William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) 533
Thanatopsis 535
The Prairies 537
GALLERY: Indian Removal and Resistance
Handsome Lake (1735-1815), How the white race came to America and why the Gai 'wilo' became a necessity 545
David Brown (1802?-1829), Address of Dewi brown, A Cherokee Indian 548
Cherokee Tribal Council, Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829 553
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), From Message of the president of the united states to both houses of congress at the commencement of the second session of the twenty-first congress, December 7, 1830 557
William Apess (1798-1839), An Indian's looking-glass for the white man 562
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841), Invocation 568
PART THREE: Literature in a divided nation (1830-1865) 571
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
Chocorua's curse 580
Slavery's Pleasant Homes: A faithful sketch 585
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 590
Nature 592
The American Scholar 626
Self-Reliance 641
Concord Hymn 661
The Rhodora 661
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: George Ripley and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected letters 662
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 667
Young Goodman Brown 660
The minister's black veil 680
The birth-mark 690
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses 704
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 709
A Psalm of life 711
The village blacksmith 712