Half Hour Lessons Upon American Authors, for the "social Literary Circle"
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This is called the true American literature. Of those who built and beautified this part of the structure, we find the architects to be Irving, Paulding, and others, who, sitting under the full refulgence of liberty's beams, could amuse themselves, and others, by satires, and criticisms, upon their friends and companions; but all in a spirit of good-will. This may be called the age of satire, and biography. Then follows a severe epi- demic of historians, who wrought out in beautiful walls ol th...ought, with windows of pearls, the history of the century just then closed. In a little more than a decade — from 1789 to 1800 — our four great historians, Jared Sparks, W. H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, and George Bancroft all began to breathe the pure New England air of liberty, and to develop muscle and brain, whose power is felt to-day, a century later. The same atmosphere also gave birth to the spirit of poesy, as here we find Bryant, called the lather of poesy. These writers, each in turn, have dealt, in their special field, with all the questions of the external and visible world in all its varied relations and circumstances; but as we turn now into the first decade of our own grand century.
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