American Literature 1820—1865 791
WASHINGTON IRVING （1783—1859） 805
The Author’s Account of Himself 808
Rip Van Winkle 810
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 822
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER （1789—1851） 842
The Pioneers 844
[The Slaughter of the Pigeons] 844
Notions of the Americans 851
[The Literature and the Arts of the United States] 851
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET （1790—1870） 862
The Horse Swap 864
A Sage Conversation 869
The Shooting Match 877
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT （1794—1878） 888
Thanatopsis 890
The Yellow Violet 891
To a Waterfowl 892
Sonneet—to an American Painter Departing for Europe 893
The Prairies 894
The Poet 896
Abraham Lincoln 898
RALPH WALDO EMERSON （1803—1882） 898
Nature 903
The American Scholar 931
The Divinity SchoolAddress 944
Self-Reliance 956
The Over-Soul 973
The Poet 984
Experience 999
Fate 1014
Thoreau 1033
Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument，April 19， 1836 1045
Each and All 1046
The Problem 1047
Uriel 1049
Hamatreya 1050
The Rhodora 1052
The Snow-Storm 1052
Ode， Inscribed to W.H.Channing 1053
Merlin 1055
Days 1058
Journals and Letters 1059
[Sunday， April 18， 1824， Canterbury （Roxbury）， Massachusetts] Myself 1059
[July 8， 1831， Boston] [Always a Right Word] 1062
[July 13， 1833， Paris] [In the Garden of Plants] 1062
[January 1， 1834， Boston] [My Savings Bank] 1064
[February 19， 1834， Boston] [A White Whale] 1064
To Lydia Jackson， Concord， February 1， 183 5 [A Modulated New Love：I Am Born a Poet] 1064
[August 1， 1835， Concord] [Sadness after Thirry] 1065
[April 26， 1838， Concord] [Philanthropic Meetings & Holy Hurrahs] 1065
To Thomas Carlyle （Concord， May 1o， 1838） [I Am a Rich Man] 1066
[June 18， 1838， Concord] [Prote？？； Writing； America] 1067
[June 23， 1838， Concord] [Goodies] 1068
[August 22， 1838， Concord] [I Decline Invitations] 1068
[August 31， 1838， Concord] [Aftermath of the Divinity School Address] 1068
To Thomas Carlyle （Concord， October 17， 1838） [Delayed Reactions to the Divinity School Address] 1069
[November 10， 1838， Concord] [Challenging Thoreau to Write His Opinions into Good Poetty] 1069
[September 14， 1839， Concord] [The Business of Education] 1070
[June 24， 1840， Concord] [The Screaming of the Mad Neighborwoman] 1071
[October 17， 1840， Concord] [Skepticism about the Brook Farm Utopia] 1072
[October 25， 1840， Concord] [Swearing as the Best Rhetorie] 1072
[November-December， 1841， Concord] [Dead Sentences vs.Man-Making Words] 1072
[January 30， 1842， Concord] [Young Waldo’s Physical World] 1073
[January 30（？）， 1842， Concord] [YoungWaldo’s Human World] 1073
To William Emerson， Concord， May 6， 1843 [What to Expect from Thoreau] 1073
[August 25， 1843， Concord] [Thoreau’s Fault of Unlimited Contradiction] 1074
To William Emerson （Concord， October 4， 184 [A Craze for Acquiring Property] 1074
To W.J.Rotch （Concord， November 17， 1845） [The Lyceum Should Exclude Nobody] 1075
[April 25， 1848， London] [The London Literati on Male Chastity] 1075
[May 6（？）， 1848， London] [Tennyson as a Talkative Hawthorne] 1076
[August 1848， Concord] [Thoreau the Woodgod] 1076
[April 1851， Concord] [The Hypocrisy ofDaniel Webster] 1076
[April 13， 1852， Concord] [The Purist Who Refuses to Vote] 1077
[August 1， 1852， Concord] [Negro Slavery Vs.Quite Other Slaves to Free] 1077
To Walter Whitman （July 21， 1855， Concord） [The Wonderful Gift of Leaves of Grass] 1077
[February 29， 1856， Concord] [The Frustration of Trying to Talk to Thoreau] 1078
To Thomas Carlyle （May 6， 1856， Concord） [Second Thoughts on the Nondescript Monster， Leaves of Grass] 1078
[February 1862， Concord] [Thoreau： Why He Farcied Whitman] 1078
[June 1863， Concord] [SeeingHimself Furthered in Thoreau’s Journals] 1079
[1863， Concord] [Taking Lincoln with His Faults] 1079
[May 24， 1864， Concord] [The Burial of Hawthome—After Waiting Too Long to Get to Know Him] 1079
[July 2， 1867， Concord] [A Mystcry about Reading] 1080
[June 1871， Concord] [The Scientific Splendors of This Age] 1080
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE （1804—1864） 1081
My Kinsman， Major Molineux 1085
Roger Malvin’s Burial 1098
Young Goodman Brown 1111
The May-Pole of Merry Mount 1120
Wakefield 1127
The Minister’s Black Veil 1133
Rappaccini’s Daughter 1142
The Scarlet Letter 1162
The Custom-House 1162
The Scarlet Letter 1187
Prcface to The House of the Seven Gables 1302
of the Hawk-eye”： A Gallery of Hawthorne’s Word-Portraits] 1304
[Jonathan Cilley] 1304
[Remarkable Characters at North Adams] 1305
[Henry D.Thoreau] 1308
[Edmund Hosmer—Emerson’s Ideal Farmer] 1310
[Walden Pond] 1311
[Herman Melville] 1313
[Hiram Powers] 1314
[Abraham Lincoln] 1316
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW （1807—1882） 1318
A Psalm of Life 1319
Excelsior 1320
Mezzo Cammin 1321
The Slave’s Dream 1322
The Fire of Drift-wood 1323
The Building of the Ship 1324
[Conclusion] 1324
My Lost Youth 1326
Aftermath 1328
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER （1807—1892） 1329
Ichabod！ 1330
Snow-Bound： A Winter Idyl 1331
Prelude to Among the Hills 1349
EDGAR ALLAN POE （1809—1849） 1353
The Lake 1357
Preface 1358
Introduction 1358
Sonnet To Science 1360
Fairyland 1361
To Helen 1362
Israfel 1362
The City in the Sea 1364
The Sleeper 1365
The Valley of Unrest 1366
Alone 1367
Dream-land 1368
The Raven 1369
To———.Ulalume： A Ballad 1372
Annabel Lee 1375
Ligeia 1376
The Fall of the House of Usher 1386
William Wilson.A Tale 1399
The Man of the Crowd 1412
The Black Cat 1418
The Purloined Letter 1425
The Imp of the Perverse 1438
The Cask of Amontillado 1442
Letter to Mr———— 1446
[Reviews of Hawthorne’s Twice-T old Tales] 1452
[April] 1452
[May] 1454
The Philosophy of Composition 1459
The Poetic Principle 1467
Letters 1485
To John Allan （Richmond，March 19， 1827） [My Determination Is at Length Taken] 1485
To John Allan （Richmond， March 20， 1827） [In the Greatest Necessity] 1486
To John P.Kennedy （Baltimore， March 15， 1835） [I Cannot Come] 1486
To Thomas W.White （Baltimore， April 30， 1835） [Berenice Justified] 1486
To Maria Clemm （Richmond， August 29， 183 5） [“My Own Sweetest Sissy”] 1487
To Philip P.Cooke （Philadelphia， September 21， 1839） [Such Wild Matters as Ligeia] 1489
To Joseph Evens Snodgrass （Philadelphia， April 1， 1841） [My Sole Drink Is Water] 1490
To Maria Clemm （New-York， April 7， 1844） [No Fear of Starving Here] 1490
To Annie L.Richmond （Fordham， November 16， 1848） [My Darling，My Annie] 1492
ABRAHAM LINCOLN （1809—1865） 1494
[The Presidential Question：] Speech in the United States House of Representatives， July 27， 1848 1496
A House Divided： Speech Delivered at Springfield， Illinois， at the Close of the Republican State Convention， June 16， 1858 1498
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg， November 19， 1863 1504
Second Inaugural Address， March 4， 1865 1505
OLIVER WENDELLHOLMES （18o9—1894） 1506
Old Ironsides 1507
The Last Leaf 1508
The Chambered Nautilus 1509
The Deacon’s Masterpiece： or The Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay” 1510
MARGARET FULLER （1810—1850） 1513
The Great Lawsuit 1515
[Two Kinds of Slavery： Miranda： No Man is Willingly Ungenerous] 1515
[Four Kinds of Equalism] 1523
[The Great Radical Dualism] 1528
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE （1811—1896） 1532
Uncle Tom’s Cabin； or Life among the Lowly 1533
Chapter Ⅶ. The Mother’s Struggle 1533
The Minister’s Housekeeper 1542
GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS （1814—1869） 1551
Parson John Bullen’s Lizards 1552
Mrs.Yardley’s Quilting 1557
Hen Baily’s Reformation 1564
T.B.THORPE （1815—1878） 1569
The Big Bear of Arkansas 1570
JOHNSON JONES HOOPER （1815—1862） 1578
Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs 1579
[A Portrait of the Captain] 1579
The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting 1580