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Themes from the Period


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 * |||||| **PART 1: FIRESIDE AND CAMPFIRE** ||
 * || Washington Irving || **The Devil and Tom Walker** || 242 || Short Story ||
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 * || Henry Wadsworth Longfellow || **A Psalm of Life; The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls** || Poem || 260 ||
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 * || William Cullen Bryant || **Thanatopsis** || Poem || 267 ||
 * || Oliver Wendell Holmes || **Old Ironsides** || Poem || 270 ||
 * || James Russell Lowell || **The First Snowfall** || Poem || 272 ||
 * || John Greenleaf Whittier || **Snowbound** || Poem || 274 ||
 * |||||||||||| **Comparing Literary Works** ||
 * || Meriwether Lewis || **Crossing the Great Divide** || Nonfiction || 286 ||  ||   ||
 * || John Wesley Powell || **The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth** || Nonfiction || 289 ||  ||   ||
 * |||||||||||| **PART 2: SHADOWS OF THE IMAGINATION** ||
 * |||||||||||| **Comparing Literary Works** ||
 * || Edgar Allan Poe || **The Fall of the House of Usher** || Short Story || 308 ||
 * ||  || **The Raven** || Poem || 326 ||
 * || Nathaniel Hawthorne || **The Minister's Black Veil** || Short Story || 336 ||
 * || Herman Melville || **from Moby-Dick** || Fiction || 354 ||
 * |||||||||||| PART 3: THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND THE NATURAL WORLD ||
 * |||||||||||| Comparing Literary Works ||
 * || Ralph Waldo Emerson || **from Nature** || Nonfiction || 388 ||
 * ||  || **from Self-Reliance** || Nonfiction || 391 ||
 * ||  || **Concord Hymn** || Poem || 393 ||
 * ||  || **The Snowstorm** || Poem || 394 ||
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 * || Henry David Thoreau || **from Walden** || Nonfiction || 402 ||
 * ||  || **from Civil Disobedience** || Nonfiction || 412 ||
 * |||||||||||| PART 4: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: POETRY ||
 * || Emily Dickinson || **Because I could not stop for Death—** || Poem || 420 ||
 * ||  || I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— || Poem || 422 ||
 * ||  || There's a certain Slant of light, || Poem || 424 ||
 * ||  || My life closed twice before its close— || Poem || 424 ||
 * ||  || The Soul selects her own Society— || Poem || 425 ||
 * ||  || The Brain—is wider than the Sky— || Poem || 426 ||
 * ||  || There is a solitude of space || Poem || 427 ||
 * ||  || Water, is taught by thirst || Poem || 428 ||
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 * || Walt Whitman || from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass || Nonfiction || 434 ||
 * ||  || from Song of Myself || Poem || 436 ||
 * ||  || When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer || Poem || 440 ||
 * ||  || By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame || Poem || 441 ||
 * ||  || I Hear America Singing || Poem || 442 ||
 * ||  || A Noiseless Patient Spider || Poem || 444 ||
 * || Emily Dickinson || **Because I could not stop for Death—** || Poem || 420 ||
 * ||  || I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— || Poem || 422 ||
 * ||  || There's a certain Slant of light, || Poem || 424 ||
 * ||  || My life closed twice before its close— || Poem || 424 ||
 * ||  || The Soul selects her own Society— || Poem || 425 ||
 * ||  || The Brain—is wider than the Sky— || Poem || 426 ||
 * ||  || There is a solitude of space || Poem || 427 ||
 * ||  || Water, is taught by thirst || Poem || 428 ||
 * |||||||||||| Comparing Literary Works ||
 * || Walt Whitman || from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass || Nonfiction || 434 ||
 * ||  || from Song of Myself || Poem || 436 ||
 * ||  || When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer || Poem || 440 ||
 * ||  || By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame || Poem || 441 ||
 * ||  || I Hear America Singing || Poem || 442 ||
 * ||  || A Noiseless Patient Spider || Poem || 444 ||
 * ||  || I Hear America Singing || Poem || 442 ||
 * ||  || A Noiseless Patient Spider || Poem || 444 ||