Young People's Story of American Literature
by Ida Prentice Whitcoomb Author
Living book on American literature
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 35
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, and Company
- Copyright
- 1936
Chapters
- 1 The Evolution of the Book
- 2 Beginnings of the Story
- 3 Jamestown and Captain John Smith
- 4 Other Writers of the Virginia Colony
- 5 Pilgrim and Puritan Chroniclers
- 6 Early Theologians
- 7 Diarists and Poets
- 8 Benjamin Franklin
- 9 Revolutionary Leaders
- 10 The Nation-Builders
- 11 Glances Backward and Forward
- 12 Washington Irving
- 13 James Fenimore Cooper
- 14 William Cullen Bryant
- 15 Spasmodic Poems and Songs
- 16 John Greenleaf Whittier
- 17 War Literature
- 18 Bancroft and Prescott
- 19 Motley and Parkman
- 20 New Influence in Puritan England
- 21 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 22 Henry David Thoreau
- 23 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 24 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 25 James Russell Lowell
- 26 Oliver Wendall Holmes
- 27 Edgar Allen Poe
- 28 Other Southern Writers
- 29 Western Literature
- 30 A Group of Eastern Authors
- 31 Woman in American Literature -- Part First
- 32 Woman in American Literature -- Part Second
- 33 Nature Lovers -- Essayist --Historians
- 34 Novelists
- 35 Poets
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