THE LITERATURE OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Mark Twain (1835–1910).
“The Dandy Frightening the Squatter.” “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” FROM Old Times on the Mississippi. “A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot.” “A `Cub' Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River.” “The Continued Perplexities of `Cub' Piloting.” “Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech.”Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “How to Tell a Story.” FROM Letters from the Earth. “Letter III.” “Letter IV.”
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930).
“A New England Nun.”
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909).
“A White Heron.”
Bret Harte.
“Tennessee's Partner.”
George Washington Cable (1844–1925).
“Belles Demoiselles Plantation.”
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932).
“The Goophered Grapevine.”
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908).
“How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox.” “Free Joe and the Rest of the World.”
William Dean Howells (1837–1920).
“Editha.” FROM Criticism and Fiction.
Henry James (1843–1916).
“Daisy Miller: A Study.” “The Real Thing.” “The Beast in the Jungle.” “The Turn of the Screw.” “The Art of Fiction.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914).
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935).
“The Yellow Wall-Paper.”
Kate Chopin (1851–1904).
The Awakening.
Stephen Crane (1871–1900).
“Black riders came from the sea.” “In the desert.” “A God in wrath.” “I saw a man pursuing the horizon.” “Supposing that I should have the courage.” “On the horizon the peaks assembled.” “A man feared that he might find an assassin.” “Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.” “A man said to the universe.” “A man adrift on a slim spar.”“The Red Badge of Courage.” “The Open Boat.”
Frank Norris (1870–1902).
“A Deal in Wheat.”
Jack London (1876–1916).
“The Law of Life.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937).
“The Other Two.” “Roman Fever.”
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945).
“Free.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918).
FROM The Education of Henry Adams.
THE LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900 TO 1945).
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963).
“The Souls of Black Folk”.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935).
“Luke Havergal.” “Zola.” “Richard Cory.” “Cliff Klingenhagen.” “Miniver Cheevy.” “How Annandale Went Out.” “Eros Turannos.” “Mr. Flood's Party.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963).
“Mending Wall.” “Home Burial.” “After Apple-Picking.” “The Road Not Taken.” “An Old Man's Winter Night.” “Birches.” “The Oven Bird.” “The Witch of Coös.” “For Once, Then, Something.” “Fire and Ice.” “Design.” “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” “Acquainted with the Night.” “West-Running Brook.” “Desert Places.” “Neither out Far Nor in Deep.” “The Silken Tent.” ““Directive.” “In Winter in the Woods Alone.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947).
“A Wagner Matinée.” “Neighbour Rosicky.”
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945).
“The Difference.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946).
FROM Three Lives. “The Gentle Lena.” “Susie Asado.” “Picasso.” “A Movie.”
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941).
“Death in the Woods.”
John Dos Passos (1896–1970).
FROM U.S.A. “Preface.” FROM The 42nd Parallel. “Proteus.” FROM 1919. “Newsreel The XLIII.”, “The Body of an American.” FROM The Big Money. “Newsreel LXVI.” “The Camera Eye (50).” “Newsreel LXVIII” “Vag.”
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953).
“The Hairy Ape.”
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948).
Trifles.
Ezra Pound (1885–1972).
“Portrait d'une Femme.” “Salutation.” “A Pact.” “In a Station of the Metro.” “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter.” FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. “I E. P. Ode pour I'Election de son Sepulchre.” “II The age demanded an image.” “III The tea-rose tea-grown, etc..” “IV These fought in any case.” “V There died a myriad.” FROM The Cantos. “I And then went down to the ship.” “II Hang it all, Robert Browning.” “XLV With Usura.” “LXXXI What thou lovest well remains.” “A Retrospect.”
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965).
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” “Preludes.” “Gerontion.” “The Waste Land.” Notes on `The Waste Land'.” “Journey of the Magi.” “Burnt Norton.” “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962).
“In Just-.” “O Sweet Spontaneous.” “Buffalo Bill's Defunct.” “The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls.” “Nobody Loses All the Time.” “Next to of Course God America I.” “My Sweet Old Etcetera.” “I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big.” “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond.” “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r.” “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town.” “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind.” “When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm.” “I(a.)”
Hart Crane (1899–1932).
“Chaplinesque.” “At Melville's Tomb.” “Voyages.” FROM The Bridge. “To Brooklyn Bridge.” “Powhatan's Daughter.” “The Harbor Dawn.” “Van Winkle.” “The River.” “The Dance.” “Indiana.” “The Tunnel.” “Atlantis.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955).
“Peter Quince at the Clavier.” “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.” “Sunday Morning.” “The Death of a Soldier.” “Anecdote of the Jar.” “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman.” “The Emperor of Ice-Cream.” “The Idea of Order at Key West.” “The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air.” “Of Modern Poetry.” “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters.” “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.” “The Plain Sense of Things.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963).
“Con Brio.” “The Young Housewife.” “Pastoral.” “Tract.” “Danse Russe.” “Queen-Ann's-Lace.” “Spring and All.” “To Elsie.” “The Red Wheelbarrow.” “At the Ball Game.” “Between Walls.” “This Is Just to Say.” “The Yachts.” “These.” “Seafarer.” “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962).
“Boats in a Fog.” “Hurt Hawks.” “Shine, Perishing Republic.” “The Purse-Seine.”
Marianne Moore (1887–1972).
“To a Steam Roller.” “The Fish.” “Poetry.” “No Swan So Fine.” “The Student.” “The Pangolin.” “The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing.” “In Distrust of Merits.”
Countée Cullen (1903–1946).
“Yet Do I Marvel.” “For a Lady I Know.” “Incident.” “From the Dark Tower.” “A Brown Girl Dead.” “Heritage.” “Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song.”
Jean Toomer (1894–1967).
“Blood-Burning Moon.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960).
“The Gilded Six-Bits.”
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938).
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn.” “The Far and the Near.”
Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940).
“Winter Dreams.” “Babylon Revisited.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).
“Big Two-Hearted River.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962).
“The Evening Sun.” “A Rose for Emily.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967).
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” “The Weary Blues.” “Young Gal's Blues.” “I, Too.” “Note on Commercial Theatre.” “Dream Boogie.” “Harlem.” “Theme for English B.” “On the Road.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968).
“Flight.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980).
“Flowering Judas.”
THE LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1945 TO PRESENT).
Eudora Welty (1909–).
“Death of a Traveling Salesman.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960).
FROM Eight Men. “The Man Who Was Almost a Man.”
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994).
FROM Invisible Man. “Chapter I.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983).
The Glass Menagerie.
Arthur Miller (1915–).
The Death of a Salesman.
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965).
A Raisin in the Sun.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000).
“Kitchenette Building.” “The Mother.” “Sadie and Maud.” “The Children of the Poor.” “We Real Cool.” “The Lovers of the Poor.” “The Blackstone Rangers.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963).
“Dolor.” “Open House.” “Cuttings.” “Cuttings (Later).” “Root Cellar.” “My Papa's Waltz.” “The Lost Son.” “I Knew a Woman.” “In a Dark Time.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965).
“Losses.” “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.” “A Girl in a Library.” “In Montecito.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979).
“A Miracle for Breakfast.” “The Fish.” “Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance.” “Visits to St. Elizabeths.” “Sestina.” “The Armadillo.” “Brazil, January 1, 1502.” “In the Waiting Room.” “One Art.”
Robert Lowell (1917–1977).
“The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket.” “Mr. Edwards and the Spider.” “Memories of West Street and Lepke.” “Skunk Hour.” “For the Union Dead.” “Waking Early Sunday Morning.” “Will Not Come Back.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–).
“Mined Country.” “Museum Piece.” “Still, Citizen Sparrow.” “Juggler.” “Marginalia.” “Lamarck Elaborated.” “A Hole in the Floor.” “Playboy.” “Lying.” “Leaving.” “Trolling for Blues.” “A Finished Man.”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997).
“Howl.” “A Supermarket in California.” “America.” “To Aunt Rose.”
Gary Snyder (1930–).
“Riprap.” “Cold mountain is a house” (translation of a poem by Han-shan). “I Went into the Maverick Bar.” “Soy Sauce.” “Poem left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–).
“At a Bach Concert.” “Living in Sin.” “Breakfast in a Bowling Alley in Utica, New York.” “Diving into the Wreck.” “Mother-in-Law.” “Divisions of Labor.” “For This” “1999.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997).
“Beyond the End.” “Pure Products.” “Come into Animal Presence.” “The Ache of Marriage.” “O Taste and See.” “Abel's Bride.” “Mad Song.” “A Hunger.” “Zeroing In.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974).
“The Farmer's Wife.” “Ringing the Bells.” “All My Pretty Ones.” “And One for My Dame.” “The Addict.” “Us.” “Rowing.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963).
“All the Dead Dears.” “Two Views of a Cadaver Room.” “The Bee Meeting.” “Lady Lazarus.” “Ariel.” “The Applicant.” “Daddy.” “Fever 103°.”
James Dickey (1923–1997).
“The Lifeguard.” “Reincarnation (I).” “In the Mountain Tent.” “Cherrylog Road.” “The Shark's Parlor.”
W. S. Merwin (1927–).
“Grandfather in the Old Men's Home.” “The Drunk in the Furnace.” “Noah's Raven.” “The Dry Stone Mason.” “Fly.” “Strawberries.” “Direction.” “Thanks.” “The Morning Train.”
A. R. Ammons (1926–2001).
“So I Said I Am Ezra.” “Gravelly Run.” “Corsons Inlet.” “The Unifying Principle.” “Sight Seed.” “Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything.” “The Damned.”
Louise Glück (1943–).
“Hesitate to Call.” “The Chicago Train.” “The Edge.” “My Neighbor in the Mirror.” “Thanksgiving.” “Mock Orange.” “The Reproach.” “Celestial Music.” “Vespers.” “Field Flowers.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987).
“Sonny's Blues.”
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964).
“ Good Man Is Hard to Find.” “Good Country People.”
John Updike (1932–).
“Flight.”
Philip Roth (1933–).
“The Conversion of the Jews.”
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986).
“The Magic Barrel.”
Tillie Olsen (1913–).
“I Stand Here Ironing.”
Tomás Rivera (1935–1984).
“. . . And the Earth Did Not Part.”
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934–).
“In Memory of Radio.” “The Bridge.” “Notes for a Speech.” “An Agony, As Now.” “A Poem for Democrats.” “A Poem for Speculative Hipsters.” “A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand.” “Poem for Half-White College Students.” “Biography.”
Sonia Sanchez (1934–).
“The Final Solution.” “To Blk/Record/Buyers.” FROM Right On: White America. “3.” “Young/Black/Girl.” “Womanhood.” “Masks.” “Just Don't Never Give Up on Love.'””
June Jordan (1936–2002)
“A New Politics of Sexuality.” FROM Some Of Us Did Not Die.— “Poem About My Rights.” FROM Passion: “Poem for Guatemala.” FROM Naming Our Own Destiny. “All the World Moved.“ Meta-Rhetoric.” “In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.” FROM Things That I Do in the Dark.
Nikki Giovanni (1943–).
“Word Poem.” FROM Black Feeling, Black Talk. “Nikki-Rosa.” “Poem for Black Boys.” “For Saundra.” “Beautiful Black Men.” FROM Black Judgement.
Audre Lorde (1934–1992).
“Coal.” “Now That I am Forever with Child.” “On a Night of the Full Moon.” “Black Mother Woman.” “Love Poem.” “When the Saints Go Marching In.” “Sister Outsider.” “For the Record.” “Poetry is Not a Luxury.”
Rita Dove (1952–).
“Kentucky, 1833.” “Adolescence - I.” “Adolescence - II.” “Adolescence - III.” ““Banneker.” “Jiving.” “The Zepplin Factory.” “Under the Viaduct, 1932.” “Roast Possum.” “Weathering Out.” “Daystar.”
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940–).
“No Name Woman.”
Edward Albee (1928–).
“The Zoo Story.”
Saul Bellow (1915–).
A Silver Dish.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–).
“Welcome to the Monkey House.”
Thomas Pynchon (1937–).
“Entropy.”
Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995).
“The Hammer Man.”
Stephen Dunn (1939–).
“Something Like Happiness.” “The Guardian Angel.” “John and Mary.” “A Postmortem Guide.” FROM Different Hours. “Circular.” FROM Local Visitations.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938–).
“How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again.”
Alice Walker (1944–).
“Everyday Use.”
Amy Tan (1952–).
FROM The Joy Luck Club. “Half and Half.”
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989).
“The School.”
Ann Beattie (1947–).
“The Lawn Party.”
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940–).
“Shiloh.”
Gloria Naylor (1950–).
FROM The Women of Brewster Place. “Lucielia Louise Turner.”
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948–).
“The Man to Send Rain Clouds” and “Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988).
“Cathedral.”
Don DeLillo (1936–).
FROM White Noise.
Jamaica Kincaid (1949–).
“Girl.” “Wingless.”
Sandra Cisneros (1954–).
FROM Woman Hollering Creek. “Mericans.”
Louise Erdrich (1954–).
FROM Love Medicine. “The Red Convertible (1974).”
Tina Howe (1937–).
“Painting Churches.”
Toni Morrison (1931–).
“1922.”
Julia Alvarez (1950–).
“Snow.” FROM How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. “Bilingual Sestina.” FROM The Other Side. “Dusting.” “Hairwashing.” Untitled sonnet FROM Homecoming.
Billy Collins (1941–).
“Winter Syntax.” “Books.” “Introduction to Poetry.” “American Sonnet.” “Candle Hat.” “Purity.” “Marginalia.” “Aristotle.” FROM Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems.
