From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith --
from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --
from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams --
Puritan poetry --
Before the birth of cone of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit ; Verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet --
Preface to God's determinations touching his elect ; Prologue to God's determinations touching his elect ; Huswifery ; Mediation six ; Meditation thirty-eight ; Meditation fifty-six / Edward Taylor --
from Magnalia Christi Americana ; A general introduction ; Galeacius secundus : life of William Bradford / William Byrd --
from The history of the dividing line ; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd --
Personal narrative ; Notes on the mind ; Nature / Jonathan Edwards --
The way to wealth ; from The autobiography ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin --
from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman --
from Letters from an American farmer ; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crèvecceur --
from Common sense ; Thoughts on the present state of American affairs ; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine --
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America ; Letter to John Adams / Thomas Jefferson --
The power of fancy ; To the memory of the brave Americans ; The wild honey suckle ; The Indian burying ground ; To a caty-did / Philip Freneau --
Introductory essay --
Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman ; Legend of the Arabian astrologer ; from A tour of the prairies / Washington Irving --
from The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper --
Thanatopsis ; Inscription for the entrance to a wood ; To a waterfowl ; The yellow violet ; A forest hymn ; The death of the flowers ; June ; The evening wind ; Hymn of the city ; Song of Marion;s men ; To the fringed gentian ; The prairies ; The battle-field ; Death of Lincoln ; The floor of years ; from The right of workmen to strike / William Cullen Bryant --
from Nature ; The American scholar ; Self-reliance ; Politics ; from War ; Education ; Good-bye ; Concord hymn ; The rhodora ; Each and all ; Compensation ; The snow-storm ; Unity ; Fable ; Merlin ; The world-soul ; Hamatreya ; Mithridates ; Days ; Brahma ; Two rivers ; Voluntaries III ; Terminus ; Music / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Young Goodman Brown
The canal boat ;
The minister's black veil
Dr. Heidegger's experiment
Rappaccini's daughter
Earth's holocaust ;
Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

A psalm of life ; The wreck of the Hesperus ; The skeleton in armor ; Walter Von Der Vogelweid ; Evangeline ; The secret of the sea ; My lost youth ; from The song of Hiawatha ; Christmas bells ; Divina commedia ; The challenge ; Shakespeare ; Milton ; Nature ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
To William Lloyd Garrison ; Ichabod ; The Kansas emigrants ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Snow-bound ; The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier --

The fall of the House of Usher ;
Descent into the Maelstrom
Masque of the Red Death
Tell-tale Heart ;
Purloined Letter
Sonnet, to science ;
to Helen ;
Israfel ;
The city in the sea ;
The Sleeper ;
To one in paradise ;
Hymn ;
The conqueror worm ;
Dream-land ;
The raven ;
Ulalume, a ballad ;
The bells ;
Annabel Lee ;
from Poe's review of Twice-told tales ;
The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe --

from The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
from Walden / Henry David Thoreau --

from A Fable for critics ; from the Biglow papers : first series ; The courtin ; ; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell --from Typee ; from White-Jacket ; from Moby -Dick ; from Pierre ; The portent ; Misgivings ; Shiloh ; The house-top ; Southern cross / Herman Melville --
from Song of myself ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; Out of the rolling ocean the crowd ; Beat! Beat! Drums! ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; To a certain civilian ; Bivouac on a mountain side ; Cavalry crossing a ford ; An army corps on the march ; The wound-dresser ; Reconciliation ; O captain! My captain! ; when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; Passage to India ; Darest thou now o soul ; Prayer of Columbus ; To a locomotive in winter ; A noiseless patient spider ; With husky-haughty lips, o sea! ; from Specimen days / Walt Whitman --
Introductory essay --
Letter to the world ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Success is counted sweetest ; I asked no other thing ; The soul selects her own society ; I'm nobody! ; I like to see it lap the miles ; A thought went up my mind to-day ; The brain is wider than the sky ; What soft, cherubic creatures ; A route of evanescence ; I started early ; A narrow fellow in the grass ; She sweeps with many-colored brooms ; Some keep the Sabbath going to church ; I;ll tell you how the sun rose ; To make a prairie ; If you were coming ; I died for beauty ; I've seen a dying eye ; I never saw a moor ; The last night that she lived ; The morning after death ; Because I could not stop for death ; This quiet dust ; To hear an oriole sing ; I got so I could hear his name ; THe lightning is a yellow fork ; Again his voice is at the door ; Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; from Roughing it ; The story of the old ram ; from Life on the Mississippi ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --
Muck-a-Muck ; THe luck of roaring camp ; Colonel Starbottle for the plantiff ; Plain language from Truthful James / Bret Harte --
from The rise of Silas Lapham ; from Criticism and fiction / William Dean Howells --
from the Education of Henry Adams / henry Adams --
The stirrup-cup ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; The marshes of Glynn ; A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier --
The lesson of the master ; The art of fiction / Henry James --
The open boat ; from The black riders ; War is kind / Stephen Crane --
Introductory essay --
George Crabbe ; Credo ; Richard Cory ; Miniver Cheevy ; The man against the sky ; Mr. Flood's party ; from Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
The second choice / Theodore Dreiser --
The tuft of flowers ; The death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; The code ; The road not taken ; Fire and ice ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Not to keep ; A minor bird ; There are roughly zones l; a leaf treader ; Bursting rapture / Robert Frost --
Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather --
Chicago ; Happiness ; Buttons ; Cool tombs ; Four precludes on playthings of the wind ; Accomplished facts ; from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg --
from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis --
The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill --

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ;
The hollow men ;
Burnt Norton / T.S. Eliot --

Wash
Stockholm address / William Faulkner --

In another country ; A clean, well-lightened place / Ernest Hemingway --

Death the proud brother / Thomas Wolfe.