Table of Contents: “…"Salem is my dwelling place" -- The heritage: the Hathornes and the Mannings -- "The gentle boy" -- "Living upon Uncle Robert" -- Bowdoin College: venturing into the world -- Intercourse with the world: Fanshawe -- "Castle Dismal" -- Intercourse with the world: The early tales -- The Peabodys -- Two sisters in love -- Mary Silsbee: "Star of Salem" -- The comedy of manners ends happily -- Port-admiral at the Boston Custom-House -- "Thou art my type of womanly perfection" -- Book farm: "That abominable gold-mine" -- "I take this dove in bed and board -- Eden in Concord -- Margaret Fuller in Concord -- Intercourse with the world: Mosses from an old manse -- Salem, hail and farewell -- Intercourse with the world: The scarlet letter -- The Berkshires, 1850: enter Herman Melville -- Intercourse with the world: The house of the seven gables -- Lenox, 1851: intimations -- "Big hearts strike together" -- Intercourse with the world: The Blithedale romance -- President Pierce's "Prime minister" -- England: "I do not take root anywhere" -- Italy: "Dim reflections in my inward mirror" -- Intercourse with the world: The marble faun -- Concord, 1860-1862 -- The crack-up: the unfinished romances -- "The great, generous, brave heart beat no more."…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Our prayer of thanks -- Fogs and fires -- At a window -- Under the harvest moon -- The great hunt -- Monotone -- Joy -- Shirt -- Aztec -- Two -- Back yard -- On the breakwater -- Mask -- Pearl fog -- I sang -- Follies -- June -- Nocturne in a deserted brickyard -- Hydrangeas -- Theme in yellow -- Between two hills -- Last answers -- Window -- Young sea -- Bones -- Pals -- Child -- Poppies -- Child moon -- Margaret -- Shadows -- Poems done on a late night car -- It is much -- Trafficker -- Harrison street court -- Soiled dove -- Jungheimer's -- Gone -- Other days (1900-1910) -- Dreams in the dusk -- Docks -- All day long -- Waiting -- From the shore -- Uplands in May -- Dream girl -- Plowboy -- Broadway -- Old woman -- Noon hour -- 'Boes -- Under a telephone pole -- I am the people, the mob -- Government -- Languages -- Letters to dead imagists -- Sheep -- The red son -- The mist -- The junk man -- Silver nails -- Gypsy.…”