Table Of Contents:
PREFACE TO THE SHORTER FOURTH EDITION xxix(4)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxxiii
Literature to 1620 1(76)

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) 8(6)

From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage [February 15, 1493] 11(1)

From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage [July 7, 1503] 12(2)

ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c. 1490-1558) 14(12)

The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 16(10)

[Dedication] 16(1)

[The Malhado Way of Life] 17(1)

[Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos] 18(1)

[Pushing On] 19(1)

[Customs of That Region] 20(1)

[The Long Swing-Around] 21(1)

[The Town of Hearts] 22(1)

[The Buckle and the Horseshoe Nail] 23(1)

[The First Confrontation] 24(1)

[The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen] 25(1)

STORIES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD 26(8)

The Iroquois Creation Story (version by David Cusick) 27(4)

The Pima Creation Story (version by J. W. Lloyd) 31(3)

THOMAS HARRIOT (1560-1621) 34(7)

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia 35(6)

From Of the Nature and Manners of the People 35(6)

JOHN WHITE (c. 1545-1593) 41(5)

From The Fifth Voyage of Mr. John White 41(5)

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c. 1570-1635) 46(11)

The Voyages of Sieur de Champlain 48(9)

From Chapter VIII. Continuation of the Exploration of the Coast of the Almouchiquois 48(3)

From Chapter XIII. The Sieur de Poutrincourt Sets Out from Port Royal to Make Discoveries 51(2)

Chapter XIV. Continuation of the Above-Mentioned Discoveries 53(4)

JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) 57(18)

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 60(9)

The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the First Supply 60(8)

The Fourth Book [Smith's Farewell to Virginia] 68(1)

From A Description of New England 69(3)

From New England's Trials 72(3)
Early American Literature 1620-1820 75(310)

WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) 83(17)

Of Plymouth Plantation 84(16)

Book I, Chapter I [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550-1607] 84(2)

Book I, Chapter IV. Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal 86(3)

Book I, Chapter VII. Of Their Departure from Leyden [Mr. Robinson's Letter] 89(4)

Book I, Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 93(3)

Book I, Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout 96(4)

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) 100(19)

A Model of Christian Charity 101(11)

From The Journal of John Winthrop 112(7)

ANNE BRADSTREET (c. 1612-1672) 119(20)

The Prologue 120(1)

To Her Father with Some Verses 121(1)

Contemplations 122(5)

The Flesh and the Spirit 127(3)

The Author to Her Book 130(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children 130(1)

To My Dear and Loving Husband 131(1)

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment 131(1)

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet 132(1)

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House 132(2)

From Meditations Divine and Moral 134(2)

To My Dear Children 136(3)

MARY ROWLANDSON (c. 1636-1711) 139(17)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 140(2)

The First Remove 142(1)

The Second Remove 143(1)

The Third Remove 144(3)

The Twelfth Remove 147(1)

The Twentieth Remove 148(8)

EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642-1729) 156(10)

PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS 157(9)

Prologue 157(1)

Meditation 8 (First Series) 158(1)

Meditation 16 (First Series) 159(1)

Meditation 22 (First Series) 160(2)

Meditation 42 (First Series) 162(1)

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children 163(1)

Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold 164(1)

Huswifery 165(1)

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) 166(9)

From The Diary of Samuel Sewall 167(8)

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) 175(36)

Personal Narrative 177(10)

A Divine and Supernatural Light 187(13)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 200(11)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 211(75)

The Way to Wealth 213(6)

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America 219(4)

Letters 223(3)

To Peter Collinson (August 25, 1755) [Whirlwinds] 223(1)

To Ezra Stiles (March 9, 1790) [My Religion] 224(2)

The Autobiography 226(60)

[Part One] 226(45)

[Part Two] 271(15)

ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE (1713-1755) 286(22)

Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge 287(21)

J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813) 308(16)

Letters from an American Farmer 309(15)

From Letter III. What Is an American 309(9)

From Letter IX. Description of Charles-Town 318(5)

From Letter X. On Snakes; and on the Humming Bird 323(1)

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) 324(13)

Common Sense 325(7)

Introduction 325(1)

From III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 326(6)

The Crisis, No. 1 332(5)

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 337(17)

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 339(6)

From The Declaration of Independence 339(6)

Notes on the State of Virginia 345(6)

From Query VI. Productions Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal 345(6)

Letter to John Adams (October 28, 1813) [The Natural Aristocrat] 351(3)

OLAUDAH EQUIANO (c. 1745-1797) 354(11)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself 355(10)

Chapter II 355(10)

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) 365(6)

On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country 366(2)

The Wild Honey Suckle 368(1)

On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man 369(1)

On the Religion of Nature 370(1)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753-1784) 371(14)

On Being Brought from Africa to America 372(1)

To the University of Cambridge, in New England 372(1)

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 373(2)

Thoughts on the Works of Providence 375(2)

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 377(1)

To His Excellency General Washington 378(2)

Letters 380(5)

To John Thornton (April 21, 1772) [The Bible My Chief Study] 380(1)

To Arbour Tanner (May 19, 1772) [A Sense of the Beauties and Excellence of the Crucified Saviour] 380(1)

To John Thornton (December 1, 1773) [The Gift of God Is Eternal Life] 381(1)

To Rev. Samson Occom (February 11, 1774) [The Natural Rights of Negroes] 382(1)

To John Thornton (March 29, 1774) [The Death of Mrs. Wheatley] 383(2)
American Literature 1820-1865 385(796)

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 399(14)

Rip Van Winkle 401(12)

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 413(8)

The Pioneers 415(6)

[The Slaughter of the Pigeons] 415(6)

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 421(8)

Thanatopsis 423(2)

To a Waterfowl 425(1)

The Prairies 426(3)

WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839) 429(6)

An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man 430(5)

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 435(112)

Nature 439(28)

The American Scholar 467(13)

The Divinity School Address 480(12)

Self-Reliance 492(17)

The Poet 509(14)

Experience 523(15)

Each and All 538(2)

The Rhodora 540(1)

Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing 540(3)

JOURNALS AND LETTERS 543(1)

[Sadness after Thirty] (August 1, 1835) 543(1)

[Protest; Writing; America] (June 18, 1838) 543(1)

[Aftermath of the Divinity School Address] (August 31, 1838) 544(1)

To Thomas Carlyle (October 17, 1838) [Delayed Reactions to the Divinity School Address] 544(2)

[Challenging Thoreau to Write His Opinions into Good Poetry] (November 10, 1838) 545(1)

To William Emerson (May 6, 1843) [What to Expect from Thoreau] 546(1)

To Walter Whitman (July 21, 1855) [The Wonderful Gift of Leaves of Grass] 546(1)

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 547(81)

My Kinsman, Major Molineux 551(12)

Roger Malvin's Burial 563(13)

Young Goodman Brown 576(9)

The May-Pole of Merry Mount 585(7)

Wakefield 592(6)

The Minister's Black Veil 598(8)

Rappaccini's Daughter 606(20)

Preface to The House of the Seven Gables 626(2)

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) 628(4)

A Psalm of Life 629(1)

My Lost Youth 630(2)

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 632(9)

Massachusetts to Virginia 634(3)

Ichabod! 637(1)

Prelude to Among the Hills 638(3)

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 641(81)

Sonnet--To Science 646(1)

To Helen 646(1)

Israfel 647(1)

The Raven 648(3)

To
-- --. Ulalume: A Ballad 651(3)

Annabel Lee 654(1)

Ligeia 655(9)

The Fall of the House of Usher 664(13)

William Wilson. A Tale 677(13)

The Purloined Letter 690(13)

The Cask of Amontillado 703(4)

[Reviews of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales] 707(7)

[April] 707(2)

[May] 709(5)

The Philosophy of Composition 714(8)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 722(4)

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 724(1)

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 724(2)

MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) 726(10)

The Great Lawsuit 728(8)

[Four Kinds of Equality] 728(4)

[The Great Radical Dualism] 732(4)

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 736(11)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life among the Lowly 738(9)

Chapter VII. The Mother's Struggle 738(9)

HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813-1897) 747(21)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 748(20)

I. Childhood 748(3)

VII. The Lover 751(4)

X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 755(3)

XIV. Another Link to Life 758(2)

XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 760(3)

XLI. Free at Last 763(5)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 768(116)

Resistance to Civil Government 773(15)

Walden, or Life in the Woods 788(96)

Economy 788(42)

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 830(9)

Reading 839(6)

The Ponds 845(14)

Brute Neighbors 859(7)

Spring 866(10)

Conclusion 876(8)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895) 884(32)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 885(31)

Chapter I 885(4)

Chapter VI 889(1)

Chapter VII 890(4)

Chapter IX 894(3)

Chapter X 897(19)

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 916(106)

Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) 922(14)

Song of Myself 936(42)

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (August 1856) [Whitman's 1856 Manifesto] 978(7)

LIVE OAK, WITH MOSS 985(4)

CHILDREN OF ADAM 989(3)

Spontaneous Me 989(2)

Once I Pass'd through a Populous City 991(1)

Facing West from California's Shores 991(1)

CALAMUS 992(5)

Trickle Drops 992(1)

Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 992(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 992(5)

SEA-DRIFT 997(7)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 997(4)

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life 1001(3)

BY THE ROADSIDE 1004(1)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 1004(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles 1004(1)

DRUM-TAPS 1004(4)

Beat! Beat! Drums! 1004(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford 1005(1)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 1005(1)

The Wound-Dresser 1006(2)

Reconciliation 1008(1)

MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 1008(6)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 1008(6)

AUTUMN RIVULETS 1014(3)

There Was a Child Went Forth 1014(2)

This Compost 1016(1)

WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH 1017(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider 1017(1)

FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT 1018(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter 1018(1)

SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY 1018(1)

Good-bye My Fancy! 1018(1)

Democratic Vistas 1019(3)

[American Literature] 1019(3)

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 1022(101)

Hawthorne and His Mosses 1032(11)

Bartleby, the Scrivener 1043(26)

Billy Budd, Sailor 1069(54)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 1123(30)

49 ("I never lost as much but twice") 1129(1)

67 ("Success is counted sweetest") 1129(1)

130 ("These are the days when Birds come back--") 1130(1)

131 ("Besides the Autumn poets sing") 1130(1)

185 ("`Faith' is a fine invention") 1131(1)

214 ("I taste a liquor never brewed--") 1131(1)

216 ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--") [Two Versions] 1131(1)

241 ("I like a look of Agony") 1132(1)

249 ("Wild Nights--Wild Nights!") 1132(1)

258 ("There's a certain Slant of light") 1133(1)

287 ("A Clock stopped--") 1133(1)

303 ("The Soul selects her own Society--") 1134(1)

305 ("The difference between Despair") 1134(1)

328 ("A Bird came down the Walk--") 1134(1)

341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--") 1135(1)

348 ("I dreaded that first Robin, so") 1135(1)

435 ("Much Madness is divinest Sense--") 1136(1)

441 ("This is my letter to the World") 1137(1)

448 ("This was a Poet--It is That") 1137(1)

449 ("I died for Beauty--but was scarce") 1137(1)

465 ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--") 1138(1)

501 ("This World is not Conclusion") 1138(1)

510 ("It was not Death, for I stood up") 1139(1)

528 ("Mine--by the Right of the White Election!") 1139(1)

547 ("I've seen a Dying Eye") 1140(1)

585 ("I like to see it lap the Miles--") 1140(1)

632 ("The Brain--is wider than the Sky--") 1141(1)

640 ("I cannot live with You--") 1141(1)

650 ("Pain--has an Element of Blank--") 1142(1)

664 ("Of all the Souls that stand create--") 1143(1)

709 ("Publication--is the Auction") 1143(1)

712 ("Because I could not stop for Death--") 1143(1)

732 ("She rose to his Requirement--dropt") 1144(1)

744 ("Remorse--is Memory--awake--") 1144(1)

754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--") 1145(1)

822 ("This Consciousness that is aware") 1146(1)

986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass") 1146(1)

1068 ("Further in Summer than the Birds") 1147(1)

1072 ("Title divine--is mine!") 1147(1)

1078 ("The Bustle in a House") 1148(1)

1125 ("Oh Sumptuous moment") 1148(1)

1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--") 1148(1)

1463 ("A Route of Evanescence") 1148(1)

1540 ("As imperceptibly as Grief") 1149(1)

1624 ("Apparently with no surprise") 1149(1)

1651 ("A Word made Flesh is seldom") 1149(1)

1670 ("In Winter in my Room") 1150(1)

1732 ("My life closed twice before its close") 1151(1)

Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1151(1)

(April 15, 1862)[Say If My Verse Is Alive?] 1151(1)

(July 1862) [My Business Is Circumference] 1152(1)

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910) 1153(28)

Life in the Iron-Mills 1155(26)
American Literature 1865-1914 1181(231)

SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835-1910) 1191(204)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1195(3)

Roughing It 1198(4)

[The Story of the Old Ram] 1198(4)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1202(184)

[The Art of Authorship] 1386(1)

How to Tell a Story 1387(4)

Letters from the Earth 1391(4)

Letter IV 1391(4)

W. D. HOWELLS (1837-1920) 1395(12)

Editha 1397(10)

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) 1407(5)

Chickamauga 1408(4)
NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY 1412(297)

COCHISE (c. 1812-1874) 1413(2)

[I am alone] 1414(1)

CHARLOT (c. 1831-1900) 1415(3)

[He has filled graves with our bones] 1416(2)

WOVOKA (c. 1856-1932) 1418(2)

The Messiah Letter: Cheyenne Version 1420(1)

The Messiah Letter: Mooney's Free Rendering 1420(1)

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) 1421(101)

Daisy Miller: A Study 1424(38)

The Real Thing 1462(17)

The Beast in the Jungle 1479(29)

The Art of Fiction 1508(14)

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) 1522(17)

The Foreigner 1523(16)

KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904) 1539(12)

At the `Cadian Ball 1540(7)

The Storm 1547(4)

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) 1551(9)

A New England Nun 1552(8)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856?-1915) 1560(9)

Up from Slavery 1561(8)

Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address 1561(8)

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) 1569(13)

The Yellow Wallpaper 1571(11)

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) 1582(15)

The Other Two 1583(14)

W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963) 1597(10)

The Souls of Black Folk 1598(1)

III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 1598(9)

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) 1607(43)

The Open Boat 1610(16)

The Blue Hotel 1626(19)

An Episode of War 1645(3)

THE BLACK RIDERS AND OTHER LINES 1648(1)

1 ("Black riders came from the sea") 1648(1)

27 ("A youth in apparel that glittered") 1648(1)

WAR IS KIND 1648(1)

76 ("Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind") 1648(1)

96 ("A man said to the universe") 1649(1)

POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS 1649(1)

113 ("A man adrift on a slim spar") 1649(1)

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) 1650(15)

Old Rogaum and His Theresa 1652(13)

JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 1665(6)

The Law of Life 1666(5)

NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS 1671(38)

THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT 1671(6)

The Sacred Mountains 1672(2)

Dance of the Atsalei, or Thunderbirds 1674(3)

CHIPPEWA SONGS 1677(5)

Song of the Crows 1678(1)

My Love Has Departed 1679(1)

Love-Charm Song 1680(1)

The Approach of the Storm 1681(1)

The Sioux Women Gather Up Their Wounded 1681(1)

The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children 1681(1)

Song of the Captive Sioux Woman 1682(1)

GHOST DANCE SONGS 1682(4)

Songs of the Arapaho 1683(1)

[Father, have pity on me] 1683(1)

[When I met him approaching] 1683(1)

Songs of the Sioux 1684(1)

[The father says so] 1684(1)

[Give me my knife] 1685(1)

[The whole world is coming] 1685(1)

GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938) 1686(12)

Impressions of an Indian Childhood 1687(11)

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) 1698(11)

The Education of Henry Adams 1700(1)

Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) 1700(9)
American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 1709(426)

BLACK ELK (1863-1950) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881-1973) 1721(7)

Black Elk Speaks 1723(5)

XVI. Heyoka Ceremony 1723(2)

XXIV. The Butchering at Wounded Knee 1725(3)

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) 1728(5)

Luke Havergal 1729(1)

Richard Cory 1730(1)

Miniver Cheevy 1730(1)

The Mill 1731(1)

Mr. Flood's Party 1732(1)

WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) 1733(22)

Neighbour Rosicky 1735(20)

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) 1755(7)

Madonna of the Evening Flowers 1757(1)

The Weather-Cock Points South 1757(1)

Penumbra 1758(1)

In the Stadium 1759(1)

September, 1918 1760(1)

St. Louis 1761(1)

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 1762(19)

The Pasture 1763(1)

Mowing 1764(1)

Mending Wall 1764(1)

The Death of the Hired Man 1765(4)

After Apple-Picking 1769(1)

The Wood-Pile 1770(1)

The Road Not Taken 1771(1)

An Old Man's Winter Night 1771(1)

The Oven Bird 1772(1)

Birches 1772(2)

"Out, Out--" 1774(1)

Fire and Ice 1774(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay 1775(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1775(1)

Once by the Pacific 1775(1)

Departmental 1776(1)

Desert Places 1777(1)

Design 1777(1)

Neither out Far nor in Deep 1778(1)

Provide, Provide 1778(1)

The Gift Outright 1779(1)

Directive 1779(2)

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) 1781(13)

WINESBURG, OHIO 1782(1)

Mother 1782(5)

The Egg 1787(7)

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) 1794(3)

Chicago 1795(1)

Fog 1796(1)

Grass 1796(1)

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) 1797(16)

The Snow Man 1799(1)

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1799(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1800(1)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1800(1)

Sunday Morning 1801(3)

Anecdote of the Jar 1804(1)

Peter Quince at the Clavier 1804(2)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1806(1)

The Death of a Soldier 1807(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West 1808(1)

A Postcard from the Volcano 1809(1)

The Sense of the Sleight-of-hand Man 1810(1)

Of Modern Poetry 1810(1)

Asides on the Oboe 1811(1)

The Plain Sense of Things 1812(1)

A Quiet Normal Life 1813(1)

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958) 1813(5)

El Beso 1815(1)

The Black Finger 1815(1)

The Eyes of My Regret 1815(1)

Tenebris 1816(1)

To Clarissa Scott Delaney 1816(1)

At April 1817(1)

Trees 1818(1)

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) 1818(13)

The Young Housewife 1820(1)

Portrait of a Lady 1821(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace 1821(1)

The Widow's Lament in Springtime 1822(1)

Spring and All 1823(1)

To Elsie 1823(2)

The Red Wheelbarrow 1825(1)

This Is Just to Say 1826(1)

A Sort of a Song 1826(1)

The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess") 1826(1)

Burning the Christmas Greens 1827(2)

Lear 1829(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1829(1)

The Dance ("When the snow falls the flakes") 1830(1)

EZRA POUND (1885-1972) 1831(16)

Portrait d'une Femme 1833(1)

A Virginal 1834(1)

A Pact 1834(1)

The Rest 1834(1)

In a Station of the Metro 1835(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1835(1)

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) 1836(8)

THE CANTOS 1844(1)

I ("And then went down to the ship") 1844(2)

XLV ("With Usura") 1846(1)

H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) 1847(12)

Mid-day 1849(1)

Oread 1850(1)

Helen 1850(1)

The Walls Do Not Fall 1851(1)

1-4 1851(4)

21-24 1855(2)

41-43 1857(2)

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 1859(3)

To the Stone-Cutters 1860(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic 1860(1)

Carmel Point 1861(1)

Birds and Fishes 1861(1)

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1862(5)

Poetry 1863(1)

To a Snail 1864(1)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1865(1)

"Keeping Their World Large" 1866(1)

O to Be a Dragon 1867(1)

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 1867(31)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1869(4)

Sweeney among the Nightingales 1873(1)

From Tradition and the Individual Talent 1874(3)

The Waste Land 1877(13)

The Hollow Men 1890(2)

Journey of the Magi 1892(2)

FOUR QUARTETS 1894(1)

Burnt Norton 1894(4)

EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) 1898(76)

Long Day's Journey into Night 1901(73)

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) 1974(8)

The Fig Tree 1975(7)

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) 1982(13)

How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1983(3)

From Their Eyes Were Watching God 1986(9)

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 1995(4)

Recuerdo 1996(1)

I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 1996(1)

Apostrophe to Man 1997(1)

In the Grave No Flower 1997(1)

I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 1998(1)

I Forgot for a Moment 1998(1)

E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) 1999(9)

in Just- 2000(1)

O sweet spontaneous 2001(1)

Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal 2002(1)

i sing of Olaf glad and big 2003(1)

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond 2004(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town 2005(1)

my father moved through dooms of love 2006(1)

what if a much of a which of a wind 2007(1)

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) 2008(6)

Cane 2009(5)

Georgia Dusk 2009(1)

Fern 2010(3)

Portrait in Georgia 2013(1)

Seventh Street 2013(1)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 2014(16)

Winter Dreams 2015(5)

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 2030(32)

That Evening Sun 2032(12)

A Rose for Emily 2044(6)

Barn Burning 2050(12)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 2062(18)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro 2064(16)

HART CRANE (1899-1932) 2080(18)

Chaplinesque 2082(1)

At Melville's Tomb 2082(1)

Voyages 2083(2)

I ("Above the fresh ruffles of the surf") 2083(1)

V ("Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime") 2084(1)

THE BRIDGE 2085(13)

To Brooklyn Bridge 2085(1)

II. Powhatan's Daughter 2086(1)

The River 2086(4)

The Dance 2090(2)

VII. The Tunnel 2092(4)

VIII. Atlantis 2096(2)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) 2098(7)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2100(1)

Mother to Son 2100(1)

I, Too 2101(1)

Mulatto 2101(1)

Song for a Dark Girl 2102(1)

Silhouette 2103(1)

Visitors to the Black Belt 2103(1)

Note on Commercial Theatre 2104(1)

Democracy 2104(1)

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968) 2105(11)

The Leader of the People 2106(10)

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946) 2116(4)

Yet Do I Marvel 2117(1)

Incident 2117(1)

Heritage 2117(3)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) 2120(10)

The Man Who Was Almost a Man 2122(8)

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980) 2130(5)

Effort at Speech Between Two People 2131(1)

For Fun 2132(1)

"Long Enough" 2133(1)

The Poem as Mask 2133(1)

Myth 2134(1)

Painters 2134(1)
American Prose since 1945 2135(288)

EUDORA WELTY (b. 1909) 2144(10)

Petrified Man 2145(9)

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) 2154(63)

A Streetcar Named Desire 2157(60)

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994) 2217(11)

Invisible Man 2218(10)

Chapter I [Battle Royal] 2218(10)

SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915) 2228(16)

Looking for Mr. Green 2230(14)

NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923) 2244(12)

The Armies of the Night 2246(10)

Part I 2246(1)

5. Toward a Theater of Ideas 2246(10)

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) 2256(13)

The Fire Next Time 2257(12)

[Part I] 2257(12)

FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964) 2269(14)

Good Country People 2270(13)

JOHN BARTH (b. 1930) 2283(10)

Life-Story 2285(8)

JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932) 2293(9)

Separating 2294(8)

PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933) 2302(23)

Defender of the Faith 2304(21)

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) 2325(12)

The Way to Rainy Mountain 2326(11)

Headwaters 2326(1)

Introduction 2326(1)

IV 2331(1)

XIII 2332(1)

XVII 2333(1)

XXIV 2334(1)

Epilogue 2335(1)

Rainy Mountain Cemetery 2336(1)

THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937) 2337(7)

The Crying of Lot 49 2338(6)

Chapter 1 2338(6)

JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938) 2344(11)

Golden Gloves 2346(9)

BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940) 2355(10)

Drawing Names 2356(9)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940) 2365(10)

No Name Woman 2366(9)

ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) 2375(7)

Everyday Use 2376(6)

ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947) 2382(13)

Weekend 2384(11)

DENISE CHAVEZ (b. 1948) 2395(18)

The Last of the Menu Girls 2396(17)

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) 2413(10)

Lulu's Boys 2414(9)
American Poetry since 1945 2423(242)

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) 2431(8)

Audubon 2433(2)

I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin 2433(1)

VI. Love and Knowledge 2434(1)

VII. Tell Me a Story 2435(1)

Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn 2435(2)

Mortal Limit 2437(1)

Little Girl Wakes Early 2437(1)

After the Dinner Party 2438(1)

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) 2439(8)

Cuttings 2440(1)

Cuttings (later) 2440(1)

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze 2441(1)

My Papa's Waltz 2442(1)

Night Crow 2442(1)

I Knew a Woman 2442(1)

The Far Field 2443(3)

Wish for a Young Wife 2446(1)

In a Dark Time 2446(1)

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) 2447(4)

THE MAXIMUS POEMS 2448(3)

Maximus, to Himself 2448(2)

Celestial Evening, October 1967 2450(1)

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 2451(15)

The Unbeliever 2453(1)

The Fish 2453(2)

At the Fishhouses 2455(2)

The Armadillo 2457(1)

Sestina 2458(1)

In the Waiting Room 2459(2)

The Moose 2461(4)

One Art 2465(1)

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) 2466(12)

Middle Passage 2467(5)

Homage to the Empress of the Blues 2472(1)

Those Winter Sundays 2472(1)

Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers 2473(1)

Elegies for Paradise Valley 2474(4)

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) 2478(6)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 2479(1)

Second Air Force 2479(2)

Next Day 2481(1)

Well Water 2482(1)

Thinking of the Lost World 2482(2)

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) 2484(4)

DREAM SONGS 2486(2)

29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") 2486(1)

45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back") 2486(1)

385 ("My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying") 2487(1)

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) 2488(13)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 2490(4)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider 2494(1)

Memories of West Street and Lepke 2495(1)

Skunk Hour 2496(2)

Soft Wood 2498(1)

For the Union Dead 2499(2)

Epilogue 2501(1)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917) 2501(6)

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE 2503(4)

kitchenette building 2503(1)

the mother 2503(1)

the vacant lot 2504(1)

The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men 2504(1)

The Bean Eaters 2505(1)

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till 2505(1)

To the Diaspora 2505(1)

The Coora Flower 2506(1)

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) 2507(13)

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar 2509(7)

Seventeenth Century Suite 2516(3)

4 (Robert Southwell, The Burning Babe) 2516(2)

5 ("`A pretty Babe'--that burning Babe") 2518(1)

Interrupted Forms 2519(1)

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) 2520(6)

The Death of a Toad 2521(1)

Ceremony 2521(1)

"A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness" 2522(1)

The Mind-Reader 2523(3)

DENISE LEVERTOV (b. 1923) 2526(6)

To the Snake 2528(1)

The Jacob's Ladder 2528(1)

Illustrious Ancestors 2529(1)

In Mind 2529(1)

Death in Mexico 2530(1)

Caedmon 2531(1)

A. R. AMMONS (b. 1926) 2532(9)

So I Said I Am Ezra 2533(1)

Corsons Inlet 2534(3)

The City Limits 2537(1)

Easter Morning 2538(2)

Autonomy 2540(1)

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) 2541(9)

An Urban Convalescence 2542(2)

The Broken Home 2544(3)

THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER 2547(3)

The Book of Ephraim 2547(1)

M 2547(2)

Mirabell's Books of Number 2549(1)

9.1 ("And maddening--it's all by someone else!") 2549(1)

ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926) 2550(7)

Kore 2552(1)

The Door 2553(2)

The Messengers 2555(1)

The Birds 2556(1)

Fathers 2556(1)

ALLEN GINSBERG (b. 1926) 2557(10)

From Howl 2559(5)

A Supermarket in California 2564(1)

To Aunt Rose 2565(1)

Ego Confession 2566(1)

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) 2567(6)

The Porcupine 2568(3)

Saint Francis and the Sow 2571(1)

The Fundamental Project of Technology 2572(1)

JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) 2573(7)

Illustration 2574(2)

Soonest Mended 2576(1)

Syringa 2577(2)

The Lonedale Operator 2579(1)

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) 2580(5)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 2582(1)

To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota 2582(1)

A Blessing 2583(1)

A Finch Sitting out a Windstorm 2583(1)

The Journey 2584(1)

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) 2585(17)

Storm Warnings 2587(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 2588(4)

"I Am in Danger--Sir--" 2592(1)

Orion 2593(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 2594(1)

Diving into the Wreck 2594(3)

Twenty-One Love Poems 2597(1)

I ("Wherever in this city, screens flicker") 2597(1)

The Floating Poem. Unnumbered 2597(1)

Transcendental Etude 2597(4)

For a Friend in Travail 2601(1)

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930) 2602(4)

Riprap 2603(1)

August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer 2604(1)

Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body 2604(1)

Song of the Taste 2605(1)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) 2606(9)

Morning Song 2607(1)

Lady Lazarus 2608(2)

Daddy 2610(2)

Parliament Hill Fields 2612(2)

Blackberrying 2614(1)

Child 2614(1)

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) 2615(6)

Coal 2616(1)

The Woman Thing 2617(1)

From the House of Yemanja 2618(1)

Harriet 2619(1)

Chain 2619(2)

AMIRI BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) 2621(8)

An Agony. As Now. 2623(1)

A Poem for Willie Best 2624(5)

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) 2629(5)

Dear John, Dear Coltrane 2630(1)

American History 2631(1)

Deathwatch 2632(1)

Martin's Blues 2633(1)

Nightmare Begins Responsibility 2633(1)

SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941) 2634(5)

Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun 2636(1)

Vision Shadows 2637(1)

Poems from the Veterans Hospital 2638(1)

8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH 2638(1)

From From Sand Creek 2639(1)

RITA DOVE (b. 1952) 2639(8)

Banneker 2641(1)

Parsley 2642(2)

THOMAS AND BEULAH 2644(2)

The Event 2644(1)

Straw Hat 2645(1)

Dusting 2646(1)

Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation 2646(1)

ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952) 2647(5)

Madre Sofia 2648(1)

Wet Camp 2649(1)

Advice to a First Cousin 2650(1)

Seniors 2651(1)

CATHY SONG (b. 1955) 2652(6)

The White Porch 2653(1)

Beauty and Sadness 2654(1)

Lost Sister 2655(2)

Heaven 2657(1)

LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957) 2658(7)

Persimmons 2659(2)

Eating Alone 2661(1)

Eating Together 2662(1)

This Room and Everything in It 2662(3)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2665(48)
INDEX 2713