The Norton Anthology
01 American Literature
SEVENTH
ED I T I O N
Nina Baym, General Editor
SWANLUND CHAIR AND CENTER FOR
ADVANCED STUDY PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ENGLISH
JUBILEE PROFESSOR OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
VOLUME
B
1820-1865
Robert S. Levine
Arnold Krupat
W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • New York • London
Contents
PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION
xvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xxv
American Literature 1820-1865
Introduction
Timeline
. .
929
948
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
953
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
965
951
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)
The Pioneers
987
Volume II
988
Chapter II [The Judge's History of the Settlement;
A Sudden Storm]
988
Chapter III [The Slaughter of the Pigeons]
995
The Last of the Mohicans
1002
Volume I
1003
Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook;
:
Stories of the Fathers]
1003
985
CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK (1789-1867)
Hope Leslie
1010
Volume I
1011
.
Chapter IV [Magawisca's History of "The Pequod War"]
Volume II
1023
Chapter XIV [Magawisca's Farewell]
1023
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)
Death of an Infant
1029
The Suttee
1030
To the First Slave Ship
1031
Columbus before the University of Salamanca
1032
Indian Names
1033
The Coral Insect
1035
To a Shred of Linen
1036
1009
1011
1028
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Niagara
1038
, ....
Our Aborigines
1039
The Two Draughts
1040
Fallen Forests
1041
Erin's Daughter
1042
Two Old Women
1043
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
1045
To a Waterfowl
1047
Sonnet—To an American Painter Departing for Europe
The Prairies
1048
WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839)
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
1044
1048
1051
1051
JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT (1800-1842)
Elegy: On the death of my son William Henry, at St. Mary's
Sweet Willy
1060
To the Pine Tree
1061
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior
1062
Two Songs
1063
[My lover is tall and handsome]
1064
Moowis, the Indian Coquette
1065
The Little Spirit, or Boy-Man
1066
CAROLINE STANSBURY KIRKLAND (1801-1864)
A New Home—Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life
Preface
1069
Chapter I
1070
Chapter XVI
1074
LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880)
Letters from New-York
1081
Letter I [The Streets of a Modern Babylon]
1081
Letter XIV [Burying Ground of the Poor]
1083
Letter XX [Birds]
1087
Letter XXVIII [Anecdote of a Donkey; Universal Harmony]
Letter XXXIV [Women's Rights]
1096
Letter XXXVI [Barnum's American' Museum]
1100
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
Nature
1110
The American Scholar
1138
The Divinity School Address
1151
Self-Reliance
1163
The Poet
1180
Experience
1195
John Brown
1211
Fate
1213
Thoreau
1231
Each and All
1244
1058
1059
-
1068
1069
1078
1092
1106
CONTENTS
The Snow-Storm
1245
Bacchus
1246
Merlin
1248
Brahma
1251
Letter to Walt Whitman (July 2 1 , 1855)
/
ix
1251
NATIVE AMERICANS: REMOVAL AND RESISTANCE
1252
BLACK HAWK: From Life of Black Hawk
1253
PETALESHARO: Speech of the Pawnee Chief
Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief
1259
1257
ELIAS BOUDINOT: From the Cherokee Phoenix
1260
Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, November 5, 1829
1263
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Letter to President Martin Van Buren
1268
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
1276
Young Goodman Brown
1289
Wakefield
1298
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
1304
The Minister's Black Veil
1311
The Birth-Mark
1320
Rappaccini's Daughter
1332
The Scarlet Letter
1352
The Custom-House
1352
The Scarlet Letter
1377
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
1272
1493
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
1497
The Slave Singing at Midnight
1498
The Day Is Done
1499
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
1 500
[Prologue]
1500
The Fire of Drift-wood
1501
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
1502
My Lost Youth
1504
The Cross of Snow
1506
1495
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
The Hunters of Men
1509
Ichabod!
1510
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
1511
1507
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EDGARALLANPOE (1809-1849)
Sonnet—To Science
1532
To Helen
1532
Israfel
1533
The City in the Sea
1534
Alone
1536
The Raven
1536
To
. Ulalume: A Ballad
1539
Annabel Lee
1542
Ligeia
1543
The Fall of the House of Usher
1553
William Wilson. A Tale
1566
The Man of the Crowd
1579
The Masque of the Red Death
1585
The Tell-Tale Heart
1589
The Black Cat
1593
The Purloined Letter
1 599
The Cask of Amontillado
1612
The Philosophy of Composition
1617
From The Poetic Principle
1625
1528
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
1627
A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close
of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858
1628
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery.at Gettysburg,
Nov. 19, 1863
1635
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
1635 ,.
MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)
From The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus
Women
1640
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
1659
Chapter I
1659
Chapter III
1664
.
1637
Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
An American S lave
1673
Fourth of July
1675
Things and Thoughts in Europe
1677
Letter XVIII
1677
SLAVERY, RACE, AND THE MAKING O F
:
AMERICAN LITERATURE
1682
THOMAS JEFFERSON: From Notes on the State of Virginia
1683
DAVID WALKER: From David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
1686
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: To the Public
1690
ANGELINA E. GRIMKE: From Appeal to the Christian Women of
the South
1692
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xi
SOJOURNER TRUTH: Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in
Akron, Ohio, 1851
1695
MARTIN R. DELANY: From Political Destiny of the Colored Race on
the American Continent
1696
HARRIET BEECHERSTOWE (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
1701
Volume I
1701
Chapter I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of
Humanity
1701
Chapter III. The Husband and Father
1708
Chapter VII. The Mother's Struggle
1711
Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man
Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade
1732
Chapter XIII. The Quaker Settlement
1744Chapter XIV. Evangeline
1751
Volume II
1758
Chapter XX. Topsy
1758
Chapter XXX. The Slave Warehouse
1768
Chapter XXXI. The Middle Passage
1776
Chapter XXXIV. The Quadroon's Story
1780
Chapter XL. The Martyr
1787
FANNY FERN (SARAH WILLIS PARTON) (1811-1872)
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
1794
Hungry Husbands
1795
Barnum's Museum
1796
Tom Pax's Conjugal Soliloquy
1798
Male Criticism on Ladies' Books
1799
"Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern"
1800
A Law More Nice Than Just
1802
Ruth Hall
1803
Chapter LIV
1803
,
Chapter LVI
1806
HARRIET JACOBS (ca. 1813-1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1809
I. Childhood
1809
VII. The Lover
1812
X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
XIV. Another Link to Life
1819
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
1822
XLI. Free at Last
1824
1698
1721
1792
.
.
1808
1816
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
1831
Chapter VI [Slavery's Deceptions]
1831
The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
[Escape; Self-Education]
1837
1829
1837
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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
1841
Chapter I. The Negro Sale
1841
Chapter XXIV. The Arrest
1847
C hapter XXV. Death I s Freedom
1850
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)
Resistance to Civil Government
1857
Walden, or Life in the Woods
1872
Slavery in Massachusetts
2046
From A Plea for Captain John Brown
2056
1853
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
Written by Himself
2064
My Bondage and My Freedom
2129
Chapter I. The Author's Childhood
2129
Chapter II. The Author Removed from His First Home
2133
Chapter III. The Author's Parentage
2136
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
2140
The Heroic Slave
2143
2060
SECTION, REGION, NATION
2171
DANIEL WEBSTER: From First Settlement of New England
2172
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS: Written in Mississippi
2175
From Americanism in Literature
. 2177
RICHARD HENRY DANA JR.: From Two Years before the Mast
2179
JOHN LOUIS O'SULLIVAN: From Annexation
2182
FRANCIS PARKMAN JR.: From The California and Oregon Trail
2183
LOUISE AMELIA SMITH CLAPPE: From California, in 1851 and
1852. Residence in the Mines
MARY BOYKIN MILLER CHESNUT: From Mary Chesnut's
Civil War
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
Inscriptions
2209
One's-Self I Sing
2209
Shut Not Your Doors
2210
Song of Myself (1881)
2210
Children of Adam
2254
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
2186
2189
2190
2195
2254
CONTENTS
A Woman Waits for Me
2256
Spontaneous Me
2257
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
2259
Facing West from California's Shores
2259
Calamus
2260
Scented Herbage of My Breast
2260
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
2261
Trickle Drops
2262
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
2262
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
2263
Sea-Drift
2267
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
2267
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
2272
By the Roadside
2274
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
2274
The Dalliance of the Eagles
2274
Drum-Taps
2275
Beat! Beat! Drums!
2275
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
2276
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
2276
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
2278
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
2278
The Wound-Dresser
2279
Reconciliation
2281
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
2281
Spirit Whose Work Is Done
2282
Memories of President Lincoln
2282
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
2282
Whispers of Heavenly Death
2288
A Noiseless Patient Spider
2288
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
2289
Live Oak, with Moss
2296
From Democratic Vistas
2300
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)
Hawthorne and His Mosses
2308
Moby-Dick
2320
Chapter 1. Loomings
2321
Chapter 3. The Spouter-Inn
2325
Chapter 28. Ahab
2335
Chapter 36. The Quarter-Deck
2337
Chapter 41. Moby Dick
2342
Chapter 42. The Whiteness of the Whale
2349
Chapter 135. The Chase—Third Day
2355
Epilogue
2363
Bartleby, the Scrivener
2363
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
Benito Cereno
2405
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2277
2304
2389
xiv
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CONTENTS
Battle-Pieces
2461
The Portent
2461
Misgivings
2462
The March into Virginia
2462 '
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
Shiloh
2464
The House-top
2465
John Marr and Other Sailors
2466
The Maldive Shark
2466
The Berg
2466
Timoleon, Etc.
2467
Monody
2467
Art
2468
Billy Budd, Sailor
2468
2463
ELIZABETH DREW STODDARD (1823-1902)
Lemorne versus Huell
2525
2524
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)
Eliza Harris
2539
The Slave Mother
2541
Ethiopia
2542
The Fugitive's Wife
2543
The Tennessee Hero
2544
Bury Me in a Free Land
2545
The Colored People in America
2546
The Two Offers
2547
2538
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
39 [49] [I never lost as much but twice - ]
2558
112 [67] [Success is counted sweetest]
2558
122 [130] [These are the days when Birds come back - ]
2559
123 [131] [Besides the Autumn poets sing]
2560
124 [216] [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - ]
2560
146 [148] [All overgrown by cunning moss]
2561
194 [1072] [Title divine, is mine!]
2561
202 [185] ["Faith" is a fine invention]
2561
207 [214] [I taste a liquor never brewed - ]
2562 ,
225 [199] [I'm "wife" - I've finished that - ]
2562
236 [324] [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - ] , 2563
256 [285] [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune - ]
2563
259 [287] [A Clock stopped - ]
2564
260 [288] [I'm Nobody! Who are you?]
2564
269 [249] [Wild Nights - Wild Nights!]
2565
279 [664] [Of all the Souls that stand create - ]
2565
320 [258] [There's a certain Slant of light]
2567
339 [241] [I like a look of Agony]
2567
340 [280] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]
2568
347 [348] [I dreaded that first Robin, so]
2568
348 [505] [I would not paint - a picture - ]
2569
2554
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355 [510] [It was not Death, for I stood up] . 2570
359 [328] [A Bird came down the Walk - ]
2571
365 [338] [I know that He exists]
2571
372 [341] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ]
2572
373 [501] [This World is not conclusion]
'2572
381 [326] [I cannot dance opon my Toes - ]
2573
395 [336] [The face I carry with me - last - ]
2573
407 [670] [One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted-]
2574
409 [303] [The Soul selects her own Society - ]
2574
411 [528] [Mine - by the Right of the White Election!]
2575
446 [448] [This was a Poet - ]
2575
448 [449] [I died for Beauty - but was scarce]
2576
466 [657] [I dwell in Possibility - ]
2576
475 [488] [Myself was formed - a Carpenter - ]
2577
477 [315] [He fumbles at your Soul]
2577
479 [712] [Because I could not stop for Death - ]
2578
519 [441] [This is my letter to the World]
2578
576 [305] [The difference between Despair]
2579
588 [536] [The Heart asks Pleasure - first - ]
2579
591 [465] [I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ]
2579
598 [632] [The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ]
2580
600 [312] [Her - last Poems - ]
2580
620 [435] [Much Madness is divinest Sense - ]
2581
627 [593] [I think I was enchanted]
2581
648 [547] [I've seen a Dying Eye]
2582
656 [520] [I started Early - Took my Dog - ]
2582
675 [401] [What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - ]
2583
760 [650] [Pain - has an Element of Blank - ]
2584
764 [754] [My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ]
2584
788 [709] [Publication - is the Auction]
2585
796 [824] [The Wind begun to rock the Grass - ]
2585
817 [822] [This Consciousness that is aware]
2586
843 [978] [It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon - ]
2586
857 [732] [She rose to His Requirement - dropt]
2587
895 [1068] [Further in Summer than the Birds]
2587
935 [1540] [As imperceptibly as Grief]
2588
1096 [986] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
2588
1108 [1078] [The Bustle in a House]
2589
1163 [1138] [A Spider sewed at Night]
2589
1243 [1126] [Shall I take thee, the Poet said]
2590
1263 [1129] [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - ]
2590
1353 [1247] [To pile like Thunder to it's close]
2590
1454 [1397] [It sounded as if the Streets were running]
2591
1489 [1463] [A Route of Evanescence]
2591
1577 [1545] [The Bible is an antique Volume-]
2591
1593 [1587] [He ate and drank the precious Words - ]
2592
1665 [1581] [The farthest Thunder that I heard]
2592
1668 [1624] [Apparently with no surprise]
2593
1675 [ 1601 ] [Of God we ask one favor, that we may be
forgiven - ]
2593
1715 [1651] [A word made Flesh is seldom]
2593
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1773 [1732] [My life closed twice before it's close]
Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on
Poem 124 [216]
2594
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910)
Life in the Iron-Mills
2599
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
2594
2597
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