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Table of Contents:
Part One: American Literature at the End of the Nineteenth                      Century To the Reader   Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)         Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County         Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses           Context and Response: Artemus Ward, from Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons   Bret Harte (1836-1902)         The Outcasts of Poker Flat   W. D. Howells (1837-1920)         Editha   Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)         Chickamauga         The Devil’s Dictionary: selections           Context and Response: The poetry of Dorothy Parker   William James (1842-1910)         Pragmatism   Henry James (1843-1916)         The Pupil   Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)         The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story           Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)         The New Colossus   Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)         A White Heron   Kate Chopin (1850-1904)         Désirée’s Baby          The Storm   Mary E Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)         The Revolt of “Mother”   Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915).         Up From Slavery: Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address           Context and Response: Olaudah Equiano, Excerpt from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah             Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself             Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)         The Sheriff’s Children   Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)         Under the Lion’s Paw   Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)         The Yellow Wall-paper   Edith Wharton (1862-1937)         The Other Two   Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)          Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian   W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963).         The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others   Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)         Old Rogaum and His Theresa           Stephen Crane (1871-1900)         An Experiment in Misery         An Episode of War         War Is Kind   Jack London (1876-1916)         To Build a Fire   Gallery 1: The South Since Reconstruction Frederick Douglass: The Future of the Negro George Washington Cable: The Freedman’s Case in Equity (excerpt) Henry W. Grady: The New South (excerpt) U.S. Supreme Court: Plessy v. Ferguson (excerpt) Pauli Murray: Proud Shoes (excerpt) Marion Post Wolcott, Entrance to a Movie House, Mississippi Delta H. L. Mencken: The Sahara of the Bozart (excerpt) Lizzie Woodworth Reese: A War Memory (1865) Donald Davidson: A Mirror for Artists (excerpt) Arthur Rothstein, Southern Movie Theater       Part Two: Modern American Literature To the Reader   Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)         Lucinda Matlock         Davis Matlock   Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)         Richard Cory         Miniver Cheevy         Eros Turannos   James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)         Lift Every Voice and Sing         O Black and Unknown Bards         Image: James Weldon Johnson   Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)           Sympathy         We Wear the Mask   Willa Cather (1873-1947)         Paul’s Case   Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)         The Gentle Lena   Amy Lowell (1874-1925)         The Captured Goddess         Venus Transiens         Madonna of the Evening Flowers         September, 1918         New Heavens for Old         The Taxi   Robert Frost (1874-1963)         The Pasture         Mending Wall         Home Burial         After Apple-Picking         The Wood-Pile         The Road Not Taken         Birches         “Out, Out–“         Fire and Ice         Nothing Gold Can Stay         Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening         Desert Places         Design         Neither out Far nor in Deep   Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)         Winesburg, Ohio: Hands         Image: Sherwood Anderson   Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)         Trifles   Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)         Chicago   Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)         The Snow Man         Sunday Morning         Anecdote of the Jar         Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird         The Death of a Soldier         The Idea of Order at Key West         Of Modern Poetry         The Plain Sense of Things   William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)         The Young Housewife         Portrait of a Lady         Spring and All         To Elsie         The Red Wheelbarrow         Death         This Is Just to Say         The Dance (“In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess”)         Landscape with the Fall of Icarus   Ezra Pound (1885-1972)         Portrait d’une Femme         A Pact         In a Station of the Metro         The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter         The Cantos: I (“And then went down to the ship”)   H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)         Oread         Leda         Helen   Marianne Moore (1887-1972)         Poetry         A Grave         To a Snail   John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)         Piazza Piece   T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)         The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.         The Waste Land         Gerontion         The Hollow Men         Four Quartets: Burnt Norton   Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)         The Emperor Jones   Claude McKay (1889-1948)         If We Must Die         America   Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)         Flowering Judas   Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)         The Gilded Six-Bits   Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)         Recuerdo         I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently         [I, being born a woman]         Apostrophe to Man         I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex         Spring         I Forgot for a Moment   Context and Response: The poetry of Lisel Mueller   Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)         Ars Poetica   Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)         General Review of the Sex Situation.   e.e. cummings (1894-1962)         in Just--         Buffalo Bill’s         the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls.         “next to of course god america I”         if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have         somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond         anyone lived in a pretty how town   Jean Toomer (1894-1967)         Georgia Dusk         Fern   F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)         Babylon Revisited   Louise Bogan (1897-1970)         Medusa   William Faulkner (1897-1962)         That Evening Sun   Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)         The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber           Context and Response: Pío Baroja, excerpt from The Chasm   Hart Crane (1899-1932)         At Melville's Tomb         Voyages: I (“Above the fresh ruffles of the surf”)         III (“Infinite consanguinity it bears-”)         V (“Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime”)         The Bridge: Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge   Allen Tate (1899-1979)         Ode to the Confederate Dead   Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)         He Was a Man         Break of Day         Bitter Fruit of the Tree   Langston Hughes (1902-1967)         The Negro Speaks of Rivers         Mother to Son         The Weary Blues         The South         Ruby Brown         Let America Be America Again         Poet to Patron         Ballad of the Landlord         Too Blue         Theme for English B         Poet to Bigot         I, Too   Countee Cullen (1903-1946)         Yet Do I Marvel         Incident   Richard Wright (1908-1960)         Long Black Song         Image: Negro Tenant Farmer   Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)         Effort at Speech Between Two People         Poem   Gallery 2: American Writers and the Great Depression Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (excerpt) Mary Heaton Vorse, School for Bums (excerpt) Anonymous, Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again (excerpt) Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties (excerpt) Agnes Smedley, China Fights Back (excerpt) Kenneth Fearing, Devil’s Dream John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt) Dorothea Lange, Mexican Field Worker’s Home, California Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land Dorothea Lange, The Mochida Family       Part Three: American Prose Since 1945 To the Reader   Eudora Welty (1909-2001)         A Worn Path                    Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)         Cat on a Hot Tin Roof           Context and Response: Carson McCullers, from The Member of the Wedding   John Cheever (1912-1982)         The Sorrows of Gin   Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)         Battle Royal   Grace Paley (1922-2007)         The Loudest Voice   James Baldwin (1924-1987)         Notes of a Native Son   Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)         Revelation   Toni Morrison (b. 1931)         Recitatif   John Updike (1932-2009)         Separating   Philip Roth (b. 1933)         Defender of the Faith           Context and Response: Saul Bellow, excerpt from Herzog   Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)         Dutchman   Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)         Where are you going, where have you been?   Raymond Carver (1938-1988)         Cathedral   Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)         The Lesson   Terrance McNally (b. 1939)         Andre’s Mother   Alice Walker (b. 1944)         Everyday Use   Tim O’Brien (b. 1946)         The Things They Carried   Mark Helprin (b. 1947)         White Gardens   Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)         Lullaby   Edward P. Jones (b. 1951)         Blindsided   Amy Tan (b. 1952)         Two Kinds   Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)         The Red Convertible   David Henry Hwang (b. 1957)         The Sound of a Voice   Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)         Hell-Heaven   Gallery 3: Post-Modernism Carl Andre, Equivalent VII; Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall; Michael Heizer, Levitated Mass Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and the Consumer Society (excerpt) Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans: 4; Batman and the Joker; Madonna at Super Bowl XLVI Jonathan Franzen, On Rainer Maria Rilke Cindy Sherman, Untitled Diane Williams, Human Being Charles Bernstein, thinking i think i think Mitch Stevens, OMG! I just got born! Alan Kirby, The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (excerpt) Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans; Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test; Jeff Koons, New Hoover Convertibles   Part Four: American Poetry Since World War II To the Reader   Robert Penn Warren (1905—1989)         Bearded Oaks         Mortal Limit   Theodore Roethke (1908—1963)         Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze         My Papa’s Waltz         The Waking         Night Crow         I Knew a Woman         In a Dark Time   Charles Olson (1910—1970)         Maximus, to Himself                           Elizabeth Bishop (1911—1979)         The Fish         Sestina         In the Waiting Room         The Moose         One Art   Robert Hayden (1913—1980)         Homage to the Empress of the Blues         Those Winter Sundays         Frederick Douglass      William Stafford (1914-1993)         Traveling Through the Dark   Randall Jarrell (1914—1965)                       The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner         The Woman at the Washington Zoo   John Berryman (1914—1972)         Dream Songs (excerpts)         14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so")         29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart")         40 ("I’m scared a lonely. Never see my son")         45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back")         385 ("My daughter’s heavier. Light leaves are flying")   Robert Lowell (1917—1977)         Mr. Edwards and the Spider         Memories of West Street and Lepke         Skunk Hour         Night Sweat         For the Union Dead   Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)         We Real Cool         Martin Luther King, Jr.   Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)         Constantly Risking Absurdity   Robert Duncan (1919—1988)         Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow         Interrupted Forms   Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)         Years-End         Love Calls Us to the Things of This World   James Dickey (1923-1997)         Drowning with Others         The Heaven of Animals   Mitsuye Yamada (b. 1923)         To the Lady   Denise Levertov (1923-1997)         In Mind         September 1961         What Were They Like         Zeroing In   A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)         Corsons Inlet                 James Merrill (1926—1995)         The Broken Home    Robert Creeley (1926-2005)         For Love         The Messengers   Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)         Howl   Frank O’Hara (1926—1966)         To The Harbormaster         The Day Lady Died   Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)         The Porcupine   John Ashbery (b. 1927)         Illustration         The Lament Upon the Waters   W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)         For the Anniversary of My Death         For a Coming Extinction       James Wright (1927—1980)         Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio         To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota         A Blessing               Philip Levine (b. 1928)         Starlight                 Anne Sexton (1928—1974)         The Truth the Dead Know         Sylvia’s Death   Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)         Storm Warnings         Diving into the Wreck   Gary Snyder (b. 1930)         Riprap         August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer         Ripples on the Surface   Sylvia Plath (1932—1963)         Morning Song         Lady Lazarus         Ariel         Daddy   Linda Pastan  (b. 1932)         Marks   Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)         A Poem for Black Hearts   Mary Oliver (b. 1935)         The Black Snake         Hawk   Marge Piercy (b. 1936)         A Work of Artifice   Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)         In the inner city               Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)                       Dear John, Dear Coltrane         Martin’s Blues         “Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis   Frank Bidart (b. 1939)           Self-Portrait, 1969   Billy Collins (b. 1941)         Sonnet         The Names   Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004)         To live in the Borderlands means you   Joseph Bruchac III (b. 1942)         Ellis Island   Sharon Olds (b. 1942)         Rites of Passage         The Victims   Dave Smith (b. 1942)         Tide Pools   Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)         Nikki-Rosa   Louise Glück (b. 1943)         The Drowned Children         Gretel in Darkness   Kay Ryan (b. 1945)          A Certain Kind of Eden         Home to Roost   Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)         Facing  It   C. D. Wright (b. 1949)         Tours         Personals   Jorie Graham (b. 1950)         Sea-Blue Aubade   Joy Harjo (b. 1951)         Call It Fear         White Bear         Eagle Poem   Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)         Death and Doom   Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)         Cloudy Day   Rita Dove (b. 1952)         Daystar         Adolescence–I         Adolescence–II         Straw Hat         Missing   Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)         My Father in the Navy   Alberto Rios (b. 1952)         Wet Camp         Advice to a First Cousin   Mark Doty (b. 1953)         Golden Retrievals         At the Gym   Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)         Child of the Americas   Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)         Refugee Ship                Cathy Song (b. 1955)         The White Porch         Chinatown         Heaven   Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)         The Gift         Mnemonic         This Room and Everything in It   Martin Espada (b. 1957)         Bully   Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)                           On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City   Gallery 4: Americas Sings the Blues: A Collection of Songs Child with Tambourine Accompanying Guitarist, 1930s W. C. Handy: St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith: Thinking Blues Robert Johnson: Walkin’ Blues W.H. Auden: Funeral Blues Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues Folsom State Prison, cell door, 1960s Merle Haggard: Working Man Blues Linda Pastan: Mini Blues Allen Ginsberg: Father Death Blues Charles Wright: Laguna Blues Marilyn Chin: We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues Indian photographing tourist photographing Indians, Crow Fair, Montana, 1991 Arrested Development: Tennessee   Chronology Credits            Index  Map of the United States 

About the Author :
William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. Among his many publications is a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism, 1900-1945, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 5 (2003). He is a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd ed., 2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has co-authored a number of books on literature and composition. His recent publications include essays on Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, and the painter Mark Rothko.   Alice McDermott is the author of the forthcoming novel Someone and six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.   Lance E. Newman is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he teaches Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a river guide for more than two decades, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of The Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011) and Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005). With Joel Pace and Chris Keonig-Woodyard, he co-edited Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006). He co-produced the documentary film Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert (2011) with Roderick Coover. Newman’s poems have appeared in many print and web magazines, and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees, 2010), both available free on the Web.   Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University, where she teaches courses in early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books, including English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012);  Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, co-edited with Kristina Bross); and Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). She has won teaching awards at Auburn University as well as national research grants to support her work.  She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and was most recently the President of the Society of Early Americanists.