1.Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Roman Fever 2.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) From Sister Carrie 3.Willa Cather (1873-1947) A Wagner Matinee 4.Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mending Wall Home Burial The Road Not Taken Birches "Out, Out -" Nothing Gold Can Stay Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Desig Desert Places 5.Jack London (1876-1916) The Law of Life 6.Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Death in the Woods 7.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Snow Man The Emperor of Ice-Cream Anecdote of the Jar 8.William Carlos Williams (1883- 1963) The Widow 's Lament in Springtime Spring and All The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say To a Poor Old Woman The Dance 9.Ezra Pound (1885-1972) A Pact In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant's Wife : A Letter From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 10.T. S.Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 11.Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) From Long Day's Journey into Night 12.Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) The Grave 13.F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) From The Great Gatsby 14.William Faulkner (1897-1962) A Rose for Emily 15.Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Indian Camp Hills Like White Elephants A Clean,Well-Lighted Place 16.John S teinbeck ( 1902-1968) From The Grapes of Wrath 17.Langston Hughes (1902-1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers Mother to Son The Weary Blues Song for a Dark Girl Freedom Train Harlem 18.Eudora Welty (1909-2001) A Worn Path 19.Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) The Fish At the Fishhouses Sestina One Art 20.Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) From Invisible Man 21.Saul Bellow (1915-2005) From Seize the Day 22.Arthur Miller ( 1915-2005) From Death of a Salesman 23.Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) Good Country People 24.Toni Morrison (b.1931) The Bluest Eye 25.John Updike (1932-2009) Separating 26.Alice Walker (b.1944) Everyday Use
