us_. _Serapion_. _The
Metempsychosis of the Pine_. _The Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled_.
_Bedouin Song_. _Euphorion_. _The Quaker Widow_. _John Reid_.
_Lars_. _Views Afoot_. _By-ways of Europe_. _The Story of Kennett_.
_The Echo Club_.

8. Walt Whitman. _My Captain_. "_When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard
Bloomed_." _Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking_. _Pioneers, O
Pioneers_. _The Mystic Trumpeter_. _A Woman at Auction_. _Sea-shore
Memoirs_. _Passage to India_. _Mannahatta_. _The Wound Dresser_.
_Longings for Some_.

9. _Poets of America_. By E. C. Stedman. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. 1885.

CHAPTER VII.

LITERATURE SINCE 1861.

A generation has nearly passed since the outbreak of the civil war, and
although public affairs are still mainly in the hands of men who had
reached manhood before the conflict opened, or who were old enough at
that time to remember clearly its stirring events, the younger men who
are daily coming forward to take their places know it only by
tradition. It makes a definite break in the history of our literature,
and a number of new literary schools and tendencies have appeared since
its close. As to the literature of the war itself, it was largely the
work of writers who had already reached or passed middle age. All of
the more important authors described in the last three chapters
survived the Rebellion except Poe, who died in 1849, Prescott, who died
in 1859, and Thoreau and Hawthorne, who died in the second and fourth
years of the war, respectively. The final and authoritative history of
the struggle has not yet been written, and cannot be written for many
years to come. Many partial and tentative accounts have, however,
appeared, among which may be mentioned, on the Northern side, Horace
Greeley's _American Conflict_, 1864-66; Vice-President Wilson's _Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, and J. W. Draper's _American
Civil War_, 1868-70; on the Southern side Alexander H. Stephens's
_Confederate States of America_, Jefferson Davis's _Rise and Fall of
the Confederate States of America_, and E. A. Pollard's _Lost Cause_.
These, with the exception of Dr. Draper's philosophical narrative, have
the advantage of being the work of actors in the political or military
events which they describe, and the disadvantage of being, therefore,
partisan--in some instances passionately partisan. A store-house of
materials for the coming historian is also at h