The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition

by Lauter, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780618256631
• ISBN10: 0618256636
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This new anthology brings the expansive, inclusive approach of the two-volume Heath to the single-volume format. While other one-volume texts continue to anthologize primarily canonical works, the new Heath Concise offers a fresh perspective for the course, based on the successful hallmarks of the two-volume set. Headnotes and Section Introductions provide students with background information, while mini-thematic units--including Literature of the Vietnam Conflict-- allow for in-depth study. Unlike many one-volume anthologies, The Heath features fewer excerpts of long works and a rich selection of short works teachable in every classroom. A comprehensive web site offers abundant student and instructor resources, such as author information; an interactive timeline of literature, history, and culture; and an archive of Heath Newsletter articles.

Table of Contents

COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1700	1	(260)
Native American Oral Literatures	12	(34)
Native American Oral Narrative	14	(27)
Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)	16	(14)
The Origin of Stories (Seneca)	30	(3)
Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)	33	(3)
Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian)	36	(2)
The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)	38	(2)
Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)	40	(1)
Native American Oral Poetry	41	(5)
Love Song (Aleut)	42	(1)
Woman's Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)	43	(1)
Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)	43	(1)
War Song (Crow)	44	(1)
War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)	45	(1)
New Spain	46	(54)
Christopher Columbus (1451--1506)	48	(9)
from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492--1493	49	(8)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?--1556?)	57	(11)
Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca	58	(1)
from Chapter VII: The Character of the Country	58	(2)
from Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute	60	(1)
from Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians	61	(1)
from Chapter XI: Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians	62	(1)
from Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted	62	(1)
from Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country	63	(2)
from Chapter XXVII: We Moved Away and Were Well Received	65	(1)
from Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer	65	(1)
from Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians	66	(1)
from Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians	67	(1)
Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555--1620)	68	(4)
The History of New Mexico	69	(1)
from Canto I: Which sets forth the outline of the history ...	69	(3)
History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531	72	(8)
History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531	73	(7)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648--1695)	80	(6)
48: In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man	82	(4)
Don Antonio de Otermin (fl. 1680)	86	(9)
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680	88	(7)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)	95	(5)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)	96	(4)
New France	100	(17)
Samuel de Champlain (1570?--1635)	101	(6)
The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604--1618	102	(1)
from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608--1612	102	(4)
from The Voyages of 1615	106	(1)
The Jesuit Relations	107	(10)
from The Relation of 1647, by Father Jerome Lalemant	109	(8)
Chesapeake	117	(19)
Thomas Harriot (1560--1621)	118	(7)
from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia	120	(5)
John Smith (1580--1631)	125	(11)
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles	126	(1)
Book III	126	(1)
from Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]	126	(2)
from Chapter 8 [Smith's Journey to Pamaunkee]	128	(4)
from A Description of New England	132	(4)
New England	136	(125)
Thomas Morton (1579?--1647?)	140	(7)
New English Canaan	141	(1)
Book I: Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English	141	(1)
from Chapter IV: Of their Houses and Habitations	141	(1)
from Chapter VI: Of the Indians apparrell	142	(1)
Of their Reverence, and respect to age	142	(1)
Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality of the Soule	143	(1)
from Chapter XX: That the Salvages live a contended life	143	(1)
Book III: Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there . . . , what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church	144	(1)
from Chapter I: Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories	144	(1)
from Chapter V: Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus	145
from Chapter VII: Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island	143	(3)
How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus	146	(1)
John Winthrop (1588--1649)	147	(17)
from A Modell of Christian Charity	149	(8)
from The Journal of John Winthrop	157	(7)
William Bradford (1590--1657)	164	(15)
Of Plymouth Plantation	166	(1)
Book I	166	(1)
from Chapter I: The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England 1550--1607	166	(1)
from Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod	167	(2)
Book II	169	(1)
from Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620	169	(3)
from Chapter XIV: Anno Domini 1623	172	(1)
from Chapter XIX: Anno Domini 1628	173	(4)
from Chapter XXIII: Anno Domini 1632	177	(1)
from Chapter XXVIII: Anno Domini 1637	178	(1)
Roger Williams (1603?--1683)	179	(8)
A Key into the Language of America	181	(1)
[Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new England	181	(2)
Of their Government and Justice	183	(3)
Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narrangansett country	186	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (1612?--1672)	187	(11)
The Prologue [To Her Book]	188	(2)
The Author to Her Book	190	(1)
The Flesh and the Spirit	191	(2)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	193	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	194	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	195	(1)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old	195	(1)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old	196	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666	197	(1)
The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New England Primer (1683?)	198	(8)
The Bay Psalm Book	200	(1)
from The Preface by John Cotton	200	(2)
Psalm 19	202	(1)
Psalm 23	203	(1)
Psalm 137	204	(1)
The New England Primer	205	(1)
Alphabet	205	(1)
Mary White Rowlandson [Talcott] (1637?--1711)	206	(26)
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson	208	(24)
Edward Taylor (1642?--1729)	232	(11)
Gods Determinations	235	(1)
The Preface	235	(1)
Occasional Poems	236	(1)
Huswifery	236	(1)
Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children	237	(2)
Preparatory Meditations, First Series	239	(1)
Prologue	239	(1)
8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread	240	(2)
Preparatory Meditations, Second Series	242	(1)
Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc.	242	(1)
Samuel Sewall (1652--1730)	243	(10)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall	245	(4)
The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial	249	(4)
Cotton Mather (1663--1728)	253	(8)
from The Wonders of the Invisible World	255	(3)
The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692	258	(3)
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	261	(344)
Settlement and Religion	275	(86)
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666--1727)	276	(19)
The Journal of Madam Knight	277	(18)
William Byrd II (1674--1744)	295	(20)
from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and The Secret History of the Line	296	(19)
Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758)	315	(24)
Personal Narrative	317	(11)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	328	(11)
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713--1755)	339	(10)
from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, . . .Written by her own Hand many years ago	340	(9)
John Woolman (1720--1772)	349	(7)
from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes	351	(5)
Francisco Palou (1723--1789)	356	(5)
Life of Junipero Serra	357	(1)
from Chapter XXII: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey---The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded	357	(4)
Voices of Revolution and Nationalism	361	(152)
Handsome Lake (Seneca) (1735--1815)	363	(2)
How America Was Discovered	364	(1)
Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)	365	(70)
The Way to Wealth	367	(6)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly	373	(1)
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America	374	(4)
On the Slave-Trade	378	(3)
The Autobiography	381	(1)
Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771]	381	(43)
Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784	424	(11)
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735--1813)	435	(18)
Letters from an American Farmer	436	(1)
from Letter I: Introduction	436	(3)
from Letter II: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer	439	(2)
from Letter III: What Is an American?	441	(5)
from Letter IX: Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene	446	(7)
Thomas Paine (1737--1809)	453	(18)
Common Sense	455	(1)
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs	455	(6)
The American Crisis	461	(1)
Number 1	461	(6)
The Age of Reason	467	(1)
The Author's Profession of Faith	467	(1)
from Chapter II: Of Missions and Revelations	468	(2)
from Chapter III: Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History	470	(1)
John Adams (1735--1826) and Abigail Adams (1744--1818)	471	(7)
from Autobiography of John Adams	472	(1)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776	473	(1)
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776	474	(1)
from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776	474	(2)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778	476	(1)
from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813	477	(1)
Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826)	478	(25)
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson	480	(1)
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled	481	(3)
Notes on the State of Virginia	484	(1)
from Query VI: Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the Theory of Degeneracy	484	(6)
from Query XI: Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin	490	(3)
from Query XVII: Religion	493	(2)
from Query XVIII: Manners . . . Effect of Slavery	495	(1)
Letter to Benjamin Banneker	496	(1)
Letter to Peter Carr [Young Man's Education]	497	(3)
from Letter to Benjamin Hawkins [Civilization of the Indians]	500	(2)
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell [A Young Woman's Education]	502	(1)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions	503	(10)
The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)	505	(5)
An Anti-Federalist Paper	510	(3)
Contested Visions, American Voices	513	(92)
Jupiter Hammon (1711--1806?)	515	(5)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic], Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ	517	(3)
Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723--1792)	520	(6)
A Short Narrative of My Life	521	(5)
Olaudah Equiano (1745--1797)	526	(28)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
from Chapter 1	527	(9)
Chapter 2	536	(8)
from Chapter 3	544	(4)
from Chapter 7	548	(3)
from Chapter 10	551	(3)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751--1820)	554	(8)
On the Equality of the Sexes	555	(7)
Philip Freneau (1752--1832)	562	(7)
A Political Litany	564	(1)
To Sir Toby	565	(2)
The Wild Honey Suckle	567	(1)
The Indian Burying Ground	568	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1753--1784)	569	(10)
To Maecenas	571	(1)
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c	572	(2)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770	574	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	575	(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New England	576	(1)
To His Excellency General Washington	577	(1)
Letter to Samson Occom	578	(1)
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757--1830)	579	(5)
from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country	581	(3)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758--1840)	584	(21)
The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton	586	(1)
Letter I: To Miss Lucy Freeman	586	(1)
Letter II: To the Same	587	(1)
Letter III: To the Same	588	(1)
Letter IV: To Mr. Selby	589	(1)
Letter V: To Miss Lucy Freeman	590	(1)
Letter VI: To the Same	591	(1)
Letter VIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton	592	(1)
Letter XI: To Mr. Charles Deighton	592	(1)
Letter XII: To Miss Lucy Freeman	593	(1)
Letter XIII: To Miss Eliza Wharton	594	(1)
Letter XVIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton	595	(1)
Letter LXV: To Mr. Charles Deighton	596	(1)
Letter LXVIII: To Mrs. M. Wharton	597	(2)
Letter LXXI: To Mrs. Lucy Sumner	599	(2)
Letter LXXII: To Mr. Charles Deighton	601	(1)
Letter LXXIII: To Miss Julia Granby	602	(1)
Letter LXXIV: To Mrs. M. Wharton	603	(2)
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1800--1865	605	(718)
Native America	636	(27)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) (1800--1841)	638	(6)
Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters	639	(5)
William Apess (Pequot) (1798--?)	644	(6)
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man	645	(5)
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802--1839)	650	(8)
An Address to the Whites	651	(7)
Seattle (Duwamish) (1786--1866)	658	(5)
Speech of Chief Seattle	659	(4)
Spanish America	663	(22)
Tales from the Hispanic Southwest	664	(7)
La comadre Sebastiana/Dona Sebastiana	665	(2)
Los tres hermanos/The Three Brothers	667	(4)
La Llorona, the Unfaithful Maria, and La Malinche	671	(4)
La Llorona, the Unfaithful Maria, and La Malinche	672	(2)
The Devil Woman	674	(1)
Narratives from the Mexican and Early American Southwest	675	(1)
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808--1890)	676	(6)
from Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California	676	(6)
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822--1903)	682	(3)
A Journey Through Texas	682	(1)
San Antonio	682	(1)
The Missions	682	(1)
The Mexicans in Texas	683	(2)
Revisioning New England	685	(116)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791--1865)	686	(3)
Death of an Infant	687	(1)
Indian Names	688	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	689	(37)
from Nature	691	(3)
The American Scholar	694	(13)
Self-Reliance	707	(17)
Concord Hymn	724	(1)
The Rhodora	724	(1)
Brahma	725	(1)
Days	726	(1)
Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810--1850)	726	(23)
from Woman in the Nineteenth Century	728	(21)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	749	(52)
Resistance to Civil Government	751	(14)
Walden	765	(1)
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	765	(10)
Higher Laws	775	(7)
Spring	782	(10)
Conclusion	792	(9)
Issues and Conflicts in Antebellum America	801	(136)
David Walker (1785--1830)	801	(11)
from Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Third edition, 1829)	802	(10)
Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke	812	(2)
Sarah Moore Grimke (1792--1873)	814	(4)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman	814	(1)
Letter VIII: The Condition of Women in the United States	814	(4)
Angelina Grimke (1805--1879)	818	(8)
from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South	818	(8)
Lydia Maria Child (1802--1880)	826	(5)
Letters from New York	827	(1)
14 [Homelessness]	827	(4)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805--1879)	831	(3)
Editorial from the First Issue of The Liberator	832	(2)
Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865)	834	(3)
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery	835	(1)
Second Inaugural Address	836	(1)
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811--1872)	837	(4)
Hints to Young Wives	838	(2)
from Fern Leaves, 2nd Series	840	(1)
Soliloquy of a Housemaid	840	(1)
Independence	840	(1)
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813--1897)	841	(20)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	843	(1)
Childhood	843	(2)
The Jealous Mistress	845	(4)
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	849	(4)
The Loophole of Retreat	853	(2)
Free at Last	855	(6)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815--1902)	861	(5)
from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences	862	(2)
Declaration of Sentiments	864	(2)
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895)	866	(65)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	867	(64)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825--1911)	931	(6)
The Slave Mother	933	(1)
Free Labor	934	(1)
An Appeal to the American People	935	(2)
The Development of Narrative	937	(249)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)	940	(13)
Rip Van Winkle	940	(13)
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804--1864)	953	(35)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	955	(13)
Young Goodman Brown	968	(9)
The Birth-mark	977	(11)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	988	(45)
Ligeia	990	(11)
The Fall of the House of Usher	1001	(13)
The Purloined Letter	1014	(13)
Sonnet---To Science	1027	(1)
To Helen	1028	(1)
The Raven	1028	(4)
Annabel Lee	1032	(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)	1033	(22)
Uncle Tom's Cabin	1035	(1)
In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity	1035	(7)
The Mother's Struggle	1042	(5)
The Quaker Settlement	1047	(6)
The Martyr	1053	(2)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	1055	(86)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1058	(26)
Benito Cereno	1084	(57)
Alice Cary (1820--1871)	1141	(17)
Clovernook, Second Series	1143	(1)
Uncle Christopher's	1143	(15)
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831--1910)	1158	(28)
Life in the Iron-Mills	1160	(26)
The Emergence of American Poetic Voices	1186	(137)
Songs and Ballads	1189	(11)
Songs of the Slaves	1190	(1)
Lay Dis Body Down	1190	(1)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had	1190	(1)
Deep River	1191	(1)
Roll, Jordan, Roll	1191	(1)
Steal Away to Jesus	1192	(1)
Many Thousand Go	1192	(1)
Go Down, Moses	1192	(2)
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel	1194	(1)
Songs of White Communities	1194	(1)
John Brown's Body	1194	(1)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)	1195	(1)
Pat Works on the Railway	1196	(1)
Shenandoah	1197	(1)
Clementine	1198	(1)
Life Is a Toil	1199	(1)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)	1200	(4)
Thanatopsis	1201	(2)
To a Waterfowl	1203	(1)
Abraham Lincoln	1204	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	1204	(5)
A Psalm of Life	1205	(2)
The Warning	1207	(1)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	1207	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	1209	(86)
Leaves of Grass
Preface to the 1855 Edition	1211	(14)
Song of Myself	1225	(51)
One's-Self I Sing	1276	(1)
To the Garden of the World	1277	(1)
In Paths Untrodden	1277	(1)
When I Heard the Close of the Day	1278	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	1279	(5)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	1284	(1)
Beat! Beat! Drums!	1284	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	1285	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	1286	(8)
To a Locomotive in Winter	1294	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
Poems	1295	(3)
[I never lost as much but twice]	1298	(1)
[Success is counted sweetest]	1298	(1)
[Come slowly---Eden!]	1298	(1)
[Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]	1299	(1)
[There's a certain Slant of light]	1299	(1)
[I'm Nobody! Who are you?]	1299	(1)
[The Soul selects her own Society---]	1300	(1)
[Some keep the Sabbath going to Church]	1300	(1)
[After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]	1301	(1)
[God is a distant---stately Lover---]	1301	(1)
[Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?]	1301	(1)
[What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---]	1302	(1)
[Much Madness is divinest Sense---]	1302	(1)
[This is my letter to the World]	1303	(1)
[This was a Poet---It is That]	1303	(1)
[I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---]	1303	(1)
[This World is not Conclusion]	1304	(1)
[I started Early---Took my Dog---]	1305	(1)
[I reckon---when I count at all---]	1305	(1)
[They shut me up in Prose---]	1306	(1)
[The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]	1306	(1)
[I cannot live with You---]	1307	(1)
[I dwell in Possibility---]	1308	(1)
[One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted---]	1309	(1)
[Publication---is the Auction]	1309	(1)
[Because I could not stop for Death---]	1310	(1)
[She rose to His Requirement---dropt]	1310	(1)
[My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]	1311	(1)
[Presentiment---is that long Shadow---on the Lawn---]	1312	(1)
[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]	1312	(1)
[Title divine---is mine!]	1313	(1)
[Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---]	1313	(1)
[He preached upon ``Breadth'' till it argued him narrow---]	1313	(1)
[What mystery pervades a well!]	1314	(1)
[``Heavenly Father''---take to thee]	1315	(1)
[A Route of Evanescence]	1315	(1)
[The Bible is an Antique Volume---]	1316	(1)
[Volcanoes be in Sicily]	1316	(1)
[Rearrange a ``Wife's'' affection!]	1316	(1)
[To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]	1317	(1)
Letters	1317	(1)
To Abiah Root (January 29, 1850)	1317	(2)
To T. W. Higginson (April 15, 1862)	1319	(1)
To T. W. Higginson (April 25, 1862)	1319	(2)
To T. W. Higginson (June 7, 1862)	1321	(2)
LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1865--1910	1323	(390)
Nation, Regions, Borders	1348	(271)
African American Folktales	1349	(10)
Animal Tales	1350	(1)
When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race	1350	(2)
Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit	1352	(1)
The Signifying Monkey	1352	(2)
Memories of Slavery	1354	(1)
Malitis	1354	(1)
Conjure Stories	1355	(1)
Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida	1355	(2)
John and Old Marster	1357	(1)
Massa and the Bear	1357	(1)
Baby in the Crib	1358	(1)
John Steals a Pig and a Sheep	1358	(1)
Talking Bones	1358	(1)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835--1910)	1359	(42)
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog	1361	(4)
A True Story	1365	(4)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	1369	(30)
The War Prayer	1399	(2)
Joel Chandler Harris (1848--1908)	1401	(4)
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings	1402	(1)
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story	1402	(2)
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox	1404	(1)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858--1932)	1405	(17)
The Goophered Grapevine	1406	(9)
Po' Sandy	1415	(7)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)	1422	(7)
Lyrics of Lowly Life	1423	(1)
An Ante-Bellum Sermon	1423	(3)
We Wear the Mask	1426	(1)
When Malindy Sings	1426	(2)
Lyrics of the Hearthside	1428	(1)
Sympathy	1428	(1)
The Real Question	1429	(1)
John Milton Oskison (1874--1947)	1429	(6)
The Problem of Old Harjo	1430	(5)
Corridos	1435	(8)
Kiansis I/Kansas I	1436	(2)
Gregorio Cortez	1438	(5)
William Dean Howells (1837--1920)	1443	(11)
Editha	1445	(9)
Henry James (1843--1916)	1454	(63)
Daisy Miller: A Study	1456	(40)
The Jolly Corner	1496	(21)
Kate Chopin (1851--1904)	1517	(8)
Desiree's Baby	1519	(4)
The Story of an Hour	1523	(2)
Hamlin Garland (1860--1940)	1525	(30)
Up the Coule	1526	(29)
Stephen Crane (1871--1900)	1555	(26)
The Open Boat	1557	(16)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	1573	(8)
Jack London (1876--1916)	1581	(12)
South of the Slot	1582	(11)
Standing Bear (Machunazha) (Ponca) (1829--1908)	1593	(3)
What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark	1594	(2)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)	1596	(13)
The Yellow Wall-Paper	1597	(12)
Henry Adams (1838--1918)	1609	(10)
The Education of Henry Adams	1611	(1)
The Dynamo and the Virgin	1611	(8)
Developments in Women's Writing	1619	(50)
Louisa May Alcott (1832--1888)	1620	(14)
My Contraband	1621	(13)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849--1909)	1634	(8)
A White Heron	1636	(6)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852--1930)	1642	(13)
The Revolt of ``Mother''	1644	(11)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859--1930)	1655	(6)
A Dash for Liberty	1656	(5)
Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836--1894)	1661	(4)
The Palace-Burner	1661	(1)
We Two	1662	(1)
His Mother's Way	1663	(2)
Sophie Jewett (1861--1909)	1665	(1)
Armistice	1665	(1)
I Speak Your Name	1666	(1)
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863--1953)	1666	(2)
The Wood-Chopper to His Ax	1666	(1)
The Cross and the Pagan	1667	(1)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875--1935)	1668	(1)
I Sit and Sew	1668	(1)
You! Inez!	1668	(1)
The Making of ``Americans''	1669	(44)
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865--1914)	1670	(8)
Mrs. Spring Fragrance	1672	(1)
In the Land of the Free	1672	(6)
Mary Austin (1868--1934)	1678	(8)
Earth Horizon	1680	(1)
III	1680	(6)
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876--1938)	1686	(10)
The School Days of an Indian Girl	1687	(1)
The Land of Red Apples	1687	(2)
The Cutting of My Long Hair	1689	(1)
The Snow Episode	1690	(2)
Four Strange Summers	1692	(2)
Incurring My Mother's Displeasure	1694	(2)
Mary Antin (1881--1949)	1696	(7)
The Promised Land	1697	(1)
from Chapter IX	1697	(6)
Jose Marti (1853--1895)	1703	(10)
Our America	1705	(8)
MODERN PERIOD: 1910--1945	1713	(456)
Toward the Modern Age	1735	(95)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856--1915)	1736	(11)
Up from Slavery	1738	(1)
Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech	1738	(1)
The Atlanta Exposition Address	1739	(8)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868--1963)	1747	(15)
The Souls of Black Folk	1749	(1)
Of Our Spiritual Strivings	1749	(5)
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others	1754	(8)
James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)	1762	(5)
Lift Every Voice and Sing	1764	(1)
The Creation	1764	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)	1767	(4)
Eros Turannos	1768	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	1769	(2)
Edith Wharton (1862--1937)	1771	(11)
The Valley of Childish Things	1772	(1)
Roman Fever	1773	(9)
Willa Cather (1873--1947)	1782	(6)
A Wagner Matinee	1783	(5)
Susan Glaspell (1876--1948)	1788	(11)
Trifles	1789	(10)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)	1799	(6)
Mending Wall	1800	(1)
The Road Not Taken	1801	(1)
The Oven Bird	1802	(1)
``Out, Out---''	1802	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1803	(1)
Desert Places	1804	(1)
Design	1804	(1)
Sherwood Anderson (1876--1941)	1805	(5)
Hands	1806	(4)
Theodore Dreiser (1871--1945)	1810	(14)
The Second Choice	1811	(13)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	1824	(6)
Spring	1825	(1)
The Spring and the Fall	1826	(1)
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]	1826	(1)
[Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]	1827	(1)
The Return	1827	(1)
Justice Denied in Massachusetts	1828	(2)
Alienation and Literary Experimentation	1830	(154)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	1831	(5)
In a Station of the Metro	1833	(1)
L'art, 1910	1833	(1)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)	1833	(1)
E.P. Ode pour L'election de Son Sepulchre	1833	(1)
The Cantos	1834	(1)
XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone]	1834	(2)
CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]	1836	(1)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)	1836	(9)
Patterns	1838	(2)
Venus Transiens	1840	(1)
The Sisters	1841	(4)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	1845	(5)
from The Making of Americans	1847	(2)
Susie Asado	1849	(1)
from The Mother of Us All	1850	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)	1850	(6)
Danse Russe	1852	(1)
The Young Housewife	1853	(1)
Spring and All	1853	(1)
To Elsie	1854	(2)
The Red Wheelbarrow	1856	(1)
Eugene O'Neill (1888--1953)	1856	(33)
The Hairy Ape	1858	(31)
Djuna Barnes (1892--1982)	1889	(7)
Smoke	1891	(5)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	1896	(4)
[Buffalo Bill's]	1897	(1)
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]	1897	(1)
[i like my body when it is with your]	1897	(1)
[my sweet old etcetera]	1898	(1)
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]	1899	(1)
T.S. Eliot (1888--1965)	1900	(20)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1901	(5)
The Waste Land	1906	(14)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896--1940)	1920	(16)
Babylon Revisited	1922	(14)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)	1936	(8)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	1937	(7)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)	1944	(5)
Poetry	1945	(1)
England	1946	(1)
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	1947	(2)
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)	1949	(5)
Hills Like White Elephants	1950	(4)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)	1954	(6)
Sunday Morning	1955	(3)
The Snow Man	1958	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	1959	(1)
Of Modern Poetry	1959	(1)
William Faulkner (1897--1962)	1960	(14)
Barn Burning	1962	(12)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)	1974	(10)
Chaplinesque	1975	(1)
The Bridge	1976	(1)
To Brooklyn Bridge	1976	(2)
The River	1978	(4)
The Broken Tower	1982	(2)
The New Negro Renaissance	1984	(67)
Alain Locke (1885--1954)	1987	(10)
The New Negro	1988	(9)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)	1997	(9)
Cane	1998	(1)
Karintha	1998	(1)
Song of the Son	1999	(1)
Blood-Burning Moon	2000	(6)
Seventh Street	2006	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	2006	(14)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	2008	(1)
The Weary Blues	2008	(1)
Johannesburg Mines	2009	(1)
I, Too	2010	(1)
Dream Variations	2010	(1)
Harlem	2011	(1)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain	2011	(4)
When the Negro Was in Vogue	2015	(5)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)	2020	(5)
Incident	2021	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	2021	(1)
Heritage	2022	(3)
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song	2025	(1)
Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989)	2025	(9)
Ma Rainey	2027	(2)
Slim in Hell	2029	(3)
Remembering Nat Turner	2032	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960)	2034	(9)
Sweat	2035	(8)
Claude McKay (1889--1948)	2043	(2)
The Harlem Dancer	2043	(1)
If We Must Die	2044	(1)
The Lynching	2044	(1)
America	2045	(1)
Blues Lyrics	2045	(6)
Blues Lyrics	2045	(6)
Issues and Visions in Modern America	2051	(118)
Randolph Bourne (1886--1918)	2052	(13)
Trans-National America	2053	(12)
Anzia Yezierska (1881?--1970)	2065	(8)
America and I	2066	(7)
John Dos Passos (1896--1970)	2073	(13)
U.S.A.	2075	(1)
The Body of an American	2075	(3)
The Bitter Drink	2078	(8)
Meridel LeSueur (1900--1996)	2086	(6)
Women on the Breadlines	2087	(5)
Clifford Odets (1906--1963)	2092	(19)
Waiting for Lefty	2093	(18)
Thomas Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914--1972)	2111	(5)
Blue Winds Dancing	2111	(5)
D'Arcy McNickle (1904--1977)	2116	(7)
Hard Riding	2117	(6)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)	2123	(5)
Infant Boy at Midcentury	2124	(2)
Amazing Grace in the Back Country	2126	(2)
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)	2128	(4)
Children	2129	(3)
John Steinbeck (1902--1968)	2132	(9)
The Grapes of Wrath	2133	(1)
Chapter One	2133	(2)
Chapter Five	2135	(6)
Richard Wright (1908--1960)	2141	(10)
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow	2143	(8)
Margaret Walker (1915--1998)	2151	(4)
For My People	2152	(1)
Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad	2153	(2)
Younghill Kang (1903--1972)	2155	(8)
East Goes West	2156	(1)
Part One, Book Three	2156	(7)
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants	2163	(6)
from The Voyage	2165	(1)
8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox]	2165	(1)
from The Detainment	2165	(1)
31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls]	2165	(1)
from The Weak Shall Conquer	2165	(1)
35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came to America]	2165	(1)
38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window]	2166	(1)
42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants]	2166	(1)
from Deportees, Transients	2166	(1)
69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]	2166	(3)
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD: 1945 TO THE PRESENT	2169	(508)
Contemporary Period: The Earlier Generation	2169	(5)
The Earlier Generation: Prose	2174	(106)
Eudora Welty (1909--2001)	2174	(9)
Why I Live at the P.O.	2175	(8)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)	2183	(7)
I Stand Here Ironing	2184	(6)
Carlos Bulosan (1913--1956)	2190	(5)
from America Is in the Heart	2191	(4)
Bernard Malamud (1914--1986)	2195	(12)
The Magic Barrel	2196	(11)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914--1994)	2207	(8)
King of the Bingo Game	2208	(7)
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)	2215	(9)
Seventeen Syllables	2216	(8)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)	2224	(5)
A Conversation with My Father	2225	(4)
James Baldwin (1924--1987)	2229	(11)
Previous Condition	2230	(10)
Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)	2240	(12)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	2242	(10)
Malcolm X (1925--1964)	2252	(7)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	2254	(1)
from Chapter 19: 1965	2254	(5)
Mario Suarez (1925--1998)	2259	(6)
El Hoyo	2260	(2)
Senor Garza	2262	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929--1968)	2265	(5)
I Have a Dream	2266	(4)
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)	2270	(10)
To Da-duh: In Memoriam	2271	(9)
The Earlier Generation: Drama	2280	(16)
Tennessee Williams (1911--1983)	2280	(10)
Portrait of a Madonna	2281	(9)
Edward Albee (b. 1928)	2290	(6)
The Sand Box	2291	(5)
The Earlier Generation: Poetry	2296	(56)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)	2296	(3)
Root Cellar	2297	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	2298	(1)
Elegy	2298	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)	2299	(8)
The Fish	2301	(2)
The Man-Moth	2303	(1)
At the Fishhouses	2304	(2)
Filling Station	2306	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)	2307	(5)
Absalom	2308	(2)
The Minotaur	2310	(1)
The Poem as Mask	2311	(1)
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X	2312	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)	2312	(7)
The Mother	2313	(1)
We Real Cool	2314	(1)
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon	2315	(4)
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till	2319	(1)
Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917--1977)	2319	(9)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	2320	(2)
Skunk Hour	2322	(1)
For Theodore Roethke	2323	(1)
For the Union Dead	2324	(2)
Near the Ocean	2326	(2)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)	2328	(5)
I Know a Man	2329	(1)
For Love	2329	(2)
Words	2331	(1)
America	2332	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)	2333	(4)
My Heart	2334	(1)
The Day Lady Died	2334	(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter	2335	(2)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)	2337	(6)
The Instruction Manual	2338	(2)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	2340	(2)
As You Came from the Holy Land	2342	(1)
Anne Sexton (1928--1974)	2343	(3)
Her Kind	2345	(1)
Housewife	2345	(1)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)	2346	(6)
Diving into the Wreck	2347	(2)
Power	2349	(1)
Not Somewhere Else, but Here	2350	(2)
The Beat Movement	2352	(26)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)	2352	(8)
I Am Waiting	2353	(4)
Dove Sta Amore ...	2357	(1)
The Old Italians Dying	2357	(3)
Jack Kerouac (1922--1969)	2360	(6)
The Vanishing American Hobo	2360	(6)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)	2366	(12)
Howl	2367	(8)
America	2375	(3)
Contemporary Period: New Generations	2378	(9)
New Generations: Prose	2387	(173)
John Barth (b. 1930)	2387	(7)
Night-Sea Journey	2388	(6)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)	2394	(14)
Recitatif	2395	(13)
John Updike (b. 1932)	2408	(7)
Trust Me	2410	(5)
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)	2415	(21)
The Sky Is Gray	2416	(20)
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)	2436	(9)
The Way to Rainy Mountain	2437	(1)
Headwaters	2437	(1)
Prologue	2437	(1)
from the Introduction	2438	(2)
IV	2440	(1)
XVI	2441	(1)
XVII	2442	(1)
XXIV	2443	(1)
Epilogue	2443	(2)
Rainy Mountain Cemetery	2445	(1)
Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)	2445	(10)
Bless Me, Ultima	2447	(1)
Dieciocho	2447	(8)
Raymond Carver (1938--1988)	2455	(9)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	2456	(8)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939--1995)	2464	(7)
The Lesson	2465	(6)
Frank Chin (b. 1940)	2471	(5)
Railroad Standard Time	2472	(4)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)	2476	(9)
No Name Woman	2477	(8)
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)	2485	(6)
Happiness	2486	(5)
Gloria Anzaldua (b. 1942)	2491	(13)
Borderlands/La Frontera	2493	(1)
from Chapter 3: Entering into the Serpent	2493	(11)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)	2504	(8)
Laurel	2506	(6)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)	2512	(8)
Lullaby	2514	(6)
Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)	2520	(10)
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know	2521	(9)
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)	2530	(11)
Love Medicine	2531	(1)
Saint Marie (1934)	2531	(10)
Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)	2541	(11)
The Cariboo Cafe	2542	(10)
Sherman Alexie (Spokane--Coeur d'Alene) (b. 1966)	2552	(8)
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' at Woodstock	2553	(7)
Vietnam Conflict	2560	(24)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)	2560	(4)
Life at War	2560	(2)
What Were They Like?	2562	(1)
A Woman Alone	2563	(1)
Robert Bly (b. 1926)	2564	(7)
Counting Small-Boned Bodies	2564	(1)
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last	2565	(6)
Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)	2571	(8)
In the Field	2571	(8)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)	2579	(5)
Tu Do Street	2580	(1)
Prisoners	2581	(1)
Thanks	2582	(1)
Facing It	2583	(1)
New Generations: Poetry	2584	(93)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)	2584	(5)
Riprap	2585	(1)
Vapor Trails	2586	(1)
Wave	2587	(1)
It Was When	2587	(2)
Etheridge Knight (1931--1991)	2589	(5)
The Idea of Ancestry	2590	(1)
The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money)	2591	(1)
Ilu, the Talking Drum	2592	(1)
A Poem for Myself (Or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)	2593	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)	2594	(8)
Daddy	2595	(3)
Lady Lazarus	2598	(2)
Fever 103°	2600	(2)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)	2602	(5)
Power	2603	(1)
Walking Our Boundaries	2604	(2)
Never Take Fire from a Woman	2606	(1)
Stations	2606	(1)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)	2607	(6)
An Agony. As now.	2608	(2)
Ka' Ba	2610	(1)
Black People: This Is Our Destiny	2610	(1)
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand	2611	(1)
Numbers, Letters	2612	(1)
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)	2613	(5)
to blk/record/buyers	2614	(1)
Masks	2615	(1)
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King	2616	(2)
June Jordan (b. 1936)	2618	(6)
Poem About My Rights	2619	(3)
To Free Nelson Mandela	2622	(2)
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)	2624	(5)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra	2625	(2)
Flight to Canada	2627	(2)
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)	2629	(7)
from Sand Creek	2630	(6)
Pedro Pietri (b. 1944)	2636	(10)
Puerto Rican Obituary	2637	(7)
Traffic Violations	2644	(2)
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)	2646	(5)
The Death of Anna May Wong	2648	(1)
Filipino Boogie	2649	(2)
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)	2651	(5)
urban dream	2652	(1)
Mountain Building	2653	(2)
Table of Contents	2655	(1)
Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)	2656	(3)
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window	2657	(2)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)	2659	(4)
Braly Street	2660	(2)
Mexicans Begin Jogging	2662	(1)
Black Hair	2663	(1)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)	2663	(3)
Kentucky, 1833	2664	(1)
O	2665	(1)
Daystar	2666	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)	2666	(6)
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway	2668	(2)
Poem for the Young White Man . . .	2670	(2)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)	2672	(5)
I Ask My Mother to Sing	2673	(1)
My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud	2674	(3)
Permissions Acknowledgments	2677	(8)
Index	2685