The Oxford Book of American Essays by Brander Matthews et al.

The Oxford Book of American Essays

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Title: The Oxford Book of American Essays

Contents: Introduction -- The ephemera: an emblem of human life / Benjamin Franklin -- The whistle / Benjamin Franklin -- Dialogue between Franklin and the gout / Benjamin Franklin -- Consolation for the old bachelor / Francis Hopkinson -- John Bull / Washington Irving -- The mutability of literature / Washington Irving -- Kean's acting / Richard Henry Dana -- Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Uses of great men / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Buds and bird-voices / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bread and the newspaper / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- On a certain condescension in foreigners / James Russell Lowell -- Preface to "Leaves of Grass" / Walt Whitman -- Americanism in literature / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Thackeray in America / George William Curtis -- Our march to Washington / Theodore Winthrop -- Calvin / Charles Dudley Warner -- Five American contributions to civilization / Charles William Eliot -- I talk of dreams / William Dean Howells -- An idyl of the honey-bee / John Burroughs -- Cut-off Copples's / Clarence King -- The Théâtre Français / Henry James -- Theocritus on Cape Cod / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Colonialism in the United States / Henry Cabot Lodge -- New York after Paris / William Crary Brownell -- The tyranny of things / Edward Sandford Martin -- Free trade vs. protection in literature / Samuel McChord Crothers -- Dante and the Bowery / Theodore Roosevelt -- The revolt of the unfit / Nicholas Murray Butler -- On translating the odes of Horace / William Peterfield Trent.

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Contributor: Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928

Contributor: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

Contributor: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Contributor: Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927

Contributor: Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

Contributor: Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

Contributor: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

Contributor: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Contributor: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Contributor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Contributor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

Contributor: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Contributor: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Contributor: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

Contributor: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Contributor: King, Clarence, 1842-1901

Contributor: Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Contributor: Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Contributor: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916

Contributor: Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939

Contributor: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Contributor: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Contributor: Trent, William P. (William Peterfield), 1862-1939

Contributor: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900

Contributor: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Contributor: Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861

Editor: Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929

EBook No.: 40196

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Downloads: 588

Language: English

Subject: American essays

LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.