WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) : Of Plimoth Plantation ...11 // EDWARD TAYLOR (1645 7-1729) : Huswifery ...12 // BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) : Autobiography ...13 // HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735-1813) : What is an American? ...17 // THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) : Appendix to Common Sense ...18 // The American Crisis ...18 // THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) : The Declaration of Independence ...20 // PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) : The Indian Burying Ground ...21 // WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) : Rip Van Winkle ...23 // JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) : Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales ...30 // EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) : The Fall of the House of Usher ...33 // Sonnet - To Science ...42 // The Raven ...43 // Eldorado ...46 // NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) : The Birthmark ...47 // The Scarlet Letter ...52 // HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) : The Sound of the Sea ...56 // The Cross of Snow ...57 // RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) : Nature ...57 // Brahma ...59 // HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) : Walden ...60 // WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) : Song of Myself ...64 // There Was a Child Went Forth ...68 // О Captain! My Captain! ...70 // Democratic Vistas ...70 // ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) : Gettysburg Address ...74 // HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) : Billy Budd, Foretopman ...75 // EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) : This Is My Letter to the World ...81 // A Bird Came Down the Walk ...82 // There Is No Frigate Like a Book ...82 // Go Not Too Near a House of Rose ...83 // “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers ...83 // After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes 83 // My Life Closed Twice ...83 // Because I Could Not Stop for Death ...84 // BRET HARTE (1836-1902) : Tennessee’s Partner ...85 // MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) : The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ...92 // The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...96 //
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) : The Aspem Papers ...100 // STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) : Stephen Crane’s Own Story ...104 // The Open Boat ...105 // I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon ...114 // In the Desert ...114 // War Is Kind ...115 // JACK LONDON (1876-1916) : The Law of Life ...116 // LINCOLN STEFFENS (1866-1936) : The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens . 121 // THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) : Sister Carrie ...125 // EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) : Richard Cory ...131 // ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 132 // Fire and Ice ...132 // Two Tramps in Mud Time ...133 // CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) : Chicago ...135 // Fog ...136 // Buffalo Dusk ...136 // Hats ...136 // EDGAR LEE MASTERS ( 1868 -1950) : Constance Hately ...137 // Petit, the Poet ...137 // EZRA POUND (1885-1972) : A Pact ...138 // 7 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ...139 // WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) : By the Road to the Contagious Hospital 140 // The Red Wheelbarrow ...141 // The Yachts ...141 // W.E.B. DUBOIS (1868-1963) : Of the Sorrow Songs ...143 // SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) : I Want to Know Why ...148 // SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951) : Babbitt ...155 // JOHN REED (1887-1920) : Ten Days That Shook the World ...160 // HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956) : On Being an American ...163 // EDMUND WILSON (1895-1972) : Reviews of H. L. Mencken’s The American // Language ...166 // EUGENE O’NEILL (1888-1953) : Desire Under the Elms ...169 // WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) : Anecdote of the Jar ...176 // The Snow Man ...176 // MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) : Poetry ...177 // ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) : Hurt Hawks ...178 // E[DWARD] EfSTLIN] CUMMINGS (1894-1962) : Buffalo Bill’s . ’ ...180 // Just-spring ...180 // HART CRANE (1899-1932) : Chaplinesque ...181 // To Brooklyn Bridge ...182 // LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) : The Weary Blues ...184 // Minstrel Man ...185 // Harlem ...185 // FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) : “The Sensible Thing” ...186 //
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) : Soldier’s Home ...196 // The Killers . ...202 // JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970) : U.S.A ...210 // WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) : ARosefor Emily ...218 // The Hamlet ...224 // The Nobel Prize Speech ...228 // ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905) : William Faulkner ...229 // THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938) : Look Homeward, Angel ...232 // JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) : If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox ...235 // ERSKINE CALDWELL (1903) : Tobacco Road ...237 // JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968) : The Grapes of Wrath ...243 // RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) : // The Ethics of Living Jim Crow ...249 // JAMES T. FARRELL (1904-1979) : Street Scene ...256 // KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961) : American Rhapsody (1) ...260 // American Rhapsody (2) ...261 // THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) : Our Town ...262 // LILLIAN HELLMAN (1905-1984) : The Little Foxes ...271 // TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1914-1983) : A Streetcar Named Desire ...276 // ARTHUR MILLER (1915) : Death of a Salesman ...283 // CARSON McCULLERS (1917-1967) : The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ...291 // EUDORA WELTY (1909) : Lily Daw and the Three Ladies ...296 // WILLIAM STYRON (1925) : Lie Down in Darkness ...305 // JOHN HERSEY (1914) : Hiroshima ...308 // JAMES JONES (1921-1977) : ThePistol ...311 // THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) : Open House ...317 // The Waking ...317 // ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) : Skunk Hour ...318 // The Old Flame ...320 // RALPH ELLISON (1914) : Invisible Man ...321 // BERNARD MALAMUD (1914) : Idiots First ...328 // SAUL BELLOW (1915) : Herzog ...336 // JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982) : The Worm in the Apple ...341 // 8 TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924-1984) : Miriam ...344 // JfEROME] D[AVID] SALINGER (1919) : The Catcher in the Rye ...353 // JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) : On the Road ...359 // Essentials of Spontaneous Prose ...363 // ALLEN GINSBERG (1926) : A Supermarket in California ...365 // Wild Orphan ...365 //
GARY SNYDER (1930) : Riprap ...367 // Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain // Lookout ...367 // LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919) : [Constantly Risking Absurdity] ...368 // FRANK O’HARA ( 1926-1966) ...// Why I Am Not a Painter ...369 // The Day Lady Died ...370 // ROBERT CREELEY (1926) : The Flower . ...371 // The Bird ...372 // The Language ...372 // LEROI JONES / AMIRI BARAKA (1934) : An Agony. As Now ...373 // Poem for Halfwhite College Students . . 375 // SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) : Ariel ...376 // Poppies in October ...377 // ADRIENNE RICH (1929) : The Fourth Month of the Landscape Architect ...377 // JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) : Saint Judas ...379 // A Blessing ...379 // EDWARD ALBEE (1928) : Who’s AfraidofVirginiaWoolf? .... 380 // JOSEPH HELLER (1923) : Catch-22 ...384 // KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (1922) : Slaughterhouse-Five ...390 // NORMAN MAILER (1923) : The Armies of the Night ...395 // JAMES BALDWIN (1924) : My Dungeon Shook ...401 // JOHN UPDIKE (1932) : When Everyone Was Pregnant ...404 // JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938) : The Girl ...408 // PHILIP ROTH (1933) : Writing American Fiction ...415 // INDEX OF AUTHORS ...419