Anthology of American Literature, Volume I

by McMichael, George; Leonard, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780131987999
• ISBN10: 0131987992
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

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 is best known for its solid headnotes and introductions as well as a balance approach to selections.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
About the Editors	xxv
The Literature of Early America	1	(298)
Reading the Historical Context	14	(1)
Christopher Columbus (1451--1506)	14	(8)
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage	15	(4)
From The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America	19	(3)
Thomas Hariot (1560--1621)	22	(5)
From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia	22	(5)
Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555--1620)	27	(6)
From History of New Mexico	28	(5)
John Winthrop (1588--1649) and Anne Hutchinson (1591--1643)	33	(4)
The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court of Newton	33	(4)
Iroquois League	37	(3)
From The Constitution of the Five Nations	37	(3)
Literature of Early America	40	(1)
John Smith (1580--1631)	40	(24)
From The General History of Virginia
The Third Book	42	(12)
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War	54	(1)
From A Description of New England	55	(9)
William Bradford (1590--1657)	64	(24)
From Of Plymouth Plantation	65	(23)
Thomas Morton (c. 1579--1647)	88	(10)
From The New English Canaan	89	(9)
John Winthrop (1588--1649)	98	(22)
From A Model of Christian Charity	99	(11)
From The Journal of John Winthrop	110	(10)
Roger Williams (c. 1603--1683)	120	(7)
From A Key into the Language of America	121	(5)
From The Bloody Tenet of Persecution . . .	126	(1)
The New England Primer (c. 1683)	127	(7)
From The New England Primer	128	(6)
Anne Bradstreet (1612--1672)	134	(25)
The Prologue	136	(1)
Contemplations	137	(7)
The Flesh and the Spirit	144	(3)
The Author to Her Book	147	(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	147	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	148	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment	148	(1)
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659	149	(3)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet . . .	152	(1)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet . . .	152	(1)
[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit	153	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666	153	(2)
As Weary Pilgrim	155	(1)
From Meditations Divine and Moral	156	(3)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631--1705)	159	(7)
From The Day of Doom	160	(6)
Edward Taylor (c. 1642--1729)	166	(15)
Prologue	167	(1)
From Preparatory Meditations
The Reflexion	168	(1)
Meditation 6 (First Series)	169	(1)
Meditation 8 (First Series)	170	(1)
Meditation 38 (First Series)	171	(2)
Meditation 39 (First Series)	173	(1)
Meditation 150 (Second Series)	174	(1)
From God's Determinations
The Preface	175	(1)
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended	176	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	177	(2)
Huswifery	179	(1)
The Ebb and Flow	179	(1)
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death	180	(1)
Cotton Mather (1663--1728)	181	(18)
From The Wonders of the Invisible World	183	(7)
From Magnalia Christi Americana	190	(9)
Samuel Sewall (1652--1730)	199	(11)
From The Diary of Samuel Sewall	200	(10)
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637--1711)	210	(33)
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration . . .	211	(32)
William Byrd II (1674--1744)	243	(11)
From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709--1712	244	(4)
From The History of the Dividing Line . . .	248	(6)
John Woolman (1720--1772)	254	(9)
From The Journal of John Woolman	255	(8)
Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758)	263	(36)
Sarah Pierrepont	265	(1)
Personal Narrative	266	(10)
From A Divine and Supernatural Light	276	(5)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	281	(12)
From Images or Shadows of Divine Things	293	(6)
The Literature of the Eighteenth Century	299	(355)
Reading the Historical Context	310	(1)
Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826), John Adams (1753--1826), and Abigail Smith Adams (1744--1818)	310	(10)
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison	311	(3)
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams	314	(3)
Abigail Adams to John Adams	317	(1)
John Adams to Abigail Adams	318	(2)
The Federalist/Anti-Federalist Controversy	320	(20)
The Federalist No. 1	321	(3)
The Federalist No. 2	324	(3)
The Federalist No. 10	327	(5)
The Federalist No. 51	332	(3)
[Anti-Federalist Essay]	335	(5)
Literature of the Eighteenth Century	340	(1)
Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)	340	(76)
From The Autobiography	342	(47)
Silence Dogood, No. 2	389	(1)
Silence Dogood, No. 7	390	(3)
Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph	393	(1)
From Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733	393	(3)
From Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746	396	(3)
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, . . .	399	(4)
A Narrative of the Late Massacres, . . .	403	(13)
Samson Occom (1723--1792)	416	(9)
From A Short Narrative of My Life	416	(5)
Original Hymns by Samson Occom
The Slow Traveller	421	(1)
A Morning Hymn	422	(1)
A Son's Farewell	422	(1)
Conversion Song	423	(1)
Come All My Young Companions, Come	424	(1)
Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur (1735--1813)	425	(24)
From Letters from an American Farmer	427	(22)
Olaudah Equiano (1745--1797)	449	(18)
From The Life of Olaudah Equiano	451	(16)
Thomas Paine (1737--1809)	467	(18)
From Common Sense	469	(2)
From The American Crisis	471	(6)
From The Age of Reason	477	(8)
Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826)	485	(41)
From Notes on the State of Virginia	487	(24)
From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson	511	(15)
Phillis Wheatley (1754?--1784)	526	(10)
On Virtue	528	(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New England	528	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	529	(1)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [1770]	529	(2)
On Imagination	531	(1)
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works	532	(1)
Recollection	533	(2)
To His Excellency General Washington	535	(1)
Philip Freneau (1752--1832)	536	(14)
The Power of Fancy	538	(4)
The Hurricane	542	(1)
To Sir Toby	543	(2)
The Wild Honey Suckle	545	(1)
The Indian Burying Ground	545	(1)
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man	546	(2)
On a Honey Bee	548	(1)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	549	(1)
On the Religion of Nature	549	(1)
William Bartram (1739--1823)	550	(18)
From Travels through North and South Carolina . . .	552	(16)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751--1820)	568	(8)
On the Equality of the Sexes	569	(7)
Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762--1824)	576	(55)
From Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth	577	(18)
Slaves in Algiers	595	(36)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758--1840)	631	(20)
From The Coquette	632	(19)
Red Jacket (c. 1750--1830)	651	(3)
The Indians Must Worship the Great Spirit in Their Own Way	651	(3)
The Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century	654	(1624)
Reading the Historical Context	669	(1)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805--1879)	669	(2)
On the Constitution and the Union	669	(2)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	671	(16)
A Plea for Captain John Brown	672	(15)
Women's Rights Convention (1848)	687	(2)
Declaration of Sentiments	687	(2)
Reading the Critical Context	689	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	689	(18)
From Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne [A Review]	690	(3)
The Philosophy of Composition	693	(9)
From The Poetic Principle	702	(5)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	707	(6)
From Hawthorne and His Mosses	707	(6)
Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century	713	(1)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	713	(45)
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Author's Account of Himself	715	(2)
Rip Van Winkle	717	(13)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	730	(22)
Traits of Indian Character	752	(6)
Black Hawk (1767--1838)	758	(6)
From Black Hawk's Autobiography	759	(5)
William Apess (1798--1839)	764	(5)
Eulogy on King Philip	764	(5)
Elias Boudinot (c. 1802--1839)	769	(15)
An Address to the Whites	769	(10)
From The Cherokee Phoenix	779	(5)
Penina Moise (1797--1880)	784	(3)
To Persecuted Foreigners	785	(1)
The Mirror and the Echo	786	(1)
To a Lottery Ticket	786	(1)
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815--1878)	787	(9)
The Big Bear of Arkansas	788	(8)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)	796	(79)
From The Spy	799	(15)
From The Pilot	814	(32)
From The Pioneers	846	(6)
From The Deerslayer	852	(18)
Preface to The Pilot	870	(2)
Preface to The Leatherstocking Tales	872	(3)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	875	(13)
Thanatopsis	877	(2)
The Yellow Violet	879	(1)
To a Waterfowl	880	(1)
A Forest Hymn	881	(2)
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe	883	(1)
To the Fringed Gentian	884	(1)
The Prairies	884	(3)
Abraham Lincoln	887	(1)
Sojourner Truth (1797?--1883)	888	(4)
Speech to Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio	889	(1)
From Narrative of Sojourner Truth	890	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	892	(57)
Sonnet---To Science	895	(1)
To Helen	895	(1)
Israfel	896	(1)
The City in the Sea	897	(2)
Sonnet---Silence	899	(1)
Lenore	899	(1)
The Raven	900	(3)
Ulalume---A Ballad	903	(3)
Annabel Lee	906	(1)
Ligeia	907	(11)
The Fall of the House of Usher	918	(14)
The Tell-Tale Heart	932	(3)
The Purloined Letter	935	(14)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	949	(100)
Nature	951	(28)
The American Scholar	979	(13)
The Divinity School Address	992	(12)
Self-Reliance	1004	(18)
The Poet	1022	(15)
The Rhodora	1037	(1)
Each and All	1037	(1)
The Snow-Storm	1038	(1)
Concord Hymn	1039	(1)
The Problem	1040	(2)
Ode	1042	(2)
Hamatreya	1044	(2)
Give All to Love	1046	(1)
Days	1047	(1)
Brahma	1047	(1)
Terminus	1048	(1)
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806--1867)	1049	(3)
January 1, 1828	1050	(1)
January 1, 1829	1050	(1)
Lady in the White Dress, I Helped into the Omnibus	1051	(1)
Maria Stewart (1803--1879)	1052	(5)
An Address . . .	1053	(4)
George Moses Horton (1797--1883)	1057	(8)
On Liberty and Slavery	1058	(1)
The Lover's Farewell	1059	(1)
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman . . .	1060	(1)
Division of an Estate	1061	(1)
The Creditor to His Proud Debtor	1062	(1)
Death of an Old Carriage Horse	1063	(1)
George Moses Horton, Myself	1064	(1)
Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)	1065	(21)
From Summer on the Lakes	1067	(8)
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century	1075	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)	1086	(236)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	1088	(14)
Young Goodman Brown	1102	(10)
The Minister's Black Veil	1112	(9)
The Birth-Mark	1121	(11)
The Artist of the Beautiful	1132	(16)
Rappaccini's Daughter	1148	(20)
Ethan Brand	1168	(10)
The Custom-House: Introductory to The Scarlet Letter	1178	(26)
The Scarlet Letter	1204	(118)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	1322	(157)
From Moby-Dick	1324	(44)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1368	(26)
Benito Cereno	1394	(59)
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids	1453	(17)
The Portent	1470	(1)
Shiloh	1470	(1)
Malvern Hill	1471	(1)
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	1472	(1)
The House-Top	1473	(1)
The Swamp Angel	1473	(2)
The College Colonel	1475	(1)
The Æolian Harp	1476	(1)
The Tuft of Kelp	1477	(1)
The Maldive Shark	1477	(1)
The Berg	1478	(1)
Art	1479	(1)
Greek Architecture	1479	(1)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791--1865)	1479	(4)
Death of an Infant	1480	(1)
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers	1481	(1)
Indian Names	1482	(1)
Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880)	1483	(18)
Charity Bowery	1483	(5)
The Black Saxons	1488	(7)
Slavery's Pleasant Homes	1495	(4)
The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	1499	(2)
John Rollin Ridge (1827--1867)	1501	(6)
From The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta	1501	(6)
Josiah Henson (1789--1883)	1507	(13)
From The Life of Josiah Henson	1508	(12)
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)	1520	(78)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	1521	(60)
Letter to His Old Master	1581	(5)
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?	1586	(3)
West India Emancipation	1589	(9)
John P. Parker (1827--1900)	1598	(14)
From His Promised Land	1598	(14)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	1612	(201)
Civil Disobedience	1614	(17)
Walden	1631	(180)
They Who Prepare My Evening Meal Below	1811	(1)
On Fields o'er Which the Reaper's Hand Has Passed	1811	(1)
Smoke	1811	(1)
Conscience	1812	(1)
My Life Has Been the Poem	1813	(1)
William Gilmore Simms (1806--1870)	1813	(24)
Grayling; or, ``Murder Will Out''	1815	(22)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	1837	(22)
A Psalm of Life	1838	(1)
The Arsenal at Springfield	1839	(2)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	1841	(2)
From The Song of Hiawatha	1843	(5)
From Tales of a Wayside Inn	1848	(11)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)	1859	(17)
The Hunters of Men	1860	(1)
Massachusetts to Virginia	1861	(3)
Toussaint L'Ouverture	1864	(6)
The Farewell	1870	(2)
Song of Slaves in the Desert	1872	(2)
Barbara Frietchie	1874	(2)
James Russell Lowell (1819--1891)	1876	(17)
To the Dandelion	1877	(2)
From The Biglow Papers, First Series	1879	(5)
From A Fable for Critics	1884	(9)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)	1893	(66)
From Uncle Tom's Cabin	1894	(65)
Fanny Fern (1811--1872)	1959	(14)
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony	1961	(1)
Hints to Young Wives	1962	(1)
Owls Kill Humming-Birds	1963	(1)
The Tear of a Wife	1964	(1)
Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the ``Blue Stocking''	1965	(1)
Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass	1965	(3)
Blackwell's Island	1968	(1)
Blackwell's Island No. 3	1969	(2)
Independence	1971	(1)
The Working-Girls of New York	1972	(1)
William Wells Brown (1814--1884)	1973	(37)
The Escape	1975	(35)
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813--1897)	2010	(28)
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	2011	(27)
James M. Whitfield (1822--1871)	2038	(7)
America	2039	(4)
Self-Reliance	2043	(2)
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865)	2045	(4)
To Horace Greeley	2047	(1)
Gettysburg Address	2048	(1)
Second Inaugural Address	2048	(1)
Frances E. W. Harper (1825--1911)	2049	(6)
Bury Me in a Free Land	2050	(1)
To the Union Savers of Cleveland	2051	(1)
The Slave Mother	2052	(2)
Learning to Read	2054	(1)
Aunt Chloe's Politics	2055	(1)
Louisa May Alcott (1832--1888)	2055	(54)
From Little Women	2059	(32)
From Hospital Sketches	2091	(18)
Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)	2109	(4)
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport	2110	(2)
The New Colossus	2112	(1)
1492	2112	(1)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	2113	(135)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass	2115	(15)
Song of Myself	2130	(45)
From Inscriptions
To You	2175	(1)
One's-Self I Sing	2175	(1)
When I Read the Book	2175	(1)
I Hear America Singing	2176	(1)
Poets to Come	2176	(1)
From Children of Adam
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers	2176	(2)
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	2178	(1)
As Adam Early in the Morning	2179	(1)
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City	2179	(1)
Facing West from California's Shores	2179	(1)
From Calamus
In Paths Untrodden	2180	(1)
Scented Herbage of My Breast	2180	(2)
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand	2182	(1)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	2182	(1)
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me	2182	(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	2183	(4)
From Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	2187	(5)
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life	2192	(2)
From By the Roadside
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	2194	(1)
The Dalliance of the Eagles	2195	(1)
From Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!	2195	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	2196	(1)
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	2196	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	2197	(1)
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	2198	(1)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	2199	(1)
The Wound-Dresser	2199	(3)
From Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	2202	(6)
From Autumn Rivulets
There Was a Child Went Forth	2208	(2)
Sparkles from the Wheel	2210	(1)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?	2210	(2)
Passage to India	2212	(7)
The Sleepers	2219	(7)
From Whispers of Heavenly Death
A Noiseless Patient Spider	2226	(1)
From Noon to Starry Night
To a Locomotive in Winter	2226	(1)
From Democratic Vistas	2227	(21)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	2248	(30)
49 I never lost as much but twice	2250	(1)
67 Success is counted sweetest	2250	(1)
125 For each ecstatic instant	2250	(1)
130 These are the days when Birds come back	2251	(1)
165 A Wounded Deer---leaps highest	2251	(1)
185 ``Faith'' is a fine invention	2252	(1)
210 The thought beneath so slight a film	2252	(1)
214 I taste a liquor never brewed	2252	(1)
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers	2252	(1)
241 I like a look of Agony	2253	(1)
249 Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	2253	(1)
258 There's a certain Slant of light	2253	(1)
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	2254	(1)
287 A Clock stopped	2254	(1)
303 The Soul selects her own Society	2255	(1)
324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church	2255	(1)
328 A Bird came down the Walk	2256	(1)
338 I know that He exists	2256	(1)
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes	2257	(1)
401 What Soft---Cherubic Creatures	2257	(1)
414 `Twas like a Maelstrom' with a notch	2257	(1)
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense	2258	(1)
441 This is my letter to the World	2258	(1)
448 This was a Poet---It is That	2259	(1)
449 I died for Beauty---but was scarce	2259	(1)
465 I heard a Fly buzz---when I died	2259	(1)
510 It was not Death, for I stood up	2260	(1)
520 I started Early---Took my Dog	2261	(1)
585 I like to see it lap the Miles	2261	(1)
613 They shut me up in Prose	2262	(1)
632 The Brain---is wider than the sky	2262	(1)
640 I cannot live with You	2262	(2)
650 Pain---has an Element of Blank	2264	(1)
657 I dwell in Possibility	2264	(1)
670 One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted	2264	(1)
709 Publication --- is the Auction	2265	(1)
712 Because I could not stop for Death	2265	(1)
732 She rose to His Requirement---dropt	2266	(1)
745 Renunciation --- is a piercing Virtue	2266	(1)
754 My life had stood --- a Loaded Gun	2267	(1)
764 Presentiment --- is that long Shadow---on the Lawn	2268	(1)
976 Death is a Dialogue between	2268	(1)
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass	2268	(1)
1052 I never saw a Moor	2269	(1)
1078 The Bustle in a House	2269	(1)
1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant	2269	(1)
1207 He preached upon ``Breadth'' till it argued him narrow	2269	(1)
1463 A Route of Evanescence	2270	(1)
1545 The Bible is an antique Volume	2270	(1)
1624 Apparently with no surprise	2270	(1)
1670 In Winter in my Room	2270	(1)
1732 My life closed twice before its close	2271	(1)
1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee	2272	(1)
1760 Elysium is as far as to	2272	(1)
Letters to T. W. Higginson	2272	(6)
Reference Works, Bibliographies	2278	(5)
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History	2283	(7)
Acknowledgments	2290	(2)
Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines	2292