have adhered to a task so arduous, yet so fascinating to the critical and poetic student. When the lustre of a still more auspicious day shall yield in its turn to the recurring dusk, a new chronicler will have the range of noble imaginations to consider, heightened in significance by comparison with the field of these prior excursions. But, if I have not wholly erred in respect to the lessons derivable from the past, he will not go far beyond them. The canons are not subject to change; he, in turn, will dechangeless duce the same elements appertaining to the chief of arts, and test his poets and their bequests by the same unswerving laws. And concerning the dawn. which may soon break upon us unawares, as we make conjecture of the future of American song, it is difficult to keep the level of restraint - to avoid "rising on the wings of prophecy." Who can doubt that it will correspond to the future of the land itself, of America now wholly free and interblending, with not one but a score of civic capitals, each an emulative centre of taste and invention, a focus of energetic life, ceaseless in action, radiant with the glow of beauty and creative power.
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 52, 355.
Alden, Henry Mills, on Whitman,
381.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 440; beauty
of his verse and prose, ib.; artistic
restraint, 441; as a novelist, 462;
and see 54, 404, 420, 442, 463.
Alger, William Rounseville (1823- ),
55.
Allan, John, foster-father of Poe,
230-232.
Allen, Elizabeth Ann Akers (1832- ),
50, 446.
Allston, Washington, 37, 39, 46.
America, how far homogeneous, 8;
course of its intellect and action,
31; poetry, 45; milieu, 48.
America, Poetry of, its rise the sub-
ject of this work, 1, 4; historic sig-
nificance, 2; conditions affecting it,
11-25; its barren colonial period,
12-16; Revolutionary period, 16;
early Republican period, 16–25;
first real school, 28-30; effect of
Civil War, 29; review of its evo-
lution from early times to the vigor
of the recent school, 31-61; long
subsidiary to other literature, 31;
sectional differentiation, 37; pseu-
do-American, 42, 43; School of Na-
ture, 45-47; national and domestic,
48, 49; religious, 50; culture, phil-
osophic, artistic, etc., 51-59,
Whitman decries same, 60; review
of existing conditions and specu-
lation as to future, 435-476; early
and later characteristics distin-
guished, 459; promise of the future,
476; and see INTRODUCTION.
Americanism, in what consisting, 5-
10; Grant White's statement, 5;
readily distinguished, 5-10; phys-
ical, 5; mental, etc., 6-8; incom-
pleteness, 7; composite, 7, 8; its
value, 8; foreign recognition, 8, 9;
sectional and local types, 9, 10;
the new Americanism, 10; emo-
tional traits, 29; pseudo-literary,
42, 43; Saxon quality of, 48; Bry-
ant's, 66; types of, 95, 99, 100; rec-
ognized traits, 96; question of a
"national" and "thoroughly Amer-
ican " poet, 96, 97; Whittier's, III;
Emerson's, 159 ; necessary to a com-
prehension of that poet, 159; Whit-
man's, 166, 353, 354, 383, 384 ; Whit-
man on "These States," 358; Long-
fellow's share in, 180, 182, - his
American idyls, 195-203, etc., etc.;
not in the form, but the spirit, of
verse, 289; American fondness for
wildwood scenes, 318; Lowell's,
346; American love of travel, 400;
of our miscellaneous verse, 456;
present growth of, 473; and see
220, also Nationality, etc.
American Homestead, see Domesticity.
American Literature, History of, Ty-
ler's, 32-34.
"American Review, The," 236.
Among my Books, Lowell's, 1st & 2d
Anapestic Verse, Swinburne's, 195;
and hexameter, 196.
Ancestral Feeling, Holmes's, 299.
"Ancient Mariner, The," Coleridge's,
Andromeda, Kingsley's, 196, 197.
"Annuals,"
," "Souvenirs," etc., 42, 43.
Antique, the, Grecian disregard of
Landscape, 45, 46; Bryant's Ho-
meric quality, 84; not reproduced
in English hexameter verse, 196;
pseudo-classical verse, Longfellow's
"Pandora," 204; its method com-
pared with the modern, 311, 312;
esoteric feeling, 369.
Antislavery Conflict, Bryant's warfare
against slavery, 92; Whittier's part
in, 104-106, 124; poetry of, 112,
Whittier's, 121, 127,- Longfellow's,
121, 191; The Antislavery Declara-
tion, 130; Holmes's attitude, 298,
- Lowell's, 310; importance of, 100.
Apothegms, Holmes's, 292.
Aristophanes, 332.
Aristotle, 142.
Arnold, Edwin, 465.
Arnold, Elizabeth, mother of Poe, 230.
Arnold, George, 59, 442.
Arnold, Matthew, on simplicity, 78;
on translating Homer, 89; on hex-
ameter verse, 197, 198; on transla-
tion, 211; on Emerson, 297, and
Lowell, 339-341; suggestive poems
of, 340; and see 170.
Arrian, 142.
Art, its order of development, 46;
"Art for Art's sake," 48, 240, 263,
459; national quality, 98; devotion
required, 105; its method, compared
with that of Philosophy, 134; Emer-
son's, 135, his interpretation of,
148,- his theory of, 149; fitness of
things, 148, 149; sense of, in social
life, 300; compared with Science,
155; grades of perfection, 159;
Emerson's Essay on, 170,
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chief canon, ib.; the mirror of
Longfellow, 216; its votaries under
compulsion, 246; indecency out-
lawed, 366; must conform to Na-
ture's method, 369; Benjamin's
monograph on, 372; Art vs. Arti-
fice, 386; vs. Experience, 415; Tay-
lor's theory, 415; Lessing's law of
distinctions, 449; Lanier's theory of
composition, 450; Expression its
final purpose, 459; its so-called
"doom," 471; canons of, unaltera-
ble, 476.
Artificiality, in style, 158; Whitman's,
386, 387; of Tennyson's and Long-
fellow's dramas, 429.
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