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1 Nineteenth-Century American Literature Apes, William ~ "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man 1833 Bierce, Ambrose "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 1819/91?? "Chickanmaugua" Bryant, William Cullen "The Yellow Violet", in Heath 1814 "Thanatopsis" 1817 "The Poet" 1836 "Abraham Lincoln" 1865 "To a Waterfowl" 1821 "The Prairies" 1833/34 "Sonnet: To an American Painter Departing 4 Europe" 1832 "A Forest Hymn" 1831 "An Indian at the Burial Place of His Fathers" 1831 Chopin, Kate ~ "The Storm" "The Mourners" Crane, Stephen ~ "The Upturned Face" 1897 "The Open Boat" 1897 "The Blue Hotel" 1897 "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" 1898 "Black Riders and Other Lines" 1895 "War is Kind" 1899 Dickinson, Emily selections from Final Harvest from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson : I never told the buried gold 49: I never lost as much but twice 79: Going to Heaven! 144: She bore it till the simple veins 185: "Faith" is a fine invention 214: I taste a liquor never brewed : Safe in their alabaster chambers 258: There's a certain Slant of Light : I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 281: 'Tis so appallin -- it exhilarates : The Soul selects her own Society : After great pain, a formal feeling comes : This was a Poet -- it That

2 449: I died for Beauty -- but was scarce : I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died : It was not Death, for I stood up : The Brain -- is wider than the sky 650: Pain -- has an Element of Blank : Because I could not stop for Death : My Life has Stood -- a Loaded Gun : Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 1651: A Word made Flesh is Seldom I read my sentence - steadily 1862 Twas like a Mailstrom, with a notch 1862 A Wife - at Daybreak I shall be 1862 I'm ceded - I've stopped 1862 The Soul has Bandaged Moments 1862 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 1859,60 I'm 'wife' - I've finished that A Wounded Dear - leaps highest The difference between Despair He fumbles at your soul 1862 Dare you see a soul at the White Heat? 1862 There is a pain - so utter 1862 One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted 1863 Behind me - dips Eternity Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue 1863 Title Divine - is mine! 1862 Death is the Supple Suitor 1878 I like a Look of Agony 1861 They Shut Me Up in Prose Our Journey Had Advanced Glee -- The Great Storm is Over Of God We Ask One Favor 1884 Dunbar "We Wear the Mask" 1896 "Sympathy" 1899 Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Nature" "The American Scholar" 1837 "Divinity School Address" 1838

3 "Self-Reliance" 1841 "The Over-Soul" 1841 "The Poet" 1844 "Experience" 1844 "Journals: Myself" "Brahma" 1844 "Two Rivers" 1856,8 "Threnody" "The Rhodera" [Written 1834] 1847 "The Snowstorm" 1841 "Hamatreya" 1847 "Days" 1857 "Circles" 1841 "Fate" 1860 "Thoreau" 1862??? "Civil Disobedience" 1849 Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins from Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "A New England Nun" 1891 "The Revolt of 'Mother'" 1891 "Christmas Jenny" Fuller, Margaret Harper Selections 1810 "Woman in the 19th Century" 1844 "American Literature" 1846 Garland, Hamlin "Under the Lion's Paw" 1892 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "The Yellow Wallpaper" 1892 "Women and Economics" [selections] 1899 Harris, George Wahington selections Harte, Bret The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches 1870 Hawthorne, Nathaniel ~ "My Kinsman, Major Molineax" 1832 "Roger Malvin's Burial" 1832 "Young Goodman Brown" 1835 "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" 1835 "The Minister's Black Veil" 1836 "Rapaccini's Daughters" 1844 "Wakefield" 1835 "Ethan Brand" 1851

4 "The Birthmark" 1846 Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell "Old Ironsides", in Penguin 1830 "The Chambered Nautilus" 1858 "The Last Leaf" 1831,3 "Contentment" "Simple Pleasures" "The Deacon's Masterpiece"/ "The Wonderful World of One-Horse Shay" Hooper, Johnson Jones selections 1858 Howells, William Dean ~ "Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading" 1899 James, Henry ~ "The Art of Fiction" 1884 "The Lesson of the Master" 1888 "The Aspern Papers" 1888 "The Real Thing" 1892 "The Middle Years" 1893 "The Figure in the Carpet" 1896 "The Turn of the Screw" 1898 "The Beast in the Jungle" 1901 Lincoln, Abraham "First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861" 1861 "Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, November 19, 1963" 1863 "Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865" 1865 "House Divided" 1858 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth "A Psalm of Life", in Heath 1838 "The Wreck of the Hesperus" in Signet 1842 "Exclesior" 1842 "Mezzo Commin" 1886 "The Slave's Dream" 1842 "The Building of a Ship" 1850 "My Lost Youth" 1855 "The Fire of Drift-Wood" 1849 "The Village Blacksmith", in Signet 1842 "Jewish Cemetery at Newport" 1852 "Harvest Moon" 1876 "Hymn to the Night" 1839 Lowell, James Russell from "The Bigelow Papers:The Pious Editor's Creed", selections in Penguin 1848

5 "The Darkened Mind" 1869 "To the Dandelion" 1845 "A Fable for Critics" 1848 "Harvard Ode Comemorating Civil War Dead" "The Cathedral" Melville, Herman ~ "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 1853 "The Paradise of Bachelors" 1855 "The Tartarus of Maids" 1855 "Benito Cereno" 1856 "Hawthorne and His Mosses" 1846 Poe, Edgar Allen ~ "Ligeia" 1838 "The Fall of the House of Usher" 1839 "William Wilson: A Tale" 1839 "The Tell-Tale Heart" 1839 "The Black Cat" 1843 "The Purloined Letter" 1844 "The Cask of Amontillado" 1846 "Annabel Lee" 1849 "The Raven" 1845 "The Lake" "Preface"/"to Romance" 1829/45 "[Introduction]" (to 1831 poems) "To-- Ulalume: A Ballad" 1847 "Dream-Land" 1844,5 "The Sleeper" 1831,45 "Israfel" 1831,45 "To Helen" 1831,45 "Sonnet:To Science" 1829,45 "Fairyland" 1829,45 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" 1941 "The Philosophy of Composition" 1846 "The Black Cat" 1843 "A Review of Twice-Told Tales" 1842 "The Purloined Letter" 1844 "The Imp of the Pervierse" 1842 "The Man of the Crowd" 1840

6 "City Under the Sea" 1831,45 "The Poetic Principle" 1850 "The Pit and the Pendulum" 1843 "The Gold Bug" Thoreau, Henry David ~ "Resistance to Civil Government" 1849 "A Plea for Captain John Brown" 1860??? "Civil Disobedience" 1849 "Slavery in Massachusettes" 1854 "The Last Days of John Brown" 1860 "After the Death of John Brown" 1860 Thorpe, T.B. "Big Bear of Arkansas" 1841 Twain, Mark ~ "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1865 "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" 1899 "The Mysterious Stranger" 1916 Whitman, Walt from Leaves of Grass, in Signet "Song of Myself" "I Sing in the Body Electric" "Song of the Open Road" "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" 1856 "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" "O Captain! My Captain!" "What is the Grass?" "For You O Democracy" "Trickle Drops" "Pioneers! Pioneers! "When I heard the Learned Astronmer" "Drumtaps" [selections] 1865 "Beat! Beat! Drums!" "Calvary Crossinf a Ford" "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" "A March inthe Ranks Hard-Press,&the Road Ukwn" "A Sight in Ca,mp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" "As Toilsome I Wander's Virginia's Wood" "The Wound-Dresser" "Reconciliation"

7 "Passage to India" "As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Comrado" "From Pent-Up Aching Rivers" "Spontaneous Me" "Facing West From California's Shores" "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" 1888 "Democratic Vistas" 1871 "Specimen Days" 1882 Whittier, John Greenleaf "The Hunters of Men" 1835 "The Farewell" 1838 "Snow-Bound" 1866 "Ichabod" 1850 "Massachusetts to Virginia" 1864 "At Port Royale" 1962 Among the Hills 1869

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