19. The Peculiarities of Walt Whitman's Style

20. Walt Whitman as a Hospital Nurse during the Civil War 21. Walt Whitman and the Recent Writers of Free Verse

22. My Favorite Minor Poet of the New York Group

B. THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP

1. Wisdom from Emerson: My Favorite Quotations and Why I Like Them

2. Emerson's Doctrine of Self-Reliance and Independence

3. Applications of the Law of Compensation in My Own Life

4. Emerson's Teachings on Nature in Prose and Verse

5. Emerson's Prose Style

6. Emerson's Attitude toward Books

7. Emerson as a Lecturer

8. Concord and Its Literary Associations

9. Emerson's Method of Composition

10. My Favorites among Hawthorne's Short Stories II. A Visit to the Old Manse and Concord Bridge

12. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

13. Hawthorne's Use of Symbolism and Allegory

14. The Reflection of Puritanism in Hawthorne's Tales

15. Hawthorne's Connection with the Transcendental Movement

16. Hawthorne's Method of Making Notes for His Stories

17. Poe and Hawthorne as Writers of the Short Story

18. Why Longfellow is Our Most Popular Poet

19. Longfellow and the Children

20. Influence of Longfellow's Foreign Travel on His Poetry

21. Longfellow's "Evangeline" and Goethe's "Hermann und Dorothea."

22. Longfellow's Use of Indian Legends

23. A Defense of Longfellow against the Attacks of Certain Modern Critics

24. Craigie House: Longfellow's Home

25. Whittier as the Poet Laureate of New England

26. What I Like and What I Dislike in Whittier's Anti-Slavery Poetry

27. Whittier's Poems Classified

28. A Comparison of Whittier's "The Tent on the Beach" with Longfellow's "The Wayside Inn"

29. A Comparison of Whittier's "Snow-Bound" with Burns's "The Cotter's Saturday Night"

30. Descriptions of Snow in American Poetry (see Whittier, Emerson, Bryant, Lowell, Frost, etc.)

31. Whittier and the Abolition Movement

32. Holmes's Poems Classified

33. The Humor of Holmes

34. Famous Class Poems by Holmes

35. Holmes as a Talker

36. The Peculiar Advantages of the Plan of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

37. The Influence of Holmes's Scientific Studies on His Literary Productions

38. Lowell as a Representative Literary Man

39. Lowell's Personal Poems

40. Lowell's Americanism

41. Lowell as a Critic

42. The Moral and Didactic Element in Lowell's Poetry

I. Poe's Character

C. THE SOUTHERN GROUP

2. The Qualities of Poe's Poetry

3. Poe's Stories Classified

4. Why I Like Poe's Stories

5. Poe's Detective Stories and Their Influence

6. Poe's Place in American Criticism

7. Poe's Theory of Poetry

8. Poe and the Development of the Short Story 9. Poe's Use of the Supernatural

10. The Sad Story of Timrod's Life

II. Timrod's War Poems

12. The Life Story of Paul Hamilton Hayne

13. Southern Life and Scenery in Hayne's Poetry

14. Hayne's Treatment of Nature

15. Hayne as Editor of Russell's Magazine

16. The Charleston Coterie of Writers

17. A Study of Hayne's Sonnets

18. Letters of Two Poets, Hayne and Lanier

19. Sidney Lanier's Marsh Hymns

20. Musical Effects in Lanier's Poems

21. The Spiritual and Moral Element in Lanier's Poetry

22. Lanier as a Letter Writer

23. Lanier's Love Poems

D.

THE WESTERN GROUP

1. Mark Twain as a Typical American

2. The Funniest Things Mark Twain Ever Said

3. Tom Sawyer, a Typical American Boy

4. Why Huck Finn Is a Great Character Creation

5. Mark Twain's Descriptions of Life on the Mississippi River 6. The Humor of Innocents Abroad

7. The Humor of Roughing It

8. Mark Twain as a Public Entertainer

9. Realism in Mark Twain's Stories

10. Bret Harte and the Local-Color Story

II. Bret Harte's Poems

12. Joaquin Miller, "The Poet of the Sierras"

13. Eugene Field, the Poet Laureate of Childhood 14. Riley's Dialect Poems

15. Riley's Humor and Pathos

16. My Favorite Riley Poems

17. William Vaughn Moody's Poems

18. William Vaughn Moody as a Dramatist

19. My Favorite Western Poet

20. A Book Review: Some Novel Dealing with Western Life

THE INDEX

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