The American Standard

The American Standard'' (subtitledA Collection of Classic American Literature'') is a book edited by Blane R. Covert, an American literature teacher at Pulaski Academy. It consists of major American writers' short works, including poems, short stories, and speeches. On the back cover of the book, Covert states the following:

The American Standard traces the evolution of American Literature from pre-colonial times through the mid-1900s. Arranged chronologically, the text emphasizes the works of major American writers such as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin.

Background on Mr. Covert

This text was from the author summary section located at the bottom of the back cover page of the book.

Works Included

The following are the literary works that are included in The American Standard. They are arranged in chronological order with the corresponding page numbers of the original (and the only current) EDition printed on the far right of the entry.

John Smith - from The General History of Virginia

William Bradford - from Of Plymouth Plantation

Anne Bradstreet - Upon the Burning of Our House

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Jonathan Edwards - from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Patrick Henry - Speech in the Virginia Convention

Thomas Paine - The Crisis, Number 1

Thomas Jefferson - The Declaration of Independence

Washington Irving - "Rip Van Winkle"

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

"The Raven"

"Annabel Lee"

Ralph Waldo Emerson - from Nature

from Self-Reliance

Henry David Thoreau - from Walden

from Civil Disobedience

Nathaniel Hawthorne - "The Minister's Black Veil"

"Wakefield"

Herman Melville - "Bartleby the Scrivener"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

A Psalm of Life

Emily Dickinson - "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

"I Never Saw a Moor"

"There's a Certain Slant of Light"

"Success is Counted Sweetest"

"I Heard a Fly Buzz -- When I Died"

"Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

"Much Madness is Divinest Sense"

"How Happy is the Little Stone"

Frederick Douglass - from My Bondage and My Freedom

Robert E. Lee - Letter to His Son

Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address

Letter to Mrs. Bixby

Walt Whitman - from Song of Myself

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

A Noiseless Patient Spider

O Captain! My Captain!

Mark Twain - "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Bret Harte - The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Ambrose Bierce - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -

Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour

A Respectable Woman

Willa Cather - Paul's Case

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Hamlin Garland - Under the Lion's Paw

Jack London - To Build a Fire

Stephen Crane - Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind

A Man Said to the Universe

The Open Boat

Acknowledgements

The following is the acknowledgements page of the book written by Mr. Covert:

Preface

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References

• Covert, Blane. The American Standard: A Collection of Classic American Literature.