Part One Colonial Period and Early American Literature (1582——1789)
Introduction
John Smith
A Description of New England
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Part Two The Age of Nationalism and Romanticism (1790 1860)
Introduction
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Edgar Allen Poe
To Helen
Annabel Lee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ministers Black Veil
Part Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism (1861-1914)
Introduction
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Emily Dickinson
Success Is Counted Sweetest
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Sammel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Henry James
The Pupil
Hamlin Garland
Under the Lions Paw
Part Four The Birth of Modernism (191511949)
Introduction
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Eugene ONeill
The Hairy Ape
Earnest Hemingway
In Another Country
F. S. Fitzgerald
Babylon Revisited
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Part Five The Age of Modernism and Postmodernism(1950-1999)
Introduction
Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel
Saul Bellow
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Joseph I-Ieller
Catch-22
N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn
Leslie Marmon Silko
Lullaby
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Philip Milton Roth
American Pastoral
John Simmons Barth
Lost in the Funhouse
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior
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