Chapter 1EARLY AMERICA TO 1750 INTRODUCTION William Bradford(15901657)from Of Plymouth Plantation Anne Bradstreet(16121672) To My Dear and Loving Husband LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 2REASON AND REVOLUTION 17501800 INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin (17061790)from Poor Richard’s Almanac Thomas Paine (17371809)from The American Crisis Thomas Jefferson (17431826)The Declaration of Independence LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 3NATIVE GROUNDS 18001840 INTRODUCTION Washington Irving(17831859)Rip Van Winkle James Fenimore Cooper (17891851)from The Last of the Mohicans William Cullen Bryant(17941878)Thanatopsis Edgar Allan Poe(18091849)To HelenThe Raven LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 4NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE 18401855 INTRODUCTION Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)from Naturefrom Self Reliance Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)from The Scarlet Letter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882)A Psalm of LifeThe Tide Rises, the Tide Falls LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 5CONFLICT AND CELEBRATION 18551880 INTRODUCTION Walt Whitman(18191892)from Song of MyselfO Captain! My Captain! Emily Dickinson (18301886)Success is counted sweetestBecause I could not stop for DeathI heard a fly buzz—when I died— Mark Twain(18351910)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Abraham Lincoln(18091865)The Gettysburg Address LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 6REGIONALISM AND REALISM 18801910 INTRODUCTION Bret Harte (18361902)The Outcasts of Poker Flat Kate Chopin (18511904)The Story of an Hour Jack London (18761916)The Call of the Wild Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)Richard CoryMiniver Cheevy LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 7THE BLOOM OF MODERNISM 19101930 INTRODUCTION Ezra Pound (18851972)In a Station of the MetroThe RiverMerchant’s Wife: A Letter T. S. Eliot (18881965)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock William Carlos Williams (18831963)The Red WheelbarrowThe Great FigureThe Dance Robert Frost (18741963)Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Road Not TakenMending Wall Sherwood Anderson (18761941)The Egg Ernest Hemingway (18991961)Hills Like White Elephants LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 8MIDCENTURY VOICES 19301960 INTRODUCTION W. H. Auden (19071973)If I Could Tell YouThe Unknown Citizen Theodore Roethke (19081963)My Papa’s Waltz Langston Hughes (19021967)The Negro Speaks of RiversEarly Autumn William Faulkner (18971962)A Rose for Emily Arthur Miller (19152005)from The Death of a Salesman LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE
Chapter 9IN OUR TIME 1960PRESENT INTRODUCTION Robert Penn Warren (19051989)from Audubon: A Vision John Updike (1932—)A & P Saul Bellow (19152005)from Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Edward Albee (1928—)The Zoo Story LITERARY FOCUS READING FOR APPRECIATION VOICE OF THE AGE