xii Contents
Washington Irving 95
Knickerbocker’s History of New York 97
The Author’s Apology 97
Book III, Chapter 1 98
Stories 104
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 104
The Devil and Tom Walk 119
James Fenimore Cooper 124
Notions of the Americans [selection] 126
The American Democrat [selection] 128
The Leather-Stocking Tales 129
Preface 129
The Prairie 131
Chapter 32 132
Chapter 33 138
Chapter 34 142
Ralph Waldo Emerson 149
Journals [selections] 152
Self-Reliance 155
Politics 166
The Poet 172
Illusions 183
The Fortune of the Republic 187
Poetry 196
The Rhodora 197
Each and All 197
The Problem 197
Ode 198
Uriel 199
Hamatreya 200
Days 201
Brahma 201
Two Rivers 201
Terminus 201
Nathaniel Hawthorne 202
The American Notebooks [selections] 204
Stories 207
The Maypole of Merry Mount 207
The Celestial Railroad 212
Young Goodman Brown 221
Rappaccini’s Daughter 227
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 241
The House of the Seven Gables 250
Preface 250
Edgar Allan Poe 251
Poetry 253
Sonnet- to Science 253
To Helen 254
Israfel 254
The City in the Sea 255
The Sleeper 255
The Raven 256
Ulalume 258
Stories 260
The Fall of the House of Usher 260
The Masque of Red Death 268
The Purloined Letter 271
Criticism 280
Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [A review] 280
The Philosophy of Composition 283
Henry David Thoreau 289
Journals [selections] 291
Essays 294
A Winter Walk 294
Civil Disobedience 300
Poetry 311
The Inward Morning 312
Haze 312
Smoke 312
Inspiration 312
Five New England Poets
William Cullen Bryant 314
Poetry 315
Thanatopsis 315
To a Waterfowl 316
A Forest Hymn 317
The Death of Lincoln 318
John Greenleaf Whittier 319
Poetry 320
Ichabod 320
Telling the Bees 320
The Eternal Goodness 321