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Widely known as the anthology that best meshes tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature enters its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American Literature. Literary merit remains the guiding principle of selection; flexibility of organization, with Walt Whitman represented in both volumes, continues to be one of the text's hallmarks.
Table of Contents
*- indicates selection or author is new to this edition
PREFACE
AN AGE OF EXPANSION
From Romanticism to Realism
Regionalism
The Gilded Age
NEW VOICES IN POETRY
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
Song of Myself.
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.
Cavalry Crossing a Ford.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
To a Common Prostitute.
A Noiseless Patient Spider.
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 works 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 -- ].
701 [A Thought went up my mind today -- ].
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].
1465 [Before you thought of Spring].
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].
SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881).
The Symphony.
The Stirrup-Cup.
The Marshes of Glynn.
REALISTS AND REGIONALISTS
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888).
Little Women.
Playing Pilgrims
A Merry Christmas
The Laurence Boy
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910).
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
Roughing It.
[When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree].
Life on the Mississippi.
Frescoes from the Past.
The Boys' Ambition.
[A Mississippi Cub-Pilot].
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
*How to Tell a Story
Letters from the Earth.
Letter II: Satan to Michael and Gabriel.
WILLIAM DEANS HOWELLS (1837-1920).
Criticism and Fiction.
Chapter II [The True Standard of the Arts].
Chapter XIII [How Can an Art Decay?].
Chapter XXI [American and Old World Novelists].
Chapter XXIV [The Prudishness of the Anglo-Saxon Novel].