CONTENTS
BOOK II (Continued)
EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART II
CHAPTER X
THOREAU
| By Archibald MacMechan, Ph.D., F.R.S.C, George Munro Professor of the English Language and Literature in Dalhousie University. | PAGE |
| The Village Rebel. Thoreau's Youth and Education. His Reading. Emerson. Rebellions: Church; State; Society. The Experiment at Walden Pond. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Canada. Walden. Style. Thoreau's Significance. | 1 |
CHAPTER XI
HAWTHORNE
| By John Erskine, Ph.D., Professor of English in Columbia University. | |
| Hawthorne and Puritanism. His Relations with the Transcendentalists. The Facts of his Life. Early Stories. Later Romances. His Close Observation of Life. Transcendental Doctrines in Hawthorne: Self-Reliance; Compensation; Circles. | 16 |
CHAPTER XII
LONGFELLOW
| By William Peterfield Trent,'M.A., LL.D., Professor of English Literature in Columbia University. | |
| Youthful Environment. Education. Bowdoin. Harvard. Hyperion. Early Poems. Ballads. Dramatic Writings. Evangeline. Hiawatha. Miles Standish. Tales of a Wayside Inn. Translations. Sonnets. Rank and Place. | 32 |
CHAPTER XIII
WHITTIER
| By William Morton Payne, LL.D. | |
| Quaker Ancestry and Nurture. Early Poems. Abolitionism. Poems (1849). Later Honours. Ballads. Snow-Bound. Anti-Slavery Poems. Occasional Pieces. Religious Feeling. Prose. Standing. | 42 |
