American Literature I Titles & Authors

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

Anonymous

The Gentleman of Elvas

Anonymous

[Excerpts from] The Jesuit Relations

Miantonomo

A Naragansett Plea for Unity

John Smith

A Description of New England's Natives

Chrestien Le Clercq

A Micmac Chief's Response to French Criticism

Pierre de Charlevoix

Women's Role in Huron's Society

Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain on Encouraging the Fur Trade

William Apes

The Pilgrims From The Indian's Perspective (or King Phillip's Speech)

Samuel Purchas

[Excerpts from] Hakluytus Posthumus (or Purchas His Pilgrimes)

John Smith

[Excerpts from] A Description of New England

John Winthrop

A Modell of Christian Charity

Anonymous

New England Primer

Anne Bradstreet

The Prologue

Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

Anne Bradstreet

The Flesh and the Spirit

Michael Wigglesworth

God's Controversy with New England

Edward Taylor

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

Edward Taylor

A Fig For Thee Oh! Death

John Williams

[Excerpts from] The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

Cotton Mather

[Excerpts from] The Trial of Martha Carrier

Benjamin Franklin

A Witch Trial at Mount Holly

Benjamin Franklin

The Speech of Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

J. Hector Crevecoeur

[Excerpts from] Letters from an American Farmer

Phillis Wheatley

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Phillis Wheatley

To the University of Cambridge, in New England

Anonymous

The Lady's Complaint

Anonymous

Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to be Controll'd!

Anonymous

The Liberty Song

Anonymous

Alphabet

Anonymous

Burrowing Yankees

Anonymous

Yankee Doodle

Anonymous

Volunteer Boys

Philip Freneau

A Political Litany

Charles Brockden Brown

Somnambulism

Washington Irving

Rip van Winkle

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Henry W. Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

William Cullen Bryant

To a Waterfowl

James Russell Lowell

A Feeling

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Worship of Nature

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Ironsides

S. Margaret Fuller

American Literature [...]

Henry David Thoreau

Resistance to Civil Government

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

The Telltale Heart