The American Democrat 314
An aristocrat and a democrat 314
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 316
Thanatopsis 318
The yellow violet 320
To a Waterfowl 321
A forest hymn 322
To the fringed gentian 325
The prairies 325
The Death of lincoln 328
Transcendentalism 329
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 331
Nature 333
The american schoalr 361
The divinity school address 373
Self-Reliance 385
The over-soul 401
Concord Hymn 412
Each and All 412
The Rhodora 413
The problem 414
Hamatreya 416
Give all to love 417
Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing) 419
Fable 421
Brahma 422
Days 422
Terminus 423
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 424
Walden 426
Economy 426
Where I lived, and what I lived for 466
Brute Neighbors 476
Conclusion 483
Civil Disobedience 490
Romanticism 505
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 508
Romance 510
Sonnet- to science 511