W. E. Channing. Whitman. By R. M. Burke. Whittier. Life and Letters, by S. T. Pickard, 2 vols. Special series of biographies are as follows: American Men of Letters. Edited by C. D. Warner. Biographies of Bryant, Cooper, Curtis, Emerson, Franklin, Hawthorne (in preparation), Irving, Longfellow (in preparation), Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Poe, Prescott (in preparation), Ripley, Simms, Taylor, Thoreau, Noal Webster, Whittier (in preparation), Willis. Great Writers Series. Somewhat shorter biographies than the above, mostly by British authors, and containing extensive bibliographies. The series includes Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Thoreau, Whittier. Of Hawthorne there is a biography also in the English Men of Letters Series. Beacon Biographies. Very brief lives of eminent men, among them the following American authors: Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Cooper, Emerson, Grant, Hawthorne, Jefferson, Lowell, Thomas Paine, Daniel Webster, and Whittier. GENERAL REFERENCE Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, 6 vols. Concise accounts of all Americans of note, living or dead. Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. A complete list of authors, titles, and dates of publications. The supplement is brought up to 1891. Adams' (O. F.) Dictionary of American Authors. Very brief sketches of 6,000 American authors. Names, dates, and titles of chief books (without dates). Recent. Who's Who in America. Edited by J. W. Leonard, 1899-1900. Brief sketches of 8,600 living Americans. Useful especially for the latest writers. Whitcomb's Chronological Outlines of American Literature. A carefully arranged table of important authors, books, and dates, up to 1894. Further references will be found in the following study lists and exercises. In these lists the general histories will be referred to by the names of their authors-Wendell, Richardson, Tyler, and Duyckinck (1875 edition). Other abbreviations are: L. A. L. Stedman and Hutchinson's "Library of American Literature." A. A. Stedman's "American Anthology." L. P. S. Bryant's "Library of Poetry and Song." A. M. L. G. W.S. "American Men of Letters Series." |