Contents x
[April, 1859.] 440
[June, 1863.] 440
[May 24, 1864.] 441
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 442
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 444
[Nature, Poetry, and the Poet] 444
Walden 446
Economy 446
Where l Lived, and What l Lived for 485
Brute Neighbors 494
Conclusion 501
Civil Disobedience 508
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 522
Romance 525
Sonnet-To Science 525
Lenore 526
The Sleeper 526
Isafel 528
To Helen 529
The City in the Sea 530
The Coliseum 531
To One in Paradise 532
Sonnet-silence 533
Dream-Land 533
The Raven 535
Ulalume 537
Annabel Lee 540
Ligeia 541
The Fall of the House of Usher 551
The Purloined Letter 563
The Cask of Amontillado 574
Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review 579
The Philosophy of Composition 583
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 591
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 593
Young Goodman Brown 604
Wakefield 612
The Minister's Black Veil 617
The Maypole of Merry Mount 625
The Birthmark 632
Rappaccini's Daughter 642
Ethan Brand 659
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 669
Bartleby the Scrivener 672