Transatlantic Romanticism : An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867

by NEWMAN, LANCE; Pace, Joel; Koenig-Woodyard, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780321217127
• ISBN10: 0321217128
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-05
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"This anthology of Romantic literature features both central and new to the canon texts by American, British, and Canadian writers. Thematic groupings and companion readings illuminate the major literary, cultural, and historical events of the transatlantic Romantic era. Features: thematically related readings are collected into "Transatlantic Exchanges" that frame key debates about revolutionary republicanism, slavery and abolition, women's rights, and more; contemporary responses accompany key selections, showcasing their transatlantic influence; lively section introductions and author headnotes further contextualize the literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	xx
Introduction	1	(24)
Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)	25	(15)
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One	26	(5)
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America	31	(5)
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America	36	(4)
Samson Occom (1723--1792)	40	(6)
S. Occom's Account of Himself Written Sept. 17, 1768	41	(5)
Frances Brooke (c. 1724--1789)	46	(10)
from The History of Emily Montague	47	(9)
Edmund Burke (1729--1797)	56	(18)
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	57	(5)
from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esquire, on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies	62	(5)
from Reflections on the Revolution in France	67	(7)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730--1774)	74	(21)
from The Deserted Village	75	(20)
Contemporary Response
Oliver Goldsmith (1794--1861), from The Rising Village	83	(7)
Timothy Dwight (1752--1817), from Greenfield Hill	90	(5)
Michel Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur (1735--1813)	95	(14)
from Letters from an American Farmer	96	(13)
Thomas Paine (1737--1809)	109	(16)
from Common Sense	110	(12)
from The Rights of Man	122	(3)
Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826)	125	(52)
from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)	126	(5)
from Notes on the State of Virginia	131	(11)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Revolutionary Republicanism	142	(2)
British Parliament (1767)	144	(3)
from The Townshend Acts
James Madison (1751--1836)	147	(5)
The Federalist. Number 10
Isaac Hunt (1751--1809)	152	(8)
The Political Family
Joel Barlow (1754--1812)	160	(9)
from The Columbiad
Milcah Martha Moore (1740--1829)	169	(2)
The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768
William Godwin (1756--1836)	171	(6)
from Letters of Advice to a Young American
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825)	177	(19)
Epistle to William Wilberforce	179	(3)
The Rights of Woman	182	(1)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven	182	(8)
Washing-Day	190	(3)
The Hill of Science, a Vision	193	(2)
The Female Choice. A Tale	195	(1)
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745--1797)	196	(8)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African	197	(7)
Philip Morin Freneau (1752--1832)	204	(9)
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country	204	(2)
Literary Importation	206	(1)
The Wild Honey Suckle	207	(1)
The Indian Burying Ground	208	(1)
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man	209	(1)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	210	(1)
On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature	211	(1)
On the Religion of Nature	212	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1753--1784)	213	(47)
Liberty and Peace	214	(1)
Thoughts on the Works of Providence	215	(3)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770	218	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	219	(1)
On Imagination	220	(1)
To S.M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	221	(1)
To His Excellency General Washington	222	(1)
To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health	223	(1)
A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W.	224	(2)
Letter to Rev. Samson Occom, New London, Connecticut	226	(1)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Slavery and Abolition	227	(2)
Hannah More (1745--1833)	229	(8)
Slavery, A Poem
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757--c. 1801)	237	(4)
from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
David Walker (1785--1830)	241	(8)
from An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
William Lloyd Garrison (1805--1879)	249	(2)
To the Public
Fanny Kemble (1809--1893)	251	(4)
from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838--1839
Benjamin Drew (1812--1903)	255	(5)
from A North Side View of Slavery; The Refugee, or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
William Blake (1757--1827)	260	(20)
The Ecchoing Green	262	(1)
The Little Black Boy	263	(1)
The Sick Rose	264	(1)
The Lamb	264	(1)
The Tyger	264	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	265	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	266	(1)
London	266	(1)
America: A Prophecy	267	(7)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	274	(6)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)	280	(12)
Poor Mailie's Elegy	281	(1)
To a Mouse	282	(2)
To a Louse	284	(1)
Afton Water	285	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye [1]	286	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye [2]	286	(1)
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled	287	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	288	(1)
Auld Lang Syne	288	(4)
Contemporary Response
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790--1867), from Burns: To a Rose, Brought from Near Alloway Kirk, in Ayrshire, in the Autumn of 1822	289	(3)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759--1797)	292	(35)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men	293	(6)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	299	(25)
On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature	324	(3)
Susanna Rowson (1762--1824)	327	(11)
from Charlotte: A Tale of Truth	328	(10)
Joanna Baillie (1762--1851)	338	(34)
from Plays on the Passions	339	(4)
London	343	(2)
A Mother to Her Waking Infant	345	(1)
A Child to His Sick Grandfather	346	(1)
Thunder	347	(2)
Song: Woo'd and Married and A'	349	(2)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Women's Rights	351	(3)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751--1820)	354	(8)
On the Equality of the Sexes
Charlotte Dacre (1772--1825)	362	(1)
The Female Philosopher
Sojourner Truth (1797--1883)	363	(2)
Speech at the American Equal Rights Association, May 9--10, 1867
Sophia Ripley (1803--1861)	365	(4)
Woman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815--1902)	369	(3)
Declaration of Sentiments
Resolutions
Mary Robinson (1758--1800)	372	(12)
from Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets	373	(4)
The Negro Girl	377	(4)
To the Poet Coleridge	381	(2)
The Poor, Singing Dame	383	(1)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)	384	(75)
Goody Blake and Harry Gill	386	(4)
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman	390	(2)
Lines Written in Early Spring	392	(1)
The Thorn	392	(8)
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	400	(4)
from Preface to Lyrical Ballads	404	(6)
There was a Boy	410	(1)
Ruth: Or the Influences of Nature	411	(7)
Nutting	418	(1)
Michael	419	(11)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture	430	(1)
To Thomas Clarkson	430	(1)
The world is too much with us	431	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802	431	(1)
I griev'd for Buonaparte	432	(1)
She was a Phantom of Delight	432	(1)
I wandered lonely as a cloud	433	(1)
My heart leaps up	433	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	434	(5)
The Solitary Reaper	439	(1)
Gold and Silver Fishes, in a Vase	440	(1)
Liberty	441	(4)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Wordsworth in Britain and America	445	(2)
Leigh Hunt (1784--1859)	447	(2)
from The Feast of the Poets
Robert Hutchinson Rose (1776--1842)	449	(2)
A Humble Imitation of Some Stanzas, written by W. Wordsworth, in Germany, on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804--1894)	451	(2)
Letter to Wordsworth
Robert Browning (1812--1889)	453	(2)
The Lost Leader
William Parsons Atkinson (1820--1890)	455	(1)
Letter to Wordsworth
Henry Reed (1808--1854)	456	(3)
from Lectures on the British Poets
Sir Walter Scott (1771--1832)	459	(4)
Lochinvar	460	(1)
Jock of Hazeldean	461	(1)
The Dreary Change	462	(1)
Proud Maisie	462	(1)
Lucy Ashton's Song	463	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)	463	(47)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	465	(17)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	482	(1)
The Dungeon	483	(1)
Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream	484	(3)
The Eolian Harp	487	(1)
The Foster-Mother's Tale	488	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	490	(4)
from Biographia Literaria or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions	494	(16)
Contemporary Response
Frederic Henry Hedge (1805--1890), from Coleridge	506	(4)
Robert Southey (1774--1843)	510	(7)
from Madoc	511	(6)
William Hazlitt (1778--1830)	517	(6)
On Gusto	518	(2)
On the Love of the Country	520	(3)
Thomas Moore (1779--1852)	523	(3)
A Canadian Boat Song	524	(1)
A Ballad. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp	525	(1)
Ballad Stanzas	526	(1)
William Ellery Channing (1780--1842)	526	(58)
from Likeness to God	527	(7)
from Self-Culture	534	(10)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Religion and Revivalism	544	(3)
John Wesley (1703--1791)	547	(5)
The Almost Christian
Joseph Priestley (1733--1804)	552	(7)
from An Address to Protestant Dissenters
John Marrant (1755--1791)	559	(2)
from A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black, (Now Going to Preach the Gospel in Nova-Scotia) Born in New York, in North America
Frances Trollope (1780--1863)	561	(4)
from Domestic Manners of the Americans
Andrews Norton (1786--1853)	565	(6)
from Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799--1888)	571	(5)
from Record of Conversation on the Gospels Held in Mr. Alcott's School
Charles King Newcomb (1820--1894)	576	(8)
The Two Dolons
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	584	(17)
Rip Van Winkle	585	(11)
English Writers on America	596	(5)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)	601	(48)
She Walks in Beauty	602	(1)
Darkness	603	(2)
from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers	605	(1)
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	606	(43)
Contemporary Response
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790--1867), from Fanny	637	(12)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)	649	(10)
from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna	649	(10)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867)	659	(9)
from Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts	660	(8)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791--1865)	668	(8)
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers	669	(1)
Science and Religion	670	(1)
Felicia Hemans	671	(2)
Grassmere and Rydal Water	673	(1)
Niagara	674	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)	676	(29)
Mont Blanc	678	(3)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	681	(2)
Ozymandias	683	(1)
Sonnet: England in 1819	684	(1)
The Mask of Anarchy	684	(10)
Ode to the West Wind	694	(2)
To Wordsworth	696	(1)
from A Defence of Poetry	696	(9)
Contemporary Response
Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813--1892), The Death of Shelley	704	(1)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835)	705	(11)
England's Dead	706	(2)
Song of Emigration	708	(1)
Burial of an Emigrant's Child in the Forests	709	(3)
The Indian with His Dead Child	712	(2)
The American Forest Girl	714	(2)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	716	(10)
Thanatopsis	717	(2)
To a Waterfowl	719	(1)
A Forest Hymn	720	(3)
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe	723	(1)
The Prairies	723	(3)
Thomas Carlyle (1795--1881)	726	(41)
Signs of the Times	727	(5)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Utopianism and Socialism	732	(1)
William Cobbett (1763--1835)	733	(6)
from Rural Rides
Robert Owen (1771--1858)	739	(4)
from The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race
George Ripley (1802--1880)	743	(3)
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Orestes Brownson (1803--1876)	746	(21)
from The Laboring Classes
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804--1894)	751	(7)
from A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society
Karl Marx (1818--1883) and Frederick Engels (1820--1895)	758	(9)
from The Communist Manifesto
John Keats (1795--1821)	767	(22)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	768	(1)
To Autumn	768	(1)
Eve of St. Agnes	769	(11)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	780	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	781	(2)
To George and Thomas Keats [``Negative Capability'']	783	(1)
To Richard Woodhouse [The ``Egotistical Sublime'']	784	(1)
To George and Georgiana Keats [The ``Vale of Soul-Making'']	785	(4)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796--1865)	789	(10)
from The Clockmaker	789	(10)
Mary Shelley (1797--1851)	799	(9)
The Mortal Immortal	800	(8)
William Apess (1798--1839)	808	(6)
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man	809	(5)
Harriet Martineau (1802--1876)	814	(4)
from Society in America	814	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	818	(42)
Nature	820	(25)
The American Scholar	845	(15)
Contemporary Response
Sharpe's London Journal, Emerson's Representative Men	857	(3)
Joseph Howe (1804--1873)	860	(9)
from Acadia	862	(7)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)	869	(36)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	871	(12)
The Birth-mark	883	(11)
P's Correspondence	894	(11)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	905	(10)
A Psalm of Life	906	(1)
The Village Blacksmith	907	(1)
Burial of the Minnisink	908	(2)
To the Driving Cloud	910	(1)
The Slave's Dream	911	(1)
The Arsenal at Springfield	912	(1)
Chaucer	913	(1)
Shakespeare	914	(1)
Milton	914	(1)
Keats	915	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)	915	(11)
Massachusetts to Virginia	916	(3)
The Hunters of Men	919	(1)
The Fishermen	920	(2)
The Lumbermen	922	(4)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	926	(36)
Sonnet---to Science	927	(1)
The Raven	928	(3)
Ulalume---a Ballad	931	(2)
Annabel Lee	933	(1)
Ligeia	934	(10)
The Fall of the House of Usher	944	(13)
The Man of the Crowd	957	(5)
Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)	962	(42)
The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women	964	(31)
Things and Thoughts in Europe, No. XVIII	995	(4)
from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843	999	(5)
Harriet Jacobs (1813--1897)	1004	(25)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1005	(24)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	1029	(72)
Sympathy	1030	(1)
Sic Vita	1031	(2)
The Inward Morning	1033	(1)
Haze	1034	(1)
In the busy streets, domains of trade	1034	(1)
Any fool can make a rule	1034	(1)
Wait not till slaves pronounce the word	1034	(1)
Ive seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side	1035	(1)
I am the little Irish boy	1036	(1)
Poverty	1037	(1)
I have seen some frozenfaced connecticut	1037	(1)
Resistance to Civil Government	1038	(14)
Walking	1052	(20)
TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
Civilization and Nature	1072	(1)
Andrew Jackson (1767--1845)	1073	(4)
Message of the President of the United States
John Clare (1793--1864)	1077	(3)
The Mores
George Perkins Marsh (1801--1882)	1080	(4)
from Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
Susanna Moodie (1803--1885)	1084	(9)
from Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813--1894)	1093	(6)
Otsego Leaves. Birds Then and Now
Charles Sangster (1822--1893)	1099	(2)
from The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)	1101	(52)
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro	1103	(17)
The Heroic Slave	1120	(26)
Letter to the Editor of The Times	1146	(7)
Contemporary Response
The Times, Letters to the Editor	1147	(6)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	1153	(25)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1154	(24)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	1178	(32)
Song of Myself	1179	(31)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825--1911)	1210	(6)
The Slave Mother	1211	(1)
Learning to Read	1212	(1)
Free Labor	1213	(1)
An Appeal to My Country Women	1214	(2)
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825--1868)	1216	(4)
The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion	1216	(4)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	1220	(41)
84: Her breast is fit for pearls	1222	(1)
216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [1]	1223	(1)
216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [2]	1223	(1)
249: Wild nights---Wild nights!	1223	(1)
280: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	1224	(1)
303: The Soul selects her own Society	1224	(1)
341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes	1225	(1)
435: Much Madness is divinest Sense	1225	(1)
441: This is my letter to the World	1225	(1)
443: I tie my Hat---I crease my Shawl	1226	(1)
465: I heard a Fly buzz---when I died	1227	(1)
518: Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night	1227	(1)
569: I reckon---When I count at all	1227	(1)
613: They shut me up in prose	1228	(1)
668: ``Nature'' is what we see	1228	(1)
709: Publication---is the Auction	1229	(1)
712: Because I could not stop for Death	1229	(1)
754: My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun	1230	(1)
790: Nature---the Gentlest Mother is	1231	(1)
970: Color---Caste---Denomination	1231	(1)
986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass	1232	(1)
1129: Tell all the truth but tell it slant	1232	(1)
1249: The Stars are old, that stood for me	1233	(1)
1545: The Bible is an antique Volume	1233	(1)
1593: There came a Wind like a Bugle	1233	(1)
A SHEAF OF POEMS
Canadian Poets of Confederation	1234	(1)
Charles G.D. Roberts (1860--1943)	1235	(6)
The Tantramar Revisited
The Skater
from Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892)
Bliss Carman (1861--1929)	1241	(6)
By the Aurelian Wall
Low Tide on Grand Pre
A More Ancient Mariner
Archibald Lampman (1861--1899)	1247	(6)
The City at the End of Things
The Frogs
The Railway Station
Voices of Earth
Temagami
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862--1947)	1253	(8)
The Onondaga Madonna
Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
Ode for the Keats Centenary
Timeline	1261	(17)
A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms	1278	(16)
Selected Bibliography of Transatlantic Romanticism	1294	(6)
Credits	1300	(1)
Index	1301