American Literature I (English 318)
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William Bradford 
Biography 
Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapters IX, X, and XXVIII

Ann Bradstreet
Biography
 
"The Author to Her Book"
"Before the Birth..."
"To My Dear... Husband"
 "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild"
"Upon the Burning of Our House" 
"As a Weary Pilgrim"

Edward Taylor
Biography
 
"The Joy of Church Fellowship"
"The Reflexion"
"Meditation 8"
"Meditation 39"
 "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" 

Jonathan Edwards
Biography
 
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Benjamin Franklin
Biography
 
Poor Richard
The Autobiography (from Part Two)

Thomas Jefferson
Biography
 
"Letter to John Adams"

Thomas Paine 
Biography
 
"The Age of Reason"

Philip Freneau
Biography
 
"To Sir Toby"
"On the Universality... of Nature"

Washington Irving
Biography
 
"Rip Van Winkle"

James Fenimore Cooper
Biography
 
from The Deerslayer

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biography
 
"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
"The Divinity School Address"
"Experience"
"Fate"
Study Notes: Emerson
Nature
The American Scholar
The Divinity School Address
Experience
Fate

Henry David Thoreau
Biography 
from Walden:
"Economy"
"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" 
"Higher Laws"
"Spring"
"Conclusion"

Walt Whitman
Biography 
"Song of Myself"  
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"Passage to India"
Study Notes: Whitman
"Song of Myself"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"Out of the Cradle..."
"When Lilacs..."

William Cullen Bryant
Biography
 
"Thanatopsis"
"To a Waterfowl" 
"To the Fringed Gentian"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Biography 
"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" 
"My Lost Youth"

John Greenleaf Whittier
Biography
 
"Snow-Bound"

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Biography
 
 "The Chambered Nautilus"

Edgar Allan Poe
Biography
 
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"Ligeia"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Tell Tale Heart"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biography 
"Young Goodman Brown"
"The Birth Mark"
"The Minister's Black Veil"

Herman Melville
Biography 
"Bartleby the Scrivener" 

Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Biography
 
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapters I and XL 

Frederick Douglass
Biography 
The Life and Times, Chapters 15 and 17