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THE RISE OF
REALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
WALT WHITMAN
Preface to Leaves oj Grass .
Song of Myself
There Was a Child Went Forth.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking .
I Hear America Singing .
Me Imperturbe
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Recorders· Ages Hence .
I Hear It Was Charged against Me .
Facing West from California's Shores
Pioneers! 0 Pioneers! .
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night .
Come Up from the Fields Father .
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun .
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Shut Not Your Doors
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
o Captain! My Captain!
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Reconciliation .
One's-Self I Sing .
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Darest Thou Now 0 Soul .
A Noiseless Patient Spider .
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors .
The Base of All Metaphysics
To a Locomotive in Winter .
Spirit. That Form'd This Scene
Good-Bye My Fancy!
From Democratic Vistas
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CIVIL CONFLICT
1. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Farewell Remarks at Springfield
Reply to Greeley .
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l'AGE
Meditation on the Divine Will
Address at Gettysburg
Second Inaugural Address
Letters:
To John D. Johnston .
To General Joseph Hooker
To General U. S. Grant
To Mrs. Bixby .
II. EDWARD EVERETT HALE
The Man without a Country
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III. SONGS AND BALLADS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body
Maryland! My Maryland! .
Dixie
The Picket-Guard .
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Three Hundred Thousand More .
Stonewall Jackson's Way
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Little Giffen
Marching through Georgia
Sheridan's Ride
The Blue and the Gray .
IV. HENRY TIMROD
Sonnet: I Scarcely Grieve
Sonnet: I Know Not Why
Ethnogenesis
Charleston .
The Cotton Boll
Ode (Magnolia Cemetery)
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V. PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE
Vicksburg-A Ballad
Under the Pine
Aspects of the Pines
A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet
In Harbor.
VI. ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN
The Conquered Banner
The Sword of Robert Lee
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vn. ALBION W. TOURGEE
From A Fool's Errand: A New Institution
VIII. HENRY W. GRADY
The New South •
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SIDNEY LANIER
Night and Day
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Song for "The Jacquerie"
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The Power of Prayer; or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama 173
The Symphony
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The Centennial Meditation of Columbia
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The Revenge of Hamish •
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The Marshes of Glynn •
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Sunrise
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From Tiger Lilies: The War-Flower
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Letters .
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THE GENTEEL TRADITION
I. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle
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II. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
The Witch's Whelp . •
"Poems of the Orient". •
There Are Gains for All Our Losses
Imogen.
We Parted in the Streets of Ispahan
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III. BAYARD TAYLOR
Song ("Daughter of Egypt")
B.edouin Song .
The Quaker Widow
Walt Whitman
From El Dorado .
IV. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry •
Wanted-A Man.
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Pan in Wall Street
Falstaff's Song .
W. W..
From Poets 0/ America
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V. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Palabras Carifiosas
Identity
Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme
Pauline Pavlovna
Unguarded Gates
Realism
Memory
Marjorie Daw .
VI. EDWARD ROWLAND SILL
Morning
The Fool's Prayer
Among the Redwoods
Before Sunrise in Winter
On Second Thought .'
VII. RICHARD WATSON 'GILDER
The Sonnet
The Night Pasture
VIII. EMMA LAZARUS
Venus of the Louvre
How Long?
The Banner of the Jew
The New Colossus
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THE WE STERN HUMORISTS
I. JOHN PHOENIX (GEORGE HORATIO DERBY)
From Pkoenixiana: Musi~ai Review Extraordinary
II. ARTEMUS WARD (CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE)
From The London Punch Letters.
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III. JOSH BILLINGS (HENRY WI;IEELER SHAW)
Glass Dimonds
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IV. PETROLEUM V. NASBY (DAVID ROSS LOCKE)
From "Swingin' round the Cirkle" .
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FOL K LITE RATU·RE
I. THE COWBOY AND FRONTIERSMAN
The Cowboy's Dream
The Old Chisholm Trail .
Whoopee Ti Vi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
Jesse James
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II. THE LUMBERJACK
Paul Bunyan Provides for His Crew
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III. THE MOUNTAINEER
The Wreck on the C. and O.
The Rowan County Crew
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IV. THE NEGRO
Room in There
John Henry
Promises of Freedom .
Half Way Doings .
She Hugged Me and Kissed Me .
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LOCAL COLOR AND
WEST
REALISM:
THE
FAR
1. BRET HARTE
The Work on Red Mountain
From Condensed Novels: Muck-a-Muck
The Luck of Roaring Camp .
The Angelus
In the Tunnel .
Her Letter.
Plain Language from Truthful James
The Society upon the Stanislaus
"Crotalus" .
Relieving Guard .
The Aged Stranger
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II. JOAQUIN MILLER
Kit Carson's Ride .
From The Last Taschastas
Exodus for Oregon
Dead in the Sierras
Alaska .
Columbus .
Twilight at the Heights
From Life amongst the Modocs .
LOCAL COLOR AND REALISM:
AND MIDDLE WEST
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THE EAST
I. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS
Life in the Iron Mills
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II. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
The Ghost in the Mill
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III. JOHN JAMES PIATT
R,iding to Vote
Torch-Light in Autumn
Farther.
IV. EDWARD EGGLESTON
From The Hoosier School-Master
V. JOHN HAY
From Pike County Ballads: Little Breeches, Jim Bludso
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VI. ROSE TERRY COOKE
Too Late .
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VII. SARAH ORNE JEWETT
Deephaven Cronies
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MARK TWAIN
CLeEMEN.S)
(SAMUEL
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LANGHORNE
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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From The Innocents Abroad, Book I, Chapter XXIII
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From Roughing It, Volume II, Chapter VI
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From The Gilded Age, Chapter VIII .
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From Old Times on the Mississippi, Chapter II
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From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters XVI, XIX 4.34
From The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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From Mark Twain's Autobiography
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
From The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter I
From A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part III, Chapter IX
The Unexpected Guests .
From Criticism and Fiction, Section XXIII .
From My Literary Passions, Sections XXXII, XXXV
From Literary Friends and Acquaintance
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HENRY JAMES, JR.
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From The American, Chapter I
The Lesson of the Master .
From Partial Portraits: The Art of Fiction
HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND
NATURE
I. JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
From History of the United Netherlands.
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II. JOHN FISKE
From Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy
III. JOHN BURROUGHS
From Birds'-Nests
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IV. JOHN MUIR
The Sierra Nevada
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LOCAL COLOR AND REALISM:
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THE SOUTH
I. IRWIN RUSSELL
Nebuchadnezzar . . . . .
Mahsr John
II. GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE
Belles Demoiselles Plantation
III. LAFCADIO HEARN
From Creole Sketches. . .
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From Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation. . . .
IV. CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK (MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
The "Harnt" That Walks Chilhowee. . .
V. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
From Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings.
Aunt Fountain's Prisoner
VI. THOMAS NELSON PAGE
"Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin'"
VII. GRACE ELIZABETH KING
From Balcony Stories: A Drama of Three
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ROMANCE AND SENTIMENT
I. LEWIS WALLACE
From The Fair God, Book VII, Chapter XI
II. FRANK R. STOCKTON
Rudder Grange
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III. HELEN HUNT JACKSON
From Ramona, Chapter XX .
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IV. FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD
The Upper Berth .
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V. MAURICE THOMPSON
Wild Honey
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A Creole Slave-Song .
VI. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
The Old Swimmin'-Hole
A Life-Lesson .
The Old Man and Jim
Bereaved
VII. EUGENE FIELD
Little Boy Blue
Casey's Table d'Hote
The Truth about Horace
The Bibliomaniac's Prayer
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THE NEW REALISM
I. EDGAR WATSON HOWE
From The Story of a Country Town, Chapter XXII .
II. JOSEPH KIRKLAND
From Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County, Chapter V.
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EMILY DICKINSON
. This Is My Letter to the WorId
I Never Saw a Moor
The Bustle in a House
My Life Closed Twice
To Fight Aloud .
I Like to See It Lap the Miles .
The Way I Read a Letter's This
Title Divine Is Mine .
Letters
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