Contents Chapter 1The Literature of the Colonial Period(1) 1.1An Introduction(1) 1.2Anne Bradstreet (1612 — 1672) (3) “To My Dear and Loving Husband” 1.3Edward Taylor (1642 — 1729)(4) “Huswifery” Chapter 2The Literature of the Revolutionary Period (7) 2.1An Introduction (7) 2.2Benjamin Franklin (1706 — 1790)(10) An Excerpt from Chapter VIII of The Autobiography 2.3Patrick Henry (1736 — 1799) (13) Speech in the Virginia Convention 2.4Thomas Jefferson (1743 — 1826) (17) Declaration of Independence Chapter 3The Literature of the Romantic Period (21) 3.1An Introduction (21) 3.2Washington Irving (1783 — 1859) (22) An Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle 3.3Edgar Allan Poe (1809 — 1849) (29) “To Helen” “Annabel Lee” 3.4Henry David Thoreau (1817 — 1862) (32) An Excerpt from Walden 3.5Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 — 1864) (38) Chapter 23 from The Scarlet Letter 3.6Herman Melville (1819 — 1891) (44) An Excerpt from Chapter 41 of MobyDick 3.7Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 —1882) (50) “A Psalm of Life” 3.8Walt Whitman (1819 — 1892) (53) Excerpts from “Song of Myself ” 3.9Emily Dickinson (1830 — 1886) (57) “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” “Success is counted sweetest” “Because I could not stop for Death” Chapter 4The Literature of the Realistic Period (61) 4.1An Introduction (61) 4.2Mark Twain (1835 — 1910) (62) An Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Huckleberry Finn 4.3O. Henry (1862 — 1910)(68) “The Cop and the Anthem” 4.4Henry James (1843 — 1916)(73) An Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Portrait of a Lady 4.5Theodore Dreiser (1871 — 1945)(79) An Excerpt from Chapter 47 of Sister Carrie 4.6Robert Frost (1874 —1963)(88) “Fire and Ice” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” “The Road Not Taken” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Chapter 5The Literature of the Modernist Period (92) 5.1An Introduction (92) 5.2Ezra Pound (1885 — 1972)(95) “In a Station of the Metro” “A Pact” 5.3William Carlos Williams (1883 — 1963)(97) “The Red Wheelbarrow” “Spring and All” 5.4Langston Hughes (1902 — 1967)(100) “Dreams” “Cross” 5.5E. E. Cummings (1894 — 1962)(101) “Your Little Voice” 5.6Ernest Hemingway (1899 — 1961) (103) “Indian Camp” 5.7F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 — 1940)(108) An Excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby 5.8William Faulkner (1897 — 1962)(117) “The Bear” 5.9Eugene O’Neill (1888 — 1953) (129) An Excerpt from ACT 2, SCENE II of Long Day’s Journey into Night Chapter 6The Literature since World War II (137) 6.1An Introduction (137) 6.2Saul Bellow (1915 — 2005)(139) An Excerpt from Seize the Day 6.3Arthur Miller (1915 — 2005) (150) An Excerpt from Act II of The Death of a Salesman 6.4J. D. Salinger (1919 —)(155) An Excerpt from Chapters 21 of The Catcher in the Rye 6.5Allen Ginsberg (1926 — 1997)(162) An Excerpt from “Howl” 6.6Sylvia Plath (1932 — 1963)(167) “Daddy” References(171)