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American Literary Criticism in the Nineteenth Century - Representative Works

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

William Cullen Bryant
“Early American Verse” (essay) 1818
“American Society as a Field for Fiction” (essay) 1825

William Ellery Channing
“Remarks on National Literature” (essay) 1830

James Fenimore Cooper
“Notions of the Americans” (essay) 1828
Introduction to The Leather-Stocking Tales” (essay) 1850
Introduction to The Pioneers (essay) 1850

Ralph Waldo Emerson
*“The American Scholar” (lecture) 1837
“The Poet” (essay) 1844
“The Young American” (essay) 1849
“Art and Criticism” (essay) 1859
“Beauty” (essay) 1860
“Poetry and Imagination” (essay) 1872

Margaret Fuller
Papers on Literature and Art (essays) 1846

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Preface to The Scarlet Letter (essay) 1850
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (essay) 1851

Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Poetry: A Metrical...

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