The Story of American Letters

adventure Ameri American literature appeared artist authors beauty Bret Harte Bryant century character Civil colonial Cooper creative criticism culture developed drama Dreiser Eliot Emerson emotional England English essays European evil experience expression Faulkner feeling fiction force Frank Norris Franklin Freneau H. L. Mencken Hawthorne Howells human nature humor ideal ideas imagination imagists individual influence interest Irving James less literary living Longfellow Lowell Lowell's Mark Twain materials Maxwell Anderson Melville mind Moby Dick modern moral Mourning Becomes Electra mystical narrative naturalistic novel novelist passion philosophy play Poe's poems poet poetic poetry political popular portrayed prose Puritan reader realism religious romantic romanticism satire Scarlet Letter scene sense sentiment social society spirit story struggle style tale theme Theodore Dreiser Thoreau thought tion tradition tragedy transcendentalist ture twentieth-century verse Whitman Whittier Willa Cather William Vaughn Moody writing York youth