Anthology of American Literature Volume I

by McMichael, George; Leonard, James S.; Lyne, Bill; Mallon, Anne-Marie; Mitchell, Verner D.; Claxton, Mae Miller

• ISBN13: 9780131829541
• ISBN10: 0131829548
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For courses in American Literary Survey. This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. This anthology, known for its solid headnotes and introductions, now features a way to customize. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Table of Contents

The Literature of Early America

Christopher Columbus (1451ndash;1506)

Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage

From The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America: Thursday 11 October 1492

Sunday 14 October 1492

Captain John Smith (1580ndash;1631)

From The General History of Virginia

The Third Book

Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War

From A Description of New England

Native American Voices I

Myths and Tales

How the World Began

How the World Was Made

The Beginning of Summer and Winter

The Gift of the Sacred Pipe

Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow

Dineacute; bahaneacute;

Dineacute; bahaneacute;: The Navajo Creation Story

William Bradford (1590ndash;1657)

From Of Plymouth Plantation

From Chapter I [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550ndash;1607]

From Chapter III, Of Their Settling in Holland, and Their Manner of Living

From Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal

From Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden

From Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage

From Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation

From Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]

From Chapter XII [Narragansett Challenge]

From Chapter XIV [End of the 'Common Course

From Chapter XIX [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]

From Chapter XXIV

From Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]

From Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]

Thomas Morton (c. 1579ndash;1647)

From The New English Canaan

John Winthrop (1588ndash;1649)

From A Model of Christian Charity

From The Journal of John Winthrop

Roger Williams (c. 1603ndash;1683)

From A Key into the Language of America

From The Bloody Tenet

The Bay Psalm Book (1640)

From The Bay Psalm Book

The New England Primer (c. 1683)

From The New England Primer

Anne Bradstreet (1612ndash;1672)

The Prologue

Contemplations

The Flesh and the Spirit

The Author to Her Book

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

To My Dear and Loving Husband

A Letter to Her Husband

In Reference to Her Children

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild

On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet

[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit

Upon the Burning of our House

As Weary Pilgrim

From Meditations Divine and Moral

Michael Wigglesworth (1631ndash;1705)

From The Day of Doom

Edward Taylor (c. 1642ndash;1729)

Prologue

From Preparatory Meditations

The Reflexion

Meditation 6 (First Series)

Meditation 8 (First Series)

Meditation 38 (First Series)

Meditation 39 (First Series)

Meditation 150 (Second Series)

From God's Determinations

The Preface

The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

Huswifery

The Ebb and Flow

A Fig for Thee Oh! Death

Cotton Mather (1663ndash;1728)

From The Wonders of the Invisible World

From Magnalia Christi Americana

Samuel Sewall (1652ndash;1730)

From The Diary of Samuel Sewall

Mary Rowlandson (c 1637ndash;1711)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of

William Byrd II (1674ndash;1744)

From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712

From The History of the Dividing Line

John Woolman (1720ndash;1772)

From The Journal of

Jonathan Edwards (1703ndash;1758)

Sarah Pierrepont

Personal Narrative

From A Divine and Supernatural Light

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

From Images or Shadows of Divine Things

The Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Benjamin Franklin (1706ndash;1790)

The Autobiography

Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Creacute;vecoeur (1735ndash;1813)

From Letters from an American Farmer

Letter III (What Is an American?)

Letter IX (Description of Charleston . . .)

Olaudah Equiano (1745ndash;1797)

From The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa The African, Written by Himself

Thomas Paine (1737ndash;1809)

From Common Sense

From The American Crisis

From The Age of Reason

Thomas Jefferson (1743ndash;1826)

The Declaration of Independence

From Notes on the State of Virginia

From Query V: Cascades

From Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal

From Query XVII: Religion

From Query XVIII: Manners

From Query XIX: Manufactures

To James Madison

To John Adams

The Federalist (1787ndash;1788)

The Federalist No.1. The Federalist No.10

The Federalist No.51

Phillis Wheatley (1754?ndash;1784)

On Virtue

To the University of Cambridge, in New England

On Being Brought from Africa to America

On the Death of the Rev

Mr. George Whitefield, 1770

On Imagination

To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

Recollection

To His Excellency General Washington

Philip Freneau (1752ndash;1832)

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