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Main currents in American thought An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920

Vernon Louis Parrington

Baldwin, Joseph G., 133, 162, 166 Bancroft, George, 437-439 _Bank of the United States, The_, 309 n Barlow, Joel, 188 Bartol, C. A., 384 _Basis of the Senate, The_, 306, 307, 310, 315 Bassett, John, 148, 149 Baxter, Richard, 371 Beard, Professor Charles A., 13 n, 15, 18-19 _Beauchampe_, 130 Beecher, Elizabeth, 342 n ----, Henry Ward, 238, 344, 351, 399 ----, Lyman, 357, 371, 375, 376 Benjamin, Parke, 238 Bennett, James Gordon, 102 n, 356 Bentham, Jeremy, 166 Benton, Thomas H., 14, 55, 151, 246, 309 Berkeley, Bishop, 380 Beveridge, Albert J., 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 316 n _Bibliolâtres_, 464 n Biddle, Nicholas, 55 _Biglow Papers, The_, 368, 464, 464 n Bird, Robert Montgomery, 135, 162, 166, 190-192, 220, 235 Birney, James G., 246, 333, 351, 359, 365 Blackstone, 31, 35, 47, 113, 117, 120, 168, 197, 302, 313 _Blithedale Romance, The_, 442, 448 Blücher, Marshal, 94 Boone, Daniel, 138, 139, 162 _Border Beagles_, 128 _Boston Kidnapping, The_, 423 Bourlamaqui, 117 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 236 Bradbury, John, 215 Brevoort, Henry, 205 Briant, Lemuel, 325, 326 Bright, John, 241 Brisbane, Albert, ii, 101, 108, 200, 208, 242, 251, 350, 448 _British Spy, The_, 31, 33, 41 _Broker of Bogota, The_, 191 Brown, Charles Brockden, 188-190 ----, John, 155, 159, 360, 364, 399, 402, 412, 458 Brownson, Orestes, ii, 108 Bryant, William Cullen, 201, 208, 238-246, 247, 257, 258, 366, 458 Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Stevens, 113 Bunyan, John, 366 Burgess, John W., 94 Burke, Edmund, 12, 15, 31, 94, 305, 311, 366, 392, 467 Burns, Anthony, 359, 360, 411, 423 ----, Robert, 366 Burr, Aaron, 197 Bushnell, Rev. Horace, 356 Byrd, Col. William, 8 Byron, Lord, 111, 116, 200, 216 Cabell, James Branch, 259, 260 Cabot, George, 296 _Caleb Williams_, 190 Calhoun, John C., 4, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69-82, 83, 89, 91, 93, 102, 109, 115, 120, 123, 126, 136, 137, 144, 150, 152, 153, 168, 170, 299, 311, 312, 357, 399, 467, 468, 473 Calvin, John, 215, 272, 273, 321, 340, 416, 457 _Camillus_, 285-286 Campbell, Thomas, 200 _Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington, On the_, 464 n Carey, Matthew, 185-186 Carlyle, Thomas, 47, 101, 111, 381, 389, 393, 406, 412 Carpenter, G. R., 351, 367 Caruthers, Dr. William Alexander, 28, 41-46, 377 Cass, Lewis, 246 _Cathedral, The_, 266 Catullus, 453 _Cavaliers of Virginia, The_, 41, 45 Chadwick, John White, 330, 338 _Chainbearer, The_, 232, 234, 236 _Chambered Nautilus, The_, 453 Channing, William Ellery, 188, 252, 300, 314, 317, 319, 325, 326, 327, 328-338, 339, 342, 357, 361, 371, 390, 393, 420, 435, 443, 454, 456 ----, William Ellery (Younger), 401 ----, William Henry, 108, 228, 241, 347, 348, 428, 429 Chapman, Mrs., 351 _Chardon Street Convention, The_, 345 _Charlemont_, 130 Charles I, King, 372 “_Charming Creature” as a Wife, The_, 172 Chase, L. B., 102 Chaucer, 47 _Chicora and Other Poems_, 103 Child, Francis, 465 ----, Lydia Maria, 351 Choate, Rufus, 152, 329, 367, 368, 397, 398, 421, 423 _Chronicle, The_, 206 Churchill, Charles, 452 _Civil Disobedience_, 409, 410, 411 _Civil Liberty and Self-Government_, 95 _Clarel_, 265, 266-267 Clark, George Rogers, 138 Clarke, J. F., 429, 430 Clay, Henry, 4, 34, 37, 46, 48, 67, 69, 71, 122, 138, 139, 142-144, 145, 150, 152, 153, 209, 218, 242, 243, 249, 296, 298, 309, 333, 353, 365, 366, 397, 399 Clayton, Augustus S., 176 Cleon, 398 Cliffton, William, 188 _Climbing the Natural Bridge_, 46 Clinton, De Witt, 201 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 265 Cobbett, William, 185, 186 Cobden, Richard, 241 Coke, Sir Edward, 15, 47, 117 _Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas_, 173, 178 n Coleridge, Samuel T., 58, 381, 389 Collins, Wilkie, 458 _Columbus_, 464 n _Commentaries on American Law_, 199 _Commentaries on the Constitution_, 301-303, 311, 312 Commons, John R., 250, 252, 253, 254 Comte, Auguste, 30 Condillac, Etienne de, 382 Condorcet, Marquis de, 10, 11, 293 _Congressional Debates_, 175 Congreve, William, 54 _Connecticut_, 202 _Constitutional History of Greece, The_, 116 _Constitutional View of the War between the States_, 9, 56, 83, 88, 89, 90 n, 91, 302 _Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States, The_, 311 _Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated_, 299 Conway, Moncure D., 90 Cooke, Jay, 474 ----, John Esten, ii, 28 Cooper, James Fenimore, 37, 131, 133, 135, 141, 183, 193, 196, 204, 207, 208, 216, 220, 222-237, 238, 257, 266, 457 ----, James Fenimore (grandson), 207 n, 229 ----, Judge William, 194, 224, 225 ----, Dr., 72 _Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper_, 207 n, 229 Cotton, Rev. John, 118 _Country, The_, 103 _Courier and Enquirer, The_, 253 Cousin, Victor, 381 Coverley, Sir Roger de, 52 Cowper, William, 188, 264 Crafts, William, 112-114 _Crater, The_, 226 Crawford, W. H., 168 _Cream of the Jest, The_, 259 Crèvecœur, Hector St. John de, 215 _Croaker Papers_, 200 Crockett, Davy, 45, 138, 147, 162, 165, 172-179, 192, 366 Cromwell, Oliver, 213, 464 Cruse, Peter Hoffman, 48 Cujacius, 117 Curtis, George William, 238 Cushing, Caleb, 362, 365 _Daniel Webster_, 297 n Dante, 440, 466 Darwin, Charles, 419, 455 Davis, Jefferson, 4, 62, 65-66, 70, 86, 146, 299, 468 _Debating Society, The_, 172 _Declaration of Whig Principles and Purposes_, 310 _Decline of Aristocracy in New York Politics_, 199, 224, 244 _Democracy_, 467 n _Democracy, Pacific and Constructive_, 244 Dennie, Joseph, 187 De Quincey, Thomas, 258 Dew, Professor, 102 _Dial, The_, 348 Dickens, Charles, 47, 127, 141, 441 Dickinson, John, 186 _Discourses on Government_, 354 _Disquisition on Government, A_, 75 n, 77, 79, 299 _Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, The_, 214 _Divina Commedia_, 440 _Divinity School Address_, 337, 390 _Domnei_, 260 _Don Quixote_, 31 Douglas, Stephen A., 153, 397, 398 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 200 _Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp_, 377 _Dred Scott_, 157 Dryden, John, 31, 104, 289 Dumas, Alexandre, 216 _Dutchman’s Fireside, The_, 220 Dwight, Theodore, 278 ----, Timothy, 71, 188, 240, 324, 340, 371 _Early Spanish Ballads_, 116 _Ecclesiastes_, 264 _Echo, The_, 24 _Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy, The_, 13 n, 15, 19 Edward I, King, 260 Edwards, Jonathan, 71, 321, 323, 324, 372, 373, 379, 399, 445 Eliot, Rev. John, 201, 343 _Elliot’s Debates_, 83 Elliott, S. K., 102 _Elsie Venner_, 454, 459 _Emancipation of Labor, The_, 256 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 108, 226, 230, 258, 264, 266, 304, 314, 316, 317, 319, 337, 344, 349, 373, 379, 380, 383, 384, 385, 386-399, 401, 409, 412, 420, 426, 429, 431, 433, 439, 447, 449, 451, 455, 462, 474 _Encyclopedia Americana_, 94 _English Serfdom and American Slavery_, 102 _English Thought in the Eighteenth Century_, 461 _Epipsychidion_, 259 _Epistle of Robert Hogbin, Esq._, 201 _Essays_ (Emerson), 387, 390 _Essay on Politics_, 393, 394, 396, 397 _Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females_, 342 n _Essay on Thoreau_, 346 n Evans, George Henry, 254 _Evening Post, The_, 102 n, 239, 242 n, 244, 245 Everett, Edward, 109, 159, 317, 319, 320, 329, 397, 399, 423, 437, 458, 460 _Examination of the Late Proceedings in Congress Respecting ... the Secretary of the Treasury, An_, 15 _Exclusion of Slavery from the Territories, On the_, 312-313 “Falkland,” 287 _Fanny_, 202 _Federal Orrery, The_, 294 _Federalist, The_, 24, 196, 286, 302, 303 Felton, Professor, 367 Fenn, William W., 324 n, 327 Fenno, John, 186, 206 _Ferdinand and Isabella_, 434 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 382, 430 Fielding, Henry, 128 _Fight, The_, 172 Fillmore, President Millard, 47 Filmer, Sir Robert, 215 Fink, Mike, 138, 192 _First Settlement of England, The_, 306, 307-308 Flint, Rev. Timothy, 51, 140, 141, 162-163, 211 _Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi_, 133, 162, 166 Follen, Professor Charles, 94, 441 _Forayers, The_, 132, 134 Forrest, Edwin, 191 Fourier, François Charles Marie, 30, 244, 251, 348, 349, 431 Fox, Dixon Ryan, 199, 224, 244 _Francis Berrian, or the Mexican Patriot_, 163 Franklin, Benjamin, 11, 185, 225, 228, 308 _Frederick Douglass_, 431 Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 439 Freneau, Philip, 186, 196 Frothingham, Octavius B., 348, 379, 380, 384 _Fugitive Slave Law, The_, 315 Fuller (Ossoli), Margaret, 314, 349, 426-434, 436, 439, 448 ----, Timothy, 427 Gage, General, 459 Gaines, Francis Pendleton, 102 n Galloway, Joseph, 186 _Gander Pulling, The_, 172 Gansevoort, Maria, 259, 260, 261 ----, Major-General Peter, 260 Garland, Hamlin, 213 Garrison, William Lloyd, 256, 314, 319, 332, 341, 343, 351, 352-361, 365, 366, 411, 415, 416, 420, 431, 448, 458 Genêt, Citizen, 292 _Genius of Universal Emancipation, The_, 353 _George Balcombe_, 162 George, Henry, 467 _George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman; or “Don’t Give up the Ship_,” 163 _Georgia Historical Quarterly, The_, 177 n _Georgia Scenes_, 51, 162, 166, 168, 169, 172, 178 n _Georgia Theatrics_, 172, 178 n _Gladiator, The_, 191 Gladstone, W. E., 472 _Glance Behind the Curtain, A_, 464, 464 n _Godey’s Lady’s Book_, 187 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 257, 468, 471 Godwin, Parke, 200, 243, 244 ----, William, 11, 22, 33, 188, 189, 190, 242, 331, 335, 336, 409 Goethe, 389, 430, 433 Gournay, Vincent de, 11 _Governor Clinton’s Speech_, 201 n Grant, General U. S., 48 Grattan, C. Hartley, 466 n Gray, Edward, 48 ----, Elizabeth, 48 ----, Thomas, 31, 188 Grayson, William J., 103-108, 110, 111, 256 Greeley, Horace, 101, 107, 108, 200, 208, 238, 242, 244, 247-258, 352, 399, 432, 458 Green, Duff, 36 Greene, General, 132 _Greenfield Hill_, 340 Grimké, Angelina, 342 n, 432 ---- Sisters, 343, 351 Grotius, 117, 306 _Gulliver’s Travels_, 262 _Guy Rivers_, 130 Hale, Edward Everett, 462 n Hall, Captain Basil, 215 ----, James, 51, 140 n, 162, 164, 172, 211 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 200, 238 Hamilton, Alexander, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 24, 36, 48, 89, 93, 94, 95, 138, 143, 148, 156, 196, 197, 198, 206, 227, 245, 285, 291, 297, 305, 309, 316, 473 Hammond, Governor, 102 _Harbinger, The_, 244 Harper, Chancellor, 102 _Harpe’s Head_, 164, 165, 172 Harrington, James, 5, 305, 306, 307 _Harrison Gray Otis_, 341 n Hartford Wits, The, 24, 188 _Harvard Graduates_, 467 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 259, 265, 442-450 Hayes, President Rutherford B., 472 Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 126 ----, Robert Young, 310, 330 Hedge, Frederick Henry, 430 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 318 Heine, Heinrich, 439 Helper, Hinton R., 133 Henry, Patrick, 33, 34 Hergesheimer, Joseph, 445