Part I The Literature of Colonial America
Chapter 1 John Smith
Chapter 2 William Bradford and John Winthrop
Chapter 3 John Cotton and Roger Williams
Chapter 4 Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Chapter 5 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Chapter 6 Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 8 Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
To a Caty-Did
Part III The Literature of Romanticism
Chapter 9 Washington Irving
The Author’s Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Chapter 10 James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 11 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 12 Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Chapter 14 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 16 Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 17 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Slave’s Dream
My Lost Youth
The Song of Hiawatha