Letter X: To the same 677
Letter XI: To Mr. Charles Deighton 678
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) 678
from The Gleaner: 679
Preface to the Reader 679
from number 1 (Volume 1) 681
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) 684
from Arthur Mervyn: 687
Chapter XV (Part I) 687
from Wieland: 689
Chapter XVII 689
Progress and crisis: The early to middle 19th century 695
EARLY TO MIDDLE 19TH-CENTURY FICTION 695
Washington Irving (1783-1859) 707
from The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.: 710
The author's account of himself 710
Rip Van Winkle 712
The legend of sleepy hollow 724
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 745
from Notions of the Americans: 747
[Literature in the United States] 747
Preface to the leather-stocking tales 753
from The deerslayer: 756
from Chapter VII [leather-stocking is named Hawkeye] 756
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 761
Ligeia 765
The fall of the house of usher 776
The tell-tale heart 789
The black cat 792
The cask of Amontillado 798
Sonnet - To science 803
To Helen 804
Israfel 804
The sleeper 806
The city in the sea 807
Sonnet-silence 809
Dream-land 809
The raven 811