Book III: Part IV
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
I. Henry W. Longfellow: The Writings of ... with Bibliographical and Critical Notes (11 vols., Boston, 1886 [Vols. I–VI, Poetical Works; VII–VIII, Prose Works; IX–XI, Dante]).
See Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3 vols., Boston and New York, 1891). T. W. Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in American Men of Letters Series, Boston and New York, 1902).
II. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Works (12 vols., Boston, 1871–76; Fireside Edition, 12 vols., Boston, 1879; Riverside Edition, 12 vols., Boston, 1883; Standard Library Edition, 15 vols., Boston, 1891 [contains Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, by Julian Hawthorne]; New Wayside Edition, 13 vols., Boston, 1902).
The best-known life is Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife (2 vols., Boston, 1885). Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne (in English Men of Letters Series, London, 1879; New York, 1885, 1887). See also W. C. Brownell, American Prose Masters (New York, 1909). John Erskine, Great American Novelists (New York, 1910). Carl Van Doren, The American Novel (New York, 1921); Stuart P. Sherman, Americans (New York, 1923).
III. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Works (Riverside Edition, 13 vols., Boston, 1891, additional volume, 1892; Autocrat Edition, 13 vols., Boston and New York, 1904).
See George B. Ives A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston and New York, 1907). John T. Morse, Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (2 vols., Boston and New York, 1896).—Lewis W. Townsend, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Centenary Biography (London, 1909).
James Russell Lowell: Works (Riverside Edition, 13 vols., Boston and New York, 1902 [contains Scudder’s Life]; Elmwood Edition, 16 vols., Boston, 1904 [four volumes of letters]). Anti-Slavery Papers (2 vols., Boston and New York, 1902). Letters of James Russell Lowell (edited by Charles Eliot Norton, 2 vols., New York, 1893; 3 vols., Boston, 1904). Early Prose Writings of ... (2 vols., New York, 1903).
G. W. Cooke, A Bibliography of James Russell Lowell (Boston and New York, 1906). H. E. Scudder, James Russell Lowell: A Biography (2 vols., Boston, 1901). Ferris Greenslet, James Russell Lowell: A Biography (2 vols., Boston, 1901). Ferris Greenslet, James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work (Boston, 1905). See also C. Hartley Grattan, “Lowell” (The American Mercury, Vol. II, p. 69): Harry Hayden Clark, Lowell’s Criticism of Romantic Literature (“Publications of the Modern Language Association,” March, 1926); W. D. Howells, Literary Friends and Acquaintances (New York, 1902); Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere (New York, 1893); J. J. Reilly, James Russell Lowell as a Critic (New York, 1915); and John M. Robertson, Lowell as a Critic (North American Review, February, 1919).