The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

by Arthur G. Adams

Overview

A second, enlarged edition of a popular anthology, The Hudson River in Literature contains an abundance of poems and excerpts from novels and essays describing the Hudson River, work and travel on it, and life alongside it prior to the twentieth century. Included here are works by such well-known writers as Washingon Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman, as well as selections by lesser-known writers (like Joseph Rodman Drake and Nathaniel Parker Willis) whose works are either out of print or are available only as part of their selected works. From Whitman's mast-hemm'd Manhattanto Nathaniel Parker Willis' sabbath solitudeon upstate riverbanks, anyone familiar with what is often called the American Rhine, and indeed many who are not, will enjoy the detailed, still-accurate descriptions of the river itself. But perhaps even more enjoyable are the numerous excerpts that describe particular aspects of Hudson life- Indian canoes, Dutch farms, steamboat excursions, and the majestic scenery- which allows one to visualize the river at a time when it dominated life in Eastern New York. This handsome volume has been made more so by the inclusion of 65 illustrations, not found in the original edition, which lavishly depict many of the locales descibed in various texts. The illustrations, by such renowned artists as Currier and Ives, Greenville Perkins, William Bartlett, and Felix Darley, include regional maps, portraits of authors, and reproductions of historic sites and homes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823212026
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arthur G. Adams is founding president of the Hudson River Maritime Center at Roundabout Landing in Kingston. In 1981, he was given a special award of merit for outstanding achievement in Regional Studies by the State University of New York. He is Executive Vice President of the Hudson River Navigation Company is trustee of the Victor Herbert Performance Trust Fund.

Table of Contents

PART I. EARLY REGIONAL WRITERS

Nicasius De Sille
Jacob Steendam
Cadwallader Colden
Philip Freneau
"Neversink"

PART II. THE KNICKERBOCKERS

James Kirke Paulding
New Mirrow & Guide to the Springs (excerpts)
The Dutchman's Fireside (excerpts)

Washington Irving
Autobiography (excerpts)
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams (From Tales of a Traveller)
Dolph Heyliger (From Bracebridge Hall)
Knickerbocker History (excerpt)

Joseph Rodman Drake and Fitz-Green Halleck
"To a Friend" (stanza III)
"The Culprit Fay"

PART III. POST-KNOCKERBOCKERS

James Fenimore Cooper
Water-Witch (excerpts)
Afloat and Ashore (excerpts)
Satanstoe (excerpts)
The Last of the Mohicans (excerpts)
The Spy (excerpts)

William Cullen Bryant
"A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson"
"Catterskill Falls"

Thomas Cole
"The Wild"

George Pope Morris
"Janet McRea"
"The Dog Star Rages"
"Ida" ("Where Hudson's Wave")
"The Oak" ("Woodman, spare that tree!")

Charles Fenno Hoffman

Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Four Rivers (essay)
Wharves On Sunday (essay)
Letters From Idlewild (excerpts)
American Scenery (excerpts)

Evert Augustus Duyckinck

Gulian Crommelin Verplanck

PART IV. NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES

Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings)

John Bigelow

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens

Edgar Allan Poe
The Domain of Arnheim and "Landor's Cottage"

Walt Whitman
"Mannahatta"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Susan Bogert Warner (Elizabeth Wetherell)

Anna Bartlett Warner (Amy Lothrop)

Joel Benton

Amerlia Edith Barr

Lyman Abbott

Edward Payson Roe

John Burroughs
"Our River" (essay)

Henry Abbey
"By Hudson's Tide"
"Onteora"

Wallace Bruce (Thrusty McQuill)
"The Long Drama"

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Emma Lazarus
"The New Colossus"

Richard Burton
"On a Ferry Boat"

Editorial Reviews

...a gorgeously evocative portrait of one of America's premier waterways.

Steamboat Bill

...full of simple facts and irony, and like the Hudson, always suprising.

Seaport Magazine