Title: The flowering of New England, 1815-1865.
Authors: Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
Publisher: Dutton,
Year: 1937
Subjects: American literature New England; American literature History and criticism; American literature New England History and criticism; Authors, American Homes and haunts New England; New England Civilization.; New England Intellectual life; New England In literature.
Abstract: Sequel: New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915.
Contents: The Boston of Gilbert Stuart -- Harvard College in 1815 -- The coast and the hinterland -- George Ticknor's Wanderjahre -- The new age in Boston and Cambridge -- The North American review : George Bancroft -- Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella -- Longfellow in Cambridge -- The younger generation of 1840 -- Emerson in Concord -- Hawthorne in Salem -- Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Brook Farm -- Emerson : Wood-notes -- Concord : 1840-1844 -- Thoreau -- Cambridge : Longfellow, Dana and Lowell -- The Boston historians : Motley -- Dr. Holmes -- Thoreau at Walden -- West of Boston -- The anti-slavery writers -- New England at large -- Concord in the fifties -- Cambridge in the fifties -- The romantic exiles -- The autocrat -- The Saturday club : Lowell.