Lauter et al., The Heath Anthology of American Literature

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4/e

Paul Lauter, General Editor, Trinity College
Richard Yarborough, Associate General Editor, University of California, Los Angeles
Jackson Bryer, University of Maryland
Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Florida
King-Kok Cheung, University of California, Los Angeles
Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate University
Charles Molesworth, Queens College-City University of New York
Raymund Paredes, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivy T. Schweitzer, Dartmouth College
Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew O. Wiget, New Mexico State University
Sandra A. Zagarell, Oberlin College
James Kyung-Jin Lee, Associate Editor, The University of Texas, Austin

Volume 1

Colonial Period: To 1700
- Native American Oral Literatures
  - Native American Oral Narrative
    - Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
    - Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo)
    - Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)
    - The Origin of Stories (Seneca)
    - Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)
    - Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Oglala Sioux)
    - Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian)
    - The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
    - Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)
  - Native American Oral Poetry
    - Zuni Poetry
      - Sayatasha's Night Chant
    - Aztec Poetry
      - The Singer's Art
      - Two Songs
      - Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan)
    - Inuit Poetry
      - Song (Copper Eskimo)
      - Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)
      - Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)
      - Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)
      - My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo)
    - A Selection of Poems
      - Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O'odham)
      - Love Song (Aleut)
      - Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah)
      - A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot)
      - Woman's Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)
      - Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)
      - Formula to Cause Death (A'yunini the Swimmer, Cherokee)
      - Song of War (Blackfeet)
      - War Song (Crow)
      - Song of War (Odjib'we, Anishinabe)
      - War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)
      - Song of Famine (Holy-Face Bear, Dakota)
      - Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota)
      - Song of War (Victoria, Tohona O'odham)
- New Spain
  - Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
    - from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
    - from Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500
  - Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?)
    - Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
      - from Chapter VII. The Character of the Country
      - from Chapter VIII. We Go from Aute
      - from Chapter X. The Assault from the Indians
      - from Chapter XI. Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians
      - from Chapter XXI. Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
      - from Chapter XXIV. Customs of the Indians of That Country
      - from Chapter XXVII. We Moved Away and Were Well Received
      - from Chapter XXXII. The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer
      - from Chapter XXXIII. We See Traces of Christians
      - from Chapter XXXIV. Of Sending for the Christians
  - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574)
    - from Letter to Philip II (October 15, 1565)
    - To a Jesuit Friend (October 15, 1566)
  - Fray Marcos de Niza (1495?-1542)
    - from A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola...
  - Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?-1570?)
    - The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado
      - Chapter XXI: Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reached Quivira
  - Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1555-1620)
    - The History of New Mexico
      - from Canto I. Which sets forth the outline of the history...
      - Canto XIV. How the River of the North was discovered and the trials that were borne in discovering it...
      - Canto XXX. How the new General...went to take leave of Luzcoija, and the battle he had with the Spaniards
  - History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531
    - History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531
  - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
    - 48: In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man
    - 94: Which Reveals the Honorable Ancestry of a High-Born Drunkard
    - 317: Villancico VI, from Santa Catarina, 1691
  - Don Antonio de Otermín (fl. 1680)
    - Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  - The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
    - The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt
  - Don Diego de Vargas (?-1704)
    - from Letter on The Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692
- New France
  - René Goulaine de Laudonnière (fl. 1562-1582)
    - from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida
  - Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635)
    - The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618
      - from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612
      - from The Voyages of 1615
  - The Jesuit Relations
    - from The Relation of 1647, by Father Jerome Lalemant
- Chesapeake
  - Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
    - A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
  - Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?)
    - from A Discourse of Virginia
  - John Smith (1580-1631)
    - The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
    - from Book III
      - from Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]
      - from Chapter 8 [Smith's Journey to Pamaunkee]
    - from A Description of New England
    - Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New-England, or Anywhere, Or the Path-way to Experience to Erect a Plantation
    - from Chapter 1
    - from Chapter 9
  - Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623)
    - from Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623)
  - Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676)
    - Nathaniel Bacon Esq'r Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia
  - James Revel (1640?-?)
    - The Poor, Unhappy Transported Felon
- New England
  - Thomas Morton (1579?-1647?)
    - New English Canaan
      - Book I. Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English
        from Chapter IV. Of their Houses and Habitations
        from Chapter VI. Of the Indians apparrell
        Chapter VIII. Of their Reverence, and respect to age
        Chapter XVI. Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality of the Soule
        from Chapter XX. That the Salvages live a contended life
      - Book III. Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there..., what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church
        from Chapter I. Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories
        from Chapter V. Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus
        from Chapter VII. Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island
        from Chapter XIV. Of the Revells of New Canaan
        Chapter XV. Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and the preparation made to destroy it
        Chapter XVI. How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus
  - John Winthrop (1588-1649)
    - from A Modell of Christian Charity
    - from The Journal of John Winthrop
  - William Bradford (1590-1657)
    - Of Plymouth Plantation
    - Book I
      - from Chapter I. The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England 1550-1607
      - from Chapter IX. Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
    - Book II
      - from Chapter XI. The Remainder of Anno 1620
      - from Chapter XIV. Anno Domini 1623
      - from Chapter XIX. Anno Domini 1628
      - from Chapter XXIII. Anno Domini 1632
      - from Chapter XXVIII. Anno Domini 1637
      - from Chapter XXIX. Anno Domini 1638
      - from Chapter XXXII. Anno Domini 1642
      - from Chapter XXXIII. Anno Domini 1643
      - from Chapter XXXIV. Anno Domini 1644
  - Roger Williams (1603?-1683)
    - A Key into the Language of America
      - [Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new England
      - Chapter XI: Of Travell
      - from Chapter XXI: Of Religion, the soule, &c.;
      - Chapter XXII: Of their Government and Justice
    - To the Town of Providence
    - Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett country
  - Thomas Shepard (1605-1649)
    - Autobiography
  - Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
    - The Prologue [To Her Book]
    - In Honour of...Queen Elizabeth
    - The Author to Her Book
    - To Her Father With Some Verses
    - The Flesh and the Spirit
    - Before the Birth of One of Her Children
    - To My Dear and Loving Husband
    - A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
    - In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old
    - On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old
    - Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
    - To My Dear Children
  - Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
    - from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth
    - A Song of Emptiness
  - The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New England Primer (1683?)
    - The Bay Psalm Book
      - from The Preface by John Cotton
      - Psalm 1
      - Psalm 6
      - Psalm 8
      - Psalm 19
      - Psalm 23
      - Psalm 137
    - The New England Primer
      - Alphabet
      - The Dutiful Child's Promises
      - Verses
      - The Death of John Rogers
  - Mary White Rowlandson [Talcott] (1637?-1711)
    - from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
  - Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)
    - God's Determinations
      - The Preface
      - The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour
      - Christs Reply
      - The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended
    - Occasional Poems
      - 4. Huswifery
      - 6. Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children
    - Preparatory Meditations, First Series
      - Prologue
      - 6. Another Meditation at the same time
      - 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread
    - Preparatory Meditations, Second Series
      - 1. Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christs
      - 26. Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc.
      - 50. Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth
      - 115. Meditation. Cant. 5:10. My Beloved
    - A Valediction to all the World preparatory for Death 3d of the 11m 1720 [Version 1]
      - Cant. 3. Valediction, to the Terraqueous Globe
      - A Fig for thee Oh! Death [Version 2]
  - Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
    - from The Diary of Samuel Sewall
    - The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial
    - My Verses upon the New Century [Jan. 1, 1701]
  - Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
    - The Wonders of the Invisible World
      - V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692
      - Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England
      - from A General Introduction
    - Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony
    - Ducennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long [Indian] War
      - Article XXV. A Notable Exploit
    - from The Negro Christianized
    - from Bonifacius...With Humble Proposals... to Do Good in the World
  - John Williams (1664-1729)
    - from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
- A Sheaf of Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry
  - Thomas Tillam (?-c. 1676)
    - Upon the first sight of New-England June 29, 1638
  - John Wilson (c. 1588-1667)
    - Anagram made by mr John Willson of Boston upon the Death of Mrs. Abigaill Tompson, And sent to her husband in virginia, while he was sent to preach the gospell yr
  - John Josselyn (c. 1610-post 1692)
    - Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and handsome Gypsie, not improperly transferred upon the Indian Squa
    - [And the bitter storm augments; the wild winds wage]
  - John Saffin (1626-1710)
    - [Sweetly (my Dearest) I left thee asleep]
    - The Negroes Character
  - George Alsop (1636?-1673?)
    - Trafique is Earth's Great Atlas
  - Sarah Whipple Goodhue (1641-1681)
    - Lines to Her Family
  - Benjamin Tompson (1642-1714)
    - Chelmsford's Fate
    - A Supplement
  - Richard Steere (1643?-1721)
    - On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast
  - Anna Tompson Hayden (1648-1720)
    - Upon the Death of Elizabeth Tompson
  - Elizabeth Sowle Bradford (1663?-1731)
    - To the Reader, in Vindication of this Book
  - Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)
    - from A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop, Esq; In the Court of King Charles the Second, Anno Dom. 1662 When he Obtained for the Colony of Connecticut His Majesty's Gracious Charter
  - Mary French (1687?-?)
    - from A Poem Written by a Captive Damsel
Eighteenth Century
- Settlement and Religion
  - Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
    - The Journal of Madam Knight
  - Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan (1666-1715)
    - New Voyages to North-America...from 1683 to 1694, in Two Volumes
      - from Volume I. A Discourse of the Interest of the French, and of the English, in North-America.
      - from Volume II. New Voyages to America, Giving an Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion and Strange Opinions of the Savages of that Country
  - William Byrd II (1674-1744)
    - from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and The Secret History of the Line
    - Letter to Mrs. Jane Pratt Taylor
  - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
    - from Images of Divine Things
    - On Sarah Pierrepont
    - from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
    - Personal Narrative
    - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  - Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
    - from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge,... Written by her own Hand many years ago
  - John Woolman (1720-1772)
    - from The Journal of John Woolman
    - from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
  - Francisco Palou (1723-1789)
    - Life of Junípero Serra
      - from Chapter XXII: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey--The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded
      - from Chapter LVIII: The Exemplary Death of the Vemerable Father Junípero
- A Sheaf of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry
  - Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733)
    - The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c.
  - Susanna Wright (1697-1784)
    - To Eliza Norris--at Fairhill
    - Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th
    - On the Benefit of Labour
    - My Own Birthday--August 4th 1761
  - Richard Lewis (1700?-1734)
    - A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730
  - William Dawson (1704-1752)
    - The Wager. A Tale
  - Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735)
    - Psalm CXXXVII. Paraphras'd, August 5th, 1725
    - [Lines on Childbirth]
    - On Reading the Warning by Mrs. Singer
    - To My Muse, December 29, 1725
  - Lucy Terry (1730-1821)
    - Bars Fight
  - Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763)
    - from The Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy
  - Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)
    - To Laura
    - Epistle, To Lucius
    - A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece, upon Her Marriage
    - The Vision, an Ode to Washington
  - Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
    - Upon the Discovery of the Planet By Mr. Herschel Bath...
    - On a Beautiful Damask Rose, Emblematical of Love and Wedlock
    - On the Mind's Being Engrossed by One Subject
  - Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829)
    - The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768
  - Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767)
    - Hymn to May
    - Ode to the Memory of Mr. Thomas Godfrey
    - To Benjamin Franklin, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on the Harmonica
  - Anna Young Smith (1756-1780)
    - On Reading Swift's Works
    - An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers,... April 19, 1775
  - Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)
    - from Ouâbi: or the Virtues of Nature, An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos. Canto 1
    - Stanzas to a Husband Recently United
    - The African Chief
  - Margaretta Bleecker Faugères (1771-1801)
    - The following Lines were occasioned by Mr. Robertson's refusing to paint for one Lady, and immediately after taking another lady's likeness 1793
    - To Aribert. October, 1790
  - Poems Published Anonymously
    - The Lady's Complaint
    - Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll'd!
    - The Maid's Soliloquy
    - Rights of Woman
- Voices of Revolution and Nationalism
  - Handsome Lake (Seneca)(1735-1815)
    - How America Was Discovered
  - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
    - The Way to Wealth
    - A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
    - The Speech of Polly Baker
    - An Edict by the King of Prussia
    - The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life
    - Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
    - On the Slave-Trade
    - Speech in the Convention
    - The Autobiography
      - Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771]
      - Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784
      - Part Three [Philadelphia, 1788]
  - Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
    - To Fidelio, Long Absent on the great public Cause, which agitated all America, in 1776
    - The Group
    - from The Ladies of Castille
    - from An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States of America
  - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
    - Letters from an American Farmer
      - from Letter I. Introduction
      - from Letter II. On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
      - from Letter III. What Is an American?
      - from Letter V. Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket
      - from Letter IX. Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene
      - from Letter XII. Distresses of a Frontier Man
  - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
    - Common Sense
      - Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
    - The American Crisis
      - Number 1
    - The Age of Reason
      - Chapter I. The Author's Profession of Faith
      - from Chapter II. Of Missions and Revelations
      - from Chapter III. Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History
      - from Chapter VI. Of the True Theology
  - John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
    - from Autobiography of John Adams
    - Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776
    - Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776
    - from Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, April 16, 1776
    - from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
    - Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778
    - Abigail Adams's Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March 30-May 1, 1788
    - from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813
    - from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813
    - from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813
  - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
    - Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
    - A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
    - Notes on the State of Virginia
      - from Query VI: Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the Theory of Degeneracy
      - from Query XI: Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin
      - from Query XIV: Laws
      - from Query XVII: Religion
      - from Query XVIII: Manners... Effect of Slavery
    - from Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785
    - from Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787
    - Letter to Benjamin Banneker
    - Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet
    - Letter to Edward Coles
    - Letter to Peter Carr [Young Man's education]
    - from Letter to Benjamin Hawkins [Civilization of the Indians]
    - Letter to Nathaniel Burwell [A Young Woman's Education]
    - from Indian Addresses: To Brother Handsome Lake
  - Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
    - The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)
    - The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison)
    - An Anti-Federalist Paper
  - Toussaint L'Ouverture (1744?-1803)
    - Proclamations and Letters
- Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads
  - "Patriot" Voices
    - The Liberty Song
    - Alphabet
    - The King's own Regulars, And their Triumphs over the Irregulars
    - The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
    - The Yankee's Return from Camp
    - Nathan Hale
    - Sir Harry's Invitation
    - Volunteer Boys
  - "Loyalist" Voices
    - When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm
    - Song for a Fishing Party near Burlington, on the Delaware, in 1776
    - Burrowing Yankees
    - A Birthday Song¸ for the King's Birthday, June 4, 1777
    - A Song
    - An Appeal
- Contested Visions, American Voices
  - Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
    - An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries
    - An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic], Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ
  - James Grainger (1721?-1766)
    - The Sugar Cane. A Poem. In Four Books
      - from Book IV: The Genius of Africa
  - Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723-1792)
    - A Short Narrative of My Life
    - A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom
  - Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)
    - Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon
  - Prince Hall (1735?-1807)
    - To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts-Bay in General Court assembled January 13th 1777
    - A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy
  - Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
    - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
      - from Chapter 1
      - Chapter 2
      - from Chapter 3
      - from Chapter 7
      - from Chapter 10
  - Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
    - Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms
    - On the Domestic Education of Children
    - On the Equality of the Sexes
    - Occasional Epilogue to The Contrast; a Comedy, Written by Royal Tyler, Esq.
  - Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)
    - Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne
    - On the Immensity of Creation
    - from The History of Maria Kittle
  - Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
    - The Power of Fancy
    - A Political Litany
    - To Sir Toby
    - The Wild Honey Suckle
    - from The Country Printer
    - On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
    - On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple
    - The Indian Burying Ground
    - On the Causes of Political Degeneracy
  - Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
    - Greenfield Hill
      - Part II: The Flourishing Village
      - from Part IV: The Destruction of the Pequods
  - Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
    - To Maecenas
    - Letter to the Right Hon'ble The Earl of Dartmouth per favour of Mr. Wooldridge
    - To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c
    - Letter to the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon
    - On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770
    - On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771
    - On Being Brought from Africa to America
    - A Farewell to America
    - To the University of Cambridge, in New England
    - Philis's [sic] Reply to the Answer in our Last by the Gentleman in the Navy
    - To His Excellency General Washington
    - Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters
    - Letter to Samson Occom
  - Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
    - Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-keeping
    - Universal Salvation
  - Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
    - The Prospect of Peace
    - The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos
    - Advice to a Raven in Russia
  - Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
    - The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts
  - Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757-1830)
    - from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry
  - Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
    - The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton
      - Letter I. To Miss Lucy Freeman
      - Letter II. To the Same
      - Letter III. To the Same
      - Letter IV. To Mr. Selby
      - Letter V. To Miss Lucy Freeman
      - Letter VI. To the Same
      - Letter VIII. To Mr. Charles Deighton
      - Letter XI. To Mr. Charles Deighton
      - Letter XII. To Miss Lucy Freeman
      - Letter XIII. To Miss Eliza Wharton
      - Letter XVIII. To Mr. Charles Deighton
      - Letter LXV. To Mr. Charles Deighton
      - Letter LXVIII. To Mrs. M. Wharton
      - Letter LXXI. To Mrs. Lucy Sumner
      - Letter LXXII. To Mr. Charles Deighton
      - Letter LXXIII. To Miss Julia Granby
      - Letter LXXIV. To Mrs. M. Wharton
  - Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824)
    - Charlotte Temple
      - from Preface
      - from Chapter I: A Boarding School
      - Chapter VI: An Intriguing Teacher
      - from Chapter VII: Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in the Female Bosom
      - from Chapter IX: We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth
      - from Chapter XI: Conflict of Love and Duty
      - from Chapter XII: [How thou art fall'n!]
      - from Chapter XIV: Maternal Sorrow
  - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
    - Somnambulism, a fragment
Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865
- Native America
  - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) (1800-1841)
    - Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters
    - The Forsaken Brother
  - William Apess (Pequot) (1798-?)
    - An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
  - John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican) (1797-1855)
    - Quinney's Speech
  - Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802-1839)
    - An Address to the Whites
  - Seattle (Duwamish) (1786-1866)
    - Speech of Chief Seattle
  - George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa) (1818-1869)
    - from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh
  - John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) (1827-1867)
    - Oppression of Digger Indians
    - The Atlantic Cable
    - The Stolen White Girl
    - A Scene Along the Rio de la Plumas
- Spanish America
  - Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
    - La comadre Sebastiana/Doña Sebastiana
    - Los tres hermanos/The Three Brothers
    - El obispo/The New Bishop
    - El indito de las cien vacas/The Indian and the Hundred Cows
    - La Llorona, La Malinche, and the Unfaithful Maria
    - The Devil Woman
  - Narratives from the Mexican and Early American Southwest
    - Pio Pico (1801-1894)
      - from Historical Narrative
    - Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890)
      - from Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California
    - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882)
      - from Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After
    - Alfred Robinson (1806-1895)
      - from Life in California
    - Josiah Gregg (1806-1850)
      - from Commerce of the Prairies
        5. New Mexico
        7. Domestic Animals
        8. Arts and Crafts
        9. The People
    - Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)
      - from A Journey Through Texas
        San Antonio
        The Missions
        Town Life
        The Mexicans in Texas
- The Cultures of New England
  - Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
    - The Suttee
    - Death of an Infant
    - The Father
    - The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
    - Indian Names
    - Niagara
    - To a Shred of Linen
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
    - Nature
    - The American Scholar
    - Self-Reliance
    - The Poet
    - Experience
    - Concord Hymn
    - The Rhodora
    - The Snow-Storm
    - Compensation
    - Hamatreya
    - Merlin
    - Brahma
    - Days
    - Terminus
  - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
    - The Hunters of Men
    - The Farewell
    - Massachusetts to Virginia
    - At Port Royal
  - Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
    - To [Sophia Ripley?]
    - from Woman in the Nineteenth Century
    - from American Literature
    - Things and Thoughts in Europe
      - Dispatch 17
      - Dispatch 18
  - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
    - Resistance to Civil Government
    - Walden
      - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
      - Higher Laws
      - Spring
      - Conclusion
    - A Plea for Captain John Brown
    - Walking
    - Letters to H. G. O. Blake
      - March 27, 1848
      - November 16, 1857
  - Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)
    - Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
      - Chapter IV. A Friend for Nig
      - Chapter X. Perplexities--Another Death
      - Chapter XII. The Winding Up of the Matter
- Race, Slavery, and the Invention of the "South"
  - David Walker (1785-1830)
    - from Appeal...to the Coloured Citizens of the World (third edition, 1829)
  - William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
    - Editorial from the first issue of The Liberator
  - Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
    - Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
      - Preface
      - Chapter VIII
    - Letters from New York
      - #14. [Homelessness, 1842]
      - #33. [Anti-abolitionist mobs, 1842]
      - #50. Women's Rights, 1843
  - Angelina Grimké (1805-1879)
    - from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
  - Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
    - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    - What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
  - Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882)
    - An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, Buffalo, N.Y., 1843
  - George Fitzhugh (1804-1881)
    - from Southern Thought
  - Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
    - The Planter's Northern Bride
      - Chapter I
  - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
    - The Slave Mother
    - The Tennessee Hero
    - Free Labor
    - An Appeal to the American People
    - The Colored People in America
    - Speech: On the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
    - The Two Offers
  - Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
    - from Nat Turner's Insurrection
    - Letter to Mrs. Higginson on Emily Dickinson
  - Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
    - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
      - Chapter I. Childhood
      - Chapter VI. The Jealous Mistress
      - Chapter X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
      - Chapter XVI. Scenes at the Plantation
      - Chapter XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
      - Chapter XLI. Free at Last
    - Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867
  - Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886)
    - Mary Chesnut's Civil War
      - March 18, 1861
      - August 26, 1861
      - October 13, 1861
      - October 20, 1861
      - January 16, 1865
      - January 17, 1865
  - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
    - from Toussaint L'Ouverture
  - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
    - Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
    - Second Inaugural Address
- Literature and "The Woman Question"
  - Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873)
    - Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman
      - Letter VIII. The Condition of Women in the United States
      - Letter XV. Man Equally Guilty with Woman in the Fall
  - Angelina Grimké (1805-1879)
    - Letters to Catherine Beecher
      - Letter XI. [untitled]
      - Letter XII. Human Rights Not Founded on Sex
  - Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
    - Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner Truth, for May 28-29, 1851
    - Speech at New York City Convention
    - Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
  - Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811-1872)
    - Hints to Young Wives
    - Fern Leaves, 1st Series
      - Thanksgiving Story
    - Fern Leaves, 2nd Series
      - Soliloquy of a Housemaid
      - Apollo Hyacinth
      - Critics
      - Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking"
    - Independence
    - The Working-Girls of New York
  - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
    - from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences
    - Declaration of Sentiments
- The Development of Narrative
  - Humor of the Old Southwest
  - Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
    - The Crockett Almanacs
      - Sunrise in His Pocket
    - A Pretty Predicament
    - Crockett's Daughters
  - Mike Fink (1770?-1823?)
    - The Crockett Almanacs
      - Mike Fink's Brag
      - Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett
      - Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
    - The Death of Mike Fink (recorded by Joseph M. Field)
  - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1790-1870)
    - The Horse Swap
  - George Washington Harris (1814-1869)
    - Mrs. Yardley's Quilting
  - Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    - A History of New York
      - Book I, Chapter 5
    - Rip Van Winkle
    - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
    - The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna. A Descriptive Tale
      - Chapter XXI
      - Chapter XXII
      - Chapter XXIII
  - Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
    - Hope Leslie
      - from Volume 1, Chapter 7
      - fromVolume 2, Chapter 1
      - fromVolume 2, Chapter 8
  - Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)
    - A New Home--Who'll Follow?
      - Preface
      - Preface to the Fourth Edition
      - Chapter I
      - Chapter XV
      - Chapter XVII
      - Chapter XXVII
      - Chapter XLIII
  - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
    - My Kinsman, Major Molineux
    - Young Goodman Brown
    - The Minister's Black Veil
    - The Birth-mark
    - Rappaccini's Daughter
    - The Scarlet Letter
    - Preface to The House of Seven Gables
    - Mrs. Hutchinson
    - from Abraham Lincoln
    - Letters
      - To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (June 4, 1837)
      - To Sophia Peabody (April 13 1841)
      - To H.W. Longfellow (June 5 1849)
      - To J.T. Fields (January 20 1850)
      - To J.T. Fields (Undated draft)
      - To H.W. Longfellow (January 2, 1864)
  - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    - Ligeia
    - The Fall of the House of Usher
    - The Man of the Crowd
    - The Tell-Tale Heart
    - The Black Cat
    - The Purloined Letter
    - Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    - The Philosophy of Composition
    - Sonnet---To Science
    - Romance
    - To Helen
    - Israfel
    - The City in the Sea
    - The Sleeper
    - Bridal Ballad
    - Sonnet--Silence
    - Dream-Land
    - The Raven
    - Ulalume
    - Annabel Lee
  - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
    - Uncle Tom's Cabin
      - I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
      - VII. The Mother's Struggle
      - XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
      - XIII. The Quaker Settlement
      - XIV. Evangeline
      - XL. The Martyr
      - XLI. The Young Master
    - from Preface to the First Illustrated Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin
    - The Minister's Wooing
      - XXIII. Views of Divine Government
    - Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl
  - William Wells Brown (1815-1884)
    - Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine
      - II. The Negro Sale
      - X. The Quadroon's Home
      - XI. To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave
      - XVIII. A Slave-Hunting Parson
  - Herman Melville (1819-1891)
    - Bartleby, the Scrivener
    - The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
      - I. The Paradise of Bachelors
      - II. The Tartarus of Maids
    - Benito Cereno
    - Billy Budd, Sailor
    - Hawthorne and His Mosses
    - Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
      - The Portent (1859)
      - A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight
    - Timoleon
      - Monody
      - Art
  - Alice Cary (1820-1871)
    - Clovernook, Second Series
      - Uncle Christopher's
  - Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902)
    - Lemorne Versus Huell
  - Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
    - Life in the Iron-Mills
- The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
  - Songs and Ballads
  - Songs of the Slaves
    - Lay Dis Body Down
    - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had
    - Deep River
    - Roll, Jordan, Roll
    - Michael Row the Boat Ashore
    - Steal Away to Jesus
    - There's a Meeting Here To-Night
    - Many Thousand Go
    - Go Down, Moses
    - Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
  - Songs of White Communities
    - John Brown's Body
    - The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)
    - Pat Works on the Railway
    - Sweet Betsy from Pike
    - Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
    - Shenandoah
    - Clementine
    - Acres of Clams
    - Cindy
    - Paper of Pins
    - Come Home, Father (Henry Clay Work)
    - Life Is a Toil
  - William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
    - Thanatopsis
    - The Yellow Violet
    - To a Waterfowl
    - To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
    - To the Fringed Gentian
    - The Prairies
    - Abraham Lincoln
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    - A Psalm of Life
    - The Warning
    - The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
    - Aftermath
    - Chaucer
    - The Harvest Moon
  - Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811-1850)
    - Ellen Learning to Walk
    - The Little Hand
    - The Maiden's Mistake
    - Oh! Hasten to My Side
    - A Reply
    - Lines
    - Woman
    - Alone
    - Little Children
    - To a Slandered Poetess
    - The Indian Maid's Reply to the Missionary
    - The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre
    - The Wraith of the Rose
  - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
    - Leaves of Grass
      - Preface to the 1855 Edition
      - Song of Myself
      - The Sleepers
      - from Inscriptions
        One's-Self I Sing
      - from Children of Adam
        To the Garden the World
        A Woman Waits for Me
      - from Calamus
        In Paths Untrodden
        Recorders Ages Hence
        When I Heard at the Close of the Day
        Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
        I Dream'd in a Dream
      - from Sea-Drift
        Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
      - from By the Roadside
        Europe, the 72d and 73d Years of These States
        When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
        To a President
        The Dalliance of the Eagles
        To the States
      - from Drum-Taps
        Beat! Beat! Drums!
        Cavalry Crossing a Ford
        Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
        A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
        Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
        Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
        Reconciliation
        As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
      - from Memories of President Lincoln
        When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
      - from Autumn Rivulets
        Sparkles from the Wheel
        Prayer of Columbus
      - from Whispers of Heavenly Death
        Quicksand Years
      - from Noon to Starry Night
        To a Locomotive in Winter
      - from Songs of Parting
        So Long!
      - from Sands at Seventy (First Annex)
        Yonnondio
      - from Good-bye My Fancy (Second Annex)
        Good-bye My Fancy!
    - Respondez! [Poem deleted from Leaves of Grass
    - from Democratic Vistas (1871)
  - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    - Poems
      - [One Sister have I in our house]
      - [I never lost as much but twice]
      - [Success is counted sweetest]
      - [Her breast is fit for pearls]
      - [These are the days when Birds come back--]
      - [Come slowly--Eden!]
      - [Did the Harebell loose her girdle]
      - [Wild Nights--Wild Nights!]
      - [I can wade Grief--]
      - [There's a certain Slant of light]
      - [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]
      - [I'm Nobody! Who are you?]
      - [If your Nerve, deny you--]
      - [Your Riches--taught me--Poverty]
      - [I reason, Earth is short--]
      - [The Soul selects her own Society--]
      - [The Soul's Superior instants]
      - [I send Two Sunsets--]
      - [It sifts from Leaden Sieves]
      - [There came a Day at Summer's full]
      - [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church]
      - [A Bird came down the Walk--]
      - [I know that He exists]
      - [After great pain, a formal feeling comes--]
      - [God is a distant--stately Lover--]
      - [Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?]
      - [What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--]
      - [Much Madness is divinest Sense--]
      - [This is my letter to the World]
      - [I tie my Hat--I crease my Shawl]
      - [I showed her Heights she never saw-- ]
      - [This was a Poet--It is That---]
      - [I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--]
      - [This World is not Conclusion]
      - [Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night]
      - [I started Early--Took my Dog--]
      - [One Crucifixion is recorded--only--]
      - [I reckon--when I count at all--]
      - [I had been hungry, all the Years--]
      - [Empty my Heart, of Thee]
      - [They shut me up in Prose--]
      - [Ourselves were wed one summer--dear--]
      - [The Brain--is wider than the Sky--]
      - [I cannot live with You--]
      - [I dwell in Possibility--]
      - [Of all the Souls that stand create---]
      - [One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted--]
      - [Essential Oils--are wrung--]
      - [They say that "Time Assuages" --]
      - [Publication--is the Auction]
      - [Because I could not stop for Death--]
      - [She rose to His Requirement--dropt]
      - [My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--]
      - [Presentiment--is that long Shadow--on the Lawn--]
      - [This Consciousness that is aware]
      - [The Poets light but Lamps]
      - [The Missing All, prevented Me]
      - [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
      - [Perception of an object costs]
      - [Title divine--is mine!]
      - [The Bustle in a House]
      - [Revolution is the Pod]
      - [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--]
      - [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow--]
      - [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken]
      - [What mystery pervades a well!]
      - [A Counterfeit--a Plated Person--]
      - ["Heavenly Father" --take to thee]
      - [A Route of Evanescence]
      - [The Bible is an Antique Volume--]
      - [Volcanoes be in Sicily]
      - [Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!]
      - [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]
    - Letters
      - To Abiah Root (January 29, 1850)
      - To Austin Dickinson (October 17, 1851)
      - To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (late April 1852)
      - To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (June 27, 1852)
      - To Samuel Bowles (about February 1861)
      - To recipient unknown (about 1861)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (date uncertain)
      - To T.W. Higginson (April 15, 1862)
      - To T.W. Higginson (April 25, 1862)
      - To T.W. Higginson (June 7, 1862)
      - To T.W. Higginson (July 1862)
      - To Mrs. J.G. Holland (early May 1866)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (about 1870)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (about 1870)
      - To T.W. Higginson (1876)
      - To Otis P. Lord [rough draft] (about 1878)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (about 1878)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (early October 1883)
      - To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (about 1884)

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