미국인 에세이의 옥스포드책.The Oxford Book of American Essays, by Various
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INTRODUCTION v
THE EPHEMERA: AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
THE WHISTLE 4
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND THE GOUT 7
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
CONSOLATION FOR THE OLD BACHELOR 15
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791).
JOHN BULL 21
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE 34
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
KEAN’S ACTING 47
Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879).
GIFTS 62
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
USES OF GREAT MEN 67
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
BUDS AND BIRD-VOICES 88
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION 99
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER 114
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
WALKING 128
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS 166
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
PREFACE TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" 194
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
AMERICANISM IN LITERATURE 213
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911).
THACKERAY IN AMERICA 229
George William Curtis (1824-1892).
OUR MARCH TO WASHINGTON 241
Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861).
CALVIN (A Study of Character) 268
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900).
FIVE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION 280
Charles William Eliot (1834- ).
I TALK OF DREAMS 308
William Dean Howells (1837- ).
AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE 331
John Burroughs (1837- ).
CUT-OFF COPPLES’S 351
Clarence King (1842-1901).
THE TH??TRE FRAN?AIS 368
Henry James (1843- ).
THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD 394
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846- ).
COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES 410
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ).
NEW YORK AFTER PARIS 440
William Crary Brownell (1851- ).
THE TYRANNY OF THINGS 467
Edward Sandford Martin (1856- ).
FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE 475
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857- ).
DANTE AND THE BOWERY 480
Theodore Roosevelt (1858- ).
THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT 489
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862- ).
ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE 497
William Peterfield Trent (1862- ).