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Anthology of American Literature, Volume II, 9/E
George McMichael
James S. Leonard

ISBN-10: 0132216477
ISBN-13: 9780132216470

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 2464 pp
Published: 12/20/2006

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For the second part of American Literature survey courses.

 

This classic textbook has been a leader in its discipline for so long due to the authors' five original principles: choose selections primarily for their literary value, include as many complete works as possible, provide the very best available scholarly texts and annotate them fully, keep headnotes and period instuctions informative but short, and avoid literary fads.  

 

For nearly three decades, students and instructors have complemented their introductory American Literature studies with Anthology of American Literature, in both its two-volume and concise editions.  This tried and true textbook has been a leader in its discipline for so long due to the authors' five original principles: choose selections primarily for their literary value, include as many complete works as possible, provide the very best available scholarly texts and annotate them fully, keep headnotes and period instructions informative but short, and avoid literary fads.  The carefully selected works introduce readers to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison. It provides a wealth of additional contextual information surrounding the readings as well as the authors themselves.

What kind of variety of literary selections do you need in your classes?

  • Features a diverse range of literature selections that will encourage students to delve into and explore American Literature.

  • New!  Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson selections have been restored to the anthology.  Volume II now includes the works of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson so that students can begin the second part of the American Literature Survey with these literary giants.

  • New sections on “Reading the Historical Context” and “Reading the Critical Context” to collect pertinent works in those categories from authors (such as Twain, James, and Eliot) represented by more copious selections elsewhere in the anthology and by newly represented authors (such as Tourgée, King, and O’Brien) whose writings provide valuable context for the anthology’s literary selections.

  • New selections! We have added new works or expanded existing ones by Mark Twain, Albion Tourgée, Walt Whitman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. B. Du Bois, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Wallace Stevens, Countée Cullen, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Martin Luther King, Tim O’Brien, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison.

  • New!  Native American authors! We have revamped the treatment of Native American authors, moving away from the “myths and legends” motif that predominated in previous editions and toward an emphasis on specifically identifiable speakers and authors firmly anchored in the historical context. Only one “myths and legends” entry is retained: Diné bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story, which has been moved from the beginning of volume I to the last section of volume II in recognition of its continuing vital role as an oral tradition in the daily life of a culture which has no written language. In keeping with this tradition, a late 20th-century translation of the selection is used. 

     

  • Works in their entirety include:

    • Novels: 

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

    Daisy Miller, Henry James

    The Awakening, Kate Chopin

    •     Dramas:

                The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill

                Trifles, Susan Glaspell

                The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams

                The Zoo Story, Edward Albee

                Painting Churches, Tine Howe

                Fences, August Wilson

    • Long Poems:

                Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

     

    How do you utilize head notes in your classes?

    • Provides clear, concise, and informative introductions and headnotes that are appropiate for student readers
    • In-text references explain unfamiliar terms and allusions throughout the text.

    • New authors!  We have included new headnotes and selections for Anna Julia Cooper, Abraham Cahan, Paul Laurence Dunbar, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), Owen Wister, James Weldon Johnson, Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Anzia Yazierska, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, Sterling Brown, Ann Petry, Shirley Jackson, John Okada, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, William Styron, N. Scott Momaday, William Melvin Kelley, James Welch, James Alan McPherson, Barry Lopez, David Bradley, Gloria Anzaldúa, Frederick Busch, Simon Ortiz, and Sherman Alexie.

    • Selective and current author bibliographies.

    • New!- Revised period introductions and explanatory headnotes and footnotes.  Updated to incorporate new authors. 

    • Organized chronologically. 

    New!  Editorial Team  New lead editor James S. Leonard, The Citadel, and additional editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford; David Bradley, University of Oregon; Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University; and Joseph Csicsila, Eastern Michigan University.   Author biographies are available in the text’s front matter.  

     

    New!- Expanded and revised chronological chart. Updated to include all new authors. 

     

    New focus on literary movements!  In two instances we have departed from the standard anthology format of grouping works by individual authors in order to present unified samplings of edited collections that were pivotal in helping to define important literary movements. These are The New Negro (1925), edited by Alain Locke, which was an important cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance, and Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968), edited by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Larry Neal, which was an important defining element of the Black Arts Movement.

     

    What kind of supplements do you use for your classes?

     

    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL FOR INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS

    An extensive package of supplements accompanies Anthology of American Literature for both instructors and students. 

    • AMERICAN LITERATURE ONLINE- The expanded Companion WebsiteTM at <www.prenhall.com/mcmichael> offers an interactive experience for students and instructors. Weblinks, interactive timelines, author profiles, essay questions, and general resources all make the McMichael Website an excellent resource for in-class discussions and out-of-class research.
    • ART OF LITERATURE CD-ROM- Organized by genres, this CD-ROM includes a discussion of literary elements with a range of literature featuring video and audio clips and visuals for study.  Additionally, the CD-ROM offers several resources including free access to Writer’s OneKey which includes the New York Times archive, 25,000 journal articles, and more.  This CD-ROM is automatically packaged with all new copies of the text. 
    • WRITER’S ONEKEY- Included at no additional cost with The Art of Literature CD-ROM, use Writer’s OneKey to enhance your composition classes. Everything is in one place on the Web for students and instructors, including:

                        _ Personal tutoring available to students

                        _ Paper review tool and research tools, including The New York Times archive

                        _ Visual analysis exercises

                        _ Mini-handbook

    • PENGUIN Books- Prentice Hall is delighted to offer a comprehensive list of the most popular Penguin Putnam titles available at a significant discount when packaged with Literature:  An Introduction to Reading and Writing.  Choose your Penguin title at www.penguinputnam.com
    • AUTHOR CASE STUDIES- This student supplement, available at no additional cost, features 10 case studies focusing on ten different writers.  Each case study features one work of literature and several critical pieces that explore the work and author in-depth. 
    • THE NEW AMERICAN WEBSTER HANDY COLLEGE DICTIONARY- Available at no additional cost in a value pack with Literature:  An Introduction to Reading and Writing.
    • THE NEW AMERICAN ROGET’S COLLEGE THESAURUS- Available at no additional cost in a value pack with Literature:  An Introduction to Reading and Writing.

     

     

    • New!  Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson selections have been restored to the anthology.  Volume II now includes the works of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson so that students can begin the second part of the American Literature Survey with these literary giants.

     

    New!  Editorial Team  New lead editor James S. Leonard, The Citadel, and additional editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford; David Bradley, University of Oregon; Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University; and Joseph Csicsila, Eastern Michigan University.   Author biographies are available in the text’s front matter.  

     

    New sections on “Reading the Historical Context” and “Reading the Critical Context” to collect pertinent works in those categories from authors (such as Twain, James, and Eliot) represented by more copious selections elsewhere in the anthology and by newly represented authors (such as Tourgée, King, and O’Brien) whose writings provide valuable context for the anthology’s literary selections.

     

    New!- Expanded and revised chronological chart. Updated to include all new authors. 

    New!- Revised headnotes and selections for many authors— Bibliographies and headnotes have been udpated to reflect new scholarship. 

    New!- Revised period introductions and explanatory headnotes and footnotes.  Updated to incorporate new authors. 

     

    New authors!  We have included new headnotes and selections for Anna Julia Cooper, Abraham Cahan, Paul Laurence Dunbar, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), Owen Wister, James Weldon Johnson, Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Anzia Yazierska, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, Sterling Brown, Ann Petry, Shirley Jackson, John Okada, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, William Styron, N. Scott Momaday, William Melvin Kelley, James Welch, James Alan McPherson, Barry Lopez, David Bradley, Gloria Anzaldúa, Frederick Busch, Simon Ortiz, and Sherman Alexie.

     

    New selections! We have added new works or expanded existing ones by Mark Twain, Albion Tourgée, Walt Whitman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. B. Du Bois, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Wallace Stevens, Countée Cullen, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Martin Luther King, Tim O’Brien, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison.

     

    New focus on literary movements!  In two instances we have departed from the standard anthology format of grouping works by individual authors in order to present unified samplings of edited collections that were pivotal in helping to define important literary movements. These are The New Negro (1925), edited by Alain Locke, which was an important cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance, and Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968), edited by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Larry Neal, which was an important defining element of the Black Arts Movement.

     

    New!  Native American authors! We have revamped the treatment of Native American authors, moving away from the “myths and legends” motif that predominated in previous editions and toward an emphasis on specifically identifiable speakers and authors firmly anchored in the historical context. Only one “myths and legends” entry is retained: Diné bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story, which has been moved from the beginning of volume I to the last section of volume II in recognition of its continuing vital role as an oral tradition in the daily life of a culture which has no written language. In keeping with this tradition, a late 20th-century translation of the selection is used.

     

    Preface

    About the Editors

     

    The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century

     

    [NEW] Reading the Historical Context

     

    [NEW] MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

    FROM    Life on the Mississippi

    [Sir Walter Scott and the Southern Character]

     

    [NEW] ALBION TOURGÉE (1838-1905)

    FROM    The Invisible Empire

     

    [NEW] Reading the Critical Context

     

    WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)

    FROM    Criticism and Fiction

                    [The Ideal Grasshopper]

                    [American Fiction]

     

    HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)

    The Art of Fiction

     

    [NEW] MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

    Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences

     

    The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century

     

    WALT WHITMAN (1819—1892)

    Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass

    Song of Myself

    FROM    Inscriptions

    To You

    One’s-Self I Sing

    When I read the book

    I Hear America Singing

    Poets to Come

    FROM    Children of Adam

    From pent-up aching rivers

    Out of the rolling ocean the crowd

    As Adam, Early in the Morning

    Once I pass’d through a populous city

    Facing west from California’s shores

    FROM    Calamus

    In paths untrodden

    Scented herbage of my breast

    What Think You I take My Pen In Hand?

    I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing

    I hear it was charged against me

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 

    FROM    Sea-Drift

    Out of the cradle endlessly rocking

    As I ebb’d with the ocean of life

    FROM    By the Roadside

    When I heard the learn’d astronomer

    The Dalliance of the Eagles

    FROM    Drum-Taps

    Beat! Beat! Drums!

    Cavalry Crossing a Ford

    Bivouac on a Mountain Side

    Vigil strange I kept on the field one night

    A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown

    A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim

    The Wound-Dresser

    FROM    Memories of President Lincoln

    When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

    FROM    Autumn Rivulets

    There was a child went forth

    Sparkles from the Wheel

    Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

    Passage to India

    The Sleepers

    From       Whispers of Heavenly Death

    A noiseless patient spider

    FROM    Noon to Starry Night

    To a Locomotive in Winter 

    FROM    Democratic Vistas

     

    EMILY DICKINSON (1830—1886)

    49            I never lost as much but twice

    67            Success is counted sweetest

    125          For each ecstatic instant

    130          These are the days when Birds come back

    165          A Wounded Deer – leaps highest

    185          “Faith” is a fine invention

    210          The thought beneath so slight a film

    214          I taste a liquor never brewed

    216          Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

    241          I like a look of Agony

    249          Wild Nights–Wild Nights!

    258          There’s a certain Slant of light

    280          I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

    287          A Clock stopped

    303          The Soul selects her own Society

    324          Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

    328          A Bird came down the Walk

    338          I know that He exists

    341          After great pain, a formal feeling comes

    401          What Soft–Cherubic Creatures

    414          ’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch

    435          Much Madness is divinest Sense

    441          This is my letter to the World

    448          This was a Poet–It is That

    449          I died for Beauty–but was scarce

    465          I heard a Fly buzz–when I died

    510          It was not Death, for I stood up

    520          I started Early–Took my Dog

    585          I like to see it lap the Miles

    613          They shut me up in Prose

    632          The Brain–is wider than the sky

    640          I cannot live with You

    650          Pain–has an Element of Blank

    657          I dwell in Possibility

    670          One need not be a Chamber–to be Haunted

    709          Publication–is the Auction

    712          Because I could not stop for Death

    732          She rose to His Requirement–dropt

    745          Renunciation–is a piercing Virtue

    754          My life had stood–a Loaded Gun

    764          Presentiment–is that long Shadow–on the Lawn

    976          Death is a Dialogue between

    986          A narrow Fellow in the Grass

    1052        I never saw a Moor

    1078        The Bustle in a House

    1129        Tell all the truth but tell it slant

    1207        He preached upon “Breadth” till it argued him narrow

    1463        A Route of Evanescence

    1545        The Bible is an antique Volume

    1624        Apparently with no surprise

    1670        In Winter in my Room

    1732        My life closed twice before its close

    1755        To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee

    1760        Elysium is as far as to

    Letters to T. W. Higginson

     

    MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

    The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

    [NEW] Story of the Bad Little Boy

    [NEW] Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy

    [NEW] FROM       Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again

    [NEW] Sociable Jimmy

    [NEW] A True Story

    FROM    Old Times on the Mississippi

    [A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot]

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    [NEW] My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It

    [NEW] To the Person Sitting in Darkness

    [NEW] The War Prayer

     

    MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930)

    A New England Nun

    [NEW] A Mistaken Charity

     

    SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)

    A White Heron

    [NEW] The Town Poor

     

    BRET HARTE (1836-1902)

    Tennessee’s Partner

     

    GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1925)

    Belles Demoiselles Plantation

     

    CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT (1858-1932)

    The Goophered Grapevine

    [NEW] The Wife of His Youth

    [NEW] A Metropolitan Experience

     

    JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)

    How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox 287

    Free Joe and the Rest of the World

     

    WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)

    Editha

     

    HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)

    Daisy Miller: A Study

    The Real Thing

    The Beast in the Jungle

     

    AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)

    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    [NEW] Chickamauga

     

    CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)

    The Yellow Wall-Paper

    [NEW] If I Were a Man

    [NEW] The Unnatural Mother

     

    KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)

    The Awakening

    [NEW] The Storm

     

    STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

    Black riders came from the sea

    In the desert

    A god in wrath

    I saw a man pursuing the horizon

    Supposing that I should have the courage

    On the horizon the peaks assembled

    A man feared that he might find an assassin

    Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

    A man said to the universe

    A man adrift on a slim spar

    [NEW] The Blue Hotel

    The Open Boat

     

    FRANK NORRIS (1870-1902)

    A Deal in Wheat

     

    JACK LONDON (1876-1916)

    The Law of Life

    [NEW] To Build a Fire

     

    [NEW] ANNA JULIA COOPER

    Has America a Race Problem...?

    FROM    A Voice from the South

     

    ABRAHAM CAHAN

    The Imported Bridegroom

     

    EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)

    The Other Two

     

    [NEW] PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1871-1906)

    The Ingrate

    We Wear the Mask

    An Ante-Bellum Sermon

    When Malindy Sings

    The Colored Soldiers

    When Dey ‘Listed Colored Soldiers

    Sympathy

    The Race Question Discussed

    The Fourth of July and Race Outrages

     

    THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)

    Free

    [NEW] FROM       Sister Carrie

     

     

     

    The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1900 To 1945)

     

    [NEW] Reading the Historical Context

     

    HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)

    FROM    The Education of Henry Adams

    The Dynamo and the Virgin

     

    [NEW] Reading the Critical Context

     

    T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

    Tradition and the Individual Talent

     

    The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1900 To 1945)

     

    [NEW] O. HENRY (WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) (1862-1910)

    A Municipal Report

     

    [NEW] OWEN WISTER (1860-1938)

    FROM    The Virginian

     

    [NEW] JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)

    Lift Every Voice and Sing

    FROM    Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

     

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

    FROM    The Souls of Black Folk

    The Forethought

    Of the Black Belt

    Of the Passing of the First Born

    The After-Thought

    FROM    The Crisis

    [NEW] A Mild Suggestion

    [NEW] On Being Crazy

    [NEW] A Litany in Atlanta

    [NEW] The Comet

     

    EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

    Luke Havergal

    Zola

    Richard Cory

    Cliff Klingenhagen

    Miniver Cheevy

    How Annandale Went Out

    Eros Turannos

    Mr. Flood’s Party

     

    ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

    Mending Wall

    Home Burial

    After Apple-Picking

    The Road Not Taken

    An Old Man’s Winter Night

    Birches

    The Oven Bird

    For Once, Then, Something

    Fire and Ice

    Design

    Nothing Gold Can Stay

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Acquainted with the Night

    West-Running Brook

    Desert Places

    Neither out Far Nor in Deep

    Directive

    In Winter in the Woods Alone

     

    [NEW] GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (ZITKALA SA)  (1876-1938)

    The School Days of an Indian Girl

     

    [NEW] CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)

    Chicago

    Lost

    Graceland

    Fog

    Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight

    Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind

     

    WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)

    A Wagner Matinée

    [NEW] Paul’s Case

     

    ELLEN GLASGOW (1873-1945)

    The Difference

     

    GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)

    FROM    Three Lives

    The Gentle Lena

    Susie Asado

    Picasso

    A Movie

     

    [NEW] SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)

    FROM    Winesburg, Ohio

    The Book of the Grotesque

    Hands

    Mother

    Tandy

     

    JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)

    FROM    U.S.A.

    Preface

    FROM    The 42nd Parallel

    Proteus

    FROM    1919

    Newsreel XLIII

    The Body of an American

    FROM    The Big Money

    Newsreel LXVI

    The Camera Eye (50)

    Vag

     

    EUGENE O’NEILL (1888-1953)

    The Hairy Ape

     

    SUSAN GLASPELL (1876-1948)

    Trifles

     

    [NEW] SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951)

    FROM    Babbitt

     

    EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

    Portrait d'une Femme

    Salutation

    A Pact

    In a Station of the Metro

    The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter

    FROM    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

    I    [E.P. Ode pour l’Election de son Sepulchre]

    II   [The age demanded an image]

    III [The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.]

    IV [These fought in any case]

    V  [There died a myriad]

    FROM The Cantos

    I            [And then went down to the ship]

    II           [Hang it all, Robert Browning]

    XLV     [With Usura]

    LXXXI [What thou lovest well remains]

    A Retrospect

     

    T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    Preludes

    Gerontion

    The Waste Land

    Notes on The Waste Land

    Journey of the Magi

     

    E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)

    [in Just-]

    [O sweet spontaneous]

    [Buffalo Bills defunct]

    [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]

    [“next to of course god america I”]

    [my sweet old etcetera]

    [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]

    [r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]

    [anyone lived in a pretty how town]

    [pity this busy monster,manunkind]

    [when serpents bargain for the right to squirm]

    [1(a]

     

    HART CRANE (1899-1932)

    Chaplinesque

    At Melville’s Tomb

    Voyages

    FROM    The Bridge

    To Brooklyn Bridge

    Powhatan’s Daughter

    The Harbor Dawn

    Van Winkle

    The River

    The Tunnel

    Atlantis

     

    [NEW] EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)

    FROM    Spoon River Anthology

    Knowlt Hoheimer

    Nellie Clark

    Petit, the Poet

    Anne Rutledge

    Lucinda Matlock

     

    [NEW] ANZIA YEZIERSKA (1880-1970)

    The Fat of the Land

     

    [NEW] EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)

    Spring

    First Fig

    [I shall forget you presently, my dear]

    [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]

     

    WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)

    Peter Quince at the Clavier

    Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

    Sunday Morning

    Domination of Black

    The Death of a Soldier

    Anecdote of the Jar

    A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

    The Emperor of Ice-Cream

    The Idea of Order at Key West

    Of Modern Poetry

    Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

    The Plain Sense of Things

    Of Mere Being

     

    WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)

    Con Brio

    The Young Housewife

    Pastoral

    Tract

    Danse Russe

    Queen-Anne’s-Lace

    Spring and All

    To Elsie

    The Red Wheelbarrow

    At the Ball Game

    Between Walls

    This Is Just to Say

    The Yachts

    These

    Seafarer

    Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

     

    ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)

    Boats in a Fog

    Hurt Hawks

    Shine, Perishing Republic

     

    MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)

    To a Steam Roller

    The Fish

    Poetry

    No Swan So Fine

    The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

    In Distrust of Merits

     

    [NEW] THE NEW NEGRO (1925)

    Foreword, by Alain Locke

    Vestiges, by Rudolph Fisher

    Fog, by John Matheus

    Fern, by Jean Toomer

    Spunk, by Zora Neale Hurston

    Harlem Wine, by Countee Cullen

    White Houses, by Claude McKay

    I Too, by Langston Hughes

    The Black Finger, by Angelina Grimke

    The Road, by Helene Johnson

     

    COUNTE CULLEN (1903-1946)

    Yet Do I Marvel

    For a Lady I Know

    Incident

    From the Dark Tower

    A Brown Girl Dead

    Heritage

    Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song

     

    JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)

    FROM    Cane

    Blood-Burning Moon

    Cotton Song

    Carma

    Song of the Son

     

    ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)

    [NEW] How It Feels to be Colored Me

    The Gilded Six-Bits

     

    THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)

    Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

    The Far and the Near

     

    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)

    [NEW] Bernice Bobs Her Hair

    Winter Dreams

     

    ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)

    Big Two-Hearted River

     

    WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)

    That Evening Sun

    [NEW]  Intruder in the Dust

     

    LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)

    The Negro Speaks of Rivers

    The Weary Blues

    Young Gal’s Blues

    Note on Commercial Theatre

    Dream Boogie

    Harlem

    Theme for English B

    On the Road

     

    JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)

    [NEW] FROM       The Long Valley

    The Snake

    The Vigilante

     

    KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)

    Flowering Judas

     

     

    The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1945 to Present)

     

    [NEW] Reading the Historical Context

     

    [NEW] MARTIN LUTHER KING (1929-1968)

    I Have a Dream

     

    [NEW] TIM O’BRIEN (1946—)

    FROM   The Things They Carried

    On the Rainy River

     

    [NEW] DINÉ BAHANE’: THE NAVAJO CREATION STORY

    [The Quarrel Between First Man and First Woman]

     

    Reading the Critical Context



    The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1945 to Present)

     

    EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001)

    [NEW] Powerhouse

     

    RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)

    [NEW] FROM    Native Son


    RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)

    FROM    Invisible Man

     

    TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)

    The Glass Menagerie

     

    THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)

    Dolor

    Open House

    Cuttings

    Cuttings (Later)

    Root Cellar

    My Papas Waltz

    In a Dark Time

     

    RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)

    Losses

    The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

    A Girl in the Library

    In Montecito

     

    ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)

    A Miracle for Breakfast

    The Fish

    Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance

    Visits to St. Elizabeths

    Sestina

    The Armadillo

    Brazil, January 1, 1502

    In the Waiting Room

    One Art

     

    ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)

    The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

    Mr. Edwards and the Spider

    Memories of West Street and Lepke

    Skunk Hour

    For the Union Dead

    Waking Early Sunday Morning

    Will Not Come Back

     

    [NEW] ANN PETRY (1908-1997)

    Solo on the Drums

     

    RICHARD WILBUR (1921—)

    Marginalia

    Lamarck Elaborated

    A Hole in the Floor

    Trolling for Blues

     

    [NEW] SHIRLEY JACKSON (1916-1965)

    The Lottery

     

    [NEW] JOSEPH HELLER (1923-1999)

    FROM    Catch-22

    Major Major Major Major

     

    NORMAN MAILER (1923—)

    FROM    The Armies of the Night

     

    ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)

    Howl

    [NEW]Footnote to Howl

    A Supermarket in California

    America

    To Aunt Rose

     

    GARY SNYDER (1930—)

    Riprap

    [Translation of a Poem by Han-Shan]

    Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout

    I Went into the Maverick Bar

    Soy Sauce

     

    ADRIENNE RICH (1929—)

    At a Bach Concert

    Living in Sin

    Breakfast in a Bowling Alley in Utica, New York

    Divisions of Labor

    For This

    1999

     

    DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)

    Beyond the End

    Pure Products

    Come into Animal Presence

    The Ache of Marriage

    O Taste and See

    Abel’s Bride

    Mad Song

    A Hunger

    Zeroing in

     

    ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)

    The Farmer’s Wife

    Ringing the Bells

    And One for My Dame

    The Addict

    Us

    Rowing

     

    SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)

    The Bee Meeting

    Lady Lazarus

    Ariel

    Daddy

    Fever 103Ú

     

    JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)

    The Lifeguard

    Reincarnation (I)

    In the Mountain Tent

    The Shark’s Parlor

     

    W. S. MERWIN (1927—)

    Grandfather in the Old Men’s Home

    The Drunk in the Furnace

    Noah’s Raven

    The Dry Stone Mason

    Fly

    Strawberries

    Direction

     

    A. R. AMMONS (1926-2001)

    Sight Seed

    Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything

    The Damned

     

    JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)

    Sonny’s Blues

     

    FLANNERY OCONNOR (1925-1964)

    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

     

    JOHN UPDIKE (1932—)

    [NEW] A & P

     

    PHILIP ROTH (1933—)

    The Conversion of the Jews

     

    BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)

    The Magic Barrel

     

    TILLIE OLSEN (1913—)

    I Stand Here Ironing

     

    TOMÁS RIVERA (1935-1984)

    . . . And the Earth Did Not Part

     

    AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (1934-)

    In Memory of Radio

    The Bridge

    Notes for a Speech

    An Agony, As Now

    A Poem for Democrats

    A Poem for Speculative Hipsters

    A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand

    A Poem for Half-White College Students

    Biography

    SONIA SANCHEZ (1934—)

    the final solution/

    to blk/record/buyers

    Womanhood

    Masks

    Just Don’t Never Give Up on Love

     

    [NEW] BLACK FIRE (1968)

    Poem, by James T. Stewart

    Neon Diaspora, by David Henderson

    when my uncle willie saw, by Carol Freeman

    For the Truth, Because It's Necessary, by Edward Spriggs

    “Oh shit a riot!” by Jacques Wakefield

     

    RITA DOVE (1952-)

    Kentucky, 1833

    Adolescence — I

    Adolescence — II

    Adolescence — III

    Banneker

    Jiving

    The Zeppelin Factory

    Under the Viaduct, 1932

    Roast Possum

    Weathering Out

    Daystar

     

    MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940—)

    No Name Woman

     

    EDWARD ALBEE (1928—)

    The Zoo Story

     

    SAUL BELLOW (1915—)

    A Silver Dish

     

    KURT VONNEGUT (1922—)

    Welcome to the Monkey House

     

    WILLIAM STYRON (1925—)

    FROM    The Confessions of Nat Turner

     

    N. SCOTT MOMADAY (1934—)

    FROM    The Way to Rainy Mountain

    The Arrowmaker

     

    THOMAS PYNCHON (1937—)

    Entropy

     

    JAMES WELCH (1940-2003)

    FROM    The Death of Jim Loney

     

    JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938—)

    How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of

    Correction and Began My Life over Again

     

    JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON (1943---) 

    The Faithful

     

    ALICE WALKER (1944—)

    Everyday Use

    [NEW]Burial

     

    AMY TAN (1952—)

    FROM    The Joy Luck Club

    Half and Half

     

    BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940—)

    Shiloh

     

    [NEW] DAVID BRADLEY (1950—)

    FROM    The Chaneysville Incident

                    197903042100 (Sunday)

     

    GLORIA NAYLOR (1950—)

    FROM    The Women of Brewster Place

    Lucielia Louise Turner

     

    LESLIE MARMON SILKO (1948—)

    The Man to Send Rain Clouds

    Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand

     

    RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)

    Cathedral

     

    DON DELILLO (1936—)

    FROM    White Noise

     

    [NEW] GLORIA ANZALDÚA (1942-2004)

    FROM   Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

    The Homeland, Aztlán / El otro México

     

    JAMAICA KINCAID (1949—)

    Girl

    Wingless

     

    LOUISE ERDRICH (1954—)

    FROM   Love Medicine

    The Red Convertible

     

    TINA HOWE (1937---)

    Painting Churches

     

    FREDERICK BUSCH (1941-2006)

    Bring Your Friends to the Zoo

     

    BILLY COLLINS (1941—)

    Winter Syntax

    Books

    Introduction to Poetry

     

    SIMON ORTIZ (1941—)

    A Designated National Park

    Canyon de Chelly

    Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving

     

    SHERMAN ALEXIE (1966—)

    What you Pawn I Will Redeem

    Defending Walt Whitman

     

    Reference Works, Bibliographies

     

    Criticism, Literary and Cultural History

     

    Acknowledgements

     

    Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines

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