POEMS From the COLONIAL to the MODERN ERA

PHILLIP FRENEAU:
A Warning to America
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
The Indian Burying Ground
The Dish of Tea

PHILLIS WHEATLEY:
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
On Being Brought from Africa to America

ROYALL TYLER:
The Origin of Evil

TIMOTHY DWIGHT:
The Smooth Divine (selection from The Triumph of Infidelity)
The Triumph of Infidelity

J. G. WHITTIER:  Snow-Bound   Funeral Tree of the Sokokis

JOEL BARLOW:
Preface to The Hasty Pudding       The Hasty Pudding
selections from The Columbiad (with racy videos !)
The Columbiad

EDGAR ALLAN POE:
To Helen     The Sleeper     The City in the Sea

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: A Fable for Critics

ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH: Ere The Golden Bowl Is Broken

CLAUDE McKAY: America

ROBINSON JEFFERS: Shine, Perishing Republic