Concise Anthology of American Literature,9780133732917

Concise Anthology of American Literature

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780133732917
ISBN10: 0133732916
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Pub. Date: 1997-11-01
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Summary

The one-volume concise edition provides a varied representation of writers who give voice to the American experience. Although the concise edition offers fewer complete long works than the two-volume set, still included are Franklin, The Autobiography; Melville, Billy Budd; Miller, Death of a Salesman; and Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Table of Contents

Preface xxvii
The Literature of Colonial America 1(214)
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)
13(9)
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage FROM The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America
15(7)
Thursday 11 October 1492
19(2)
Sunday 14 October 1492
21(1)
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)
22(14)
FROM The General History of Virginia
24(12)
The Third Book
24(11)
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War
35(1)
NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES I
36(16)
Myths and Tales
37(1)
How the World Began
37(8)
How the World Was Made
45(2)
The Beginning of Summer and Winter
47(2)
The Gift of the Sacred Pipe
49(2)
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow
51(1)
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)
52(15)
FROM Of Plymouth Plantation
54(13)
"Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal"
54(2)
"Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden..."
56(1)
"Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage..."
57(3)
"Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation..."
60(2)
"Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]"
62(3)
"Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]"
65(1)
"Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]"
66(1)
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)
67(12)
FROM The Journal of John Winthrop
68(11)
The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
79(3)
FROM The Bay Psalm Book
79(3)
The New England Primer (c. 1683)
82(7)
FROM The New England Primer
83(6)
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
89(20)
The Prologue
91(1)
Contemplations
92(7)
The Flesh and the Spirit
99(3)
The Author to Her Book
102(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
102(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
103(1)
A Letter to Her Husband...
103(1)
In Reference to Her Children...
104(3)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild...
107(1)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet...
107(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House...
108(1)
EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642-1729)
109(15)
Prologue 110(1)
FROM Preparatory Meditations
111(7)
The Reflexion
111(2)
Meditation 6 (First Series)
113(1)
Meditation 8 (First Series)
113(1)
Meditation 38 (First Series)
114(2)
Meditation 39 (First Series)
116(1)
Meditation 150 (Second Series)
117(1)
FROM God's Determinations
118(2)
The Preface
118(1)
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
119(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
120(2)
Huswifery
122(1)
The Ebb and Flow
122(1)
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death
123(1)
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)
124(18)
FROM The Wonders of the Invisible World
126(7)
FROM Magnalia Christi Americana
133(9)
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)
142(11)
FROM The Diary of Samuel Sewall
143(10)
MARY ROWLANDSON (c. 1637-1711)
153(17)
FROM A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
154(16)
WILLIAM BYRD II (1674-1744)
170(6)
FROM The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
172(4)
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772)
176(9)
FROM The Journal of John Woolman
177(8)
JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)
185(30)
Sarah Pierrepont
187(1)
Personal Narrative
188(10)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
198(12)
FROM Images or Shadows of Divine Things
210(5)
The Literature of Reason and Revolution 215(244)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)
221(127)
[Silence Dogood, No.4]
223(2)
FROM Poor Richard Improved, 1758
225(4)
An Address to the Public
229(1)
The Autobiography
230(18)
MICHEL-GUILLAUME-JEAN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813)
348(15)
FROM Letters from an American Farmer
350(13)
Letter III (What Is an American?)
350(9)
Letter IX (Description of Charleston...)
359(4)
THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)
363(10)
FROM Common Sense
365(2)
FROM The American Crisis
367(6)
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
373(20)
The Declaration of Independence
375(3)
FROM Notes on the State of Virginia
378(9)
FROM Query V: Cascades
378(1)
FROM Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal
379(4)
FROM Query XVII: Religion
383(2)
FROM Query XVIII: Manners
385(1)
FROM Query XIX: Manufactures
386(1)
To James Madison
387(3)
To John Adams
390(3)
The Federalist (1787-1788)
393(11)
The Federalist No. 10
395(5)
The Federalist No. 51
400(4)
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754?-1784)
404(8)
On Virtue
405(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
406(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
407(1)
On Imagination
407(1)
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
408(1)
Recollection
409(2)
To His Excellency General Washington
411(1)
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
412(12)
The Power of Fancy
414(4)
The Hurricane
418(1)
To Sir Toby
419(2)
The Wild Honey Suckle
421(1)
The Indian Burying Ground
421(2)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
423(1)
WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739-1823)
424(16)
FROM Travels through North and South Carolina...
425(15)
NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES II
440(19)
FROM A Son of the Forest
441(7)
FROM Crashing Thunder...
448(2)
FROM Story of the Indian
450(2)
FROM Pawnee Hero Stories
452(1)
Poems
452(3)
Orations
455(4)
The Age of Romanticism 459(730)
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
465(45)
FROM A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
467(6)
FROM The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
473(37)
The Author's Account of Himself
473(2)
Rip Van Winkle
475(13)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
488(22)
THOMAS BANGS THORPE (1815-1878)
510(9)
The Big Bear of Arkansas
511(8)
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)
519(43)
Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales 522(2)
FROM The Deerslayer
524(18)
FROM The Pioneers
542(13)
FROM The Prairie
555(7)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
562(9)
Thanatopsis
564(2)
To a Waterfowl
566(1)
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
567(1)
To the Fringed Gentian
567(1)
The Prairies
568(3)
Abraham Lincoln
571(1)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
571(61)
Sonnet--To Science
574(1)
To Helen
574(1)
The City in the Sea
575(1)
Sonnet--Silence
576(1)
Lenore
577(1)
The Raven
578(3)
Annabel Lee
581(1)
Ligeia
582(11)
The Fall of the House of Usher
593(14)
The Purloined Letter
607(13)
FROM "Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne" [A Review]
620(4)
The Philosophy of Composition
624(8)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
632(72)
Nature
634(29)
The American Scholar
663(13)
Self-Reliance
676(17)
The Rhodora
693(1)
Each and All
694(1)
Concord Hymn
695(1)
The Problem
696(2)
Ode
698(3)
Hamatreya
701(1)
Give All to Love
701(2)
Days
703(1)
Brahma
703(1)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
704(33)
Young Goodman Brown
707(9)
The Minister's Black Veil
716(9)
The Birth-Mark
725(12)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)
737(93)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
739(26)
Billy Budd
765(58)
The Portent
823(1)
Shiloh
824(1)
Malvern Hill
824(1)
The College Colonel
825(1)
The Eolian Harp
826(2)
The Tuft of Kelp
828(1)
The Maldive Shark
828(1)
The Berg
828(1)
Art
829(1)
Greek Architecture
830(1)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)
830(110)
Civil Disobedience
832(16)
FROM Walden
848(92)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
940(9)
A Psalm of Life
941(1)
The Arsenal at Springfield
942(2)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
944(1)
My Lost Youth
945(3)
Aftermath
948(1)
Chaucer
948(1)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
948(1)
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
949(26)
Massachusetts to Virginia
950(3)
Ichabod
953(1)
Skipper Ireson's Ride
954(3)
Snow-Bound
957(18)
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)
975(5)
Old Ironsides
975(1)
The Chambered Nautilus
976(1)
The Deacon's Masterpiece
977(3)
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)
980(17)
To the Dandelion
981(2)
FROM The Biglow Papers, First Series
983(5)
FROM A Fable for Critics
988(9)
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896)
997(41)
FROM Uncle Tom's Cabin
998(40)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?-1895)
1038(19)
FROM The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
1039(18)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
1057(4)
To Horace Greeley
1058(1)
Gettysburg Address
1059(1)
Second Inaugural Address
1060(1)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
1061(107)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 1063(15)
FROM Inscriptions One's-Self I Sing
1078(1)
Song of Myself
1078(47)
FROM Children of Adam
1125(2)
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd
1125(1)
Once I pass'd through a populous city
1126(1)
Facing west from California's shores
1126(1)
FROM Calamus
1127(5)
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
1127(1)
I hear it was charged against me
1127(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
1128(4)
FROM Sea-Drift
1132(5)
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
1132(5)
FROM By the Roadside
1137(1)
When I heard the learn'd astronomer
1137(1)
The Dalliance of the Eagles
1138(1)
FROM Drum-Taps
1138(6)
Beat! Beat! Drums!
1138(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
1139(1)
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night
1139(1)
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown
1140(1)
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
1141(1)
The Wound-Dresser
1142(2)
FROM Memories of President Lincoln When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
1144(6)
FROM Autumn Rivulets There was a child went forth
1150(2)
Passage to India
1152(7)
The Sleepers
1159(8)
FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death A noiseless patient spider
1167(1)
FROM From Noon to Starry Night To a Locomotive in Winter
1167(1)
FROM Good-Bye My Fancy L. of G.'s Purport
1168(1)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
1168(21)
49 I never lost as much but twice
1170(1)
67 Success is counted sweetest
1170(1)
125 For each ecstatic instant
1171(1)
130 These are the days when Birds come back
1171(1)
165 A Wounded Deer--leaps highest
1172(1)
185 "Faith" is a fine invention
1172(1)
210 The thought beneath so slight a film
1172(1)
214 I taste a liquor never brewed
1172(1)
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
1173(1)
241 I like a look of Agony
1173(1)
249 Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
1173(1)
258 There's a certain Slant of light
1174(1)
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
1174(1)
287 A Clock stopped
1175(1)
303 The Soul selects her own Society
1175(1)
328 A Bird came down the Walk
1176(1)
338 I Know that He exists
1176(1)
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes
1177(1)
401 What Soft--Cherubic Creatures
1177(1)
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense
1178(1)
441 This is my letter to the World
1178(1)
448 This was a Poet--It is That
1178(1)
449 I died for Beauty--but was scarce
1178(1)
465 I heard a Fly buzz--when I died
1179(1)
510 It was not Death, for I stood up
1179(1)
585 I like to see it lap the Miles
1180(1)
640 I cannot live with you
1180(2)
650 Pain--has an Element of Blank
1182(1)
670 One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted
1182(1)
709 Publication--is the Auction
1183(1)
712 Because I could not stop for Death
1183(1)
745 Renunciation--is a piercing Virtue
1184(1)
754 My life had stood--a Loaded Gun
1184(1)
764 Presentiment--is that long Shadow--on the Lawn
1185(1)
976 Death is a Dialogue between
1185(1)
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1185(1)
1052 I never saw a Moor
1186(1)
1078 The Bustle in a House
1186(1)
1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant
1186(1)
1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow
1187(1)
1463 A Route of Evanescence
1187(1)
1545 The Bible is an antique Volume
1187(1)
1624 Apparently with no surprise
1188(1)
1732 My life closed twice before its close
1188(1)
The Age of Realism 1189(414)
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930)
1196(10)
A New England Nun
1197(9)
BRET HARTE (1836-1902)
1206(7)
Tennessee's Partner
1207(6)
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)
1213(10)
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
1214(1)
Free Joe and the Rest of the World
1215(8)
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
1223(196)
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
1226(1)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1227(4)
Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech
1231(4)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1235(184)
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)
1419(11)
Editha
1420(10)
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)
1430(81)
Daisy Miller: A Study
1432(39)
The Real Thing
1471(17)
The Jolly Corner
1488(23)
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)
1511(8)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1512(7)
KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
1519(6)
Neg Creol
1520(5)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
1525(27)
Black riders came from the sea
1526(1)
In the desert
1526(1)
A god in wrath
1527(1)
Supposing that I should have the courage
1527(1)
On the horizon the peaks assembled
1527(1)
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
1527(1)
A man said to the universe
1528(1)
A man adrift on a slim spar
1528(1)
A Mystery of Heroism: A Detail of an American Battle
1529(6)
The Open Boat
1535(17)
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
1552(16)
The Other Two
1555(13)
THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)
1568(23)
Free
1570(21)
HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
1591(12)
FROM The Education of Henry Adams
1593(10)
Twentieth-Century Literature 1603(726)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
1609(6)
Richard Cory
1610(1)
Cliff Klingenhagen
1610(1)
Miniver Cheevy
1611(1)
How Annandale Went Out
1612(1)
Eros Turannos
1612(1)
Mr. Flood's Party
1613(2)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
1615(13)
Mending Wall
1616(1)
Home Burial
1617(3)
After Apple-Picking
1620(1)
The Road Not Taken
1621(1)
An Old Man's Winter Night
1622(1)
Birches
1622(2)
The Oven Bird
1624(1)
For Once, Then, Something
1624(1)
Fire and Ice
1624(1)
Design
1625(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
1625(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1625(1)
Acquainted with the Night
1626(1)
Desert Places
1626(1)
Neither out Far Nor in Deep
1627(1)
The Silken Tent
1627(1)
In Winter in the Woods Alone
1628(1)
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
1628(5)
Chicago
1629(1)
The Harbor
1630(1)
Happiness
1630(1)
Graceland
1631(1)
Fog
1631(1)
Cool Tombs
1632(1)
Grass
1632(1)
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
1633(21)
Neighbour Rosicky
1634(20)
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
1654(25)
FROM Three Lives
1657(20)
The Gentle Lena
1657(20)
Susie Asado
1677(1)
Picasso
1677(2)
SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
1679(9)
Death in the Woods
1680(8)
EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953)
1688(32)
The Hairy Ape
1690(30)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
1720(12)
Portrait d'une Femme
1721(1)
Salutation
1722(1)
A Pact
1723(1)
In a Station of the Metro
1723(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
1723(1)
FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
1724(3)
I [E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre]
1724(1)
II [The age demanded an image]
1725(1)
III [The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.]
1725(1)
IV [These fought in any case]
1726(1)
V [There died a myriad]
1727(1)
FROM The Cantos
1727(5)
I [And then went down to the ship]
1727(3)
XLV [With Usura]
1730(1)
LXXXI [What thou lovest well remains]
1731(1)
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
1732(32)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1734(4)
Preludes
1738(1)
Gerontion
1739(2)
The Waste Land
1741(17)
Notes on "The Waste Land"
1754(4)
Journey of the Magi
1758(1)
Burnt Norton
1759(5)
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
1764(8)
[in Just-]
1765(1)
[O sweet spontaneous]
1766(1)
[Buffalo Bill's defunct]
1766(1)
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
1767(1)
[nobody loses all the time]
1767(1)
["next to of course god america i"]
1768(1)
[my sweet old etcetera]
1769(1)
[r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]
1770(1)
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
1770(1)
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]
1771(1)
[1(a]
1772(1)
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
1772(15)
Chaplinesque
1773(1)
At Melville's Tomb
1774(1)
Voyages
1774(2)
FROM The Bridge
1776(11)
To Brooklyn Bridge
1776(2)
Powhatan's Daughter
1778(6)
The Harbor Dawn
1778(1)
Van Winkle
1779(1)
The River
1780(4)
Atlantis
1784(3)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
1787(11)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
1788(1)
Sunday Morning
1789(3)
The Death of a Soldier
1792(1)
Anecdote of the Jar
1792(1)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
1793(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
1793(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West
1794(1)
Of Modern Poetry
1795(1)
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
1796(1)
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
1797(1)
The Plain Sense of Things
1797(1)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
1798(15)
Con Brio
1799(1)
Tract
1800(2)
Danse Russe
1802(1)
Queen-Anne's-Lace
1802(1)
Spring and All
1803(1)
To Elsie
1804(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow
1805(1)
At the Ball Game
1806(1)
This Is Just to Say
1807(1)
The Yachts
1807(1)
These
1808(1)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
1809(1)
The Use of Force
1810(3)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
1813(4)
Boats in a Fog
1814(1)
Hurt Hawks
1814(1)
Shine, Perishing Republic
1815(1)
The Purse-Seine
1816(1)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
1817(7)
To a Steam Roller
1818(1)
The Fish
1819(1)
Poetry
1820(1)
The Student
1821(1)
In Distrust of Merits
1822(2)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
1824(5)
Yet Do I Marvel
1825(1)
For a Lady I Know
1825(1)
From the Dark Tower
1826(1)
A Brown Girl Dead
1826(1)
Heritage
1826(3)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
1829(3)
Here Lies a Lady
1830(1)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
1831(1)
Blue Girls
1831(1)
Piazza Piece
1832(1)
THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)
1832(5)
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
1834(3)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
1837(43)
The Rich Boy
1839(26)
Babylon Revisited
1865(15)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
1880(29)
The Killers
1881(7)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
1888(21)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
1909(20)
That Evening Sun
1911(11)
A Rose for Emily
1922(7)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
1929(9)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
1930(1)
The Weary Blues
1930(1)
Young Gal's Blues
1931(1)
I, Too
1932(1)
Note on Commercial Theatre
1932(1)
Dream Boogie
1933(1)
Harlem
1934(1)
Theme for English B
1934(1)
On the Road
1935(3)
JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
1938(14)
Flight
1939(13)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
1952(10)
Flowering Judas
1953(9)
EUDORA WELTY (1909- )
1962(10)
Death of a Traveling Salesman
1963(9)
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
1972(10)
FROM Eight Men The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1973(9)
RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)
1982(11)
FROM Invisible Man Chapter 1
1983(10)
ARTHUR MILLER (1915- )
1993(67)
Death of a Salesman
1996(64)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
2060(5)
Open House
2062(1)
Cuttings
2062(1)
Cuttings (Later)
2062(1)
Root Cellar
2063(1)
My Papa's Waltz
2063(1)
I Knew a Woman
2064(1)
In a Dark Time
2064(1)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
2065(6)
Losses
2066(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
2067(1)
A Girl in a Library
2067(4)
In Montecito
2071(1)
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
2071(14)
A Miracle for Breakfast
2072(1)
The Fish
2073(2)
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
2075(2)
Visits to St. Elizabeths
2077(2)
Sestina
2079(1)
The Armadillo
2080(1)
Brazil, January 1, 1502
2081(1)
In the Waiting Room
2082(3)
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
2085(14)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
2086(4)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
2090(1)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
2091(2)
Skunk Hour
2093(1)
For the Union Dead
2094(2)
Waking Early Sunday Morning
2096(3)
Will Not Come Back
2099(1)
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
2099(18)
Howl
2101(8)
A Supermarket in California
2109(1)
America
2110(2)
American Change
2112(2)
Mugging
2114(3)
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
2117(8)
The Farmer's Wife
2118(1)
Ringing the Bells
2119(1)
All My Pretty Ones
2119(2)
And One for My Dame
2121(1)
The Addict
2122(1)
Us
2123(1)
Rowing
2124(1)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
2125(14)
All the Dead Dears
2126(2)
Two Views of a Cadaver Room
2128(1)
The Bee Meeting
2128(2)
Lady Lazarus
2130(2)
Ariel
2132(1)
The Applicant
2133(2)
Daddy
2135(2)
Fever 103(o)
2137(2)
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)
2139(9)
The Lifeguard
2140(1)
Reincarnation (I)
2141(1)
In the Mountain Tent
2142(1)
Cherrylog Road
2143(3)
The Shark's Parlor
2146(2)
W. S. MERWIN (1927- )
2148(7)
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
2149(1)
The Drunk in the Furnace
2150(1)
Noah's Raven
2150(1)
The Dry Stone Mason
2151(1)
Fly
2151(1)
Strawberries
2152(1)
Direction
2152(1)
Thanks
2153(1)
The Morning Train
2154(1)
JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)
2155(23)
Sonny's Blues
2156(22)
FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
2178(12)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2179(11)
JOHN UPDIKE (1932- )
2190(13)
Flight
2192(11)
BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)
2203(12)
The Magic Barrel
2203(12)
AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (1934- )
2215(5)
In Memory of Radio
2216(1)
An Agony. As Now.
2217(2)
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
2219(1)
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
2219(1)
Poem for Half-White College Students
2220(1)
RITA DOVE (1952- )
2220(10)
Kentucky, 1833
2222(1)
Adolescence--I
2222(1)
Adolescence--II
2223(1)
Adolescence--III
2223(1)
Banneker
2224(1)
Jiving
2225(1)
The Zeppelin Factory
2226(1)
Under the Viaduct, 1932
2227(1)
Roast Possum
2227(2)
Weathering Out
2229(1)
Daystar
2229(1)
EDWARD ALBEE (1928- )
2230(17)
The Zoo Story
2232(15)
SAUL BELLOW (1915- )
2247(21)
A Silver Dish
2248(20)
JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- )
2268(13)
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again
2270(11)
DONALD BARTHELME (1931-1989)
2281(3)
The School
2282(2)
BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940- )
2284(11)
Shiloh
2285(10)
GLORIA NAYLOR (1950- )
2295(11)
FROM The Women of Brewster Place Lucielia Louise Turner
2296(10)
RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)
2306(11)
Cathedral
2307(10)
SANDRA CISNEROS (1954- )
2317(3)
FROM Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Mericans
2318(2)
LOUISE ERDRICH (1954- )
2320(9)
FROM Love Medicine The Red Convertible (1974)
2322(7)
Reference Works, Bibliographies 2329(3)
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History 2332(5)
Chronology 2337(27)
Acknowledgments 2364(9)
Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines 2373

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