America's Literature
By: [by] James D. Hart [and] Clarence Gohdes
Contributors: Gohdes, Clarence, 1901-1997, joint ed
Publisher: Dryden Press
Published: 1956-06
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 958
Subjects: American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introductory essay; title: From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith; title: from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford; title: from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams; title: Puritan poetry; title: Before the birth of cone of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit ; Verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet; title: Preface to God's determinations touching his elect ; Prologue to God's determinations touching his elect ; Huswifery ; Mediation six ; Meditation thirty-eight ; Meditation fifty-six / Edward Taylor; title: from Magnalia Christi Americana ; A general introduction ; Galeacius secundus : life of William Bradford / William Byrd; title: from The history of the dividing line ; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd; title: Personal narrative ; Notes on the mind ; Nature / Jonathan Edwards; title: The way to wealth ; from The autobiography ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin; title: from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman; title: from Letters from an American farmer ; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecceur; title: from Common sense ; Thoughts on the present state of American affairs ; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine; title: The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America ; Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson; title: The power of fancy ; To the memory of the brave Americans ; The wild honey suckle ; The Indian burying ground ; To a caty-did / Philip Freneau; title: Introductory essay; title: Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman ; Legend of the Arabian astrologer ; from A tour of the prairies / Washington Irving; title: from The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper; title: Thanatopsis ; Inscription for the entrance to a wood ; To a waterfowl ; The yellow violet ; A forest hymn ; The death of the flowers ; June ; The evening wind ; Hymn of the city ; Song of Marion;s men ; To the fringed gentian ; The prairies ; The battle-field ; Death of Lincoln ; The floor of years ; from The right of workmen to strike / William Cullen Bryant; title: from Nature ; The American scholar ; Self-reliance ; Politics ; from War ; Education ; Good-bye ; Concord hymn ; The rhodora ; Each and all ; Compensation ; The snow-storm ; Unity ; Fable ; Merlin ; The world-soul ; Hamatreya ; Mithridates ; Days ; Brahma ; Two rivers ; Voluntaries III ; Terminus ; Music / Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Young Goodman Brown ; The canal boat ; The minister's black veil ; Dr. Heidegger's experiment ; Rappaccini's daughter ; Earth's holocaust ; Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: A psalm of life ; The wreck of the Hesperus ; The skeleton in armor ; Walter Von Der Vogelweid ; Evangeline ; The secret of the sea ; My lost youth ; from The song of Hiawatha ; Christmas bells ; Divina commedia ; The challenge ; Shakespeare ; Milton ; Nature ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; title: To William Lloyd Garrison ; Ichabod ; The Kansas emigrants ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Snow-bound ; The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier; title: The fall of the House of Usher ; A descent into the Maelstrom ; The masque of the red death ; The tell-tale heart ; the purloined letter ; Sonnet, to science ; to Helen ; Israfel ; The city in the sea ; The Sleeper ; To one in paradise ; Hymn ; The conqueror worm ; Dream-land ; The raven ; Ulalume, a ballad ; The bells ; Annabel Lee ; from Poe's review of Twice-told tales ; The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe; title: from The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: from Walden / Henry David Thoreau; title: from A Fable for critics ; from the Biglow papers : first series ; The courtin ; ; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell; title: from Typee ; from White-Jacket ; from Moby -Dick ; from Pierre ; The portent ; Misgivings ; Shiloh ; The house-top ; Southern cross / Herman Melville; title: from Song of myself ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; Out of the rolling ocean the crowd ; Beat ! Beat! Drums! ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; To a certain civilian ; Bivouac on a mountain side ; Cavalry crossing a ford ; An army corps on the march ; The wound-dresser ; Reconciliation ; O captain ! My captain! ; when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; Passage to India ; Darest thou now o soul ; Prayer of Columbus ; To a locomotive in winter ; A noiseless patient spider ; With husky-haughty lips, o sea! ; from Specimen days / Walt Whitman; title: Introductory essay; title: Letter to the world ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Success is counted sweetest ; I asked no other thing ; The soul selects her own society ; I'm nobody! ; I like to see it lap the miles ; A thought went up my mind to-day ; The brain is wider than the sky ; What soft, cherubic creatures ; A route of evanescence ; I started early ; A narrow fellow in the grass ; She sweeps with many-colored brooms ; Some keep the Sabbath going to church ; I;ll tell you how the sun rose ; To make a prairie ; If you were coming ; I died for beauty ; I've seen a dying eye ; I never saw a moor ; The last night that she lived ; The morning after death ; Because I could not stop for death ; This quiet dust ; To hear an oriole sing ; I got so I could hear his name ; THe lightning is a yellow fork ; Again his voice is at the door ; Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; from Roughing it ; The story of the old ram ; from Life on the Mississippi ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain; title: Muck-a-Muck ; THe luck of roaring camp ; Colonel Starbottle for the plantiff ; Plain language from Truthful James / Bret Harte; title: from The rise of Silas Lapham ; from Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells; title: from the Education of Henry Adams / henry Adams; title: The stirrup-cup ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; The marshes of Glynn ; A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier; title: The lesson of the master ; The art of fiction / Henry James; title: The open boat ; from The black riders ; War is kind / Stephen Crane; title: Introductory essay; title: George Crabbe ; Credo ; Richard Cory ; Miniver Cheevy ; The man against the sky ; Mr. Flood's party ; from Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson; title: The second choice / Theodore Dreiser; title: The tuft of flowers ; The death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; The code ; The road not taken ; Fire and ice ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Not to keep ; A minor bird ; There are roughly zones l; a leaf treader ; Bursting rapture / Robert Frost; title: Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather; title: Chicago ; Happiness ; Buttons ; Cool tombs ; Four precludes on playthings of the wind ; Accomplished facts ; from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg; title: from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis; title: The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill; title: The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Burnt Norton / T.S. Eliot; title: Wash ; Stockholm address / William Faulkner; title: In another country ; A clean, well-lightened place / Ernest Hemingway; title: Death the proud brother / Thomas Wolfe.