American literary essays

Possibilities: What is an American / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

English writers on America / Washington Irving

American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson

National literature / James Kirk Paulding

Nationality in American letters / Edgar Allan Poe

Democratic American Genius / Walt Whitman

Absent things in American life / Henry James

Art & Democracy / Art Dean Howells

American culture / H.L. Mencken

Humor in America / Constance Rourke

Reality in America / Lionel Trilling

Traditions in American literature / William Asn O'Connor

What is American about America? / John A. Kouwenhoven

People: Portion of an autobiography / Benjamin Franklin

Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain

Edgar Poe's Significance / Walt Whitman

Hawthorne and his Mosses / Herman Melville

Emerson / John Jay Chapman

Thoreau / James Russel Lowell

Craft of Herman Melville / R.P. Blackmur

Walt Whitman / Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman: Dandy-upside-down / Sidney Lanier

Emily Dickinson / Allen Tate

Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau

New England reformers / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brahmin caste of New England / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams

Attitudes toward Henry James / Philip Rahv

Poetry: Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heresy of the didactic / Edgar Allen Poe

Backward glance / Walt Whitman

Elements and function of poetry / George Santayana

Poet's trade / Amy Lowell

Poetry in America / H.L. Mencken

Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot

Figure a poem makes / Robert Frost

Poetry / E.B. White

Anglo-American difference / W.H. Auden

New Poetry / Donald Hall

Prose Fiction: Tale Proper / Edgar Allan Poe

Romance as epic / William Gilmore Simms

Romance and the novel: Four extracts / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Realism in literature / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some remarks on fiction: Three extracts

Subjects for American fiction / William Dean Howells

Rise of the short story / Bret Harte

Local color in art / Hamlin Garland

Novel with a purpose / Frank Norris

Art of fiction / Henry James

Social themes in American realism / James T. Farrell

Broken circuit: Romance and the American novel / Richard Chase

Prospects: Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln

Prospects of literature / Logan Pearsall Smith

On literature today / Van Wyck Brooks

We're on the road / William Barrett

Stockholm address to the youth of Japan / William Faulkner.