Chapter 1EARLY AMERICA TO 1750
INTRODUCTION
William Bradford(1590—1657) from Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet(1612—1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband
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Chapter 2REASON AND REVOLUTION 1750—1800
INTRODUCTION
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) from Poor Richard’s Almanac
Thomas Paine (1737—1809) from The American Crisis
Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) The Declaration of Independence
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Chapter 3NATIVE GROUNDS 1800—1840
INTRODUCTION
Washington Irving(1783—1859) Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851) from The Last of the Mohicans
William Cullen Bryant(1794—1878)Thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe(1809—1849) To Helen The Raven
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Chapter 4NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 1840—1855
INTRODUCTION
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) from Nature from Self Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) from The Scarlet Letter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
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Chapter 5CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 1855—1880
INTRODUCTION
Walt Whitman(1819—1892) from Song of Myself
O Captain! My Captain!
Emily Dickinson (1830—1886) Success is counted sweetest
Because I could not stop for Death
I heard a fly buzz—when I died—
Mark Twain(1835—1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Abraham Lincoln(1809—1865) The Gettysburg Address
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Chapter 6REGIONALISM AND REALISM 1880—1910
INTRODUCTION
Bret Harte (1836—1902) The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Kate Chopin (1851—1904) The Story of an Hour
Jack London (1876—1916) The Call of the Wild
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869—1935)
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
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Chapter 7THE BLOOM OF MODERNISM 1910—1930
INTRODUCTION
Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
In a Station of the Metro
The River—Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
T. S. Eliot (1888—1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
William Carlos Williams (1883—1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Great Figure
The Dance
Robert Frost (1874—1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Mending Wall
Sherwood Anderson (1876—1941)
The Egg
Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
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Chapter 8MID—CENTURY VOICES 1930—1960
INTRODUCTION
W. H. Auden (1907—1973)
If I Could Tell You
The Unknown Citizen
Theodore Roethke (1908—1963)
My Papa’s Waltz
Langston Hughes (1902—1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Early Autumn
William Faulkner (1897—1962)
A Rose for Emily
Arthur Miller (1915—2005)
from The Death of a Salesman
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Chapter 9IN OUR TIME 1960—PRESENT
INTRODUCTION
Robert Penn Warren (1905—1989)
from Audubon: A Vision
John Updike (1932—)
A & P
Saul Bellow (1915—2005)
from Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Edward Albee (1928—)
The Zoo Story
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