The Norton Anthology of American Literature

by Baym, Nina

Edition:

4th

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9780393966459

ISBN10:

0393966453

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Pub. Date:

1/1/1995

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Summary

The best-selling survey of American literature from its beginnings to the present day is now brought to readers in an innovative revision. Here are the classic writers in the American tradition--from Wheatley and Franklin to Poe and Dickinson, to Cather, Hemingway, and Ellison. Fifteen major works are included in their entirety, among them Nature, Song of Myself, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Daisy Miller: A Study, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, and "Howl." Here too are contemporary and newly recovered writers and traditions--from Native American Trickster tales to modernists Carlos Bulosan and Claude McKay, to contemporary authors Toni Morrison, Billy Collins, and Sandra Cisneros. Helpful introductions, headnotes, bibliographies, maps, and timelines accompany the texts.

PREFACE TO THE SHORTER FOURTH EDITION

xxix

(4)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xxxiii

Literature to 1620

(76)

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)

(6)

From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage [February 15, 1493]

(1)

From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage [July 7, 1503]

(2)

ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c. 1490-1558)

(12)

The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

(10)

[Dedication]

(1)

[The Malhado Way of Life]

(1)

[Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos]

(1)

[Pushing On]

(1)

[Customs of That Region]

(1)

[The Long Swing-Around]

(1)

[The Town of Hearts]

(1)

[The Buckle and the Horseshoe Nail]

(1)

[The First Confrontation]

(1)

[The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen]

(1)

STORIES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

(8)

The Iroquois Creation Story (version by David Cusick)

(4)

The Pima Creation Story (version by J. W. Lloyd)

(3)

THOMAS HARRIOT (1560-1621)

(7)

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

(6)

From Of the Nature and Manners of the People

(6)

JOHN WHITE (c. 1545-1593)

(5)

From The Fifth Voyage of Mr. John White

(5)

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c. 1570-1635)

(11)

The Voyages of Sieur de Champlain

(9)

From Chapter VIII. Continuation of the Exploration of the Coast of the Almouchiquois

(3)

From Chapter XIII. The Sieur de Poutrincourt Sets Out from Port Royal to Make Discoveries

(2)

Chapter XIV. Continuation of the Above-Mentioned Discoveries

(4)

JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)

(18)

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

(9)

The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the First Supply

(8)

The Fourth Book [Smith's Farewell to Virginia]

(1)

From A Description of New England

(3)

From New England's Trials

(3)

Early American Literature 1620-1820

(310)

WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)

(17)

Of Plymouth Plantation

(16)

Book I, Chapter I [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550-1607]

(2)

Book I, Chapter IV. Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal

(3)

Book I, Chapter VII. Of Their Departure from Leyden [Mr. Robinson's Letter]

(4)

Book I, Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod

(3)

Book I, Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout

(4)

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)

100

(19)

A Model of Christian Charity

101

(11)

From The Journal of John Winthrop

112

(7)

ANNE BRADSTREET (c. 1612-1672)

119

(20)

The Prologue

120

(1)

To Her Father with Some Verses

121

(1)

Contemplations

122

(5)

The Flesh and the Spirit

127

(3)

The Author to Her Book

130

(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

130

(1)

To My Dear and Loving Husband

131

(1)

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment

131

(1)

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet

132

(1)

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House

132

(2)

From Meditations Divine and Moral

134

(2)

To My Dear Children

136

(3)

MARY ROWLANDSON (c. 1636-1711)

139

(17)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

140

(2)

The First Remove

142

(1)

The Second Remove

143

(1)

The Third Remove

144

(3)

The Twelfth Remove

147

(1)

The Twentieth Remove

148

(8)

EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642-1729)

156

(10)

PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS

157

(9)

Prologue

157

(1)

Meditation 8 (First Series)

158

(1)

Meditation 16 (First Series)

159

(1)

Meditation 22 (First Series)

160

(2)

Meditation 42 (First Series)

162

(1)

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

163

(1)

Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold

164

(1)

Huswifery

165

(1)

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)

166

(9)

From The Diary of Samuel Sewall

167

(8)

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)

175

(36)

Personal Narrative

177

(10)

A Divine and Supernatural Light

187

(13)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

200

(11)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)

211

(75)

The Way to Wealth

213

(6)

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

219

(4)

Letters

223

(3)

To Peter Collinson (August 25, 1755) [Whirlwinds]

223

(1)

To Ezra Stiles (March 9, 1790) [My Religion]

224

(2)

The Autobiography

226

(60)

[Part One]

226

(45)

[Part Two]

271

(15)

ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE (1713-1755)

286

(22)

Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge

287

(21)

J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813)

308

(16)

Letters from an American Farmer

309

(15)

From Letter III. What Is an American

309

(9)

From Letter IX. Description of Charles-Town

318

(5)

From Letter X. On Snakes; and on the Humming Bird

323

(1)

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)

324

(13)

Common Sense

325

(7)

Introduction

325

(1)

From III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs

326

(6)

The Crisis, No. 1

332

(5)

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

337

(17)

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

339

(6)

From The Declaration of Independence

339

(6)

Notes on the State of Virginia

345

(6)

From Query VI. Productions Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal

345

(6)

Letter to John Adams (October 28, 1813) [The Natural Aristocrat]

351

(3)

OLAUDAH EQUIANO (c. 1745-1797)

354

(11)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

355

(10)

Chapter II

355

(10)

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)

365

(6)

On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country

366

(2)

The Wild Honey Suckle

368

(1)

On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man

369

(1)

On the Religion of Nature

370

(1)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753-1784)

371

(14)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

372

(1)

To the University of Cambridge, in New England

372

(1)

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770

373

(2)

Thoughts on the Works of Providence

375

(2)

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

377

(1)

To His Excellency General Washington

378

(2)

Letters

380

(5)

To John Thornton (April 21, 1772) [The Bible My Chief Study]

380

(1)

To Arbour Tanner (May 19, 1772) [A Sense of the Beauties and Excellence of the Crucified Saviour]

380

(1)

To John Thornton (December 1, 1773) [The Gift of God Is Eternal Life]

381

(1)

To Rev. Samson Occom (February 11, 1774) [The Natural Rights of Negroes]

382

(1)

To John Thornton (March 29, 1774) [The Death of Mrs. Wheatley]

383

(2)

American Literature 1820-1865

385

(796)

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)

399

(14)

Rip Van Winkle

401

(12)

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)

413

(8)

The Pioneers

415

(6)

[The Slaughter of the Pigeons]

415

(6)

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)

421

(8)

Thanatopsis

423

(2)

To a Waterfowl

425

(1)

The Prairies

426

(3)

WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839)

429

(6)

An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

430

(5)

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)

435

(112)

Nature

439

(28)

The American Scholar

467

(13)

The Divinity School Address

480

(12)

Self-Reliance

492

(17)

The Poet

509

(14)

Experience

523

(15)

Each and All

538

(2)

The Rhodora

540

(1)

Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing

540

(3)

JOURNALS AND LETTERS

543

(1)

[Sadness after Thirty] (August 1, 1835)

543

(1)

[Protest; Writing; America] (June 18, 1838)

543

(1)

[Aftermath of the Divinity School Address] (August 31, 1838)

544

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle (October 17, 1838) [Delayed Reactions to the Divinity School Address]

544

(2)

[Challenging Thoreau to Write His Opinions into Good Poetry] (November 10, 1838)

545

(1)

To William Emerson (May 6, 1843) [What to Expect from Thoreau]

546

(1)

To Walter Whitman (July 21, 1855) [The Wonderful Gift of Leaves of Grass]

546

(1)

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)

547

(81)

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

551

(12)

Roger Malvin's Burial

563

(13)

Young Goodman Brown

576

(9)

The May-Pole of Merry Mount

585

(7)

Wakefield

592

(6)

The Minister's Black Veil

598

(8)

Rappaccini's Daughter

606

(20)

Preface to The House of the Seven Gables

626

(2)

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

628

(4)

A Psalm of Life

629

(1)

My Lost Youth

630

(2)

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)

632

(9)

Massachusetts to Virginia

634

(3)

Ichabod!

637

(1)

Prelude to Among the Hills

638

(3)

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)

641

(81)

Sonnet--To Science

646

(1)

To Helen

646

(1)

Israfel

647

(1)

The Raven

648

(3)

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad

651

(3)

Annabel Lee

654

(1)

Ligeia

655

(9)

The Fall of the House of Usher

664

(13)

William Wilson. A Tale

677

(13)

The Purloined Letter

690

(13)

The Cask of Amontillado

703

(4)

[Reviews of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales]

707

(7)

[April]

707

(2)

[May]

709

(5)

The Philosophy of Composition

714

(8)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)

722

(4)

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863

724

(1)

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

724

(2)

MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)

726

(10)

The Great Lawsuit

728

(8)

[Four Kinds of Equality]

728

(4)

[The Great Radical Dualism]

732

(4)

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896)

736

(11)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life among the Lowly

738

(9)

Chapter VII. The Mother's Struggle

738

(9)

HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813-1897)

747

(21)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

748

(20)

I. Childhood

748

(3)

VII. The Lover

751

(4)

X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life

755

(3)

XIV. Another Link to Life

758

(2)

XXI. The Loophole of Retreat

760

(3)

XLI. Free at Last

763

(5)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

768

(116)

Resistance to Civil Government

773

(15)

Walden, or Life in the Woods

788

(96)

Economy

788

(42)

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

830

(9)

Reading

839

(6)

The Ponds

845

(14)

Brute Neighbors

859

(7)

Spring

866

(10)

Conclusion

876

(8)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)

884

(32)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself

885

(31)

Chapter I

885

(4)

Chapter VI

889

(1)

Chapter VII

890

(4)

Chapter IX

894

(3)

Chapter X

897

(19)

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

916

(106)

Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)

922

(14)

Song of Myself

936

(42)

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (August 1856) [Whitman's 1856 Manifesto]

978

(7)

LIVE OAK, WITH MOSS

985

(4)

CHILDREN OF ADAM

989

(3)

Spontaneous Me

989

(2)

Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

991

(1)

Facing West from California's Shores

991

(1)

CALAMUS

992

(5)

Trickle Drops

992

(1)

Here the Frailest Leaves of Me

992

(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

992

(5)

SEA-DRIFT

997

(7)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

997

(4)

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

1001

(3)

BY THE ROADSIDE

1004

(1)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

1004

(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles

1004

(1)

DRUM-TAPS

1004

(4)

Beat! Beat! Drums!

1004

(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

1005

(1)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

1005

(1)

The Wound-Dresser

1006

(2)

Reconciliation

1008

(1)

MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

1008

(6)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

1008

(6)

AUTUMN RIVULETS

1014

(3)

There Was a Child Went Forth

1014

(2)

This Compost

1016

(1)

WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH

1017

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

1017

(1)

FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT

1018

(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter

1018

(1)

SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY

1018

(1)

Good-bye My Fancy!

1018

(1)

Democratic Vistas

1019

(3)

[American Literature]

1019

(3)

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)

1022

(101)

Hawthorne and His Mosses

1032

(11)

Bartleby, the Scrivener

1043

(26)

Billy Budd, Sailor

1069

(54)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

1123

(30)

49 ("I never lost as much but twice")

1129

(1)

67 ("Success is counted sweetest")

1129

(1)

130 ("These are the days when Birds come back--")

1130

(1)

131 ("Besides the Autumn poets sing")

1130

(1)

185 ("`Faith' is a fine invention")

1131

(1)

214 ("I taste a liquor never brewed--")

1131

(1)

216 ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--") [Two Versions]

1131

(1)

241 ("I like a look of Agony")

1132

(1)

249 ("Wild Nights--Wild Nights!")

1132

(1)

258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")

1133

(1)

287 ("A Clock stopped--")

1133

(1)

303 ("The Soul selects her own Society--")

1134

(1)

305 ("The difference between Despair")

1134

(1)

328 ("A Bird came down the Walk--")

1134

(1)

341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--")

1135

(1)

348 ("I dreaded that first Robin, so")

1135

(1)

435 ("Much Madness is divinest Sense--")

1136

(1)

441 ("This is my letter to the World")

1137

(1)

448 ("This was a Poet--It is That")

1137

(1)

449 ("I died for Beauty--but was scarce")

1137

(1)

465 ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--")

1138

(1)

501 ("This World is not Conclusion")

1138

(1)

510 ("It was not Death, for I stood up")

1139

(1)

528 ("Mine--by the Right of the White Election!")

1139

(1)

547 ("I've seen a Dying Eye")

1140

(1)

585 ("I like to see it lap the Miles--")

1140

(1)

632 ("The Brain--is wider than the Sky--")

1141

(1)

640 ("I cannot live with You--")

1141

(1)

650 ("Pain--has an Element of Blank--")

1142

(1)

664 ("Of all the Souls that stand create--")

1143

(1)

709 ("Publication--is the Auction")

1143

(1)

712 ("Because I could not stop for Death--")

1143

(1)

732 ("She rose to his Requirement--dropt")

1144

(1)

744 ("Remorse--is Memory--awake--")

1144

(1)

754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")

1145

(1)

822 ("This Consciousness that is aware")

1146

(1)

986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")

1146

(1)

1068 ("Further in Summer than the Birds")

1147

(1)

1072 ("Title divine--is mine!")

1147

(1)

1078 ("The Bustle in a House")

1148

(1)

1125 ("Oh Sumptuous moment")

1148

(1)

1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--")

1148

(1)

1463 ("A Route of Evanescence")

1148

(1)

1540 ("As imperceptibly as Grief")

1149

(1)

1624 ("Apparently with no surprise")

1149

(1)

1651 ("A Word made Flesh is seldom")

1149

(1)

1670 ("In Winter in my Room")

1150

(1)

1732 ("My life closed twice before its close")

1151

(1)

Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

1151

(1)

(April 15, 1862)[Say If My Verse Is Alive?]

1151

(1)

(July 1862) [My Business Is Circumference]

1152

(1)

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910)

1153

(28)

Life in the Iron-Mills

1155

(26)

American Literature 1865-1914

1181

(231)

SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835-1910)

1191

(204)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1195

(3)

Roughing It

1198

(4)

[The Story of the Old Ram]

1198

(4)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1202

(184)

[The Art of Authorship]

1386

(1)

How to Tell a Story

1387

(4)

Letters from the Earth

1391

(4)

Letter IV

1391

(4)

W. D. HOWELLS (1837-1920)

1395

(12)

Editha

1397

(10)

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)

1407

(5)

Chickamauga

1408

(4)

NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY

1412

(297)

COCHISE (c. 1812-1874)

1413

(2)

[I am alone]

1414

(1)

CHARLOT (c. 1831-1900)

1415

(3)

[He has filled graves with our bones]

1416

(2)

WOVOKA (c. 1856-1932)

1418

(2)

The Messiah Letter: Cheyenne Version

1420

(1)

The Messiah Letter: Mooney's Free Rendering

1420

(1)

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)

1421

(101)

Daisy Miller: A Study

1424

(38)

The Real Thing

1462

(17)

The Beast in the Jungle

1479

(29)

The Art of Fiction

1508

(14)

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)

1522

(17)

The Foreigner

1523

(16)

KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904)

1539

(12)

At the `Cadian Ball

1540

(7)

The Storm

1547

(4)

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930)

1551

(9)

A New England Nun

1552

(8)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856?-1915)

1560

(9)

Up from Slavery

1561

(8)

Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address

1561

(8)

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)

1569

(13)

The Yellow Wallpaper

1571

(11)

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)

1582

(15)

The Other Two

1583

(14)

W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)

1597

(10)

The Souls of Black Folk

1598

(1)

III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

1598

(9)

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

1607

(43)

The Open Boat

1610

(16)

The Blue Hotel

1626

(19)

An Episode of War

1645

(3)

THE BLACK RIDERS AND OTHER LINES

1648

(1)

1 ("Black riders came from the sea")

1648

(1)

27 ("A youth in apparel that glittered")

1648

(1)

WAR IS KIND

1648

(1)

76 ("Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind")

1648

(1)

96 ("A man said to the universe")

1649

(1)

POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS

1649

(1)

113 ("A man adrift on a slim spar")

1649

(1)

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)

1650

(15)

Old Rogaum and His Theresa

1652

(13)

JACK LONDON (1876-1916)

1665

(6)

The Law of Life

1666

(5)

NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS

1671

(38)

THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT

1671

(6)

The Sacred Mountains

1672

(2)

Dance of the Atsalei, or Thunderbirds

1674

(3)

CHIPPEWA SONGS

1677

(5)

Song of the Crows

1678

(1)

My Love Has Departed

1679

(1)

Love-Charm Song

1680

(1)

The Approach of the Storm

1681

(1)

The Sioux Women Gather Up Their Wounded

1681

(1)

The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children

1681

(1)

Song of the Captive Sioux Woman

1682

(1)

GHOST DANCE SONGS

1682

(4)

Songs of the Arapaho

1683

(1)

[Father, have pity on me]

1683

(1)

[When I met him approaching]

1683

(1)

Songs of the Sioux

1684

(1)

[The father says so]

1684

(1)

[Give me my knife]

1685

(1)

[The whole world is coming]

1685

(1)

GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938)

1686

(12)

Impressions of an Indian Childhood

1687

(11)

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)

1698

(11)

The Education of Henry Adams

1700

(1)

Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)

1700

(9)

American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945

1709

(426)

BLACK ELK (1863-1950) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881-1973)

1721

(7)

Black Elk Speaks

1723

(5)

XVI. Heyoka Ceremony

1723

(2)

XXIV. The Butchering at Wounded Knee

1725

(3)

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

1728

(5)

Luke Havergal

1729

(1)

Richard Cory

1730

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

1730

(1)

The Mill

1731

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

1732

(1)

WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)

1733

(22)

Neighbour Rosicky

1735

(20)

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)

1755

(7)

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

1757

(1)

The Weather-Cock Points South

1757

(1)

Penumbra

1758

(1)

In the Stadium

1759

(1)

September, 1918

1760

(1)

St. Louis

1761

(1)

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

1762

(19)

The Pasture

1763

(1)

Mowing

1764

(1)

Mending Wall

1764

(1)

The Death of the Hired Man

1765

(4)

After Apple-Picking

1769

(1)

The Wood-Pile

1770

(1)

The Road Not Taken

1771

(1)

An Old Man's Winter Night

1771

(1)

The Oven Bird

1772

(1)

Birches

1772

(2)

"Out, Out--"

1774

(1)

Fire and Ice

1774

(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

1775

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

1775

(1)

Once by the Pacific

1775

(1)

Departmental

1776

(1)

Desert Places

1777

(1)

Design

1777

(1)

Neither out Far nor in Deep

1778

(1)

Provide, Provide

1778

(1)

The Gift Outright

1779

(1)

Directive

1779

(2)

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)

1781

(13)

WINESBURG, OHIO

1782

(1)

Mother

1782

(5)

The Egg

1787

(7)

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)

1794

(3)

Chicago

1795

(1)

Fog

1796

(1)

Grass

1796

(1)

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)

1797

(16)

The Snow Man

1799

(1)

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

1799

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

1800

(1)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

1800

(1)

Sunday Morning

1801

(3)

Anecdote of the Jar

1804

(1)

Peter Quince at the Clavier

1804

(2)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

1806

(1)

The Death of a Soldier

1807

(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West

1808

(1)

A Postcard from the Volcano

1809

(1)

The Sense of the Sleight-of-hand Man

1810

(1)

Of Modern Poetry

1810

(1)

Asides on the Oboe

1811

(1)

The Plain Sense of Things

1812

(1)

A Quiet Normal Life

1813

(1)

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958)

1813

(5)

El Beso

1815

(1)

The Black Finger

1815

(1)

The Eyes of My Regret

1815

(1)

Tenebris

1816

(1)

To Clarissa Scott Delaney

1816

(1)

At April

1817

(1)

Trees

1818

(1)

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)

1818

(13)

The Young Housewife

1820

(1)

Portrait of a Lady

1821

(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace

1821

(1)

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

1822

(1)

Spring and All

1823

(1)

To Elsie

1823

(2)

The Red Wheelbarrow

1825

(1)

This Is Just to Say

1826

(1)

A Sort of a Song

1826

(1)

The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess")

1826

(1)

Burning the Christmas Greens

1827

(2)

Lear

1829

(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

1829

(1)

The Dance ("When the snow falls the flakes")

1830

(1)

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

1831

(16)

Portrait d'une Femme

1833

(1)

A Virginal

1834

(1)

A Pact

1834

(1)

The Rest

1834

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

1835

(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

1835

(1)

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)

1836

(8)

THE CANTOS

1844

(1)

I ("And then went down to the ship")

1844

(2)

XLV ("With Usura")

1846

(1)

H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)

1847

(12)

Mid-day

1849

(1)

Oread

1850

(1)

Helen

1850

(1)

The Walls Do Not Fall

1851

(1)

1-4

1851

(4)

21-24

1855

(2)

41-43

1857

(2)

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)

1859

(3)

To the Stone-Cutters

1860

(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic

1860

(1)

Carmel Point

1861

(1)

Birds and Fishes

1861

(1)

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)

1862

(5)

Poetry

1863

(1)

To a Snail

1864

(1)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

1865

(1)

"Keeping Their World Large"

1866

(1)

O to Be a Dragon

1867

(1)

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

1867

(31)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1869

(4)

Sweeney among the Nightingales

1873

(1)

From Tradition and the Individual Talent

1874

(3)

The Waste Land

1877

(13)

The Hollow Men

1890

(2)

Journey of the Magi

1892

(2)

FOUR QUARTETS

1894

(1)

Burnt Norton

1894

(4)

EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953)

1898

(76)

Long Day's Journey into Night

1901

(73)

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)

1974

(8)

The Fig Tree

1975

(7)

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)

1982

(13)

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

1983

(3)

From Their Eyes Were Watching God

1986

(9)

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)

1995

(4)

Recuerdo

1996

(1)

I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently

1996

(1)

Apostrophe to Man

1997

(1)

In the Grave No Flower

1997

(1)

I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex

1998

(1)

I Forgot for a Moment

1998

(1)

E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)

1999

(9)

in Just-

2000

(1)

O sweet spontaneous

2001

(1)

Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal

2002

(1)

i sing of Olaf glad and big

2003

(1)

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

2004

(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town

2005

(1)

my father moved through dooms of love

2006

(1)

what if a much of a which of a wind

2007

(1)

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)

2008

(6)

Cane

2009

(5)

Georgia Dusk

2009

(1)

Fern

2010

(3)

Portrait in Georgia

2013

(1)

Seventh Street

2013

(1)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)

2014

(16)

Winter Dreams

2015

(5)

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)

2030

(32)

That Evening Sun

2032

(12)

A Rose for Emily

2044

(6)

Barn Burning

2050

(12)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)

2062

(18)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

2064

(16)

HART CRANE (1899-1932)

2080

(18)

Chaplinesque

2082

(1)

At Melville's Tomb

2082

(1)

Voyages

2083

(2)

I ("Above the fresh ruffles of the surf")

2083

(1)

V ("Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime")

2084

(1)

THE BRIDGE

2085

(13)

To Brooklyn Bridge

2085

(1)

II. Powhatan's Daughter

2086

(1)

The River

2086

(4)

The Dance

2090

(2)

VII. The Tunnel

2092

(4)

VIII. Atlantis

2096

(2)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)

2098

(7)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

2100

(1)

Mother to Son

2100

(1)

I, Too

2101

(1)

Mulatto

2101

(1)

Song for a Dark Girl

2102

(1)

Silhouette

2103

(1)

Visitors to the Black Belt

2103

(1)

Note on Commercial Theatre

2104

(1)

Democracy

2104

(1)

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)

2105

(11)

The Leader of the People

2106

(10)

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)

2116

(4)

Yet Do I Marvel

2117

(1)

Incident

2117

(1)

Heritage

2117

(3)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)

2120

(10)

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

2122

(8)

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)

2130

(5)

Effort at Speech Between Two People

2131

(1)

For Fun

2132

(1)

"Long Enough"

2133

(1)

The Poem as Mask

2133

(1)

Myth

2134

(1)

Painters

2134

(1)

American Prose since 1945

2135

(288)

EUDORA WELTY (b. 1909)

2144

(10)

Petrified Man

2145

(9)

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)

2154

(63)

A Streetcar Named Desire

2157

(60)

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)

2217

(11)

Invisible Man

2218

(10)

Chapter I [Battle Royal]

2218

(10)

SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915)

2228

(16)

Looking for Mr. Green

2230

(14)

NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)

2244

(12)

The Armies of the Night

2246

(10)

Part I

2246

(1)

5. Toward a Theater of Ideas

2246

(10)

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)

2256

(13)

The Fire Next Time

2257

(12)

[Part I]

2257

(12)

FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)

2269

(14)

Good Country People

2270

(13)

JOHN BARTH (b. 1930)

2283

(10)

Life-Story

2285

(8)

JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)

2293

(9)

Separating

2294

(8)

PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)

2302

(23)

Defender of the Faith

2304

(21)

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)

2325

(12)

The Way to Rainy Mountain

2326

(11)

Headwaters

2326

(1)

Introduction

2326

(1)

2331

(1)

XIII

2332

(1)

XVII

2333

(1)

XXIV

2334

(1)

Epilogue

2335

(1)

Rainy Mountain Cemetery

2336

(1)

THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)

2337

(7)

The Crying of Lot 49

2338

(6)

Chapter 1

2338

(6)

JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)

2344

(11)

Golden Gloves

2346

(9)

BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)

2355

(10)

Drawing Names

2356

(9)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)

2365

(10)

No Name Woman

2366

(9)

ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)

2375

(7)

Everyday Use

2376

(6)

ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947)

2382

(13)

Weekend

2384

(11)

DENISE CHAVEZ (b. 1948)

2395

(18)

The Last of the Menu Girls

2396

(17)

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)

2413

(10)

Lulu's Boys

2414

(9)

American Poetry since 1945

2423

(242)

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)

2431

(8)

Audubon

2433

(2)

I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin

2433

(1)

VI. Love and Knowledge

2434

(1)

VII. Tell Me a Story

2435

(1)

Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn

2435

(2)

Mortal Limit

2437

(1)

Little Girl Wakes Early

2437

(1)

After the Dinner Party

2438

(1)

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)

2439

(8)

Cuttings

2440

(1)

Cuttings (later)

2440

(1)

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze

2441

(1)

My Papa's Waltz

2442

(1)

Night Crow

2442

(1)

I Knew a Woman

2442

(1)

The Far Field

2443

(3)

Wish for a Young Wife

2446

(1)

In a Dark Time

2446

(1)

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)

2447

(4)

THE MAXIMUS POEMS

2448

(3)

Maximus, to Himself

2448

(2)

Celestial Evening, October 1967

2450

(1)

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)

2451

(15)

The Unbeliever

2453

(1)

The Fish

2453

(2)

At the Fishhouses

2455

(2)

The Armadillo

2457

(1)

Sestina

2458

(1)

In the Waiting Room

2459

(2)

The Moose

2461

(4)

One Art

2465

(1)

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)

2466

(12)

Middle Passage

2467

(5)

Homage to the Empress of the Blues

2472

(1)

Those Winter Sundays

2472

(1)

Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers

2473

(1)

Elegies for Paradise Valley

2474

(4)

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)

2478

(6)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

2479

(1)

Second Air Force

2479

(2)

Next Day

2481

(1)

Well Water

2482

(1)

Thinking of the Lost World

2482

(2)

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)

2484

(4)

DREAM SONGS

2486

(2)

29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart")

2486

(1)

45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back")

2486

(1)

385 ("My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying")

2487

(1)

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)

2488

(13)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

2490

(4)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider

2494

(1)

Memories of West Street and Lepke

2495

(1)

Skunk Hour

2496

(2)

Soft Wood

2498

(1)

For the Union Dead

2499

(2)

Epilogue

2501

(1)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917)

2501

(6)

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE

2503

(4)

kitchenette building

2503

(1)

the mother

2503

(1)

the vacant lot

2504

(1)

The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men

2504

(1)

The Bean Eaters

2505

(1)

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

2505

(1)

To the Diaspora

2505

(1)

The Coora Flower

2506

(1)

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)

2507

(13)

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar

2509

(7)

Seventeenth Century Suite

2516

(3)

4 (Robert Southwell, The Burning Babe)

2516

(2)

5 ("`A pretty Babe'--that burning Babe")

2518

(1)

Interrupted Forms

2519

(1)

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)

2520

(6)

The Death of a Toad

2521

(1)

Ceremony

2521

(1)

"A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness"

2522

(1)

The Mind-Reader

2523

(3)

DENISE LEVERTOV (b. 1923)

2526

(6)

To the Snake

2528

(1)

The Jacob's Ladder

2528

(1)

Illustrious Ancestors

2529

(1)

In Mind

2529

(1)

Death in Mexico

2530

(1)

Caedmon

2531

(1)

A. R. AMMONS (b. 1926)

2532

(9)

So I Said I Am Ezra

2533

(1)

Corsons Inlet

2534

(3)

The City Limits

2537

(1)

Easter Morning

2538

(2)

Autonomy

2540

(1)

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)

2541

(9)

An Urban Convalescence

2542

(2)

The Broken Home

2544

(3)

THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER

2547

(3)

The Book of Ephraim

2547

(1)

2547

(2)

Mirabell's Books of Number

2549

(1)

9.1 ("And maddening--it's all by someone else!")

2549

(1)

ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926)

2550

(7)

Kore

2552

(1)

The Door

2553

(2)

The Messengers

2555

(1)

The Birds

2556

(1)

Fathers

2556

(1)

ALLEN GINSBERG (b. 1926)

2557

(10)

From Howl

2559

(5)

A Supermarket in California

2564

(1)

To Aunt Rose

2565

(1)

Ego Confession

2566

(1)

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927)

2567

(6)

The Porcupine

2568

(3)

Saint Francis and the Sow

2571

(1)

The Fundamental Project of Technology

2572

(1)

JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)

2573

(7)

Illustration

2574

(2)

Soonest Mended

2576

(1)

Syringa

2577

(2)

The Lonedale Operator

2579

(1)

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)

2580

(5)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

2582

(1)

To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota

2582

(1)

A Blessing

2583

(1)

A Finch Sitting out a Windstorm

2583

(1)

The Journey

2584

(1)

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)

2585

(17)

Storm Warnings

2587

(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

2588

(4)

"I Am in Danger--Sir--"

2592

(1)

Orion

2593

(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

2594

(1)

Diving into the Wreck

2594

(3)

Twenty-One Love Poems

2597

(1)

I ("Wherever in this city, screens flicker")

2597

(1)

The Floating Poem. Unnumbered

2597

(1)

Transcendental Etude

2597

(4)

For a Friend in Travail

2601

(1)

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)

2602

(4)

Riprap

2603

(1)

August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer

2604

(1)

Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body

2604

(1)

Song of the Taste

2605

(1)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)

2606

(9)

Morning Song

2607

(1)

Lady Lazarus

2608

(2)

Daddy

2610

(2)

Parliament Hill Fields

2612

(2)

Blackberrying

2614

(1)

Child

2614

(1)

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)

2615

(6)

Coal

2616

(1)

The Woman Thing

2617

(1)

From the House of Yemanja

2618

(1)

Harriet

2619

(1)

Chain

2619

(2)

AMIRI BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)

2621

(8)

An Agony. As Now.

2623

(1)

A Poem for Willie Best

2624

(5)

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)

2629

(5)

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

2630

(1)

American History

2631

(1)

Deathwatch

2632

(1)

Martin's Blues

2633

(1)

Nightmare Begins Responsibility

2633

(1)

SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941)

2634

(5)

Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun

2636

(1)

Vision Shadows

2637

(1)

Poems from the Veterans Hospital

2638

(1)

8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH

2638

(1)

From From Sand Creek

2639

(1)

RITA DOVE (b. 1952)

2639

(8)

Banneker

2641

(1)

Parsley

2642

(2)

THOMAS AND BEULAH

2644

(2)

The Event

2644

(1)

Straw Hat

2645

(1)

Dusting

2646

(1)

Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation

2646

(1)

ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)

2647

(5)

Madre Sofia

2648

(1)

Wet Camp

2649

(1)

Advice to a First Cousin

2650

(1)

Seniors

2651

(1)

CATHY SONG (b. 1955)

2652

(6)

The White Porch

2653

(1)

Beauty and Sadness

2654

(1)

Lost Sister

2655

(2)

Heaven

2657

(1)

LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)

2658

(7)

Persimmons

2659

(2)

Eating Alone

2661

(1)

Eating Together

2662

(1)

This Room and Everything in It

2662

(3)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

2665

(48)

INDEX

2713

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