Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism
Introduction to the Background
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister-s Black Veil
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Selected Poems
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Chapter Two American Realism
Introduction to the Background
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Chapter Three American Naturalism
Introduction to the Background
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Frost
Selected Poems
Chapter Four American Modernism
Introduction to the Background
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
T.S.E.liot
The Waste Land
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
That Ecening Sun
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
John Steinbeck
EugeneO'Neill
The Graene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945
Introduction to the Background
Ralph Ellison
Selected Reading
Invisible Man
About the Author
Saul Bellow
Selected Reading
Herzog
Key
References