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| Preface | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| The Literature of Early America | |
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| Reading the Historical Context | |
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| CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451���1506) | |
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| Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage | |
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| THOMAS HARIOT (1560���1621) | |
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| FROM A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia | |
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| ALVAR N EZ CABEZA DE VACA (C. 1490 C. 1557) | |
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| FROM the Journey of alvar Nùuez Cabeza de Vaca | |
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| JOHN WINTHROP (1588���1649) AND ANNE HUTCHINSON (1591���1643) | |
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| FROM the Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the | |
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| Court at Newton | |
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| IROQUOIS LEAGUE | |
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| FROM the Constitution of the Five Nations | |
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| Reading the Critical Context | |
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| JOHN DRYDEN (1631���1700) | |
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| FROM Preface to Troilus and Cressida | |
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| ALEXANDER POPE (1688���1744) | |
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| FROM An Essay on Criticism | |
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| Literature of Early America | |
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| CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580���1631) | |
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| FROM the General History of Virginia | |
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| The Third Book | |
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| Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War | |
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| FROM A Description of New England | |
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| DINe BAHANE' | |
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| FROM Dinÿ bahane': the Navajo Creation Story | |
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| WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590���1657) | |
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| FROM History of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| FROM Chapter 1 | |
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| FROM Chapter 3 | |
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| FROM Chapter 4 | |
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| FROM Chapter 7 | |
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| FROM Chapter 9 | |
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| FROM Chapter 10 | |
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| FROM Book 2 | |
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| FROM Chapter 36 | |
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| THOMAS MORTON (C. 1579���1647) | |
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| FROM the New English Canaan | |
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| JOHN WINTHROP (1588���1649) | |
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| FROM the Journal of John Winthrop | |
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| A Model of Christian Charity | |
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| ROGER WILLIAMS (C. 1603���1683) | |
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| FROM A Key into the Language of America | |
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| FROM the Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience | |
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| To the Town of Providence | |
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| THE NEW ENGLANDPRIMER (C. 1683) | |
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| FROM the New England Primer | |
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| ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612���1672) | |
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| The Prologue | |
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| Contemplations | |
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| The Flesh and the Spirit | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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| A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment | |
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| In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 | |
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| In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet | |
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| On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet | |
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| [On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit | |
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| Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
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| As Weary Pilgrim | |
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| FROM Meditations Divine and Moral | |
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| MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631���1705) | |
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| FROM the Day of Doom | |
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| EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642���1729) | |
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| Prologue | |
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| FROM Preparatory Meditations | |
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| The Reflexion | |
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| Meditation 6 (First Series) | |
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| Meditation 8 (First Series) | |
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| Meditation 38 (First Series) | |
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| Meditation 39 (First Series) | |
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| Meditation 150 (Second Series) | |
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| FROM God's Determinations | |
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| The Preface | |
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| The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended | |
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| Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
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| Upon Wedlock and Death of Children | |
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| Huswifery | |
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| The Ebb and Flow | |
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| A Fig for Thee Oh! Death | |
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| COTTON MATHER (1663���1728) | |
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| FROM the Wonders of the Invisible World | |
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| The Trial of Bridget Bishop | |
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| The Trial of Martha Carrier | |
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| A Third Curiosity | |
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| FROM Magnalia Christi Americana | |
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| A General Introduction | |
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| Galeacius Secundus | |
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| Thaumatographia Pneumatica | |
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| SAMUEL SEWALL (1652���1730) | |
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| The Selling of Joseph | |
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| FROM the Diary of Samuel Sewall | |
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| MARY ROWLANDSON (C. 1637���1711) | |
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| FROM A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration | |
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| EBENEZER COOKE (C. 1665 C. 1732) | |
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| The Sot-Weed Factor | |
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| SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666���1727) | |
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| The Journal of Madam Knight | |
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| WILLIAM BYRD II (1674���1744) | |
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| FROM the Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709���1712 | |
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| FROM the History of the Dividing Line | |
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| JOHN WOOLMAN (1720���1772) | |
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| FROM the Journal of John Woolman | |
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| JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703���1758) | |
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| Sarah Pierrepont | |
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| Personal Narrative | |
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| FROM A Divine and Supernatural Light | |
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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| The Literature of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Reading the Historical Context | |
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| CORRESPONDENCE | |
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| Thomas Jefferson to James Madison | |
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| Thomas Jefferson to John Adams | |
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| Abigail Adams to John Adams | |
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| John Adams to Abigail Adams | |
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| Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker | |
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| THE FEDERALIST/ANTI-FEDERALIST CONTROVERSY | |
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| The Federalist No. 1 (Alexander Hamilton) | |
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| The Federalist No. 2 (John Jay) | |
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| The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison) | |
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| The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison) | |
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| Reading the Critical Context | |
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| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706���1790) | |
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| Silence Dogood, No. 7 | |
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| Literature of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706���1790) | |
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| FROM the Autobiography | |
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| Silence Dogood, No. 2 | |
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| Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph | |
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| The Witches of Mount Holly | |
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| FROM Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733 | |
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| FROM Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746 | |
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| The Speech of Miss Polly Baker | |
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| Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind | |
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| Information to Those Who Would Remove to America | |
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| Speech in the Convention | |
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| An Address to the Public | |
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| SAMSON OCCOM (1723���1792) | |
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| FROM A Short Narrative of My Life | |
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| The Slow Traveller | |
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| A Morning Hymn | |
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| A Son's Farewell | |
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| Conversion Song | |
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| Come All My Young Companions, Come | |
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| MICHEL-GUILLAUME-JEAN DE CR VECOEUR (1735���1813) | |
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| FROM Letters from an American Farmer | |
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| Letter III What Is an American? | |
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| Letter IX Description of Charleston | |
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| Letter XII Distresses of a Frontier Man | |
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| OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745���1797) | |
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| FROM the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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| THOMAS PAINE (1737���1809) | |
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| FROM Common Sense | |
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| FROM the American Crisis | |
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| FROM the Age of Reason | |
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| THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743���1826) | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| FROM Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| FROM Query V: Cascades | |
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| FROM Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal | |
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| Query XIV: Laws | |
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| FROM Query XVII: Religion | |
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| FROM Query XVIII: Manners | |
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| FROM Query XIX: Manufactures | |
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| FROM the Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson | |
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| ROYALL TYLER(1757���1826) | |
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| The Contrast | |
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| PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754? 1784) | |
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| On Virtue | |
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| To the University of Cambridge, in New England | |
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| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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| On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 | |
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| On Imagination | |
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| To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works | |
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| To His Excellency General Washington | |
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| PHILIP FRENEAU (1752���1832) | |
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| The Power of Fancy | |
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| The Hurricane | |
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| To Sir Toby | |
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| The Wild Honey Suckle | |
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| The Indian Burying Ground | |
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| On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man | |
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| On a Honey Bee | |
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| On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature | |
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| On the Religion of Nature | |
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| WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739���1823) | |
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| FROM Travels through North and South Carolina | |
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| JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY (1751���1820) | |
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| On the Equality of the Sexes | |
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| SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON (1762���1824) | |
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| Slaves in Algiers | |
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| RED JACKET (C. 1750���1830) | |
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| The Indians Must Worship the Great Spirit in Their Own Way | |
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| The Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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| Reading the Historical Context | |
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| TECUMSEH (1768���1813) | |
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| Speech to the Osage Indians | |
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| WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (1805���1879) | |
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| On the Constitution and the Union | |
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| STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS (1813���1861) | |
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| FROM Third Joint Debate, at Jonesboro | |
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| WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK (JULY 1848) | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments | |
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| Reading the Critical Context | |
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| EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809���1849) | |
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| FROM "Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne" [A Review] | |
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| The Philosophy of Composition | |
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| FROM the Poetic Principle | |
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| HERMAN MELVILLE (1819���1891) | |
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| FROM Hawthorne and His Mosses | |
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| Literature of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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| WASHINGTONIRVING(1783���1859) | |
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| FROM the Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent | |
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| The Author's Account of Himself | |
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| Rip Van Winkle | |
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
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| Traits of Indian Character | |
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| BLACK HAWK (1767���1838) | |
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| FROM Black Hawk's Autobiography | |
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| WILLIAM APESS (1798���1839) | |
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| FROM A Son of the Forest | |
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| Eulogy on King Philip | |
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| ELIAS BOUDINOT (C.1802���1839) | |
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| An Address to the Whites | |
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| FROM the Cherokee Phoenix | |
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| PENINA MO SE (1797���1880) | |
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| To Persecuted Foreigners | |
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| The Mirror and the Echo | |
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| To a Lottery Ticket | |
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| AUGUSTUS BALDWINLONGSTREET (1790���1870) | |
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| The Fight | |
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| JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789���1851) | |
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| Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales | |
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| FROM the Pioneers | |
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| FROM the Deerslayer | |
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| THOMAS BANGS THORPE (1815���1878) | |
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| The Big Bear of Arkansas | |
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| WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794���1878) | |
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| Thanatopsis | |
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| The Yellow Violet | |
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| To a Waterfowl | |
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| To Cole, the Painter, DeParting for Europe | |
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| To the Fringed Gentian | |
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| The Prairies | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | |
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| SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797? 1883) | |
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| Speech to the Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio | |
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| FROM Narrative of Sojourner Truth | |
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| EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809���1849) | |
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| Sonnet���To Science | |
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| To Helen | |
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| The City in the Sea | |
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| Sonnet���Silence | |
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| Lenore | |
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| The Raven | |
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| Annabel Lee | |
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| The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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| The Black Cat | |
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| Ligeia | |
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| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
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| The Purloined Letter | |
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| RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803���1882) | |
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| Nature | |
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| The American Scholar | |
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| The Divinity School Address | |
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| Self-Reliance | |
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| The Poet | |
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| The Rhodora | |
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| Each and All | |
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| Concord Hymn | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Ode | |
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| Hamatreya | |
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| Give All to Love | |
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| Days | |
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| Brahma | |
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| Terminus | |
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| NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806���1867) | |
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| January 1, 1828 | |
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| January 1, 1829 | |
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| Lady in the White Dress, I Helped into the Omnibus | |
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| MARIA STEWART (1803���1879) | |
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| An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female | |
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| Intelligence Society of Boston | |
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| GEORGE MOSES HORTON (1797���1883) | |
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| On Liberty and Slavery | |
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| The Lover's Farewell | |
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| On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman | |
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| To Purchase the Poet's Freedom | |
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| The Creditor to His Proud Debtor | |
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| Division of an Estate | |
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| Death of an Old Carriage Horse | |
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| George Moses Horton, Myself | |
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| MARGARET FULLER (1810���1850) | |
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| FROM Woman in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804���1864) | |
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| Young Goodman Brown | |
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| The Birth-Mark | |
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| Rappaccini's Daughter | |
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| My Kinsman, Major Molineux | |
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| The Maypole of Merry Mount | |
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| The Minister's Black Veil | |
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| The Artist of the Beautiful | |
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| Ethan Brand | |
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| The Custom-House: Introductory to the Scarlet Letter | |
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| The Scarlet Letter | |
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| HERMAN MELVILLE (1819���1891) | |
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| FROM Moby-Dick | |
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| The Pulpit | |
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| The Sermon | |
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| The Mast-Head | |
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| The Whiteness of the Whale | |
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| Bartleby, the Scrivener | |
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| Benito Cereno | |
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| Billy Budd | |
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| The Portent | |
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| Shiloh | |
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| Malvern Hill | |
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| A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight | |
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| The House-Top | |
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| The Swamp Angel | |
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| The College Colonel | |
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| The olian Harp | |
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| The Tuft of Kelp | |
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| The Maldive Shark | |
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| The Berg | |
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| Art | |
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| Greek Architecture | |
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| LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791���1865) | |
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| Death of an Infant | |
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| The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers | |
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| Indian Names | |
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| LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802���1880) | |
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| Charity Bowery | |
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| The Black Saxons | |
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| Slavery's Pleasant Homes | |
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| The New England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day | |
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| JOSIAH HENSON (1789���1883) | |
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| FROM the Life of Josiah Henson | |
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| FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818���1895) | |
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| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
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| Letter to His Old Master | |
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| What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? | |
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| West India Emancipation | |
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| HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817���1862) | |
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| Civil Disobedience | |
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| Walden | |
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| They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below | |
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| On Fields O'er Which the Reaper's Hand Has Passed | |
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| Smoke | |
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| Conscience | |
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| My Life Has Been the Poem | |
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| WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806���1870) | |
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| Grayling; or "Murder Will Out" | |
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| HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807���1882) | |
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| A Psalm of Life | |
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| The Arsenal at Springfield | |
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| The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | |
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| My Lost Youth | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | |
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| FROM the Song of Hiawatha | |
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| JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807���1892) | |
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| The Hunters of Men | |
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| The Farewell | |
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| Massachusetts to Virginia | |
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| Toussaint l'Ouverture | |
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| Song of Slaves in the Desert | |
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| Barbara Frietchie | |
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| E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH (1819���1899) | |
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| The Thunderbolt to the Hearth | |
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| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819���1891) | |
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| To the Dandelion | |
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| FROM the Biglow Papers, First Series | |
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| FROM A Fable for Critics | |
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| HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811���1896) | |
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| FROM Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| FANNY FERN (1811���1872) | |
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| Aunt Hetty on Matrimony | |
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| Hints to Young Wives | |
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| Owls Kill Humming-Birds | |
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| The Tear of a Wife | |
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| Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking" | |
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| Fresh Fern Leaves: Leaves of Grass | |
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| Blackwell's Island | |
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| Blackwell's Island No. 3 | |
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| Independence | |
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| The Working-Girls of New York | |
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| WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (1814���1884) | |
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| The Escape | |
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| HARRIET ANN JACOBS (1813���1897) | |
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| FROM Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
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| JAMES M. WHITFIELD (1822���1871) | |
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| America | |
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| Self-Reliance | |
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| ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809���1865) | |
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| To Horace Greeley | |
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| Gettysburg Address | |
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| Second Inaugural Address | |
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| FRANCES E. W. HARPER (1825���1911) | |
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| Bury Me in a Free Land | |
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| To the Union Savers of Cleveland | |
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| Eliza Harris | |
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| The Slave Mother | |
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| Learning to Read | |
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| Aunt Chloe's Politics | |
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| LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832���1888) | |
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| FROM Little Women | |
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| FROM Hospital Sketches | |
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| A Day | |
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| A Night | |
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| EMMA LAZARUS (1849���1887) | |
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| In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport | |
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| The New Colossus | |
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| 1492 | |
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| WALT WHITMAN (1819���1892) | |
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| Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass | |
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| Song of Myself | |
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| FROM Inscriptions | |
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| To You | |
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| One's-Self I Sing | |
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| When I Read the book | |
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| I Hear America Singing | |
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| Poets to Come | |
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| FROM Children of Adam | |
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| From Pent-up Aching Rivers | |
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| Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | |
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| As Adam, Early in the Morning | |
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| Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City | |
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| FROM Calamus | |
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| What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? | |
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| I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | |
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| I Hear It Was Charged Against Me | |
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| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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| FROM Sea-Drift | |
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| Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | |
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| FROM By the Roadside | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| The Dalliance of the Eagles | |
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| FROM Drum-Taps | |
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| Beat! Beat! Drums! | |
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| Cavalry Crossing a Ford | |
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| Bivouac on a Mountain Side | |
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| Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night | |
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| A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim | |
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| The Wound-Dresser | |
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| As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado | |
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| FROM Memories of President Lincoln | |
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| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | |
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| FROM Autumn Rivulets | |
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| There was a Child Went Forth | |
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| Sparkles from the Wheel | |
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| Passage to India | |
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| FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death | |
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| FROM From Noon to Starry Night | |
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| To a Locomotive in Winter | |
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| FROM Democratic Vistas | |
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| EMILY DICKINSON (1830���1886) | |
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| 49 I never lost as much but twice | |
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| 67 Success is counted sweetest | |
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| 165 A Wounded Deer���leaps highest | |
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| 185 "Faith" is a fine invention | |
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| 210 the thought beneath so slight a film | |
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| 214 I taste a liquor never brewed | |
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| 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers | |
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| 241 I like a look of Agony | |
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| 249 Wild Nights���Wild Nights! | |
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| 258 There's a certain Slant of light | |
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| 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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| 303 the Soul selects her own Society | |
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| 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church | |
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| 328 A Bird came down the Walk | |
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| 338 I know that He exists | |
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| 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes | |
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| 401 What Soft���Cherubic Creatures | |
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| 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense | |
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| 441 This is my letter to the World | |
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| 449 I died for Beauty���but was scarce | |
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| 465 I heard a Fly buzz���when I died | |
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| 520 I started Early���Took my Dog | |
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| 585 I like to see it lap the Miles | |
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| 632 the Brain���is wider than the sky | |
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| 640 I cannot live with You | |
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| 670 One need not be a Chamber���to be Haunted | |
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| 709 Publication���is the Auction | |
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| 712 Because I could not stop for Death | |
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| 764 Presentiment���is that long Shadow���on the Lawn | |
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| 976 Death is a Dialogue between | |
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| 986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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| 1052 I never saw a Moor | |
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| 1078 the Bustle in a House | |
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| 1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant | |
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| 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow | |
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| 1463 A Route of Evanescence | |
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| 1545 the Bible is an antique Volume | |
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| 1624 Apparently with no surprise | |
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| 1670 In Winter in my Room | |
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| 1732 My life closed twice before its close | |
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| 1755 to make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee | |
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| 1760 Elysium is as far as to | |
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| Letters to T. W. Higginson | |
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| Reference Works, Bibliographies | |
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| Criticism, Literary and Cultural History | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |