Canby, Henry Seidel,  1878-1961. <br/><br/>
Classic Americans;  a study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman, with an introductory survey of the colonial background of our national literature. 

 - New York,  Russell & Russell,  1959 [c1958] 
 - 371 p.  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliography. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS88  / .C35 1959 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>928.1