TY - BOOK AU - Canby,Henry Seidel TI - Classic Americans: a study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman, with an introductory survey of the colonial background of our national literature AV - PS88 .C35 1959 U1 - 928.1 PY - 1959/// [c1958] CY - New York PB - Russell & Russell KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 N1 - Includes bibliography; Introduction: American Literature. The Colonial Background -- Washington Irving -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Walt Whitman. A Selective Bibliography ER -