The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter 9th Edition by Robert S. Levine, ISBN-13: 978-0393264524

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter 9th Edition by Robert S. Levine, ISBN-13: 978-0393264524

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• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter Ninth edition (September 15, 2017)
• Language: ‎ English
• 1376 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0393264521
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393264524

A responsive, refreshed, and media rich revision of the market leading anthology.

Table of Contents:

preface xvii

acknowl edgments xxv

Beginnings t o 1 820

introduction 3

timeline 26

native american oral lit er a ture 29

stories of the beginning of the world 31

The Iroquois Creation Story 32

trickster tales 35

From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin) 35

oratory 38

Powhatan’s Discourse of Peace and War 38

King Philip’s Speech 40

poetry 41

Cherokee War Song 42

Lenape War Song 43

Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship 44

Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) 44

Letter of Discovery (February 15, 1493) 45

From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage

(July 7, 1503) 51

John Smith (1580–1631) 53

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 56

The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the

First Supply 56

From The Fourth Book. [Smith’s Farewell to Virginia] 65

From A Description of New England 66

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William Bradford (1590–1657) 69

Of Plymouth Plantation 73

Book I 73

From Chapter I. [The En glish Reformation] 73

Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and

of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 75

Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation;

and What Befell Them Thereabout 78

Book II 82

Chapter XI. The Remainder of Anno 1620 82

[Difficult Beginnings] 83

[Dealings with the Natives] 84

Chapter XIX. Anno 1628 [Mr. Morton of Merrymount] 87

Chapter XXIII. Anno 1632 [Prosperity Weakens Community] 91

John Winthrop (1588–1649) 92

A Model of Christian Charity 93

Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683) 104

A Key into the Language of Amer i ca 106

To My Dear and Well- Beloved Friends and Countrymen,

in Old and New England 106

Directions for the Use of Language 110

An Help to the Native Language 111

From Chapter I. Of Salutation 111

From Chapter II. Of Eating and Entertainment 111

From Chapter VI. Of the Family and Business of the House 111

From Chapter XI. Of Travel 112

From Chapter XVIII. Of the Sea 112

Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) 112

The Prologue 114

Contemplations 115

The Author to Her Book 122

Before the Birth of One of Her Children 123

To My Dear and Loving Husband 124

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 124

In Memory of My Dear Grand child Elizabeth Bradstreet 125

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House 125

To My Dear Children 127

Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637–1711) 130

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 132

The First Remove 134

The Second Remove 135

The Third Remove 136

The Twelfth Remove 139

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The Nineteenth Remove 140

The Twentieth Remove 143

Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729) 152

Preparatory Meditations 153

Prologue 153

Meditation 8 (First Series) 154

God’s Determinations 155

The Preface 155

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children 157

Huswifery 158

Cotton Mather (1663–1728) 159

The Won ders of the Invisible World 160

[A People of God in the Dev il’s Territories] 160

[The Trial of Martha Carrier] 163

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) 166

Personal Narrative 168

A Divine and Super natural Light 179

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 192

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) 204

The Way to Wealth 208

The Speech of Miss Polly Baker 214

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North Amer i ca 216

The Autobiography 220

[Part I] 221

[Part II] 268

Samson Occom (1723–1792) 284

A Short Narrative of My Life 287

A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian 292

Hymns 303

The Sufferings of Christ, or Throughout the Saviour’s Life

We Trace 303

A Morning Hymn, or Now the Shades of Night Are Gone 304

A Son’s Farewell, or I Hear the Gospel’s Joyful Sound 305

ethnographic and naturalist writings 306

sarah kemble knight: From The Private Journal of a Journey

from Boston to New York in the Year 1704 307

william bartram: Anecdotes of an American Crow 313

hendrick aupaumut: From History of the Muh- he- con- nuk Indians 317

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J. Hector St. John de CrÈvecoeur (1735–1813) 321

Letters from an American Farmer 323

From Letter III. What Is an American? 323

From Letter IX. Description of Charles- Town; Thoughts on Slavery;

on Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene 333

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) 337

Common Sense 339

Introduction 339

From III. Thoughts on the Pres ent State of American Affairs 340

The Crisis, No. 1 346

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 352

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 354

From The Declaration of In de pen dence 354

The Federalist 360

No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton] 362

No. 10 [James Madison] 365

Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797) 370

The In ter est ing Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself 372

From Chapter I 372

Chapter II 373

From Chapter III 383

From Chapter IV 386

From Chapter V 390

From Chapter VI 394

From Chapter VII 402

Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) 406

On the Equality of the Sexes 408

Philip Freneau (1752–1832) 416

The Wild Honey Suckle 417

The Indian Burying Ground 418

On the Religion of Nature 419

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) 420

On Being Brought from Africa to Amer i ca 422

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth 422

To the University of Cambridge, in New England 423

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 424

Thoughts on the Works of Providence 425

To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 428

To His Excellency General Washington 429

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Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) 431

Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist 433

native american eloquence:

negotiation and re sis tance 475

canassatego: Speech at Lancaster 476

pontiac: Speech at Detroit 479

logan: From Chief Logan’s Speech 481

cherokee women: To Governor Benjamin Franklin 483

tecumseh: Speech to the Osages 484

American lit er a ture 1820–1865

introduction 489

timeline 508

Washington Irving (1783–1859) 511

The Author’s Account of Himself 513

Rip Van Winkle 515

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) 527

The Last of the Mohicans 529

Volume I, Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook;

Stories of the Fathers] 530

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) 536

Thanatopsis 538

To a Waterfowl 540

The Prairies 541

William Apess (1798–1839) 543

An Indian’s Looking- Glass for the White Man 545

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) 550

Nature 553

The American Scholar 582

Self- Reliance 596

The Poet 613

Each and All 628

Brahma 630

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native americans: removal and re sis tance 631

black hawk: From Life of Ma- ka- tai- me- she- kia- kiak, or

Black Hawk 631

petalesharo: Speech of the Pawnee Chief 636

Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief 638

elias boudinot: From the Cherokee Phoenix 639

the cherokee memorials 643

Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, 1829 643

ralph waldo emerson: Letter to Martin Van Buren 648

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 651

My Kinsman, Major Molineux 655

Young Goodman Brown 668

The May- Pole of Merry Mount 678

The Minister’s Black Veil 685

The Birth- Mark 694

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) 706

A Psalm of Life 708

The Slave Singing at Midnight 709

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 710

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) 712

Snow- Bound: A Winter Idyl 714

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 731

The Raven 735

Annabel Lee 738

Ligeia 739

The Fall of the House of Usher 749

The Tell- Tale Heart 762

The Black Cat 766

The Purloined Letter 772

The Cask of Amontillado 785

The Philosophy of Composition 790

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 799

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,

November 19, 1863 801

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 801

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) 803

The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women 806

[Four Kinds of Equality] 806

[The Great Radical Dualism] 810

Co n t e n t S | x i i i

slavery, race, and the making of

american lit er a ture 815

thomas jefferson: From Notes on the State of Virginia 816

david walker: From David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles 819

samuel e. cornish and john b. russwurm: To Our Patrons 823

william lloyd garrison: To the Public 826

angelina e. grimké: From Appeal to the Christian Women

of the South 829

sojourner truth: Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention

in Akron, Ohio, 1851 832

james m. whitfield: Stanzas for the First of August 833

martin r. delany: From Po liti cal Destiny of the Colored Race

on the American Continent 835

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) 838

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly 840

Volume I 840

Chapter VII. The Mother’s Strug gle 840

Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man 850

Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade 861

Volume II 873

From Chapter XXVI. Death 873

Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897) 878

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 879

I. Childhood 879

VII. The Lover 882

X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life 886

XIV. Another Link to Life 890

XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 892

XLI. Free at Last 894

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 900

Re sis tance to Civil Government 903

Walden, or Life in the Woods 920

1. Economy 920

2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 962

5. Solitude 972

17. Spring 977

18. Conclusion 988

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) 996

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,

Written by Himself 1000

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 1066

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Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 1070

Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) 1073

Inscriptions 1088

One’s- Self I Sing 1088

Shut Not Your Doors 1088

Song of Myself (1881) 1088

Children of Adam 1133

Spontaneous Me 1133

Facing West from California’s Shores 1134

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1135

Sea- Drift 1139

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 1139

By the Roadside 1144

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 1144

The Dalliance of the Eagles 1144

Drum- Taps 1145

Beat! Beat! Drums! 1145

Cavalry Crossing a Ford 1145

The Wound- Dresser 1146

Memories of President Lincoln 1148

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 1148

Herman Melville (1819–1891) 1154

Bartleby, the Scrivener 1157

Benito Cereno 1184

Battle- Pieces 1241

The Portent 1241

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) 1241

Eliza Harris 1242

Bury Me in a Free Land 1244

Learning to Read 1245

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) 1246

39 [I never lost as much but twice – ] 1250

112 [Success is counted sweetest] 1250

122 [ These are the days when Birds come back – ] 1251

124 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers – ] 1251

202 [“Faith” is a fine invention] 1252

207 [I taste a liquor never brewed – ] 1252

236 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – ] 1253

259 [A Clock stopped – ] 1253

260 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] 1254

269 [Wild Nights – Wild Nights!] 1254

320 [ There’s a certain Slant of light] 1254

339 [I like a look of Agony] 1256

340 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 1256

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353 [I’m ceded— I’ve stopped being Their’s] 1257

355 [It was not Death, for I stood up] 1257

359 [A Bird, came down the Walk – ] 1258

365 [I know that He exists] 1258

372 [ After great pain, a formal feeling comes – ] 1259

373 [This World is not conclusion] 1259

409 [The Soul selects her own Society – ] 1260

411 [Mine – by the Right of the White Election!] 1260

446 [This was a Poet – ] 1261

448 [I died for Beauty – but was scarce] 1261

479 [ Because I could not stop for Death – ] 1262

518 [When I was small, a Woman died – ] 1262

519 [This is my letter to the World] 1263

591 [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – ] 1263

598 [The Brain – is wider than the Sky – ] 1264

620 [Much Madness is divinest Sense – ] 1264

656 [I started Early – Took my Dog – ] 1264

704 [My Portion is Defeat— today – ] 1265

706 [I cannot live with You – ] 1266

760 [Pain – has an Ele ment of Blank – ] 1267

764 [My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – ] 1267

788 [Publication – is the Auction] 1268

1096 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 1268

1108 [The Bustle in a House] 1269

1212 [My Triumph lasted till the Drums] 1269

1263 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – ] 1270

1577 [The Bible is an antique Volume – ] 1270

1773 [My life closed twice before it’s close] 1271

Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on Poem 124 1271

Letters to Thomas Went worth Higginson 1273

April 15, 1862 1273

April 25, 1862 1274

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) 1275

Life in the Iron- Mills 1277

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) 1304

Little Women 1306

Part Second. Chapter IV. Literary Lessons 1306

Selected Bibliographies A1

Permissions Acknowledgments A23

Index A25

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