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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
THE COLONIES, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE NEW NATION -- THE COLONIES -- JOHN SMITH (1580 -- 1631) -- The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles -- The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia. Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply -- The Fourth Book. The Proceedings of the English After the Altercation of the Government of Virginia. John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas -- The Sixth Book. The General History of New England. The Description of New England -- WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590 -- 1657) -- Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I. Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod -- Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout -- Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II -- The Mayflower Compact -- Compact with the Indians -- First Thanksgiving -- Narragansett Challenge -- Thomas Morton of Merrymount -- JOHN WINTHROP (1588 -- 1649) -- A Model of Christian Charity -- ROGER WILLIAMS (1603? -- 1683) -- The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, Preface. Chapter XCIII -- The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody -- Letter to the Town of Providence -- THE BAY PSALM BOOK (1640) -- The Preface -- Psalm 1 -- Psalm 8 -- Psalm 19 -- Psalm 23 -- Psalm 141 -- ANNE BRADSTREET (1612? -- 1672) -- The Prologue -- The Four Ages of Man. Childhood -- The Flesh and the Spirit -- Contemplations -- The Author to Her Book -- Before the Birth of One of Her Children -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment -- Another -- In memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old -- Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 -- Meditations, Divine and Moral --MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631 -- 1705) -- The Day of Doom -- MARY ROWLANDSON (1636? -- 1678?) -- A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson -- SAMUEL SEWALL (1652 -- 1730) -- The Diary of Samuel Sewall -- EDWARD TAYLOR (1645? -- 1729) -- The Preface -- Meditation 1, First Series -- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children -- The Experience -- Huswifery -- Meditation 8, First Series -- The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- The Reflexion -- The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended -- Meditation 42, First Series -- A Fig for thee Oh! Death -- Meditation 142, Second Series -- Meditation 146, Second Series -- COTTON MATHER (1663 -- 1728) -- Magalia Christi Americana -- The Life of John Winthrop -- The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips -- Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good -- Much Occasion for Doing Good -- The Excellence of Well-Doing -- Opportunities to Do Good -- On Internal Piety and Self -- Examination -- SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666 -- 1727) -- The Journal of Madam Knight -- New England Frontier -- Connecticut -- New York City -- EBENEZER COOK (1667? -- 1733?) -- The Sotweed Factor -- WILLIAM BYRD (1674 -- 1744) -- The History of the Dividing line -- The Marooner -- Lubberland -- Indian Neighbors -- A Progress to the Mines -- Reading a Play in the Backwoods -- JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703 -- 1758) -- Sarah Pierrepont -- The Divine and Supernatural Light -- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God -- Personal Narrative -- The Nature of True Virtue -- Dissertation: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World, Chapter I: What Reason Teaches Concerning Creation -- JOHN WOOLMAN (1720 -- 1772) -- The Journal of John Woolman -- ST. JEAN DE CREVECŒUR (1735 -- 1813) -- Letter from an American Farmer -- What Is an American -- Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene -- Sketches of Eighteenth Century America -- Manners of the Americans -- PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754? -- 1784) -- To the University of Cambridge, in New-England -- On Being Brought from Africa to America -- On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield -- An Hymn to the Evening -- To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works -- To His Excellency General Washington. |
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REVOLUTION AND THE NEW NATION -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 -- 1790) -- The Autobiography -- Poor Richard's Almanack. The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard -- The Speech of Polly Baker -- An Edict by the King of Prussia -- The Sale of the Hessians -- Letter to Peter Collinson [Kite and Key] -- The Ephemera -- To Madame Helvetius -- Letter to Joseph Priestly [Science and Humanity] -- Letter to Sir Joseph Banks [War and Peace] -- Information to Those Who Would Remove to America -- Letter to William Franklin [We Are Men, All Subject to Errors] -- Reason and Religion -- Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed] -- Speech in the Constitutional Convention -- THOMAS PAINE (1737 -- 1809) -- Common Sense -- The American Crisis -- The Age of Reason -- Profession of Faith -- Of Myth and Miracle -- Christian Revelation and Nature -- First Cause: God of Reason -- Recapitulation -- WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739 -- 1823) -- Travel Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida -- Alligators -- The Amazing Crystal Fountain -- Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields -- THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743 -- 1826) -- The Declaration of Independence -- First Inaugural Address -- Notes on the State of Virginia -- A Southerner on Slavery -- An American on Dictators -- Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush [The Christian Deist] -- Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy] -- Letter to Dr. Walter Jones [The Character of Washington] -- Letter to President Monroe [The Monroe Doctrine] -- THE FEDERALIST (1787 -- 1788) -- The Federalist No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton] -- The Federalist No. 10 [James Madison] -- The Federalist No. 23 [Alexander Hamilton] -- PHILIP FRENEAU (1752 -- 1832) -- To Sir Toby -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans -- On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man -- The Wild Honey Suckle -- The Indian Burying Ground -- On a Honey Bee -- To a Caty-Did -- On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature -- JOEL BARLOW (1754 -- 1812) -- The Hasty-Pudding -- Advice to a Raven in Russia -- ROYALL TYLER (1757 -- 1826) -- The Contrast -- CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771 -- 1810) -- Edgar Huntly, Chapters XV, XVI -- THE ROMANTIC TEMPER AND THE HOUSE DIVIDED -- NATURE AND SOCIETY -- THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE -- Manabozho -- The Chief's Daughters -- Coyote and Bear -- A Tale of the Sky World -- Speech of Logan -- Speech of Red Jacket -- Speech of Tecumseh -- Speech of Speckled Snake -- Speech of Red Cloud -- Twelfth Song of the Thunder -- Formula to Destroy Life -- The Corn Grows Up -- At the Time of the White Dawn -- Snake the Cause -- Three Songs of Owl Woman -- The Waver's Lamentation -- MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774 -- 1809) -- Journals -- WASHINGTON IRVING (1783 -- 1859) -- A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker -- Book II: In Which Is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller (Chapters I, IV) -- The Author's Account of Himself -- Rip Van Winkle -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789 -- 1851) -- The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna -- The American Democrat -- An Aristocrat and a Democrat -- Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales -- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794 -- 1878) -- Thanatopsis -- The Yellow Violet -- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood -- To a Waterfowl -- Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids -- A Forest Hymn -- The Two Graves -- To Cole, the Painter, Departing For Europe -- To the Fringed Gentian -- The Prairies -- Robert of Lincoln -- The Poet -- The Death of Lincoln -- The Flood of Years -- FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823 -- 1893) -- The Oregon Trail, Chapter XXIV: The Chase -- COLLOQUIAL HUMOR -- AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET (1790 -- 1870) -- The Horse-Swap -- T.B. THORPE (1815 -- 1878) -- The Big Bear of Arkansas -- GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS (1814 -- 1869) -- Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse. |
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THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY -- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807 -- 1882) -- A Psalm of Life -- The Skeleton in Armor -- The Arsenal at Springfield -- Seaweed -- The Song of Hiawatha -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport -- My Lost Youth -- Divinia Commedia -- Chaucer -- Milton -- Nature -- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls -- The Cross of Snow -- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807 -- 1892) -- Massachusetts to Virginia -- Ichabod -- The Shoemakers -- First-Day Thoughts -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- Telling the Bees -- Laus Deo -- Snow-Bound -- Abraham Davenport -- Burning Drift-Wood -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809 -- 1894) -- Old Ironsides -- The Last Leaf -- My Aunt -- The Chambered Nautilus -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- Elsie Venner, Chapter I: The Brahmin Caste of New England -- ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809 -- 1865) -- Speech at Cooper Union, New York -- Farewell Address at Springfield -- First Inaugural Address -- Reply to Horace Greeley -- Letter to General Joseph Hooker -- Letter to General U.S. Grant -- Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery -- Second Inaugural Address -- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811 -- 1896) -- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter VII, Chapter XIX, Chapter XL, Chapter XLI -- Oldtown Folks -- Miss Asphyxia -- FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817? -- 1895) -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Chapter I -- Chapter VII -- Chapter X -- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819 -- 1891) -- A Fable for Critics -- The Biglow Papers, First Series. No.1: A Letters -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series. Introduction The Courtin' -- Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration -- TRANSCENDENTAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803 -- 1882) -- Nature -- The American Scholar -- The Divinity School Address -- Self-Reliance -- Compensation -- The Over-Soul -- Experience -- The Poet -- Fate -- Concord Hymn -- Each and All -- The Rhodora -- The Problem -- Uriel -- The Snow-Storm -- Threnody -- Ode to Beauty -- Hamatreya -- The Apology -- Merlin -- Give All to Love -- Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing -- Fable -- Brahma -- Days -- Waldensamkeit -- Terminus -- Journals and Letters -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817 -- 1862) -- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [Nature, Poetry, and the Poet] -- Walden -- Civil Disobedience -- Life without Principle -- My Prayer -- Rumors from an Aeolian Harp -- The Inward Morning -- To the Maiden in the East -- The Summer Rain -- Haze -- Inspiration -- The Fall of the Leaf -- Journals -- EDGAR ALLEN POE (1809 -- 1849) -- Romance -- Song from Al Aaraaf -- Sonnet To Science -- Lenore -- The Sleeper -- Israfel -- To Helen -- The City in the Sea -- The Coliseum -- To One in Paradise -- Sonnet Silence -- Dream-Land -- The Raven -- Ulalume -- The Bells -- Annabel Lee -- Ligeia -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- The Masque of the Red Death -- The Purloined Letter -- The Cask of Amontillado -- Letter to B -- Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review -- The Philosophy of Composition -- The Poetic Principle -- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804 -- 1864) -- My Kinsman, Major Molineux -- Young Goodman Brown -- Wakefield -- The Ambitious Guest -- The Minister's Black Veil -- The Maypole of Merry Mount -- The Birthmark-- The Artist of the Beautiful -- Rappaccini's Daughter -- Ethan Brand -- Preface to The House of the Seven Gables -- The Scarlet Letter -- HERMAN MELVILLE (1819 -- 1891) -- Hawthorne and His Mosses -- Bartleby the Scrivener -- The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles -- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids -- The Portent -- Misgivings -- The March into Virginia -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight -- Shiloh -- Malvern Hill -- The House-Top -- The College Colonel -- An Uninscribed Monument -- The Good Craft "Snow-Bird" -- Old Counsel -- The Tuft of Kelp -- After the Pleasure Party -- The Maldive Shark -- Monody -- Lone Founts -- Art -- Greek Architecture -- Billy Budd, Sailor -- WALT WHITMAN (1819 -- 1892) -- Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass -- Song of Myself -- Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd -- Once I Pass'd through a Populous City -- Facing West From California's Shores -- As Adam Early in the Morning -- For You O Democracy -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing -- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Song of the Redwood-Tree -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking -- As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of life -- To the Man-of-War-Bird -- Gods -- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer -- The Dalliance of the Eagles -- Beat! 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Drums! -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night -- A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim -- The Wound-Dresser -- Look Down Fair Moon -- Reconciliation -- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd -- There Was a Child Went Forth -- This Compost -- To a Common Prostitute -- Passage to India -- Prayer of Columbus -- The Sleepers -- Darest Thou Now O Soul -- Whispers of Heavenly Death -- Changing the Square Deific -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- To a Locomotive in Winter -- By Broad Potomac's Shore -- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! -- So Long! -- Good-bye My Fancy! -- Democratic Vistas -- Specimen Days -- After First Fredricksburg -- Patent-Office Hospital -- The White House by Moonlight -- The Wounded from Chancellorsville -- Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier -- Abraham Lincoln -- Virginia -- Summer of 1864 -- In Inauguration -- Death of President Lincoln -- No Good Portrait of Lincoln -- Three Years Summ'd Up -- The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up -- Entering a Long Farm-Lane -- To the Spring and Brook. |
| Summary |
A collection of American literature, including drama, fiction, poetry, and prose. |
| Subjects (Topics) |
American literature.
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American literature. |
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Littérature américaine -- Anthologies. |
| Additional author |
Perkins, George B., 1930-
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| Bib utility control no. |
19920773 |
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