American-Literature
TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GENERAL WASHINGTON BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was born in West Africa (likely in modern ...
To His Excellency, General Washington by Phillis Wheatley Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of gl ...
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, Thy ev’ry action let the Goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shi ...
DISCUSSION BOARD 2 REVIEW 2 Check Answer Question 1 of 5 The period of religious revival in the mid-18th century was called the ...
A New Literary Tradition for a New Political Experiment THE EARLY DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC 3 ...
OVERVIEW Key Terms Fireside Poets Romanticism Genteel Tradition TEXTS & CONTEXTS 3 The Early Republic TIMELINE 3 ...
THANATOPSIS BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) served as longtime editor of the New York Evening Post an ...
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A vario ...
Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are s ...
OLD IRONSIDES BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) had a varied and highly successful career. He ...
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has da ...
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER BY WASHINGTON IRVING Washington Irving (1783-1859) is best remembered for his humorous works, such as “ ...
The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several m ...
termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm. Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and ...
incantations here and made sacrifices to the evil spirit. Tom Walker, however, was not a man to be troubled with any fears of th ...
Deacon Peabody. He now looked round and found most of the tall trees marked with the name of some great men of the colony, and a ...
had only on certain conditions. What these conditions were, may easily be surmised, though Tom never disclosed them publicly. Th ...
come to terms; she was to go again with a propitiatory offering, but what it was she forebore to say. The next evening she set o ...
As he scrambled up the tree the vulture spread its wide wings, and sailed off screaming into the deep shadows of the forest. Tom ...
that is to say, that he should fit out a slave ship. This, however, Tom resolutely refused; he was bad enough in all conscience; ...
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