A Short History of American Literature, Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln Ahab American literature arabesque artist atmosphere beauty Beecher better Billy Budd biography Blithedale Romance Bryant cendental century CHAPTER characters church Civil Clarel Concord Cooper death drama dream Emerson emotions England escape essays evil faith famous fiction frontier genius Genteel gnomic art Harriet Beecher Stowe Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry hero Holmes human humor ideal ideas Irving Ishmael James Journal later less literary criticism live Longfellow Lowell Melville Melville's Minister's Wooing Moby Dick moral mystical nature novels Over-Soul perhaps philosophy Pierre plot Poe's poems poet poetic poetry prose Puritan realistic romantic romanticism romanticists satire Scarlet Letter Sea Novels Series short stories Simms sincere social criticism society sometimes Song of Hiawatha soul speeches spirit style symbols talent things Thoreau thought tion transcendental Transcendentalists truth verses volumes Walden Pond whale White-Jacket Whitman Whittier William William Simms woods words writing wrote Yankee