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Excerpt from Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, Vol. 1: A History, Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue From the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, With Specimens of Their Writings
Professor Woodberry has written the section on early American literature, and the greater American authors have been discussed by other American writers - Emerson by President Schurman Hawthorne and Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell, Whitman and Whittier, Thoreau, Poe, and others indicated in the list prefixed to the third volume, by the Rev. John White Chadwick; Parkman by Professor C. H. Hull; Prescott and Motley by Miss Ruth Putnam.
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