11:39.14.2 A. Literature Texts (With Notes for High School Classes) Addison: Sir Roger de Coverley Papers Burke: Speech on Conciliation with America Edited by JAMES M. GARNETT. Carlyle: Essay on Burns Edited by R. A. STEWART. Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner Edited by NORMAN H. PITMAN.. Eliot: Silas Marner Edited by EVELINA O. WIGGINS. Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield Price, Postpaid 25 cents 25 cents 25 cents 25 cents 30 cents 30 cents Edited by G. C. EDWARDS... Macaulay: Essays on Milton and Addison Edited by C. ALPHONSO SMITH... Milton: Minor Poems Edited by R. T. Kerlin........ Poe: Poems and Tales Edited by R. A. STEWART. 30 cents 25 cents 25 cents Pope: Homer's Ilaid: Books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV Edited by FRANCIS E. SHOUP and ISAAC BALL........ 25 cents Scott: The Lady of the Lake Edited by EVELINA O. WIGGINS.. Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Edited by CAROL M. NEWMAN.. Shakespeare: Macbeth Edited by JOHN CALVIN METCALF.... Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Edited by ROBERT SHARP. Simms: The Yemassee (Complete Edition) Edited by M. LYLE SPENCER. Tennyson: The Princess Edited by CHARLES W. KENT. 25 cents 25 cents In this work an attempt is made to present in a clear and systematic manner the main facts and tendencies in American literature from the beginnings to the present. Special emphasis has been given to movements and individual characteristics which seem distinctively American. We are beginning to realize at last that American literature is not merely an offshoot from English literature, but that it is in a larger and truer sense a record of national traits and strivings for at least a century and a quarter. Even the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, in which no great literature was produced, are exceedingly important as a background for the proper estimate of our later literature and should not be neglected by the serious student of American institutions. These earlier formative periods are also interesting in themselves for the lessons they teach of moral and political aspiration: out of them have sprung the idealism that shines in the pages of American history and that makes worthy our national life of to-day. No one can understand aright this noble heritage without some study of our seventeenth and eighteenth century literature, fragmentary as it is. This conviction will account for the extended treatment of those periods in this book and the numerous illustrative extracts from representative writers. After the first two periods it would be a difficult task indeed to classify our authors on a uniform national basis. They are all American, of course, but they flourished mainly in groups and by sections; when one attempts to consider them, it is the most natural thing in the world to arrange them geographically according to their development; any other arrangement, it seems to the present writer, would be confusing. What the student has a right to demand in a textbook above everything [3] |