Boston : Voices and Visions.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- I. Boston, from Winthrop to Hawthorne -- John Winthrop (1588-1649), from "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (1678) &amp -- "Meditations Divine and Moral" #53 (1867) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1733) &amp -- "To The University of Cambridge, in New England" (1773) -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818), 1775-1776 Letters to John Adams (1735-1826) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), "The Deacon's Masterpiece -- or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay'" (1858) -- II. Bos ton and the Americ an Renais ance -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" (1831) &amp -- "The Last Leaf" (1831) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), "Letter to a Young Contributor" (1862) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Concord Hymn" (1837) &amp -- "Boston Hymn" (1863) -- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1882), from "How I Went Out to Service" (1874) -- James T. Fields (1817-1881), from "Hawthorne," Yesterdays with Authors (1871) -- Annie Fields (1834-1915), from "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters," Authors and Friends (1896) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947), from "148 Charles Street," Not Under Forty (1936) -- III. Post-Civil War Boston -- Henry Adams (1838-1918), from The Education of Henry Adams (1906, 1918) -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), "The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech" (1877) -- William Dean Howells (1837-1920), from Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900) &amp -- The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) -- Henry James (1843-1916), from The Bostonians (1886).

IV. "Viewed in Boston Light": Turn-of-the-Century Boston -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), from "Dead Yet Living: An Address Delivered at Keene, N.H. Memorial Day, May 30, 1884" (1884) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), from "The Lamp of Psyche" (1895) -- George Santayana (1863-1952), from Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography (1944) -- John P. Marquand (1893-1960), from The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), "The Boston Evening Transcript" (1917) &amp -- "Cousin Nancy" (1917) -- Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), from Looking Backward (1888) -- Cleveland Amory (1917-1998), from The Proper Bostonians (1947) -- V. The "Other" Bostonians: New Voices and Visions -- Charlotte Forten Grimke (1838-1914), from her Journal (1854) -- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), from "A Negro Student at Harvard" (1960) -- Dorothy West (1907-1998), from The Living Is Easy (1948) -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Alex Haley (1921-1992), from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) -- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962), from "I Saw Frederick Douglass" (1948) &amp -- "Quiet Has a Hidden Sound" (1948) -- John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), from "The Exile of the Gael" (1887) &amp -- "The Fame of the City" (1881) -- J. Anthony Lukas (1933-1997), from Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) -- Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968), from The Last Hurrah (1956) -- Fred Allen (1894-1956), from his Letters (1935) -- George V. Higgins (1939-1999), from The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972) -- Michael Patrick MacDonald (1966- ), from All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (1999) -- Mary Antin (1881-1949), from The Promised Land (1912) -- Nat Hentoff (1925- ), from Boston Boy (1986) -- Roland Merullo (1953- ), from In Revere, in Those Days (2002) -- VI. "There It Was": Boston, City of Self and Spirit.

Arthur C. Inman (1895-1963), from The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession (1920, 1938) -- Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976), from One Boy's Boston (1962) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977), from "91 Revere Street" (1959) &amp -- "For the Union Dead" (1960) -- Dan Wakefield (1932-), from Returning: A Spiritual Journey (1985) -- John Updike (1932-2009), "Personal Considerations: Why Do I Live in New England?" -- Eve LaPlante (1959- ), Introduction, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson (2004) -- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1983), "Night Watch in the City of Boston" (1975) -- Patricia Powell (1966- ), from "A Literary Landscape: From Jamaica to Boston" (2004) -- Notes -- Sources -- Back Cover.

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