The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume I by Blaisdell, Bob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Note Cherokee Creation Stories (James Mooney)

How the World Was Made (1897–1898) The First Fire (1897–1898)

Powhatan

Why Should You Destroy Us, Who Have Provided You with Food? (c. 1609)

Anne Bradstreet

The Author to her Book (1650) To my Dear and loving Husband (1650) Before the Birth of one of her Children (1650) Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632. Aetatis suae, 19 (1650) To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; Who deceased, July 31, 1653. and of his Age, 77 (1650) In memory of my dear grand-child Anne Bradstreet. Who deceased June 20. 1669. being three years and seven Moneths old (1650) To my Dear Children (1650) In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence (1650) “As weary pilgrim, now at rest” (1650) The Prologue [to The Tenth Muse] (1650)

Benjamin Franklin

An Apology for Printers (1731) From Poor Richard’s Almanack (1733–1758) Excerpts from Autobiography (“Arriving at moral perfection”) (1793)

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

Phillis Wheatley

On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773) On Imagination (1773) To S. M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works (1773)

Thomas

From Common Sense (1776)

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer : Letter III: What Is an American (1782)

Sarah Wentworth Morton

The African Chief (1792)

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

From Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)

Red Jacket, Sagoyewatha

You Have Got Our Country, but Are Not Satisfied (1805) We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands (1811)

Tecumseh

We All Belong to One Family (1811) Father!—Listen to Your Children! (1813)

James Fenimore Cooper

Chapters 3, 17, 29 and 32 from The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Chapters 4–5 (Vol. 1) from Hope Leslie; or Early Times in Massachusetts (1827)

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public (1831)

Black Hawk

Farewell to Black Hawk (1832)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown (1835) Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment (1837) Chapters 5–6 from The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature (1836) Self-Reliance (1841)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life (1838) The Wreck of the Hesperus (1839) Beware! (1839) The Rainy Day (1841) The Slave’s Dream (1842) The Day Is Done (1844) The Arrow and the Song (1845) The Ladder of Saint Augustine (1850) The Children’s Hour (1859) Paul Revere’s Ride (1860) Killed at the Ford (1866)

Edgar Allan Poe

William Wilson (1839) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) The Raven (1845–1849) Annabel Lee (1849–1850)

Frederick Douglass

Chapters 6–7 from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself (1845)

Margaret Fuller

Educate Men and Women as Souls (c. 1845) Woman in Poverty (1846)

Francis Parkman

The Oregon Trail: The Buffalo Camp (1848)

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience (1849) From Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)

Herman Melville

Chapters 1, 10–12, 28, 36, 41, 65–66, 87, 110, 128, 133–135 from Moby-Dick (1851)