Hand-Book of American Literature, Historical, Biographical, and Critical (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hand-Book of American Literature, Historical, Biographical, and Critical The present volume belongs to a series of Hand-books of Literature, and contains a brief review of American contributions to history, biography, poetry, prose-fiction, and other departments, during the period 1640-1854. American literature belongs almost entirely to our own times. Several works possessing, at least, an historical interest were produced during the colonial period, and about the time of the Revolution - and these, with the early records and biographies of the States of New England, have seemed worthy of notice in our review, but the writings of the eighteenth century were mostly theological and political, and few books of the class commonly included in reviews of general literature were produced before the year 1820. The North American Review (commenced in 1815) complained, during its early years, that it could scarcely find American books to be noticed. After the lapse of about twenty-five years, the same Review found a difficulty in keeping pace with the productiveness of the press. During this time, the departments of history and biography had been enriched by the writings of Prescott, Sparks, Bancroft, Wheaton, and other authors, Irving, Cooper, Ware, Kennedy, and many other writers, had appeared in the field of prose-fiction, poetry had been represented by Bryant, Sprague, Halleck, and Longfellow, in mathematics, Dr Bowditch had produced his commentary on the Mecamque Celeste, the works of Audubon, Silliman, Bigelow, Morton, and other special authors, had extended the literature of science, Webster, Duponceau, and Pickering, had published the results of their studies in philology, theology and Biblical criticism had been cultivated by Channing, Norton, Stuart, Robinson, and others too numerous to be mentioned here, while a very large pro portion of educational works had made America, in this department, almost independent of the old country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.