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Concise Anthology of American Literature

by: McMichael, George; Crews, Frederick; Levenson, J. C.; Marx, Leo; Smith, David E.

Concise Anthology of American Literature

by: McMichael, George; Crews, Frederick; Levenson, J. C.; Marx, Leo; Smith, David E.

ISBN 13:
9780133732917
ISBN 10:
0133732916
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/01/1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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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.

Preface

xxvii

The Literature of Colonial America

(214)

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)

(9)

Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage FROM The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America

(7)

Thursday 11 October 1492

(2)

Sunday 14 October 1492

(1)

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)

(14)

FROM The General History of Virginia

(12)

The Third Book

(11)

Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War

(1)

NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES I

(16)

Myths and Tales

(1)

How the World Began

(8)

How the World Was Made

(2)

The Beginning of Summer and Winter

(2)

The Gift of the Sacred Pipe

(2)

Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow

(1)

WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)

(15)

FROM Of Plymouth Plantation

(13)

"Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal"

(2)

"Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden..."

(1)

"Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage..."

(3)

"Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation..."

(2)

"Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]"

(3)

"Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]"

(1)

"Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]"

(1)

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)

(12)

FROM The Journal of John Winthrop

(11)

The Bay Psalm Book (1640)

(3)

FROM The Bay Psalm Book

(3)

The New England Primer (c. 1683)

(7)

FROM The New England Primer

(6)

ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)

(20)

The Prologue

(1)

Contemplations

(7)

The Flesh and the Spirit

(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)

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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