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ARlEL 129.107.67.88 Fax: 817-272-3392 Email: [email protected] Affiliation: TEXSHARE <#I1 -DAL>,AMIGOS-ILL,@/BCR, LVlS Borrowing Notes: - - - - - - - - - LENDING INFORMATION The Literature of the -"United -.States, An anthology and a history Volume I From the Colonial Period through the Arnerican Renaissance Walter Blair - --.__ Professor of Elgltrh, Un rcra:'y of Ch~wgo Theodore Hornberger Prolojor of Engltrh, Unuarrilv 04 Terar ,,-. , Randall Stewart P<ols$sor of Engl~sh, Brown Univerri'y SCOTT FORESMAN and COMPANY Chicago Atlanta Dallas New York COPYKJCHT.1946, by Scocr, Foreman and Company ILLUSTRATED BY Gregory Odoff, Helen Noel, and Rrinton Turkle PREFACE 1 'FJ On American Literature Tohy When the three of us first mer to plan Tbr Lilrr,ttnrc of women who arc pssing rhrongh college cl~jsrwmsare the U?ii:ed SZ~IIC.~,(.;ern;;in armies \\.ere plishing c..~stwsrd wing to need all the strength of character, all the hu- across Soviet Russia, and Roosevelt and Ch~~rchillhad rniliry and nilerance and hurnur, all rile intelligence which jusr issued the staterneat ntrw farntu~sas the Atlantic they c:m mubter. We think tl~atAmerican literarute can Charter. lhring che intervening years, like other Ameri- be of help. To generalize 1s dangerous, but wc arc pretty c~~swe 11ave cherished rhe hope which that Chxrter sure that students will not find American writers cut to expressed-for a peace "wlrich will atford KO all nalions any single pattern. The literature of our country has the mars of dwelling in safery within their c~w~rbound been w:itren by ~nhabiriurtsof many different localiries, aries, and \vllich will adord assurance that all thc mc-n in represcntativcs of many different levels of wciery, prod- all ~IICIJIIJS my live out their lives in freedo~nfrom ucrs of many different racial, religious. and occuparional fcar rt~ld want." Today it is clmret than ever that if this influences. Arner~canwriters are not agreed on any one hope is to be rranslatd into Instirig re.sl~ty,it wiU have way to salvation, any one philosophy, my single enrplana- ro be by the will and inrclligencc arlcl i~lternatii>rlal tion of this puzzling worlJ. Bur they have told of finding understanding of pe.ice-loving peoples of all dlt. r~ations. l~fewell worch the Ilvlug, these IJnited Stares full of Sorne may fed rhar rhis is an in~pproj~rii1:etilllc to good ftxd, good fun, good ~hnughts,and good people insist upon the irnp)rt:,nce to Americans of their narion~l They have nevrr bel~evedri~ar pcople should be shot for literature. Wc should fccl so ourselves if we believed thar political reasons, or that the world cannot be improved the literature of the IJnired States is narrowly narional- by tireless appl~cationof intelligence 'There is nothing istic. It dtxs not seem so to us. We think, on the corlrr:try, to fear but fear" is a typically American attitude. that Americans car\ best dixharjie their heavy responsi- We hope thsc something of this splrit will be absorbed bilities in the years ahead by rciognizing more fully tiian from rhis book We realize, however, that Amaricnn ever bcforc the richncss of their he;itage. The literature literature may he taught, and taught well, in many differ- of this nation is. in out jt~tigrncnr,a hum:tnizing rather ent ways. Both in the selecrions and in the editorial than a chauvinistic force-the record of the ideals and apparatus, we have tried to provide the materials for strughrles of many peoples who have heconlc one people different kinds of courses or a course with several em- and ~.hohave, despite frequent serhacks ;~ndfailures, phases-the chronologic..il survey, the careful analysis battled with inspiring persistence for thc principle of of the work of major auchors, the study of literary types, "qua1 and cxacr justice to all men, of whatcvcr state or and the examination of the development of significant persuasion, religious or politic-al." Americanism, irl the ideas. Our guiding belief hs been chat although limited best sense of the worJ, nccds r,o apology; Americans fields of study and spcclalized approaches are desiuble carulot but hope that they sre on the threshold of an era in texts m be used in advanced courses, an introciuctory in which rhc principles of democracy urill he rcinforcd text fails unless it shows the great range of the riches of at home and extended abroad. Nothing less can justify our literacure and the several wlys of appreciating bese the years c f gbbal war. riches. As teacp~rsof lirerature, we do nor pretend to know Hence che sekcliarrt are comprehensive The writers all the answers to the questions which the future will intluJrd amply represent the whole range of American pose. I,r is obvious, however, thar the young men and literary history, from rhe colonid period down to the iii prcsent day. Major authors are given generous spdce, but T. H. (ThsorZora llwtibsrgcr;: Tho- Hmiot, the more interesting minor writers have not been neg- John Witubrop, George Also$, IY'ilIbn Rarttm, lected. Complete works have been given preference over Thomas Sheprrfd, Roger Willrmr. Cotton Ma~h#, unillumlnating excerpts. Particular care has been taken Jonutban Llcuard~, Chales Chauncy, Benjamin to include folklore, humor, the drama, and r11e novel, all Franklin, Mlchcl Guilluirtne St. lean De Creuecocur, of which are often subordinated in anthologies to thc John V'ool?ww, John Admts, Jntr~bunRoucher, more mamgmtlc essays, poems, and short stories. In Thomas P&w, Tborm leffcr~an,Akxfider Hom- addition to primarily artistic literq works, this kook iltola, George Warbingron, H. H. Bruckenridgc, indudes numerous exmplc~of utilitarian types st~chAS Andrrw ]actson, Willium Elhry Chmniag, Pe~er the sermon and the political mct. Throughout, however, Car~itrighr,Philip Fraearr, Trmothy Dwight, Joel we have tried to indude only work Likcly to have lasting Dcrrloru, Wdl1i.m. Cxllen Bryant, Rojdl Tyler, Vah- literary interest and value. ington Irving, James Fenimorr Cooper, Caroline Hcnce, also, the approaches to these writings are varied Marildd Kirktnd. Chronoiogical tables and introductory chapters on "Intel- R. S. (RudaIl Stwar!): Wiifutn Brdfwd, Smn- lecnal Currenrs" in the six periods of our pIan zre de- ttel Stwd, Anne Brdtreer, Educrrd Tqlor, Rdpb signed ro indicate the intimate relationship between Waldo Ernerron, Henry Dad Thoreau, NatBrtlsid American lircrilture and American history. Biographies Hwtborne, Herman Melilille, John Peudlston Ken- of indiv~dualauthors and occasional ~nuwductoryuotes nedy, WiUia718 Gihore Simms. suggcsr how a knowledge of the writer's l~fecan often add to the interest and understanding of a particular The illustrative material is intcrldcd to aid materially selection. Seaions on "Literary Trends" and numerous in showing studencs how captivating our literamre has anaiycicd notes ernphilsize che importance of the study ken throughout its history. A drcailed consideration of of literary forms, techniques, and valm. the sources of the illustrations and the work of the anisrs Although we havc consciously sought to emphasize follows rhis preface. variety, we have not ignored the desirability of coherence. Some of our many debts to the work of scholars in the By frequent conferences and by correspondence we have field of American literature are acknowltciged in the sought ways and means of integrating the history of introductions and notes. Since we have avoided burdening ideas, the history of forms, the biographies, the selections, the student with too large a mass of scholarly citations, and the notes. We nre jointly responsible for dye plan we add here our gned appreciation nf the large con- of the book as a whole, and for what we hope will be tribution to r>ur interprctations and criticism by our found a satisfactory unification of enormously varied fellow-workers. American literary schohrship is rela- materials. tively new, but it is growing rapidly and &mdy bulks To indicate our individual responsibility, however, we large in the prcpardtion of ,any such book as chis. Here have initialed the intrductory chapters, and we are in- and there, we trust our work has ndlied to its store of dividually responsible for the biographies, inrroductions, facts and gmeralizations. texts, and nores as follows: In addition rhcre havc been munrless conferences, Ictten, telephone calls between our publish= and our- Volume I selves s we havc settled the many adjustments, big and W.B (Wdtw Illam): John Smith, Sarah Kmzble little, in the preparation of the manuscript.