The Oxford Book of American Essays
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1. Front matter2. INTRODUCTION3. THE EPHEMERA: AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE TO MADAME BRILLON, OF PASSY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN4. THE WHISTLE TO MADAME BRILLON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5. DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND THE GOUT6. CONSOLATION FOR THE OLD BACHELOR FRANCIS HOPKINSON7. JOHN BULL WASHINGTON IRVING8. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY WASHINGTON IRVING9. KEAN’S ACTING RICHARD HENRY DANA10. GIFTS RALPH WALDO EMERSON11. USES OF GREAT MEN RALPH WALDO EMERSON12. BUDS AND BIRD-VOICES NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE13. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION EDGAR ALLAN POE14. BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES15. WALKING HENRY DAVID THOREAU16. ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS[5] JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL17. PREFACE TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" 1855 WALT WHITMAN18. AMERICANISM IN LITERATURE THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON19. THACKERAY IN AMERICA GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS20. OUR MARCH TO WASHINGTON THEODORE WINTHROP THROUGH THE CITY21. CALVIN A STUDY OF CHARACTER CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER22. FIVE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT23. I TALK OF DREAMS W. D. Howells24. AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE JOHN BURROUGHS25. CUT-OFF COPPLES’S CLARENCE KING26. THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS HENRY JAMES27. THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE28. COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES[9] HENRY CABOT LODGE29. NEW YORK AFTER PARIS W. C. Brownell30. THE TYRANNY OF THINGS EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN31. FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS32. DANTE AND THE BOWERY THEODORE ROOSEVELT33. THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER34. ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE W. P. TRENT