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Tables of Contents for The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Sixth Edition
xv
 
Acknowledgments
xix
 
American Literature 1820--1865
Introduction
957
19
Timeline
976
2
Washington Irving (1783--1859)
978
35
Rip Van Winkle
980
12
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
992
21
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)
1013
16
The Pioneers
1014
15
[The Judge's History of the Settlement; A Sudden Storm]
1015
8
[The Slaughter of the Pigeons]
1023
6
The Cherokee Memorials
1029
10
[Note on the Accompanying Memorials, February 15, 1830]
1031
1
[Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, 1829]
1032
4
[Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829]
1036
3
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867)
1039
32
Cacoethes Scribendi
1040
11
A Reminiscence of Federalism
1051
20
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)
1071
7
Thanatopsis
1072
2
To a Waterfowl
1074
1
The Prairies
1075
3
William Apess (1798--1839)
1078
7
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
1079
6
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801--1864)
1085
9
A New Home---Who'll Follow?; or, Glimpses of Western Life
1086
8
[Backwoods Borrowing]
1086
4
[Classes of Emigrants]
1090
4
Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880)
1094
9
Mrs. Child's Reply (Dec. 17, 1859)
1095
8
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)
1103
144
Nature
1106
29
The American Scholar
1135
13
The Divinity School Address
1148
12
Self-Reliance
1160
17
The Poet
1177
15
Experience
1192
15
Last of the Anti-Slavery Lectures, the Seventh of March [1854]
1207
9
Fate
1216
19
Thoreau
1235
12
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
1247
229
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
1250
13
Young Goodman Brown
1263
10
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
1273
7
The Minister's Black Veil
1280
9
The Birth-Mark
1289
11
The Celestial Railroad
1300
13
Rappaccini's Daughter
1313
20
The Scarlet Letter
1333
141
The Custom-House
1333
25
The Scarlet Letter
1358
116
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
1474
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)
1476
10
A Psalm of Life
1477
1
Excelsior
1478
2
The Slave's Dream
1480
1
The Fire of Drift-wood
1481
1
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
1482
2
My Lost Youth
1484
2
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)
1486
21
Ichabod!
1488
1
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
1489
18
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
1507
101
Sonnet---To Science
1510
1
To Helen
1510
1
Israfel
1511
1
The City in the Sea
1512
2
The Sleeper
1514
1
The Valley of Unrest
1515
1
Alone
1516
1
Dream-land
1516
2
The Raven
1518
3
To-----. Ulalume: A Ballad
1521
3
Annabel Lee
1524
1
Ligeia
1525
9
The Fall of the House of Usher
1534
13
William Wilson. A Tale
1547
14
The Man of the Crowd
1561
6
The Masque of the Red Death
1567
5
The Tell-Tale Heart
1572
3
The Purloined Letter
1575
13
The Imp of the Perverse
1588
4
The Cask of Amontillado
1592
5
The Philosophy of Composition
1597
9
From The Poetic Principle
1606
2
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865)
1608
10
A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858
1609
7
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863
1616
1
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
1616
2
Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)
1618
52
The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women
1620
34
Unfinished Sketch of Youth (``Autobiographical Romance'')
1654
16
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)
1670
76
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
1673
73
The Husband and Father
1673
3
The Mother's Struggle
1676
10
In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man
1686
11
Select Incident of Lawful Trade
1697
12
Evangeline
1709
7
Topsy
1716
11
The Slave Warehouse
1727
7
The Middle Passage
1734
5
The Quadroon's Story
1739
7
Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811--1872)
1746
11
Male Criticism on Ladies' Books
1748
1
``Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern''
1749
1
A Law More Nice Than Just
1750
2
Blackwell's Island
1752
5
Number I. [August 14, 1858]
1752
1
Number II. [August 21, 1858]
1753
2
Number III. [August 28, 1858]
1755
2
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813--1897)
1757
22
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1759
20
Childhood
1759
2
The Lover
1761
4
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
1765
4
Another Link of Life
1769
2
The Loophole of Retreat
1771
3
Free at Last
1774
5
T. B. Thorpe (1815--1878)
1779
9
The Big Bear of Arkansas
1780
8
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)
1788
241
Resistance to Civil Government
1792
15
Walden, or Life in the Woods
1807
175
Slavery in Massachusetts
1982
11
Walking
1993
23
Life without Principle
2016
13
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)
2029
98
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
2032
65
My Bondage and My Freedom
2097
11
The Author's Childhood
2097
4
The Author Removed from His First Home
2101
3
The Author's Parentage
2104
4
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
2108
19
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
2127
148
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
2131
15
Inscriptions
2146
1
When I Read the Book
2146
1
Beginning My Studies
2146
1
Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself] (1855)
2146
43
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
2189
5
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson [Whitman's 1856 Manifesto]
2194
7
Live Oak, with Moss
2201
4
Children of Adam
2205
4
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
2205
1
Spontaneous Me
2206
2
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
2208
1
Facing West from California's Shores
2208
1
Calamus
2209
3
Scented Herbage of My Breast
2209
1
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
2210
1
Trickle Drops
2211
1
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
2211
1
Sea-Drift
2212
7
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
2212
4
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
2216
3
By the Roadside
2219
1
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
2219
1
Drum-Taps
2219
7
Beat! Beat! Drums!
2219
1
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
2220
1
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
2220
1
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
2221
1
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
2222
1
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
2222
1
The Wound-Dresser
2223
2
Reconciliation
2225
1
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
2225
1
Spirit Whose Work Is Done
2225
1
Memories of President Lincoln
2226
6
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
2226
6
Song of Myself (1881)
2232
43
Louise Amelia Smith Clappe (1819--1906)
2275
12
California, in 1852: Residence in the Mines
2276
11
Letter 12 (January 27, 1852)
2276
5
Letter 22 (October 27, 1852)
2281
6
Herman Melville (1819--1891)
2287
200
Hawthorne and His Mosses
2292
12
Moby-Dick
2304
26
Loomings
2306
4
Ahab
2310
2
The Quarter-Deck
2312
5
Moby Dick
2317
7
The Whiteness of the Whale
2324
6
Bartleby, the Scrivener
2330
25
The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids
2355
16
Benito Cereno
2371
56
Battle-Pieces
2427
4
The Portent
2427
1
Misgivings
2428
1
The March into Virginia
2428
1
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
2429
1
The House-top
2430
1
Billy Budd, Sailor
2431
56
Bayard Taylor (1825--1878)
2487
12
Eldorado
2488
11
Volume II
2488
1
The Overland Emigration of 1849
2488
6
San Francisco, Four Months Later
2494
5
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
2499
46
49 [I never lost as much but twice]
2503
1
67 [Success is counted sweetest]
2503
1
130 [These are the days when Birds come back---]
2504
1
131 [Besides the Autumn poets sing]
2504
1
148 [All overgrown by cunning moss]
2505
1
185 [``Faith'' is a fine invention]
2505
1
199 [I'm ``wife''---I've finished that---]
2506
1
214 [I taste a liquor never brewed---]
2506
1
216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers---]
2507
1
241 [I like a look of Agony]
2507
1
249 [Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]
2508
1
258 [There's a certain Slant of light]
2508
1
280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]
2509
1
285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune---]
2509
1
287 [A Clock stopped---]
2510
1
303 [The Soul selects her own Society---]
2510
1
305 [The difference between Despair]
2511
1
312 [Her---``last Poems''---]
2511
1
314 [Nature---sometimes sears a Sapling---]
2511
1
315 [He fumbles at your Soul]
2512
1
324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church---]
2512
1
326 [I cannot dance upon my Toes---]
2513
1
328 [A Bird came down the Walk---]
2513
1
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]
2514
1
348 [I dreaded that first Robin, so]
2514
1
435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense---]
2515
1
441 [This is my letter to the World]
2515
1
448 [This was a Poet---It is That]
2516
1
449 [I died for Beauty---but was scarce]
2516
1
465 [I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---]
2517
1
488 [Myself was formed---a Carpenter---]
2517
1
501 [This World is not Conclusion]
2518
1
505 [I would not paint---a picture---]
2518
1
510 [It was not Death, for I stood up]
2519
1
520 [I started Early---Took my Dog---]
2520
1
528 [Mine---by the Right of the White Election!]
2520
1
536 [The Heart asks Pleasure---first---]
2521
1
547 [I've seen a Dying Eye]
2521
1
593 [I think I was enchanted]
2521
1
632 [The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]
2522
1
650 [Pain---has an Element of Blank---]
2523
1
664 [Of all the Souls that stand create---]
2523
1
709 [Publication---is the Auction]
2523
1
712 [Because I could not stop for Death---]
2524
1
732 [She rose to His Requirement---dropt]
2525
1
744 [Remorse---is memory---awake---]
2525
1
754 [My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]
2525
1
822 [This Consciousness that is aware]
2526
1
824 [The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]
2527
1
939 [What I see not, I better see---]
2528
1
952 [A Man may make a Remark---]
2528
1
978 [It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon---]
2528
1
986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
2529
1
1068 [Further in Summer than the Birds]
2530
1
1072 [Title divine---is Mine!]
2530
1
1078 [The Bustle in a House]
2531
1
1099 [My Cocoon tightens---Colors teaze---]
2531
1
1125 [Oh Sumptuous moment]
2531
1
1126 [Shall I take thee, the Poet said]
2532
1
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---]
2532
1
1138 [A spider sewed at Night]
2532
1
1182 [Remembrance has a Rear and Front---]
2533
1
1197 [I should not dare to be so sad]
2533
1
1242 [To flee from memory]
2533
1
1255 [Longing is like the Seed]
2533
1
1273 [That sacred Closet when you sweep---]
2534
1
1383 [Long Years apart---can make no]
2534
1
1397 [It sounded as if the Streets were running]
2534
1
1463 [A Route of Evanescence]
2535
1
1467 [A little overflowing word]
2535
1
1473 [We talked with each other about each other]
2535
1
1508 [You cannot make Remembrance grow]
2536
1
1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief]
2536
1
1545 [The Bible is an antique Volume---]
2536
1
1560 [To be forgot by thee]
2537
1
1581 [There farthest Thunder that I heard]
2537
1
1593 [There came a Wind like a Bugle---]
2538
1
1601 [Of God we ask one favor]
2538
1
1624 [Apparently with no surprise]
2539
1
1651 [A Word made Flesh is seldom]
2539
1
1732 [My life closed twice before its close]
2539
1
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
2540
3
[Say If My Verse Is Alive?] (April 15, 1862)
2540
1
[Thank You for the Surgery] (April 25, 1862)
2540
1
[Will You Be My Preceptor?] (June 7, 1862)
2541
1
[My Business Is Circumference] (July 1862)
2542
1
Letters on ``E. D.'' from T. W. Higginson to His Wife
2543
2
[August 16, 1870]
2543
1
[August 17, 1870]
2544
1
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831--1910)
2545
29
Life in the Iron-Mills
2547
27
Louisa May Alcott (1832--1888)
2574
13
Transcendental Wild Oats
2575
12
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835--1921)
2587
10
Circumstance
2588
9
Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)
2597
2
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
2599
1
1492
2600
1
The New Colossus
2601
 
Selected Bibliographies
1
14
Permissions Acknowledgments
15
2
Index
17