Anthology of American Literature, Volume II

by McMichael, George; Leonard, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780132216470
• ISBN10: 0132216477
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. This anthology is best known for its solid headnotes and introductions as well as a balance approach to selections.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Editors
The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century [New]
Reading the Historical Context [New]
From Life on the Mississippi [Sir Walter Scott and the Southern Character] [New]
From The Invisible Empire [New] Reading the Critical Context
From Criticism and Fiction [The Ideal Grasshopper] [American Fiction]
The Art of Fiction [New]
Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences
The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Song of Myself
From Inscriptions To You Ones-Self
I Sing When I read the book I Hear America Singing Poets to Come
From Children of Adam From pent-up aching rivers
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd
As Adam, Early in the Morning Once
I passd through a populous city Facing west from Californias shores
From Calamus In paths untrodden Scented herbage of my breast
What Think You I take My Pen In Hand?
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
I hear it was charged against me Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
From Sea-Drift Out of the cradle endlessly rocking As I ebbd with the ocean of life
From By the Roadside When I heard the learnd astronomer
The Dalliance of the Eagles
From Drum-Taps Beat! Beat! Drums! Cavalry Crossing a Ford Bivouac on a Mountain Side Vigil strange
I kept on the field one night
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim The Wound-Dresser
From Memories of President Lincoln When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomd
From Autumn Rivulets There was a child went forth Sparkles from the Wheel Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
Passage to India The Sleepers
From Whispers of Heavenly Death A noiseless patient spider
From Noon to Starry Night To a Locomotive in Winter
From Democratic Vistas	p. 49
I never lost as much but twice	p. 67
Success is counted sweetest	p. 125
For each ecstatic instant	p. 130
These are the days when Birds come back	p. 165
A Wounded Deer leaps highest	p. 185
Faith is a fine invention	p. 210
The thought beneath so slight a film	p. 214
I taste a liquor never brewed	p. 216
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers	p. 241
I like a look of Agony	p. 249
Wild Nights Wild Nights!	p. 258
Theres a certain Slant of light	p. 280
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	p. 287
A Clock stopped	p. 303
The Soul selects her own Society	p. 324
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church	p. 328
A Bird came down the Walk	p. 338
I know that He exists	p. 341
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	p. 401
What Soft Cherubic Creatures	p. 414
Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch	p. 435
Much Madness is divinest Sense	p. 441
This is my letter to the World	p. 448
This was a Poet It is That	p. 449
I died for Beauty but was scarce	p. 465
I heard a Fly buzz when I died	p. 510
It was not Death, for I stood up	p. 520
I started Early Took my Dog	p. 585
I like to see it lap the Miles	p. 613
They shut me up in Prose	p. 632
The Brain is wider than the sky	p. 640
I cannot live with You	p. 650
Pain has an Element of Blank	p. 657
I dwell in Possibility	p. 670
One need not be a
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