Title: America's Literature
First published: 1955
Description: From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith --
from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --
from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams --
Puritan poetry --
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 --
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 --
from Magnalia Christi Americana ; A general introduction ; Galeacius secundus : life of William Bradford / William Byrd --
from The history of the dividing line ; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd --
Personal narrative ; Notes on the mind ; Nature / Jonathan Edwards --
The way to wealth ; from The autobiography ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin --
from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman --
from Letters from an American farmer ; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecceur --
from Common sense ; Thoughts on the present state of American affairs ; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine --
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America ; Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson --
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 --
Introductory essay --
Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman ; Legend of the Arabian astrologer ; from A tour of the prairies / Washington Irving --
from The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper --
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 --
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. 

[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)
The canal boat ; 
[The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W)
[Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W)
[Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W)
Earth's holocaust ; 
Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

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 --
To William Lloyd Garrison ; Ichabod ; The Kansas emigrants ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Snow-bound ; The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier --

The fall of the House of Usher ; 
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) ; 
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
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 --

from The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
from Walden / Henry David Thoreau --

from A Fable for critics ; from the Biglow papers : first series ; The courtin ; ; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell --from Typee ; from White-Jacket ; from Moby -Dick ; from Pierre ; The portent ; Misgivings ; Shiloh ; The house-top ; Southern cross / Herman Melville --
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 --
Introductory essay --
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. 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 --
Muck-a-Muck ; THe luck of roaring camp ; Colonel Starbottle for the plantiff ; Plain language from Truthful James / Bret Harte --
from The rise of Silas Lapham ; from Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells --
from the Education of Henry Adams / henry Adams --
The stirrup-cup ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; The marshes of Glynn ; A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier --
The lesson of the master ; The art of fiction / Henry James --
The open boat ; from The black riders ; War is kind / Stephen Crane --
Introductory essay --
George Crabbe ; Credo ; Richard Cory ; Miniver Cheevy ; The man against the sky ; Mr. Flood's party ; from Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
The second choice / Theodore Dreiser --
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 --
Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather --
Chicago ; Happiness ; Buttons ; Cool tombs ; Four precludes on playthings of the wind ; Accomplished facts ; from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg --
from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis --
The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill --

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; 
The hollow men ; 
Burnt Norton / T.S. Eliot --

[Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W)
Stockholm address / William Faulkner --

In another country ; A clean, well-lightened place / Ernest Hemingway --

Death the proud brother / Thomas Wolfe.
Subjects: American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, abbeys, American fiction, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, sextons, clergy, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction, Fountain of youth (Legendary place), Supernatural fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Littérature américaine (Etats-Unis), 20e s.
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Milford meeting house, Fountain of Youth, Florida, Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua, Paris, Lofoten, Norway
People: Prince Prospero, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Mr. Hooper, Elizabeth, Dr. Heidegger, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, Widow Wycherley, Sylvia Ward, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Colonel Sutpen, Milly, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus
Time periods: 1600s
LC classification: PS507 .H24