Anne Bradstreet
"A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
"Contemplations"
"Upon the Burning of Our House, 1666"
"An Author to Her Book"
"To My Dear Children"
Edward Taylor
"Meditation 8" (First Series)
"Meditation 22" (First Series)
"Meditation 42" (First Series)
"Huswifery"
"The Preface" (from God's Determination)
Jonathan Edwards
"Personal Narrative"
"Images of Divine Things"*
William Apess
"Eulogy on King Philip"*
James Seaver
Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (edition by June Namais, Oklahoma UP 1995 recommended)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-Reliance”
Henry David Thoreau
"Walking"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Artist of the Beautiful"
"Endicott and the Red Cross"
"The Gray Champion"
"The Minister's Black Veil"
"Wakefield"
Edgar Allan Poe
review of Twice Told Tales*
Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man (Norton Critical Edition recommended)
Frederick Douglass
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852"
Walt Whitman
"Song of Myself" (1881 version)
Secondary Work
David Reynolds. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. "Introduction" and "Part One," 3-164. Harvard UP, 1988 (on reserve).
