PART I THE LITERATURE OF COLONIAL AMERICA Historical Introduction The First American Writer Early New England Literature William Bradford and John Winthrop Puritan Thoughts John Cotton and Roger Williams Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor PART II THE LITERATURE OF''REASON AND REVOLUTION Historical Introduction BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Biographical Introduction From The Autobiography THOMAS PAINE Biographical Introduction From The American Crisis THOMAS JEFFERSON Biographical Introduction The Declaration of Independence PHILIP FRENEAU Biographical Introduction The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground To a Caty-Did PART III THE LITERATURE OF ROMANTICISM Historical Introduction WASHINGTON IRVING Biographical Introduction The Author''s Account of Himself The Legend of Sleepy Hollow JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Biographical Introduction The Last of the Mohicans From The Last of the Mohicans: Chapter 12 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Biographical Introdueton Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl EDGAR ALLAN POE Biographical Introduction To Helen The Raven Annabel Lee The Fall of the House of Usher RALPH WALDO EMERSON Biographical Introduction From Nature: Chapter I From Self-Reliance HENRY DAVID THOREAU Biographical Introduction From Walden NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Biographical Introduction The Scarlet Letter From The Scarlet Letter: V. Hester at Her Needle HERMAN MELVILLE Biographical Introduction Moby Dick Fram Moby Dick Chapter 54: The Town-Ho''s Story HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Biographical Introduction A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist The Slave'' s Dream My Lost Youth The Song of Hiawatha