Part 1 American Poetry of the Colonial Period:
The Poetry of Elizabethan Initiative, Ingenuity, and
Democracy
Chapter 1 Anne Bradstreet .6
To My Dear and Loving Husband ................................................................................... 8
Chapter 2 Philip Freneau .10
The Wild Honey Suckle .................................................................................................... 11
The Indian Burying Ground ............................................................................................ 14
Part 2 American Poetry of Romantic Period:
The Witness of Growth, Independence and Originality Chapter 1 William Cullen Bryant .20 To a Waterfowl .....................................................................................................................22 Chapter 2 Edgar Allan Poe .26 To Helen ...............................................................................................................................28
Annabel Lee ......................................................................................................................... 31 Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .36 A Psalm of Life ....................................................................................................................38
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls ........................................................................................43 Chapter 4 Walt Whitman .45 O Captain! My Captain! ................................................................................................... 47
Cavalry Crossing a Ford .................................................................................................... 51
I Hear America Singing ....................................................................................................52
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A Short History of American Literature and Selected Readings Chapter 5 Emily Elizabeth Dickinson .54 Success ..................................................................................................................................56
Wild Nights—Wild Nights .................................................................................................58
I Died for Beauty .................................................................................................................60
I Heard a Fly buzz—When I died— ................................................................................. 61
Because I Could Not Stop for Death .............................................................................64
Part 3 American Poetry of the Modernist Period:
The Search for Impersonality, Objectivity and Distillation Chapter 1 Edwin Arlington Robinson .68 Richard Cory .......................................................................................................................69 Chapter 2 Robert Frost .72 The Road Not Taken .........................................................................................................73
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ...................................................................... 76
Fire and Ice ...........................................................................................................................78 Chapter 3 Stephen Crane .80 Black Riders Came from the Sea .................................................................................... 81
A Man Said to the Universe .............................................................................................83 Chapter 4 Carl Sandburg .84 Fog .........................................................................................................................................85
Grass .....................................................................................................................................87 Chapter 5 Wallace Stevens .89 Anecdote of the Jar .............................................................................................................90
The Snow Man ....................................................................................................................92 Chapter 6 William Carlos Williams .94 The Red Wheelbarrow ......................................................................................................96 Chapter 7 Ezra Pound .97 In a Station of the Metro ...................................................................................................99
A Pact .................................................................................................................................. 101 Chapter 8 Hilda Doolittle .103 Oread ..................................................................................................................................104
Helen ...................................................................................................................................105 Chapter 9 Edward Estlin Cummings .108 L(a ........................................................................................................................................109
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Part 4 American Poetry of Contemporary Times:
The Disruption of Authority; the Coming of All-embracing Chapter 1 James Mercer Langston Hughes .112 The Negro Speaks of Rivers........................................................................................... 113
Dreams ............................................................................................................................... 115
Words like Freedom ......................................................................................................... 116
Warning ............................................................................................................................... 118 Chapter 2 Theodore Huebner Roethke .119 My Papa’s Waltz ................................................................................................................120 Chapter 3 Elizabeth Bishop .122 Fish ..............................................................................................................................124 Chapter 4 The Confessional School: Robert Lowell.129 Skunk Hour ........................................................................................................................ 131 Chapter 5 The Beat School: Allen Ginsberg .135
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Part 1 American Novel of Romanticism Period:
The Concern for Humanitarian Reforms and National Morality Chapter 1 Washington Irving .141 Rip Van Winkle .................................................................................................................143 Chapter 2 James Fenimore Cooper .158 The Last of the Mohicans ...............................................................................................160 Chapter 3 Edgar Allan Poe .173 The Fall of the House of Usher ......................................................................................175 Chapter 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne .193 Scarlet Letter ......................................................................................................................195 Chapter 5 Herman Melville .204 Moby Dick ..........................................................................................................................206
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A Short History of American Literature and Selected Readings
Part 2 American Novel of Realism Period:
The Rendering of the Ordinary, Commonplace and the Low Chapter 1 Mark Twain.216 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .......................................................................... 219 Chapter 2 Henry James .229 The Portrait of a Lady .....................................................................................................231
Part 3 American Novel of Naturalism Period:
Dismissing the Validity of Comforting Moral Truths and
Presenting the Extreme Life Chapter 1 Stephen Crane .246 The Open Boat ..................................................................................................................248 Chapter 2 Theodore Dreiser CChhaapptteerr 34 FSSihrsateenrrwk C Noaroordire r A.i..sn.. ...d.....e......r....s... ..o.......n......... ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................222.256651123 Winesburg, Ohio ...............................................................................................................264 Chapter 5 Jack London .273 The Call of the Wild.........................................................................................................275
Part 4 American Novel of Modernism Period:
The Experience of Horrors and the Lost in Faith CChhaapptteerr 12 SWinilclala Cira Ltheewri .s.......................................................................................................................................................................................................229913 Babbitt ................................................................................................................................295 Chapter 3 Francis Scott Fitzgerald .304 The Great Gatsby .............................................................................................................306 Chapter 4 William Faulkner.322 The Sound and the Fury .................................................................................................325
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Chapter 5 Ernest Hemingway .339 The Sun Also Rises ..........................................................................................................342 Chapter 6 John Ernst Steinbeck .346 The Grapes of Wrath .......................................................................................................348
Part 5 American Novel Since 1945:
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Part 6 American Multiethnic Novel Since 1945:
Boiling of the Melting Pot CChhaapptteerr 12 RRaiclhpahr Edl lWisroing h.t...................................................................................................................................................................................................441179 Invisible Man .....................................................................................................................421 CChhaapptteerr 34 TAolenxi HMaolreryi s.o.n.......................................................................................................................................................................................................443368 The Bluest Eye ..................................................................................................................440
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A Short History of American Literature and Selected Readings Chapter 5 Maxine Hong Kingston .442 The Woman Warrior ........................................................................................................444 Chapter 6 Alice Walker .447
Drama
American Drama:
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Essay
American Essay:
The Recording of Truth and Times Chapter 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson .463 Nature .................................................................................................................................464 Chapter 2 Henry David Thoreau .467 Walden ................................................................................................................................468
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