Volume 34 of the

Chronicles of America Series ∴ Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys

Abraham Lincoln Edition

New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1918

Copyright, 1918 by Yale University Press

CONTENTS Chapter Chapter title Page Introduction I. The Pioneers 1 II. The First Colonial Literature 25 III. The Third and Fourth Generation 43 IV. The Revolution 66 V. The Knickerbocker Group 86 VI. The Transcendentalists 109 VII. Romance, Poetry, and History 143 VIII. Poe and Whitman 187 IX. Union and Liberty 206 X. A New Nation 234 Bibliographical Note 269 Index 273

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN LITERATURE