Part I The Literature of Colonial America
Introduction
Chapter 1 John Smith
Chapter 2 Anne Bradstreet
Chapter 3 Edward Taylor
Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Introduction
Chapter 4 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Chapter 5 Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Chapter 6 Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Chapter 7 Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
Part III The Literature of Romanticism
Introduction
Chapter 8 Washington Irving
The Author��s Account of Himself
Rip Van Winkle
Chapter 9 James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 10 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Chapter 11 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Chapter 12 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Slave��s Dream
Daybreak
The Tide Rises�� the Tide Falls
Chapter 14 Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Chapter 15 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 16 Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Part IV The Literature of Realism
Introduction
Chapter 17 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom��s Cabin
Chapter 18 Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
O Captain! My Captain!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Chapter 19 Emily Dickinson
Success
I Died for Beauty��But Was Scarce
I Heard a Fly Buzz��When I Died��
I��m Nobody! Who Are You?
Chapter 20 Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 21 Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
Chapter 22 Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour
Chapter 23 O�� Henry
The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter 24 Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Chapter 25 Jack London
The Call of the Wild
Chapter 26 Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg�� Ohio