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American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology

by: Elliott, Emory; Kerber, Linda K.; Litz, A. Walton; Martin, Terence

American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology

by: Elliott, Emory; Kerber, Linda K.; Litz, A. Walton; Martin, Terence

ISBN 13:
9780130272690
ISBN 10:
0130272698
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/01/1991
Publisher: Pearson College Div

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Summary

Emory Elliott, one of our outstanding American Literature scholars and critics and his co-editors have assembled an extraordinarily rich, diverse, and iconoclastic anthology. It constitutes a virtual revision of American literary history. -Joyce Carol Oates

Preface

xxvii

PART ONE Expansion and National Redefinition: The Late 19th Century

(906)

Late 19th-Century Poetry

(197)

Walt Whitman (1819--1892)

(136)

from Leaves of Grass:

(1)

Preface to the 1855 Edition

(1)

from Inscriptions:

(14)

One's-Self I Sing

(1)

Beginning My Studies

(1)

Shut Not Your Doors

(1)

Poets to Come

(1)

Song of Myself

(1)

from Children of Adam:

(45)

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

(1)

Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City

(2)

Facing West From California's Shores

(1)

As Adam Early in the Morning

(1)

from Calamus:

(1)

In Paths Untrodden

(1)

Recorders Ages Hence

(1)

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

(1)

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me

(1)

Here the Frailest Leaves of Me

(1)

Full of Life Now

(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

(4)

from Sea-Drift:

(1)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

(5)

As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life

(3)

from By the Roadside:

(1)

A Hand-Mirror

(1)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

(1)

To a President

(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles

(1)

The Runner

(1)

from Drum-Taps:

(1)

Beat! Beat! Drums!

(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

(1)

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest

(1)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

100

(1)

The Wound-Dresser

101

(2)

Dirge for Two Veterans

103

(1)

The Artilleryman's Vision

104

(1)

Reconciliation

105

(1)

from Memories of President Lincoln:

105

(1)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

105

(7)

from Autumn Rivulets:

112

(1)

There Was a Child Went Forth

112

(1)

To a Common Prostitute

113

(1)

Passage to India

114

(7)

The Sleepers

121

(7)

from Whispers of Heavenly Death:

128

(1)

Chanting the Square Deific

128

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

129

(1)

from From Noon to Starry Night:

130

(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter

130

(1)

from Songs of Parting:

131

(1)

Camps of Green

131

(1)

As They Draw to a Close

132

(1)

from First Annex: Sands at Seventy:

132

(1)

Death of General Grant

132

(1)

from Second Annex: Good-bye My Fancy:

133

(1)

Osceola

133

(1)

L. of G.'s Purport

133

(1)

Good-bye My Fancy!

134

(1)

from A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads

134

(8)

from Democratic Vistas:

142

(1)

American Literature

142

(2)

from Specimen Days:

144

(1)

Abraham Lincoln

144

(1)

Two Brothers, One South, One North

145

(1)

The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up

146

(1)

My Tribute to Four Poets

147

(1)

Boston Common---More of Emerson

148

(2)

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)

150

(43)

I never lost as much but twice

154

(1)

A little East of Jordan

154

(1)

Success is counted sweetest

155

(1)

Exultation is the going

155

(1)

For each extatic instant

156

(1)

These are the days when Birds come back---

156

(1)

Water, is taught by thirst

157

(1)

I met a King this afternoon!

157

(1)

``Faith'' is a fine invention

158

(1)

I'm ``wife''---I've finished that---

158

(1)

I taste a liquor never brewed---

159

(1)

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers---(1859 version)

159

(1)

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers---(1861 version)

160

(1)

I like a look of Agony

160

(1)

Wild Nights---Wild Nights!

160

(1)

``Hope'' is the thing with feathers---

161

(1)

There's a certain Slant of light

161

(1)

A solemn thing---it was---I said---

162

(1)

The only Ghost I ever saw

162

(1)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

163

(1)

The Robin's my Criterion for Tune---

164

(1)

I got so I could hear his name---

164

(1)

He fumbles at your Soul

165

(1)

I cannot dance upon my Toes---

165

(1)

A Bird came down the Walk---

166

(1)

The face I carry with me---last---

167

(1)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes---

167

(1)

I dreaded that first Robin, so

168

(1)

What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---

169

(1)

Much Madness is divinest Sense---

169

(1)

This is my letter to the World

169

(1)

This was a Poet---It is That

170

(1)

I died for Beauty---but was scarce

170

(1)

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---

171

(1)

If you were coming in the Fall

171

(1)

The Soul has Bandaged moments---

172

(1)

To hear an Oriole sing

173

(1)

I reckon---when I count at all---

173

(1)

I had been hungry, all the Years---

174

(1)

I like to see it lap the Miles---

174

(1)

The way I read a Letter's---this---

175

(1)

I cannot live with You---

175

(2)

Pain---has an Element of Blank---

177

(1)

I dwell in Possibility---

177

(1)

Because I could not stop for Death---

178

(1)

Where Thou art---that---is Home---

178

(1)

She rose to His Requirement---dropt

179

(1)

Remorse---is Memory---awake---

179

(1)

Renunciation---is a piercing Virtue---

180

(1)

My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---

180

(1)

You constituted Time---

181

(1)

None can experience stint

181

(1)

Finding is the first Act

182

(1)

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

182

(1)

Crumbling is not an instant's Act

183

(1)

Further in Summer than the Birds

183

(1)

Title divine---is mine!

184

(1)

The Bustle in a House

184

(1)

Revolution is the Pod

185

(1)

The last Night that She lived

185

(1)

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---

186

(1)

September's Baccalaureate

186

(1)

Abraham to kill him

187

(1)

Wonder---is not precisely Knowing

187

(1)

A little Madness in the Spring

187

(1)

A Route of Evanescence

188

(1)

As imperceptibly as Grief

188

(1)

Apparently with no surprise

188

(1)

In Winter in my Room

189

(1)

My life closed twice before its close

190

(1)

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee

190

(1)

Elysium is as far as to

190

(1)

Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 25 April 1862

191

(1)

Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Early October 1883

192

(1)

Sidney Lanier (1842--1881)

193

(3)

The Raven Days

194

(1)

Song of the Chattahoochee

194

(2)

Marsh Song---at Sunset

196

(1)

Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)

196

(4)

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

197

(2)

The New Colossus

199

(1)

1492

199

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)

200

(6)

An Ante-Bellum Sermon

201

(3)

We Wear the Mask

204

(1)

Theology

204

(1)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

204

(1)

Douglass

205

(1)

Booker T. Washington

205

(1)

Late 19th-Century Nonfiction Prose

206

(44)

Henry Adams (1838--1918)

210

(12)

from The Education of Henry Adams:

213

(1)

Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)

213

(9)

Booker T. Washington (1856--1915)

222

(9)

from Up From Slavery:

224

(1)

Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address

224

(7)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963)

231

(12)

from The Souls of Black Folk:

232

(1)

The Forethought

232

(1)

Chapter III: Of Booker T. Washington and Others

233

(10)

Frank Norris (1870--1902)

243

(7)

from The ``Volunteer Manuscript''

244

(2)

A Plea for Romantic Fiction

246

(2)

from Salt and Sincerity

248

(2)

Late 19th-Century Fiction

250

(657)

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835--1910)

254

(238)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

258

(5)

The Late Benjamin Franklin

263

(1)

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

264

(12)

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

276

(9)

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

285

(31)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

316

(176)

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840--1894)

492

(13)

King David

493

(12)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849--1909)

505

(15)

A White Heron

506

(7)

Miss Tempy's Watchers

513

(7)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852--1930)

520

(9)

A Village Singer

521

(8)

Kate Chopin (1851--1904)

529

(103)

Desiree's Baby

532

(4)

The Story of an Hour

536

(1)

A Pair of Silk Stockings

537

(4)

The Storm

541

(3)

The Awakening

544

(88)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858--1932)

632

(20)

The Passing of Grandison

633

(12)

Sis' Becky's Pickaninny

645

(7)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)

652

(13)

The Yellow Wall-paper

654

(11)

Henry James (1843--1916)

665

(126)

Daisy Miller

669

(41)

The Real Thing

710

(16)

The Beast in the Jungle

726

(29)

The Jolly Corner

755

(21)

The Art of Fiction

776

(15)

William Dean Howells (1837--1920)

791

(20)

from Literary Friends and Acquaintance:

792

(1)

from My First Visit to New England

792

(7)

Puritanism in American Fiction

799

(3)

Editha

802

(9)

Stephen Crane (1871--1900)

811

(83)

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

814

(42)

Stephen Crane's Own Story

856

(6)

The Open Boat

862

(16)

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

878

(7)

An Illusion in Red and White

885

(4)

from The Black Riders and Other Lines:

889

(1)

Black riders came from the sea

889

(1)

I stood upon a high place

889

(1)

There was crimson clash of war

889

(1)

A god in wrath

889

(1)

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

890

(1)

A youth in apparel that glittered

890

(1)

Supposing that I should have the courage

891

(1)

Many workmen

891

(1)

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky

891

(1)

Many red devils ran from my heart

892

(1)

from War Is Kind:

892

(1)

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

892

(1)

The wayfarer

893

(1)

A man said to the universe

893

(1)

Jack London (1876--1916)

894

(13)

To Build a Fire

895

(12)

PART TWO America in the World Community: The Early 20th Century

907

(484)

Early 20th-Century Poetry

916

(277)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)

921

(7)

Luke Havergal

922

(1)

Richard Cory

923

(1)

For a Dead Lady

923

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

924

(1)

Veteran Sirens

925

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

926

(1)

Why He Was There

927

(1)

Robert Frost (1874--1963)

928

(25)

The Pasture

932

(1)

Mowing

932

(1)

Mending Wall

932

(1)

Home Burial

933

(3)

After Apple-Picking

936

(1)

The Wood-Pile

937

(1)

The Road Not Taken

938

(1)

An Old Man's Winter Night

939

(1)

The Oven Bird

940

(1)

Birches

940

(1)

Putting in the Seed

941

(1)

Locked Out

942

(1)

``Out, Out---''

942

(1)

Dust of Snow

943

(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

944

(1)

For Once, Then Something

944

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

944

(1)

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

944

(1)

Spring Pools

945

(1)

Fireflies in the Garden

946

(1)

Once by the Pacific

946

(1)

Acquainted With the Night

946

(1)

What Fifty Said

947

(1)

The Bear

947

(1)

Desert Places

948

(1)

Design

948

(1)

Provide, Provide

949

(1)

The Silken Tent

950

(1)

Come In

951

(1)

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

951

(1)

The Gift Outright

951

(1)

Directive

951

(2)

Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)

953

(6)

Chicago

954

(1)

Cool Tombs

955

(1)

River Roads

955

(1)

Grass

956

(1)

Gargoyle

956

(1)

Prayer After World War

957

(1)

Aprons of Silence

957

(1)

They All Want to Play Hamlet

958

(1)

Love in Labrador

958

(1)

Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)

959

(31)

Sunday Morning

962

(3)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

965

(1)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

965

(2)

Nuances of a Theme by Williams

967

(1)

Anecdote of the Jar

968

(1)

The Snow Man

968

(1)

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

969

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

969

(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West

970

(1)

Mozart, 1935

971

(1)

Anglais Mort a Florence

972

(1)

A Postcard From the Volcano

973

(1)

from The Man With the Blue Guitar

974

(1)

Study of Two Pears

975

(1)

Of Hartford in a Purple Light

976

(1)

Of Modern Poetry

976

(1)

Mrs. Alfred Uruguay

977

(1)

Asides on the Oboe

978

(1)

from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction:

979

(1)

from Section One: It Must Be Abstract

979

(1)

from Section Two: It Must Change

980

(1)

from Section Three: It Must Give Pleasure

981

(1)

So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch

981

(1)

Large Red Man Reading

982

(1)

This Solitude of Cataracts

983

(1)

Angel Surrounded by Paysans

984

(1)

The Course of a Particular

985

(1)

To an Old Philosopher in Rome

985

(3)

The River of Rivers in Connecticut

988

(1)

First Warmth

988

(1)

As You Leave the Room

989

(1)

A Clear Day and No Memories

989

(1)

Of Mere Being

990

(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

990

(24)

Postlude

993

(1)

The Young Housewife

994

(1)

Tract

994

(2)

El Hombre

996

(1)

Portrait of a Lady

996

(1)

The Late Singer

997

(1)

Overture to a Dance of Locomotives

997

(2)

Spring and All

999

(1)

The Pot of Flowers

999

(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow

1000

(1)

The Wildflowre

1000

(1)

The Attic Which Is Desire

1001

(1)

This Is Just to Say

1002

(1)

The Locust Tree in Flower [First Version]

1002

(1)

The Locust Tree in Flower [Second Version]

1003

(1)

Proletarian Portrait

1003

(1)

The Yachts

1004

(1)

Fine Work With Pitch and Copper

1005

(1)

Classic Scene

1006

(1)

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

1006

(1)

The Dance

1007

(1)

Burning the Christmas Greens

1008

(2)

from Paterson:

1010

(1)

from Book II: Sunday in the Park

1010

(2)

from Pictures From Brueghel:

1012

(1)

Landscape With the Fall of Icarus

1012

(2)

Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) (1886--1961)

1014

(8)

Pear Tree

1016

(1)

At Baia

1016

(1)

Evadne

1017

(1)

Helen

1018

(1)

Fragment Sixty-Eight

1018

(2)

from Let Zeus Record:

1020

(1)

Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare

1020

(1)

from Sigil:

1021

(1)

If you take the moon in your hands

1021

(1)

from The Mysteries:

1021

(1)

``The mysteries remain

1021

(1)

Ezra Pound (1885--1972)

1022

(39)

The Tree

1026

(1)

Sestina: Altaforte

1026

(2)

Portrait d'une Femme

1028

(1)

The Seafarer

1029

(2)

The Return

1031

(1)

Tenzone

1032

(1)

The Garden

1032

(1)

Les Millwin

1033

(1)

Liu Ch'e

1033

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

1034

(1)

The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

1034

(1)

Lament of the Frontier Guard

1035

(1)

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

1035

(15)

from The Cantos:

1050

(1)

1050

(1)

1050

(6)

LXXXI

1056

(5)

Marianne Moore (1887--1972)

1061

(17)

When I Buy Pictures

1063

(1)

Poetry

1064

(1)

In the Days of Prismatic Color

1065

(1)

A Grave

1066

(1)

Silence

1067

(1)

The Steeple-Jack

1067

(2)

Bowls

1069

(1)

Nine Nectarines

1070

(2)

The Paper Nautilus

1072

(1)

What Are Years?

1073

(1)

The Animals Sick of the Plague

1073

(2)

A Jelly-Fish

1075

(1)

Baseball and Writing

1075

(3)

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)

1078

(33)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1081

(4)

Cousin Nancy

1085

(1)

La Figlia Che Piange

1086

(1)

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

1086

(2)

The Waste Land

1088

(14)

Journey of the Magi

1102

(2)

Marina

1104

(1)

from Four Quartets:

1105

(1)

East Coker

1105

(6)

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)

1111

(9)

from Songs:

1113

(1)

All in green went my love riding

1113

(1)

from Orientale:

1114

(1)

my love

1114

(1)

from Portraits:

1115

(1)

Buffalo Bill's

1115

(1)

from N:

1115

(1)

Spring is like a perhaps hand

1115

(1)

from Two:

1116

(1)

``Next to of course god america i

1116

(1)

from W:

1116

(1)

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

1116

(1)

as freedom is a breakfast food

1117

(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town

1118

(1)

these children singing in stone a

1119

(1)

Hart Crane (1899--1932)

1120

(21)

Legend

1122

(1)

Emblems of Conduct

1122

(1)

My Grandmother's Love Letters

1123

(1)

Chaplinesque

1124

(1)

Passage

1124

(1)

At Melville's Tomb

1125

(1)

Voyages

1126

(5)

from The Bridge:

1131

(1)

To Brooklyn Bridge

1131

(1)

from II: Powhatan's Daughter:

1132

(1)

The River

1132

(4)

from VII: The Tunnel:

1136

(1)

The Tunnel

1136

(4)

The Broken Tower

1140

(1)

Louise Bogan (1897--1970)

1141

(8)

Women

1142

(1)

Cassandra

1143

(1)

For a Marriage

1143

(1)

Sonnet

1144

(1)

Single Sonnet

1144

(1)

Italian Morning

1145

(1)

The Sleeping Fury

1145

(1)

Evening in the Sanitarium

1146

(1)

Song for the Last Act

1147

(1)

The Dragonfly

1148

(1)

Night

1149

(1)

Yvor Winters (1900--1968)

1149

(8)

The Slow Pacific Swell

1150

(1)

Orpheus

1151

(1)

On Teaching the Young

1152

(1)

The Manzanita

1152

(1)

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight

1153

(1)

An Elegy

1154

(1)

Time and the Garden

1155

(1)

The Rows of Cold Trees

1156

(1)

Allen Tate (1899--1979)

1157

(10)

Mr. Pope

1158

(1)

Ode to the Confederate Dead

1158

(4)

The Oath

1162

(1)

The Mediterranean

1163

(1)

Shadow and Shade

1164

(1)

Sonnets at Christmas

1165

(2)

Langston Hughes (1902--1967)

1167

(16)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

1168

(1)

Dream Variations

1169

(1)

Fire

1169

(1)

The Weary Blues

1170

(1)

Afro-American Fragment

1171

(1)

I, Too (Epilogue)

1172

(1)

Sylvester's Dying Bed

1172

(1)

Madam's Past History

1173

(1)

Madam and the Minister

1174

(1)

Trumpet Player

1175

(1)

Dream Boogie

1176

(1)

Sister

1177

(1)

Theme for English B

1177

(2)

Harlem

1179

(1)

Feet Live Their Own Life

1179

(2)

Thank You, M'am

1181

(2)

Stanley Kunitz (1905--)

1183

(10)

How Long Is the Night?

1184

(1)

Father and Son

1185

(1)

The Testing-Tree

1186

(3)

An Old Cracked Tune

1189

(1)

The Portrait

1189

(1)

The Quarrel

1189

(1)

Quinnapoxet

1190

(1)

The Abduction

1191

(1)

Passing Through

1192

(1)

Early 20th-Century Fiction

1193

(198)

Edith Wharton (1862--1937)

1197

(25)

The Other Two

1200

(13)

Roman Fever

1213

(9)

Theodore Dreiser (1871--1945)

1222

(14)

The Second Choice

1223

(13)

Willa Cather (1873--1947)

1236

(12)

Peter

1238

(2)

A Wagner Matinee

1240

(5)

from My Antonia:

1245

(1)

[The Story of Peter and Pavel]

1245

(3)

Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)

1248

(28)

The Gentle Lena

1251

(19)

from Tender Buttons:

1270

(1)

from Objects

1270

(6)

Sherwood Anderson (1876--1941)

1276

(15)

from Winesburg, Ohio:

1279

(1)

Adventure

1279

(4)

Death in the Woods

1283

(8)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)

1291

(10)

Flowering Judas

1292

(9)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896--1940)

1301

(19)

Babylon Revisited

1304

(16)

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?--1960)

1320

(11)

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

1321

(2)

The Gilded Six-Bits

1323

(8)

Jean Toomer (1894--1967)

1331

(7)

from Cane:

1332

(1)

Karintha

1332

(2)

Reapers

1334

(1)

November Cotton Flower

1334

(1)

Fern

1335

(3)

William Faulkner (1897--1962)

1338

(22)

A Rose for Emily

1342

(6)

That Evening Sun

1348

(12)

Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)

1360

(15)

Big Two-Hearted River

1363

(12)

John Steinbeck (1902--1968)

1375

(16)

Flight

1377

(14)

PART THREE Diversity, Technology, and Social Change: The Middle to Late 20th Century

1391

(986)

Middle to Late 20th-Century Drama

1400

(248)

Eugene O'Neill (1888--1953)

1407

(41)

Desire Under the Elms

1410

(38)

Tennessee Williams (1911--1983)

1448

(48)

The Glass Menagerie

1452

(44)

Arthur Miller (1915--)

1496

(68)

Death of a Salesman

1500

(64)

Lorraine Hansberry (1930--1965)

1564

(66)

A Raisin in the Sun

1566

(64)

Edward Albee (1928--)

1630

(18)

The Zoo Story

1632

(16)

Middle to Late 20th-Century Poetry

1648

(303)

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)

1652

(12)

Open House

1653

(1)

Night Journey

1654

(1)

My Papa's Waltz

1654

(1)

Root Cellar

1655

(1)

The Lost Son

1655

(5)

Elegy for Jane

1660

(1)

The Waking

1661

(1)

I Knew a Woman

1661

(1)

The Kitty-Cat Bird

1662

(1)

Myrtle

1663

(1)

In a Dark Time

1663

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)

1664

(17)

The Map

1666

(1)

The Imaginary Iceberg

1667

(1)

The Bight

1668

(1)

The Shampoo

1669

(1)

Questions of Travel

1670

(1)

Sestina

1671

(1)

Poem

1672

(2)

In the Waiting Room

1674

(2)

The Moose

1676

(4)

One Art

1680

(1)

Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)

1681

(6)

90 North

1682

(1)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

1683

(1)

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

1683

(1)

Next Day

1684

(1)

Well Water

1685

(1)

Bats

1686

(1)

John Berryman (1914--1972)

1687

(13)

The Statue

1689

(1)

The Ball Poem

1690

(1)

The Song of the Tortured Girl

1691

(1)

from The Dream Songs:

1691

(1)

1691

(1)

1692

(1)

18: A Strut for Roethke

1692

(1)

1693

(1)

1694

(1)

76: Henry's Confession

1694

(1)

1695

(1)

127

1695

(1)

153

1696

(1)

157

1696

(2)

187

1698

(1)

366

1698

(1)

Henry's Understanding

1698

(1)

from Henry's Fate:

1699

(1)

[I didn't. And I didn't.]

1699

(1)

Robert Hayden (1913--1980)

1700

(6)

A Road in Kentucky

1701

(1)

Those Winter Sundays

1701

(1)

Runagate Runagate

1702

(2)

Frederick Douglass

1704

(1)

```Mystery Boy' Looks for Kin in Nashville''

1705

(1)

Bone-Flower Elegy

1705

(1)

William Stafford (1914--)

1706

(7)

At the Bomb Testing Site

1707

(1)

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

1708

(1)

from In Medias Res:

1708

(1)

Traveling Through the Dark

1708

(1)

The Farm on the Great Plains

1709

(1)

The Epitaph Ending in And

1710

(1)

A Lecture on the Elegy

1710

(1)

The Burning House

1710

(1)

Accountability

1711

(1)

After Arguing Against the Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent

1711

(1)

An Oregon Message

1712

(1)

Robert Lowell (1917--1977)

1713

(27)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

1716

(4)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider

1720

(3)

from Life Studies:

1723

(1)

I: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow

1723

(4)

Waking in the Blue

1727

(2)

Memories of West Street and Lepke

1729

(1)

Man and Wife

1730

(1)

Skunk Hour

1731

(2)

The Mouth of the Hudson

1733

(1)

Eye and Tooth

1733

(1)

The Neo-Classical Urn

1734

(1)

For the Union Dead

1735

(3)

from Four Poems for Elizabeth Biship:

1738

(1)

I: Water 1948

1738

(1)

Reading Myself

1738

(1)

Dolphin

1739

(1)

Epilogue

1739

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917---)

1740

(8)

from A Street in Bronzeville:

1741

(1)

Southeast Corner

1741

(1)

The Mother

1742

(1)

A Song in the Front Yard

1742

(1)

Sadie and Maud

1743

(1)

Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery

1744

(1)

The Bean Eaters

1745

(1)

We Real Cool

1745

(1)

The Lovers of the Poor

1745

(3)

Richard Wilbur (1921---)

1748

(8)

Bell Speech

1749

(1)

The Pardon

1750

(1)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1750

(1)

For Dudley

1751

(1)

To the Etruscan Poets

1752

(1)

The Writer

1753

(1)

Lying

1754

(2)

Denise Levertov (1923--)

1756

(8)

The Jacob's Ladder

1757

(1)

Matins

1758

(2)

The Ache of Marriage

1760

(1)

O Taste and See

1761

(1)

Intrusion

1761

(1)

Ways of Conquest

1762

(1)

Gathered at the River

1762

(2)

Maxine Kumin (1925--)

1764

(7)

Woodchucks

1765

(1)

The Longing to Be Saved

1766

(1)

The Envelope

1767

(1)

How It Is

1768

(1)

The Grace of Geldings in Ripe Pastures

1768

(1)

Family Reunion

1769

(1)

Morning Swim

1770

(1)

A. R. Ammons (1926--)

1771

(6)

So I Said I Am Ezra

1772

(1)

Apologia pro Vita Sua

1772

(1)

Coon Song

1773

(2)

Laser

1775

(1)

He Held Radical Light

1776

(1)

Winter Saint

1776

(1)

Allen Ginsberg (1926--)

1777

(14)

Howl

1778

(8)

Footnote to Howl

1786

(1)

A Supermarket in California

1786

(1)

America

1787

(3)

Ode to Failure

1790

(1)

James Merrill (1926--)

1791

(7)

Charles on Fire

1792

(1)

The Broken Home

1792

(3)

The Victor Dog

1795

(2)

Farewell Performance

1797

(1)

Anne Sexton (1928--1974)

1798

(7)

Kind Sir: These Woods

1799

(1)

Her Kind

1800

(1)

The Truth the Dead Know

1800

(1)

All My Pretty Ones

1801

(1)

For My Lover, Returning to His Wife

1802

(2)

1804

(1)

from The Furies:

1805

(1)

The Fury of Beautiful Bones

1805

(1)

James Wright (1927--1980)

1805

(10)

Saint Judas

1807

(1)

All the Beautiful Are Blameless

1807

(1)

Arrangements With Earth for Three Dead Friends

1808

(1)

The Angel

1809

(2)

Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon

1811

(1)

A Blessing

1812

(1)

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

1812

(1)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

1813

(1)

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned

1813

(1)

Small Frogs Killed on the Highway

1814

(1)

Wherever Home Is

1814

(1)

John Ashbery (1927--)

1815

(15)

Some Trees

1817

(1)

The Painter

1817

(1)

Rivers and Mountains

1818

(2)

For John Clare

1820

(1)

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

1821

(1)

Scheherazade

1822

(2)

Wet Casements

1824

(1)

The Ice-Cream Wars

1825

(1)

My Erotic Double

1826

(1)

Some Old Tires

1827

(1)

Forgotten Sex

1827

(1)

Frost

1828

(1)

Someone You Have Seen Before

1829

(1)

W. S. Merwin (1927--)

1830

(16)

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen

1832

(3)

One-Eye

1835

(1)

Grandmother Dying

1836

(2)

The Drunk in the Furnace

1838

(1)

The Animals

1839

(1)

For the Anniversary of My Death

1839

(1)

The Dry Stone Mason

1840

(1)

The Judgment of Paris

1840

(3)

Flies

1843

(1)

A Contemporary

1843

(1)

Berryman

1844

(1)

Travelling Together

1845

(1)

Thanks

1845

(1)

Galway Kinnell (1927--)

1846

(8)

The Bear

1848

(2)

from The Book of Nightmares:

1850

(1)

Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight

1850

(3)

Saint Francis and the Sow

1853

(1)

Daybreak

1854

(1)

Adrienne Rich (1929--)

1854

(17)

Living in Sin

1856

(1)

The Diamond Cutters

1856

(2)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

1858

(4)

Face to Face

1862

(1)

I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus

1862

(1)

Orion

1863

(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

1864

(1)

From a Survivor

1865

(1)

from Twenty-One Love Poems:

1866

(1)

III

1866

(1)

Toward the Solstice

1866

(3)

In Memoriam: D. K.

1869

(2)

Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)

1871

(16)

You're

1873

(1)

The Hanging Man

1874

(1)

Tulips

1874

(2)

Blackberrying

1876

(1)

The Moon and the Yew Tree

1877

(1)

The Bee Meeting

1877

(3)

Daddy

1880

(2)

Lady Lazarus

1882

(1)

Ariel

1883

(2)

Nick and the Candlestick

1885

(1)

Edge

1886

(1)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934--)

1887

(8)

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

1888

(1)

In Memory of Radio

1889

(1)

A Poem for Speculative Hipsters

1890

(1)

I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer

1890

(1)

Political Poem

1890

(2)

A Poem for Black Hearts

1892

(1)

Legacy

1893

(1)

Evil Nigger Waits for Lightnin'

1893

(2)

Lawson Inada (1938--)

1895

(7)

From Our Album

1896

(3)

In a Storm

1899

(1)

Utica, North Platte

1900

(1)

Wintersong

1901

(1)

Paula Gunn Allen (1939--)

1902

(7)

C'Koy'u, Old Woman

1903

(1)

Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe

1903

(2)

Coyote Jungle

1905

(1)

Weed

1906

(1)

Myth/Telling---Dream/Showing

1907

(2)

Robert Pinsky (1940--)

1909

(8)

The Unseen

1910

(2)

The Volume

1912

(1)

The Living

1913

(2)

The Changes

1915

(1)

The Saving

1916

(1)

Robert Hass (1941--)

1917

(7)

Song

1918

(1)

Heroic Simile

1919

(1)

Meditation at Lagunitas

1920

(1)

Sunrise

1921

(1)

The Yellow Bicycle

1922

(1)

Spring Drawing

1923

(1)

Simon J. Ortiz (1941--)

1924

(6)

Dry Root in a Wash

1925

(1)

A Story of How a Wall Stands

1926

(1)

Wind and Glacier Voices

1927

(1)

The Creation, According to Coyote

1928

(1)

from From Sand Creek:

1929

(1)

Grief

1929

(1)

The sky is brilliant

1929

(1)

Louise Gluck (1943--)

1930

(8)

Cottonmouth Country

1932

(1)

Gretel in Darkness

1932

(1)

All Hallows

1933

(1)

The Drowned Children

1933

(1)

Palais des Arts

1934

(1)

Dedication to Hunger

1934

(3)

Mythic Fragment

1937

(1)

Elms

1937

(1)

Horse

1937

(1)

Alberto Rios (1952--)

1938

(7)

At Kino Viejo, Mexico

1939

(1)

Carlos

1940

(1)

Mi Abuelo

1941

(1)

Madre Sofia

1942

(2)

The Purpose of Altar Boys

1944

(1)

Winter Along the Santa Cruz

1945

(1)

Louise Erdrich (1954--)

1945

(6)

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

1946

(1)

Francine's Room

1947

(1)

Captivity

1948

(2)

That Pull From the Left

1950

(1)

Middle to Late 20th-Century Fiction

1951

(426)

Raymond Chandler (1888--1959)

1957

(35)

Red Wind

1959

(33)

Richard Wright (1908--1960)

1992

(26)

from Uncle Tom's Children:

1994

(1)

Bright and Morning Star

1994

(24)

Eudora Welty (1909--)

2018

(11)

Petrified Man

2020

(9)

John Cheever (1912--1982)

2029

(9)

The Enormous Radio

2030

(8)

Bernard Malamud (1914--1986)

2038

(12)

The Magic Barrel

2039

(11)

Ralph Ellison (1914--)

2050

(12)

from Invisible Man:

2051

(1)

Chapter I: [Battle Royal]

2051

(11)

Saul Bellow (1915--1986)

2062

(65)

Seize the Day

2064

(63)

Norman Mailer (1923---)

2127

(19)

from The Armies of the Night:

2129

(1)

5: Toward a Theater of Ideas

2129

(9)

6: A Transfer of Power

2138

(8)

Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)

2146

(26)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

2148

(10)

The Artificial Nigger

2158

(14)

James Baldwin (1924--1987)

2172

(23)

Sonny's Blues

2174

(21)

William Gass (1924--)

2195

(20)

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

2196

(19)

Maya Angelou (1928--)

2215

(20)

from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:

2216

(1)

Chapter 4

2216

(3)

Chapter 5

2219

(4)

Chapter 16

2223

(3)

Chapter 23

2226

(9)

Toni Morrison (1931--)

2235

(18)

from Song of Solomon:

2236

(1)

Chapter I

2236

(17)

John Updike (1932--)

2253

(5)

A & P

2254

(4)

Philip Roth (1933--)

2258

(22)

from Goodbye Columbus:

2260

(1)

Defender of the Faith

2260

(20)

Joan Didion (1934--)

2280

(7)

When Did Music Come This Way? Children Dear, Was It Yesterday?

2281

(6)

N. Scott Momaday (1934--)

2287

(25)

The Way to Rainy Mountain

2288

(24)

Tomas Rivera (1935--1985)

2312

(13)

from ... y No Se Lo Trago la Tierra (... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him):

2313

(1)

The Children Couldn't Wait

2313

(1)

It's That It Hurts

2314

(4)

The Night Before Christmas

2318

(4)

When We Arrive

2322

(3)

Joyce Carol Oates (1938--)

2325

(2)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

2326

(1)

Raymond Carver (1938--1988)

2327

(18)

Cathedral

2328

(17)

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940--)

2345

(12)

from The Woman Warrior:

2349

(1)

No Name Woman

2349

(8)

Alice Walker (1944--)

2357

(7)

Everyday Use

2358

(6)

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948--)

2364

(13)

Storyteller

2365

(12)

Appendix: Writing About literature

2377

(18)

Glossary

2395

(16)

Index

2411

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