| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
427 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Landing of the Pilgrims / William Bradford -- Women and dress / Nathaniel Ward -- To my...husband / Anne Bradstreet -- Huswifery / Edward Taylor -- Bewitched child / Cotton Mather -- Confession / Jonathan Edwards -- Peter Rugg... / William Austin -- Journal in Europe... / George Ticknor -- Thanatopsis ; To a waterfowl / William C. Bryant -- Military & intellectual talent / William E. Channing -- Charles & Mary Lamb / Nathaniel P. Willis -- Skeleton in armor; Day is done ; Seaweed; My lost youth ; Paul Revere's ride ; Divina Commedia ; Chaucer ; Milton ; Nature ; Tide rises... / Henry W. Longfellow -- Greatness ; Civilization ; Uriel ; Fable ; Give all to love ; Brahma ; Test ; Days ; Terminus / Ralph W. Emerson -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment ; Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- from Walden / Henry D. Thoreau -- Gale / Richard H. Dana -- Snow-bound / John G. Whittier -- Chambered nautilus ; Autocrat of the breakfast table / Oliver W. Holmes -- Coleridge ; Keats / James R. Lowell -- Household of Montezuma / William H. Prescott -- William the Silent / John L. Motley -- Topsy / Harriet B. Stowe --Champlain at Quebec / Francis Parkman -- Hospital sketch / Louisa M. Alcott -- I taste a liquor... ; I'm nobody!... ; Hope is the thing... ; I like to see it lap... ; It's such a little thing to weep ; My life closed twice... ; There is no frigate... ; Narrow fellow... ; I died for beauty... ; I never saw a moor ; Bustle in a house ; I felt a funeral... / Emily Dickinson -- Peterkins decide to learn the languages / Lucretia Hale -- Night in the water / Thomas W. Higginson -- New England conscience / Thomas G. Appleton -- Emile Zola / William D. Howells -- Bostonians / Henry James -- Individual & society / William James -- Virgin of Chartres / Henry Adams --Sierra storm / Clarence King -- Thunderstorm in the forest / Frank Bolles -- Horace / Francis M. Crawford -- Green Island / Sarah O. Jewett -- New England nun / Mary E. W. Freeman -- Veteran sirens ; Bewick Finzer ; Richard Cory ; Aaron Stark ; Miniver Cheevy ; Souvenir / Edwin A. Robinson -- Summer night piece / Amy Lowell -- Desert / George E. Woodberry -- Tactile values / Bernard Berenson -- British character ; Dons ; Distinction in Englishmen / George Santayana -- Aaron Burr / Gamaliel Bradford -- Animum non coelum / Louise I. Guiney -- Off Cape Horn / Joshua Slocum -- Stowe notes / Edward M. Taber -- Pasture ; Flower-gathering ; Mowing ; Going for water ; Road not taken ; Oven bird ; Birches ; Fire and ice ; Dust of snow ; Stopping by woods... ; Two tramps... ; Drumlin woodchuck / Robert Frost -- Father teaches me to be prompt / Clarence Day -- Tavern ; Passer mortuus est ; First fig ; Second fig ; Daphne ; Return ; Small hands, relinquish all ; Here in a rocky cup ; Oh, think not I am faithful ; I shall forget you... ; When I too long have looked ; And you as well must die ; Euclid alone has looked ... ; Epitaph for...man / Edna St. V. Millay -- Boyhood of Columbus / Samuel E. Morison -- Headlong wave / Henry Beston -- Once around the sun / Brooks Atkinson -- Pequod Island days / John P. Marquand -- Enormous room ; you shall above all things be glad and young ; love is more thicker than forget ; yes is a pleasant country ; jake hates all the girls ; this is a rubbish... ; when faces called flowers / E.E. Cummings -- Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell. |
| Subject |
American literature -- New England.
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