The Literature of the American Renaissance

Introduction : Historical Backgrounds
Part 1. Prose Discourse
The Essay
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
James Fenimore Cooper
From The American Democrat
Advantages of a Democracy
On the Disadvantages of a Democracy
An Aristocrat and a Democrat
On American Deportment
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
The Confession
Henry David Thoreau
From Walden
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Chapter 2)
Conclusion (Chapter 18)
Part 2.
Introduction
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Poetry
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
To a Waterfowl
The Yellow Violet
Edgar Allan Poe
Song from A1 Aarau/'
Sonnet—To Science
To Helen
Israfel
The City in the Sea
Dream-Land
The Raven
Ulalume
Annabel Lee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora
Concord Hymn
Each and All
The II umble-Bee
The Problem
Politics
The Snow-Storm
The Sphinx
Give All to Love
Uriel
Hamatreya
Ode
Bacchus
Merlin
Art
Days
Brahma
Terminus
Henry David Thoreau
Smoke
Mist
Where Gleaming Fields of Haze
Inspiration
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Beleaguered City
The Skeleton in Armor
The Slave's Dream
The Arsenal at Springfield
Seaweed
Prelude to Evangeline
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
My Lost Youth
Chaucer
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Ballad of the Oysterman
The Last Leaf
My Aunt
The Deacon's Masterpiece
The Chambered Nautilus
John Greenleaf Whitter
Massachusetts to Virginia
For Righteousness' Sake
Proem
Ichabod
First-Day Thoughts
Skipper Ireson's Ride
Telling the Bees
The Trailing Arbutus
James Russell Lowell
To the Spirit of Keats
Remembered Music
From The Big/cnv Papers, First Series
No. V: The Debate in the Sennit
From The Biglovt' Papers, Second Series
The Courtin
Herman Melville
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
The Portent
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
The March into Virginia
Ball's Bluff
Dupont's Round Fight
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
Malvern Hill
The House-Top
The College Colonel
Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh
On the Slain Collegians
America
From John Marr and Other Sailors
Tom Deadlight
Far Off-Shore
The Maldive Shark
From Timoleon
Monody
Art
After the Pleasure Party
Part 3.
Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe
Ligeia
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W)
The Maypole of Merry Mount
Fancy's Show Box
The Celestial Railroad
Herman Melville
[Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W)
The Bell Tower
Benito Cereno
Fiction
Part 4.
Introduction
William Cullen Bryant
Literary Criticism
From "Lectures on Poetry"
"Lecture Second: On the Value and Uses of Poetry"
American Society as a Field for Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper
From Notions of the Americans
Literature and the Arts
Edgar Allan Poe
Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
Philosophy of Composition
From "The Poetic Principle"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Kavanagh
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
From Preface to The Marble Faun
Herman Melville
From ' 'Hawthorne and His Mosses"
James Russell Lowell
From "A Fable for Critics"
Notes
Prose Discourse
Poetry
Fiction
Literary Criticism
Selected Bibliography