Final Exam: Works and Authors Covered
•William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation
•John Winthrop, from A Model of Christian Charity
•Thomas Morton, from The New English Canaan
•Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “Here Follows Some Verses
upon the Burning of Our House”, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild, Anne
Bradstreet”
•Edward Taylor, “Upon Wedlock and Death of Children”
•Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs Mary
Rowlandson
•Cotton Mather, from Wonders of the Invisible World: “The Tryal of Bridget Bishop”
•Benjamin Franklin, “A Witch Trial at Mount Holly”, “Remarks Concerning the Savages
of North America”, Autobiography, Parts One.
•J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur, “What Is an American”, from Letters from an
American Farmer.
•Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano.
•Samson Occom, “A Short Narrative of My Life”
•Philip Freneau, “The Wild Honeysuckle”, “The Indian Burying Ground”
•Phyllis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa”, “Letter to Samson Occom”
•Washington Irving, “The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow”; “Rip Van Winkle”
•James Fenimore Cooper, “The Slaughter of the Pigeons”
•William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
•William Cullen Bryant, “The Yellow Violet”, “To a Waterfowl”
•E. A. Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,”
“The Raven,” “The Philosophy of Composition”
•Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”, “Aftermath”
•Emerson, Nature, Introduction and Chapter I; “The American Scholar”, “Self-
Reliance”, “The Rhodora,” “The Snowstorm”
•Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, “Resistance to Civil Government”
•Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineaux”, “Young Goodman Brown”,
“The Minister’s Black Veil”, “The Birth-mark”, “Rapaccini’s Daughter”
•Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses”, Benito Cereno, Bartleby, the
Scrivener, Billy Budd, Sailor
.