| dc.description.tableofcontents | VOLIME TWO: 1865 TO THE PRESENT
American Literature, 1865–1914
Introduction
The Aftermath of the Civil War
Comparative Timeline
Expansion, Industrialization, and the Emergence of Modern America
Map: Immigrants to the United States, 1900
Innovation, Technology, and the Literary Marketplace
Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
Introduction
] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “THE AMERICA OF THE MIND”: CRITICS, WRITERS, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY
] Introduction
] Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911)
] FROM A Plea for Culture
] Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904)
] Recent American Novels
] Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934)
] FROM The American Element in Fiction
] Henry James (1843–1916)
] FROM The Art of Fiction
] Anonymous (A “Lady from Philadelphia”)
] FROM The Coming American Novelist
] William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
] FROM Criticism and Fiction
] Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)
] FROM Literary Emancipation of the West
] Frank Norris (1870–1902)
] A Plea for Romantic Fiction
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910)
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I heard It
Old Times on the Mississippi, sections I–III
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
The War Prayer
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
Editha
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
Chickamauga
Henry James (1843–1916)
*Daisy Miller
The Real Thing
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
A White Heron
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
A New England Nun
Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
At the ’Cadian Ball
The Storm: A Sequel to the ’Cadian Ball
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
The Passing of Grandison
Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930)
“As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother’s Children”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)
A Ghetto Wedding
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
The Other Two
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865–1914)
In the Land of the Free
Mary Austin (1868–1934)
The Basket Maker
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
The House on the Hill
Luke Havergal
Zola
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Eros Turannos
The Mill
Mr. Flood’s Party
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
A Deal in Wheat
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
*The Open Boat
FROM The Black Riders and Other Lines
I [Black riders came from the sea.]
III [In the desert]
X [Should the wide world roll away]
XIV [There was a crimson clash of war.]
XIX [A god in wrath]
XXIV [I saw a man pursuing the horizon]
XLVI [I was in darkness;]
[Many red devils ran from my heart]
FROM War Is Kind
I [Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.]
XXI [A man said to the universe;]
FROM Uncollected Poems
[A man adrift on a slim spar]
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
Butcher Rogaum’s Door
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
An Ante-bellum Sermon
We Wear the Mask
Sympathy
Willa Cather (1873–1947)
A Wagner Matinée
Jack London (1876–1916)
The Law of Life
Writing “American” Lives
Introduction
José Martí (1853–1895)
Impressions of America, I and III
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844–1891)
Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
FROM Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Zitkala-·a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938)
The School Days of an Indian Girl
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
Up from Slavery
Chapter 14: The Atlanta Exposition Address
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 –1963)
The Souls of Black Folk
I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Henry Adams (1838–1918)
The Education of Henry Adams
Preface
Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin
Mary Antin (1881–1949)
The Promised Land
FROM Chapter 9: The Promised Land
American Literature, 1914–1945
Introduction
Art and Society in the Era of the Great War
Comparative Timeline
American Culture in the 1920s
Map: The Great Migration, 1914–1930
From the Great Depression to World War II
Modernisms in American Poetry
Introduction
] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “MAKE IT NEW”: POETS ON POETRY
] Introduction
] Harriet Monroe (1860–1936)
] The Motive of the Magazine
] Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
] FROM A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste
] Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
] The New Manner in Modern Poetry
] T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
] FROM Tradition and the Individual Talent
] James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
] FROM The Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry
] Mina Loy (1882–1966)
] FROM Modern Poetry
] Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
] The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
] Hart Crane (1899–1932)
] FROM Modern Poetry
] Robert Frost (1874–1963)
] The Figure a Poem Makes
] William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
] Introduction to The Wedge
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
The Creation
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
The Taxi
Aubade
Venus Transiens
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
A Decade
Meeting-House Hill
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Mending Wall
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
“Out, Out —”
The Oven Bird”
Fire and Ice
Design
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desert Places
The Gift Outright
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966)
The Heart of a Woman
Black Woman
Cosmopolite
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Chicago
The Harbor
Graceland
A Fence
Fog
Prayers of Steel
Cool Tombs
Grass
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
Sunday Morning
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Death of a Soldier
Anecdote of the Jar
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
The Idea of Order at Key West
Of Modern Poetry
The Plain Sense of Things
Mina Loy (1882–1966)
Love Songs
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Tract
The Young Housewife
Danse Russe
Portrait of a Lady
Willow Poem
Queen-Anne’s-Lace
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
The Great Figure
Spring and All
To Elsie
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
These
A Sort of a Song
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Portrait d’une Femme
A Virginal
The Return
A Pact
The Rest
In a Station of the Metro [First Version]
In a Station of the Metro [Final Version]
FROM Cathay
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Taking Leave of a Friend
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
Oread
Garden
Mid-day
Sheltered Garden
Leda
Helen
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
Poetry [First Version]
Poetry [Final Version]
The Fish
A Grave
To a Snail
What Are Years?
Jun Fujita (1888–1963)
Diminuendo
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago River
My Sister
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
*The Waste Land
The Journey of the Magi
Burnt Norton
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
The Harlem Dancer
If We Must Die
The Lynching
America
Africa
Outcast
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
First Fig
Second Fig
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.]
[I, being born a woman and distressed]
[Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!]
To Inez Milholland
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
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]
[my sweet old etcetera]
[sing of Olaf glad and big]
[you shall above all things be glad and young.]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
[thank You God for most this amazing]
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
Testimony
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
Voyages I–VI
To Brooklyn Bridge
The Broken Tower
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
Ma Rainey
Strong Men
Tin Roof Blues
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
Jazzonia
I, Too
The Weary Blues
Cross
Down and Out
Brass Spittoons
Angels Wings
Mulatto
Afro-American Fragment
Christ in Alabama
Dream Boogie
Harlem
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Heritage
From the Dark Tower
The Emergence of Modern American Drama
Introduction
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)
*Trifles
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
*The Emperor Jones
At Home and Abroad: American Fiction between the Wars
Introduction
] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION: AMERICAN WRITERS AND THE CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY
] Introduction
] Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
] FROM Apology for Crudity
] Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
] FROM Composition as Explanation
] Donald Davidson (1893–1968)
] FROM A Mirror for Artists, in I’ll Take My Stand
] Michael Gold (1893–1967)
] FROM Proletarian Realism
] Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
] FROM Characteristics of Negro Expression
] John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
] The Writer as Technician
] Richard Wright (1908–1960)
] FROM Blueprint for Negro Writing
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Ada
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
Picasso
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
FROM Winesburg, Ohio
The Book of the Grotesque
Hands
Paper Pills
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
The Gilded Six-Bits
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
Sanctuary
María Cristina Mena (1893–1965)
The Vine Leaf
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
FROM Cane
Portrait in Georgia
Blood Burning Moon
Seventh Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Ice Palace
John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
1919—Two Portraits
Vag
William Faulkner (1897–1962)
That Evening Sun
Barn Burning
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Big Two-Hearted River
John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
Flight
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Almos’ a Man
Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
A Worn Path
Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)
The End of the War
American Literature Since 1945
Introduction
Comparative Timeline
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Introduction
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
My Papa’s Waltz
Cuttings
Cuttings (later)
Root Cellar
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
The Far Field
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
Sestina
The Armadillo
Brazil, January 1. 1502
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
*Portrait of a Madonna
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
Middle Passage
Tillie Olsen (1912?–2007)
I Stand Here Ironing
John Berryman (1914–1972)
FROM The Dream Songs
1 [Huffy Henry hid the day,]
4 [Filling her compact & delicious body]
14 [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.]
26 [The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.]
45 [He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.]
77 [Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world]
384 [The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done,]
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994)
The Invisible Man
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
The First Seven Years
Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
Looking for Mr. Green
Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
*Death of a Salesman
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
FROM A Street in Bronzeville
kitchenette building
the mother
a song in the front yard
the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon
The Bean Eaters
We Real Cool
Malcolm X
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Seventeen Syllables
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Notes of a Native Son
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
*Howl
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
The One Thing That Can Save America
My Erotic Double
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
One Coat of Paint
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
The Sandbox
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Trying to Talk with a Man
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Diving into the Wreck
Power
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
She Unnames Them
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap
Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body
Wave
Axe Handles
Ripples on the Surface
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)
The School
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Morning Song
Blackberrying
Mirror
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
John Updike (b. 1932)
A & P
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
*Dutchman
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Coal
The Woman Thing
Black Mother Woman
Stations
Don DeLillo (b. 1936)
Videotape
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
American History
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Martin’s Blues
“Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis
Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
Are These Actual Miles?
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)
El sonavabitche
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946)
The Things They Carried
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Yellow Woman
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
New Orleans
Anchorage
If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth
The Land Is a Poem
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
David Walker
The House Slave
Kentucky, 1833
Canary
History
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
Mericans
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Bully
Latin Night at the Pawnshop
Federico’s Ghost
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “INVENTING THE TRUTH”: THE CONTEMPORARY MEMOIR
] Introduction
] N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
] FROM The Names: A Memoir
] Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
] FROM The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
] Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
] FROM An American Childhood
] David Mamet (b. 1947)
] The Rake: Scenes from My Childhood
] bell hooks (b. 1952)
] FROM Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
] Gary Soto (b. 1952)
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