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The Heath Anthology of American Literature Paul Lauter Trinity College General Editor The Juan Bruce-Novoa University of California at Irvine Jackson Bryer Heath University of Maryland Elaine Hedges Anthology Towson State University Amy Ling of Georgetown University Daniel Littlefield University of Arkansas at Little Rock American Wendy Martin The Claremont Graduate School Literature Charles Molesworth Queens College, City University of New York La ter, et al., THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. First Edition. Carla Mulford Co yright (c) 1990 by D. C. Heath and Pennsylvania State University Co pany. Used by permission of Raymund Paredes Ho ghton Mifflin Company. All rights University of California at Los Angeles Re erved. Volume 1 Hortense Spillers Cornell University Linda Wagner-Martin University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Andrew Wiget New Mexico State University Richard Yarborough University of California at Los Angeles D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts Toronto CONTENTS xxxiii To the Reader Colonial Period: to 1700 3 22 Native American Traditions 25 This Newly Created World (Winnebago) 26 Emergence Song (Pima) 26 Talk Concerning the. First Beginning (Zuni) 40 Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo) 52 The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi) 56 Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois) 59 Raven and Marriage (Tlingit) 64 Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian) 67 The Literature of Discovery and Exploration 69 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) 70 from Journal of the First Voyage to America 80 The Virgin of Guadalupe 81 History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531 89 Alvar Nunez. Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?) 89 from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 89 from Chapter VII: The Character of the Country 91 from Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute 92 from Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians 93 Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted 94 Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country 95 from Chapter XXVII: We Moved Away and Were Well Received vi Contents Contents • vii 96 from 97 Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us Hearts of Deer Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians 98 from 146 The Literature of European Settlement Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians 99 A Gentleman of Elvas (11. 1537-1557) 149 John Smith (1580-1631) 99 from The 151 from A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate 99 Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida as Hath Hapned in Virginia [Smith as captive at the court of 100 Chapter VIII: Of some inrodes that were made into the countrie Chapter IX: How this Christian came to the land of Florida Powhatan] 152 from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the 103 Rene Summer Isles Goulaine de Laudonniere (fl. 1562-1582) 104 from 152 Book III, Chapter 2: [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by 1608] Certaine French Captaines unto Florida 154 Book IV: (Pocahontas's introduction to the British court in 1616] 106 Pedro Menendez 156 from A Description of New England [Appeal for settlers to plant a de Aviles (1519-1574) colony in New England] 106 from Letter to Philip II (October 15, 1565) 160 from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New- 111 To a Jesuit Friend (October 15, 1566) England, or Anywhere, or the Path-way to Experience to Erect a Plantation [Review of the colonies planted in New England and 114 Fray Marcos de Niza (1495?-1542?) Virginia] 114 from 160 from Chapters 1, 2, 3, 9 A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola 164 Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?) 164 from A Discourse of Virginia [Here Followeth What Happened in 117 Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?-1570?) James Town, in Virginia, after Captain Newport's Departure for 118 from England] 118 The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado Chapter XXI: Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reached Quivira 172 Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623) 173 Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) 120 Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555-1620) 121 176 Thomas Morton (c. 1579—c. 1647) from The History of New Mexico 121 177 from New English Canaan Canto One: [Argument of the history] 122 from 177 from Book I, Chapter IV: Of Their Houses and Habitations 125 Canto Fourteen: How the Rio del Norte was discovered 178 from Chapter VI: Of the Indians apparrell Canto Thirty: How the new general, after giving his orders, left to bid Luzcoija farewell 178 Chapter VIII: Of their Reverence, and respect to age 128 179 Chapter XVI: Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and Canto Thirty-one: How victory was finally won immortality of the Soule 131 Samuel de 180 from Chapter XX: That the Salvages live a contended life Champlain (1570?-1635) 181 from Book III, Chapter I: Of a great League made with the Plimmouth 132 from The Voyages Planters after their arrival], by the Sachem of those Territories 132 from The of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 181 from Chapter V: Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus Encounter with the Iroquois 1608-1612: An 182 from Chapter VII: Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, 135 from The Voyages of 1615: Champlain, Among and castinge away upon an Island Woods the Huron, Lost in the 183 from Chapter XIV: Of the Revells of New Canaan 184 Chapter XV: Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and 136 Samuel Puchas (1577?-1626) the preparation made to destroy it 137 from 187 from Chapter XVI: How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma- re•Mount Posthumus, or Hakluytus Purchas His Pilgrimes into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus viii Contents Contents ix 188 John Winthrop' (1588-1649) 191 from A Modell of Christian Charity 272 Before the Birth of One of Her Children 199 John Winthrop's Christian Experience 272 To My Dear and Loving Husband 204 from The Journal of John Winthrop 273 A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment 274 In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659 210 William Bradford (1590-1657) 276 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who 212 from Of Plymouth Plantation Deceased August, 1655, Being a Year and Half Old 212 from Book I, Chapter I: [The Separatist Interpretatio 277 from Meditations Divine and Moral Reformation in England 1550-1607] n of the' 213 from 282 Chapter III: Of their Settling in Holland, and their Manner of Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) Living, and Entertainment there 214 284 God's Controversy with New-England from Chapter IV: 215 from Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal 295 Chapter. VII: Of their Departure from Leyden; and other things The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New-England Primer (1683?) thereabout ; with their Arrival at Southampton; where they all met 298 from The Bay Psalm Book together and took in their Provisions 298 from "The Preface" by John Cotton 215 from Chapter IX: Of their Voyage; and how they passed the Sea; and 300 Psalms 1, 6, 8, 19, 23, 100, 137, 141 their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod of 308 from The New England Primer 217 from Book II, Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The 308 Alphabet Mayflower Compact, The Starving Time, Indian Relations] 309 The Dutiful Child's Promises 220 from Chapter XIV, Anno Domini 1623: [End of the "Common Course 309 Verses and Condition"] 309 Again 221 from Chapter XIX, Anno Domini 1628: [Thomas Morton of 310 The Death of John Rogers Merrytnount] 225 Chapter XXIII, Anno Domini 1632: [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of Population] 226 from Chapter XXVIII, Anno Domini 1637: [The Pequot War] 227 from Chapter XXIX, Anno Domini 1638: [Great and Fearful Earthquake] 311 Seventeenth-Century Wit 228 from Chapter XXXII, Anno Domini 1642: [Wickedness Breaks Forth] 229 from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1643: [The Life 'and Death of 312 Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652) Elder Brewster] 312 Commendatory poem for Anne Bradstreet's Several Poems 232 313 from The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) 234' from A Key into the Language of 239 America' 313 Philip Pain (?–c. 1667) Chapter XX: Of their nakednesse and clothing 241 313 from Daily Meditations: or, Quotidian Preparations for and Chapter XXI: Of Religion, the soule, 249 etc. Considerations of Death and Eternity Chapter XXIX: Of Their Wane, etc. 254 To the Town of Providence: Testimony of Roger Williams relative 314 John Fiske (1608-1677) to his first 1682 coming into the Narragansett country, dated June 18, 314 Anagram on the Death of Thomas Hooker: "A rest; oh corn'! oh"— 315 John Josselyn (c. 1610–post 1692) 256 Anne Bradstreet (c..1612-1672) 315 from 258 The Prologue [To Her Book] New-England's Rarities Discovered 260 The Author to Her Book 315 John Saffin (1626-1710) 260 To Her Father With Some Verses 261 Contemplations 315 Acrostic on Mrs. Winifret Griffin 269 The Flesh and the Spirit 316 Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) 316 from Poetical Meditations x Contents Contents xi 317 Mazy Rowlandson (1636-1678) 318 from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary 406 from Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of Rowlandson New-England 406 A General Introduction 342 Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) 408 Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of 346 from The Psalm Paraphrases Plymouth Colony 346 Version 1, Psalm 1 414 from The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America: Or, The Life 347 Version 2, Psalm 19 of the Renowned John Eliot 349 from Gods Determinations 422 from Bonifacius .
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