Elements of rhetoric and literary criticism
Subtitle: with copious practical exercises and examples : for the use of common schools and academies
By: compiled and arranged by James Robert Boyd
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: English language; Rhetoric; Writing; Language Arts
Notes: Testimonials to Boyd's Rhetoric for common schools and academies: p. 1-7 at beginning ; advertisements to works published by Harper & Brothers: p. 1-8, 1-4 at end.

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Table of contents: title: Part VII. American literature. American poets. Chap. I. Sect. I. Poets of our Revolutionary period; title: II. James K. Paulding, John Pierpont; title: III. Richard H. Dana, James A. Hillhouse; title: IV. Charles Sprague, Charles Wilcox; title: V. William C. Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck; title: VI. N.P. Willis, Mrs. L.H. Sigourney; title: VII. Hannah F. Gould, Lucretia and Margaret Davidson, James G. Percival; title: VIII. J.G.C. Brainard, H.W. Longfellow; title: IX. John G. Whittier; title: X.A.B. Street; title: XI. E.W.B. Canning; title: XII. Concluding remarks on American poets; title: [Chap.] II. Sect. I. Sketch of American literature since 1815; title: II. The present state of American literature, and its relation to that of England; title: III. Concluding remarks upon our national literature.