The Oxford anthology of American literature
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New York : Oxford University Press, c1938.
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Table of Contents
Volume 1: A true relation of Virginia / John Smith
News from Virginia / Richard Rich
Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford
New English Canaan / Thomas Morton
The simple cobbler of Aggawam / Nathaniel Ward
The bloody tenent yet more bloody / Roger Williams
Daily meditations / Philip Pain
Meditations divine and moral
The prologue
The flesh and the spirit
Epitaph on a patriot
To my dear and loving husband
Before the birth of one of her children
Contemplations
As weary pilgrim, now at rest / Anne Bradstreet
New England's rarities discovered / John Josselyn
A narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary Rowlandson
The day of doom
God's controversy with New England / Michael Wigglesworth
New England's crisis
On a fortification at Boston begun by women
Epitath for my father
A neighbor's tears / Benjamin Tompson
Deliciae Hortenses
Voluptates Apianae / Francis Pastorius
God's determinaiton touching his elect / Edward Taylor.
Housewifery
Meditations / Edward Taylor
Winter meditations
Political fables
Magnalia Christi Americana
Essays to do good
The Christian philosopher
Manuductio Ad Ministerium / Cotton Mather
The parable of the ten virgins / Benjamin Colman
The diary of Samuel Sewall / Samuel Sewall
The journal of Madam Knight / Sara Kemble Knight
Hymnology / Mather Byles, Joseph Green
Hymn to the morning
Song / William Dawson
A progress to the mines / William Byrd
Sarah Pierrepont
Nature
Personal Narrative
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards
A query on style
The autobiography
The way to wealth
The sale of the Hessians
The ephemera
The whistle
Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout / Benjamin Franklin
The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman
Travels / William Bartram
A snow storm as it affects the American Farmer
What is an American? / Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur
The history of Massachusette-Bay / Thomas Hutchinson
Common Sense / Thomas Paine
United States of America / Thomas Jefferson
The federalist / James Madison
The invitation
A dithyrambic on wine / Thomas Godfrey
The battle of the kegs
Song / Francis Hopkinson
M'Fingal / John Trumbull
The hasty pudding / Joel Barlow
To the memory of the brave Americans
The northern soldier
The house of night
Mars and Hymen
The wild honeysuckle
The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau
The culprit Fay / Joseph Rodman Drake
On the death of Joseph Rodman Drake
Marco Bozzaris
The field of the grounded arms / Fitz-Greene Halleck
Knickerbocker's history of New York / Washington Irving.
Westminster Abbey
Rip Van Winkle
Legend of the rose of the Alhambra / Washington Irving
The pilot
Preface to the leatherstocking tales
Deerslayer / James Fenimore Cooper
The horse-swap / Augustus B. Longstreet
Woodcraft
The swamp fox / William Gilmore Simms
On the value and uses of poetry
Thanatopsis
Inscription for the entrance to a wood
To a waterfowl
Summer wind
I broke the spell that held me long
Monument mountain
Mutation
The death of the flowers
To the fringed gentian
The flood of years
The poet / William Cullen Bryant
The coral grove / James Gates Percival
Ode for the celebration of the battle of Bunker Hill - Grenville Mellen
Serenade
A health / Edward Coote Pinkney.
Avalon
Sonnet, to Isa sleeping / Thomas Holley Chivers
Hawthorne's twice-told tales
Ligeia
The fall of the house of Usher
The cask of Amontillado
The purloined letter
The tell-tale heart
Letter to B
The philosophy of composition
A dream within a dream
Sonnet, to science
Al Aaraaf
Romance
To Helen
Israfel
The city in the sea
The sleeper
Lenore
The valley of unrest
To one in paradise
Dream-land
The raven
Ulalume- a ballad
The bells
Eldorado
For Annie
To my Mother
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
The old manse
The gray champion
The scarlet letter
Ethan Brand
The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nature
Self-reliance
The American scholar
The poet
Napoleon
Good-bye
Each and all
The problem
Uriel
The sphinx
Mithridates
Destiny
Hamatreya
The rhodora
The humble-bee
The snow-storm
The Bohemian Hymn
Fable
Experience
Character
Friendship
Compensation
Forbearance
The park
Give all to love
The apology
Bacchus
Concord Hymn
Brahma
Fate
Boston hymn
Voluntaries
Letters
The Romany Girl
Days
Two rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
The past
Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden / Inspiration
My life is like a stroll upon the beach
Friendship
The summer rain
Haze
Smoke in winter
Conscience
Independence / Henry David Thoreau
Gnosis
The pines and the sea / Christopher Pearse Cranch
The earth spirit
The mountain
Flight of the wild geese / William Ellery Channing.
Hymn to the night
A psalm of life
The skeleton in armor
The Spanish student
Mezzo Cammin
Tegner's drapa
The warden of the cinque ports
The song of Hiawatha
My lost youth
Sandalphon
The children's hour
Paul Revere's ride
The saga of King Olaf
Hawthorne
Divina commedia
The divine comedy
Belisarius
Chaucer
Milton
A Dutch picture
Venice
The cross of snow
Jugurtha
Helen of Tyre
The bells of San Blas / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The autocrat of the breakfast-table
Old ironsides
The last leaf
The height of the ridiculous
On lending a punch-bowl
The moral bully
The chambered nautilus
The Deacon's masterpiece
Dorothy Q
At the Saturday club / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Proem
Massachusetts to Virginia
Song of the slaves in the desert
Ichabod
The barefoot boy
For righteousness' sake
Skipper Ireson's ride
Telling the bees
Barbara Frietchie
Laus Deo!
The eternal goodness
Snow-bound
Our master
The pressed gentian
The brewing of Soma / John Greenleaf Whittier.
On a certain condescension in foreigners
Rhoecus
The Biglow papers
Hebe
The vision of Sir Launfal
A fable for critics
After the burial
Ode recited at the Harvard
Commemoration
A foreboding
Das Ewig-Weibliche
Auspex / James Russell Lowell
An opium fantasy / Maria Lowell
The Oregon trail / Francis Parkman
The conquest of Mexico / William Prescott
Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Typee
White-jacket
Mardi
Pierre
Moby Dick
The song
Ha, Ha, gods and kings
Quack! Quack! Quack!
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
In the prison pen
Clarel
Bridegroom Dick
The haglets
Monody
In the pauper's turnip field
Art / Herman Melville
Dirge / Thomas William Parsons
The river fight / Henry Howard Brownell
Farragut / William Tuckey Meredith
Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read
Dirge for a soldier / George Henry Boker
The high tide at Gettysburg / William Henry Thompson
Keenan's charge / George Parsons Lathrop.
Volume 2: A backward glance O'er travel'd roads
Specimen days
One's-self I sing
I hear America singing
Song of myself
One hour to madness and joy
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
I hear it was charged against me
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the broad-axe
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
France
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
To the man-of-war-bird
On the beach at night
Europe
When I heard the learn'd astronomer
Cavalry crossing a ford
Come up from the fields father
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
The wound-dresser
Give me the splendid silent sun
Ethiopia saluting the colors
Reconciliation
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
O Captain! My Captain!
There was a child went forth
The cityy dead house
To a common prostitute
Who learns my lesson complete?
Italian music in Dakota
Passage to India
Chanting the square deific
A noiseless patient spider
The last invocation
To a locomotive in winter
Years of the modern
Mannahatta
With husky-haughty lips, o sea!
After the supper and talk
So long!
As at thy portals also death
Good-bye my fancy! / Walt Whitman.
Fredericksburg
Identity
Heredity
Memory / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ariel in the cloven pine
Bedouin song / Bayard Taylor
How old brown took Harper's Ferry
Kearny at seven pines / Edmund Clarence Stedman
The outcasts of poker flat
Plain language from truthful James
Dickens in camp
'Jim'
What the bullet sang / Bret Harte
Jim Bludso, of the prairie belle / John Hay
Kit Carson's ride
Crossing the plains
Columbus
Song of creation / Joaquin Miller
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
Life on the Mississippi
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
Little Bessie would assist Providence / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
The cotton ball
Charleston / Henry Timrod
Aspects of the pines
The mocking-bird / Paul Hamilton Hayne
Tiger lilies
The science of English Verse
The symphony
Evening song
Song of the Chattahoochee
The revenge of Hamish
Opposition
A ballad of trees and the master
The crystal
Hymn of the marshes / Sidney Lanier.
Belles Demoiselles plantation / George Washington Cable
Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris
Chita / Lafcadio Hearn
The country of the pointed firs / Sarah Orne Jewett
Criticism and fiction
A modern instance / William Dean Howells
Truth at last
Five lives
The fool's prayer
Opportunity / Edward Rowland Sill
Father Damien
Evolution
Blossom
The peak
Prejudice
Fame
Expectancy
Sundered
Going blind / John Banister Tabb
The wander-lovers
Comrades
The sea gypsy
A stein song
Unmanifest destiny
At the crossroads / Richard Hovey
The wild ride
A friend's song for Simoisius / Louise Imogen Guiney.
Immortality
In time of grief
Tears
A Puritan lady / Lizette Reese
The night of Gods
Aldebaran at dusk
The black vulture
The young witch / George Sterling
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Philosophers three
Two sons
The eligible son-in-law
Moral principle and material interest
The cynic's word book / Ambrose Bierce.
The open boat
The upturned face / Stephen Crane
The octopus
The pit / Frank Norris
The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham
First snow
The poet in the desert / Charles Erskine Scott Wood
A dramatic scene
Mt. Lykaion
The soul of time / Trumbull Stickney
Gloucester Moors
The menagerie / William Vaughn Moody
The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams
A municipal report / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
The art of fiction
Crapy Cornelia
The sense of Newport
Three fragments / Henry James.
The other two / Edith Wharton
Criticism / Paul Elmer More
Justification of art
Society and solitude
At Heaven's gate
O World, thou choosest not the better part!
On the death of a metaphysician
Of thee the Northman by his Beached Galley
My heart rebels against my generation
A minuet / George Santayana
Cliff Klingenhagen
Richard Cory
How Annandale went out
Miniver Cheevey
For a dead lady
The master
Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford
Flammonde
The man against the sky
John Gorham
Eros Turannos
The gift of God
The dark hills
Mr. Flood's party
The sheaves
New England
Tristram / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Tom Mooney
Two lives / William Ellery Leonard
Mowing
The tuft of flowers
Mending wall
The death of the hired man
Home burial
After apple-picking
The road not taken
Birches
The hill wife
Out, out...
The sound of the trees
The grindstone
Fire and ice
Dust of snow
The runaway
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Th earthward
Good-bye and keep cold
Not to keep
Acquainted with the night
Canis major
The bear
Two tramps in mud time
Neither out far nor in deep
A lone striker / Robert Frost.
A gospel of beauty
Alexander Campbell
The leaden-eyed
The eagle that is forgotten
General William Booth enters into Heaven
The congo
The Booker Washington trilogy
The ghost of the buffaloes
The broncho that would not be broken
The Chinese nightingale / Vachel Lindsay
Spoon River anthology
The new Spoon River
Johnny Appleseed
Beethoven's ninth symphony and the King Cobra / Edgar Lee Masters
Chicago
To a contemporary bunkshooter
Fog
Joy
Nocturne in a deserted brickyard
Gone
I am the people, the mob
Caboose thoughts / Carl Sandburg.
A note on poetry
Garden
Orchard
Sea Gods
Oread
The pool
Leda
The islands
Sapphic fragments
Song
Lethe
Lais
Helen
Hippolytus temporizes / Hilda Doolittle
The green symphony
Down the Mississippi
A note on polyphonic prose
Clipper ships
The swan
Elegy on Tintern Abbey
Elegy on an empty skyscraper / John Gould Fletcher
Fireworks
Patterns
Lilacs
The cross-roads
The dinner-party
Little ivory figures pulled with string
Meeting-house hill
The on-looker / Amy Lowell
A note on poetry
Peace on Earth
The bull
The red wheelbarrow
The sea-elephant
Rain
The Botticellian trees
Nantucket
The red lily
This is just to say
The yachts
Fine work with Pitch and Copper / William Carlos Williams
A note on poetry
The jerboa
No swan so fine
The frigate pelican
The fish
Poetry
The monkeys
A grave
Is your town Nineveh?
To a snail
The past is the present
Silence / Marianne Moore.
A note on poetry
The worms at Heaven's Gate
The emperor of ice-cream
Sunday morning
The bird with the coppery, keen claws
To the one of fictive music
Peter Quince at the clavier
Sea surface full of clouds
The idea of order at Key West
A postcard from the volcano
Owl's clover
A thought revolved / Wallace Stevens
Discordants
The house of dust
Priapus and the pool
Sea holly
The room
Sound of breaking
The pomecitron tree
Preludes for Memnon
Time in the rock / Conrad Aiken
The woman of Andros / Thornton Wilder
The tower beyond tragedy
Noon
Night
Tamar
Ante Mortem
Tor house
Cawdor
Love the wild swan
Self criticism in February / Robinson Jeffers
Lazarus Laughed / Eugene O'Neill
How writing is written
The life of Juan Gris
A long gay book / Gertrude Stein
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson.
The undefeated / Ernest Hemingway
U.S.A. / John Dos Passos
Tradition and the individual talent
Religion and literature
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
La figlia che piange
The hippopotamus
Whispers of immortality
Sweeney among the nightingales
Gerontion
Ash-Wednesday
Marina
Coriolan
The rock / T.S. Eliot
Note by A. MacL.
Ars Poetica
You, Andrew Marvell
'Not marble nor the gilded monuments
The end of the world
L'An trentiesme de Mon Eage
The too-late born
Pony rock
Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's city
Conquistador
Speech to those who say comrade
Pole star for this year / Archibald MacLeish
Spectral lovers
Old man playing with children
Philomela / John Crowe Ransom
Elegy
Ode to the confederate dead
Mother and son
To the romantic traditionists / Allen Tate.
King David
The mountain whippoorwill
John Brown's body
Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benet
An old spell
Said of the earth and moon
The river in the meadows
Country summer
The mount
Word for harvest / Leonie Adams
Dry September / William Faulkner
Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe
General aims and theories
For the marriage of Faustus and Helen
Black tambourine
Praise for an urn
Voyages
The bridge / Hart Crane
A note of poetry
New York, Cassandra
Poem for my daughter
Chorus for survival
It is later than you think / Horace Gregory.
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c1938.
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2 v. (1658 pages) ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography: p. 1644-1647.
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Benet, W. R., & Pearson, N. H. (1938). The Oxford anthology of American literature . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Benet, William Rose, 1886-1950 and Norman Holmes Pearson. 1938. The Oxford Anthology of American Literature. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Benet, William Rose, 1886-1950 and Norman Holmes Pearson. The Oxford Anthology of American Literature Oxford University Press, 1938.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Benet, William Rose, and Norman Holmes Pearson. The Oxford Anthology of American Literature Oxford University Press, 1938.
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