Selected readings of American literature

　　Chapter 1 EARLY AMERICA TO 1750
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 William Bradford( 1590-1657 )
　　 from Of Plymouth Plantation
　　 Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
　　 To My Dear and Loving Husband
　　 LITERARY FOCUS
　　 READING FOR APPRECIATION
　　 VOICE OF THE AGE
　　Chapter 2 REASON AND REVOLUTION 1750-1800
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
　　 from Poor Richard's Almanac
　　 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
　　 from The American Crisis
　　 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
　　 The Declaration of Independence
　　 LITERARY FOCUS
　　 READING FOR APPRECIATION
　　 VOICE OF THE AGE
　　Chapter 3 NATIVE GROUNDS 1800-1840
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 Washington Irving(1783-1859)
　　 Rip Van Winkle
　　 James Fenimore Cooper ( 1789-1851 )
　　 from The Last of the Mohicans
　　 William Cullen Bryant( 1794-1878 )
　　 Thanatopsis
　　 Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
　　 To Helen
　　 The Raven
　　 LITERARY FOCUS
　　 READING FOR APPRECIATION
　　 VOICE OF THE AGE
　　Chapter 4 NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 1840-1855
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
　　 from Nature
　　 from Self Reliance
　　 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
　　 from The Scarlet Letter
　　 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
　　 A Psalm of Life
　　 The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
　　 LITERARY FOCUS
　　 READING FOR APPRECIATION
　　 VOICE OF THE AGE
　　Chapter 5 CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 Walt Whitman ( 1819-1892 )
　　
　　 from Song of Myself
　　 0 Captain ! My Captain !
　　 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
　　 Success is counted sweetest
　　 Because I could not stop for Death
　　 I heard a fly buzz--when I died--
　　 Mark Twain(1835-1910)
　　 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
　　 Abraham Lincoln( 1809-1865 )
　　 The Gettysburg Addreg
　　 LITERARY FOCUS
　　 READING FOR APPRECIATION
　　 VOICE OF THE AGE
　　Chapter 6 REGIONALISM AND REALISM 1880-1910
　　 INTRODUCTION
　　 Bret Harte (1836-1902)
　　 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
　　 Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
　　 The Story of an Hour
　　 Jack London (1876-1916)
　　 The Call of the Wild
　　 Edwin Arlington Robinso……