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The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter 9th Edition by Robert S. Levine, ISBN-13: 978-0393264524
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- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter Ninth edition (September 15, 2017)
- Language: English
- 1376 pages
- ISBN-10: 0393264521
- ISBN-13: 978-0393264524
A responsive, refreshed, and media rich revision of the market leading anthology.
Table of Contents:
preface xvii
acknowl edgments xxv
Beginnings t o 1 820
introduction 3
timeline 26
native american oral lit er a ture 29
stories of the beginning of the world 31
The Iroquois Creation Story 32
trickster tales 35
From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin) 35
oratory 38
Powhatan’s Discourse of Peace and War 38
King Philip’s Speech 40
poetry 41
Cherokee War Song 42
Lenape War Song 43
Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship 44
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) 44
Letter of Discovery (February 15, 1493) 45
From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage
(July 7, 1503) 51
John Smith (1580–1631) 53
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 56
The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the
First Supply 56
From The Fourth Book. [Smith’s Farewell to Virginia] 65
From A Description of New England 66
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William Bradford (1590–1657) 69
Of Plymouth Plantation 73
Book I 73
From Chapter I. [The En glish Reformation] 73
Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and
of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 75
Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation;
and What Befell Them Thereabout 78
Book II 82
Chapter XI. The Remainder of Anno 1620 82
[Difficult Beginnings] 83
[Dealings with the Natives] 84
Chapter XIX. Anno 1628 [Mr. Morton of Merrymount] 87
Chapter XXIII. Anno 1632 [Prosperity Weakens Community] 91
John Winthrop (1588–1649) 92
A Model of Christian Charity 93
Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683) 104
A Key into the Language of Amer i ca 106
To My Dear and Well- Beloved Friends and Countrymen,
in Old and New England 106
Directions for the Use of Language 110
An Help to the Native Language 111
From Chapter I. Of Salutation 111
From Chapter II. Of Eating and Entertainment 111
From Chapter VI. Of the Family and Business of the House 111
From Chapter XI. Of Travel 112
From Chapter XVIII. Of the Sea 112
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) 112
The Prologue 114
Contemplations 115
The Author to Her Book 122
Before the Birth of One of Her Children 123
To My Dear and Loving Husband 124
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 124
In Memory of My Dear Grand child Elizabeth Bradstreet 125
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House 125
To My Dear Children 127
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637–1711) 130
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 132
The First Remove 134
The Second Remove 135
The Third Remove 136
The Twelfth Remove 139
Co n t e n t S | i x
The Nineteenth Remove 140
The Twentieth Remove 143
Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729) 152
Preparatory Meditations 153
Prologue 153
Meditation 8 (First Series) 154
God’s Determinations 155
The Preface 155
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children 157
Huswifery 158
Cotton Mather (1663–1728) 159
The Won ders of the Invisible World 160
[A People of God in the Dev il’s Territories] 160
[The Trial of Martha Carrier] 163
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) 166
Personal Narrative 168
A Divine and Super natural Light 179
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 192
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) 204
The Way to Wealth 208
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker 214
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North Amer i ca 216
The Autobiography 220
[Part I] 221
[Part II] 268
Samson Occom (1723–1792) 284
A Short Narrative of My Life 287
A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian 292
Hymns 303
The Sufferings of Christ, or Throughout the Saviour’s Life
We Trace 303
A Morning Hymn, or Now the Shades of Night Are Gone 304
A Son’s Farewell, or I Hear the Gospel’s Joyful Sound 305
ethnographic and naturalist writings 306
sarah kemble knight: From The Private Journal of a Journey
from Boston to New York in the Year 1704 307
william bartram: Anecdotes of an American Crow 313
hendrick aupaumut: From History of the Muh- he- con- nuk Indians 317
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J. Hector St. John de CrÈvecoeur (1735–1813) 321
Letters from an American Farmer 323
From Letter III. What Is an American? 323
From Letter IX. Description of Charles- Town; Thoughts on Slavery;
on Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene 333
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) 337
Common Sense 339
Introduction 339
From III. Thoughts on the Pres ent State of American Affairs 340
The Crisis, No. 1 346
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 352
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 354
From The Declaration of In de pen dence 354
The Federalist 360
No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton] 362
No. 10 [James Madison] 365
Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797) 370
The In ter est ing Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself 372
From Chapter I 372
Chapter II 373
From Chapter III 383
From Chapter IV 386
From Chapter V 390
From Chapter VI 394
From Chapter VII 402
Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) 406
On the Equality of the Sexes 408
Philip Freneau (1752–1832) 416
The Wild Honey Suckle 417
The Indian Burying Ground 418
On the Religion of Nature 419
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) 420
On Being Brought from Africa to Amer i ca 422
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth 422
To the University of Cambridge, in New England 423
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 424
Thoughts on the Works of Providence 425
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 428
To His Excellency General Washington 429
Co n t e n t S | x i
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) 431
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist 433
native american eloquence:
negotiation and re sis tance 475
canassatego: Speech at Lancaster 476
pontiac: Speech at Detroit 479
logan: From Chief Logan’s Speech 481
cherokee women: To Governor Benjamin Franklin 483
tecumseh: Speech to the Osages 484
American lit er a ture 1820–1865
introduction 489
timeline 508
Washington Irving (1783–1859) 511
The Author’s Account of Himself 513
Rip Van Winkle 515
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) 527
The Last of the Mohicans 529
Volume I, Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook;
Stories of the Fathers] 530
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) 536
Thanatopsis 538
To a Waterfowl 540
The Prairies 541
William Apess (1798–1839) 543
An Indian’s Looking- Glass for the White Man 545
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) 550
Nature 553
The American Scholar 582
Self- Reliance 596
The Poet 613
Each and All 628
Brahma 630
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native americans: removal and re sis tance 631
black hawk: From Life of Ma- ka- tai- me- she- kia- kiak, or
Black Hawk 631
petalesharo: Speech of the Pawnee Chief 636
Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief 638
elias boudinot: From the Cherokee Phoenix 639
the cherokee memorials 643
Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, 1829 643
ralph waldo emerson: Letter to Martin Van Buren 648
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 651
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 655
Young Goodman Brown 668
The May- Pole of Merry Mount 678
The Minister’s Black Veil 685
The Birth- Mark 694
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) 706
A Psalm of Life 708
The Slave Singing at Midnight 709
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 710
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) 712
Snow- Bound: A Winter Idyl 714
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 731
The Raven 735
Annabel Lee 738
Ligeia 739
The Fall of the House of Usher 749
The Tell- Tale Heart 762
The Black Cat 766
The Purloined Letter 772
The Cask of Amontillado 785
The Philosophy of Composition 790
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 799
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,
November 19, 1863 801
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 801
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) 803
The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women 806
[Four Kinds of Equality] 806
[The Great Radical Dualism] 810
Co n t e n t S | x i i i
slavery, race, and the making of
american lit er a ture 815
thomas jefferson: From Notes on the State of Virginia 816
david walker: From David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles 819
samuel e. cornish and john b. russwurm: To Our Patrons 823
william lloyd garrison: To the Public 826
angelina e. grimké: From Appeal to the Christian Women
of the South 829
sojourner truth: Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention
in Akron, Ohio, 1851 832
james m. whitfield: Stanzas for the First of August 833
martin r. delany: From Po liti cal Destiny of the Colored Race
on the American Continent 835
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) 838
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly 840
Volume I 840
Chapter VII. The Mother’s Strug gle 840
Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man 850
Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade 861
Volume II 873
From Chapter XXVI. Death 873
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897) 878
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 879
I. Childhood 879
VII. The Lover 882
X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life 886
XIV. Another Link to Life 890
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 892
XLI. Free at Last 894
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 900
Re sis tance to Civil Government 903
Walden, or Life in the Woods 920
1. Economy 920
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 962
5. Solitude 972
17. Spring 977
18. Conclusion 988
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) 996
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
Written by Himself 1000
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 1066
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Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 1070
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) 1073
Inscriptions 1088
One’s- Self I Sing 1088
Shut Not Your Doors 1088
Song of Myself (1881) 1088
Children of Adam 1133
Spontaneous Me 1133
Facing West from California’s Shores 1134
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1135
Sea- Drift 1139
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 1139
By the Roadside 1144
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 1144
The Dalliance of the Eagles 1144
Drum- Taps 1145
Beat! Beat! Drums! 1145
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 1145
The Wound- Dresser 1146
Memories of President Lincoln 1148
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 1148
Herman Melville (1819–1891) 1154
Bartleby, the Scrivener 1157
Benito Cereno 1184
Battle- Pieces 1241
The Portent 1241
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) 1241
Eliza Harris 1242
Bury Me in a Free Land 1244
Learning to Read 1245
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) 1246
39 [I never lost as much but twice – ] 1250
112 [Success is counted sweetest] 1250
122 [ These are the days when Birds come back – ] 1251
124 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers – ] 1251
202 [“Faith” is a fine invention] 1252
207 [I taste a liquor never brewed – ] 1252
236 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – ] 1253
259 [A Clock stopped – ] 1253
260 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] 1254
269 [Wild Nights – Wild Nights!] 1254
320 [ There’s a certain Slant of light] 1254
339 [I like a look of Agony] 1256
340 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 1256
Co n t e n t S | x v
353 [I’m ceded— I’ve stopped being Their’s] 1257
355 [It was not Death, for I stood up] 1257
359 [A Bird, came down the Walk – ] 1258
365 [I know that He exists] 1258
372 [ After great pain, a formal feeling comes – ] 1259
373 [This World is not conclusion] 1259
409 [The Soul selects her own Society – ] 1260
411 [Mine – by the Right of the White Election!] 1260
446 [This was a Poet – ] 1261
448 [I died for Beauty – but was scarce] 1261
479 [ Because I could not stop for Death – ] 1262
518 [When I was small, a Woman died – ] 1262
519 [This is my letter to the World] 1263
591 [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – ] 1263
598 [The Brain – is wider than the Sky – ] 1264
620 [Much Madness is divinest Sense – ] 1264
656 [I started Early – Took my Dog – ] 1264
704 [My Portion is Defeat— today – ] 1265
706 [I cannot live with You – ] 1266
760 [Pain – has an Ele ment of Blank – ] 1267
764 [My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – ] 1267
788 [Publication – is the Auction] 1268
1096 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 1268
1108 [The Bustle in a House] 1269
1212 [My Triumph lasted till the Drums] 1269
1263 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – ] 1270
1577 [The Bible is an antique Volume – ] 1270
1773 [My life closed twice before it’s close] 1271
Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on Poem 124 1271
Letters to Thomas Went worth Higginson 1273
April 15, 1862 1273
April 25, 1862 1274
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) 1275
Life in the Iron- Mills 1277
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) 1304
Little Women 1306
Part Second. Chapter IV. Literary Lessons 1306
Selected Bibliographies A1
Permissions Acknowledgments A23
Index A25
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