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"Four of the chapters, in abbreviated form, have been printed in the New England magazine, and one in the critic." - Pref
-I. Introductory: Signs of the dawn. The Impulse of Franklin. -II. Francis Hopkinson. -III. Philip Freneau: America's first poet. -IV. John Trumbull: satirist and scholar. -V. A group of Harvard wits. -VI. Joseph Dennie: "the lay preacher." -VII. William Dunlap: the beginning of drama. -VIII. Charles Brockden Brown. -Bibliography (p. [319]-353)-Index