The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865

by Baym, Nina

• ISBN13: 9780393979053
• ISBN10: 0393979059
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
American Literature 1820--1865
Introduction	957	(19)
Timeline	976	(2)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	978	(35)
Rip Van Winkle	980	(12)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	992	(21)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)	1013	(16)
The Pioneers	1014	(15)
[The Judge's History of the Settlement; A Sudden Storm]	1015	(8)
[The Slaughter of the Pigeons]	1023	(6)
The Cherokee Memorials	1029	(10)
[Note on the Accompanying Memorials, February 15, 1830]	1031	(1)
[Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, 1829]	1032	(4)
[Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829]	1036	(3)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867)	1039	(32)
Cacoethes Scribendi	1040	(11)
A Reminiscence of Federalism	1051	(20)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	1071	(7)
Thanatopsis	1072	(2)
To a Waterfowl	1074	(1)
The Prairies	1075	(3)
William Apess (1798--1839)	1078	(7)
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man	1079	(6)
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801--1864)	1085	(9)
A New Home---Who'll Follow?; or, Glimpses of Western Life	1086	(8)
[Backwoods Borrowing]	1086	(4)
[Classes of Emigrants]	1090	(4)
Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880)	1094	(9)
Mrs. Child's Reply (Dec. 17, 1859)	1095	(8)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	1103	(144)
Nature	1106	(29)
The American Scholar	1135	(13)
The Divinity School Address	1148	(12)
Self-Reliance	1160	(17)
The Poet	1177	(15)
Experience	1192	(15)
Last of the Anti-Slavery Lectures, the Seventh of March [1854]	1207	(9)
Fate	1216	(19)
Thoreau	1235	(12)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)	1247	(229)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	1250	(13)
Young Goodman Brown	1263	(10)
The May-Pole of Merry Mount	1273	(7)
The Minister's Black Veil	1280	(9)
The Birth-Mark	1289	(11)
The Celestial Railroad	1300	(13)
Rappaccini's Daughter	1313	(20)
The Scarlet Letter	1333	(141)
The Custom-House	1333	(25)
The Scarlet Letter	1358	(116)
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables	1474	(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	1476	(10)
A Psalm of Life	1477	(1)
Excelsior	1478	(2)
The Slave's Dream	1480	(1)
The Fire of Drift-wood	1481	(1)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	1482	(2)
My Lost Youth	1484	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)	1486	(21)
Ichabod!	1488	(1)
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl	1489	(18)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	1507	(101)
Sonnet---To Science	1510	(1)
To Helen	1510	(1)
Israfel	1511	(1)
The City in the Sea	1512	(2)
The Sleeper	1514	(1)
The Valley of Unrest	1515	(1)
Alone	1516	(1)
Dream-land	1516	(2)
The Raven	1518	(3)
To-----. Ulalume: A Ballad	1521	(3)
Annabel Lee	1524	(1)
Ligeia	1525	(9)
The Fall of the House of Usher	1534	(13)
William Wilson. A Tale	1547	(14)
The Man of the Crowd	1561	(6)
The Masque of the Red Death	1567	(5)
The Tell-Tale Heart	1572	(3)
The Purloined Letter	1575	(13)
The Imp of the Perverse	1588	(4)
The Cask of Amontillado	1592	(5)
The Philosophy of Composition	1597	(9)
From The Poetic Principle	1606	(2)
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865)	1608	(10)
A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858	1609	(7)
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863	1616	(1)
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865	1616	(2)
Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)	1618	(52)
The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women	1620	(34)
Unfinished Sketch of Youth (``Autobiographical Romance'')	1654	(16)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)	1670	(76)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly	1673	(73)
The Husband and Father	1673	(3)
The Mother's Struggle	1676	(10)
In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man	1686	(11)
Select Incident of Lawful Trade	1697	(12)
Evangeline	1709	(7)
Topsy	1716	(11)
The Slave Warehouse	1727	(7)
The Middle Passage	1734	(5)
The Quadroon's Story	1739	(7)
Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811--1872)	1746	(11)
Male Criticism on Ladies' Books	1748	(1)
``Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern''	1749	(1)
A Law More Nice Than Just	1750	(2)
Blackwell's Island	1752	(5)
Number I. [August 14, 1858]	1752	(1)
Number II. [August 21, 1858]	1753	(2)
Number III. [August 28, 1858]	1755	(2)
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813--1897)	1757	(22)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1759	(20)
Childhood	1759	(2)
The Lover	1761	(4)
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	1765	(4)
Another Link of Life	1769	(2)
The Loophole of Retreat	1771	(3)
Free at Last	1774	(5)
T. B. Thorpe (1815--1878)	1779	(9)
The Big Bear of Arkansas	1780	(8)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	1788	(241)
Resistance to Civil Government	1792	(15)
Walden, or Life in the Woods	1807	(175)
Slavery in Massachusetts	1982	(11)
Walking	1993	(23)
Life without Principle	2016	(13)
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)	2029	(98)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself	2032	(65)
My Bondage and My Freedom	2097	(11)
The Author's Childhood	2097	(4)
The Author Removed from His First Home	2101	(3)
The Author's Parentage	2104	(4)
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852	2108	(19)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	2127	(148)
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)	2131	(15)
Inscriptions	2146	(1)
When I Read the Book	2146	(1)
Beginning My Studies	2146	(1)
Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself] (1855)	2146	(43)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	2189	(5)
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson [Whitman's 1856 Manifesto]	2194	(7)
Live Oak, with Moss	2201	(4)
Children of Adam	2205	(4)
From Pent-up Aching Rivers	2205	(1)
Spontaneous Me	2206	(2)
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City	2208	(1)
Facing West from California's Shores	2208	(1)
Calamus	2209	(3)
Scented Herbage of My Breast	2209	(1)
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand	2210	(1)
Trickle Drops	2211	(1)
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me	2211	(1)
Sea-Drift	2212	(7)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	2212	(4)
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life	2216	(3)
By the Roadside	2219	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	2219	(1)
Drum-Taps	2219	(7)
Beat! Beat! Drums!	2219	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	2220	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	2220	(1)
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	2221	(1)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	2222	(1)
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods	2222	(1)
The Wound-Dresser	2223	(2)
Reconciliation	2225	(1)
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado	2225	(1)
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	2225	(1)
Memories of President Lincoln	2226	(6)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	2226	(6)
Song of Myself (1881)	2232	(43)
Louise Amelia Smith Clappe (1819--1906)	2275	(12)
California, in 1852: Residence in the Mines	2276	(11)
Letter 12 (January 27, 1852)	2276	(5)
Letter 22 (October 27, 1852)	2281	(6)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	2287	(200)
Hawthorne and His Mosses	2292	(12)
Moby-Dick	2304	(26)
Loomings	2306	(4)
Ahab	2310	(2)
The Quarter-Deck	2312	(5)
Moby Dick	2317	(7)
The Whiteness of the Whale	2324	(6)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	2330	(25)
The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids	2355	(16)
Benito Cereno	2371	(56)
Battle-Pieces	2427	(4)
The Portent	2427	(1)
Misgivings	2428	(1)
The March into Virginia	2428	(1)
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight	2429	(1)
The House-top	2430	(1)
Billy Budd, Sailor	2431	(56)
Bayard Taylor (1825--1878)	2487	(12)
Eldorado	2488	(11)
Volume II	2488	(1)
The Overland Emigration of 1849	2488	(6)
San Francisco, Four Months Later	2494	(5)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	2499	(46)
49 [I never lost as much but twice]	2503	(1)
67 [Success is counted sweetest]	2503	(1)
130 [These are the days when Birds come back---]	2504	(1)
131 [Besides the Autumn poets sing]	2504	(1)
148 [All overgrown by cunning moss]	2505	(1)
185 [``Faith'' is a fine invention]	2505	(1)
199 [I'm ``wife''---I've finished that---]	2506	(1)
214 [I taste a liquor never brewed---]	2506	(1)
216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers---]	2507	(1)
241 [I like a look of Agony]	2507	(1)
249 [Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]	2508	(1)
258 [There's a certain Slant of light]	2508	(1)
280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]	2509	(1)
285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune---]	2509	(1)
287 [A Clock stopped---]	2510	(1)
303 [The Soul selects her own Society---]	2510	(1)
305 [The difference between Despair]	2511	(1)
312 [Her---``last Poems''---]	2511	(1)
314 [Nature---sometimes sears a Sapling---]	2511	(1)
315 [He fumbles at your Soul]	2512	(1)
324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church---]	2512	(1)
326 [I cannot dance upon my Toes---]	2513	(1)
328 [A Bird came down the Walk---]	2513	(1)
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]	2514	(1)
348 [I dreaded that first Robin, so]	2514	(1)
435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense---]	2515	(1)
441 [This is my letter to the World]	2515	(1)
448 [This was a Poet---It is That]	2516	(1)
449 [I died for Beauty---but was scarce]	2516	(1)
465 [I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---]	2517	(1)
488 [Myself was formed---a Carpenter---]	2517	(1)
501 [This World is not Conclusion]	2518	(1)
505 [I would not paint---a picture---]	2518	(1)
510 [It was not Death, for I stood up]	2519	(1)
520 [I started Early---Took my Dog---]	2520	(1)
528 [Mine---by the Right of the White Election!]	2520	(1)
536 [The Heart asks Pleasure---first---]	2521	(1)
547 [I've seen a Dying Eye]	2521	(1)
593 [I think I was enchanted]	2521	(1)
632 [The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]	2522	(1)
650 [Pain---has an Element of Blank---]	2523	(1)
664 [Of all the Souls that stand create---]	2523	(1)
709 [Publication---is the Auction]	2523	(1)
712 [Because I could not stop for Death---]	2524	(1)
732 [She rose to His Requirement---dropt]	2525	(1)
744 [Remorse---is memory---awake---]	2525	(1)
754 [My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]	2525	(1)
822 [This Consciousness that is aware]	2526	(1)
824 [The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]	2527	(1)
939 [What I see not, I better see---]	2528	(1)
952 [A Man may make a Remark---]	2528	(1)
978 [It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon---]	2528	(1)
986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]	2529	(1)
1068 [Further in Summer than the Birds]	2530	(1)
1072 [Title divine---is Mine!]	2530	(1)
1078 [The Bustle in a House]	2531	(1)
1099 [My Cocoon tightens---Colors teaze---]	2531	(1)
1125 [Oh Sumptuous moment]	2531	(1)
1126 [Shall I take thee, the Poet said]	2532	(1)
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---]	2532	(1)
1138 [A spider sewed at Night]	2532	(1)
1182 [Remembrance has a Rear and Front---]	2533	(1)
1197 [I should not dare to be so sad]	2533	(1)
1242 [To flee from memory]	2533	(1)
1255 [Longing is like the Seed]	2533	(1)
1273 [That sacred Closet when you sweep---]	2534	(1)
1383 [Long Years apart---can make no]	2534	(1)
1397 [It sounded as if the Streets were running]	2534	(1)
1463 [A Route of Evanescence]	2535	(1)
1467 [A little overflowing word]	2535	(1)
1473 [We talked with each other about each other]	2535	(1)
1508 [You cannot make Remembrance grow]	2536	(1)
1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief]	2536	(1)
1545 [The Bible is an antique Volume---]	2536	(1)
1560 [To be forgot by thee]	2537	(1)
1581 [There farthest Thunder that I heard]	2537	(1)
1593 [There came a Wind like a Bugle---]	2538	(1)
1601 [Of God we ask one favor]	2538	(1)
1624 [Apparently with no surprise]	2539	(1)
1651 [A Word made Flesh is seldom]	2539	(1)
1732 [My life closed twice before its close]	2539	(1)
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson	2540	(3)
[Say If My Verse Is Alive?] (April 15, 1862)	2540	(1)
[Thank You for the Surgery] (April 25, 1862)	2540	(1)
[Will You Be My Preceptor?] (June 7, 1862)	2541	(1)
[My Business Is Circumference] (July 1862)	2542	(1)
Letters on ``E. D.'' from T. W. Higginson to His Wife	2543	(2)
[August 16, 1870]	2543	(1)
[August 17, 1870]	2544	(1)
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831--1910)	2545	(29)
Life in the Iron-Mills	2547	(27)
Louisa May Alcott (1832--1888)	2574	(13)
Transcendental Wild Oats	2575	(12)
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835--1921)	2587	(10)
Circumstance	2588	(9)
Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)	2597	(2)
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport	2599	(1)
1492	2600	(1)
The New Colossus	2601
Selected Bibliographies	1	(14)
Permissions Acknowledgments	15	(2)
Index	17