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A MANUAL

OF

AMERICAN LITERATURE.

DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF

SCHOOLS OF ADVANCED GRADES.

BY

N. K. ROYSE.

PRINCIPAL OF SIXTH DISTRICT PUBLIC SCHOOL, CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PHILADELPHIA:

COWPERTHWAIT AND COMPANY.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

N. K. ROYSE,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, topers and Electrotypers, Philada,

PREFACE.

Two convictions have prompted the author to the preption of the present work: first, that American Literature snow attained a rank among the leading modern literares such as entitles it to both the attention and admiration the student; and secondly, that its study should precede at of English Literature for equally good reasons with ose that have long since placed the study of American istory before that of English History.

The plan of the work may be briefly stated as follows: st, to present a succinct history of the causes, natural, olitical, and otherwise, which have, from time to time, aped the development of literature in our country; and -condly, to designate the leading representative writers of merica, noticing such facts of their biography as concern heir literary characters, also the history and a critical stimate of their main works, together with characteristic xtracts from the same, and standard critical opinions egarding the authors.

The biographical and historical matter of the book has been collected from such sources as Duyckinck's Cyclopædia f American Literature, Cleveland's Compendium of American Literature, Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, Lippincott's Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary, The New American Cyclo padia, R. W. Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, Female

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