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The Harper
Single Volume
American
Literature
THIRD EDITION
D o n a l d M c Q u a d e • University of California, Berkeley
General Editor
Robert Atwan • Seton Hall University
Martha Banta • University of California, Los Angeles
Justin Kaplan • Cambridge, Massachusetts
David Minter • Rice University
Robert SteptO • Yale University
Cecelia Tichi • Vanderbilt University
Helen Vendler • Harvard University
E3 LONGMAN
An imprint of Addison Wesley Longman, inc.
New York • Reading, Massachusetts • Menlo Park, California • Harlow, England
Don Mills, Ontario • Sydney • Mexico City • Madrid • AmsterdamContents
Preface, xxxvii
3 The Literature of the New World
Introduction
3 The Discoveries of America
4 Native American Literature: First Encounters
6 How the New World Became America
8 A Literature of Experience
10 America and the Pastoral Ideal
11 Survival and Rebirth
12 Toward a Pluralistic Culture
14 Native American Narratives
15 A BERING STRAIT ESKIMO CREATION ACCOUNT
15 The Time When There Were No People on the Earth Plain
17 SENECA ACCOUNT
18 The Story-Telling Stone
21 Cultural Portfolio: The European Conquest of America
22 [A Skirmish with the Skraelings]
23 ANONYMOUS
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Translated by Magnus Magnusson and
Hermann Palsson)
25 [Rape in the Virgin Islands]
26 MICHELE DE CUNEO
Michele de Cuneo's Letter on Columbus's Second Voyage (Translated by
Elissa Weaver)vi Contents
27 [ The Mysterious Strangers]
27 ANONYMOUS
Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Translated by
Angel Maria Eavibayk and Lysander Kemp)
28 BERNAL DlAZ
The Conquest of New Spain (Translated by J. M. Cohen)
29 [The Beginning of Sickness]
30 ANONYMOUS
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Translated by R. Roys)
30 [Dona Marina]
31 BERNAL DlAZ
The Conquest of New Spain (Translated by J. M. Cohen)
32 [A Beautiful People]
32 GIOVANNI DA VERRAZANO
Letter to the King (Translated by S. Tarrow)
34 [ The Death ofEstevan]
34 PEDRO DE CASTENEDA
The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado (Translated by G. P. Winship)
35 [Invisible Bullets]
35 THOMAS HARIOT
A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
37 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)
38 The Journal of the First Voyage, October 12,1492; October 13,1492;
October 14, 1492 [The Discovery of the West Indies]
41 Michele de Cuneo's Letter on the Second Voyage, October 28, 1495
[The Cannibals]
44 Columbus's Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18,
1498 [The Terrestrial Paradise]
48 ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA (ca. 1490-1557)
49 The Narrative of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
[The Faith Healers]
53 POWHATAN (d. 1618)
54 Letter to Captain John SmithContents vii
55 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)
56 The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
Book III, from Chapter II [Captain Smith's Captivity]
61 from A Description of New England [Growing Rich in the New World]
65 The Literature of Colonial America, 1620-1776
Introduction
65 A "Citty upon a Hill": New England
65 The Religious Background
67 The Voyage; The Landfall
68 Puritan Beliefs
69 Puritan Literature
70 Native Americans
70 Government Obedience
71 Women
72 A "Vale of Plenty": The South
74 Southern Intellectual Life
75 Toward the Revolution: The Eighteenth Century
75 The Enlightenment
76 Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
77 Settlers and Skirmishes
79 WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)
80 Of Plymouth Plantation
81 Chapter IX: Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their
Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
83 Chapter X: Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What
Befell Them Thereabout
87 Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620
[The Mayflower Compact]
[The Starving Time]
[Indian Relations]
92 RELATED VOICES
COTTON MATHER
The Life of William Bradford, Esq.
92 JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)
93 from A Model of Christian Charity
95 ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)
97 The Prologue
98 The Author to Her Book
99 Before the Birth of One of Her Childrenviii Contents
100 To My Dear and Loving Husband
100 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who
Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old
101 Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
103 To My Dear Children
107 Cultural Portfolio: The Witchcraft Trials
109 C. L'ESTRANGE EWEN
Witch Hunting & Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the
Records of 1373 Assizes Held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736
Appendix II: The Discovery of Witches
110 COTTON MATHER
Magnalia Christi Americana, Boston, 1702
The Witchcraft Trials in Salem
115 SAMUEL SEWALL
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
April 11,1692 [A witchcraft trial at the meeting-house in Salem]
August 19,1692 [Dolefull! Witchcraft]
September 19,1692 [About noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was pressed to
death]
September 20,1692 [Now I hearfromSalem]
November 22 1692 [I prayed that God would pardon all my sinful
Wanderings]
117 ANNE HUTCHINSON'S TRIAL
117 from The Antinomian Controversy
120 from John Winthrop's Journal [Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson]
121 MARY ROWLANDSON (ca. 1637-ca.l710/l 1)
122 A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
152 RELATED VOICES
COTTON MATHER
Hannah Dustan's Narrative
155 Cultural Portfolio: The Ways o f the Native Americans
156 ROBERT BEVERLY
The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705
Book III: Of the Indians, Their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and
PeaceContents ix
from Chapter I: Of the Persons of the Indians, and Their Dress
from Chapter II: Of the Marriages Amongst the Indians, and Management
of Their Children
from Chapter III: Of the Towns, Buildings, and Fortifications of the
Indians
158 ROGER WILLIAMS
A Key into the Language of America, 1643
159 WILLIAM BYRD
History of the Dividing Line
[ The Great Dismal Swamp]
162 THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on the State of Virginia
[On North American Indians]
165 EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1642-1729)
Preparatory Meditations
166 Meditation 8 (First Series): [I kening through Astronomy Divine]
167 Preface to God's Determinations
168 Huswifery
169 WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744)
170 William Byrd: His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712
June, July, and August 1710, March, April, October, and November, 1711
175 JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)
177 from Personal Narrative
181 from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
182 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)
184 The Autobiography
223 Poor Richard Improved, 1758
[Father Abraham's Speech; or The Way to Wealth]
229 from Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
231 Native Americans and the Myth of the Noble Savage
232 Michel de Montaigne, from "Of Coaches"
232 William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation [ On the burning of a Pequot village]
232 Samuel Sewall, from Letter to Sir William Ashurst (May 3,1700)
232 General Jeffery Amherst./rowi Letter (1732)x Contents
233 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the
Inequality Among Mankind
233 Benjamin Franklin, from A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County
233 Pierre Marie Francois de Pages, from Travels Round the World in the Years
1767-1771
233 SENECA AND CHEROKEE ORAL HISTORY
236 The Unseen Helpers
238 Hemp-Carrier
239 SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792)
240 from A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian
248 PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1754-1784)
249 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770
251 On Being Brought from Africa to America
251 To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
252 To His Excellency General Washington
254 RELATED VOICES
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787 [On Phillis Wheatley]
257 The Literature of the New Republic, 1776-1836
Introduction
258 The Literature of Persuasion
259 Making Thirteen Clocks Tick Together
260 Cultivating New Meanings
261 The Quest for Literary Independence
262 Westward the Course of Empire
263 Printing and the Reading Public
265 Frontiers of Literature
267 The Prospects of an American Literature
268 The Makings of American Literature
271 European Models and the American Landscape
273 THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
275 The Declaration of Independence as Adopted by Congress
Notes on the State of Virginia
277 from Query V: Cascades
[Natural Bridge]
278 from Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal
[Rebuttal to Count Buffon]Contents xi
282 ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744-1818)
283 Letter to John Adams [March 31,1776: The Passion for Liberty]
284 RELATED VOICES
EMMAWILLARD
On Female Education
285 THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)
Common Sense
287 Introduction
288 Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
The American Crisis
294 Number I
299 MICHEL-GUILLAUME JEAN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813)
301 Letters from an American Farmer
from Letter III: What Is an American?
315 OLOUDAH EQUIANO (GUSTAVUS VASSA) (1745-1801)
316 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano
Chapter II: Kidnapping and Enslavement
327 Cultural Portfolio: Slavery, Freedom, and Identity
329 SAMUEL SEWALL
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial
331 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
from An Address to the Public; from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting
the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in
Bondage
332 THOMAS JEFFERSON
from Notes on the State of Virginia: On the Traits of Blacks
334 BLACK PETITIONS FOR FREEDOM
338 ANONYMOUS
The American Museum; or, Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive
Pieces, Prose and Poetical, May 1789
Prose description of engraving, "Plan of an African Ship's Lower Deck"
339 MICHEL-GUILLAUME JEAN DE CREVECOEUR
Letters from an American Farmer
from Letter IX: Charleston Slavexii Contents
342 THE FEDERALIST
344 No. 10 [James Madison]
349 PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
351 On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
353 The Wild Honey Suckle
354 The Indian Burying Ground
355 On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
356 Native Americans and "Westward the Course of Empire"
356 Thomas Jefferson, 1786
357 Northwest Ordinance, July 13,1787
357 President Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress (December 6,1830)
357 Timothy Flint, Indian Wars of the West (1833)
357 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the
removal of the Cherokee Indians (April 23,1838)
358 Herman Melville, from Review of Francis Parkman's The California and Oregon
Trail (1849)
358 WILLIAM APESS
A Son of the Forest
359 from Chapter 1
360 from Chapter 2
361 WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
The Sketch Book
365 The Author's Account of Himself
367 Rip Van Winkle
378 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
399 Cultural Portfolio: Asserting a
National Language and Literature
400 NOAH WEBSTER
400 Dissertations on the English Language (1789)
401 Fable from American Spelling Book
402 MICHEL-GUILLAUME JEAN DE CREVECOEUR
402 Letters from an American Farmer
from Letter III: What Is an American?
[see also page 301]Contents xiii
405 WALTER CHANNING
from American Language and Literature (1815)
405 JAMES KIRKE PAULDING
Salmagundi, Second Series. Saturday, August 19,1820
A National Literature
408 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)
412 Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales
415 The Deerslayer
Chapter VII: The Commencement of a Career in Forest Exploits
426 The Pioneers
Chapter XXXIII: Not Guilty with a Clean Conscience
435 The Prairie
Chapter XXXIV: I Die, As I Have Lived
443 SARAH GRIMKE (1792-1873) AND ANGELINA GRIMKE
(1805-1879)
444 Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
449 RELATED VOICES
SO JOURNER TRUTH
Woman's Rights Convention
451 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
454 Thanatopsis
456 To a Waterfowl
457 The Prairies
461 Literature of the American Renaissance, 1836-1865
Introduction
461 "Who Reads an American Book?"
464 A Revolution in Consciousness
466 "Incomparable Materials
467 An Improving Spirit
468 "Self-Made or Never Made"
470 Gold Rush
471 Railroad Iron
472 Impending Crisis
476 JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY (1795-1870)
477 Swallow Barn
II: A Country Gentlemanxiv Contents
480 RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
486 RELATED VOICES
GEORGE RIPLEY
The Supremacy of Mind over Matter
487 Nature
514 The American Scholar
526 RELATED VOICES
THOMAS CARLYLE, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, AND JAMES
RUSSELL LOWELL
Our Intellecual Declaration of Independence
526 An Address
537 Self-Reliance
554 The Poet
568 Experience
584 Concord Hymn
584 The Rhodora
585 Each and All
586 Hamatreya
588 Days
589 Cultural Portfolio: Nature's N a t i o n
591 THOMAS COLE
from Essay on American Scenery
593 RALPH WALDO EMERSON
from Nature
from Circles
593 JAMES BROOKS
from The Knickerbocker
594 HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The Maine Woods
[Primeval, Untamed, and Forever Untameable Nature]
595 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
from The Pioneers
597 HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)
602 WaldenContents xv
602 Economy
643 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
652 Reading
658 The Ponds
671 Brute Neighbors
679 Spring
689 Conclusion
697 Resistance to Civil Government
711 MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)
716 American Literature
Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future
723 EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
727 Ligeia
738 The Fall of the House of Usher
751 The Purloined Letter
763 The Cask of Amontillado
765 The Philosophy of Composition
775 Sonnet—to Science
776 To Helen
777 The Raven
780 Ulalume—A Ballad
783 Annabel Lee
784 The Bells
786 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
792 My Kinsman, Major Molineux
804 Young Goodman Brown
813 Wakefield
818 The Maypole of Merry Mount
825 The Minister's Black Veil
834 Rappacini's Daughter
853 HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)
856 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street
880 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
895 Billy Budd, Sailor
Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War
948 The Portent
949 A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
950 Shiloh
Timoleon, Etc.
950 Monody
951 Artxvi Contents
951 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
954 Massachusetts to Virginia
958 Ichabod
959 Skipper Ireson's Ride
962 Telling the Bees
964 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
966 Chapter V: Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
973 Chapter VII: The Mother's Struggle
982 HARRIET ANN JACOBS (1813-1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
985 Chapter 1: Childhood
987 Chapter 6: The Jealous Mistress
991 Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
995 Chapter 16: Scenes at the Plantation
1000 Chapter 21: The Loophole of Retreat
1003 Chapter 41: Free at Last
1008 THOMAS BANGS THORPE (1815-1878)
1009 The Big Bear of Arkansas
1017 FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)
1020 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written
by Himself
1081 MARY BOYKIN MILLER CHESNUT (1823-1886)
A Diary from Dixie
1082 February 15,1861
1083 March 4,1861
1083 April 13, 1861
1084 April 20, 1861
1084 September 19,1861
1084 October 1,1861
1085 November 28,1861
1086 November 30, 1861
1086 April 27, 1862
1087 ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
1088 Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg
1089 Second Inaugural Address
1091 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888)
Little Women
1093 from Chapter 14: SecretsContents xvii
1096 Chapter 27: Literary Lessons
1100 JeanMuir
1107 How I Went Out to Service
1116 REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910)
1118 Life in the Iron Mills
1142 RELATED VOICES
A.W. CAMPBELL
Iron Interests of Wheeling
ANDREW CARNEGIE
The Gospel of Wealth
JOHN ROACH
Iron Foundary Proprietor, Before the United States Senate Committee on
Labor and Education, 1883
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Lectures to Young Men
HENRY JAMES
Art, Beauty, Ugliness
1146 WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
1152 Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
1165 Leaves of Grass [1891-1892]
Inscriptions
1165 One's Self I Sing
1166 I Hear America Singing
1166 Song of Myself
Children of Adam
1209 / Sing the Body Electric
1215 Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
1215 Facing West from California's Shores
1216 As Adam Early in the Morning
Calamus
1216 I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
1216 Here the Frailest Leaves ofMe
1217 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Sea Drift
1221 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
1226 As I Ebbed with the Ocean of Life
By the Roadside
1228 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Drum-Taps
1229 Cavalry Crossing a Ford
1229 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
1230 A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
1230 The Wound-Dresser
1232 Reconciliationxviii Contents
Memories of President Lincoln
1232 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d
Autumn Rivulets
1239 There Was a Child Went Forth
1240 Passage to India
1247 The Sleepers
Whispers of Heavenly Death
1254 A Noiseless Patient Spider
1254 EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
1257 67: [Success is counted sweetest]
1258 185: ["Faith" is a fine invention]
1258 214: [I taste a liquor never brewed—]
1258 216: [Safe in the Alabaster Chambers—]
1258 [Draft 1]
1259 [Draft 2]
1259 241: [I like a look of Agony]
1260 258: [There's a certain Slant of light]
1260 280: [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]
1261 303: [The Soul selects her own Society—]
1261 324: [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—]
1262 338: [I know that He exists.]
1262 341: [After great pain, a formal feeling comes—]
1263 401: [What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—]
1263 435: [Much Madness is divinest Sense—]
1263 441: [This is my letter to the World]
1264 448: [This was a Poet—It is That]
1264 449: [I died for Beauty—but was scarce]
1265 465: [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—]
1265 501: [This World is not Conclusion]
1266 536: [The Heart asks Pleasure—first—]
1266 585: [I like to see it lap the Miles—]
1267 632: [The Brain—is wider than the Sky—]
1267 640: [I cannot live with You—]
1269 650: [Pain—has an Element of Blank—]
1269 657: [I dwell in Possibility—]
1269 709: [Publication—is the Auction]
1270 712: [ Because I could not stop for Death—]
1271 721: [ Behind Me—dips Eternity—]
1271 754: [My life had stood—a Loaded Gun—]
1272 764: [Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn]
1272 986: [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
1273 1052: [I never saw a Moor—]
1273 1071: [Perception of an object costs]
1274 1078: [The Bustle in a House]
1274 1125: [Oh Sumptuous moment]
1274 1129: [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—]
1275 1463: [A Route of Evanescence]Contents xix
1275 1540: [As imperceptibly as Grief]
1275 1545: [The Bible is an antique Volume—]
1276 1624: [Apparantly with no surprise]
1276 1651: [A Word made Flesh is seldom]
1277 1670: [In Winter in my Room]
1278 1732: [My life closed twice before its close—]
1278 1760: [Elysium is as far as to]
[Excerpts from the Letters of Emily Dickinson]
1279 To Austin Dickinson-October 17, 1851 [How glad I am you are well]
1279 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson-June 27, 1852 [Susie, will you indeed]
1280 To T. W. Higginson-April 15,1862 [Say if my Verse is]
1281 To T. W. Higginson-April 25, 1862 [Thank you for the]
1282 To T. W. Higginson-June 7, 1862 [Will you be my]
1283 To T. W. Higginson-July 1862 [My Business is Circumference]
1284 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson-early October 1883 [The Vision of ]
1285 To T. W. Higginson-spring 1886 [I have been very ill,]
1286 From T. W. Higginson to his wife-August 17, 1870
1289 The Literature of an Expanding Nation,
1865-1912
Introduction
1289 The Paradox of Peace
1290 Opportunism and Corruption
1291 Exposure and Reform
1293 The Old Order Gives Way
1293 The Writer's Profession
1294 Getting at the "Real"
1296 Writing About Lives on the Margin
1296 The Writer's Challenge
1297 What Is an "American"?
1298 Emerging Feminine Identities
1299 New Words, New Definitions
1302 A Nation Connected
1302 A New Reading Public
1303 Thinking Hard and Writing Well
1307 Cultural Portfolio: The New Immigrants
1311 EMMA LAZARUS
The New Colossus
1312 HENRY JAMES
The American Scene
The Terrible Little Ellis Islandxx Contents
1315 ABRAHAM CAHAN
The Rise of David Levinsky
1315 from A Second Birth
1316 from The Green One
1316 ANONYMOUS
Angel Island
1316 LEE CHEW
The Biography of a Chinaman
The Chinese Laundryman
1318 ANZIAYEZIERSKA
from Bread Givers
1322 Native American Assimilation and a Reemerging Tradition
1322 Francis Parkman, from The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851)
1322 President Andrew Johnson, from Message to Congress (1867)
1322 U.S. Supreme Court, from United States v. Lucero (1869)
1324 General Armstrong Custer, from My Life on the Plains (1872)
1324 Walt Whitman, from letter to the city officials at Santa Fe, New Mexico (1883)
1324 Hamlin Garland, from The North American Review (April 1902)
1325 William Faulkner, from The Bear (1942)
1326 SEATTLE (1786-1866)
1326 Our People Are Ebbing Away Like a Rapidly Receding Tide
1329 SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (1844-1891)
1330 Life Among the Piutes
from Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
1333 MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
1339 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1343 Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
1351 Corn-Pone Opinions
1354 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1523 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)
1527 The American Short Story [Lead-in to Editha]
1528 EdithaContents xxi
1537 HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
1541 The Education of Henry Adams
Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
1549 HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)
1553 from The Art of Fiction [Experience is Never Limited]
1554 from Preface to The American [ The Real and the Romantic]
1554 from Hawthorne [American Innocence Lost]
1554 Daisy Miller
1597 ALICE JAMES (1848-1892)
1598 The Diary of Alice James
[May 31, 1889]
[June 18,1890]
[July 28, 1890]
[October 26,1890]
1600 AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)
1602 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1609 Cultural Portfolio: Oral Traditions
and Turn-of the-Century Literature
1611 FRANZ BOAS, ET. AL.
The Journal of American Folklore
On the Field and Work of a Journal of American Folk-Lore
1614 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
from The Minister's Housekeeper
1617 MARIETTA HOLLEY (JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE)
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's
from A Day of Trouble
1618 EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH ORAL TRADITION
Yiddish Proverbs
1619 MARK TWAIN
How to Tell a Story
1622 OWENWISTER
The Virginian
from Chapter 16: The Game and the Nation—Last Actxxii Contents
1623 GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS
from Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool
1624 CHEROKEE ORAL TRADITION
The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf
First Version
Second Version
1625 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
II: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
IV: How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
1628 ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Mules and Men
from Chapter V
1629 AFRICAN AMERICAN SPRITUALS
Steal Away to Jesus
Go Down, Moses
1631 W.E.B.DUBOIS
The Souls of Black Folk
from Chapter XIV: Of the Sorrow Songs
1633 BALLADS AND WORK SONGS
John Henry
Cotton Mill Colic
1638 MARGARET MITCHELL
Gone with the Wind
from Chapter XLI
1639 SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
1640 A White Heron
1646 KATECHOPIN(1851-1904)
1648 The Awakening
1733 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)
1735 The Yellow Wallpaper
1745 Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
1746 RELATED VOICES
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Deciding to Publish "The Yellow Wallpaper"Contents xxiii
1747 EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
1749 The Other Two
1762 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)
UpfromSlavery
1764 Chapter III: The Struggle for an Education
1771 Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
1779 W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)
The Souls of Black Folks
1781 from Chapter 1: This Double Consciousness
1781 Chapter III: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
1790 Chapter VII: Of the Black Belt
1801 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)
1802 Frederick Douglass
1804 We Wear the Mask
1804 Sympathy
1805 EDWARD ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
1806 Richard Cory
1807 Miniver Cheevy
1808 ErosTurannos
1809 Mr. Flood's Party
1811 STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
1814 The Open Boat
1830 Black Riders and Other Lines
[J looked here/I looked there]
[I saw a man pursuing the horizon]
[Many red devils ran from my heart]
1831 THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)
1834 He Got a Ride
1837 JACK LONDON (1876-1916)
1839 To Build a Fire
1849 ZITKALA SA (GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN) (1876-1938)
Impressions of an Indian Childhood
1851 I: My Mother
1852 II: The Legends
1854 III: The Beadwork
1856 VII: The Big Red Apples
School Days
1858 II: The Cutting of My Long Hairxxiv Contents
1859 III: The Snow Episode
1861 V: Iron Routine
1863 The Literature of a New Century, 1912-1945
Introduction
1864 New World; New Writers
1866 The Great War
1867 The Age of Business and Frolic
1869 Racism and Sexism
1870 An Alienated Generation
1871 The Making of American Modernists
1872 From the Crash to the New Deal
1873 Social Criticism and Marxism
1874 The Second World War
1876 The Dawn of Postmodernism
1879 WILLACATHER (1873-1947)
1880 Neighbour Rosicky
1900 ROBERT FROST (1875-1963)
1903 Mending Wall
1904 The Road Not Taken
1905 The Oven Bird
1905 After Apple-Picking
1906 Birches
1908 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1908 Once by the Pacific
1909 Desert Places
1909 Design
1910 The Most of It
1911 Directive
1912 SUSAN KEATING GLASPELL (1876-1948)
1914 Trifles
1925 SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
1928 The Egg
1935 CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
1937 Chicago
1937 Fog
1938 Cool TombsContents xxv
1938 WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
1941 Sunday Morning
1945 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
1947 Anecdote of the Jar
1948 The Emperor of Ice-Cream
1948 The Idea of Order at Key West
1950 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain
1951 ANZIAYEZIERSKA (1880?-1970)
1952 America and I
1959 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
1962 Queen Anne's Lace
1963 Spring and All
1964 The Red Wheelbarrow
1964 This Is Just to Say
1965 The Yachts
1966 EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
1971 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
1972 A Pact
1973 In a Station in the Metro
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
1973 I: E. P. Ode pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre
1974 IV [These fought in any case]
1975 V [There dies a myriad]
from The Cantos
1975 from XLV (With Usura)
1977 from LXXXI (Libretto)
1979 H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
1980 Sea Rose
1981 Oread
1981 Helen
1982 ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
1984 Boats in a Fog
1985 Hurt Hawks
1986 MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
1988 Poetry
1989 The Fish
1991 A Grave
1991 The Monkeysxxvi Contents
1992 T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
1996 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1999 Gerontion
2001 The Waste Land
2021 The Hollow Men
2024 from Tradition and the Individual Talent
2025 EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953)
2029 The Emperor Jones
2047 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
2049 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
2055 ZORA NEALE HURSTON (ca. 1890-1960)
2057 The Gilded Six-Bits
2065 Spunk
2069 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
2070 [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]
2070 [Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink]
2071 JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
2073 Cane
Blood-Burning Moon
2079 Cultural Portfolio: The Harlem Renaissance
2084 ALAIN LOCKE
from The New Negro: An Interpretation
2086 JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
from God's Trombones
2086 LANGSTON HUGHES
from The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
2091 GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
2091 The Heart of a Woman
2091 Smothered Fires
2092 Motherhood
2092 ZORA NEALE HURSTON
SweatContents xxvii
2100 STERLING A. BROWN
2100 Ma Rainey
2101 Slim in Hell
2104 Remembering Nat Turner
2106 COUNTEE CULLEN
2106 Yet Do I Marvel
2106 Incident
2107 Heritage
2110 HELENE JOHNSON
2110 Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
2110 What Do I Care for Morning
2111 Remember Not
2111 LANGSTON HUGHES
The Big Sea
2111 from When the Negro Was in Vogue
2116 from Harlem Literati
2118 E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
2120 [in Just-]
2121 [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
2121 [next to god of course america i]
2122 [ my sweet old etcetera ]
2122 [ i sing of Olaf glad and big]
2124 [anyone lived in a pretty how town]
2125 [what a proud dreamhorse]
2125 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
2129 Winter Dreams
2143 WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
2147 Spotted Horses
2159 That Evening Sun
2170 Barn Burning
2183 Cultural Portfolio: The Southern Renaissance
2185 W. J. CASH
from The Mind of the South
2186 THOMAS WOLFE
Look Homeward, Angel
Epigraphxxviii Contents
2186 WILLIAM FAULKNER
from The Sound and the Fury
Two Writers' Beginnings
2187 RICHARD WRIGHT
2187 from Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
2190 from American Hunger
2190 EUDORAWELTY
from A Sweet Devouring
Three Poets
2192 JOHN CROWE RANSOM
2192 Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
2193 Piazza Piece
2193 The Equilibrists
2195 ALLEN TATE
Ode to the Confederate Dead
2197 ROBERT PENN WARREN
Bearded Oaks
Two Collaborations
2199 ERSKINE CALDWELL AND MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
from You Have Seen Their Faces
2202 JAMES AGEE AND WALKER EVANS
from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
2206 HART CRANE (1899-1932)
2208 Black Tambourine
2208 Chaplinesque
2209 At Melville's Tomb
2210 Voyages I, II, III
The Bridge
2211 To Brooklyn Bridge
2213 ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
2218 Soldier's Home
2223 LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
2224 The Negro Speaks of RiversContents xxix
2225 The Weary Blues
2226 I, Too
2226 Dream Boogie
2228 Theme for English B
2229 RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
2232 Long Black Song
2249 EUDORA WELTY (b. 1909)
2251 Why I Live at the P. O.
2261 The Literature Since Midcentury,
1945-the Present
Introduction
2261 Contemporary Literature
2263 The First Postwar Generation
2266 The Second Postwar Generation and Vietnam
2270 THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
2271 Cuttings
2271 Cuttings (later)
2272 My Papa's Waltz
2272 The Lost Son
2277 Elegy for Jane
2278 The Waking
2278 ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
2280 The Fish
2282 At the Fishhouses
2284 Questions of Travel
2286 Sestina
2287 In the Waiting Room
2289 One Art
2290 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)
2292 The Glass Menagerie
2338 ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
2340 Homage to the Empress of the Blues
2340 Those Winter Sundays
2341 A Letter from Phillis Wheatleyxxx Contents
2342 RELATED VOICES
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
A Letter to Obour Tanner from Phillis Wheatley
2343 TILLIE OLSEN (b. 1913)
2345 I Stand Here Ironing
2350 RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)
2352 The Battle Royal
2361 RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
2363 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
2363 The Woman at the Washington Zoo
2364 ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
2367 Memories of West Street and Lepke
2368 Skunk Hour
2370 For the Union Dead
2372 History
2373 For John Berryman
2374 Epilogue
2375 GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917)
from A Street in Bronzeville
2377 Kitchenette Building
2377 The Mother
2378 Negro Hero
2380 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi
Mother Burns Bacon.
2383 The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmet Till
2384 The Blackstone Rangers
2386 Young Afrikans
2387 RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)
2388 Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
2389 Playboy
2390 The Writer
2391 Cottage Street, 1953
2392 DENISE LEVERTOV (b. 1923)
2393 Pleasures
2394 The Ache of Marriage
2394 O Taste and See
2395 Where Is the Angel?Contents xxxi
2396 NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)
2398 from The Armies of the Night
Book I: History as a Novel: The Steps of the Pentagon
from Part I: Thursday evening
2407 JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)
2409 Sonny's Blues
2430 Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the
Emancipation
2432 FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
2434 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2444 ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
2446 from Howl
2451 A Supermarket in California
2452 America
2454 JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
2457 The Painter
2458 These Lacustrine Cities
2459 Soonest Mended
2461 Syringa
2463 Landscapeople
2464 JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
2465 Lament for My Brother on a Hayrake
2466 A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack
2467 At the Executed Murderer's Grave
2469 Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio
2469 Lightning Bugs Asleep in the Afternoon
2470 PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
2471 Coming Home
2472 They Feed They Lion
2472 You Can Have It
2474 ANNE SEXTON (1928-1975)
2475 Her Kind
2476 The Truth the Dead Know
2476 Self in 1958
2477 For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
2479 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsxxxii Contents
2483 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968)
2483 Letter from Birmingham Jail
2493 ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
2495 Living in Sin
2496 The Knight
2496 Necessities of Life
2498 "I Am in Danger—Sir—"
2499 Trying to Talk with a Man
2500 Diving into the Wreck
2503 Translations
2504 The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual
Message
2504 TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)
2506 Playing in the Dark
from Black Matters
2512 JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)
2514 Separating
2521 SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
2523 Black Rook in Rainy Weather
2524 Daddy
2526 Medusa
2528 Ariel
2529 Lady Lazarus
2532 Death & Co.
2533 Fever 103°
2534 PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)
2536 The Conversion of the Jews
2546 AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)
2547 Black Mother Woman
2548 Equinox
2549 Walking Our Boundaries
2551 Afterimages
2554 N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)
2555 House Made of Dawn
from The Priest of the SunContents xxxiii
2563 MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)
2565 Ghosts
2567 Owls
2569 The Sun
2570 When Death Comes
2571 SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)
2572 Thorow
2584 MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)
2585 Dear John, Dear Coltrane
2587 American History
2587 Nightmare Begins Responsibility
2588 Peace on Earth
2590 JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)
2592 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
2603 RAYMOND CARVER (b. 1939-1988)
2604 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2612 BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)
2613 Shiloh
2623 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)
2624 The Woman Warrior
No Name Woman
2632 ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)
2634 Everyday Use
2639 TIM O'BRIEN (b. 1946)
2640 The Things They Carried
2652 LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)
2653 Storyteller
2663 Lullaby
2669 JORIE GRAHAM (b. 1951)
2670 The Geese
2671 Over and Over Stitch
2672 Mind
2673 My Garden, My Daylightxxxiv Contents
2674 RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
2675 Banneker
2676 Parsley
2678 Roast Possum
2680 Dusting
2681 Mississippi
2681 In a Neutral City
2682 REGINALD MCKNIGHT (b. 1952)
2682 The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
2691 ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)
2692 Lost on September Trail, 1967
2695 Mi Abuelo
2696 Nani
2697 The Good Lunch of Oceans
2698 SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954)
2699 Barbie-Q
2700 LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)
2701 Lulu's Boys
2709 CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
2710 Lost Sister
2712 Youngest Daughter
2713 The White Porch
2715 Beauty and Sadness
2716 GISH JEN (b. 1955)
2717 Mona in the Promised Land
Hot Times at the Hot Line
2738 TONY KUSHNER (b. 1956 )
2739 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
2802 LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)
2803 Eating Together
2803 Persimmons
2805 The City in Which I Love YouContents xxxv
2811 Cultural Portfolio: Who Is an American Writer?
2814 VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1975)
2815 Terra Incognita
2820 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991)
2821 Escape from Civilization
2825 CZESLAW MILOSZ (b. 1911)
2825 To Robinson Jeffers
2827 LOUIS (ASTON MARANTZ) SIMPSON (b. 1923)
2827 To the Western World
2828 American Poetry
2828 DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)
2829 A Far Cry from Africa
2829 Preparing for Exile
2830 Old New England
2831 MARIA IRENE FORNES (b. 1930)
2831 Sarita
Scenes 13-16
2834 BHARATI MUKHERJEE (b. 1940)
2835 Happiness
2840 JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996)
2841 Letters from the Ming Dynasty
2841 May 24, 1980
2842 JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949)
2843 Girl
Acknowledgments, 2845
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