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CHAPTER VIII
AMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING, 1760–1789
| By William MacDonald, Ph.D., Professor of History in Brown University. | PAGE |
| The Pre-eminence of American Political Literature. James Otis. The Stamp Act Controversy. The Stamp Act Congress. John Dickinson. Samuel Adams. The First Continental Congress. The Loyalists. The Satirists. Franklin. Thomas Paine. A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. The Declaration of Independence. The Journal of the Continental Congress. The Crisis. The Constitutional Convention. The Federalist. | 124 |
CHAPTER IX
THE BEGINNINGS OF VERSE, 1610–1808
| By Samuel Marion Tucker, Ph.D., Professor of English in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. | |
| The Three Periods. Verse in the Southern and Middle Colonies. The First New England Poets. The Memorial Poems. Anne Bradstreet. The Bay Psalm Book. Michael Wigglesworth. Dryden and Pope in New England. Philadelphia Poets. The Long Poems of the Eighteenth Century. Timothy Dwight. Political verse. David Humphreys. Joel Barlow. John Trumbull. Tory Satirists. Lyric Poetry. Philip Freneau. | 150 |
BOOK II
EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE
CHAPTER I
TRAVELLERS AND OBSERVERS, 1763–1846
| By Lane Cooper, Ph.D., Professor of English in Cornell University. | |
| The Background of the Travellers. Nature and the Natural Man. The Routes of the Travellers. The Varieties of their Aims. Their Common Interests. Jonathan Carver. William Bartram. St. Jean de Crèvecœur. Notes on the State of Virginia. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Literary Wars between England and America. The Answers of Cooper and Irving. The Influence of the Travellers. The Travellers and Wordsworth. | 185 |
CHAPTER II
THE EARLY DRAMA, 1766–1860
| By Arthur Hobson Quinn, Ph.D., Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania. | |
| The Origins of the Drama in College Exercises. Influence of the Early Companies. Godfrey's Prince of Parthia, the first American Play. | 215 |
