ENG 231 American Literature I

Stories of the Beginning of the World 

The Iroquois Creation Story

Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World

The Story of the Creation. 

Edward Taylor’s Huswifery

Anne Bradstreet’s To My Dear and Loving Husband  

Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Benjamin Franklin’s the Autobiography & Poor Richard’s Almanack

Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative of the life of O. Equiano

W. Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker                                

William Cullen Bryant’s Thanatopsis

“Old Ironsides” by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The First Snowfall” by James Russell Lowell and John Greenleaf

Edgar Allan Poe“The Haunted Palace”“Black Cat” & “Tell-Tale Heart”

Emerson’s Nature & Self Reliance

Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

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