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Logo 2 VOL MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS HC

Volume one and two, third edition. Edited by Howard Mumford Jones

6 1/4" X 9 1/4"


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LUDWIG
LUDWIG

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MAJOR
AMERICAN
WRITERS
THIRD EDITION
Edited by HOWARD MUMFORD JONES
Harvard University
ERNEST E. LEISY
Southern Methodist University
RICHARD M. LUDWIG
Princeton University
VOLUME
ONE
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
MAJOR
AMERICAN
WRITERS
THIRD
EDITION
Edited
by
HOWARD
MUMFORD
JONES
Harvard
University
ERNEST
LEISY
Southern
Methodist
University
RICHARD
LUDWIG
Princeton
University
VOLUME
ONE
NEW
YORK
HARCOURT,
BRACE
AND
COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY
Ba
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be re-
publisher.
produced any form, by mimeograph or any other
LIST OF COPYRIGHTS AND the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS selections reprinted
in
this
book
by
permission
APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS, of The the following authors record publishers their and thanks copyright for the holders: use of
Edition,
Household
Poems,
William
by
from
for
selections
INC.,
Cullen
Godwin.
Parke
Works,
edited
by
Collected
from
Bryant’s
and
Bryant
Hawthorne,
Oliver
Nathaniel
from
selections
COMPANY,
for
MIFFLIN
HOUGHTON
Wendell
HARCOURT,
BRACE
1935,
AND
1952,
COPYRIGHT,
BY
Ba
All
rights
reserved.
No
part
of
this
book
may
be
re-
publisher.
produced
any
form,
by
mimeograph
or
any
other
means,
without
in
permission
in
writing
from
the
LIST
OF
COPYRIGHTS
AND
the
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
selections
reprinted
in
this
book
by
permission
of
The
the
following
authors
record
publishers
their
and
thanks
copyright
for
the
use
of
Edition,
Household
Poems,
William
by
from
for
selections
INC.,
Cullen
Godwin.
Parke
Works,
edited
by
Collected
from
Bryant’s
and
Bryant
Hawthorne,
Oliver
Nathaniel
from
selections
COMPANY,
for
MIFFLIN
HOUGHTON
Wendell

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153
159
CONTENTS FOR VOLUME ONE
CONTENTS FOR VOLUME ONE
The Pilot
States of America
332
173
England and America
339
United
176
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
Thirteen
348
The American Crisis
of
Thanatopsis
350
The Yellow Violet
THOMAS The Age JEFFERSON of Reason
Declaration
352
IV
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
189
352
Query
Address
1785
To a Waterfowl
The
353
Virginia;
From First Notes Unanimous on
Inaugural
1787
August
10,
Green River
354
1813
28,
August
The Death of the Flowers
1814
355
October
153
159
CONTENTS
FOR
VOLUME
ONE
CONTENTS
FOR
VOLUME
ONE
The
States
of
America
332
173
England
and
America
339
United
176
WILLIAM
CULLEN
BRYANT
(1794-1878)
Thirteen
348
The
American
Crisis
the
of
Thanatopsis
350
The
Yellow
Violet
THOMAS
The
Age
JEFFERSON
of
Reason
Declaration
352
IV
Inscription
for
the
Entrance
to
a
Wood
189
352
Query
Address
1785
To a
Waterfowl
The
353
Virginia;
From
First
Notes
Unanimous
on
Inaugural
1787
August
10,
Green
River
354
1813
28,
August
The
Death
of
the
Flowers
1814
355
October

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