Initial Studies in American Letters

This book is Initial Studies in American Letters. It has a history book and described. The colonial period and revolutionary period history. This volume is intended as a companion to the historical sketch of English literature, entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson. I have followed the same. Plan, aiming to present the subject in a sort of continuous essay rather than in the form of a primer or elementary manual. Though meant to be mainly a history of American belles-lettres it makes some mention of historical and political writings, but hardly any of philosophical, scientific, and technical works. A chronological rather than a topical order has been followed, although the fact that our best literature is of recent growth has made it impossible to adhere as closely to a chronological plan as in the English sketch.