The Norton Anthology Of American Literature

Beginnings to 1865

Plot

Volume 1 includes poetry, short stories, letters, and prose by Christopher Columbus, Bartolome de las Casas, Hernan Cortes, Bernal Diaz de Castillo, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Arthur Barlowe, Thomas Harriot, John White, Samuel de Champlain, George Percy, John Smith, William Bradford, Thomas Morton, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, Mary Rowlandson, Edward Taylor, Samuel Sewall, Cotton Mather, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Samson Occom, Mercy Otis Warren, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, William Bartram, John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Olaudah Equiano, Judith Sargent Murray, Timothy Dwight, Philip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Wentworth Morgan, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, William Cullen Bryant, William Apess, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton), Harriet Jacobs, T.B. Thorpe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Prescott Spofford.