Short Works in American Literature

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1 Short Works in American Literature A Thematic Approach 1234 Dr. Huntington Lyman The Hill School

2 From the American Literature: Essential Short Works Collection Collection Editor, Dr. Huntington Lyman Copyright 2009 by University Reader Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the rights holder. University Reader Company, Inc. gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint previously published material. Produced for demonstration purposes only by University Reader Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America

3 Contents 1234 Early Voices 1. Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, 1 2. July 10, 1666, Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book, Anne Bradstreet 3 3. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards 4 4. Ain t I a Woman?, Sojourner Truth Of Plymouth Plantation (Chapter IX), William Bradford 17 Revolutionary Perspective 6. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau 29 Romanticism 9. Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving 49 Dark Romantics 11. The Minister s Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville 97 Transcendentalism 17. The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson There Was a Child Went Forth, Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn d Astronomer, Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman 171

4 American Crisis 24. The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce 174 Realism 27. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain To Build a Fire, Jack London The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Ernest Hemingway 198 American Dream 30. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot 222 Modern Perspective 31. Richard Cory, Edwin Arlington Robinson Chicago, Carl Sandburg The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say, William Carlos Williams Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut 232 Cultural Identity and Diversity 36. To S. M. A Young African Painter, 238 On Seeing His Works, Phillis Wheatley 37. I Will Fight No More Forever, Chief Joseph We Wear the Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar A Dream Deferred, Langston Hughes I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. 243 Women s Voices Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church, Emily Dickinson 247 Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, Emily Dickinson 248 I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, Emily Dickinson 249 Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson 250 Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant, Emily Dickinson 252 Metaphors, Sylvia Plath 253

5 Natural World 47. Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Henry David Thoreau The Open Boat, Stephen Crane The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost 284 Author Biographies Ambrose Bierce 285 William Bradford 288 Anne Bradstreet 291 William Cullen Bryant 293 Chief Joseph 295 Stephen Crane 300 Emily Dickinson 302 Paul Laurence Dunbar 304 Jonathan Edwards 307 T.S. Eliot 314 Ralph Waldo Emerson 316 Robert Frost 319 Nathaniel Hawthorne 322 Ernest Hemingway 324 Patrick Henry 331 Langston Hughes 335 Washington Irving 339 Thomas Jefferson 343 Martin Luther King, Jr. 345 Abraham Lincoln 354 Jack London 357 Herman Melville 362 Sylvia Plath 365 Edgar Allan Poe 368 Edwin Arlington Robinson 371 Carl Sandburg 373 Henry David Thoreau 375 Sojourner Truth 380 Mark Twain 384 Kurt Vonnegut 387 Phillis Wheatley 390 Walt Whitman 392 William Carlos Williams 397