American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology,9780130272690

American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology

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ISBN13: 9780130272690
ISBN10: 0130272698
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Pub. Date: 1991-03-01
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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

Table of Contents

Preface xxvii
PART ONE Expansion and National Redefinition: The Late 19th Century 1(906)
Late 19th-Century Poetry
9(197)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
14(136)
from Leaves of Grass:
17(1)
Preface to the 1855 Edition
17(1)
from Inscriptions:
17(14)
One's-Self I Sing
31(1)
Beginning My Studies
31(1)
Shut Not Your Doors
32(1)
Poets to Come
32(1)
Song of Myself
32(1)
from Children of Adam:
33(45)
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
78(1)
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
78(2)
Facing West From California's Shores
80(1)
As Adam Early in the Morning
81(1)
from Calamus:
81(1)
In Paths Untrodden
81(1)
Recorders Ages Hence
82(1)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
82(1)
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
83(1)
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
84(1)
Full of Life Now
84(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
84(4)
from Sea-Drift:
88(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
88(5)
As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life
93(3)
from By the Roadside:
96(1)
A Hand-Mirror
96(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
96(1)
To a President
96(1)
The Dalliance of the Eagles
97(1)
The Runner
97(1)
from Drum-Taps:
97(1)
Beat! Beat! Drums!
97(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
98(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
98(1)
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest
99(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)
I
1050(1)
IV
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)
1
1691(1)
14
1692(1)
18: A Strut for Roethke
1692(1)
29
1693(1)
40
1694(1)
76: Henry's Confession
1694(1)
77
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)
Us
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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