ABBEY, HENRY (1842- ), 443.

Accent, 373; and quantity, 198.
"Ad Vatem," 131.

Addison, 286.

Affaire Clémenceau, by Dumas, fils,
368.

Affectation, Poe's, 260; the bane of

poetry, 312; Byron's, 312; types of,
313; and see 388.
Affluence, Lowell's, 337.
Agamemnon's Daughter, Snider's, 454.
Ages, The, Bryant's, 73.

Airs from Arcady, Bunner's, 448.
Akenside, 67.

Albee, John, 443.

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 52, 355.
Alden, Henry Mills, on Whitman,
381.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 440; beauty
of his verse and prose, ib.; artistic
restraint, 441; as a novelist, 462;
and see 54, 404, 420, 442, 463.
Alger, William Rounseville (1823- ),
55.

Allan, John, foster-father of Poe,
230-232.

Allen, Elizabeth Ann Akers (1832- ),
50, 446.

Allston, Washington, 37, 39, 46.
America, how far homogeneous, 8;
course of its intellect and action,
31; poetry, 45; milieu, 48.
America, Poetry of, its rise the sub-
ject of this work, 1, 4; historic sig-

nificance, 2; conditions affecting it,
11-25; its barren colonial period,
12-16; Revolutionary period, 16;
early Republican period, 16–25;
first real school, 28-30; effect of
Civil War, 29; review of its evo-
lution from early times to the vigor
of the recent school, 31-61; long
subsidiary to other literature, 31;
sectional differentiation, 37; pseu-
do-American, 42, 43; School of Na-
ture, 45-47; national and domestic,
48, 49; religious, 50; culture, phil-
osophic, artistic, etc., 51-59, —
Whitman decries same, 60; review
of existing conditions and specu-
lation as to future, 435-476; early
and later characteristics distin-
guished, 459; promise of the future,
476; and see INTRODUCTION.
Americanism, in what consisting, 5-
10; Grant White's statement, 5;
readily distinguished, 5-10; phys-
ical, 5; mental, etc., 6-8; incom-
pleteness, 7; composite, 7, 8; its
value, 8; foreign recognition, 8, 9;
sectional and local types, 9, 10;
the new Americanism, 10; emo-
tional traits, 29; pseudo-literary,
42, 43; Saxon quality of, 48; Bry-
ant's, 66; types of, 95, 99, 100; rec-
ognized traits, 96; question of a
"national" and "thoroughly Amer-
ican" poet, 96, 97; Whittier's, III;

Emerson's, 159; necessary to a com-
prehension of that poet, 159; Whit-
man's, 166, 353, 354, 383, 384; Whit-
man on "These States," 358; Long-
fellow's share in, 180, 182, — his
American idyls, 195-203, etc., etc.;
not in the form, but the spirit, of
verse, 289; American fondness for
wildwood scenes, 318; Lowell's,
346; American love of travel, 400;
of our miscellaneous verse, 456;
present growth of, 473; and see
220, also Nationality, etc.
American Homestead, see Domesticity.
American Literature, History of, Ty-
ler's, 32-34.

"American Review, The," 236.
Among my Books, Lowell's, 1st & 2d

series, 327.

Anapestic Verse, Swinburne's, 195;
and hexameter, 196.
Ancestral Feeling, Holmes's, 299.
"Ancient Mariner, The," Coleridge's,

118, 251.

Andromeda, Kingsley's, 196, 197.
"Annuals,"
," "Souvenirs," etc., 42, 43.
Antique, the, Grecian disregard of
Landscape, 45, 46; Bryant's Ho-
meric quality, 84; not reproduced
in English hexameter verse, 196;
pseudo-classical verse, Longfellow's
66 Pandora," 204; its method com-
pared with the modern, 311, 312;
esoteric feeling, 369.
Antislavery Conflict, Bryant's warfare
against slavery, 92; Whittier's part
in, 104-106, 124; poetry of, 112,
Whittier's, 121, 127,- Longfellow's,
121, 191; The Antislavery Declara-
tion, 130; Holmes's attitude, 298,
- Lowell's, 310; importance of, 100.
Apothegms, Holmes's, 292.
Aristophanes, 332.
Aristotle, 142.

Arnold, Edwin, 465.

Arnold, Elizabeth, mother of Poe, 230.
Arnold, George, 59, 442.

Arnold, Matthew, on simplicity, 78;
on translating Homer, 89; on hex-
ameter verse, 197, 198; on transla-
tion, 211; on Emerson, 297, and
Lowell, 339-341; suggestive poems
of, 340; and see 170.
Arrian, 142.

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Art, its order of development, 46;
"Art for Art's sake," 48, 240, 263,
459; national quality, 98; devotion
required, 105; its method, compared
with that of Philosophy, 134; Emer-
son's, 135, his interpretation of,
148, his theory of, 149; fitness of
things, 148, 149; sense of, in social
life, 300; compared with Science,
155; grades of perfection, 159;
Emerson's Essay on, 170,
his
chief canon, ib.; the mirror of
Longfellow, 216; its votaries under '
compulsion, 246; indecency out-
lawed, 366; must conform to Na-
ture's method, 369; Benjamin's
monograph on, 372; Art vs. Arti-
fice, 386; vs. Experience, 415; Tay-
lor's theory, 415; Lessing's law of
distinctions, 449; Lanier's theory of
composition, 450; Expression its
final purpose, 459; its so-called
"doom," 471; canons of, unaltera-
ble, 476.

Artificiality, in style, 158; Whitman's,
386, 387; of Tennyson's and Long-
fellow's dramas, 429.

"Atlantic Monthly," 91, 293; edited
by Lowell, 326; and see 409.

At the Court of King Edwin, Leigh-|

ton's, 454.

481

Holmes's, reviewed, 291, 292.

Aytoun, Prof., 443.

"BACCHUS," Emerson's, 154.
Bach, 468.

Background, lack of, in new countries,
20; afforded by Scotland, 21, 22.
Bacon, 171.

Ballads and Balladists, Whittier our
foremost balladist, 112-114; Long-
fellow's spirited work, 192;
Holmes's, 282; Taylor's Califor-
nian Ballads, 403.

Ballads and Other Poems, Longfellow,
189-192.

Balzac, 470; and Poe, 258.
Barlow, Joel, 36.

Barton, Bernard, 113.

Bates, Charlotte Fiske (1838- ), 446.
Baudelaire, Charles, 65.
Bay Psalm Book, 33.

Beauty, and use, law of, 152; sense of,
in America quickened by Longfel-
low, 182; Longfellow's love of,
224; Poe's devotion to, 228, 263,
264, his sense of, compared with
Keats's, 263; "The Rhythmical
Creation of," 249.

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"Becket," Tennyson's, 467.
Beckford, William, 252.

"Bedouin Song," Taylor, 408, 413.
Beecher, H. W., a saying of, 249.

Benjamin, S. G. W., on originality in
art, 372.

Benton, Joel (1832– ), 360, 443.
Bible, the, Longfellow on hexameters
in our version, 199; see also 371.
Bierstadt, Albert, 46.

Biglow Papers, The, Lowell's, 118,
303, 321-325 (2d series, 323), 457.
'Bion, Epitaph of," 176.

Bird, Robert Montgomery, 57.
Bishop, William Henry, 463.

Blake, William, studied by Whitman,
371, 378; and see 395.
Blank-verse, Stoddard's, 58; original

style of Bryant's, 71; Bryant's, 79-
81; the test of a vigorous poet, 79;
the American type, 79; its ineffi-
ciency for Homeric translation, 86-
91; Bryant's and Tennyson's, 86;
Prof. Lewis on, 90; Emerson's, 167;
Poe not a master of, 258; Lowell's,
342; Whitman's objection to, 374;
its nobility, 374; Parke Godwin on,
ib.; Taylor's, 405; and see 377.
Bloede, Gertrude ("Stuart Sterne")
(1845- ), 446.

Blood, Henry Ames (1838- ), 443.
Boccaccio, 114, 208.
Bohemianism, 235.

Boker, George Henry, his dramas and
lyrics, 57; friendship with Taylor
and Stoddard, 404; and see 54, 56,
192, 439, 468.

Boner, John Henry (1845- ), 451.
Bookishness, Longfellow's, 215;
Holmes's reading, 297; Southey's,
407.

Book of Romances, Taylor's, 404.
Boston, Holmes the laureate of, 284,