The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume D: Modern Period (1910-1945)

by Lauter, Paul; Yarborough, Richard; Bryer, Jackson; Molesworth, Charles; Cheung, King-Kok

• ISBN13: 9780618533008
• ISBN10: 0618533001
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have madeThe Heath Anthologya best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature,The Heath Anthologycontinues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. Now available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers new thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to show the treatment of important topics across the genres. A new HM ClassPrep CD-ROM with an electronic version of the Instructor's Guide and an extensive array of visual aids supports instructors as they prepare for lectures. The indispensable web site has been fully updated to include revised timelines, a multimedia gallery to support thematic clusters, and a searchable Instructor's Guide. New!A new cluster, "Modernism, Lyric Poetry, Facts," includes poems that challenge the traditional sense of "modernism" as happening with only a few writers in a certain style. New!New selections by authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, and Gary Snyder allow students to see the ferment of modern experimentalism in American literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
MODERN PERIOD, 1910-1945	839
The Centers of the Modern	839	(12)
Modernism and the Self	851	(5)
Modernism and the New Negro Renaissance	856	(6)
Modernism and the South	862	(1)
Modernism, Popular Culture, and the Media	862
Toward the Modern Age	867	(241)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)	868	(26)
from Up from Slavery	870	(1)
Chapter I, A Slave Among Slaves	870	(1)
Chapter III, The Struggle for an Education	875	(1)
Chapter VI, Black Race and Red Race	883	(1)
Chapter XIII, Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech	885	(1)
Chapter XIV, The Atlanta Exposition Address	887	(7)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)	894	(25)
from The Souls of Black Folk	897	(1)
Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings	897	(1)
Chapter III, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others	902	(1)
Chapter XIV, Of the Sorrow Songs	911	(6)
The Song of the Smoke	917	(2)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)	919	(22)
Lift Every Voice and Sing	920	(1)
O Black and Unknown Bards	921	(2)
from Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	923	(1)
Chapter X	923	(16)
The Creation	939	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)	941	(9)
The Clerks	942	(1)
Aunt Imogen	943	(3)
Momus	946	(1)
Eros Turannos	947	(1)
The Tree in Pamela's Garden	948	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	949	(1)
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)	950	(12)
The Professional Instinct	952	(10)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)	962	(66)
The Valley of Childish Things	964	(1)
Souls Belated	965	(18)
The Other Two	983	(13)
The Life Apart (Lame close)	996	(11)
The Eyes	1007	(12)
Roman Fever	1019	(9)
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)	1028	(6)
from Spoon River Anthology	1029	(1)
Petit, the Poet	1029	(1)
Seth Compton	1030	(1)
Lucinda Matlock	1030	(1)
The Village Atheist	1031	(1)
from The New Spoon River	1032	(1)
Cleanthus Trilling	1032	(1)
from Lichee Nuts	1032	(1)
Ascetics and Drunkards	1032	(1)
Great Audiences and Great Poets	1032	(1)
from The Harmony of Deeper Music	1033	(1)
Not to See Sandridge Again	1033	(1)
Willa Cather (1873-1947)	1034	(6)
A Wagner Matinee	1035	(5)
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)	1040	(11)
Trifles	1041	(10)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)	1051	(7)
Credo	1052	(1)
Rock and Hawk	1053	(1)
The Purse-Seine	1053	(2)
Self-Criticism in February	1055	(1)
The Bloody Sire	1055	(1)
The Excesses of God	1056	(1)
Cassandra	1057	(1)
The Beauty of Things	1057	(1)
Carmel Point	1058	(1)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)	1058	(14)
The Pasture	1060	(1)
Mending Wall	1060	(1)
The Road Not Taken	1061	(1)
An Old Man's Winter Night	1062	(1)
The Oven Bird	1062	(1)
Out, Out-	1063	(1)
The Line-Gang	1064	(1)
The Ax-Helve	1064	(3)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1067	(1)
Desert Places	1068	(1)
Once by the Pacific	1068	(1)
Design	1069	(1)
Provide, Provide	1069	(1)
Directive	1070	(2)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)	1072	(13)
Hands	1073	(3)
Death in the Woods	1076	(9)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)	1085	(14)
The Second Choice	1086	(13)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)	1099	(9)
Spring	1100	(1)
The Spring and the Fall	1101	(1)
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]	1101	(1)
Dirge Without Music	1102	(1)
[Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]	1102	(1)
The Return	1103	(1)
[Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea]	1104	(1)
[His stalk the dark delphinium]	1104	(1)
Sonnet xli	1105	(1)
Sonnet xcv	1105	(1)
Justice Denied in Massachusetts	1106	(2)
Alienation and Literary Experimentation	1108	(379)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)	1109	(23)
A Virginal	1111	(1)
A Pact	1111	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	1112	(1)
L'art, 1910	1112	(1)
A Retrospect	1112	(2)
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)	1114	(1)
E.P. Ode pour L'electionde Son Sepulchre	1114	(1)
Yeux Glauques	1117	(1)
Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma	1118	(1)
Brennbaum	1119	(1)
Mr. Nixon	1119	(1)
Envoi (1919)	1122	(1)
The Cantos	1123	(1)
I [And then went down to the ship]	1123	(2)
XIII [Kung walked]	1125	(2)
XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone]	1127	(2)
LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold]	1129	(2)
CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]	1131	(1)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)	1132	(13)
A Lady	1133	(1)
Patterns	1134	(3)
The Letter	1137	(1)
Summer Rain	1137	(1)
Venus Transiens	1138	(1)
Madonna of the Evening Flowers	1138	(1)
Opal	1139	(1)
Wakefulness	1140	(1)
Grotesque	1140	(1)
The Sisters	1141	(4)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)	1145	(12)
from The Making of Americans	1147	(1)
Susie Asado	1149	(1)
Preciosilla	1150	(1)
Ladies' Voices	1150	(2)
from Composition as Explanation	1152	(1)
from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind	1153	(3)
from The Mother of Us All	1156	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)	1157	(18)
Danse Russe	1159	(1)
The Young Housewife	1160	(1)
Portrait of a Lady	1160	(1)
Spring and All	1161	(1)
The Pot of Flowers	1162	(1)
The Rose	1162	(2)
To Elsie	1164	(2)
Young Sycamore	1166	(1)
The Flower	1166	(3)
The Poor	1169	(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens	1170	(2)
The Descent	1172	(1)
The Pink Locust	1173	(2)
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)	1175	(33)
The Hairy Ape	1177	(31)
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)	1208	(6)
Smoke	1209	(5)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)	1214	(11)
Death at Bearwallow	1216	(9)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)	1225	(10)
Sea Rose	1226	(1)
The Helmsman	1227	(1)
Oread	1228
Helen	1128	(101)
from Trilogy	1229	(1)
from The Walls Do Not Fall [43]	1229	(1)
from Tribute to the Angels [8,12,19,20,23,43]	1230	(5)
Cluster: Political Poetry in the Modern Period	1235	(33)
Joseph Kalar (1906-1972)	1237	(1)
Papermill	1237	(1)
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)	1237	(1)
1933	1237	(2)
Alfred Hayes (1911-1985)	1239	(1)
In a Coffee Pot	1239	(2)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)	1241	(1)
I Want You Women Up North to Know	1241	(3)
Kay Boyle (1903-1993)	1244	(1)
A Communication to Nancy Cunard	1244	(4)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)	1248	(1)
Goodbye Christ	1248	(1)
Air Raid over Harlem	1249	(5)
Lola Ridge (1871-1941)	1254	(1)
Stone Face	1254	(1)
Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)	1255	(1)
Asbestos	1255	(1)
Season of Death	1256	(1)
First Love	1257	(1)
Elegia	1257	(4)
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)	1261	(1)
Up State-Depression Summer	1261	(1)
To the Negro People	1263	(1)
Ode in Time of Crisis	1265	(1)
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	1267	(1)
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)	1268	(10)
[Buffalo Bill's]	1269	(1)
[into the strenuous briefness]	1269	(1)
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]	1270	(1)
[i like my body when it is with your]	1270	(1)
[my sweet old etcetera]	1271	(1)
[since feeling is first]	1272	(1)
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]	1272	(2)
[Picasso]	1274	(1)
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]	1274	(2)
[plato told]	1276	(1)
[what if a much of a which of a wind]	1277	(1)
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]	1277	(1)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)	1278	(35)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1280	(4)
Preludes	1284	(1)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	1285	(6)
The Waste Land	1291	(15)
The Dry Salvages	1306	(7)
Cluster: Modernism, Lyric Poetry, Facts	1313	(11)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)	1314	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	1314	(1)
The Great Figure	1315	(1)
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)	1315	(1)
Dirge	1315	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)	1316	(1)
Johannesburg Mines	1316	(1)
The English	1317	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)	1317	(1)
Poetry	1317	(2)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)	1319	(1)
The Course of a Particular	1319	(1)
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)	1319	(1)
After Rain	1319	(1)
[Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies]	1319	(1)
Children	1320	(2)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)	1322	(1)
Oil	1322	(1)
Facts	1323	(1)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)	1324	(63)
May Day	1326	(34)
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz	1360	(27)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)	1387	(16)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	1388	(7)
Flowering Judas	1395	(8)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)	1403	(10)
England	1404	(2)
To a Chameleon	1406	(1)
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish	1406	(1)
The Pangolin	1407	(3)
What Are Years?	1410	(1)
Nevertheless	1411	(1)
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	1412	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)	1413	(7)
Women	1414	(1)
The Sleeping Fury	1415	(1)
Roman Fountain	1416	(1)
After the Persian	1417	(1)
The Dragonfly	1418	(1)
Night	1419	(1)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)	1420	(6)
Hills Like White Elephants	1422	(4)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)	1426	(10)
Sunday Morning	1427	(3)
The Snow Man	1430	(1)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	1431	(2)
Anecdote of the Jar	1433	(1)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman	1434	(1)
Of Modern Poetry	1435	(1)
Of Mere Being	1435	(1)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)	1436	(40)
A Courtship	1438	(11)
Delta Autumn	1449	(15)
Barn Burning	1464	(12)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)	1476	(11)
Black Tambourine	1477	(1)
Chaplinesque	1478	(1)
At Melville's Tomb	1479	(1)
from The Bridge	1479	(1)
To Brooklyn Bridge	1479	(1)
The River	1481	(4)
The Broken Tower	1485	(2)
The New Negro Renaissance	1487	(147)
Alain Locke (1885-1954)	1490	(10)
The New Negro	1492	(8)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)	1500	(19)
from Cane	1502	(1)
Karintha	1502	(1)
Song of the Son	1503	(1)
Blood-Burning Moon	1504	(6)
Seventh Street	1510	(1)
Box Seat	1510	(9)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)	1519	(31)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	1521	(1)
The Weary Blues	1521	(1)
Drum	1522	(1)
The Same	1523	(1)
Negro	1524	(1)
Bad Luck Card	1525	(1)
I, Too	1525	(1)
Dream Variations	1526	(1)
Harlem	1526	(1)
Freedom Train	1527	(2)
Big Meeting	1529	(8)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain	1537	(3)
When the Negro Was in Vogue	1540	(6)
Radioactive Red Caps	1546	(1)
Thank You, M'am	1547	(3)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)	1550	(7)
Incident	1551	(1)
From the Dark Tower	1551	(1)
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks	1552	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	1552	(1)
Pagan Prayer	1553	(1)
Heritage	1553	(4)
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song	1557	(1)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)	1557	(4)
Heritage	1558	(1)
To Usward	1559	(1)
Advice	1560	(1)
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas	1560	(1)
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)	1561	(16)
When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home	1563	(4)
Strong Men	1567	(2)
Ma Rainey	1569	(2)
Slim in Hell	1571	(3)
Remembering Nat Turner	1574	(2)
Song of Triumph	1576	(1)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)	1577	(17)
Sweat	1578	(8)
The Gilded Six-Bits	1586	(8)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)	1594	(6)
The Harlem Dancer	1595	(1)
If We Must Die	1595	(1)
The Lynching	1596	(1)
Harlem Shadows	1596	(1)
I Shall Return	1597	(1)
America	1597	(1)
In Bondage	1598	(1)
Flame-Heart	1598	(1)
Flower of Love	1599	(1)
A Red Flower	1600	(1)
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)	1600	(3)
Lines to a Nasturtium	1601	(1)
Substitution	1602	(1)
For Jim, Easter Eve	1602	(1)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)	1603	(15)
from Passing	1605	(1)
One	1605	(1)
Two	1606	(12)
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)	1618	(9)
Our Greatest Gift to America	1620	(4)
The Negro-Art Hokum	1624	(3)
Blues Lyrics	1627	(7)
Blues Lyrics	1627	(7)
Issues and Visions in Modern America	1634
Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)	1635	(13)
Trans-National America	1637	(11)
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)	1648	(9)
America and I	1650	(7)
Michael Gold (1893-1967)	1657	(9)
from Jews Without Money	1658	(1)
The Soul of a Landlord	1658	(8)
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)	1666	(9)
The Sahara of the Bozarts	1668	(7)
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)	1675	(12)
from U.S.A.	1676	(1)
The Body of an American	1676	(1)
The Bitter Drink	1680	(7)
Albert Maltz (1908-1985)	1687	(9)
The Happiest Man on Earth	1689	(7)
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)	1696	(4)
from Scoundrel Time	1697	(3)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)	1700	(7)
from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood	1702	(1)
Names	1702	(5)
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)	1707	(19)
Waiting for Lefty	1709	(17)
Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)	1726	(7)
Women on the Breadlines	1728	(5)
Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)	1733	(7)
from Coyote Stories	1734	(1)
Preface	1734	(1)
The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People	1736	(4)
John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)	1740	(12)
from Sundown	1741	(1)
I	1741	(1)
II	1747	(5)
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)	1752	(5)
Blue Winds Dancing	1752	(5)
D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)	1757	(7)
Hard Riding	1759	(5)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)	1764	(12)
Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A.	1766	(2)
Infant Boy at Midcentury	1768	(1)
The Leaf	1769	(2)
Evening Hawk	1771	(1)
Heart of Autumn	1772	(1)
Amazing Grace in the Back Country	1773	(2)
Fear and Trembling	1775	(1)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)	1776	(5)
Here Lies a Lady	1777	(1)
Philomela	1778	(1)
Piazza Piece	1779	(1)
The Equilibrists	1779	(2)
Allen Tate (1899-1979)	1781	(3)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	1782	(2)
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)	1784	(7)
[How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted]	1785	(1)
Aphrodite Vrania	1786	(1)
[The shoemaker sat in the cellars dusk beside his bench]	1786	(1)
Hellenist	1787	(1)
[In steel clouds]	1787	(1)
[About an excavation]	1787	(1)
The English in Virginia, April 1607	1788	(1)
from Testimony	1789	(1)
I	1789	(1)
II	1790	(1)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)	1791	(16)
The Chrysanthemums	1792	(8)
from The Grapes of Wrath	1800	(1)
Chapter One	1800	(1)
Chapter Five	1802	(5)
Richard Wright (1908-1960)	1807	(28)
Bright and Morning Star	1809	(24)
Between the World and Me	1833	(2)
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)	1835	(13)
from Jubilee	1836	(1)
7. Cook in the Big House	1836	(1)
8. Randall Ware	1840	(4)
Southern Song	1844	(1)
For My People	1844	(1)
Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad	1845	(2)
Solace	1847	(1)
The Crystal Palace	1848	(1)
Saunders Redding (1906-1988)	1848	(7)
from No Day of Triumph	1850	(1)
Chapter One, Troubled in Mind	1850	(5)
Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)	1855	(11)
Christ in Concrete	1857	(9)
Younghill Kang (1903-1972)	1866	(7)
from East Goes West	1867	(1)
Part One, Book Three	1867	(6)
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants	1873
from The Voyage	1875	(1)
5 [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival]	1875	(1)
8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox]	1876	(1)
from The Detainment	1876	(1)
20 [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?]	1876	(1)
30 [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out]	1877	(1)
31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls]	1877	(1)
from The Weak Shall Conquer	1878	(1)
35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came]	1878	(1)
38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window]	1878	(1)
42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants]	1878	(1)
from About Westerners	1879	(1)
51 [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly]	1879	(1)
55 [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears]	1879	(1)
from Deportees, Transients	1879	(1)
57 [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea]	1879	(1)
64 Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape	1880	(1)
69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]	1881
Acknowledgments	A-1
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	I-1