- •Lecture 1. Period I. The Anglo-Saxons. To a.D. 1066
- •Period II. The Norman-French Period. A.D. 1066 To About 1350
- •Lecture 2. Period III. The end of the middle ages (about 1350 to about 1500). The medieval drama.
- •The medieval drama
- •The reformation.
- •Sir thomas more and his 'utopia.'
- •The elizabethan period.
- •Prose fiction.
- •Edmund spenser, 1552-1599.
- •In general style and spirit, it should be added, Spenser has been one of the most powerful influences on all succeeding English romantic poetry.
- •Christopher marlowe, 1564-1593.
- •Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
- •Ben jonson.
- •Lecture 4. The Seventeenth Century (1603-1660). Prose and Poetry. The Restoration (1660-1700).
- •Lecture 5. The Eighteenth Century, Pseudo-Classicism And The Beginnings Of Modern Romanticism
- •Samuel taylor coleridge.
- •William wordsworth (1770-1850).
- •Robert southey.
- •Walter scott.
- •The last group of romantic poets.
- •Percy bysshe shelley (1792-1832).
- •John keats (1795-1821).
- •Lord macaulay.
- •Thomas carlyle.
- •It will probably be evident that the mainspring of the undeniable and volcanic power of 'Sartor Resartus' is a tremendous moral conviction and fervor.
- •John ruskin.
- •Matthew arnold.
- •Alfred tennyson.
- •Elizabeth barrett browning and robert browning.
- •The novel. The earlier secondary novelists.
- •Charles dickens.
- •William m. Thackeray.
- •George eliot.
- •George meredith (1828-1910).
- •Thomas hardy.
- •Stevenson.
- •Rudyard kipling.
- •Lecture 8. The 20th century english literature
- •William Strachey (1609-1618).
- •George Sandys (1578-1644).
- •John Winthrop (1588-1649).
- •Early Descriptive Writers.
- •Roger Williams, 1606-83.
- •Increase Mather, 1639-1723.
- •Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
- •The Bay Psalm Book
- •Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705.
- •Sarah Kemble Knight, 1666-1727.
- •William Byrd, 1674-1744.
- •Other historical books.
- •Jonathan Edwards, 1703-58.
- •Benjamin franklin: 1706-1790.
- •Second half of the eighteenth century. The revolutionary period: speeches, argumentative essays, state papers.
- •The Declaration and the Constitution.
- •Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817.
- •Revolutionary Songs and Ballads.
- •Francis Hopkinson, 1737-91.
- •Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810.
- •James fenimore cooper: 1789-1851.
- •The literary development of new england in the 19th century.
- •Ralph waldo emerson: 1803-82.
- •Henry d. Thoreau: 1817-1862.
- •Nathaniel hawthorne: 1804-1864.
- •In 1849, following his enforced retirement from surveyorship at the custom-house in Salem office, -- the result of political schemes, -- Hawthorne wrote “The Scarlet Letter”.
- •Edgar allan poe: 1809-1849.
- •Lecture 11. Poetry and prose of the 19th century.
- •John greenleaf whittier (1807-1892).
- •James russell lowell (1819-1891).
- •Oliver wendell holmes: 1809-1894.
- •Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
- •Novelists and humorists. Southern Romancers and realistic fiction.
- •W.G. Simms, 1806-1870.
- •Realistic Fiction.
- •Lecture 12. Literature of the new spirit. Fiction at the turn of the 20th century.
- •Fiction since 1870.
- •W. D. Howells (1837-1920).
- •Henry James (1843-1916).
- •Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
- •Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
- •Ezra Pound
- •Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
- •F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream
- •Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
- •Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- •William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- •John Hoyer Updike
The literary development of new england in the 19th century.
The literary achievements of the Knickerbocker group of writers were practically accomplished by 1850. During the larger part of that first half century, there had been no question of the literary predominance of New York; New England had played, comparatively, an inconspicuous part in the field of national literature. A few of Longfellow's earliest poems were published previous to 1830, and some of Whittier's also; but it was really nearer 1840 than 1830 that either obtained general recognition as a poet. Emerson's first series of Essays was published in 1841, and Hawthorne's “Mosses from an Old Manse” in 1846. “The Scarlet Letter” did not appear until 1850. It was, nevertheless, a period of intellectual activity. In Boston and Cambridge, new ideas were stirring the minds of the thinkers, the intellectual life of the people was feeling the stimulus of its own energy in rather remarkable degree.
The first phase of this new awakening is recognized in the so-called Unitarian movement which spread over New England during the early years of the century. The recognized leader of the Unitarians was William Ellery Channing. Cultured, eloquent, and a persuasive writer, he became famed throughout New England for his oratorical gifts and as a theologian. In seriousness of purpose and in purity of character, Channing represented the strength and virtue of the old Puritan stock. While his writings are largely controversial, he was also a graceful essayist, and his literary influence was felt by contemporary writers who were stirred by his thought and passion.
A second phase of this quickening in the intellectual life of New England appears in the development of transcendentalism. Closely allied with the religious movement just described and including many prominent Unitarians within its circle, transcendentalism, nevertheless, was not Unitarianism. The latter was a religious movement; it grew into the liberal denominations of the present day. Transcendentalism designates a school of abstract thought, a philosophy general in its application to life and conduct. It was distinctly local in its development.
The general influence of the thought and labors of the transcendentalists was stimulating in high degree to the intellectual and moral growth of the period, in spite of the numerous "isms" which flourished among them. It stirred the minds of men, and in general wrought for culture and for philanthropic and progressive measures. It was an important current in New England culture and was significant of what Mr. Barrett Wendell has appropriately called "the Renaissance of New England." Of this latter phase of the movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson is the distinguished representative. A leader among these students of ideas, a preacher of moral and intellectual truths, a poet, a philosopher, a teacher, his influence upon the intellectual life of New England was stimulating in the extreme, while the effect of his writings on American thought and letters can hardly be reckoned.