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List of IllustrationsPrefaceEXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES, 1492–1791Virginia and the SouthNew EnglandTimeline: Exploration and the ColoniesNATIVES AND EXPLORERSNATIVE LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITIONThe Chiefs DaughtersCoyote and BearTwelfth Song of the ThunderThe Corn Grows UpAt the Time of the White DawnSnake the CauseThe Weaver’s LamentationCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506)[Report of the First Voyage]GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485?-1528)From Verrazzano’s Voyage: 1524ALVAR NUEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c1490-c1557)From Narrative of Cabeza de VacaChapter 12: The Indians Bring Us Food Chapter 16: The Christians Leave the Island of Malhado RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552-1616)The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake[Nova Albion]SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (c1567-1635)From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyage of 1604–1607THE COLONIESJOHN SMITH (1580-1631) From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles The Third Book. The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in VirginiaChapter II: What Happened till the First Supply The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616)WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657) From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape CodChapter X: Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout From Of Plymouth Plantation, Book II [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] [Compact with the Indians][First Thanksgiving][Narragansett Challenge][Thomas Morton of MerrymountJOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)From A Model of Christian Charity PURITANISMANNE BRADSTREET (1612?-1672) The PrologueThe Flesh and the Spirit The Author to Her BookBefore the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving HusbandA Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 MARY ROWLANDSON (1636?–1711?)From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonEDWARD TAYLOR (1642?-1729) The Preface Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children Huswifery Meditation 8, First SeriesUpon a Spider Catching a Fly CROSSCURRENTS: PURITANS, INDIANS, AND WITCHCRAFTCOTTON MATHER (1663-1728)*[Indian Powaws and Witchcraft]*MARY TOWNE EASTY (1634?-1692)[The Petition of Mary Towne Easty]SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)*[A Witchcraft Judge’s Confession of Guilt]COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)From The Wonders of the Invisible World Enchantments Encountered The Trial of Bridget Bishop A Third CuriosityTHE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) FromThe History of the Dividing Line [Indian Neighbors]JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) From The Journal of John Woolman 1720-1742 [Early Years]1757 [Evidence of Divine Truth], [Slavery]1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars] ST. JEAN DE CREVÈCOEUR (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer: What Is an American? REASON AND REVOLUTION The Enlightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature Timeline: Reason and RevolutionJONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)Sarah Pierrepont From A Divine and Supernatural LightSinners in the Hands of an Angry God Personal Narrative BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) From The Autobiography From Poor Richard's AlmanackPreface to Poor Richard, 1733 The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 *The Speech of Polly BakerTHOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)From Common SenseThoughts on the Present State of American AffairsThe American Crisis THOMAS JEFFERSON (1737-1809) The Declaration of Independence First Inaugural AddressFromNotes on the State of Virginia [A Southerner on Slavery][Speech of Logan]Letter to John Adams [The True Aristocracy]OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?-1797?)From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoChapter II: [Horrors of a Slave Ship] Chapter III: [Travels to Various Countries]Chapter VII: [He Purchases his Freedom]PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1754?-1784) To the University of Cambridge, in New-EnglandOn Being Brought from Africa to AmericaOn the Death of the Reverend Mr. George WhitefieldAn Hymn to the EveningTo S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works To His Excellency General Washington PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) To the Memory of the Brave Americans The Wild Honey SuckleThe Indian Burying Ground On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of NatureCROSSCURRENTS: NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN A NEW WORLDFRANCIS HIGGINSON (1586-1630) From New England’s PlantationWILLIAM BARTRAM (1739-1832) From Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida[Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields]JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1893) From The Ornithological BiographyKentucky SportsFRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-1893) From The Oregon TrailChapter VII: The BuffaloTHE ROMANTIC TEMPER, 1800-1870 Regional InfluencesNature and the LandThe Original Native AmericansTimeline: The Romantic Temper WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) From The Sketch BookRip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) From The PioneersChapter XXII [Pigeons] From The PrairieChapter XXXIX [Death of a Hero] WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)ThanatopsisThe Yellow Violet To a WaterfowlA Forest Hymn To the Fringed Gentian The PrairiesThe Death of Lincoln RED JACKET (c. 1752–1830)[The Great Spirit Has Made Us All]CROSSCURRENTS: ROMANTICISM AND THE AMERICAN INDIANJANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAMEWAWAGEZHIKAQUAY] (1800-1842) Invocation: To My Maternal Grandfather on Hearing of His Descent from Chippewa Ancestors MisrepresentedROMANTICISM AT MID-CENTURY EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) RomanceSonnet--To Science LenoreThe SleeperIsrafelTo Helen The City in the Sea Sonnet--SilenceThe Raven UlalumeAnnabel Lee LigeiaThe Fall of the House of Usher The Purloined LetterThe Cask of Amontillado NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) My Kinsman, Major MolineuxYoung Goodman BrownThe Minister's Black Veil The BirthmarkRappaccini's Daughter Ethan Brand HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) Bartleby the ScrivenerThe PortentThe Maldive Shark Billy Budd, Sailor TRANSCENDENTALISM RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) NatureThe American Scholar The Divinity School AddressSelf-RelianceThe Over-SoulConcord Hymn Each and All The Rhodora HamatreyaFableBrahma DaysMARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)From Woman in the Nineteenth CenturyCROSSCURRENTS: TRANSCENDENTALISM, WOMEN, AND SOCIAL IDEALSELIZABETH PEABODY (1804–1894)[Labor, Wages, and Leisure]CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)From American Notes[The Mill Girls of Lowell]ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815–1902)Declaration of Sentiments [Seneca Falls, 1848]SOJOURNER TRUTH (c. 1797–1883)[Ar’n’t I a Woman?]FANNY FERN (1811–1872)Aunt Hetty on MatrimonyThe Working-Girls of New YorkHENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) From WaldenEconomy Where I Lived, and What I Lived for Brute NeighborsConclusionCivil Disobedience THE HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY AND THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT, 1800-1870 Democracy and Social Reform Inevitable Conflict Timeline: The Humanitarian Sensibility and the Inevitable ConflictCROSSCURRENTS: SLAVERY, THE SLAVE TRADE, AND THE CIVIL WAR BRITON HAMMON (fl. 1760)From Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man WILLIAM CUSHING (1732–1810)[Slavery Inconsistent with Our Conduct and Constitution]ALEXANDER FALCONBRIDGE (1760-1792)From An Account of the Slave Trade, on the Coast of AfricaHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882)The WitnessesLYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802–1880)[Reply to Margaretta Mason]SARAH MORGAN (1842–1909)From The Civil War Diary of Sarah MorganSARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT (1836-1919)Army of OccupationHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) The Arsenal at Springfield From The Song of HiawathaIII. Hiawatha's ChildhoodIV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis V. Hiawatha's FastingVII. Hiawatha's SailingXXI. The White Man's FootThe Jewish Cemetery at Newport My Lost YouthDivina CommediaThe Tide Rises, the Tide Falls The Cross of SnowJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)Massachusetts to VirginiaFirst-Day Thoughts Telling the Bees Laus DeoOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) Old Ironsides The Last Leaf My AuntThe Chambered NautilusABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) Reply to Horace Greeley Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National CemeterySecond Inaugural AddressHARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) From Uncle Tom's CabinChapter VII: The Mother's StruggleHARRIET JACOBS (1813-1897)FromIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Chapter VI: The Jealous MistressChapter XVII: The FlightChapter XVIII: Months of Peril Chapter XIX: The Children SoldFREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?-1895)From Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassChapter I [Birth] Chapter VII [Learning to Read and Write]. Chapter X [Mr. Covey] CROSSCURRENTS: FAITH AND CRISIS HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1981)From Moby-Dick, or The WhaleSARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT (1836-1919)No HelpEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)338 [I know that He exists]376 [Of course—I prayed--]AN AGE OF EXPANSION, 1865-1910 From Romanticism to Realism RegionalismThe Gilded Age Timeline: An Age of ExpansionPIONEERS OF A NEW POETRY WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Song of MyselfOnce I Pass'd Through a Populous City Facing West from California's Shores For You O DemocracyI Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing Crossing Brooklyn FerryOut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking The Dalliance of the EaglesCavalry Crossing a FordVigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim The Wound-DresserReconciliation When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd There Was a Child Went ForthTo a Common ProstituteThe Sleepers A Noiseless Patient Spider To a Locomotive in WinterGood-bye My Fancy! EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)49 [I never lost as much but twice]67 [Success is counted sweetest]130 [These are the days when Birds come back -- ] 214 [I taste a liquor never brewed -- ]241 [I like a look of Agony]249 [Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!] 252 [I can wade Grief -- ]258 [There's a certain Slant of light] 280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune -- ] 288 [I'm Nobody! Who are you?]290 [Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- ] 303 [The Soul selects her own Society -- ] 320 [We play at Paste -- ]324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church] 328 [A Bird came down the Walk -- ]341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- ]401 [What Soft -- Cherubic Creatures -- ] 435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense -- ] 441 [This is my letter to the World]448 [This was a Poet -- It is That] 449 [I died for Beauty -- but was scarce] 465 [I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- ] 511 [If you were coming in the Fall] 556 [The Brain, within its Groove] 579 [I had been hungry, all the Years -- ] 581 [I found the works to every thought]585 [I like to see it lap the Miles -- ] 632 [The Brain -- is wider than the sky -- ] 636 [The Way I read a Letter's -- this -- ] 640 [I cannot live with You -- ]650 [Pain -- Has a Element of Blank -- ] 657 [I dwell in Possibility -- ]701 [A Thought went up my mind today--]712 [Because I could not stop for Death -- ]732 [She rose to His Requirement -- dropt] 754 [My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun -- ] 816 [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] 823 [Not what We did, shall be the test] 986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]1052 [I never saw a Moor -- ]1078 [The Bustle in a House] 1082 [Revolution is the Pod]1100 [The last Night that She lived] 1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- ]1207 [He preached upon Breadth till it argued him narrow -- ]1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book] 1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] 1463 [A Route of Evanescence]1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief]1587 [He ate and drank the precious Words -- ] 1624 [Apparently with no surprise]1732 [My life closed twice before its close -- ]1760 [Elysium is as far as to] Letters[To Recipient Unknown, about 1858][To Recipient Unknown, about 1861][To Recipient Unknown, early 1862?][To T. W. Higginson, 15 April 1862][To T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862][To T. W. Higginson, 7 June 1862][To T. W. Higginson, July 1862][To T. W. Higginson, August 1862]CROSSCURRENTS: FREEDOM IN THE GILDED AGEWALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)From Democratic VistasHENRY ADAMS (1838–1918)From The Education of Henry AdamsChapter XVII: President GrantGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844–1925)From The Freedman’s Case in Equity[The Perpetual Alien]BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856–1915)From Up from Slavery[The Struggle for an Education]REALISM AND NATURALISM, 1880-1920 RealismSpiritual UnrestNaturalism Timeline: The Turn of the CenturyMARK TWAIN (1835-1910)The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County From Roughing It[When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] From Life on the MississippiThe Boy's Ambition[A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] How to Tell a StoryWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) EdithaHENRY JAMES (1843-1916)Daisy MillerThe Real Thing The Beast in the JungleBRET HARTE (1836-1902) The Outcasts of Poker Flat RED CLOUD (c. 1822-1909)[All I Want Is Peace and Justice]SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (1844-1894) From Life among the Piutes Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)The Dynamo and the VirginSARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) A White HeronKATE CHOPIN (1851-1904) The AwakeningMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) The Revolt of "Mother"CHARLES W. CHESTNUTT (1858-1932) The Passing of GrandisonCROSSCURRENTS: PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURYANDREW CARNEGIE (1835–1919)WealthSTEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900)The Trees in the Garden Rained FlowersWILLIAM VAUGHAN MOODY (1869–1910)Gloucester MoorsOn a Soldier Fallen in the PhilippinesZITKALA-SA (1876–1938)RetrospectionW. E. B. DUBOIS (1868–1963)From The Souls of Black FolkOf Mr. Booker T. Washington and OthersCHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) The Yellow WallpaperFRANK NORRIS (1870-1902)A Plea for Romantic Fiction STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is KindThe WayfarerA Man Said to the Universe The Open Boat EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) Roman FeverTHEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) The Second ChoiceJACK LONDON (1876-1916) To Build a Fire LITERARY RENAISSANCE, 1910-1930 Twentieth-Century Renaissance Poetry between the Wars Timeline: Literary RenaissanceNEW DIRECTIONS: FIRST WAVE EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) Luke HavergalRichard Cory Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood's Party The MillFirelight New England WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) Neighbour RosickyROBERT FROST (1874-1963) The Tuft of FlowersMending WallHome Burial After Apple-Picking The Wood-Pile The Road Not Taken The Oven BirdBirchesThe Hill Wife The Ax-HelveThe GrindstoneThe Witch of Coös Fire and IceStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Two Tramps in Mud TimeDesert PlacesDesignCome In Directive CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) ChicagoFogNocturne in a Deserted Brickyard MonotoneGoneA Fence GrassSouthern Pacific WasherwomanSHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) The Book of the GrotesqueAdventureSUSAN GLASPELL (1876?-1948)*TriflesEZRA POUND (1885-1972) In a Station of the Metro Hugh Selwyn MauberleyFrom The Cantos I: [And then went down to the ship] XIII: [Kung walked]LXXXI: [What thou lovest well remains] CXVI: [Came Neptunus]T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock GerontionThe Waste Land The Hollow MenAMY LOWELL (1874-1925) PatternsA Decade ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928) Wild PeachesSanctuaryProphecy Let No Charitable Hope O Virtuous LightH.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) HeatHeliodora LetheSigil POETS OF IDEA AND ORDER WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) Peter Quince at the ClavierDisillusionment of Ten O'Clock Sunday MorningAnecdote of the Jar The Snow ManBantams in Pine-Woods A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Emperor of Ice-CreamTo the One of Fictive Music The Idea of Order at Key West A Postcard from the VolcanoOf Modern Poetry No Possum, No Sop, No Taters The Plain Sense of ThingsOf Mere BeingWILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) The Young HousewifeTract To Mark Anthony in Heaven Portrait of a LadyQueen-Anne's-Lace The Great Figure Spring and AllThe Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say A Sort of a Song The DanceThe Ivy CrownMARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) PoetryIn the Days of Prismatic Color An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a FishNo Swan So FineA Jelly-FishHART CRANE (1899-1932) From The BridgeTo Brooklyn Bridge Van WinkleThe River The Tunnel A LITERATURE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE, 1920-1945 Drama and Social Change Primitivism The Roaring Twenties and the Lost Generation The Harlem RenaissanceDepression and Totalitarian Menace Timeline: A Literature of Social and Cultural ChangeEUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) The Hairy ApeROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) To the Stone-CuttersShine, Perishing Republic The Purse-SeineCLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948) The Harlem DancerHarlem ShadowsAmericaOutcast EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) First Fig [I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore][What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why ]Justice Denied in Massachusetts[This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All ][Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink] [Those Hours When Happy Hours Were My Estate] [I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines]E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers Of When God Lets My Body BeIn Just-Buffalo Bill's My Sweet Old Etcetera I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond Anyone Lived in a Pretty How TownMy Father Moved through Dooms of Love Up into the Silence the GreenPlato ToldWhen Serpents Bargain for the Right to SquirmI Thank You GodCROSSCURRENTS: THE JAZZ AGE AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCEJAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938)[Negro Dialect]PAUL ROBESONReflections on O’Neill’s PlaysLANGSTON HUGHESWhen the Negro Was in VogueST JAMES INFIRMARY BLUESLANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)The Negro Speaks of RiversThe Weary BluesSong for a Dark Girl Trumpet Player Dream BoogieHarlemF. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) Babylon RevisitedJOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970) FromThe 42nd ParallelBig BillFrom 1919The House of Morgan The Body of An American From The Big MoneyNewsreel LXVIThe Camera Eye (50)VagWILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) That Evening SunBarn BurningERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) Big Two-Hearted River: Part IBig Two-Hearted River: Part IIKATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) The Jilting of Granny WeatherallRICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)From Black Boy[A Five Dollar Fight] THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH Postwar Drama Postwar Poetry Postwar Fiction MulticulturalismThe Postmodern ImpulseTimeline: The Second World War and Its AftermathDRAMA TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) The Glass MenagerieCROSSCURRENTS: THE AGE OF ANXIETY: THE BEAT GENERATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIESJACK KEROUACFrom On the RoadJOHN CLELLON HOLMES (1926–1988)From The Philosophy of the Beat GenerationDWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890–1969)[The Military Industrial Complex]RACHEL CARSON (1904–1964)From Silent SpringMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR (1929–1968)I Have a DreamPOETRY THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) Open HouseCuttings (later) My Papa's Waltz Elegy for Jane The WakingI Knew a WomanThe Far Field Wish for a Young WifeIn a Dark TimeELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) The FishAt the Fishhouses Questions of Travel SestinaIn the Waiting Room One ArtCZESLAW MILOSZ (1911-2004) Campo dei Fiori Fear Café In Warsaw Ars Poetica? To Raja Rao With HerROBERT HAYDEN (1913–1980)Tour 5Those Winter SundaysYear of the ChildJOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) 1: [Huffy Henry hid the day]4: [Filling her compact & delicious body]14: [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so]29: [There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart]76: [Henry's Confession]145: [Also I love him: me he's done no wrong] 153: [I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation]384: [The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done]GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)a song in the front yardThe Bean EatersWe Real CoolThe Lovers of the Poor ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)Waking in the BlueSkunk HourThe Neo-Classical Urn For the Union DeadReading Myself EpilogueDENISE LEVERTOV (1923- ) The Third Dimension To the Snake The Willows of Massachusetts ROBERT BLY (1926- )Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Watering the HorseThe Executive's DeathLooking at New-Fallen Snow from a TrainALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) HowlAmericaSYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)Morning Song The Applicant Daddy Lady Lazarus Death & Co Mystic AMIRI BARAKA (1934- )In Memory of Radio An Agony. As Now.PROSE EUDORA WELTY (1909- ) A MemoryVLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977)From Pnin Chapter Five [Pnin at the Pines] ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991)Gimpel the FoolJOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982) The SwimmerRALPH ELLISON (1914- ) From Invisible Man Chapter 1 [Battle Royal] BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986) The MournersSAUL BELLOW (1915- ) A Silver Dish JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) Sonny's BluesFLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964) Good Country PeopleJOHN BARTH (1930- ) Lost in the FunhouseJOHN UPDIKE (1932- ) SeparatingPHILIP ROTH (1933- ) The Conversion of the Jews THOMAS PYNCHON (1937- )Entropy A CENTURY ENDS AND A NEW MILLENNIUM BEGINS, 1975 to PresentDramaPoetryFictionMulticulturalismTimeline: A Century Ends and a New Millennium BeginsCROSSCURRENTS: WHAT IS AN AMERICAN? FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITYBOB DYLANMasters of WarNORMAN MAILER (1923-2007)From Armies of the NightBETTY FRIEDANThe Problem that Has No NameTIM O’BRIEN (1946- )The Things They Didn’t KnowAL GORE (1948- )From An Inconvenient TruthPOETRYJAMES WRIGHT A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio In Terror of Hospital Bills Two Postures Beside a Fire JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)A Timepiece Charles on Fire The Broken Home JOHN ASHBERY (1927- )Some Trees The Painter Crazy Weather At North Farm Down by the Station, Early in the Morning ANNE SEXTON Her KindThe Farmer's Wife The Truth the Dead Know With Mercy for the Greedy ADRIENNE RICHAunt Jennifer's Tigers Living in SinDiving into the Wreck For the DeadGARY SNYDER The Late Snow & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-fourRiprap Not Leaving the House Axe HandlesMARY OLIVER In Blackwater Woods The Ponds Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957. Early Morning, New Hampshire JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996)From Lullaby of Cape Cod IV [The change of Empires is intimately tied] Belfast Tune A Song To My DaughterSIMON ORTIZVision ShadowsPoems from the Veterans HospitalFrom From Sand CreekRITA DOVEÖDusting Roast Possum CATHY SONG Picture Bride Immaculate LivesPROSE JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- )Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? TONI MORRISONFrom Sula1992 RAYMOND CARVERA Small, Good ThingBOBBIE ANN MASONShilohBHARATI MUKHERJEE (1940- )The Management of GriefALICE WALKER Everyday UseTIM O'BRIEN From Going After CacciatoNight March ANN BEATTIEJanus AMY TAN Half and Half LOUISE ERDRICH The Red Convertible SANDRA CISNEROSWoman Hollering CreekSHERMAN ALEXIEWhat You Pawn I Will RedeemJHUMPA LAHIRI The Third and Final ContinentEDWIDGE DANTICATSeven Historical-Literary TimelineBibliographyAcknowledgments Index