Chapter 1 EARLY AMERICA TO 1750
INTRODUCTION
William Bradford( 1590-1657 )
from Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 2 REASON AND REVOLUTION 1750-1800
INTRODUCTION
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
from Poor Richard s Almanac
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
from The American Crisis
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The Declaration of Independence
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 3 NATIVE GROUNDS 1800-1840
INTRODUCTION
Washington Irving(1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper ( 1789-1851 )
from The Last of the Mohicans
William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
To Helen
The Raven
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 4 NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 1840-1855
INTRODUCTION
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
from Nature
from Self Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
from The Scarlet Letter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 5 CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880
INTRODUCTION
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
from Song of Myself
O Captain ! My Captain !
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Chapter 6 REGIONALISM AND REALISM 1880-1910
Chapter 7 THE BLOOM OF MODERNISM 1910-1930
Chapter 8 MID-CENTURY VOICES 1930-1960
Chapter 9 IN OUR TIME 1960-PRESENT
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