Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into this, combining national history with his love for literature. - Summary by BellonaTimes
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Episodes
Preface
Episode 0 · 3:44
Ch 1. Early Colonial Literature. 1607-1700. Pt. 1.The English in Virginia
Episode 1 · 18:20
Ch 1, Pt 2. Pilgrims and Puritans in New England
Episode 2 · 22:04
Ch 1, Pt 3. The New England Clergy
Episode 3 · 24:47
Ch 1, Pt 4. Puritan Poetry in New England
Episode 4 · 20:10
Ch 2. The Eighteenth Century. Pt 1. The First Half of the Century
Episode 5 · 19:30
Ch 2, Pt 2. Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790
Episode 6 · 27:36
Ch 2, Pt 3. The Second Half of the Century
Episode 7 · 14:02
Ch 2, Pt 4. Poetry of the Revolution
Episode 8 · 20:35
Ch 2, Pt 5. The Close of the Century
Episode 9 · 26:04
Ch 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Pt 1. The New Literature: The Knickerbocker Group
Episode 10 · 21:42
Ch 3, Pt 2. Washington Irving: 1783-1859
Episode 11 · 34:13
Ch 3, Pt 3. James Fenimore Cooper: 1789-1851
Episode 12 · 20:30
Ch 3, Pt 4. William Cullen Bryant: 1794-1878
Episode 13 · 38:28
Ch 4. Philosophy and Romance. Pt 1. The Literary Development of New England
Episode 14 · 18:36
Ch 4, Pt 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1803-1882
Episode 15 · 43:27
Ch 4, Pt 3. Henry D. Thoreau: 1817-1862
Episode 16 · 12:44
Ch 4, Pt 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne: 1804-1864
Episode 17 · 35:24
Ch 4, Pt 5. Edgar Allan Poe: 1809-1849
Episode 18 · 32:59
Ch 5. The New England Poets. Pt 1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1807-1882
Episode 19 · 34:04
Ch 5, Pt 2. John Greenleaf Whittier: 1807-1892
Episode 20 · 37:48
Ch 5, Pt 3. James Russell Lowell: 1819-1891
Episode 21 · 32:20
Ch 5, Pt 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes: 1809-1894
Episode 22 · 21:04
Ch 6. General Literary Development. Pt 1. The Historians