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Transatlantic Romanticism

An Anthology of British, American,and Canadian Literature

1767-1867SUB Gottingen220 006 61X QA

2007 A 428

Lance NewmanCalifornia State University, San Marcos

Joel PaceUniversity of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Chris Koenig-WoodyardUniversity of Toronto at Mississauga

New York Boston San Francisco

London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid

Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal

CONTENTS

Preface xx

Introduction 1

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 25 : • • . ' , •••

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One 26Information to Those Who Would Remove to America 31Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America 36 ; ':

SAMSON O C C O M (1723-1792) 40 . ; ; ; : ; : _

S. Occom's Account of Himself Written Sept. 17, 1768 41 '. ''• • ',."'•

FRANCES J i R O O K E ^ c . 1724^178?) 46 . , . .

from The History of Emily Montague 47 . • ' ; . . . .'.

EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) 56

from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the_ Sublimeand Beautiful ' 57 ' ;- i . • • ' , /

from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esquire, on Moving His Resolutions forConciliation with the Colonies 62 > if

from Reflections on the Revolution in France 67 • - ' fV •'•'

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774) .;74 .; • '',.. ; : ; '

from The Deserted Village 75

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE '

\\ Oliver'GoldsinitH( 1794-1861 ),iVom The Rising Village '83 '! ' ; '':

Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), from Greenfield Hill 90

MICHEL GUILLAUME JEAN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813) 95

from Letters from an American Farmer 96 ! . ,".

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T H O M A S PAINE (1737-1809) , .1.09.., . - - ,

from Common Sense 110

from The Rights of Man 122

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 125

from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Declaration

of Independence) 126

from Notes on the State of Virginia 131

-̂——=> TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES

Revolutionary Republicanism 142

BRITISH PARLIAMENT (1767): 144. • r.:'.{'. \

e To.wnshend Acts.

6J A M E S M A D I s 6 N ; ; ( . 1 7 5 1 - i § 3 6 ; ) ; ,447,",.;". V V ' ^ . ' . ' . '. f ; ; - / , . [ . , ' ; "

T h e F e d e r a l i s t . N i i m b e r , 1 0 , r j , , ^ - j - . ^ V : ,,, . . . , . - , - •.-'•-, ; . , - . > , .. • ; .:.I S A A C H U N T ( 1 7 5 1 - 1 8 0 9 ) ' ' 1 5 2 "' " " "

T h e P o l i t i c a l F a m i l y f . ^ , , • • . , , • . ' ; - , . . , ,

J O E L B A R L O W ( 1 7 5 4 - 1 8 1 2 ) , 1 6 0 ; . / "^ ' ' ' " ' [ " \f r o m T h e C o l u m b i a d ' •.,. . .L- •• • . . . • . .

M I L C A H M A R T H A M O O R E ( 1 7 4 0 - 1 8 2 9 ) 169

The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters'oif Liberty in America, 1768'

W I L L I A M G O D W I N ( 1 7 5 6 - 1 8 3 6 ) J < 171 -• ' ••"- •'•':-..'; ••••:.:-i~ •.;'.:" n.

from Letters of Advice to a Young American

A N N A L A E T I T I A B A R B A U L D ( 1 7 4 3 - 1 8 2 5 ) ^ ^ p

E p i s t l e . t o W i l l i a m W i l b e r f o r c e . 1.7.9,^;. , - ^ - : , IJ -J '...••:• •:•.-.-L'';o : , - • •• i •

T h e R i g h t s o f W o m a n 1 8 2 \ r ,»o . - , ^ . ' ; ;-• i • • ' . • <•. -• - r ' . s.!.-'.. '

E i g h t e e n H u n d r e d a n d E l e v e n y 1 8 2 i ?v ;••". • >lr : • -••'•J r . , : / , / ; . . I < \ ] ; / J r , . i ;

Washing-Day 190

The Hill of Science, a Vision.. 193;- - f j -• ' P , - ; :";")• : •": "

The Female Choice. A Tale. 195 , ., v ,J • '

O L A U D A H E Q U I A N O (c . 1 7 4 5 - 1 7 9 7 ) . . 196 ,, . , , , , . , . . . . , , . . . '.

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life qf.Qlaudah Equiano,, or .Gustayus

Vassa, the African 197 . . „ ' . . . .^ . ,

PHILIP M O R I N F R E N E A U ( 1 7 5 2 - 1 8 3 2 ) 204v ••. . ' • , • :.' :. • • < • . • ; . • , • ' - V ! - . • : ; . - - > . . i •- ' , ; . . . r ' • : : , \ M I • " . . • • . • "

On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western '

C o u n t r y 2 0 4 '•' ' - : ' • ^ i ' ! - ' " -:• -;'•••'•' ' : ' " •'.

Literary Importation 206

The Wild Honey Suckle 207

The Indian Burying Ground 208

Contents

On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man 209 ' ' •••'O n the Universali ty and O t h e r At t r ibutes of the G o d of Na tu re 210O n the Uniformity and Perfection of N a t u r e 211 • • ! .•• J : .••O n the Religion of Na tu re 212

P H I L L I S W H E A T L E Y ( 1 7 5 3 - 1 7 8 4 ) 2 1 3 ; - .• .. . ..:,,.;,. ••, - •

Liberty and Peace 214 -- ' : i ••'Thoughts o n the Works of Providence 215 ' "• - .J •O n the Dea th of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770. i ! 2 1 8 "•• v ' -•••'••O n Being Brought from Africa to Amer ica 219 '' : ••••''.':>•••.:•On Imagination 220 •' : ••:.••••.•,••

To S.M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 221To His Excellency General Washington 222 'To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery

of Her Health 223A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. 224 ' ' "• ' ' ' !';/i''-••'Letter to-Rev. Samson Occdm, New London, Connecticut • 226; 'V

—-^TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES,

Slavery and Abolition 227.-,.,....

H A N N A H M O R E ( 1 7 4 5 - 1 8 3 3 ) 229 : ' ' '• • ' ' ; 'Slavery, A P o e m ' •''•• '•" - • ; ; '

Q U O B N A O T T O B A H C U G O A N O ( 1 7 5 7 - c . 1801) 237from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and"

Commerce of the Human Species ~ ,,-, •• : ; y ..-. :.;-j-: ,.'•,•". ... . .DAVID WALKER ( 1 7 8 5 - 1 8 3 0 ) 241

from An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World • . - . . , , ,.W I L L I A M LLOYD G A R R I S O N (1805-1879") 249 , " \ "

To the Public : • • - • - • - • :;(^ :V '" .F A N N Y KEMBLE ( 1 8 0 9 - 1 8 9 3 ) 251 . ; • ' : ! ; ' . .

from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 .'.' 'B E N J A M I N D R E W ( 1 8 1 2 - 1 9 0 3 ) 255 ''"'-' ' ' „ ' • ' / ' ' / " " .,

from A North Side View of Slavery; The Refugee, or, The Narratives of FugitiveSlaves in Canada •-- . .• .* . •

W I L L I A M B L A K E ( 1 7 5 7.—1827)... 2-60 .... ,,

The Ecchoing Green 262The Little Black Boy r 263 ' :; : . • ; : : , . A . - . . - ! '

The Sick Rose 264 . . . '"'"' """i"r ': ^ ! \ f

T h e L a m b 2 6 4 ; " ' " ^ :' - • ' r ' ••| • • ' • ; •'••

TheTyger 264 ' , .. . ,:''."'*''.'.'"1 .'.''.'"The Chimney Sweeper .265 ' ,'"' '!The Chimney Sweeper' 266

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London 266America: A Prophecy 267 • . -.Visions of the Daughters of Albion 274 : - . . • • .

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) 280

Poor Mailie's Elegy 281 .To a Mouse 282 ,• . ,T o a L o u s e 2 8 4 . : • ' • ' •• . ,. • : . , • • •

A f t o n W a t e r - • . 2 8 5 . ' • . • > • . . • ; , .C o m i n ' T h r o ' t h e Rye [1] 286 . :

C o m i n ' T h r o ' t h e Rye [2] 286Scots, wha hae.wi ' Wal lace bled 287 . •, .A Red, Red Rose 288 ' .-. • . . -Au ld Lang Syne 288 . . . . . . . . • ' , . ., . . . - • , •

t ' • • •

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE . , ;

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), from Burns: To a Rose, Brought from NearAlloway Kirk, in Ayrshire, in the Autumn of 1822 289

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) - 292

from A Vindication of the Rights of Men 293from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 299On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature 324

SUSANNA ROWSO.N (1762-1824) '327

/rom Charlotte: A Tale of Truth 328

J O A N N A BAILLIE (1762-1851) 338 : "

from Plays on the Passions 339 . >London 343 •...••••/ '..A Mother to Her Waking Infant 345 , f

A Child to His Sick Grandfather 346 . , , ,'.'Thunder .347 . ,v . .. ., ,. • !. '•;Sorig/Woo'd and Married and A 349 '..'.".'... ..'•'/'

-~^s TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES e r - '

Women's Rights 351 '

J U D I T H S A R G E N T M U R R A Y ( 1 7 5 1 - 1 8 2 0 ) 3 5 4 " . , ''. '.,On the Equality of the Sexes • , - •

C H A R L O T T E D A C R E ( 1 7 7 2 - 1 8 2 5 ) 362 ' ,. '"''. . '] ,The Female Philosopher . . -

SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797-1883) 363 . ..'.'"Speech at the American Equal Rights Association, May 9-10, 1867

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SOPHIA RIPLEY (1803-1861) 365Woman

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902) " '369,Declaration of SentimentsResolutions

MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800) 372

from Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets 373The Negro Girl 377To the Poet Coleridge 381 .The Poor, Singing Dame 383 ; • • • • : • . •

WILLIAM W O R D S W O R T H (1770-1850) 384

Goody Blake and Harry Gill 386 :

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman 390Lines Written in Early Spring 392The Thorn 392 :

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 400from Preface to Lyrical Ballads 404There was a Boy 410Ruth: Or the Influences of Nature 411 ,Nutting 418 .Michael 419 + 'To Toussaint L'Ouvefture' 430 'To Thomas Clarkson 430The world is too much with us 431Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 431I griev'd for Buonaparte 432'She was a Phantom of Delight 432 •I wandered lonely as a cloud 433 ' ' ' ' 'My heart leaps up 433 . . •Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 434The Solitary Reaper 439 '• • • ' . . : .Gold and Silver Fishes, in a Vase 440 • . - . . .Liberty 441 : ; ; • . .

- - - - ^ T R A N S A T L A N T I C E X C H A N G E S ^ —

W o r d s w o r t h in Bri ta in and A m e r i c a 4 4 5 , : / ; / .

LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) 447 ' . • . . . : . . / • . . ' •

from The Feast of the Poets . . , ,ROBERT H U T C H I N S O N ROSE (1776-1842) 449

A Humble Imitation of Some Stanzas, written by W. Wdrdsworth, in Germany, onOne of the Coldest Days of the Century ' ' •

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ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY (1804-189,4) ,45,1,,Letter to Wordsworth

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) - 4 5 3 , , ., ,The Lost Leader ^ .

WILLIAM PARSONS ATKINSON (1820-f890)"' "455'Letter to Wordsworth

HENRY REED (1808-1854) 456 ~from Lectures on the British Poets , ... . , _ ,- .

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) 459 ,/ ,..;;•,...,_.yL o c h i n v a r 4 6 0 '• '••- -'••.• • • . .••...•' .•'

J o c k of H a z e l d e a n 4 6 1 •'.; ' " ' .".::'i !'• . .T h e D r e a r y C h a n g e 4 6 2P r o u d M a i s i e 4 6 2 . : ' ! ' ; ,: •'. ' •• ; \ -"•'.:"; •"• • . . . •'.' ' .Lucy A s h t o n ' s S o n g 4 6 3 - j • :;:-••,. . , , : , ; ,

S A M U E L T A Y L O R C O L E R I D G E (17 .72" - l8 i3 : 4 l> 4 6 3 : ' '

T h e R i m e of t h e A n c i e n t M a r i n e r 4 6 5 r .

T h i s L i m e - T r e e B o w e r - M y P r i s o n 4 8 2 . , .'Cr..- ; -=

T h e D u n g e o n 4 8 3 •. r: /^..i1;,,:-, ., ,. . .,- ,K u b l a K h a n : or, A V i s i o n i n a D r e a m 4 8 4 ; t ; '••,., ••-,

The Eolian Harp 487 , , . . . • •'••.'•":-• r ' }The Foster-Mother's Tale 488 . / . -.Dejection: An Ode 490 . ;^,, .from Biographia Literaria or, Biographical Sketches of .My. Literary Life

and Opinions 494 ..,.•• ,.,.,! ,•

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE . ' , ' , . ' ,'. ' ' ,

Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), fam Coleridge '.5Q6,n..',",,'. ..;;'.;'-.,'

R O B E R T S O U T H E Y ( 1 7 7 4 - 1 8 4 3 ) 5 1 0 ' ' ^ ; 1 . '.. " -^:; •.', '•;,'.

from Madoc 511 •'i ' ' • : • ; • / • : ,• ;

w ' l L L I A M H A Z L I T T ( 1 7 7 8 - 1 8 3 0 ) 517 ' ^"",".,' ,"•'•' .•i"'-

OnGus to 518 - •; -V- - • . ' • : - • - •-On the Love of the Country 520 •:

T H O M A S M O O R E ( 1 7 7 9 - 1 8 5 2 ) 523

A Canadian Boat Song ' 524A Ballad. The Lake of the Dismal Swamp. 525 ' • ' • •Ballad Stanzas 526 •--.;, ... . , , , , , , . • . - • , ;

W I L L I A M ELLERY C H A N N I N Q (\780-\SA2) "\52'6 , "! , .

, , /rom Likeness to God 527 . . : ;• . . . . • • • ) '

from Self-Culture 534 • - , , . : [ . • ;: , - >'.>

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< => TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES' C~UM J ; ' " "Religion and Revivalism 544

J O H N W E S L E Y ( 1 7 0 3 M 7 9 1 )"•: .5 47 ' : . J J . . > ::;. ":. " • V v : 7 / : V -

T h e Almost Christian «,; • .-,•-!,-' ;.,.•••.<J O S E P H P R I E S T L E Y ( 1 7 3 3 - 1 8 0 4 ) , . 5 5 2 . ..... ; :,,.';rJU:... •'.:• ^'n-H

from A n Address to Protestant Dissenters ;-f\.>. ,;•,-.-,.- •••':J O H N M A R R A N T ( 1 7 5 5 - 1 7 9 1 ) 559 , ( ,w . •••-.;, ...; (;'.,,.... ,

:;" '-\ , , ,^ :,

from A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings .with John Marrant, ; • .. ;a Black, (Now Going to Preach the Gospel in.Nova-Scotia) ;Born in New;York,in North-America ,\;..• ,-:-.., /V, ,;,. "

F R A N C E S T R O L L O P E ( 1 7 8 0 - 1 8 6 3 ) 4 6 1 . ../-•,•'.',.".^"', / ... - .,T;from. Domestic Manners of the Americans

A N D R E W S N O R T O N ( 1 7 8 6 - 1 8 5 3 ) ,5,65- ; . . :- •., • - . , • . , . ;from Discourse on,the Latest Form of Infidelity :. . r. • . ••

A M O S B R O N S O N A L C O T T ( 1 7 9 9 - 1 8 8 8 ) ' 5 7 1 ' * ' ' ' 'from Record of Conversation on the Gospels Held in Mr. Alcott 's .Schpol, ,.

C H A R L E S K I N G N E W C O M B ' ( 1 8 2 0 - 1 8 9 4 ) ' 576 ; , " " '. --•••••••-T h e Two Dolons ' ' ' ' '"- -!'--L

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)- • 5 8 4 ^ - ; ; ••

Rip Van Winkle 585 = • ; • - . • ' . - ; • . : i :. .

English Writers on America 596

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) : i ;'6O1

She Walks in Beauty 602 ^; ! 'Darkness 603/rom English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 605 ' : . ^ "'from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 606 ' '

i C O N T E M P O R A R Y R E S P O N S E : ' • .'• • ' '• '••••.'.

f Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), from Fanny 6 3 7 ' . *..

J A M E S F E N I M O R E C O O P E R (1789^-1851) ' 6 4 9 /

from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanha 649

C A T H A R I N E M A R I A S E D G W I C K ( 1 7 8 9 - 1 8 6 7 )

from Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts 660 ' <"-••'•• '-

LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SiboURNEY fl7,9f-.l8^.5) 668'T h e Ind ian ' s W e l c o m e t o t h e Pi lgr im Fa the r s , 669.- > - t ; -. • :.•',;S c i e n c e a n d Re l ig ion 6 7 0 .,.,,,. ,;i.....,...., i , , , , , r ,Felicia H e m a n s 6 7 1

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Grassmere and Rydal Water 673 - • . .Niagara 674

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) . 676 : - M

Mont Blanc 678Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 681 ' 'O z y m a n d i a s 6 8 3 '• • ' • . • • • •

Sonnet: England in 1819 684 ; : ' 'The Mask of Anarchy 684 'Ode to the West Wind 694 ' ' ; i

To Wordsworth 696from A Defence of Poetry 696 ;

,, CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE :

'' Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), The Death of Shelley ; 704 '

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS.(1793-1835) 705

England's Dead 706Song of Emigration 708Burial of an Emigrant's Child in the Forests 709The Indian with His Dead Child 712The American Forest Girl 714

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 716

Thanatopsis. '717 : } -• .' .•'.To a Waterfowl 719A Forest Hymn 720To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe 723 ,. . . . ' • . .The Prairies 723 . ,y

T H O M A S CARLYLE (1795-1881) 726

Signs of the Times 727 :

- -—-^TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES cr~-—-

Utopianism and Socialism 732

W I L L I A M C O B B E T T ( 1 7 6 3 - 1 8 3 5 ) 733from Rural Rides . . ••' ' '.."• .

R O B E R T O W E N ( 1 7 7 1 - 1 8 5 8 ) 739from The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race

G E O R G E RIPLEX ( 1 8 0 2 - 1 8 8 0 ) 743 . . .Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

O R E S T E S B R O W N S O N ( 1 8 0 3 - 1 8 7 6 ) * 7 4 6 ' • '••from T h e Laboring Classes

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ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY (1804-1894)' 751from A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society *" '

KARL MARX (1818-1883) AND FREDERICK ENGELS( 1 8 2 0 - 1 8 9 5 ) - ' 7 5 8 > . '.. • : ' . - - . •. '• • • / : ; • - :

from The Communist Manifesto ,-. .

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) 767 :

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 768 . .To Autumn 768Eve of St. Agnes 769Ode on a Grecian Urn 780Ode to a Nightingale 781To George and Thomas Keats ["Negative Capability"] 783To Richard Woodhouse [The "Egotistical Sublime"] 784To George and Georgiana Keats [The "Vale of Soul-Making"] 785

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (1796-1865) 789

from The Clockmaker 789

MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) 799

The Mortal Immortal 800 • . .,

WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839) 808 . •„.... . .

An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man 809 " • ' • '

HARRIET MARTTNEAU (1802-187(6) 814 ;

from Society in America 814 ;

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 818

Nature 820 " " ' " ' ,- , .-' ' , ' . . ,'• " " I T

The American Scholar 845 , . , - , - - .

1 CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE , . . ,, , ,

T Sharpe's London Journal, Emerson's Representative Men 857

J O S E P H H O W E ( 1 8 0 4 - 1 8 7 3 ) . 860 , , ; . , ,

from Acadia 862 , .

N A T H A N I E L H A W T H O R N E ( 1 8 0 4 - 1 8 6 4 ) '869 • /• ..i. ..

My Kinsman, Major Molineux 871

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T h e B i r t h - m a r k - 8 8 3 . •>• .. • -; v , - t .__•.. . -., -; „ . . .,_,• - , o : , . 7 - . M A ; : . J a

P ' s C o r r e s p o n d e n c e 8 9 4 ,-.• ,-,-.,,• r;, - . i . 1 •;,.•-,,:. i ' ' , •.• 1 - , - • ; " ) .••, • - - v

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) "905A Psalm of Life 906 • - • • l » ' ' ; ;•••'•<•>:.> ) '• , r -

The Village Blacksmith 907Burial of the Minnisink 908To the Driving Cloud 910 y ^ r .; r'L<! •-?'•*>: • :' ' ;-\'i'A '.11-The Slave's Dream 911 . , v ^ . ., ; ,; , . ; . , . , , . . , , .-,The Arsenal at Springfield "912 * '""'" ;

; ,..,Chaucer 913 : ' '/ ,'.','','"'Shakespeare 914 r c -Milton 914 • ' '•;, ! ;'.:_'."' •;. . r r j ' ' VK e a t s 9 1 5 _ . „ . . , . . . . w . . ..; ^, . ./''' .''"';''!-.' ,'';' . L i ! . . ' ' ' ' -

J O H N G R E E N L E A F W H I T t . I E R / ( 1 8 0 7 - 1 8 9 2 ) 915 ; • . • - • . =

Massachusetts to Virginia 916The Hunters of Men 919 , ••,-; •. • ^ ; ., - ,,, •,;.- ->.;-, \, \.--The Fishermen 920 • - • • - • • . , . . . , , . . yThe Lumbermen 922 ' ' ' ' l ' '

E D G A R A L L A N P O E ( 1 8 0 9 - 1 8 4 9 ) 9 2 6 1 ' ' i J ' : ; ' ' u

Sonnet—to Science 927 " • . - . ...The Raven 928U l a l u m e — a B a l l a d 9 3 1 •••' :- •"•••- ' - • : : . - : ^ ^ - K : A . '

A n n a b e l L e e 9 3 3 •/..,; . :,\-- -,-.[^:lj •,>-, ..;. , . ? c . ,- :•;,<•• .' -••••• J ^ ; ; - ;A

Ligeia 934The Fall of the House of Usher <944> •. .•; -, f - >.<| T >T . • • --q • ̂The Man of the Crowd 957 ' ' " ' . ' ' , . , "" , '."''•. /

MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)^ 962

The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women. 964Things and Thoughts in Europe, No. XVIII 995 ; ' -'•' \ ' "! vi"[from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 999 y''' '' J ; ; ; ; ' ) r i r " - h v : ' A ^ l

H A R R I E T J A C O B S ( 1 8 1 3 - 1 8 9 7 ) 1004 ' '

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1005

HENRY D A V I D T H O R E A U ( 1 8 1 7 - 1 8 6 2 ) > ' i O 2 9

Sympathy 1030Sic Vita 1031The Inward Morning' -1033/ ' ' ' '• .'',. ••(' '• •.':"Haze 1034 ••,, -,, ..; •..;-In the busy streets, domains of trade 1034

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Any fool can make a rule 1034Wait not till slaves pronounce the word ' 1034'Ive seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side 1035I am the little Irish boy- -; 1036s • • '•/•'.:.!•..'•>.Poverty 1037 ;•>< .; _,: .-;,,-, , /1 .,.?,.< -.I have seen some frozenfaced Connecticut 1037Resistance to Civil Government: '1038 ; o . :;..Walking 1052 "" . .'

-——= TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES ^ ^ - " ... :

Civilization and Nature ,1072 , . ;.•.•

ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845) ' 1,073 ' \ ' ' 'Message of the President of the United States

JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) .1077. ; , ''": - 'The Mores ., r . - i

GEORGE PERKINS MARSH (180T-1882) : ' 1 0 8 6 7 : ' " ' ..),,from Man and Nature;.or, Physical Geography as'Modified by'Hu'man Action

S U S A N N A MOODIEa :803.4ll !885J ' : i:"l084 ' '.' 'i'"''..," "':'"'"'."' '] .^.

from Roughing It in the Bush; ori Life, in Canada ' ' ' \\SUSAN FENIMORE C O O P E R ( 1 8 1 3 - i 8 9 4 ) ' ' 1093' . .' ! : "^

Otsego Leaves. Birds Then and Now ' ' . ,. . .CHARLES SANGSTER ( (1822-1893) : i lb99 ""'•'y • • • ' • ! l • • • • ; ' ^ i -

from The St. Lawrence andihe Saguenay^ .

FREDERICK D O U G L A S S ( 1 8 1 8 - 1 8 9 5 ) : ' 1-101

The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negrb :" 1103 'The Heroic Slave 1120' ^_ " :> ' • ; • ' • • -Letter to the Editor of The Times 1146 " ' ; ' :

1 CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE

f The Times, Letters-tp the Editor 1147 , . .

HERMAN MELVILLE ( 1 8 1 9 - 1 8 9 1 ) 1 1 5 3 .

Bartleby, the Scrivener 1154 . ,, . ., , ,,M

WALT W H I T M A N ( 1 8 1 9 - 1 8 9 2 ) .,,.,1178; . _.•• t, •• ,' ,A ^ ,

SongofMyself 1179 • i : ,'.•:•-.: • . A. / .''.: ?-: J

FRANCES ELLEN W A T K I N S H A R P E R ( 1 8 2 5 - 1 9 1 1 ) l ;210 J

The Slave Mother 1211 - - , , . : . , , , ; , /

Learning to Read 1212

xviii Contents

Free Labor 1213 T ••[,. ,,An Appeal to My Country Women 1214. ,,..,

T H O M A S D'ARCY MCGEE (1825-1868)- 1216

The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion 1216

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) - 1220

84: Her breast is fit for pearls 1222216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [1] 1223216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [2] 1223249: Wild nights—Wild nights! 1223280:1 felt a Funeral; in my Brain 1224 . . : ^'303: The Soul selects her own Society;— 1224341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes—- 1225435: Much Madness is divinest Sense— 1225 ,441: This is my letter to the World 1225443:1 tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl— , 1226 . ,.,465:1 heard a Fly buzz-—when I died— 1227518: Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night 1227'569:1 reckon—When I count at all— 1227 i," ''. .613: They shut me up in prose— 1228 ,668: "Nature" is what we see— 1228 ' " ' . ; '709: Publication—is the Auction , 1229 , ' .712: Because I could not stop for Death— 1229754: My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— 1230790: Nature—the Gentlest Mother is .1231970: Color—Caste—Denomination— 1231986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass 1232 ..;"?.'•.•.1129: Tell all the truth but tell it slant— U232,,. ; /1249: The Stars are old, that stood for me— 1233 - .1545: The Bible is an antique Volume—: 1233'1593: There came a Wind like a Bugle— 1233

« => A SHEAF OF POEMSCanadian Poets of Confederation 1234

CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS (1860-1943) 1235The Tantramar RevisitedThe Skaterfrom Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892) '

BLISS CARMAN (1861-1929) 1241 : ' ;

By the Aurelian WallLow Tide on Grand Pre •, • • • : .";.A More Ancient Mariner . - •

Contents

ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN (1861-1899) 1247The City at the End of ThingsThe FrogsThe Railway StationVoices of EarthTemagami

DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT (1862-1947) 1253The Onondaga MadonnaNight Hymns on Lake Nipigon•Ode for the Keats Centenary i !

Timeline 1261

A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms 1278 •

Selected Bibliography of Transatlantic Romanticism 1294

Credit's 1300 . ' ' l

Index. 1301 : . •: