Lenore 511
The sleeper 512
Israfel 514
To Helen 515
The city in the sea 516
The coliseum 517
To one in paradise 518
Sonnet-Silence 519
Dream-land 519
The raven 521
Ulualume 524
Annabel Lee 526
Ligeia 527
The fall of the house of usher 538
The Purloined letter 550
Thee cask of amontillado 562
The philosophy of composition 567
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 574
My kinsman, Major Molineux 577
Young Goodman Brown 589
The Minister's Black veil 598
The Maypole of Merry Mount 606
The Birthmark 613
Rappaccini's daughter 624
Ethan Brand 642
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 652
Bartleby the Scrivener 654
BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR
The Portent 679
Malvern hill 679
TIMOLEON
The Maldive Shark 680
Billy Budd, Sailor 681
The Humanitarian Sensibility and the inevitable conflict 733
Democracy and social reform 733
Inevitable conflict 735
Timeline: The humanitarian sensibility and the inevitable conflict 738