JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 225
The american democrat
An aristocrat and a democrat 227
the deerslayer, chapter XXVII 227
[The young deerslayer] 229
The last of the mohicans, chapter XXXII
[The hawk-eye of the indian wars] 235
The prairie, chapter XXXIX
[Death of a hero] 241
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 245
Thanatopsis 247
the yellow violet 248
to a waterfowl 249
a forest hymn 250
to the fringed gentian 252
the prairies 253
the death of lincoln 256
the flood of years 256
THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY (1807-1882) 260
The skeleton in armor 262
the arsenal at Springfield 266
the song of hiawatha
IV. Hiawatha and mudjekeewis 267
V. Hiawatha's fasting 273
VII. Hiawatha's sailing 278
VIII. Hiawatha's fishing 281
The Jewish cemetery at Newport 285
my lost youth 287
divina commedia 289
chaucer 291
nature 292
the tide rises, the tide falls 292
the cross of snow 293
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 293
Ichabod 295
first-day thoughts 296
skipper ireson's ride 297
telling the bees 299
lase deo 301
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) 302
Old ironsides 304
the last leaf 305
my aunt 306
the cha,bered nautilus 307
the deacon's masterpiece 308