Heralds of American literature
Subtitle: a group of patriot writers of the Revolutionary and National periods.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- Bibliography.
Notes: Reprint of the 1907 ed.
Table of contents: value: Introductory, Signs of the dawn. The impulse of Franklin.; value: Francis Hopkinson.; value: Philip Freneau, America's first poet.; value: John Trumbull, Satirist and scholar.; value: A group of Hartford wits.; value: Joseph Dennie, "the lay preacher."; value: William Dunlap, the beginnings of drama.; value: Charles Brockden Brown.; value: Bibliography (p. 321-353).