Chapter One The Colonial and the Revolutionary Period
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Wild Honeysuckle
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Autobiography (excerpt)
Chapter Two The Romantic Period
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To a Waterfowl
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans (excerpt)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Annabel Lee
The Raven
The Cask of Amontillado
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nature (excerpt)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter (excerpt)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself (excerpt)
O Captain! My Captain
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I'm Nobody
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died
Chapter Three The Realistic Period
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpt)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Daisy Miller (excerpt)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A Man Said to the Universe
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie (excerpt)
Jack London (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (excerpt)
O. Henry (1862-1910)
The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter Four The Modernist Period
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Waste Land (excerpt)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The Old Man and the Sea (excerpt)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury (excerpt)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
William Carols Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
The Hairy Ape (excerpt)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dreams
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
Chapter Five The Post-war Period
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Howl (excerpt)
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Catch-22 (excerpt)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Lolita (excerpt)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
Slaughterhouse Five (excerpt)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
The Catcher in the Rye (excerpt)
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
The Adventures of Augie March (excerpt)
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