Chapter 1 EARLY AMERICA TO 1750
INTRODUCTION
William Bradford（ 1590-1657 ）
from Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet （1612-1672）
To My Dear and Loving Husband
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 2 REASON AND REVOLUTION 1750-1800
INTRODUCTION
Benjamin Franklin （1706-1790）
from Poor Richard s Almanac
Thomas Paine （1737-1809）
from The American Crisis
Thomas Jefferson （1743-1826）
The Declaration of Independence
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 3 NATIVE GROUNDS 1800-1840
INTRODUCTION
Washington Irving（1783-1859）
Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper （ 1789-1851 ）
from The Last of the Mohicans
William Cullen Bryant（1794-1878）
Thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe（1809-1849）
To Helen
The Raven
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 4 NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 1840-1855
INTRODUCTION
Ralph Waldo Emerson （1803-1882）
from Nature
from Self Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne （1804-1864）
from The Scarlet Letter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow （1807-1882）
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises， the Tide Falls
LITERARY FOCUS
READING FOR APPRECIATION
VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 5 CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855-1880
INTRODUCTION
Walt Whitman（1819-1892）
from Song of Myself
O Captain ! My Captain !
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Chapter 6 REGIONALISM AND REALISM 1880-1910
Chapter 7 THE BLOOM OF MODERNISM 1910-1930
Chapter 8 MID-CENTURY VOICES 1930-1960
Chapter 9 IN OUR TIME 1960-PRESENT
BIBLIOGRAPHY