Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1George McMichael, Frederick C. Crews Represents the American literary works most respected by modern scholars. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This book also emphasizes the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors. Extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes link the works and authors of a period and provide readers with additional insights into each selection. New to this edition is an expanded presentation of Native American literature (myths, tales, autobiography, etc.). |
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... unto ! we would not happy be ; And therefore bear God's vengeance here to all eternity . Experience and woeful sense must be our painful teachers Who n'ould54 believe , nor credit give , unto our faithful preachers . 218 Thus shall they ...
... unto ! we would not happy be ; And therefore bear God's vengeance here to all eternity . Experience and woeful sense must be our painful teachers Who n'ould54 believe , nor credit give , unto our faithful preachers . 218 Thus shall they ...
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... unto the rebuke of heaven upon us for our manifold aspostasies . We make no right use of our disasters if we do not " Remember whence we are fallen , and repent , and do the first works . " But yet our afflic- tions may come under a ...
... unto the rebuke of heaven upon us for our manifold aspostasies . We make no right use of our disasters if we do not " Remember whence we are fallen , and repent , and do the first works . " But yet our afflic- tions may come under a ...
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... unto their priest . Here , and in some other places , he had a comfortable inheri- tance left him of his honest parents , who died while he was yet a child and cast him on the education , 12 first of his grandparents , and then of his ...
... unto their priest . Here , and in some other places , he had a comfortable inheri- tance left him of his honest parents , who died while he was yet a child and cast him on the education , 12 first of his grandparents , and then of his ...
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Columbuss Letter Describing His First Voyage | 15 |
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH | 22 |
FROM A Description of New England | 36 |
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