Part One The 17 th Century
Chapter 1 American Puritanism
Chapter 2 Anne Bradstreet (1612——1672)
To my Dear and Loving Husband
Part Two The 18 th Century
Chapter 1 Enlightenment
Chapter 2 Philip Freneau (1752——1832)
The Wild Honey Suckle
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
Part Three The 19 th Century
Chapter 1 American Romanticism
Chapter 2 William Cullen Bryant(1794——1878)
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 3 Washington Irving (1783——1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Chapter 4 James Fenimore Cooper (1789——1851)
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807——1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Daybreak
Chapter 6 Walt Whitman (1819——1892)
O Captain ! My Captain !
Song of Myself
Chapter 7 Emily Dickinson (1830——1886)
Success Is Counted Sweetest
I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Chapter 8 Edgar Allan Poe (1809——1849)
To Helen
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804——1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 10 Herman Melville (1819——1891)
Moby Dick
Chapter 11 American Realism
Chapter 12 Mark Twain (1835——1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 13 Henry James (1843——1916)
The Portrait of a Lady
Chapter 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811——1896)
Uncle Toms Cabin
Chapter 15 American Naturalism
Chapter 16 Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869——1935)
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheery
Chapter 17 Stephen Crane (1871——1900)
The Open Boat
Part Four The 20 th Century
Chapter 1 Theodore Dreiser (1871——1945)
Sister Carrie
Chapter 2 Jack London (1876——1916)
The Call of the Wild
Chapter 3 American Modernism
Chapter 4 Ezra Pound (1885——1972)
In a Station of the Metro
A Pact
A Virginal
Chapter 5 Robert Lee Frost(1874——1963)
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter 6 Carl August Sandburg(1878——1967)
Grass
Chapter 7 Langston Hughes (1902——1967)
Dreams
Dream Deferred
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Chapter 8 Sinclair Lewis ( 1885——1951)
Babbit
Chapter 9 Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896——1940)
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 10 Ernest Hemingway (1899——1961)
The Sun Also Rises
Chapter 11 William Faulkner (1897——1962)
The Sound and the Fury
Chapter 12 John Ernst Steinbeck (1902——1968)
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 13 Eugene ONeill (1888——1953)
The Hairy Ape
Chapter 14 Edward Aibee (1928——)
The American Dream