Chapter 2 Anne Bradstreet (1612—1672)
To my Dear and Loving Husband
Part Two The 18 th Century
Chapter 1 Enlightenment
Chapter 2 Philip Freneau (1752—1832)
The Wild Honey Suckle
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
Part Three The 19 th Century
Chapter 1 American Romanticism
Chapter 2 William Cullen Bryant(1794—1878)
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 3 Washington Irving (1783—1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Chapter 4 James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851)
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807—1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Daybreak
Chapter 6 Walt Whitman (1819—1892)
O Captain ! My Captain !
Song of Myself
Chapter 7 Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
Success Is Counted Sweetest
I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Chapter 8 Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
To Helen
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 10 Herman Melville (1819—1891)
Moby Dick
Chapter 11 American Realism
Chapter 12 Mark Twain (1835—1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 13 Henry James (1843—1916)
The Portrait of a Lady