BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REPUBLIC -- I HEAR AMERICA SINGING -- CHAPTER 1 EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE -- THE STATE OF VERSE -- THE STORY OF MARY ROWLANDSON -- CHAPTER 2 THE 18TH CENTURY -- WRITERS OF THE REVOLUTION -- THOMAS PAINE -- LIFE IN AMERICA -- IN EUROPE: "RIGHTS OF MAN" -- ASSESSMENT -- THE NEW NATION -- NOTABLE WORKS OF THE PERIOD -- POETRY -- DRAMA AND THE NOVEL -- OTHER SIGNIFICANT FIGURES OF THE CENTURY -- JOEL BARLOW -- ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD -- HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE -- CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- WILLIAM HILL BROWN -- WILLIAM BYRD OF WESTOVER -- TIMOTHY DWIGHT -- OLAUDAH EQUIANO -- ELIZABETH GRAEME FERGUSON -- HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER -- PHILIP FRENEAU -- SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT -- SARAH WENTWORTH APTHORP MORTON -- SUSANNA ROWSON -- MERCY OTIS WARREN -- PHILLIS WHEATLEY -- CHAPTER 3 EARLY 19TH-CENTURY LITERATURE -- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT -- WASHINGTON IRVING -- JAMES FENIMORE COOPER -- EARLY YEARS -- NOVELS -- CULTURAL AND POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT -- RETURN TO AMERICA -- JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: THE AMERICAN SCENE -- EDGAR ALLAN POE -- LIFE AND WRITINGS -- APPRAISAL -- OTHER SIGNIFICANT WRITERS OF THE AGE -- MARIA GOWEN BROOKS -- JOSEPH DENNIE -- JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE -- JAMES HALL -- JOHN P. KENNEDY -- JAMES KIRKE PAULDING -- JOHN HOWARD PAYNE -- WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS -- CHAPTER 4 THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE -- NEW ENGLAND BRAHMINS -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES -- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL -- THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON -- EARLY LIFE AND WORKS -- MATURE LIFE AND WORKS -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU -- EARLY LIFE -- FRIENDSHIP WITH EMERSON -- LITERARY CAREER -- MOVE TO WALDEN POND -- LATER LIFE AND WORKS -- ASSESSMENT -- BRONSON ALCOTT -- ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON -- GEORGE RIPLEY -- JONES VERY -- NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS AND HISTORIANS -- GEORGE BANCROFT -- RICHARD HENRY DANA.

MARGARET FULLER -- WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON -- EDWARD EVERETT HALE -- JULIA WARD HOWE -- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY -- FRANCIS PARKMAN -- LITERARY CAREER -- ASSESSMENT -- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER -- HAWTHORNE, MELVILLE, AND WHITMAN -- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -- FIRST WORKS -- RETURN TO SALEM -- LAST YEARS -- MAJOR NOVELS -- ASSESSMENT -- HERMAN MELVILLE -- WANDERINGS AND VOYAGES -- THE YEARS OF ACCLAIM -- THE YEARS OF WITHDRAWAL -- WALT WHITMAN -- CIVIL WAR YEARS -- LATER LIFE -- WALT WHITMAN: LETTER TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON -- REPUTATION -- EPILOGUE -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.