List of Illustrations 
Preface
EXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES
Virginia and the South
New England
Timeline: Exploration and the Colonies
NEWFOUND LANDS AND NATIVE PEOPLES
NATIVE LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITION
The Chiefs Daughters
Coyote and Bear
Twelfth Song of the Thunder
The Corn Grows Up
At the Time of the White Dawn
Snake the Cause
The Weaver's Lamentation
EXPLORERS' EXPERIENCES OF THE NEW WORLD
*CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)
[Report of the First Voyage]
GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485?-1528)
From Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524
ALVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZ DE VACA (c.1490-c.1557) 
From The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
*RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552-1616)
The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
[Nova Albion]
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c. 1567-1635) 
From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyage of 1604-1607
THE COLONIES
JOHN SMITH (1580-1631) 
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 
The Third Book The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia 
Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply 
The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government of Virginia 
John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616) 
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) 
From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I 
	Chapter IX: Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 
	Chapter X: Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout 
From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II 
	[The Mayflower Compact (1620)] 
	[Compact with the Indians (1621)]
	[First Thanksgiving (1621)]
	[Narragansett Challenge (1622)]
	[Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)]
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) 
From A Model of Christian Charity 
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) 
The Prologue 
The Flesh and the Spirit 
The Author to Her Book 
Before the Birth of One of Her Children 
To My Dear and Loving Husband 
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old 
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 
PURITANISM
MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?-1711?) 
From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) 
The Preface 
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children 
Huswifery 
Meditation 8, First Series 
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 
CROSSCURRENTS: PURITANS, INDIANS, AND WITCHCRAFT
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)
* [Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]
*MARY TOWNE EASTY (1634?-1692)
[The Petition of Mary Towne Easty]
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) 
*[A Witchcraft Judge's Confession of Guilt]

COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)
From The Wonders of the Invisible World 
	Enchantments Encountered 
	The Trial of Bridget Bishop 
	A Third Curiosity 
THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES 
WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) 
From The History of the Dividing Line 
	[Indian Neighbors]
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) 
From The Journal of John Woolman 
	1720-1742 [Early Years]
	1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth], [Slavery]
	1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars] 
ST. JEAN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735-1813)
From Letters from an American Farmer: 
	What Is an American? 
REASON AND REVOLUTION 
The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism 
From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature 
Timeline: Reason and Revolution
JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) 
Sarah Pierrepont 
From A Divine and Supernatural Light
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 
Personal Narrative 
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) 
From The Autobiography 
From Poor Richard's Almanack
	Preface to Poor Richard, 1733 
	The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 
*The Speech of Polly Baker
The Ephemera 
CROSSCURRENTS: FREEDOM, RELIGION AND REVOLUTION
*JOHN PONET (1514-1556)
From A Short Treatise on Political Power
[Men Should Respect Their Country More Than Their Prince]
*JOHN WISE (1652-1725)
From A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches
[Nature, Liberty, and Equality]
*JONATHAN MAYHEW (1720-1766)
[Disobedience a Duty, Not a Crime]
*PATRICK HENRY (1736-1799)
[Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death]

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) 
From Common Sense
	Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
The American Crisis 
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) 
The Declaration of Independence 
First Inaugural Address 
Notes on the State of Virginia 
	[A Southerner on Slavery] 
	*[Speech of Logan]
Letter to John Adams
	[The True Aristocracy]
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?-1797?) 
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 
	Chapter II: [Horrors of a Slave Ship] 
	Chapter III: [From Virginia to England]
	Chapter VII: [He Purchases His Freedom] 
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784) 
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On Being Brought from Africa to America 
On the Death of the Reverend Mr George Whitefield
To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 
To His Excellency General Washington 
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) 
To the Memory of the Brave Americans 
The Wild Honey Suckle 
The Indian Burying Ground 
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature 
THE ROMANTIC TEMPER AND THE HOUSE DIVIDED 
Regional Influences
Nature and the Land
The Original Native Americans
Timeline: The Romantic Temper and the House Divided
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 
From The Sketch Book 
	Rip Van Winkle 
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 
From The Pioneers 
	Chapter XXII [Pigeons] 
From The Prairie 
	Chapter XXXIX [Death of a Hero] 
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 
Thanatopsis 
The Yellow Violet 
To a Waterfowl 
A Forest Hymn 
To the Fringed Gentian 
The Prairies 
The Death of Lincoln 
RED JACKET (c. 1752-1830)
[The Great Spirit Has Made Us All]
TRANSCENDENTALISM 
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 
Nature 
The American Scholar 
The Divinity School Address
Self-Reliance
The Over-Soul 
Concord Hymn 
Each and All 
The Rhodora 
Hamatreya 
Fable
Brahma 
Days 
Terminius 
CROSSCURRENTS: TRANSCENDENTALISM, WOMEN, AND SOCIAL IDEALS
*ELIZABETH PEABODY (1804-1894)
 [Labor, Wages, and Leisure]
*CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
From American Notes
	[The Mill Girls of Lowell]
*ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902)
Declaration of Sentiments [Seneca Falls, 1848]
*SOJOURNER TRUTH (c. 1797-1883)
 [Ar'n't I a Woman?]
FANNY FERN (1811-1872)
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
The Working-Girls of New York

MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) 
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 
From Walden
	Economy 
	Where I Lived, and What I Lived for 
	Brute Neighbors 
	Conclusion 
Civil Disobedience 
ROMANTICISM 
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) 
Romance 
Sonnet--To Science 
Lenore 
The Sleeper
Israfel 
To Helen 
The City in the Sea 
Sonnet—Silence 
Dream-Land 
The Raven 
Ulalume 
Annabel Lee 
Ligeia 
The Fall of the House of Usher 
The Purloined Letter 
The Cask of Amontillado 
CROSSCURRENTS: THE ROMANTIC, THE REAL, AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN
*WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870)
 [The American Romance]
*LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
Indian Names

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) 
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 
Young Goodman Brown 
The Minister's Black Veil 
The Birthmark 
Rappaccini's Daughter 
Ethan Brand 
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 
Bartleby the Scrivener 
The Portent 
Malvern Hill 
The Maldive Shark 
Billy Budd, Sailor 

THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY AND THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT 
Democracy and Social Reform 
Inevitable Conflict 
Timeline: The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable Conflict
CROSSCURRENTS: SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE CIVIL WAR
*BRITON HAMMON (fl. 1760)
From Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
*WILLIAM CUSHING (1732-1810)
[Slavery Inconsistent with Our Conduct and Constitution]
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
*The Witnesses
*LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880)
 [Reply to Margaretta Mason]
*SONGS OF SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Dixie
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
*SARAH MORGAN (1842-1909)
From The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan
	Sunday Nov 9th [1862]
	Friday Night Jan 23d [1863]
	April 19th 1865. No. 211 Camp St.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
The Arsenal at Springfield 
From The Song of Hiawatha 
	III. Hiawatha's Childhood 
	IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis 
	V. Hiawatha's Fasting 
	VII. Hiawatha's Sailing 
	XXI. The White Man's Foot
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 
My Lost Youth 
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 
The Cross of Snow 
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) 
Ichabod 
First-Day Thoughts 
Telling the Bees 
Laus Deo 
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) 
Old Ironsides 
The Last Leaf 
My Aunt 
The Chambered Nautilus 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 
Reply to Horace Greeley 
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
Second Inaugural Address 
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 
From Uncle Tom's Cabin
	Chapter VII: The Mother's Struggle
HARRIET JACOBS (1813-1897) 
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 
	Chapter VI: The Jealous Mistress 
	Chapter XVII: The Flight 
	Chapter XVIII: Months of Peril 
	Chapter XIX: The Children Sold 
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?-1895) 
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
	Chapter I [Birth] 
	Chapter VII [Learning to Read and Write] 
	Chapter X [Mr Covey] 
AN AGE OF EXPANSION 
From Romanticism to Realism 
Regionalism 
The Gilded Age 
Timeline: An Age of Expansion
PIONEERS OF A NEW POETRY 
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 
Song of Myself 
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City 
Facing West from California's Shores 
As Adam Early in the Morning 
For You O Democracy 
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 
The Dalliance of the Eagles 
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 
The Wound-Dresser 
Look Down Fair Moon
Reconciliation 
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 
There Was a Child Went Forth 
To a Common Prostitute 
The Sleepers 
Whispers of Heavenly Death
A Noiseless Patient Spider 
To a Locomotive in Winter
By Broad Potomac's Shore
Good-bye My Fancy! 
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 
49 [I never lost as much but twice]
67 [Success is counted sweetest] 
130 [These are the days when Birds come back -- ] 
214 [I taste a liquor never brewed -- ] 
241 [I like a look of Agony] 
249 [Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!] 
252 [I can wade Grief -- ] 
258 [There's a certain Slant of light] 
280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 
285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune -- ] 
288 [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] 
290 [Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- ] 
303 [The Soul selects her own Society -- ] 
320 [We play at Paste -- ] 
322 [There came a Day at Summer's full] 
324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church] 
328 [A Bird came down the Walk -- ] 
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- ]
376 [Of Course -- I prayed -- ]
401 [What Soft -- Cherubic Creatures -- ] 
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 -- ] 
478 [I had no time to Hate -- ] 
511 [If you were coming in the Fall] 
526 [To hear an Oriole sing] 
528 [Mine -- by the Right of the White Election!] 
547 [I've seen a Dying Eye] 
556 [The Brain, within its Groove] 
569 [I reckon -- when I count at all -- ] 
579 [I had been hungry, all the Years -- ] 
581 [I found the words to every thought] 
585 [I like to see it lap the Miles -- ] 
632 [The Brain -- is wider than the sky -- ] 
636 [The Way I read a Letter's -- this -- ] 
640 [I cannot live with You -- ] 
650 [Pain -- Has a Element of Blank -- ] 
657 [I dwell in Possibility -- ] 
712 [Because I could not stop for Death -- ]
732 [She rose to His Requirement -- dropt] 
754 [My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun -- ] 
816 [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] 
823 [Not what We did, shall be the test] 
986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 
1052 [I never saw a Moor -- ] 
1078 [The Bustle in a House] 
1082 [Revolution is the Pod]
1100 [The last Night that She lived] 
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- ] 
1176 [We never know how high we are] 
1207 [He preached upon Breadth till it argued him narrow -- ] 
1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book] 
1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] 
1332 [Pink -- small -- and punctual -- ]
1463 [A Route of Evanescence] 
1510 [How happy is the little Stone] 
1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief] 
1587 [He ate and drank the precious Words -- ] 
1624 [Apparently with no surprise] 
1670 [In Winter in my Room] 
1732 [My life closed twice before its close -- ]
1760 [Elysium is as far as to] 
Letters
[To Recipient Unknown, about 1858]
[To Recipient Unknown, about 1861]
[To Recipient Unknown, early 1862?]
[To T. W. Higginson, 15 April 1862]
[To T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862]
[To T. W. Higginson, 7 June 1862]
[To T. W. Higginson, July 1862]
[To T. W. Higginson, August 1862]
REALISTS AND REGIONALISTS 
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) 
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 
From Roughing It
	[When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] 
From Life on the Mississippi
	Frescoes from the Past
	The Boy's Ambition 
	[A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] 
How to Tell a Story 
CROSSCURRENTS: FREEDOM AND THE GILDED AGE
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 
From Democratic Vistas
HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
*From The Education of Henry Adams
	Chapter XVII: President Grant (1869)
*GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1915)
From The Freedman's Case in Equity
	[The Perpetual Alien]
*BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)
From Up from Slavery
	The Struggle for an Education

WILLIAM DEANS HOWELLS (1837-1920)
Editha 
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) 
Daisy Miller 
The Real Thing 
The Beast in the Jungle
The Art of Fiction 
BRET HARTE (1836-1902)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat 
*RED CLOUD (c 1822-1909)
[All I Want Is Peace and Justice]
SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (1844-1891)
From Life among the Piutes
	Chapter I: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites 
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: 1890-1910 
Spiritual Unrest 
Naturalism 
Timeline: The Turn of the Century
HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
The Dynamo and the Virgin 
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
A White Heron 
KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
The Awakening
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930)
The Revolt of "Mother" 
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932)
The Passing of Grandison
CROSSCURRENTS: PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
*ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919)
From Wealth
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers
*WILLIAM VAUGHAN MOODY (1869-1910)
Gloucester Moors
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines
*ZITKALA-SA (1876-1938)
Retrospection
*W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)
From The Souls of Black Folk
	Of Mr Booker T. Washington and Others

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper 
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
Roman Fever 
FRANK NORRIS (1870-1902)
A Plea for Romantic Fiction 
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind
The Wayfarer
A Man Said to the Universe 
The Open Boat 
THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)
The Second Choice 
JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 
To Build a Fire 
LITERARY RENAISSANCE 
Twentieth-Century Renaissance 
Poetry between the Wars 
Timeline: Literary Renaissance
NEW DIRECTIONS: FIRST WAVE 
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Luke Havergal 
Richard Cory 
Miniver Cheevy 
Mr Flood's Party 
The Mill 
Firelight 
New England 
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
Neighbour Rosicky 
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
 
The Tuft of Flowers 
Mending Wall 
Home Burial 
After Apple-Picking 
The Wood-Pile 
The Road Not Taken 
The Oven Bird
Birches 
The Hill Wife 
The Ax-Helve
The Grindstone 
The Witch of Coös 
Fire and Ice 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 
Two Tramps in Mud Time 
Desert Places 
Design 
Come In 
Directive 
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
Fog 
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 
Monotone 
Gone
A Fence 
Grass 
Southern Pacific 
Washerwoman 
SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
The Book of the Grotesque
Adventure 
SUSAN GLASPELL (1876?-1948)
*Trifles
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro 
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 
The Cantos 
	I: [And then went down to the ship] 
	XIII: [Kung walked]
	From LXXXI: [What thou lovest well remains] 
	CXVI: [Came Neptunus] 
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent 
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 
Gerontion 
The Waste Land 
The Hollow Men
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) 
Patterns 
A Decade 
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
Wild Peaches 
Sanctuary 
Prophecy 
Let No Charitable Hope 
O Virtuous Light 
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
Heat 
Heliodora 
Lethe 
Sigil 
POETS OF IDEA AND ORDER 
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier 
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 
Sunday Morning 
Anecdote of the Jar 
The Snow Man 
Bantams in Pine-Woods 
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 
To the One of Fictive Music 
The Idea of Order at Key West 
Postcard from the Volcano 
Of Modern Poetry 
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 
The Plain Sense of Things 
Of Mere Being 
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
The Young Housewife 
Tract 
To Mark Anthony in Heaven 
Portrait of a Lady 
Queen-Anne's-Lace 
The Great Figure 
The Bull 
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow 
This Is Just to Say 
A Sort of a Song 
The Dance 
Raleigh Was Right
The Ivy Crown
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
Poetry 
In the Days of Prismatic Color 
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish 
No Swan So Fine 
A Jelly-Fish 
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
From The Bridge 
To Brooklyn Bridge 
Van Winkle 
The River 
A LITERATURE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGE 
Drama between the Wars 
Primitivism 
The Roaring Twenties and the Lost Generation 
The Harlem Renaissance
Depression and Totalitarian Menace 
Timeline: A Literature of Social and Cultural Change
EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953)
The Hairy Ape 
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
To the Stone-Cutters 
Boats in a Fog 
Shine, Perishing Republic 
The Purse-Seine 
CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
The Harlem Dancer 
Harlem Shadows 
America 
Outcast 
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
First Fig 
[I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore ]
[What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why ]
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
[This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All]
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink] 
[Those Hours When Happy Hours Were My Estate] 
[I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines]
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers Of
When God Let's My Body Be
In Just- 
Buffalo Bill's 
My Sweet Old Etcetera 
I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big 
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond 
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 
My Father Moved through Dooms of Love 
Up Into the Silence the Green
Plato Told 
When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm
I Thank You God 
CROSSCURRENTS: THE JAZZ AGE AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
*JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)
[Negro Dialect]
*PAUL ROBESON (1898-1976)
Reflections on O'Neill's Plays
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
*When the Negro Was in Vogue
*ST JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 
The Weary Blues 
Song for a Dark Girl 
Trumpet Player 
Dream Boogie 
Harlem 
Feet Live Their Own Life 
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
Babylon Revisited 
JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)
From The 42nd Parallel 
	Big Bill 
	Proteus
From 1919
	The House of Morgan 
	The Body of An American 
From The Big Money
	Newsreel LXVI
	The Camera Eye (50)
	Vag 
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
That Evening Sun
Barn Burning 
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
From Black Boy 
	[A Five Dollar Fight] 
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH 
Postwar Drama 
Postwar Poetry 
Postwar Fiction 
Multiculturalism
The Postmodern Impulse
Timeline: The Second World War and Its Aftermath
DRAMA 
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie
CROSSCURRENTS: THE AGE OF ANXIETY: POST-WAR MALAISE AND THE BEAT GENERATION
*LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919-  )
[In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see]
[Constantly risking absurdity]
*JOHN CLELLON HOLMES (1926-1988)
From The Philosophy of the Beat Generation
*DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969)
 [The Military Industrial Complex]
*RACHEL CARSON (1904-1964)
From Silent Spring

POETRY 
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
Open House 
Cuttings (later) 
My Papa's Waltz 
Night Crow 
Elegy for Jane 
The Waking 
I Knew a Woman 
The Far Field 
Wish for a Young Wife 
In a Dark Time 
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
The Fish 
At the Fishhouses 
Questions of Travel 
Sestina 
In the Waiting Room 
One Art 
*ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
Tour 5
Those Winter Sundays
Year of the Child
JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)
1: [Huffy Henry hid the day]
4: [Filling her compact & delicious body]
14: [Life, friends, is boring We must not say so]
29: [There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart]
76: [Henry's Confession]
145: [Also I love him: me he's done no wrong] 
153: [I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation] 
384: [The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done] 
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
a song in the front yard 
The Bean Eaters 
We Real Cool 
The Lovers of the Poor 
Horses Graze 
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
Waking in the Blue 
Skunk Hour 
The Neo-Classical Urn 
For the Union Dead 
Reading Myself 
Epilogue 
ROBERT BLY (1926-  )
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River 
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter 
Watering the Horse 
The Executive's Death 
Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
Howl 
America 
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
A Timepiece 
Charles on Fire 
The Broken Home
JOHN ASHBERY (1927-  )
Some Trees 
The Painter 
Crazy Weather 
As We Know 
At North Farm 
The Ongoing Story 
Down by the Station, Early in the Morning 

FICTION 
EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001)
A Memory 
JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982)
The Swimmer 
RALPH ELLISON (1919-1994)
From Invisible Man 
	Chapter 1 [Battle Royal] 
BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)
The Mourners
JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)
Sonny's Blues 
FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
Good Country People 
JOHN BARTH (1930-  )
Lost in the Funhouse 
JOHN UPDIKE (1932-  )
Separating 
PHILIP ROTH (1933-  )
The Conversion of the Jews 
THOMAS PYNCHON (1937-  )
Entropy 
JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938-  )
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
A CENTURY ENDS AND A NEW MILLENNIUM BEGINS
Drama
Poetry
Fiction
Multiculturalism
Timeline: A Century Ends and a New Millennium Begins
CROSSCURRENTS: THE AGE OF ANXIETY: VIETNAM, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
BOB DYLAN (1941-  )
*Masters of War
*MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968)
I Have Dream
*BETTY FRIEDAN (1921-  )
The Problem that Has No Name

POETRY
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl 
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack 
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 
Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960 
In Terror of Hospital Bills 
Two Postures Beside a Fire 
The Vestal in the Forum 
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
Her Kind 
The Farmer's Wife 
The Truth the Dead Know 
All My Pretty Ones 
With Mercy for the Greedy 
ADRIENNE RICH (1929-  )
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 
Living in Sin 
The Trees 
Face to Face 
Diving into the Wreck 
For the Dead 
GARY SNYDER (1930-  )
The Late Snow & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four
Riprap 
this poem is for bear 
Not Leaving the House 
Axe Handles 
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
Morning Song 
The Applicant 
Daddy 
Lady Lazarus
Death & Co 
Mystic 
AMIRI BARAKA (1934-  )
In Memory of Radio 
An Agony. As Now. 
MARY OLIVER (1935-  ) 
In Blackwater Woods 
The Ponds 
Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 
Early Morning, New Hampshire 
SIMON J. ORTIZ (1941-  )
Vision Shadows
From Poems from the Veterans Hospital
	8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH
	Travelling
From From Sand Creek
DAVE SMITH (1942-  )
Cumberland Station 
The Roundhouse Voices 
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
RITA DOVE (1952-  )
Ö 
Dusting 
Roast Possum 
CATHY SONG (1955-  )
Picture Bride 
Beauty and Sadness 
Immaculate Lives
FICTION 
TONI MORRISON (1931-  )
From Sula
	1922 
RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1998)
A Small, Good Thing
BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940-  )
Shiloh 
ALICE WALKER (1944-  )
Everyday Use 
TIM O'BRIEN (1946-  )
From Going After Cacciato
	Night March 
ANN BEATTIE (1947-  )
Janus 
AMY TAN (1952-  )
Half and Half 
LOUISE ERDRICH (1954-  )
The Red Convertible 
*SANDRA CISNEROS (1954-  )
Woman Hollering Creek
*SHERMAN ALEXIE (1966-  )
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
THE GLOBALIZATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 
VLADIMIR NABOVKOV (1899-1977)
From Pnin 
	Chapter Five [Pnin at the Pines] 
ISACC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991)
Gimpel the Fool 
CZESLAW MILOSZ (191-2004)
Campo dei Fiori 
Fear 
Café 
In Warsaw 
Ars Poetica?
To Raja Rao 
Gift 
With Her 
SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005)
A Silver Dish 
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-  )
The Third Dimension 
To the Snake 
The Willows of Massachusetts 
From Olga Poems
	i: "By the gas-fire, kneeling" 
	ii: "The high pitch of" 
	vi: "Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water" 
JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996)
From Lullaby of Cape Cod
	iv: [The change of Empires is intimately tied] 
Belfast Tune 
A Song 
In Memory of My Father: Australia 
At a Lecture 
To My Daughter 
BHARATI MUKHERJEE (1940-  )
The Management of Grief 
ISABEL ALLENDE (1942-  )
And of Clay Are We Created 
JHUMPA LAHIRI (1967-  )
The Third and Final Continent
*EDWIDGE DANTICAT (1969-  )
Seven 

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