Chapter 1EARLY AMERICA TO 1750 INTRODUCTION  William Bradford(15901657)from Of Plymouth Plantation  Anne Bradstreet(16121672) To My Dear and Loving Husband LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE 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 LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE 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 HelenThe Raven LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE Chapter 4NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 18401855 INTRODUCTION  Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)from Naturefrom Self Reliance  Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)from The Scarlet Letter  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882)A Psalm of LifeThe Tide Rises, the Tide Falls LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE Chapter 5CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 18551880 INTRODUCTION  Walt Whitman(18191892)from Song of MyselfO Captain! My Captain!  Emily Dickinson (18301886)Success is counted sweetestBecause I could not stop for DeathI 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 LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE 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 CoryMiniver Cheevy LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE Chapter 7THE BLOOM OF MODERNISM 19101930 INTRODUCTION  Ezra Pound (18851972)In a Station of the MetroThe 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 WheelbarrowThe Great FigureThe Dance  Robert Frost (18741963)Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Road Not TakenMending Wall  Sherwood Anderson (18761941)The Egg  Ernest Hemingway (18991961)Hills Like White Elephants LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE Chapter 8MIDCENTURY VOICES 19301960 INTRODUCTION  W. H. Auden (19071973)If I Could Tell YouThe Unknown Citizen  Theodore Roethke (19081963)My Papa’s Waltz  Langston Hughes (19021967)The Negro Speaks of RiversEarly Autumn  William Faulkner (18971962)A Rose for Emily  Arthur Miller (19152005)from The Death of a Salesman LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE 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 LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE BIBLIOGRAPHY