Classic Americans
Subtitle: a study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman, with an introductory survey of the colonial background of our national literature
By: by Henry Seidel Canby.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1932
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
Notes: "Second printing, January, 1932."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: American literature.; title: The colonial background.; title: Washington Irving.; title: James Fenimore Cooper.; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson.; title: Henry David Thoreau.; title: Hawthorne and Melville.; title: Edgar Allan Poe.; title: Walt Whitman.; title: A selective bibliography (p. 353-360); title: Index.