The American Tradition in Literature (Volume I) with ARIEL American

by Perkins, George B.; Perkins, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780073221502
• ISBN10: 0073221503
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-18
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

For the first time, an American literature anthology that provides students and instructors with a premier electronic support program! The American Tradition in Literature brings to its eleventh edition a multimedia CD-ROM (ARIEL American) packaged free with every copy, an unparalleled Web site with resources for students, and a rich instructor's resource center that includes the option of CPS, a state-of-the-art electronic Classroom Performance System that's perfect for instructors who want to engage students in large lectures.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xxi
Preface	xxiii
Exploration and the Colonies	1	(8)
Virginia and the South	3	(1)
New England	4	(1)
Timeline: Exploration and the Colonies	5	(4)
Natives and Explorers	9	(26)
Native Literature: The Oral Tradition	11	(6)
A Tale of the Sky World	11	(2)
The Chief's Daughter	13	(1)
Coyote and Bear	14	(1)
Twelfth Song of the Thunder	15	(1)
The Corn Grows Up	16	(1)
At the Time of the White Dawn	16	(1)
Snake the Cause	16	(1)
The Weaver's Lamentation	17	(1)
Explorers' Reports: The Land and the People	17	(1)
Christopher Columbus (1451--1506)	17	(3)
[Report of the First Voyage]	18	(2)
Giovanni Da Verrazzano (1485?--1528)	20	(4)
Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524	20	(4)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)	24	(4)
The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca	25	(3)
Richard Hakluyt (1552--1616)	28	(2)
The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake	28	(2)
Samuel De Champlain (c. 1567--1635)	30	(5)
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain: The Voyages of 1604--1607)	31	(4)
The Colonies	35	(53)
John Smith (1580--1631)	35	(14)
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles	36	(13)
The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia	36	(1)
What Happened Till the First Supply	36	(6)
The Fourth Book. The Proceedings of the English After the Alteration of the Government of Virginia	42	(1)
John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)	42	(2)
The Sixth Book. The General History of New England	44	(1)
The Description of New England	44	(5)
William Bradford (1590--1657)	49	(16)
Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I	50	(1)
Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod	50	(3)
Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout	53	(5)
Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II	58	(1)
[The Mayflower Compact (1620)]	58	(1)
[Compact with the Indians (1621)]	59	(1)
[First Thanksgiving (1621)]	60	(1)
[Narragansett Challenge (1622)]	60	(1)
[Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)]	61	(4)
Thomas Morton (c. 1579--1647)	65	(7)
New English Canaan	66	(6)
The First Book: Containing the Original of the Natives, Their Manners, and Customs	66	(1)
Of Their Houses and Habitations	66	(1)
Of Their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses	67	(1)
The Third Book: Containing a Description of the People That Are Planted There	68	(1)
Of the Revels of New Canaan	68	(1)
Of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-Re Mount	69	(3)
John Winthrop (1588--1649)	72	(9)
A Model of Christian Charity	73	(8)
Roger Williams (1603?--1683)	81	(7)
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience	82	(1)
Preface	82	(1)
Chapter XCIII	83	(1)
The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody	84	(3)
Letter to the Town of Providence	87	(1)
Puritanism	88	(83)
Anne Bradstreet (1612?--1672)	91	(21)
Ariel: Anne Bradstreet	93	(1)
The Prologue	93	(1)
The Flesh and the Spirit	94	(3)
Contemplations	97	(6)
The Author to Her Book	103	(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	104	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	105	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment	105	(1)
Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment]	106	(1)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old	107	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House, July, 10th, 1666	107	(2)
Meditations, Divine and Moral	109	(3)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631--1705)	112	(11)
The Day of Doom	113	(10)
Mary Rowlandson (1636?--1711?)	123	(25)
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson	124	(24)
Samuel Sewall (1652--1730)	148	(12)
The Diary of Samuel Sewall	149	(1)
[Customs, Courts, and Courtships]	149	(11)
Edward Taylor (1642?--1729)	160	(11)
The Preface	161	(1)
Meditation 1, First Series	162	(1)
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children	163	(1)
The Experience	164	(1)
Huswifery	165	(1)
Meditation 8, First Series	165	(1)
The Glory of and Grace in the Church Set Out	166	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	167	(1)
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death	168	(3)
Crosscurrents: Puritans, Indians, and Witchcraft	171	(40)
William Wood (Fl. 1629--1635)	172	(1)
[Native Religion]	172	(1)
John Winthrop (1588--1649)	173	(1)
[The Trial of Margaret Jones]	173	(1)
Cotton Mather (1663--1728)	174	(1)
[Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]	174	(1)
Mary Towne Easty (1634?--1692)	175	(1)
[The Petition of Mary Easty]	175	(1)
Samuel Sewall (1652--1730)	176	(2)
[A Witchcraft Judge's Confession of Guilt]	176	(1)
Ariel: Puritanism, Indians, and Witchcraft	177	(1)
Cotton Mather (1663--1728)	178	(24)
The Wonders of the Invisible World	179	(1)
Enchantments Encountered	179	(2)
The Trial of Bridget Bishop	181	(4)
A Third Curiosity	185	(1)
Magnalia Christi Americana	186	(1)
The Life of John Winthrop	186	(7)
The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips	193	(5)
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good	198	(1)
Much Occasion for Doing Good	198	(1)
The Excellence of Well-Doing	199	(1)
The Reward of Well-Doing	199	(2)
On Internal Piety and Self-Examination	201	(1)
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)	202	(9)
The Journal of Madam Knight	203	(1)
[New England Frontier]	203	(5)
[Connecticut]	208	(1)
[New York City]	209	(2)
The South and the Middle Colonies	211	(70)
Ebenezer Cook (1667?--1733?)	214	(14)
The Sot-Weed Factor	214	(14)
William Byrd (1674--1744)	228	(5)
The History of the Dividing Line	230	(1)
[The Marooner]	230	(1)
[Lubberland]	230	(1)
[Indian Neighbors]	231	(2)
John Woolman (1720--1772)	233	(14)
The Journal of John Woolman	235	(1)
1720--1742 [Early Years]	235	(6)
1749--1756 [On Merchandise]	241	(2)
1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth]	243	(1)
[Slavery]	243	(1)
1755--1758 [Taxes and Wars]	244	(3)
St. Jean De Crevecceur (1735--1813)	247	(23)
Letters from an American Farmer	249	(1)
What is an American?	249	(8)
Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene	257	(7)
Sketches of Eighteenth Century America	264	(1)
Manners of the Americans	264	(6)
William Bartram (1739--1823)	270	(11)
Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida	271	(1)
[Alligators]	271	(4)
[The Amazing Crystal Fountain]	275	(2)
[Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields]	277	(4)
Reason and Revolution	281	(86)
The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism	281	(1)
From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature	282	(3)
Timeline: Reason and Revolution	285	(1)
Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758)	286	(28)
Sarah Pierrepont	287	(1)
A Divine and Supernatural Light	288	(6)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	294	(11)
Personal Narrative	305	(9)
Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)	314	(53)
Ariel: Benjamin Franklin	316	(1)
The Autobiography	317	(31)
Poor Richard's Almanack	348	(1)
Preface to Poor Richard, 1733	348	(1)
The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758	349	(5)
The Speech of Polly Baker	354	(2)
An Edict by the King of Prussia	356	(3)
The Ephemera	359	(2)
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America	361	(2)
Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here is My Creed]	363	(1)
Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations	364	(3)
Crosscurrents: Freedom, Religion, and Revolution	367	(178)
John Ponet (1514--1556)	368	(1)
[Men Should Respect Their Country More Than Their Prince]	368	(1)
John Wise (1652--1725)	369	(1)
[Nature, Liberty, and Equality]	369	(1)
Jonathan Mayhew (1720--1766)	370	(2)
[Disobedience a Duty, Not a Crime]	371	(1)
Patrick Henry (1736--1799)	372	(2)
[Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death]	372	(1)
Ariel: Freedom, Religion, and Revolution	373	(1)
Thomas Paine (1737--1809)	374	(24)
Common Sense	376	(1)
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs	376	(9)
The American Crisis	385	(6)
The Age of Reason	391	(1)
[Profession of Faith]	391	(2)
[Of Myth and Miracle]	393	(1)
[Christian Revelation and Nature]	394	(1)
[First Cause: God of Reason]	395	(2)
[Recapitulation]	397	(1)
John Adams (1735--1826) and Abigail Smith Adams (1744--1818)	398	(16)
Letters	399	(15)
Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826)	414	(16)
The Declaration of Independence	416	(3)
First Inaugural Address	419	(3)
Notes on the State of Virginia	422	(1)
[A Southerner on Slavery]	422	(1)
[Speech of Logan]	423	(1)
Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush [The Christian Deist]	424	(3)
Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy]	427	(3)
Olaudah Equiano (1745?--1797?)	430	(10)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	432	(1)
[Horrors of a Slave Ship]	432	(4)
[Travels from Virginia to England]	436	(2)
[He Purchases His Freedom]	438	(2)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?--1784)	440	(6)
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England	442	(1)
On Being Brought From Africa to America	442	(1)
On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield	443	(1)
An Hymn to the Evening	444	(1)
To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	444	(1)
To His Excellency General Washington	445	(1)
The Federalist (1787--1788)	446	(9)
The Federalist No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]	447	(3)
The Federalist No. 10 [James Madison]	450	(5)
Philip Freneau (1752--1832)	455	(9)
To Sir Toby	457	(1)
To the Memory of the Brave Americans	458	(1)
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man	459	(1)
The Wild Honey Suckle	460	(1)
The Indian Burying Ground	461	(1)
On a Honey Bee	462	(1)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	463	(1)
Joel Barlow (1754--1812)	464	(9)
The Hasty-Pudding	465	(8)
Royall Tyler (1757--1826)	473	(38)
The Constrast	474	(37)
Susanna Rowson (1762--1824)	511	(20)
Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth	513	(18)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771--1810)	531	(14)
Edgar Huntly	532	(13)
The Romantic Temper and the House Divided	545	(320)
Regional Influences	545	(2)
Nature and the Land	547	(1)
The Original Native Americans	548	(3)
Timeline: The Romantic Temper and the House Divided	551	(2)
Red Jacket (C. 1752--1830)	553	(2)
[The Great Spirit Has Made Us All]	553	(2)
Tecumseh (1768--1813)	555	(2)
[The White Men Are Not Friends to the Indians]	556	(1)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	557	(43)
A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker	560	(1)
Book III: In Which is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller	560	(7)
The Sketch Book
The Author's Account of Himself	567	(2)
Rip Van Winkle	569	(11)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	580	(20)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)	600	(165)
The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna	602	(159)
The American Democrat	761	(1)
An Aristocrat and a Democrat	761	(2)
Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales	763	(2)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867)	765	(51)
Hope Leslie: or Early Times in the Massachusetts	767	(49)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	816	(18)
Thanatopsis	818	(2)
The Yellow Violet	820	(1)
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	821	(1)
To a Waterfowl	822	(1)
A Forest Hymn	823	(2)
To Colf, The Painter, Departing for Europe	825	(1)
To the Fringed Gentian	826	(1)
The Prairies	826	(3)
The Poet	829	(1)
The Death of Lincoln	830	(1)
The Flood of Years	831	(3)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793--1864)	834	(12)
Manabozho	835	(11)
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801--1864)	846	(12)
A New Home-Who'll Follow?	847	(11)
Francis Parkman (1823--1893)	858	(7)
The Oregon Trail	859	(1)
The Chase	859	(6)
Transcendentalism	865	(2)
Crosscurrents: Transcendentalism, Women, and Social Ideals	867	(342)
Elizabeth Peabody (1804--1894)	868	(2)
[Labor, Wages, and Leisure]	868	(2)
Charles Dickens (1812--1870)	870	(2)
American Notes	870	(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815--1902)	872	(2)
Declaration of Sentiments	872	(2)
Sojourner Truth (C. 1797--1883)	874	(1)
[Aren't I a Woman?]	874	(1)
Fanny Fern (1811--1872)	875	(4)
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony	875	(1)
The Working-Girls of New York	876	(2)
Ariel: Transcendentalism, Women, and Social Ideals	878	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	879	(120)
Ariel: Ralph Waldo Emerson	881	(1)
Nature	882	(27)
The American Scholar	909	(13)
The Divinity School Address	922	(11)
Self-Reliance	933	(17)
Compensation	950	(12)
The Over-Soul	962	(11)
The Poet	973	(15)
Concord Hymn	988	(1)
Each and All	988	(1)
The Rhodora	989	(1)
The Problem	990	(2)
The Snow-Storm	992	(1)
Hamatreya	993	(1)
The Apology	994	(1)
Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)	995	(2)
Brahma	997	(1)
Days	998	(1)
Terminus	998	(1)
Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)	999	(13)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	1001	(11)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	1012	(197)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	1015	(1)
[Nature, Poetry, and the Poet]	1015	(2)
Walden	1017	(1)
Economy	1017	(40)
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	1057	(10)
Reading	1067	(6)
Sounds	1073	(8)
Solitude	1081	(6)
Visitors	1087	(7)
The Bean-Field	1094	(6)
The Village	1100	(3)
The Ponds	1103	(14)
Baker Farm	1117	(4)
Higher Laws	1121	(6)
Brute Neighbors	1127	(8)
House-Warming	1135	(8)
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors	1143	(8)
Winter Animals	1151	(5)
The Pond in Winter	1156	(8)
Spring	1164	(10)
Conclusion	1174	(7)
Civil Disobedience	1181	(15)
Life Without Principle	1196	(13)
Crosscurrents: The Romantic, the Real, and the American Indian	1209	(12)
Sir Walter Scott (1771--1832)	1210	(1)
[The Novel and the Romance]	1210	(1)
William Gilmore Simms (1806--1870)	1210	(2)
[The American Romance]	1211	(1)
Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880)	1212	(4)
The Lone Indian	1212	(4)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791--1865)	1216	(3)
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers	1217	(1)
Indian Names	1218	(1)
Henry James (1843--1916)	1219	(2)
Preface to the American	1219	(1)
Ariel: The Romantic, The Real, and the American Indian	1220	(1)
Romanticism	1221	(446)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	1223	(72)
Ariel: Edgar Allen Poe	1225	(1)
Romance	1226	(1)
Sonnet---To Science	1226	(1)
Lenore	1227	(1)
The Sleeper	1227	(2)
Israfel	1229	(1)
To Helen	1230	(1)
The City in the Sea	1231	(1)
Sonnet---Silence	1232	(1)
Dream-Land	1233	(1)
The Raven	1234	(3)
Ulalume	1237	(3)
The Bells	1240	(2)
Annabel Lee	1242	(1)
Ligeia	1243	(11)
The Fall of the House of Usher	1254	(12)
The Masque of the Red Death	1266	(4)
The Purloined Letter	1270	(12)
The Cask of Amontillado	1282	(5)
The Philosophy of Composition	1287	(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)	1295	(223)
Ariel: Nathaniel Hawthorne	1297	(1)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	1298	(12)
Young Goodman Brown	1310	(9)
Wakefield	1319	(5)
The Minister's Black Veil	1324	(8)
The Maypole of Merry Mount	1332	(7)
The Birthmark	1339	(11)
Rappaccini's Daughter	1350	(18)
Ethan Brand	1368	(11)
Preface to the House of the Seven Gables	1379	(1)
The Scarlet Letter	1380	(1)
Preface to Second Edition	1380	(2)
The Custom-House	1382	(24)
The Scarlet Letter	1406	(112)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	1518	(149)
Ariel: Herman Melville	1520	(1)
Hawthorne and His Mosses	1521	(7)
Bartleby the Scrivener	1528	(24)
Benito Cereno	1552	(54)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War	1606	(1)
The Portent	1606	(1)
Misgivings	1606	(1)
The March Into Virginia	1607	(1)
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	1608	(1)
Shiloh	1608	(1)
Malvern Hill	1609	(1)
The House-Top	1610	(1)
The College Colonel	1611	(1)
An Uninscribed Monument	1612	(1)
Timoleon	1612	(1)
The Maldive Shark	1612	(1)
Monody	1612	(1)
Lone Founts	1613	(1)
Art	1613	(1)
Greek Architecture	1613	(1)
Billy Budd, Sailor	1614	(53)
The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict	1667	(6)
Democracy and Social Reform	1667	(2)
Inevitable Conflict	1669	(3)
Timeline: The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict	1672	(1)
Crosscurrents: Slavery, Abolition, and the Civil War	1673	(254)
Briton Hammon	1673	(2)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man	1674	(1)
William Cushing	1675	(1)
[Slavery Inconsistent With Our Conduct and Constitution]	1676	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1676	(2)
The Witnesses	1676	(1)
The Quadroon Girl	1677	(1)
Lydia Maria Child	1678	(6)
[Reply to Margaretta Mason]	1679	(2)
Songs of Slavery and the Civil War	1681	(1)
Follow the Drinking Gourd	1681	(1)
Dixie	1682	(1)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	1683	(1)
Sarah Morgan	1684	(4)
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan	1684	(3)
Ariel: Slavery, Abolition, and the Civil War	1687	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	1688	(35)
A Psalm of Life	1690	(2)
The Arsenal at Springfield	1692	(1)
The Song of Hiawatha	1693	(1)
Hiawatha's Childhood	1693	(5)
Hiawatha and Mudjekewis	1698	(6)
Hiawatha's Fasting	1704	(6)
Hiawatha's Sailing	1710	(3)
The White Man's Foot	1713	(2)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	1715	(2)
My Lost Youth	1717	(2)
Divina Commedia	1719	(3)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls	1722	(1)
The Cross of Snow	1722	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)	1723	(28)
Massachusetts to Virginia	1725	(3)
Ichabod	1728	(1)
First-Day Thoughts	1729	(1)
Telling the Bees	1730	(1)
Laus Deo	1731	(2)
Snow-Bound	1733	(18)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894)	1751	(6)
Old Ironsides	1753	(1)
The Last Leaf	1754	(1)
My Aunt	1755	(1)
The Chambered Nautilus	1756	(1)
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865)	1757	(12)
Farewell Address at Springfield	1759	(1)
First Inaugural Address	1760	(6)
Reply to Horace Greeley	1766	(1)
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery	1767	(1)
Second Inaugural Address	1768	(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)	1769	(28)
Ariel: Harriet Beecher Stowe	1771	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly	1771	(1)
The Mother's Struggle	1771	(9)
Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued	1780	(4)
The Martyr	1784	(2)
The Young Master	1786	(4)
Oldtown Folks	1790	(1)
Miss Asphyxia	1790	(7)
Harriet Jacobs (1813--1897)	1797	(13)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1798	(1)
The Jealous Mistress	1798	(4)
The Flight	1802	(2)
Months of Peril	1804	(5)
The Children Sold	1809	(1)
Frederick Douglas (1817?--1895)	1810	(52)
Ariel: Frederick Douglass	1811	(1)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	1812	(50)
James Russell Lowell (1819--1891)	1862	(24)
A Fable for Critics	1865	(11)
The Biglow Papers, First Series	1876	(1)
No. I: A Letter	1876	(5)
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration	1881	(5)
Rose Terry Cooke (1827--1897)	1886	(14)
How Celia Changed Her Mind	1887	(13)
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831--1910)	1900	(27)
Life in the Iron-Mills	1901	(26)
Pioneers of a New Poetry	1927	(144)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	1927	(108)
Ariel: Walt Whitman	1930	(1)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass	1931	(13)
Song of Myself	1944	(40)
Children of Adam
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	1984	(1)
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City	1984	(1)
Facing West from California's Shores	1984	(1)
As Adam Early in the Morning	1985	(1)
Calamus
For You O Democracy	1985	(1)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	1985	(1)
I Hear it Was Charged Against Me	1986	(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	1986	(4)
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	1990	(5)
As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life	1995	(2)
By the Roadside
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	1997	(1)
The Dalliance of the Eagles	1997	(1)
Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!	1998	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	1998	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	1999	(1)
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	1999	(1)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	2000	(1)
The Wound-Dresser	2001	(1)
Reconciliation	2002	(1)
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	2003	(6)
Autumn Rivulets
There Was a Child Went Forth	2009	(1)
To a Common Prostitute	2010	(1)
Passage to India	2010	(7)
The Sleepers	2017	(6)
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Whispers of Heavenly Death	2023	(1)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	2024	(1)
From Noon to Starry Night
To a Locomotive in Winter	2024	(1)
Songs of Parting	2025	(1)
So Long!	2025	(2)
Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy
Good-Bye My Fancy!	2027	(1)
Specimen Days	2027	(1)
After First Fredericksburg	2027	(1)
Patent-Office Hospital	2028	(1)
The White House by Moonlight	2028	(1)
The Wounded from Chancellorsville	2029	(1)
Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier	2029	(1)
Abraham Lincoln	2029	(1)
Virginia	2030	(1)
Summer of 1864	2031	(1)
The Inauguration	2031	(1)
Death of President Lincoln	2032	(1)
No Good Portrait of Lincoln	2032	(1)
Three Years Summ'd Up	2032	(1)
The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up	2033	(1)
Entering a Long Farm-Lane	2034	(1)
To the Spring and Brook	2034	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	2035	(36)
Ariel: Emily Dickinson	2036	(1)
49 [I Never Lost as Much But Twice]	2037	(1)
67 [Success is Counted Sweetest]	2037	(1)
130 [These Are the Days When Birds Come Back---]	2038	(1)
214 [I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed---]	2038	(1)
241 [I Like a Look of Agony]	2039	(1)
249 [Wild Nights-Wild Nights!]	2039	(1)
252 [I Can Wade Grief---]	2039	(1)
258 [There's a Certain Slant of Light]	2040	(1)
280 [I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain]	2040	(1)
285 [The Robin's My Criterion for Tune---]	2040	(1)
288 [I'm Nobody! Who Are You?]	2041	(1)
290 [Of Bronze---and Blaze---]	2041	(1)
303 [The Soul Selects Her Own Society---]	2042	(1)
320 [We Play at Paste---]	2042	(1)
322 [There Came a Day at Summer's Full]	2042	(1)
324 [Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church---]	2043	(1)
328 [A Bird Came Down the Walk---]	2043	(1)
341 [After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes---]	2044	(1)
376 [Of Course---I Prayed---]	2044	(1)
401 [What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---]	2044	(1)
435 [Much Madness is Divinest Sense---]	2045	(1)
441 [This is My Letter to the World]	2045	(1)
448 [This Was a Poet---It Is That]	2045	(1)
449 [I Died for Beauty---But Was Scarce]	2046	(1)
465 [I Heard a Fly Buzz---When I Died---]	2046	(1)
478 [I Had No Time to Hate---]	2046	(1)
511 [If You Were Coming in the Fall]	2047	(1)
526 [To Hear an Oriole Sing]	2047	(1)
528 [Mine---By the Right of the White Election!]	2048	(1)
547 [I've Seen a Dying Eye]	2048	(1)
556 [The Brain, Within its Groove]	2048	(1)
569 [I Reckon---When I Count at All---]	2049	(1)
579 [I Had Been Hungry, all the Years---]	2049	(1)
581 [I Found the Words to Every Thought]	2050	(1)
585 [I Like to See it Lap the Miles---]	2050	(1)
632 [The Brain---is Wider Than the Sky---]	2050	(1)
636 [The Way I Read a Letter's---This---]	2051	(1)
640 [I Cannot Live With You---]	2051	(1)
650 [Pain---Has an Element of Blank---]	2052	(1)
657 [I Dwell in Possibility---]	2053	(1)
701 [A Thought Went Up My Mind Today---]	2053	(1)
712 [Because I Could Not Stop For Death---]	2053	(1)
732 [She Rose to His Requirement---Dropt]	2054	(1)
754 [My Life Had Stood---a Loaded Gun---]	2054	(1)
816 [A Death Blow is a Life Blow to Some]	2055	(1)
823 [Not What We Did, Shall Be the Test]	2055	(1)
986 [A Narrow Fellow in the Grass]	2055	(1)
1052 [I Never Saw a Moor---]	2056	(1)
1078 [The Bustle in a House]	2056	(1)
1082 [Revolution is the Pod]	2056	(1)
1100 [The Last Night That She Lived]	2057	(1)
1129 [Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant---]	2057	(1)
1176 [We Never Know How High We Are]	2058	(1)
1207 [He Preached Upon ``Breadth'' Till it Argued Him Narrow---]	2058	(1)
1263 [There is No Frigate Like a Book]	2058	(1)
1304 [Not With a Club, The Heart is Broken]	2058	(1)
1332 [Pink---Small---and Punctual---]	2059	(1)
1463 [A Route of Evanescence]	2059	(1)
1465 [Before You Thought of Spring]	2059	(1)
1510 [How Happy is the Little Stone]	2060	(1)
1540 [As Imperceptibly as Grief]	2060	(1)
1587 [He Ate and Drank the Precious Words---]	2061	(1)
1624 [Apparently with No Surprise]	2061	(1)
1670 [In Winter in My Room]	2061	(1)
1732 [My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close---]	2062	(1)
1760 [Elysium is as Far as to]	2062	(1)
Letters
[To Recipient Unknown, About 1858]	2063	(1)
[To Recipient Unknown, About 1861]	2063	(1)
[To Recipient Unknown, Early 1862?]	2064	(1)
[To T. W. Higginson] 15 April 1862	2065	(1)
[To T. W. Higginson] 25 April 1862	2066	(1)
[To T. W. Higginson] 7 June 1862	2067	(1)
[To T. W. Higginson, July 1862]	2068	(1)
[To T. W. Higginson, August 1862]	2068	(3)
Historical-Literary Timeline	2071	(8)
Bibliography	2079	(15)
Acknowledgments	2094	(2)
Index	2096