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William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. Among his many publications is a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism, 1900-1945, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 5 (2003). He is a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd ed., 2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has co-authored a number of books on literature and composition. His recent publications include essays on Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, and the painter Mark Rothko.
Alice McDermott is the author of the forthcoming novel Someone and six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Lance E. Newman is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he teaches Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a river guide for more than two decades, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of The Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011) and Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005). With Joel Pace and Chris Keonig-Woodyard, he co-edited Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006). He co-produced the documentary film Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert (2011) with Roderick Coover. Newman’s poems have appeared in many print and web magazines, and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees, 2010), both available free on the Web.
Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University, where she teaches courses in early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books, including English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, co-edited with Kristina Bross); and Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). She has won teaching awards at Auburn University as well as national research grants to support her work. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and was most recently the President of the Society of Early Americanists.
Part One: American Literature at the End of the Nineteenth
Century
To the Reader
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
Context and Response: Artemus Ward, from Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
W. D. Howells (1837-1920)
Editha
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Chickamauga
The Devil’s Dictionary: selections
Context and Response: The poetry of Dorothy Parker
William James (1842-1910)
Pragmatism
Henry James (1843-1916)
The Pupil
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
The New Colossus
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
A White Heron
Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
Désirée’s Baby
The Storm
Mary E Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
The Revolt of “Mother”
Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915).
Up From Slavery: Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
Context and Response: Olaudah Equiano, Excerpt from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The Sheriff’s Children
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Under the Lion’s Paw
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wall-paper
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
The Other Two
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)
Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963).
The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Old Rogaum and His Theresa
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
An Experiment in Misery
An Episode of War
War Is Kind
Jack London (1876-1916)
To Build a Fire
Gallery 1: The South Since Reconstruction
Frederick Douglass: The Future of the Negro
George Washington Cable: The Freedman’s Case in Equity (excerpt)
Henry W. Grady: The New South (excerpt)
U.S. Supreme Court: Plessy v. Ferguson (excerpt)
Pauli Murray: Proud Shoes (excerpt)
Marion Post Wolcott, Entrance to a Movie House, Mississippi Delta
H. L. Mencken: The Sahara of the Bozart (excerpt)
Lizzie Woodworth Reese: A War Memory (1865)
Donald Davidson: A Mirror for Artists (excerpt)
Arthur Rothstein, Southern Movie Theater
Part Two: Modern American Literature
To the Reader
Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Lucinda Matlock
Davis Matlock
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Eros Turannos
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Lift Every Voice and Sing
O Black and Unknown Bards
Image: James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Paul’s Case
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
The Gentle Lena
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
The Captured Goddess
Venus Transiens
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
September, 1918
New Heavens for Old
The Taxi
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Pasture
Mending Wall
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
The Wood-Pile
The Road Not Taken
Birches
“Out, Out–“
Fire and Ice
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desert Places
Design
Neither out Far nor in Deep
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Winesburg , Ohio : Hands
Image: Sherwood Anderson
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Trifles
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Chicago
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Snow Man
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Death of a Soldier
The Idea of Order at Key West
Of Modern Poetry
The Plain Sense of Things
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Young Housewife
Portrait of a Lady
Spring and All
To Elsie
The Red Wheelbarrow
Death
This Is Just to Say
The Dance (“In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess”)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Portrait d’une Femme
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
The Cantos: I (“And then went down to the ship”)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Oread
Leda
Helen
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Poetry
A Grave
To a Snail
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Piazza Piece
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
The Waste Land
Gerontion
The Hollow Men
Four Quartets: Burnt Norton
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
The Emperor Jones
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
If We Must Die
America
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
The Gilded Six-Bits
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Recuerdo
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently
[I, being born a woman]
Apostrophe to Man
I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex
Spring
I Forgot for a Moment
Context and Response: The poetry of Lisel Mueller
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
General Review of the Sex Situation.
e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
in Just--
Buffalo Bill’s
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls.
“next to of course god america I”
if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
anyone lived in a pretty how town
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Georgia Dusk
Fern
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Babylon Revisited
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Medusa
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
That Evening Sun
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Context and Response: Pío Baroja, excerpt from The Chasm
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
At Melville's Tomb
Voyages: I (“Above the fresh ruffles of the surf”)
III (“Infinite consanguinity it bears-”)
V (“Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime”)
The Bridge: Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
He Was a Man
Break of Day
Bitter Fruit of the Tree
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
The Weary Blues
The South
Ruby Brown
Let America Be America Again
Poet to Patron
Ballad of the Landlord
Too Blue
Theme for English B
Poet to Bigot
I, Too
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Incident
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Long Black Song
Image: Negro Tenant Farmer
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Effort at Speech Between Two People
Poem
Gallery 2: American Writers and the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (excerpt)
Mary Heaton Vorse, School for Bums (excerpt)
Anonymous, Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt
Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues
Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again (excerpt)
Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties (excerpt)
Agnes Smedley, China Fights Back (excerpt)
Kenneth Fearing, Devil’s Dream
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
Dorothea Lange, Mexican Field Worker’s Home, California
Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land
Dorothea Lange, The Mochida Family
Part Three: American Prose Since 1945
To the Reader
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
A Worn Path
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Context and Response: Carson McCullers, from The Member of the Wedding
John Cheever (1912-1982)
The Sorrows of Gin
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Battle Royal
Grace Paley (1922-2007)
The Loudest Voice
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Notes of a Native Son
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
Revelation
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif
John Updike (1932-2009)
Separating
Philip Roth (b. 1933)
Defender of the Faith
Context and Response: Saul Bellow, excerpt from Herzog
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
Dutchman
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
Where are you going, where have you been?
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
Cathedral
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
The Lesson
Terrance McNally (b. 1939)
Andre’s Mother
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946)
The Things They Carried
Mark Helprin (b. 1947)
White Gardens
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Lullaby
Edward P. Jones (b. 1951)
Blindsided
Amy Tan (b. 1952)
Two Kinds
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
The Red Convertible
David Henry Hwang (b. 1957)
The Sound of a Voice
Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)
Hell-Heaven
Gallery 3: Post-Modernism
Carl Andre, Equivalent VII; Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall; Michael Heizer, Levitated Mass
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and the Consumer Society (excerpt)
Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans: 4; Batman and the Joker; Madonna at Super Bowl XLVI
Jonathan Franzen, On Rainer Maria Rilke
Cindy Sherman, Untitled
Diane Williams, Human Being
Charles Bernstein, thinking i think i think
Mitch Stevens, OMG! I just got born!
Alan Kirby, The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (excerpt)
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans; Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye
Test; Jeff Koons, New Hoover Convertibles
Part Four: American Poetry Since World War II
To the Reader
Robert Penn Warren (1905—1989)
Bearded Oaks
Mortal Limit
Theodore Roethke (1908—1963)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
My Papa’s Waltz
The Waking
Night Crow
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
Charles Olson (1910—1970)
Maximus, to Himself
Elizabeth Bishop (1911—1979)
The Fish
Sestina
In the Waiting Room
The Moose
One Art
Robert Hayden (1913—1980)
Homage to the Empress of the Blues
Those Winter Sundays
Frederick Douglass
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling Through the Dark
Randall Jarrell (1914—1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
John Berryman (1914—1972)
Dream Songs (excerpts)
14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so")
29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart")
40 ("I’m scared a lonely. Never see my son")
45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back")
385 ("My daughter’s heavier. Light leaves are flying")
Robert Lowell (1917—1977)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
Night Sweat
For the Union Dead
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
We Real Cool
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
Constantly Risking Absurdity
Robert Duncan (1919—1988)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
Interrupted Forms
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Years-End
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
James Dickey (1923-1997)
Drowning with Others
The Heaven of Animals
Mitsuye Yamada (b. 1923)
To the Lady
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
In Mind
September 1961
What Were They Like
Zeroing In
A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)
Corsons Inlet
James Merrill (1926—1995)
The Broken Home
Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
For Love
The Messengers
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Howl
Frank O’Hara (1926—1966)
To The Harbormaster
The Day Lady Died
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
The Porcupine
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
Illustration
The Lament Upon the Waters
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
For the Anniversary of My Death
For a Coming Extinction
James Wright (1927—1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota
A Blessing
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
Starlight
Anne Sexton (1928—1974)
The Truth the Dead Know
Sylvia’s Death
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
Storm Warnings
Diving into the Wreck
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap
August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer
Ripples on the Surface
Sylvia Plath (1932—1963)
Morning Song
Lady Lazarus
Ariel
Daddy
Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
Marks
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
A Poem for Black Hearts
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
The Black Snake
Hawk
Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
A Work of Artifice
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
In the inner city
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Martin’s Blues
“Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)
Self-Portrait, 1969
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Sonnet
The Names
Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004)
To live in the Borderlands means you
Joseph Bruchac III (b. 1942)
Ellis Island
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
Rites of Passage
The Victims
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
Tide Pools
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
Nikki-Rosa
Louise Glück (b. 1943)
The Drowned Children
Gretel in Darkness
Kay Ryan (b. 1945)
A Certain Kind of Eden
Home to Roost
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Facing It
C. D. Wright (b. 1949)
Tours
Personals
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
Sea-Blue Aubade
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
Call It Fear
White Bear
Eagle Poem
Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)
Death and Doom
Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)
Cloudy Day
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Daystar
Adolescence–I
Adolescence–II
Straw Hat
Missing
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
My Father in the Navy
Alberto Rios (b. 1952)
Wet Camp
Advice to a First Cousin
Mark Doty (b. 1953)
Golden Retrievals
At the Gym
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
Child of the Americas
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Refugee Ship
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
The White Porch
Chinatown
Heaven
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
The Gift
Mnemonic
This Room and Everything in It
Martin Espada (b. 1957)
Bully
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Gallery 4: Americas Sings the Blues: A Collection of Songs
Child with Tambourine Accompanying Guitarist, 1930s
W. C. Handy: St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith: Thinking Blues
Robert Johnson: Walkin’ Blues
W.H. Auden: Funeral Blues
Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom State Prison, cell door, 1960s
Merle Haggard: Working Man Blues
Linda Pastan: Mini Blues
Allen Ginsberg: Father Death Blues
Charles Wright: Laguna Blues
Marilyn Chin: We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra
Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues
Indian photographing tourist photographing Indians, Crow Fair, Montana, 1991
Arrested Development: Tennessee
Chronology
Credits
Index
Map of the United States
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