The American tradition in literature / 9th ed., shorter ed. in one vol.

Table Of Contents:
PREFACE xxix
From Colonies to Nation 1(238)
THE COLONIES

JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) 11(13)

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 12(12)

The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia (Chapter II) 12(6)

The Fourth Book. The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government of Virginia 18(1)

The Sixth Book. The General History of New England 19(5)

WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) 24(9)

Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I 26(6)

Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 26(2)

Chapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout 28(4)

Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II 32(1)

[The Mayflower Compact (1620)] 32(1)

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) 33(8)

A Model of Christian Charity 34(7)

ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) 41(10)

The Prologue 43(2)

The Flesh and the Spirit 45(2)

The Author to Her Book 47(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children 48(1)

To My Dear and Loving Husband 48(1)

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 49(1)

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old 49(1)

Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 50(1)

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) 51(11)

The Diary of Samuel Sewall 52(10)

[Customs, Courts, and Courtships] 52(10)

EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) 62(10)

The Preface 63(1)

Meditation I, First Series 64(1)

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children 65(1)

Huswifery 66(1)

Meditation 8, First Series 67(1)

The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out 68(1)

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 69(1)

[TWO MEDITATIONS ON "THE SONG OF SOLOMON," CANTICLE VI] 70(2)

Meditation 142, Second Series 70(1)

Meditation 146, Second Series 71(1)

COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) 72(7)

The Wonders of the Invisible World 73(6)

Enchantments Encountered 73(2)

The Trial of Bridget Bishop 75(4)

A Third Curiosity 79(1)

WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) 79(6)

The History of the Dividing Line 80(2)

[Indian Neighbors] 80(2)

A Progress to the Mines 82(3)

[Reading a Play in the Backwoods] 82(3)

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) 85(29)

Sarah Pierrepont 86(1)

A Divine and Supernatural Light 87(5)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 92(10)

Personal Narrative 102(9)

Dissertation: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World 111(3)

Chapter I: What Reason Teaches Concerning Creation 111(3)

JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) 114(12)

The Journal of John Woolman 116(10)

1720-1742 [Early Years] 116(6)

1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth] 122(1)

1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars] 122(4)

ST. JEAN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813) 126(16)

Letters from an American Farmer 127(15)

What Is an American? 127(8)

Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene 135(7)
REVOLUTION AND THE NEW NATION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 142(44)

The Autobiography 145(29)

Poor Richard's Almanack 174(6)

Preface to Poor Richard, 1733 174(1)

The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 174(6)

The Speech of Polly Baker 180(2)

The Sale of the Hessians 182(1)

Letter to Peter Collinson [Kite and Key] 183(1)

The Ephemera 184(1)

To Madame Helvetius 185(1)

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) 186(16)

Common Sense 188(9)

Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 188(9)

The American Crisis 197(5)

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 202(12)

The Declaration of Independence 204(3)

First Inaugural Address 207(3)

Notes on the State of Virginia 210(1)

[A Southerner on Slavery] 210(1)

Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy] 211(3)

OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?-1797?) 214(9)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 216(7)

Chapter 2: [Horrors of a Slave Ship] 216(3)

Chapter 3: [Travels from Virginia to England] 219(3)

Chapter 7: [He Purchases His Freedom] 222(1)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784) 223(6)

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England 225(1)

On Being Brought from Africa to America 225(1)

On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield 226(1)

An Hymn to the Evening 227(1)

To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 227(1)

To His Excellency General Washington 228(1)

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) 229(10)

To the Memory of the Brave Americans 231(1)

The Wild Honey Suckle 232(1)

The Indian Burying Ground 232(2)

On a Honey Bee 234(1)

To a Caty-Did 235(1)

On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature 236(3)
The Romantic Temper and the House Divided 239(630)
NATURE AND SOCIETY

THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE 250(14)

TALES 252(2)

The Chief's Daughters 252(1)

Coyote and Bear 253(1)

ORATORY 254(3)

Speech of Red Jacket 254(2)

Speech of Red Cloud 256(1)

POETRY 257(3)

Twelfth Song of the Thunder 257(1)

Formula to Destroy Life 258(1)

The Corn Grows Up 258(1)

At the Time of the White Dawn 258(1)

Snake the Cause 259(1)

Three Songs of Owl Woman 259(1)

The Weaver's Lamentation 260(1)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY 260(4)

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life Among the Piutes 260(1)

Chapter I: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites 260(4)

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 264(38)

A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker 266(7)

Book III: In Which Is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller 266(7)

THE SKETCH BOOK 273(29)

Rip Van Winkle 273(11)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 284(18)

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 302(25)

The Deerslayer 305(5)

Chapter XXVII [The Young Deerslayer] 305(5)

The Last of the Mohicans 310(5)

Chapter XXXII [The Hawk-eye of the Indian Wars] 310(5)

The Pioneers 315(6)

Chapter XXII [Pigeons] 315(6)

The Prairie 321(4)

Chapter XXXIX [Death of a Hero] 321(4)

The American Democrat 325(2)

An Aristocrat and a Democrat 325(2)

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 327(15)

Thanatopsis 329(1)

The Yellow Violet 330(1)

To a Waterfowl 331(1)

A Forest Hymn 332(2)

To the Fringed Gentian 334(1)

The Prairies 335(3)

The Death of Lincoln 338(1)

The Flood of Years 338(4)
TRANSCENDENTAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 342(100)

Nature 344(26)

The American Scholar 370(12)

The Divinity School Address 382(11)

Self-Reliance 393(15)

The Over-Soul 408(10)

Concord Hymn 418(1)

Each and All 419(1)

The Rhodora 420(1)

The Problem 420(2)

Ode to Beauty 422(2)

Hamatreya 424(2)

Give All to Love 426(1)

Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing) 427(2)

Fable 429(1)

Brahma 430(1)

Days 430(1)

Waldensamkeit 431(1)

Terminus 432(1)

Journals and Letters 433(9)

Sunday, Apr. 18, 1824. 433(2)

8 July [1831]. 435(1)

Boston, Feb. 19 [1834]. 435(1)

7 May [1837]. 435(1)

[To Thomas Carlyle] 436(1)

Saturday [June] 23 [1838]. 437(1)

[Oct. 12, 1838.] 437(1)

[Nov. 10, 1838.] 437(1)

[April 1(?), 1842.] 438(1)

[August 25, 1843.] 439(1)

[August, 1848.] 439(1)

[Spring, 1851.] 439(1)

[August 1, 1852.] 439(1)

[To Walt Whitman] 440(1)

[To Thomas Carlyle] 440(1)

[April, 1859.] 440(1)

[June, 1863.] 440(1)

[May 24, 1864.] 441(1)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 442(80)

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 444(2)

[Nature, Poetry, and the Poet] 444(2)

Walden 446(62)

Economy 446(39)

Where I Lived, and What I Lived for 485(9)

Brute Neighbors 494(7)

Conclusion 501(7)

Civil Disobedience 508(14)

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 522(69)

Romance 525(1)

Sonnet--To Science 525(1)

Lenore 526(1)

The Sleeper 526(2)

Israfel 528(1)

To Helen 529(1)

The City in the Sea 530(1)

The Coliseum 531(1)

To One in Paradise 532(1)

Sonnet--Silence 533(1)

Dream-Land 533(2)

The Raven 535(2)

Ulalume 537(3)

Annabel Lee 540(1)

Ligeia 541(10)

The Fall of the House of Usher 551(12)

The Purloined Letter 563(11)

The Cask of Amontillado 574(5)

Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review 579(4)

The Philosophy of Composition 583(8)

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 591(78)

My Kinsman, Major Molineux 593(11)

Young Goodman Brown 604(8)

Wakefield 612(5)

The Minister's Black Veil 617(8)

The Maypole of Merry Mount 625(7)

The Birthmark 632(10)

Rappaccini's Daughter 642(17)

Ethan Brand 659(10)

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 669(79)

Bartleby the Scrivener 672(23)

BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR 695(1)

The Portent 695(1)

Malvern Hill 695(1)

TIMOLEON 696(52)

The Maldive Shark 696(1)

Billy Budd, Sailor 697(51)
THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) 748(40)

The Skeleton in Armor 750(4)

The Arsenal at Springfield 754(1)

The Song of Hiawatha 755(24)

III. Hiawatha's Childhood 755(5)

IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 760(5)

V. Hiawatha's Fasting 765(5)

VII. Hiawatha's Sailing 770(3)

VIII. Hiawatha's Fishing 773(4)

XXI. The White Man's Foot 777(2)

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 779(2)

My Lost Youth 781(2)

Divina Commedia 783(2)

Chaucer 785(1)

Nature 786(1)

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 786(2)

The Cross of Snow 788(1)

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 788(10)

Ichabod 790(1)

First-Day Thoughts 791(1)

Skipper Ireson's Ride 792(2)

Telling the Bees 794(2)

Laus Deo 796(2)

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) 798(9)

Old Ironsides 800(1)

The Last Leaf 800(1)

My Aunt 801(2)

The Chambered Nautilus 803(1)

The Deacon's Masterpiece 804(3)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 807(6)

Reply to Horace Greeley 809(1)

Letter to General Joseph Hooker 809(1)

Letter to General U.S. Grant 810(1)

Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery 811(1)

Second Inaugural Address 811(2)

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 813(8)

Oldtown Folks 814(7)

Miss Asphyxia 814(7)

HARRIET JACOBS (1813-1897) 821(12)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 822(11)

VI: The Jealous Mistress 822(4)

XVII: The Flight 826(1)

XVIII: Months of Peril 827(5)

XIX: The Children Sold 832(1)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?-1895) 833(13)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 834(12)

Chapter I [Birth] 834(2)

Chapter VII [Learning to Read and Write] 836(3)

Chapter X [Mr. Covey] 839(7)

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891) 846(23)

A Fable for Critics 848(12)

The Biglow Papers, First Series 860(5)

No. I: A Letter 860(5)

The Biglow Papers, Second Series 865(4)

Introduction 865(1)

The Courtin' 865(4)
An Age of Expansion: 1865-1915 869(402)
NEW VOICES IN POETRY

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 878(93)

Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 881(12)

Song of Myself 893(37)

CHILDREN OF ADAM 930(1)

Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 930(1)

Once I Pass'd through a Populous City 930(1)

Facing West from California's Shores 931(1)

As Adam Early in the Morning 931(1)

CALAMUS 931(5)

For You O Democracy 931(1)

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing 931(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 932(4)

SEA-DRIFT 936(5)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 936(4)

To the Man-of-War-Bird 940(1)

BY THE ROADSIDE 941(1)

Gods 941(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles 941(1)

DRUM-TAPS 942(3)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford 942(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 942(1)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 943(1)

The Wound-Dresser 943(2)

Look Down Fair Moon 945(1)

Reconciliation 945(1)

MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 945(6)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 945(6)

AUTUMN RIVULETS 951(8)

There Was a Child Went Forth 951(1)

To a Common Prostitute 952(1)

Prayer of Columbus 952(2)

The Sleepers 954(5)

WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH 959(2)

Darest Thou Now O Soul 959(1)

Whispers of Heavenly Death 959(1)

Chanting the Square Deific 960(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider 961(1)

FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT 961(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter 961(1)

By Broad Potomac's Shore 962(1)

SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY 962(9)

Good-bye My Fancy! 962(1)

Democratic Vistas 963(8)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 971(15)

49 [I never lost as much but twice] 973(1)

67 [Success is counted sweetest] 973(1)

130 [These are the days when Birds come back--] 973(1)

214 [I taste a liquor never brewed--] 973(1)

241 [I like a look of Agony] 974(1)

249 [Wild Nights--Wild Nights!] 974(1)

252 [I can wade Grief--] 974(1)

258 [There's a certain Slant of light] 974(1)

280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 974(1)

285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune--] 975(1)

288 [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] 975(1)

290 [Of Bronze--and Blaze--] 975(1)

303 [The Soul selects her own Society--] 975(1)

320 [We play at Paste--] 976(1)

322 [There came a Day at Summer's full] 976(1)

324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church--] 976(1)

328 [A Bird came down the Walk--] 976(1)

341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes--] 977(1)

376 [Of Course--I prayed--] 977(1)

401 [What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--] 977(1)

435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense--] 977(1)

441 [This is my letter to the World] 977(1)

448 [This was a Poet--It is That] 977(1)

449 [I died for Beauty--but was scarce] 978(1)

465 [I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--] 978(1)

478 [I had no time to Hate--] 978(1)

511 [If you were coming in the Fall] 978(1)

526 [To hear an Oriole sing] 979(1)

528 [Mine--by the Right of the White Election!] 979(1)

547 [I've seen a Dying Eye] 979(1)

556 [The Brain, within its Groove] 979(1)

569 [I reckon--when I count at all--] 979(1)

579 [I had been hungry, all the Years--] 979(1)

581 [I found the words to every thought] 980(1)

585 [I like to see it lap the Miles--] 980(1)

632 [The Brain--is wider than the Sky--] 980(1)

636 [The Way I read a Letter's--this--] 980(1)

640 [I cannot live with You--] 980(1)

650 [Pain--has an Element of Blank--] 981(1)

657 [I dwell in Possibility--] 981(1)

701 [A Thought went up my mind today--] 981(1)

712 [Because I could not stop for Death--] 981(1)

732 [She rose to His Requirement--dropt] 982(1)

754 [My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--] 982(1)

816 [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] 982(1)

823 [Not what We did, shall be the test] 982(1)

986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 982(1)

1052 [I never saw a Moor--] 983(1)

1078 [The Bustle in a House] 983(1)

1082 [Revolution is the Pod] 983(1)

1100 [The last Night that She lived] 983(1)

1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--] 984(1)

1176 [We never know how high we are] 984(1)

1207 [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow--] 984(1)

1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book] 984(1)

1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] 984(1)

1332 [Pink--small--and punctual--] 984(1)

1463 [A Route of Evanescence] 985(1)

1465 [Before you thought of Spring] 985(1)

1510 [How happy is the little Stone] 985(1)

1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief] 985(1)

1587 [He ate and drank the precious Words--] 985(1)

1624 [Apparently with no surprise] 985(1)

1670 [In Winter in my Room] 985(1)

1732 [My life closed twice before its close--] 986(1)

1760 [Elysium is as far as to] 986(1)

SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881) 986(4)

The Marshes of Glynn 987(3)
REALISTS AND REGIONALISTS

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) 990(54)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 992(4)

Roughing It 996(2)

[When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] 996(2)

Life on the Mississippi 998(18)

Frescoes from the Past 998(8)

The Boys' Ambition 1006(2)

[A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] 1008(8)

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 1016(28)

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) 1044(11)

Editha 1046(9)

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) 1055(97)

Daisy Miller 1058(38)

The Real Thing 1096(16)

The Beast in the Jungle 1112(27)

The Art of Fiction 1139(13)

BRET HARTE (1836-1902) 1152(8)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1153(7)
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: 1890-1910

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) 1160(9)

The Dynamo and the Virgin 1162(7)

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) 1169(7)

A White Heron 1170(6)

KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904) 1176(5)

A Pair of Silk Stockings 1178(3)

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) 1181(10)

The Revolt of "Mother" 1182(9)

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) 1191(12)

The Passing of Grandison 1192(11)

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) 1203(12)

The Yellow Wallpaper 1204(11)

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) 1215(10)

Roman Fever 1217(8)

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) 1225(20)

Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind 1227(1)

The Wayfarer 1228(1)

A Man Said to the Universe 1228(1)

The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers 1228(1)

The Open Boat 1229(16)

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) 1245(14)

The Second Choice 1246(13)

JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 1259(12)

To Build a Fire 1260(11)
Modern American Literature: 1915-1945 1271(348)
NEW DIRECTIONS: THE FIRST WAVE

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) 1279(8)

Luke Havergal 1281(1)

Richard Cory 1282(1)

Miniver Cheevy 1282(1)

Leonora 1283(1)

Bewick Finzer 1284(1)

Mr. Flood's Party 1284(2)

The Mill 1286(1)

Firelight 1286(1)

The Tree in Pamela's Garden 1286(1)

New England 1287(1)

WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) 1287(22)

Neighbour Rosicky 1290(19)

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 1309(24)

The Tuft of Flowers 1311(1)

Mending Wall 1312(1)

Home Burial 1313(2)

After Apple-Picking 1315(1)

The Wood-Pile 1316(1)

The Road Not Taken 1317(1)

The Oven Bird 1318(1)

Birches 1318(1)

The Hill Wife 1319(2)

The Ax-Helve 1321(2)

The Grindstone 1323(2)

The Witch of Coos 1325(3)

Fire and Ice 1328(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1328(1)

Two Tramps in Mud Time 1329(1)

Desert Places 1330(1)

Design 1331(1)

Come In 1331(1)

Directive 1332(1)

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) 1333(4)

Fog 1335(1)

Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 1335(1)

Monotone 1335(1)

Gone 1336(1)

A Fence 1336(1)

Grass 1336(1)

Southern Pacific 1337(1)

Washerwoman 1337(1)

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) 1337(8)

The Book of the Grotesque 1339(2)

Adventure 1341(4)

EZRA POUND (1885-1972) 1345(20)

Portrait d'une Femme 1347(1)

The Seafarer 1347(2)

A Virginal 1349(1)

In a Station of the Metro 1350(1)

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 1350(8)

The Cantos 1358(7)

I: [And then went down to the ship] 1358(2)

XIII: [Kung walked] 1360(2)

LXXXI: [What thou lovest well remains] 1362(1)

CXVI: [Came Neptunus] 1363(2)

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 1365(38)

Tradition and the Individual Talent 1368(5)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1373(4)

Gerontion 1377(2)

The Waste Land 1379(14)

The Hollow Men 1393(3)

Four Quartets 1396(7)

Little Gidding 1396(7)

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) 1403(4)

Patterns 1404(2)

A Decade 1406(1)

Meeting-House Hill 1406(1)

ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928) 1407(3)

Wild Peaches 1407(2)

Sanctuary 1409(1)

Prophecy 1409(1)

Let No Charitable Hope 1409(1)

O Virtuous Light 1410(1)

H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) 1410(6)

Heat 1411(1)

Heliodora 1412(2)

Lethe 1414(1)

Sigil 1415(1)
POETS OF IDEA AND ORDER

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) 1416(16)

Peter Quince at the Clavier 1417(2)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1419(1)

Sunday Morning 1420(2)

Anecdote of the Jar 1422(1)

The Snow Man 1423(1)

Bantams in Pine-Woods 1423(1)

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1424(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1424(1)

To the One of Fictive Music 1425(1)

How to Live. What to Do. 1426(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West 1426(2)

A Postcard from the Volcano 1428(1)

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts 1428(1)

Of Modern Poetry 1429(1)

No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 1429(1)

The Plain Sense of Things 1430(1)

Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself 1431(1)

Of Mere Being 1431(1)

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) 1432(15)

The Young Housewife 1434(1)

Tract 1434(1)

To Mark Anthony in Heaven 1435(1)

Portrait of a Lady 1436(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace 1437(1)

The Great Figure 1437(1)

The Bull 1437(1)

Spring and All 1438(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow 1439(1)

This Is Just to Say 1439(1)

The Yachts 1439(1)

A Sort of a Song 1440(1)

The Dance 1441(1)

Raleigh Was Right 1441(1)

The Pause 1442(1)

The Ivy Crown 1442(2)

The Sparrow 1444(3)

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1447(6)

Poetry 1448(1)

In the Days of Prismatic Color 1449(1)

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish 1450(1)

No Swan So Fine 1450(1)

The Pangolin 1450(3)

A Jelly-Fish 1453(1)

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) 1453(3)

Winter Remembered 1454(1)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1455(1)

Blue Girls 1455(1)

HART CRANE (1899-1932) 1456(11)

The Bridge 1457(10)

To Brooklyn Bridge 1457(1)

Van Winkle 1458(2)

The River 1460(3)

The Tunnel 1463(4)
A LITERATURE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGE

EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) 1467(29)

The Hairy Ape 1469(27)

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 1496(4)

To the Stone-Cutters 1498(1)

Boats in a Fog 1498(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic 1498(1)

The Purse-Seine 1499(1)

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 1500(4)

First Fig 1501(1)

[I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore] 1501(1)

[What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why] 1501(1)

[Justice Denied in Massachusetts] 1502(1)

[This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All] 1503(1)

[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink] 1503(1)

[Those Hours When Happy Hours Were My Estate] 1503(1)

[I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines] 1504(1)

E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) 1504(12)

Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers Of 1505(1)

When God Lets My Body Be 1506(1)

In Just- 1506(1)

Buffalo Bill's 1507(1)

O Thou to Whom the Musical White Spring 1508(1)

My Sweet Old Etcetera 1508(1)

I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big 1509(1)

If There Are Any Heavens 1510(1)

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond 1510(1)

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 1511(1)

My Father Moved through Dooms of Love 1512(1)

Up into the Silence the Green 1513(1)

Plato Told 1514(1)

When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm 1515(1)

I Thank You God 1515(1)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 1516(15)

Babylon Revisited 1517(14)

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970) 1531(15)

U.S.A. 1532(1)

The 42nd Parallel 1532(4)

Big Bill 1532(2)

Proteus 1534(2)

1919 1536(6)

The House of Morgan 1536(3)

The Body of an American 1539(3)

The Big Money 1542(4)

Newsreel LXVI 1542(1)

The Camera Eye (50) 1543(1)

Vag 1544(2)

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 1546(36)

Spotted Horses 1549(11)

That Evening Sun 1560(11)

Barn Burning 1571(11)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 1582(14)

Big Two-Hearted River: Part I 1585(5)

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II 1590(6)

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) 1596(7)

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1597(6)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) 1603(7)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1604(1)

The Weary Blues 1605(1)

Song for a Dark Girl 1605(1)

Trumpet Player 1606(1)

Dream Boogie 1607(1)

Harlem 1607(1)

Feet Live Their Own Life 1608(2)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) 1610(9)

Black Boy 1611(8)

[A Five Dollar Fight] 1611(8)
Approaching a Millennium: 1945 to the Present 1619(476)
DRAMA AT MIDCENTURY

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) 1631(43)

The Glass Menagerie 1632(42)
POETRY AT MIDCENTURY

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) 1674(8)

Open House 1675(1)

Cuttings (later) 1676(1)

My Papa's Waltz 1676(1)

Night Crow 1677(1)

Elegy for Jane 1677(1)

The Waking 1677(1)

I Knew a Woman 1678(1)

The Far Field 1679(2)

Wish for a Young Wife 1681(1)

The Pike 1681(1)

In a Dark Time 1682(1)

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 1682(10)

The Fish 1683(2)

At the Fishhouses 1685(1)

Questions of Travel 1686(2)

Sestina 1688(1)

In the Waiting Room 1689(2)

One Art 1691(1)

North Haven 1691(1)

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) 1692(6)

THE DREAM SONGS 1693(5)

1: [Huffy Henry hid the day,] 1693(1)

4: [Filling her compact & delicious body] 1694(1)

14: [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.] 1694(1)

29: [There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart] 1695(1)

76: [Henry's Confession] 1695(1)

145: [Also I love him: me he's done no wrong] 1696(1)

153: [I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation.] 1696(1)

384: [The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done,] 1697(1)

385: [My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying.] 1697(1)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917- ) 1698(5)

a song in the front yard 1699(1)

The Bean Eaters 1699(1)

We Real Cool 1699(1)

The Lovers of the Poor 1700(2)

Horses Graze 1702(1)

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) 1703(16)

In Memory of Arthur Winslow 1705(2)

After the Surprising Conversions 1707(1)

Her Dead Brother 1708(2)

Sailing Home from Rapallo 1710(1)

Waking in the Blue 1711(1)

Skunk Hour 1712(1)

The Neo-Classical Urn 1713(1)

For the Union Dead 1714(1)

For Theodore Roethke 1715(1)

Reading Myself 1716(1)

Obit 1717(1)

Flight 1717(1)

Epilogue 1717(2)
FICTION AT MIDCENTURY

EUDORA WELTY (1909- ) 1719(5)

A Memory 1720(4)

JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982) 1724(8)

The Swimmer 1725(7)

RALPH ELLISON (1914- ) 1732(10)

Invisible Man 1733(9)

Chapter I [Battle Royal] 1733(9)

BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986) 1742(5)

The Mourners 1743(4)

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) 1747(22)

Sonny's Blues 1748(21)

FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964) 1769(14)

Good Country People 1770(13)
THE SIXTIES AND AFTER: POETRY

A.R. AMMONS (1926- ) 1783(9)

Corsons Inlet 1784(3)

The Wide Land 1787(1)

Cascadilla Falls 1787(1)

Poetics 1788(1)

Easter Morning 1789(2)

Extrication 1791(1)

I Could Not Be Here At All 1791(1)

ROBERT BLY (1926- ) 1792(3)

Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River 1792(1)

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter 1793(1)

Watering the Horse 1793(1)

The Executive's Death 1793(1)

Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train 1794(1)

Snowbanks North of the House 1794(1)

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) 1795(9)

Howl 1796(5)

America 1801(3)

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) 1804(10)

A Timepiece 1805(1)

Charles on Fire 1805(1)

The Broken Home 1806(2)

Yannina 1808(4)

Samos 1812(2)

JOHN ASHBERY (1927- ) 1814(6)

Some Trees 1815(1)

The Painter 1815(1)

Crazy Weather 1816(1)

As We Know 1817(1)

A Prison All the Same 1817(1)

The Desperado 1818(1)

At North Farm 1818(1)

The Ongoing Story 1819(1)

Down by the Station, Early in the Morning 1819(1)

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) 1820(5)

Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl 1821(1)

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack 1822(1)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 1822(1)

Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960 1823(1)

In Terror of Hospital Bills 1823(1)

Two Postures Beside a Fire 1824(1)

The Vestal in the Forum 1825(1)

ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) 1825(7)

Her Kind 1826(1)

The Farmer's Wife 1827(1)

The Truth the Dead Know 1827(1)

All My Pretty Ones 1828(1)

With Mercy for the Greedy 1829(1)

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound 1830(2)

ADRIENNE RICH (1929- ) 1832(9)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 1833(1)

Living in Sin 1833(1)

The Diamond Cutters 1834(1)

Necessities of Life 1835(1)

The Trees 1836(1)

Face to Face 1837(1)

Diving into the Wreck 1837(2)

For the Dead 1839(1)

Upper Broadway 1840(1)

For the Record 1840(1)

GARY SNYDER (1930- ) 1841(5)

The Late Snow & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four 1842(1)

Riprap 1842(1)

this poem is for bear 1843(1)

Not Leaving the House 1844(1)

Axe Handles 1845(1)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) 1846(8)

Morning Song 1847(1)

The Rival 1847(1)

The Applicant 1848(1)

Daddy 1848(2)

Lady Lazarus 1850(2)

Death & Co. 1852(1)

Mystic 1853(1)

AMIRI BARAKA (1934- ) 1854(3)

In Memory of Radio 1855(1)

An Agony. As Now. 1856(1)

DAVE SMITH (1942- ) 1857(8)

On a Field Trip at Fredericksburg 1858(1)

Cumberland Station 1859(1)

The Roundhouse Voices 1860(2)

Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard 1862(2)

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1864(1)

RITA DOVE (1952- ) 1865(3)

Champagne 1865(1)

O 1866(1)

Dusting 1866(1)

Roast Possum 1867(1)

CATHY SONG (1955- ) 1868(6)

Picture Bride 1869(1)

Beauty and Sadness 1870(1)

Heaven 1871(1)

Immaculate Lives 1872(2)
THE SIXTIES AND AFTER: FICTION

JOHN BARTH (1930- ) 1874(15)

Lost in the Funhouse 1875(14)

TONI MORRISON (1931- ) 1889(9)

Sula 1890(8)

1922 1890(8)

JOHN UPDIKE (1932- ) 1898(8)

Separating 1899(7)

PHILIP ROTH (1933- ) 1906(12)

The Conversion of the Jews 1908(10)

THOMAS PYNCHON (1937- ) 1918(10)

Entropy 1919(9)

RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988) 1928(16)

A Small, Good Thing 1929(15)

JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- ) 1944(12)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 1945(11)

BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940- ) 1956(10)

Shiloh 1957(9)

ALICE WALKER (1944- ) 1966(7)

Everyday Use 1967(6)

TIM O'BRIEN (1946- ) 1973(7)

Going After Cacciato 1974(6)

Night March 1974(6)

ANN BEATTIE (1947- ) 1980(4)

Janus 1981(3)

AMY TAN (1952- ) 1984(10)

Half and Half 1985(9)

LOUISE ERDRICH (1954- ) 1994(7)

The Red Convertible 1994(7)
THE GLOBALIZATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977) 2001(13)

Pnin 2002(12)

Chapter Five [Pnin at the Pines] 2002(12)

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991) 2014(10)

Gimpel the Fool 2015(9)

CZESLAW MILOSZ (1911- ) 2024(8)

Campo dei Fiori 2025(2)

Fear 2027(1)

Cafe 2027(1)

In Warsaw 2028(1)

Ars Poetica? 2029(1)

To Raja Rao 2030(1)

Gift 2031(1)

With Her 2032(1)

SAUL BELLOW (1915- ) 2032(19)

A Silver Dish 2033(18)

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997) 2051(5)

The Third Dimension 2052(1)

To the Snake 2053(1)

The Willows of Massachusetts 2053(1)

Olga Poems 2054(2)

i: [By the gas-fire, kneeling] 2054(1)

ii: [The high pitch of] 2054(1)

vi: [Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water.] 2055(1)

CHARLES SIMIC (1938- ) 2056(4)

Fear 2056(1)

Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand 2057(1)

Fork 2058(1)

Euclid Avenue 2058(1)

Prodigy 2059(1)

My Weariness of Epic Proportions 2060(1)

JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996) 2060(5)

Lullaby of Cape Cod 2061(1)

IV: [The change of Empires is intimately tied] 2061(1)

Belfast Tune 2062(1)

A Song 2063(1)

In Memory of My Father: Australia 2064(1)

At a Lecture 2064(1)

To My Daughter 2065(1)

BHARATI MUKHERJEE (1940- ) 2065(12)

The Management of Grief 2067(10)

ISABEL ALLENDE (1942- ) 2077(7)

And of Clay Are We Created 2078(6)

JAMAICA KINCAID (1949- ) 2084(11)

Mariah 2085(10)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2095(14)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2109(10)
INDEX 2119