Table Of Contents:
Preface to the Seventh Edition xvii
Acknowledgments xxv

American Literature 1820--1865

Introduction 929(19)

Timeline 948(3)

Washington Irving (1783--1859) 951(34)

Rip Van Winkle 953(12)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 965(20)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851) 985(24)

The Pioneers 987(15)

Volume II 988(1)

[The Judge's History of the Settlement; A Sudden Storm] 988(7)

[The Slaughter of the Pigeons] 995(7)

The Last of the Mohicans 1002(7)

Volume I 1003(1)

[Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook: Stories of the Fathers] 1003(6)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867) 1009(19)

Hope Leslie 1010(18)

Volume I 1011(1)

[Magawisca's History of ``The Pequod War''] 1011(12)

Volume II 1023(1)

[Magawisca's Farewell] 1023(5)

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791--1865) 1028(16)

Death of an Infant 1029(1)

The Suttee 1030(1)

To the First Slave Ship 1031(1)

Columbus before the University of Salamanca 1032(1)

Indian Names 1033(2)

The Coral Insect 1035(1)

To a Shred of Linen 1036(2)

Niagara 1038(1)

Our Aborigines 1039(1)

The Two Draughts 1040(1)

Fallen Forests 1041(1)

Erin's Daughter 1042(1)

Two Old Women 1043(1)

William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878) 1044(7)

Thanatopsis 1045(2)

To a Waterfowl 1047(1)

Sonnet---To an American Painter Departing for Europe 1048(1)

The Prairies 1048(3)

William Apess (1798--1839) 1051(7)

An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man 1051(7)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800--1842) 1058(10)

Elegy: On the death of my son William Henry, at St. Mary's 1059(1)

Sweet Willy 1060(1)

To the Pine Tree 1061(1)

Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior 1062(1)

Two Songs 1063(1)

[My lover is tall and handsome] 1064(1)

Moowis, the Indian Coquette 1065(1)

The Little Spirit; or Boy-Man 1066(2)

Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801--1864) 1068(10)

A New Home---Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life 1069(9)

Preface 1069(1)

Chapter I 1070(4)

Chapter XVI 1074(4)

Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880) 1078(28)

Letters from New-York 1081(25)

Letter I [The Streets of a Modern Babylon] 1081(2)

Letter XIV [Burying Ground of the Poor] 1083(4)

Letter XX [Birds] 1087(5)

Letter XXVIII [Anecdote of a Donkey; Universal Harmony] 1092(4)

Letter XXXIV [Women's Rights] 1096(4)

Letter XXXVI [Barnum's American Museum] 1100(6)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) 1106(146)

Nature 1110(28)

The American Scholar 1138(13)

The Divinity School Address 1151(12)

Self-Reliance 1163(17)

The Poet 1180(15)

Experience 1195(16)

John Brown 1211(2)

Fate 1213(18)

Thoreau 1231(13)

Each and All 1244(1)

The Snow-Storm 1245(1)

Bacchus 1246(2)

Merlin 1248(3)

Brahma 1251(1)

Letter to Walt Whitman (July 21, 1855) 1251(1)

NATIVE AMERICANS: REMOVAL AND RESISTANCE 1252(430)

Black Hawk: From Life of Black Hawk 1253(4)

Petalesharo: Speech of the Pawnee Chief 1257(3)

Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief 1259(1)

Elias Boudinot: From the Cherokee Phoenix 1260(3)

Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, November 5, 1829 1263(5)

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letter to President Martin Van Buren 1268(4)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864) 1272(223)

My Kinsman, Major Molineux 1276(13)

Young Goodman Brown 1289(9)

Wakefield 1298(6)

The May-Pole of Merry Mount 1304(7)

The Minister's Black Veil 1311(9)

The Birth-Mark 1320(12)

Rappaccini's Daughter 1332(20)

The Scarlet Letter 1352(141)

The Custom-House 1352(25)

The Scarlet Letter 1377(116)

Preface to The House of the Seven Gables 1493(2)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) 1495(12)

A Psalm of Life 1497(1)

The Slave Singing at Midnight 1498(1)

The Day Is Done 1499(1)

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie 1500(1)

[Prologue] 1500(1)

The Fire of Drift-wood 1501(1)

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 1502(2)

My Lost Youth 1504(2)

The Cross of Snow 1506(1)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892) 1507(21)

The Hunters of Men 1509(1)

Ichabod! 1510(1)

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl 1511(17)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) 1528(99)

Sonnet---To Science 1532(1)

To Helen 1532(1)

Israfel 1533(1)

The City in the Sea 1534(2)

Alone 1536(1)

The Raven 1536(3)

To ---. Ulalume: A Ballad 1539(3)

Annabel Lee 1542(1)

Ligeia 1543(10)

The Fall of the House of Usher 1553(13)

William Wilson, A Tale 1566(13)

The Man of the Crowd 1579(6)

The Masque of the Red Death 1585(4)

The Tell-Tale Heart 1589(4)

The Black Cat 1593(6)

The Purloined Letter 1599(13)

The Cask of Amontillado 1612(5)

The Philosophy of Composition 1617(8)

From The Poetic Principle 1625(2)

Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865) 1627(10)

A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858 1628(7)

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863 1635(1)

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 1635(2)

Margaret Fuller (1810--1850) 1637(45)

From The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women 1640(19)

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 1659(14)

Chapter I 1659(5)

Chapter III 1664(9)

Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 1673(2)

Fourth of July 1675(2)

Things and Thoughts in Europe 1677(5)

Letter XVIII 1677(5)

SLAVERY; RACE, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1682(489)

Thomas Jefferson: From Notes on the State of Virginia 1683(3)

David Walker: From David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles 1686(4)

William Lloyd Garrison: To the Public 1690(2)

Angelina E. Grimke: From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South 1692(3)

Sojourner Truth: Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 1695(1)

Martin R. Delany: From Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent 1696(2)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896) 1698(94)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly 1701(91)

Volume I 1701(1)

In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity 1701(7)

The Husband and Father 1708(3)

The Mother's Struggle 1711(10)

In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man 1721(11)

Select Incident of Lawful Trade 1732(12)

The Quaker Settlement 1744(7)

Evangeline 1751(7)

Volume II 1758(1)

Topsy 1758(10)

The Slave Warehouse 1768(8)

The Middle Passage 1776(4)

The Quadroon's Story 1780(7)

The Martyr 1787(5)

Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811--1872) 1792(16)

Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 1794(1)

Hungry Husbands 1795(1)

Barnum's Museum 1796(2)

Tom Pax's Conjugal Soliloquy 1798(1)

Male Criticism on Ladies' Books 1799(1)

``Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern'' 1800(2)

A Law More Nice Than Just 1802(1)

Ruth Hall 1803(5)

Chapter LIV 1803(3)

Chapter LVI 1806(2)

Harriet Jacobs (ca. 1813--1897) 1808(21)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1809(20)

Childhood 1809(3)

The Lover 1812(4)

A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 1816(3)

Another Link to Life 1819(3)

The Loophole of, Retreat 1822(2)

Free at Last 1824(5)

William Wells Brown 1829(24)

Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave 1831(6)

[Slavery's Deceptions) 1831(6)

The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown 1837(4)

[Escape; Self-Education] 1837(4)

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter 1841(12)

The Negro Sale 1841(6)

The Arrest 1847(3)

Death Is Freedom 1850(3)

Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862) 1853(207)

Resistance to Civil Government 1857(15)

Walden, or Life in the Woods 1872(174)

Slavery in Massachusetts 2046(10)

From A Plea for Captain John Brown 2056(4)

Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) 2060(111)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 2064(65)

My Bondage and My Freedom 2129(11)

The Author's Childhood 2129(4)

The Author Removed from His First Home 2133(3)

The Author's Parentage 2136(4)

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 2140(3)

The Heroic Slave 2143(28)

SECTION, REGION, NATION 2171

Daniel Webster: From First Settlement of New England 2172(3)

William Gilmore Simms: Written in Mississippi 2175(4)

From Americanism in Literature 2177(2)

Richard Henry Dana Jr.: From Two Years before the Mast 2179(3)

John Louis O'sullivan: From Annexation 2182(1)

Francis Parkman Jr. From The California and Oregon Trail 2183(3)

Louise Amelia' Smith Clappe: From California, in 1851 and 1852. Residence in the Mines 2186(3)

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut: From Mary' Chesnut's Civil War 2189(1)

Walt Whitman (1819--1892) 2190(114)

Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) 2195(14)

Inscriptions 2209(1)

One's-Self I Sing 2209(1)

Shut Not Your Doors 2210(1)

Song of Myself (1881) 2210(44)

Children of Adam 2254(6)

From Pent-up Aching Rivers 2254(2)

A Woman Waits for Me 2256(1)

Spontaneous Me 2257(2)

Once I Pass'd through a Populous City 2259(1)

Facing West from California's Shores 2259(1)

Calamus 2260(3)

Scented Herbage of My Breast 2260(1)

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 2261(1)

Trickle Drops 2262(1)

Here the Frailest Leaver of Me 2262(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 2263(4)

Sea-Drift 2267(7)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 2267(5)

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life 2272(2)

By the Roadside 2274(1)

When I Heard the Learn's Astronomer 2274(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles 2274(1)

Drum-Taps 2275(7)

Beat! Beat! Drums! 2275(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford 2276(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 2276(1)

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 2277(1)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 2278(1)

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods 2278(1)

The Wound-Dresser 2279(2)

Reconciliation 2281(1)

As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado 2281(1)

Spirit Whose Work Is Done 2282(1)

Memories of President Lincoln 2282(6)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 2282(6)

Whispers of Heavenly Death 2288(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider 2288(1)

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson 2289(7)

Live Oak, with Moss 2296(4)

From Democratic Vistas 2300(4)

Herman Melville (1819--1891) 2304(220)

Hawthorne and His Mosses 2308(12)

Moby-Dick 2320(43)

Loomings 2321(4)

The Spouter-Inn 2325(10)

Ahab 2335(2)

The Quarter-Deck 2337(5)

Moby Dick 2342(7)

The Whiteness of the Whale 2349(6)

The Chase---Third Day 2355(8)

Epilogue 2363(1)

Bartleby, the Scrivener 2363(26)

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids 2389(16)

Benito Cereno 2405(56)

Battle-Pieces 2461(5)

The Portent 2461(1)

Misgivings 2462(1)

The March into Virginia 2462(1)

A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight 2463(1)

Shiloh 2464(1)

The House-top 2465(1)

John Marr and Other Sailors 2466(1)

The Maldive Shark 2466(1)

The Berg 2466(1)

Timoleon, Etc. 2467(1)

Monody 2467(1)

Art 2468(1)

Billy Budd, Sailor 2468(56)

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823--1902) 2524(14)

Lemorne versus Huell 2525(13)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825--1911) 2538(16)

Eliza Harris 2539(2)

The Slave Mother 2541(1)

Ethiopia 2542(1)

The Fugitive's Wife 2543(1)

The Tennessee Hero 2544(1)

Bury Me in a Free Land 2545(1)

The Colored People in America 2546(1)

The Two Offers 2547(7)

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) 2554(43)

39 [49] [I never lost as much but twice -] 2558(1)

112 [67] [Success is counted sweetest] 2558(1)

122 [130] [These are the days when Birds come back - ] 2559(1)

123 [131] [Besides the Autumn poets sing] 2560(1)

124 [216] [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - ] 2560(1)

146 [148] [All overgrown by cunning moss] 2561(1)

194 [1072] [Title divine, is mine!] 2561(1)

202 [185] [``Faith'' is a fine invention] 2561(1)

207 [214] [I taste a liquor, never brewed - ] 2562(1)

225 [199] [I'm ``wife'' - I've finished that - ] 2562(1)

236 [324] [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - ] 2563(1)

256 [285] [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune -] 2563(1)

259 [287] [A Clock stopped - ] 2564(1)

260 [288] [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] 2564(1)

269 [249] [Wild Nights - Wild Nights!] 2565(1)

279 [664] [Of all the Souls that stand create - ] 2565(2)

320 [258] [There's a certain Slant of light] 2567(1)

339 [241] [I like a look of Agony] 2567(1)

340 [280] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 2568(1)

347 [348] [I dreaded that-first Robin, so] 2568(1)

348 [505] [I would not paint - a picture - ] 2569(1)

355 [510] [It was not Death, for I stood up] 2570(1)

359 [328] [A Bird came down the Walk - ] 2571(1)

365 [338] [I know that He exists] 2571(1)

372 [341] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ] 2572(1)

373 [501] [This World is not conclusion] 2572(1)

381 [326] [I cannot dance open my Toes - ] 2573(1)

395 [336] [The face I carry with me - last - ] 2573(1)

407 [670] [One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - ] 2574(1)

409 [303] [The Soul selects her own Society - ] 2574(1)

411 [528] [Mine - by the Right of the White Election!] 2575(1)

446 [448] [This was a Poet - ] 2575(1)

448 [449] [I died for Beauty - but was scarce] 2576(1)

466 [657] [I dwell in Possibility - ] 2576(1)

475 [488] [Myself was formed - a Carpenter - ] 2577(1)

477 [315] [He fumbles at your Soul] 2577(1)

479 [712] [Because I could not stop for Death - ] 2578(1)

519 [441] [This is my letter to the World] 2578(1)

576 [305] [The difference between Despair] 2579(1)

588 [536] [The Heart asks Pleasure
first - ] 2579(1)

591 [465] [I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ] 2579(1)

598 [632] [The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ] 2580(1)

600 [312] [Her - last Poems - ] 2580(1)

620 [435] [Much Madness is divinest Sense - ] 2581(1)

627 [593] [I think I was enchanted] 2581(1)

648 [547] [I've seen a Dying Eye] 2582(1)

656 [520] [I started Early - Took my Dog - ] 2582(1)

675 [401] [What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - ] 2583(1)

760 [650] [Pain - has an Element of Blank - ] 2584(1)

764 [754] [My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ] 2584(1)

788 [709] [Publication - is the Auction] 2585(1)

796 [824] [The Wind begun to rock the Grass - ] 2585(1)

817 [822] [This Consciousness that is aware] 2586(1)

843 [978] [It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon - ] 2586(1)

857 [732] [She rose to His Requirement - Dropt] 2587(1)

895 [1068] [Further in Summer than the Birds] 2587(1)

935 [1540] [As imperceptibly as Grief] 2588(1)

1096 [986] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 2589(1)

1108 [1078] [The Bustle in a House] 2589(1)

1163 [1138] [A Spider sewed at Night] 2589(1)

1243 [1126] [Shall I take then, the Poet said] 2590(1)

1263 [1129] [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - ] 2590(1)

1353 [1247] [To pile like Thunder to it's close] 2590(1)

1454 [1397] [It sounded as if the Streets were running] 2591(1)

1489 [1463] [A Route of Evanescence] 2591(1)

1577 [1545] [The Bible is an antique Volume - ] 2591(1)

1593 [1587] [He ate and drank the precious Words - ] 2592(1)

1665 [1581] [The farthest Thunder that I heard] 2592(1)

1668 [1624] [Apparently with no surprise] 2593(1)

1675 [1601] [Of God we ask one favor, that we may be forgiven - ] 2593(1)

1715 [1651] [A word made Flesh is seldom] 2593(1)

1773 [1732] [My life closed twice before it's close] 2594(1)

Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on Poem 124 [216] 2594(3)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831--1910) 2597

Life in the Iron-Mills 2599
Selected Bibliographies 1(14)
Permissions Acknowledgments 15(2)
Index 17