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i Practical Anthology of American Literature Copyright © by Julián Rodríguez Alvarez ISBN:84-921953-7-1 DepósitoLegal Mu-1716-2003 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “TheAuthortoHerBook”and“ToMyDearHusband”byAnneBradstreet.FromThe Knopf,Inc.,1952.“TheBlueHotel”fromTheWorksofStephenCrane,ed., W. Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Jeannine Hensley, Cambridge, Mass.: The Follet,1963. BelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress,Copyright©1967byThePresidentand “TheLostPhoebe”fromTheBestShortStoriesofTheodoreDreiser.Copyright© FellowsofHarvardCollege. 1956byTheWorldPublishingCompany. “OnBeingBroughtfromAfricatoAmerica”fromThePoemsofPhillisWheatley,ed. “Chickamauga” & “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce from J.D.Mason,TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress. CollectedWorksofAmbroseBierce,ed.,W.Neale. “RipVanWinkle”byWashingtonIrvingfrom TheCompleteWorksofWashington “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton from The Collected Short Stories of Edith Irving,eds.H.Pochmann,H.Kleinfeld,etal. Wharton,ed.R.Lewis,1968. “TheSimpleLife”byHenryD.ThoreaufromThewritingsofHenryD.Thoreau,ed.W. “Paul’sCase”byWillaCatherfromYouthandtheBrightMedusa,AlfredA.Knopf, Harding. Inc. “TheFalloftheHouseofUsher”&“TheMaskoftheRedDeath”byE.A.Poefrom “DeathintheWoods”bySherwoodAnderson.Copyright1926bytheAmerican TheWorksofEdgarA.Poe,ed.,EStedmanandG.Woodberry. MercuryInc.Renewed1953EleanorCopenhaverAnderson. “YoungGoodmanBrown”byNathanielHawthornefromTheCentenialEditionofthe “Penelope” and “Résumé” from The Portable Dorothy Parker. Copyright 1926, WorksofN.Hawthorne,ed.W.Charvat,R.Pearce,C.Simpson,M.Bruccoli,F.Bowers. 1928,renewed©1954,1956byDorothyParker,VikingPenguinInc. “Bartleby,TheScrivener”byHermanMelvillefromCompleteWorksofHermanMelville, “TheCatbirdSeat”Copyright1945JamesThurber.Copyright©1973HelenW. ed.H.Vincent,1947-1969. Thurber and Rosemary T. Sauers. From The Thurber Carnival, published by “PassagetoIndia”&“WhenLilacsLastinthedooryardBloom”byWhaltWhitman Harper&Row. from The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, ed. R. Bucke, T. Harned, and H. “RichardCory”fromTheChildrenoftheNightbyEdwinArlingtonRobinson,New Traubel. York:CharlesScribner’sSons,1897. “BecauseIcouldnotstopforDeath,”and“IheardaFlybuzzwhenIdied”fromThe “Patterns”fromTheCompletePoeticalWorksofAmyLowell.Copyright©1955by PoemsofEmilyDickinson,editedbyThomasH.Joahnson,Cambridge,Mass.,The HoughtonMifflinCompany.Copyright©1983renewedbyHoughtonMifflinCom- BelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress,copyright©1983bythePresidentand pany,BrintonP.Roberts,EsquireandG.D’AndelotBelin,Esquire. FellowsofHarvardCollege. “Heat,” “Oread,” and “Sea Poppies” from Collected Poems by Hilda Doolittle. “Tennessee’sPartner”byBretHartefromBretHarte,RepresentativeSelections,ed., Copyright © 1982 by the Estate of Hilda Doolittle, New Directions Publishing J.Harrison,1941. Corporation. “The Storm” in The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, edited by Per Seyersted. “InaStationoftheMetro”and“TheRiverMerchant’sWife:ALetter”fromPerso- Copyright©1969byLouisianaStateUniversityPress. naebyEzraPound.Copyright1926byEzraPound.NewDirectionsPublishing “Luck”byMarkTwainfromTheWritingsofMarkTwain,ed.A.Paine. Corporation. “Haircut”from TheLoveNestandOtherStories.Copyright1925EllisA.Lardner; “Design”,“TheDraftHorse”,“StoppingByWoodsonaSnowyEvening”and“The copyrightrenewed,CharlesScribner’sSons. Witch of Coos” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Conery “Editha”byWilliamD.HowellsfromTheWritingsofWilliamDeanHowells,ed.,E. Lathem. Copyright © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Holt, Rinehart and Cady,1968. Winston, Publishers. “ThePupil”fromTheNovelsandTalesofHenryJames,CharlesScribner’sSons, “TheWasteLand”fromCollectedPoems1909-1962byT.S.Eliot,copyright1936 NewYorkEdition.Copyright1909CharlesScribner’ssons;renewalcopyright1937 byHarcourtBraceJovanovich,Inc.,copyright©1964,1963byT.S.Eliot,Harcourt HenryJames. BraceJovanovich,Inc.,andFaberandFaberLtd. “ToBuildaFire”and“LawofLife”fromTheBestShortStoriesofJackLondon. “ToBrooklynBridge”fromTheCollectedPoemsandSelectedLettersandProseof Copyright©1945byDoubleday. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” From Stephen Crane: An Omnibus, Alfred A. Continuedonpage586 ii iii iv Contents Schematic historical overview ................................................................. VI-VII I. The Colonial Period: 1588-1765. The Rise of Puritanism. The Practical Beginnings. II. The American Revolution (1776). The New Republic: 1765-1782. The Enlightenment. III. The Romantic Triumph: 1829-1860. Transcendentalism. The Power of the Imagination. New Visions of America. IV. The Road to Political and Social Liberation. Expansion, Civil War, the TriumphofDemocracy.TheAmericanConstitution:1850-1890.TheSlav- ery Issue. Regionalism and Realism (1865-1900). V. Transition to the Modern Era. The Literature of Ideas. From Realism to Naturalism. Tradition & New Social Awareness. VI. Modern Period: 1910-1945. Modernism, Alienation and Experimentation. VII. Contemporary Period: 1945 to Present. Postmodernism. Titles of texts anthologized chronologically ........................................... VIII Alphabetical index of authors anthologized............................................ IX Texts anthologized from each period ...................................................... 1-584 v SCHEMATIC HISTORICAL OVERVIEW (Onlyauthorsinitalicsareanthologized) I. The Colonial Period: 1588-1765. The Rise of Puritan- WilliamDeanHowells(1837-1920).................................... 114 ism.ThePracticalBeginnings. HenryJames(1843-1916).................................................... 121 CharlottePerkinsGilman(1860-1935).............................. 141 1. TheEarlyColonialWritings.CabezadeVaca.FirstColo- nies. The Socio-religious Beginnings. William Bradford 18. Theatrein XIXCentury.FromWilliamDunlaptoClyde (1590-1657).MaryRowlandson. Fitch. 2. ThePilgrims.MartinLutherandJohnCalvininAmerica. V.TransitiontotheModernEra.TheLiteratureofIdeas. TheEarlyPuritans.JohnWinthrop,NathanielWard,Roger From Realism to Naturalism. Tradition & New Social Williams,ThomasMorton,MichaelWigglesworth,Thomas Awareness. PaineyCottonMather(1663-1728).EdwardTaylor(1645?- 1729). 19. ThinkersandPoliticalFiguresoftheNewEra.Fictionand AnneBradstreet(1612-1672)............................................... 1 theSocialDebate.HenryGeorge,ThorsteinVeblen,William James, George Santayana John Dewey, Upton Sinclair. 3. TheDeclineofPuritanism.Salem.Deism,Rationalism,and FranklinD.Roosevelt,D.D.Eisenhower,KennethBurke. Resistance: JohnathanEdwards(1703-1758).TheQuakers: HenryAdams(1838-1918).EdwardBellamy(1850-1898). JohnWoolman.WilliamByrdII(1674-1744) 20. FromRealismtoNaturalismI:ThelessRadicalNaturalists: II. The American Revolution (1776). The New Republic: JosephKirkland,HaroldFrederic.HamlinGarland(1860- 1765-1782.TheEnlightenment. 1940).FrankNorris(1870-1902). Jack London (1870-1916). ................................................... 150 4. The Revolutionary and Early National Period. Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)andThomasJefferson(1743-1826). 21. FromRealismtoNaturalismII:ThemoreDeterminists: TheDeclarationofIndependence.ThomasPain(1737-1809). RebeccaHardingDavies(1831-1910). Stephen Crane (1871-1900)................................................. 162 5. TheLiberationofLetters.PhilipFreneau,TimothyDwight, TheodoreDreiser(1871-1945)............................................ 182 JoelBarlow,JohnTrumbullyWilliamCullenBryant(1794- AmbroseBierce(1842-1914)............................................... 189 1878).RoyalTyler(1757-1826). PhillisWheatley(c.1753-1784)............................................ 2 22. Traditionalism and the New Social Consciousness. Book Tarkington,EllenGlasgow(1874-1945). III. TheRomanticTriumph:1829-1860.Transcendentalism. JesseStuart(1907-). ............................................................. 198 ThePoweroftheImagination.NewVisionsofAmerica. SaraN.Cleghorn(1876-1959)............................................ 199 EdithWharton(1862-1937).................................................. 200 6. FirstHarvest.Legends,Tales,MythsandHistoricalWrit- WillaCather(1873-1947)..................................................... 210 ings.JamesF.Cooper(1789-1851). Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)........................................ 220 WashingtonIrving(1783-1859)........................................... 3 SinclairLewis(1885-1951). ................................................. 226 7. From Puritanism and Rationalism to Transcendentalism. VI.ModernPeriod:1910-1945.Modernism,Alienationand TheodoreParker(1810-1860)yAmosBronsonAlcott(1799- Experimentation. 1888).RalphWaldoEmerson(1803-1882). HenryDavidThoreau(1817-1860)..................................... 11 23. TheDeathof«Puritanism»andtheappearanceofnewra- MargaretFuller(1810-1850)............................................... 14 dicalartisticforms.«TheJazzAge».GertrudeStein(1874- 1946). 8. EdgarAllanPoe(1809-1849).............................................. 17 F.ScottFitzgerald(1896-1940). ......................................... 230 DjunaBarnes(1892-1982)................................................... 236 9. NathanielHawthorne(1804-1864)...................................... 31 DorothyParker(1893-1967)................................................ 240 JamesThurber(1894-1961)................................................. 241 10. HermanMelville(1819-1891).............................................. 39 24. RevolutioninPoetry.TheImagistMovement.JohnGould 11. The«GenteelTradition»:OliverW.Holmes,JamesRussell Fletcher,EdwardLeeMasters,VachelLindsay. Lowell,SidneyLanier,JohnGreenleafWhittier,Frederick Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)................................................. 246 G.TuckermanyHenryW.Longfellow(1807-1882). EdwinArlingtonRobinson(1869-1935)............................. 247 AmyLowell(1874-1925)....................................................... 248 IV. TheRoadtoPoliticalandSocialLiberation.Expansion, H.D., HildaDolittle(1886-1961)....................................... 250 CivilWar,theTriumphofDemocracy.TheAmerican EzraPound(1885-1972). ..................................................... 251 Constitution: 1850-1890. The Slavery Issue. Regional- ismandRealism(1865-1900). 25. RobertFrost(1874-1963)..................................................... 252 12. SojournerTruth(1797-1883),RebeccaCoxJackson(1795- 26. T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)......................................................... 256 1871), Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828-1860?), Frederic Douglas(1817-1895). 27. RobinsonJeffers(1887-1962). LindaBrent(1818-1890)...................................................... 60 HartCrane(1899-1932)....................................................... 268 LuisaMayAlcott(1832-1888)............................................. 62 WallaceStevens(1879-1955)............................................... 269 FrancesE.W.Harper(1825-1911)..................................... 67 AbrahamLincoln(1809-1865)............................................. 67 28. WilliamCarlosWilliams(1883-1963)................................. 271 CivilWarSongs:JuliaW.Howe(1819-1910)................... 69 29. ConradAiken.StephenVincentBénet. 13. WaltWhitman(1819-1892)................................................... 70 EdnaSt.VincentMilay(1892-1950)................................... 273 ArchibaldMacLeish1892-1982)......................................... 274 14. EmilyDickinson(1830-1886). ............................................. 81 E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)............................................... 276 MarianneMoore(1887-1982). ............................................ 278 15. RegionalistWritersandthe«LocalColorWriting».TheRise JohnCroweRanson(1888-1974)........................................ 279 ofRealism:GeorgeW.Cable,JoelChandlerHarris,Charles LouiseBogan(1897-1970)................................................... 280 FarrarBrowne,GeorgeH.Derby,DavidRossLocke,Henry JohnCiardi(1916-1986)...................................................... 280 WheelerShaw,GeorgeAde,yBookerT.Washington,W. X.J.Kennedy(1929-)........................................................... 281 E.Du Bois,JamesW.Johnson.SpiritualSongs, Ballads, Folksongs,IndianOratory.«AmericatheBeautiful»(1892) 30. TheTheatreintheFirstHalfoftheXXthCentury.Eugene deK.LeeBates. O’Neill(1888-1953)andtheAmericanTheater. BretHarte(1836-1902). ....................................................... 83 HarrietB.Stowe(1811-1896).............................................. 88 31. TheAgeofCriticism:New-humanists,the«NewCriticism» SaraOrneJewett(1849-1909)............................................. 93 andafter.I.A.Richards,T.S.Eliot,R.P.Blackmur,Cleanth KateChopin(1851-1904)..................................................... 98 Brooks,R.SCrane.R.P.Warren,HarryLevin,Edmund Wilson,R.Wellek,W.K.Wimsatt,RichardPoirier,Philip 16. MarkTwain,SamuelL.Clemens(1835-1910)...................102 Wheelwright.ED.Hirsch.HaroldBloom,MurrayKrieger. O.Henry,WillianSidneyPorter(1862-1910)....................104 «Feministcriticism». RingW.Lardner(1885-1933)..............................................108 17. TheFirstRealists: 32. IssuesandVisionsinModernAmerica.SearchingforNew vi Values. Meridel Le Sueur (1900-). James T. Farrell. 45. The Post-modernist Writers: Raymond Federman, Nathanael West (1903-1940)................................................ 282 William Gass, Ronald Sukenick, Steve Katz, Robert John Dos Passos (1896-1970).............................................. 291 Coover, John Gardner, Jerzy Kosinski, John Hawkes, John Steinbeck (1902-1968)................................................. 293 John Barth. 473 Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)........................................... 476 33. The Cult of New Experience, Experimentation, the «Lost Thomas Pynchon (1937-)...................................................... Generation». Henry Miller. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), Kay Boyle. 46. African-American Women Writers: Paule Marshall, Audre Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)................................................... 299 Lorde, Lice Childress, Mari Evans, Gayl Jones, Ann Petry, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)........................................... 303 Carolyn Rodgers, Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, May Paul Bowles (1910-1999)...................................................... 314 Swenson, Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor. 483 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)........................................... 484 34. Literary and Social Protest: Horace Gregory, Kenneth Fear- Lucille Clifton (1936-)........................................................... 485 ing, Clifford Odets, Thorton Wilder, John H. Lawson, Lilliam Maya Angelou (1928-)........................................................... 489 Hellman Alice Walker (1944-).............................................................. 494 John Hersey (1914-1993)...................................................... 316 Toni Cade Bambara (1939-)................................................. 498 Nikki Giovanni (1943-).......................................................... 35. William Faulkner (1897-1962)............................................. 319 47. Poetry I: 36. The 'New' Naturalists: towards the Contemporary Period. John a) The Poets of the «Black Mountain College»: Paul Duncan, O’Hara, Erskine Cadwell, Thomas Wolfe, William Styron, Edward Dorn, Joel Oppenheimer, Paul Blackburn. 499 William Gass, W. Goyen, Walker Percy, Truman Capote. Charles Olson (1919-1970).................................................. 500 Katherine A. Porter (1890-1980)......................................... 331 Robert Creely (1926-)............................................................ 500 Eudora Welty (1909-2001).................................................... 336 Denise Levertov (1923-1997)............................................... Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)......................................... 341 b) The Confessional Poets: John Berryman. 501 Carson McCullers (1917-1967)............................................ 349 Robert Lowell (1917-1977)................................................... 503 W. D. Snodgrass (1926-)....................................................... 504 37. The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Ch. W. Chesnutt. Anne Sexton (1932-1974)...................................................... 505 Claude Mackay, Melvin B. Tolson. Arna Bontemps. Eldrege Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)...................................................... 506 Cleaver, Martin Luther King, Alex Haley. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)............................................ Jean Toomer (1894-1967)..................................................... 354 c) Poets of the «Deep Image»: William Stafford y Louis Simpson. 507 Langston Hughes (1902-1967)............................................. 359 Robert Bly (1926-)................................................................. 507 Countée Cullen (1903-1946)................................................ 361 James Wright (1927-1980).................................................... Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)........................................ 362 d) Independent Poets: Stanley Kunitz y R. P. Warren, Robert Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).................................................... 364 Hayden, Anthony Hecht, George Meredith. 508 Richard Wright (1908-1960)................................................. 368 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).............................................. 509 James Baldwin (1924-1987)................................................. 369 Richard Wilbur (1921-)......................................................... 509 Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)............................................. 510 VII. Contemporary Period: 1945 to Present. Postmodernism. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)................................................. 511 Richard Eberhart (1904-)..................................................... 511 38. From the Californian Coast. «The Beat Generation»: William W. S. Merwin (1927-)............................................................. 512 Burroughs, William Goyen, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Ann Adrienne Rich (1929-)........................................................... Stanford. Laurence Ferlinghetti (1919-).............................................. 371 48. Poetry II: Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)................................................ 372 The New York School: James Schuyler, Ted Berrigan, Ron Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)................................................. 377 Padget, Harry Mathews. 514 Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)................................................... 378 John Ashbery (1927-)............................................................ 515 Frank O’Hara (1926-1960).................................................. 517 39. The Independent writers. William Kennedy. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)................................................... James Dickey (1923-)............................................................ 381 Diana Wakoski (1937-).......................................................... 383 49. African-American Writers: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, Ster- Judith Minty (1937-).............................................................. 384 ling Brown, Frank M. Davos, Owen Dodson, Robert Hayden, Marge Piercy (1936-)............................................................ 385 Don Lee, Chester Himes, William G. Smith, John O. Killens, Linda Pastan (1932-)............................................................. 386 Ishmael Reed, James Alan Macpherson, Ernest Gaines, Americo Parédes (1915-1999).............................................. 387 William Demby, John A. Williams, W. M. Kelly, David Bradley. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-). 518 40. The Jewish Writers: Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jon, Saul Bellow Duddley Randall (1914-)....................................................... (1915-). Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)............................................ 390 50. From the Intensity of the Classic Drama to New Forms and John Cheever (1912-1965)................................................... 399 Technical Means. The «happening». The «living theatre». Philip Roth (1933-)................................................................ 408 «Off-Broadway». Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. The John Updike (1932-2009)................................................ 416 Dark Drama. Edward Albee, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, Sam Grace Paley (1922-).............................................................. 420 Shepard, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein. 519 Isaac B. Singer (1904-1992)................................................. 425 David Mamet (1947-)............................................................. Tillie Olsen (1913-)................................................................ 430 51. The Latest Fiction Writers: E. L. Doctorow. T. Daven- 41. The Popular Writers. The Comic. Children's Literature. The port, Jayne Ann Phillips, Paul Theroux, Richard Ford, Everyday Songs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Philip Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Tallent, Frederick Barthelme, Lovecraft (1890-1937), Zane Grey, John Kennedy Toole, Berenice Zamora, Louise Erdrich, Pedro Pietri, Wendy Margaret Mitchel, John Irving (1942-), Pearl S. Buck, Gore Rose, Joy Harjo, Garret Hongo, Tato Laviera, Judith Ortiz Vidal. Cofer, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song, D. Leavitt, Norman Mailer (1923-2007)................................................ 435 Tim O’Brien. Amy Hempel, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Arlo Guthrie (1947-).......................................................... 439 Garrison Keillor. 537 Odgen Nash (1902-1970)...................................................... 443 Ann Tyler (1941-)................................................................... 542 Raymond Carver (1939-1988).............................................. 550 42. Resisting Modernist Writers: James Purdy (1923-), Ken T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-).............................................. 556 Kesey (1935-). Tess Gallagher (1932-).......................................................... 563 Joseph Heller (1923-1999)................................................... 445 Maxime Chernoff (1952-)...................................................... 565 Kurt Vonnegut. Jr. (1922-).................................................... 452 Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-)................................................... Joyce Carol Oates (1938-).................................................... 456 52. Ethnic Literatures: Tino Villanueva, Ronald Arias, Américo 43. Hundred years of Crime Thriller. From E. A. Poe to Raymond Parédes (#39), Victor Hernandez Cruz, Corky Gonzales, Chandler (1888-1959), Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Carlos Cortez, Alurista, Denise Chavez, Lione G. Garcia, «Ellery Queen» (Frederic Dannay), «Ed McBain» (Evan Mª Irene Fornes, Martín Espada, Laura del Fuego, Gloria Hunter); Mickey Spillane. James Crumley. Anzaldua, Danny Santiago, Gary Soto, N. Scott Momaday, Hisaye Yamamoto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Carolyn Forché, 44. Science Fiction Writers: Walter M. Miller. Isaac Asimov, Maxime Hong Kingston, Amy Tam. 573 Samuel R. Delany, Robert A. Heinlein, Delany Zelazny, José Armas (1944-)................................................................ 577 Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-). Sandra Cisneros (1954-)....................................................... 581 Ray Bradbury (1920-)............................................................ 465 Helena María Viramontes 1954-)........................................ 584 Jamaica Kincaid (1952-)....................................................... vii TITLES OF TEXTS ANTHOLOGIZED FROM EACH PERIOD #1-2-3 «TheAuthortoHerBook»& ................................. 1 #35 «Wash»&................................................................. 319 «TomyDearHusband»byA.Bradstreet ............. 2 «ARoseforEmily»byWilliamFaulkner.............. 326 #4-5 «OnbeingBroughtto...»byPh.Wheatley ............ 2 #36 «TheJiltingofGranny...»byK.A.Porter.............. 331 #6 «RipvanWinkle»byWashingtonIrving ............... 3 «AWornPath»byEudoraWelty ........................... 336 «AGoodManisHard...»byF.O’Connor ........... 341 #7 «TheSimpleLife»byHenryD.Thoreau............... 11 «Sucker»byCarsonMcCullers.............................. 349 «FutureofWomen»byMargaretFuller................ 14 #37 «Blood-BurningMoon»byJeanToomer .............. 354 #8 «TheFalloftheHouseofUsher»& ..................... 17 «ThemeforEnglishB»byLangstonHughes ........ 359 «TheMaskoftheRedDeath»byE.A.Poe.......... 28 «Saturday»&PoemsbyCountéeCullen .............. 361 «Howitfeelstobe...»byN.N.Hurston.............. 362 #9 «YoungGoodmanBrown»byN.Hawthorne......... 31 «MisterToussan»byRalphEllison....................... 364 #10 «Bartleby,theScrivener»byH.Melville .............. 39 «Weareleaving»byRichardWright .................... 368 «Lifeistragic»byJamesBaldwin......................... 369 #11-12 «Incidents...»byLindaBrent................................. 60 «InService»LuisaM.Alcott .................................. 62 #38 «Constantly...»byL.Ferlinghetti.......................... 371 «AuntChloe’sPolitics»byF.Harper ................... 67 «TheLottery»byShirleyJackson.......................... 372 «GettysburgAddress»byA.Lincoln ..................... 67 «Supermarket»byA.Gingsberg ............................ 377 «TheBattleHymnof...»byJ.Howe..................... 69 «TheDharmaBums»byJ.Kerouac ...................... 378 #13 «PassagetoIndia»& ............................................. 70 #39 «CherrylogRoad»byJamesDickey...................... 381 «WhenLilacsLast...»byW.Whitman.................... 76 «Insideout»byDianaWakoski ............................. 383 «Conjoined»byJudithMinty................................. 384 #14 «BecauseIcouldnotStopforDeath»&................ 81 «Aworkofartifice»&aliabyM.Piercy.............. 385 «IheardaFlybuzz»byE.Dickinson ................... 82 «Marks»byLindaPastan....................................... 386 «TheHammonandthe...»byA.Parédes.............. 387 #15 «Tennessee’sPartner»byBretHarte.................... 83 «MissAsphyxia»byHarrietB.Stowe ................... 88 #40 «TheMagicBarrel»byB.Malamud ..................... 390 «AWhiteHeron»bySaraO.Jewett ...................... 93 «TheSwimmer»& ................................................... 399 «Storm»&aliabyKateChopin............................. 98 «Justonemoretime»byJohnCheever ................ 405 «TheConversionoftheJews»byP.Roth............. 408 #16 «Luck»byMarkTwain............................................ 102 «A&P»byJohnUpdike........................................ 416 «TheFurnishedRoom»byO.Henry ..................... 104 «GoodbyandGoodLuck»byGracePaley........... 420 «Haircut»byRingLardner.................................... 108 «TheKey»byIsaacBashevisSinger ..................... 425 #17-18 «Editha»byWilliamD.Howells............................ 114 «IStandHereIroning»byTillieOlsen ................ 430 19-20 «ThePupil»byHenryJames.................................. 121 #41 «Wake»byNormanMailer..................................... 435 «TheYellowWall-Paper»byCh.P.Gilman ......... 141 «Alice’sRestaurant»byA.Guthrie....................... 439 #21 «ToBuildaFire»&................................................ 150 «Exit,PursuedbyaBear»byOgdenNash .......... 443 «LawofLife»byJackLondon ............................... 158 #42 «Yossarian»byJosephHeller................................ 445 «TheBrideComestoYellowSky»& ..................... 162 «HarrinsonBergeron»byKurtVonnegut,Jr.......... 452 «TheBlueHotel»byStephenCrane...................... 168 «Wherearewegoing»byJoyceCarolOates.......... 456 «TheLostPhoebe»byTheodoreDreiser .............. 182 «Chickamauga»&................................................... 189 #43-44 «December2001»& ............................................... 465 «Occurrence...»byAmbroseBierce....................... 193 «TheHappinessBoys»byRayBradbury.............. 468 #22 «Love»byJesseStuart ........................................... 198 #45 «Game»byDonaldBarthelme ............................... 473 «TheGolfLinks»bySaraN.Cleghorn ................. 199 «Entropy»byThomasPynchon .............................. 476 «TheOtherTwo»byEdithWharton ...................... 200 «Paul’sCase»byWillaCather.............................. 210 #46 «TheMother»byGwendolynBrooks..................... 483 «DeathintheWoods»byS.Anderson .................. 220 «intheinnercity»byLucilleClifton .................... 484 «ReportfromZenith»byS.Lewis.......................... 226 «ThePeckwood...»byMayaAngelou .................... 485 «EverydayUse»byAliceWalker........................... 489 #23 [«TheValleyofAshes»]byFitzgerald.................. 230 «Bluesain´tno...»byToniCadeBambara........... 494 «Cassation»byDjunaBarnes ................................ 236 «Nikki-Rose»byNikkiGiovanni............................ 498 «Penelope»&aliabyDorothyParker.................. 240 «TheCatbirdSeat»byJamesThurber.................. 241 #47 «Lachute»byCharlesOlson................................. 499 «OhNo»byRobertCreely..................................... 500 #24 «Margaret»,«Lost»&aliabyC.Sandburg ......... 246 «Leavingforever»byDeniseLevertov.................. 500 «««PRHaiectahteta»rrn&ds»CaboliyrayA»bmybyHyL.EDo.woAoe.llRiltto.l.b.e.i..n....s...o....n.............................................................................. 222445780 ««BTheyaotntidmteh»ebAylpWs».D&.«SSnkoudngkr»asbsy..R......L..o..w...e..l.l.................... 550013 «TheRiver’s...»&aliabyEzraPound................ 251 ««TMoetaaFphrioernsd»WbyhSoyslev..i.a»PAlnanthe.S..e..x.t..o..n............................................ 550045 #25 «Design»&«TheDraftHorse»byR.Frost............ 252 ««PDarpivai’nsgWtoa.l.t.z»»bbyyRTohbeeordtoBrleyR..o...e.t..h..k..e........................................ 550067 #26 TheWasteLandbyT.S.Eliot ............................... 256 ««AThBeleFsissihn»g»bybEylJiazambeesthWBriisghhotp............................................................ 550078 #27 «ToBrooklynBridge»byHartCrane ................... 268 «Transit»byRichardWilbur.................................. 509 «Disillusionmentof...»byW.Stevens .................. 269 ««TThheesWnoomwagnloabtet»hebyWH.Z.Nooe»mbeyroRv..J..a..r.r..e..l.l.......................... 550190 #28 «TheDance»etal.byW.C.Williams................... 271 ««OThdeysFsueruys»ofb..y.»Wb.ySR.MicherawrdinE.b..e..r.h..a...r.t........................................ 551111 #29 «Countingout...»byE.St.V.Millay .................... 273 «AtaBachConcert»etal.byA.Rich................... 512 «ArsPoetica»byArchibaldMacLeish................... 274 #48 «Thecathedralis»byJohnAshbery ..................... 514 «nobodyloses...»byE.E.Cummings.................... 276 «ATrueAccountof...»etal.byF.O’Hara .......... 515 «Poetry»byMarianneMoore ................................ 278 «Mendingsump»byKennethKoch........................ 517 «PiazzaPiece»byJ.C.Ransom ............................ 279 «Women»byLuiseBogan....................................... 280 #49 «OldWitherington»byDuddleyRandall.............. 518 «Inplaceofacurse»byJohnCiardi.................... 280 «Nothingin...»byX.J.Kennedy ........................... 281 #50 «Oleanna»byDavidMamet................................... 519 #30-31 «Pitkin’sWest»byNathanielWest ........................ 282 #51 «AverageWavesin...»byAnnTyler...................... 537 32 «Proteus»byJohnDosPassos .............................. 291 «Cathedral»byRaymondCarver .......................... 542 «TheChrysanthemums»byJ.Steinbeck................ 293 «GreasyLake»byT.CoraghessanBoyle.............. 550 «TheLoverofHorses»byTessGallagher............ 556 #33 «OnlytheDeadKnow...»byThomasWolfe .......... 299 «TheSpiritofGiving»byMaximeChernoff......... 563 «CatintheRain»,................................................... 303 «BigBerthaStories»byBobbieAnnMason......... 565 «AClean,Well-LightedPlace»,&......................... 305 «TheKillers» ........................................................... 308 #52 «ElTontodelBarrio»byJoséArmas ................... 573 «Kitty»byPaulBowles........................................... 314 «OneHolyNight»bySandraCisneros ................. 577 «TheMoths»byHelenaMaríaViramontes .......... 581 #34 «TheFire»byJohnHersey.................................... 316 «Girl»byJamaicaKincaid..................................... 584 viii AUTHORS ANTHOLOGIZED Alcott, Luisa May (1832-1888).............................. 62 Lardner, Ring W. (1885-1933)................................ 108 Angelou, Maya (1928-)........................................... 485 Levertov, Denise (1923-1997)................................. 500 Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)........................... 220 Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951).................................... 226 Armas, José (1944-)................................................ 573 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865).............................. 67 Ashbery, John (1927-)............................................. 514 London, Jack (1870-1916)...................................... 150 Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)........................................ 248 Baldwin, James (1924-1987)................................... 369 Lowell, Robert (1917-1977).................................... 501 Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-).................................. 494 Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)..................................... 236 MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982).......................... 274 Barth, John (1930-)................................................. 502 Mailer, Norman (1923-2007)..................................... 435 Barthelme, Donald (1931-1989)............................. 473 Malamud, Bernard (1914-1986)................................. 390 Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)................................. 189 Mamet, David (1947-)............................................... 519 Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)................................ 508 Mark Twain (1835-1910)........................................... 102 Bly, Robert (1926-).................................................. 507 Mason, Bobbie Ann (1940-)....................................... 565 Bogan, Louise (1897-1970)..................................... 280 McCullers, Carson (1917-1967)................................. 349 Bowles, Paul (1910-)............................................... 314 Melville, Herman (1819-1891)................................. 39 Boyle, T. Coraghessan (1948-)............................... 550 Merwin, W. S. (1927-)................................................ 511 Bradbury, Ray (1920-)............................................ 465 Milay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)......................... 273 Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)................................. 1 Minty, Judith (1937-)................................................. 384 Brent, Linda (1818-1890)....................................... 60 Moore, Marianne (1887-1982).................................. 278 Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) ............................ 483 Nash, Odgen (1902-1970)....................................... 443 Carver, Raymond (1939-1988)............................... 542 Nemerov, Howard (1920-1991)............................... 509 Cather, Willa (1873-1947)...................................... 210 Cheever, John (1912-1965)..................................... 399 Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-)..................................... 456 Chernoff, Maxime (1952-)....................................... 563 O’Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)........................... 341 Chopin, Kate (1851-1904)...................................... 98 O’Hara, Frank (1926-1960).................................... 515 Ciardi, John (1916-1986)....................................... 280 O. Henry (1862-1910)............................................. 104 Cisneros, Sandra (1954-)........................................ 577 Olsen, Tillie (1913-)................................................ 430 Cleghorn, Sara N. (1876-1959).............................. 199 Olson, Charles (1919-1970).................................... 499 Clifton, Lucille (1936-)............................................ 484 Crane, Hart (1899-1932)......................................... 268 Paley, Grace (1922-)............................................... 420 Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)................................... 162 Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967).................................. 240 Creely, Robert (1926-)............................................ 500 Pastan, Linda (1932-)............................................. 386 Cullen, Countée (1903-1946).................................. 361 Parédes, Americo (1915-1999)............................... 387 Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962)................................. 276 Piercy, Marge (1936-)............................................. 385 Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)....................................... 505 Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)................................ 81 Dickey, James (1923-)............................................. 381 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)............................... 17 Dos Passos, John (1896-1970)............................... 291 Porter, Katherine A. (1890-1980)........................... 331 Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945).............................. 182 Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)........................................ 251 Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)........................................ 476 Eberhart, Richard (1904-) ...................................... 511 Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)........................................... 256 Randall, Duddley (1914-)....................................... 518 Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)..................................... 364 Ranson, John Crowe (1888-1974)........................... 279 Rich, Adrienne (1929-)............................................ 512 Faulkner, William (1897-1962).............................. 319 Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)................ 247 Ferlinghetti, Laurence (1919-)................................ 371 Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963).............................. 506 Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)............................. 230 Roth, Philip (1933-)................................................. 408 Frost, Robert (1874-1963)...................................... 252 Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)................................ 14 Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)................................... 246 Sexton, Anne (1932-1974)....................................... 504 Gallagher, Tess (1932-).......................................... 556 Singer, Isaac B. (1904-1992).................................. 425 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)................. 141 Snodgrass, W. D. (1926-)........................................ 503 Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)................................... 377 Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)................................... 293 Giovanni, Nikki (1943-) .......................................... 498 Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)................................. 269 Guthrie, Arlo (1947-)............................................ 439 Stowe, Harriet B. (1811-1896)............................... 88 Stuart, Jesse (1907-)............................................... 198 Harte, Bret (1836-1902)......................................... 83 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)....................... 31 Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1860)...................... 11 Harper, Frances E. W. (1825-1911)...................... 67 Thurber, James (1894-1961)................................... 241 H. D. Hilda Dolittle (1886-1961)........................... 250 Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)...................................... 354 Heller, Joseph (1923-1999).................................... 445 Tyler, Ann (1941-)................................................... 537 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)............................. 303 Hersey, John (1914-1993)....................................... 316 Updike, John (1932-2009).................................... 416 Howe, Julia W. (1819-1910).................................. 69 Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)....................... 114 Viramontes, Helena Mª (1954-).............................. 581 Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)............................... 359 Vonnegut Jr., Kurt (1922-2007)........................... 452 Hurston, Zora Neale (1901-1960)........................... 362 Wakoski, Diana (1937-) .......................................... 383 Irving, Washington (1783-1859)............................. 3 Walker, Alice (1944-).............................................. 489 Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)..................................... 336 Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965).................................. 372 West, Nathanael (1903-1940).................................. 282 James, Henry (1843-1916)...................................... 121 Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)................................... 200 Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965).................................. 510 Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753-1784).............................. 2 Jewett, Sara Orne (1849-1909).............................. 93 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)................................... 70 Wilbur, Richard (1921-).......................................... 509 Kennedy, X. J. (1929-)............................................ 281 Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963).................... 271 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)..................................... 378 Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938).................................... 299 Kincaid, Jamaica (1952-)........................................ 584 Wright, James (1927-1980).................................... 507 Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002).................................... 517 Wright, Richard (1908-1960).................................. 368 ix iv

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i Practical Anthology of American Literature Copyright © by Julián Rodríguez Alvarez ISBN:84-921953-7-1 DepósitoLegal Mu-1716-2003 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “TheAuthortoHerBook”and“ToMyDearHusband”byAnneBradstreet.FromThe Knopf,Inc.,1952.“TheBlueHotel”fromTheWorksofStephenCrane,ed., W. Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Jeannine Hensley, Cambridge, Mass.: The Follet,1963. BelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress,Copyright©1967byThePresidentand “TheLostPhoebe”fromTheBestShortStoriesofTheodoreDreiser.Copyright© FellowsofHarvardCollege. 1956byTheWorldPublishingCompany. “OnBeingBroughtfromAfricatoAmerica”fromThePoemsofPhillisWheatley,ed. “Chickamauga” & “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce from J.D.Mason,TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress. CollectedWorksofAmbroseBierce,ed.,W.Neale. “RipVanWinkle”byWashingtonIrvingfrom TheCompleteWorksofWashington “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton from The Collected Short Stories of Edith Irving,eds.H.Pochmann,H.Kleinfeld,etal. Wharton,ed.R.Lewis,1968. “TheSimpleLife”byHenryD.ThoreaufromThewritingsofHenryD.Thoreau,ed.W. “Paul’sCase”byWillaCatherfromYouthandtheBrightMedusa,AlfredA.Knopf, Harding. Inc. “TheFalloftheHouseofUsher”&“TheMaskoftheRedDeath”byE.A.Poefrom “DeathintheWoods”bySherwoodAnderson.Copyright1926bytheAmerican TheWorksofEdgarA.Poe,ed.,EStedmanandG.Woodberry. MercuryInc.Renewed1953EleanorCopenhaverAnderson. “YoungGoodmanBrown”byNathanielHawthornefromTheCentenialEditionofthe “Penelope” and “Résumé” from The Portable Dorothy Parker. Copyright 1926, WorksofN.Hawthorne,ed.W.Charvat,R.Pearce,C.Simpson,M.Bruccoli,F.Bowers. 1928,renewed©1954,1956byDorothyParker,VikingPenguinInc. “Bartleby,TheScrivener”byHermanMelvillefromCompleteWorksofHermanMelville, “TheCatbirdSeat”Copyright1945JamesThurber.Copyright©1973HelenW. ed.H.Vincent,1947-1969. Thurber and Rosemary T. Sauers. From The Thurber Carnival, published by “PassagetoIndia”&“WhenLilacsLastinthedooryardBloom”byWhaltWhitman Harper&Row. from The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, ed. R. Bucke, T. Harned, and H. “RichardCory”fromTheChildrenoftheNightbyEdwinArlingtonRobinson,New Traubel. York:CharlesScribner’sSons,1897. “BecauseIcouldnotstopforDeath,”and“IheardaFlybuzzwhenIdied”fromThe “Patterns”fromTheCompletePoeticalWorksofAmyLowell.Copyright©1955by PoemsofEmilyDickinson,editedbyThomasH.Joahnson,Cambridge,Mass.,The HoughtonMifflinCompany.Copyright©1983renewedbyHoughtonMifflinCom- BelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress,copyright©1983bythePresidentand pany,BrintonP.Roberts,EsquireandG.D’AndelotBelin,Esquire. FellowsofHarvardCollege. “Heat,” “Oread,” and “Sea Poppies” from Collected Poems by Hilda Doolittle. “Tennessee’sPartner”byBretHartefromBretHarte,RepresentativeSelections,ed., Copyright © 1982 by the Estate of Hilda Doolittle, New Directions Publishing J.Harrison,1941. Corporation. “The Storm” in The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, edited by Per Seyersted. “InaStationoftheMetro”and“TheRiverMerchant’sWife:ALetter”fromPerso- Copyright©1969byLouisianaStateUniversityPress. naebyEzraPound.Copyright1926byEzraPound.NewDirectionsPublishing “Luck”byMarkTwainfromTheWritingsofMarkTwain,ed.A.Paine. Corporation. “Haircut”from TheLoveNestandOtherStories.Copyright1925EllisA.Lardner; “Design”,“TheDraftHorse”,“StoppingByWoodsonaSnowyEvening”and“The copyrightrenewed,CharlesScribner’sSons. Witch of Coos” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Conery “Editha”byWilliamD.HowellsfromTheWritingsofWilliamDeanHowells,ed.,E. Lathem. Copyright © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Holt, Rinehart and Cady,1968. Winston, Publishers. “ThePupil”fromTheNovelsandTalesofHenryJames,CharlesScribner’sSons, “TheWasteLand”fromCollectedPoems1909-1962byT.S.Eliot,copyright1936 NewYorkEdition.Copyright1909CharlesScribner’ssons;renewalcopyright1937 byHarcourtBraceJovanovich,Inc.,copyright©1964,1963byT.S.Eliot,Harcourt HenryJames. BraceJovanovich,Inc.,andFaberandFaberLtd. “ToBuildaFire”and“LawofLife”fromTheBestShortStoriesofJackLondon. “ToBrooklynBridge”fromTheCollectedPoemsandSelectedLettersandProseof Copyright©1945byDoubleday. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” From Stephen Crane: An Omnibus, Alfred A. Continuedonpage586 ii iii iv Contents Schematic historical overview ................................................................. VI-VII I. The Colonial Period: 1588-1765. The Rise of Puritanism. The Practical Beginnings. II. The American Revolution (1776). The New Republic: 1765-1782. The Enlightenment. III. The Romantic Triumph: 1829-1860. Transcendentalism. The Power of the Imagination. New Visions of America. IV. The Road to Political and Social Liberation. Expansion, Civil War, the TriumphofDemocracy.TheAmericanConstitution:1850-1890.TheSlav- ery Issue. Regionalism and Realism (1865-1900). V. Transition to the Modern Era. The Literature of Ideas. From Realism to Naturalism. Tradition & New Social Awareness. VI. Modern Period: 1910-1945. Modernism, Alienation and Experimentation. VII. Contemporary Period: 1945 to Present. Postmodernism. Titles of texts anthologized chronologically ........................................... VIII Alphabetical index of authors anthologized............................................ IX Texts anthologized from each period ...................................................... 1-584 v SCHEMATIC HISTORICAL OVERVIEW (Onlyauthorsinitalicsareanthologized) I. The Colonial Period: 1588-1765. The Rise of Puritan- WilliamDeanHowells(1837-1920).................................... 114 ism.ThePracticalBeginnings. HenryJames(1843-1916).................................................... 121 CharlottePerkinsGilman(1860-1935).............................. 141 1. TheEarlyColonialWritings.CabezadeVaca.FirstColo- nies. The Socio-religious Beginnings. William Bradford 18. Theatrein XIXCentury.FromWilliamDunlaptoClyde (1590-1657).MaryRowlandson. Fitch. 2. ThePilgrims.MartinLutherandJohnCalvininAmerica. V.TransitiontotheModernEra.TheLiteratureofIdeas. TheEarlyPuritans.JohnWinthrop,NathanielWard,Roger From Realism to Naturalism. Tradition & New Social Williams,ThomasMorton,MichaelWigglesworth,Thomas Awareness. PaineyCottonMather(1663-1728).EdwardTaylor(1645?- 1729). 19. ThinkersandPoliticalFiguresoftheNewEra.Fictionand AnneBradstreet(1612-1672)............................................... 1 theSocialDebate.HenryGeorge,ThorsteinVeblen,William James, George Santayana John Dewey, Upton Sinclair. 3. TheDeclineofPuritanism.Salem.Deism,Rationalism,and FranklinD.Roosevelt,D.D.Eisenhower,KennethBurke. Resistance: JohnathanEdwards(1703-1758).TheQuakers: HenryAdams(1838-1918).EdwardBellamy(1850-1898). JohnWoolman.WilliamByrdII(1674-1744) 20. FromRealismtoNaturalismI:ThelessRadicalNaturalists: II. The American Revolution (1776). The New Republic: JosephKirkland,HaroldFrederic.HamlinGarland(1860- 1765-1782.TheEnlightenment. 1940).FrankNorris(1870-1902). Jack London (1870-1916). ................................................... 150 4. The Revolutionary and Early National Period. Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)andThomasJefferson(1743-1826). 21. FromRealismtoNaturalismII:ThemoreDeterminists: TheDeclarationofIndependence.ThomasPain(1737-1809). RebeccaHardingDavies(1831-1910). Stephen Crane (1871-1900)................................................. 162 5. TheLiberationofLetters.PhilipFreneau,TimothyDwight, TheodoreDreiser(1871-1945)............................................ 182 JoelBarlow,JohnTrumbullyWilliamCullenBryant(1794- AmbroseBierce(1842-1914)............................................... 189 1878).RoyalTyler(1757-1826). PhillisWheatley(c.1753-1784)............................................ 2 22. Traditionalism and the New Social Consciousness. Book Tarkington,EllenGlasgow(1874-1945). III. TheRomanticTriumph:1829-1860.Transcendentalism. JesseStuart(1907-). ............................................................. 198 ThePoweroftheImagination.NewVisionsofAmerica. SaraN.Cleghorn(1876-1959)............................................ 199 EdithWharton(1862-1937).................................................. 200 6. FirstHarvest.Legends,Tales,MythsandHistoricalWrit- WillaCather(1873-1947)..................................................... 210 ings.JamesF.Cooper(1789-1851). Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)........................................ 220 WashingtonIrving(1783-1859)........................................... 3 SinclairLewis(1885-1951). ................................................. 226 7. From Puritanism and Rationalism to Transcendentalism. VI.ModernPeriod:1910-1945.Modernism,Alienationand TheodoreParker(1810-1860)yAmosBronsonAlcott(1799- Experimentation. 1888).RalphWaldoEmerson(1803-1882). HenryDavidThoreau(1817-1860)..................................... 11 23. TheDeathof«Puritanism»andtheappearanceofnewra- MargaretFuller(1810-1850)............................................... 14 dicalartisticforms.«TheJazzAge».GertrudeStein(1874- 1946). 8. EdgarAllanPoe(1809-1849).............................................. 17 F.ScottFitzgerald(1896-1940). ......................................... 230 DjunaBarnes(1892-1982)................................................... 236 9. NathanielHawthorne(1804-1864)...................................... 31 DorothyParker(1893-1967)................................................ 240 JamesThurber(1894-1961)................................................. 241 10. HermanMelville(1819-1891).............................................. 39 24. RevolutioninPoetry.TheImagistMovement.JohnGould 11. The«GenteelTradition»:OliverW.Holmes,JamesRussell Fletcher,EdwardLeeMasters,VachelLindsay. Lowell,SidneyLanier,JohnGreenleafWhittier,Frederick Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)................................................. 246 G.TuckermanyHenryW.Longfellow(1807-1882). EdwinArlingtonRobinson(1869-1935)............................. 247 AmyLowell(1874-1925)....................................................... 248 IV. TheRoadtoPoliticalandSocialLiberation.Expansion, H.D., HildaDolittle(1886-1961)....................................... 250 CivilWar,theTriumphofDemocracy.TheAmerican EzraPound(1885-1972). ..................................................... 251 Constitution: 1850-1890. The Slavery Issue. Regional- ismandRealism(1865-1900). 25. RobertFrost(1874-1963)..................................................... 252 12. SojournerTruth(1797-1883),RebeccaCoxJackson(1795- 26. T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)......................................................... 256 1871), Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828-1860?), Frederic Douglas(1817-1895). 27. RobinsonJeffers(1887-1962). LindaBrent(1818-1890)...................................................... 60 HartCrane(1899-1932)....................................................... 268 LuisaMayAlcott(1832-1888)............................................. 62 WallaceStevens(1879-1955)............................................... 269 FrancesE.W.Harper(1825-1911)..................................... 67 AbrahamLincoln(1809-1865)............................................. 67 28. WilliamCarlosWilliams(1883-1963)................................. 271 CivilWarSongs:JuliaW.Howe(1819-1910)................... 69 29. ConradAiken.StephenVincentBénet. 13. WaltWhitman(1819-1892)................................................... 70 EdnaSt.VincentMilay(1892-1950)................................... 273 ArchibaldMacLeish1892-1982)......................................... 274 14. EmilyDickinson(1830-1886). ............................................. 81 E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)............................................... 276 MarianneMoore(1887-1982). ............................................ 278 15. RegionalistWritersandthe«LocalColorWriting».TheRise JohnCroweRanson(1888-1974)........................................ 279 ofRealism:GeorgeW.Cable,JoelChandlerHarris,Charles LouiseBogan(1897-1970)................................................... 280 FarrarBrowne,GeorgeH.Derby,DavidRossLocke,Henry JohnCiardi(1916-1986)...................................................... 280 WheelerShaw,GeorgeAde,yBookerT.Washington,W. X.J.Kennedy(1929-)........................................................... 281 E.Du Bois,JamesW.Johnson.SpiritualSongs, Ballads, Folksongs,IndianOratory.«AmericatheBeautiful»(1892) 30. TheTheatreintheFirstHalfoftheXXthCentury.Eugene deK.LeeBates. O’Neill(1888-1953)andtheAmericanTheater. BretHarte(1836-1902). ....................................................... 83 HarrietB.Stowe(1811-1896).............................................. 88 31. TheAgeofCriticism:New-humanists,the«NewCriticism» SaraOrneJewett(1849-1909)............................................. 93 andafter.I.A.Richards,T.S.Eliot,R.P.Blackmur,Cleanth KateChopin(1851-1904)..................................................... 98 Brooks,R.SCrane.R.P.Warren,HarryLevin,Edmund Wilson,R.Wellek,W.K.Wimsatt,RichardPoirier,Philip 16. MarkTwain,SamuelL.Clemens(1835-1910)...................102 Wheelwright.ED.Hirsch.HaroldBloom,MurrayKrieger. O.Henry,WillianSidneyPorter(1862-1910)....................104 «Feministcriticism». RingW.Lardner(1885-1933)..............................................108 17. TheFirstRealists: 32. IssuesandVisionsinModernAmerica.SearchingforNew vi Values. Meridel Le Sueur (1900-). James T. Farrell. 45. The Post-modernist Writers: Raymond Federman, Nathanael West (1903-1940)................................................ 282 William Gass, Ronald Sukenick, Steve Katz, Robert John Dos Passos (1896-1970).............................................. 291 Coover, John Gardner, Jerzy Kosinski, John Hawkes, John Steinbeck (1902-1968)................................................. 293 John Barth. 473 Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)........................................... 476 33. The Cult of New Experience, Experimentation, the «Lost Thomas Pynchon (1937-)...................................................... Generation». Henry Miller. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), Kay Boyle. 46. African-American Women Writers: Paule Marshall, Audre Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)................................................... 299 Lorde, Lice Childress, Mari Evans, Gayl Jones, Ann Petry, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)........................................... 303 Carolyn Rodgers, Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, May Paul Bowles (1910-1999)...................................................... 314 Swenson, Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor. 483 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)........................................... 484 34. Literary and Social Protest: Horace Gregory, Kenneth Fear- Lucille Clifton (1936-)........................................................... 485 ing, Clifford Odets, Thorton Wilder, John H. Lawson, Lilliam Maya Angelou (1928-)........................................................... 489 Hellman Alice Walker (1944-).............................................................. 494 John Hersey (1914-1993)...................................................... 316 Toni Cade Bambara (1939-)................................................. 498 Nikki Giovanni (1943-).......................................................... 35. William Faulkner (1897-1962)............................................. 319 47. Poetry I: 36. The 'New' Naturalists: towards the Contemporary Period. John a) The Poets of the «Black Mountain College»: Paul Duncan, O’Hara, Erskine Cadwell, Thomas Wolfe, William Styron, Edward Dorn, Joel Oppenheimer, Paul Blackburn. 499 William Gass, W. Goyen, Walker Percy, Truman Capote. Charles Olson (1919-1970).................................................. 500 Katherine A. Porter (1890-1980)......................................... 331 Robert Creely (1926-)............................................................ 500 Eudora Welty (1909-2001).................................................... 336 Denise Levertov (1923-1997)............................................... Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)......................................... 341 b) The Confessional Poets: John Berryman. 501 Carson McCullers (1917-1967)............................................ 349 Robert Lowell (1917-1977)................................................... 503 W. D. Snodgrass (1926-)....................................................... 504 37. The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Ch. W. Chesnutt. Anne Sexton (1932-1974)...................................................... 505 Claude Mackay, Melvin B. Tolson. Arna Bontemps. Eldrege Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)...................................................... 506 Cleaver, Martin Luther King, Alex Haley. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)............................................ Jean Toomer (1894-1967)..................................................... 354 c) Poets of the «Deep Image»: William Stafford y Louis Simpson. 507 Langston Hughes (1902-1967)............................................. 359 Robert Bly (1926-)................................................................. 507 Countée Cullen (1903-1946)................................................ 361 James Wright (1927-1980).................................................... Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)........................................ 362 d) Independent Poets: Stanley Kunitz y R. P. Warren, Robert Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).................................................... 364 Hayden, Anthony Hecht, George Meredith. 508 Richard Wright (1908-1960)................................................. 368 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).............................................. 509 James Baldwin (1924-1987)................................................. 369 Richard Wilbur (1921-)......................................................... 509 Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)............................................. 510 VII. Contemporary Period: 1945 to Present. Postmodernism. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)................................................. 511 Richard Eberhart (1904-)..................................................... 511 38. From the Californian Coast. «The Beat Generation»: William W. S. Merwin (1927-)............................................................. 512 Burroughs, William Goyen, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Ann Adrienne Rich (1929-)........................................................... Stanford. Laurence Ferlinghetti (1919-).............................................. 371 48. Poetry II: Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)................................................ 372 The New York School: James Schuyler, Ted Berrigan, Ron Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)................................................. 377 Padget, Harry Mathews. 514 Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)................................................... 378 John Ashbery (1927-)............................................................ 515 Frank O’Hara (1926-1960).................................................. 517 39. The Independent writers. William Kennedy. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)................................................... James Dickey (1923-)............................................................ 381 Diana Wakoski (1937-).......................................................... 383 49. African-American Writers: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, Ster- Judith Minty (1937-).............................................................. 384 ling Brown, Frank M. Davos, Owen Dodson, Robert Hayden, Marge Piercy (1936-)............................................................ 385 Don Lee, Chester Himes, William G. Smith, John O. Killens, Linda Pastan (1932-)............................................................. 386 Ishmael Reed, James Alan Macpherson, Ernest Gaines, Americo Parédes (1915-1999).............................................. 387 William Demby, John A. Williams, W. M. Kelly, David Bradley. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-). 518 40. The Jewish Writers: Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jon, Saul Bellow Duddley Randall (1914-)....................................................... (1915-). Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)............................................ 390 50. From the Intensity of the Classic Drama to New Forms and John Cheever (1912-1965)................................................... 399 Technical Means. The «happening». The «living theatre». Philip Roth (1933-)................................................................ 408 «Off-Broadway». Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. The John Updike (1932-2009)................................................ 416 Dark Drama. Edward Albee, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, Sam Grace Paley (1922-).............................................................. 420 Shepard, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein. 519 Isaac B. Singer (1904-1992)................................................. 425 David Mamet (1947-)............................................................. Tillie Olsen (1913-)................................................................ 430 51. The Latest Fiction Writers: E. L. Doctorow. T. Daven- 41. The Popular Writers. The Comic. Children's Literature. The port, Jayne Ann Phillips, Paul Theroux, Richard Ford, Everyday Songs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Philip Tobias Wolff, Elizabeth Tallent, Frederick Barthelme, Lovecraft (1890-1937), Zane Grey, John Kennedy Toole, Berenice Zamora, Louise Erdrich, Pedro Pietri, Wendy Margaret Mitchel, John Irving (1942-), Pearl S. Buck, Gore Rose, Joy Harjo, Garret Hongo, Tato Laviera, Judith Ortiz Vidal. Cofer, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song, D. Leavitt, Norman Mailer (1923-2007)................................................ 435 Tim O’Brien. Amy Hempel, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Arlo Guthrie (1947-).......................................................... 439 Garrison Keillor. 537 Odgen Nash (1902-1970)...................................................... 443 Ann Tyler (1941-)................................................................... 542 Raymond Carver (1939-1988).............................................. 550 42. Resisting Modernist Writers: James Purdy (1923-), Ken T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-).............................................. 556 Kesey (1935-). Tess Gallagher (1932-).......................................................... 563 Joseph Heller (1923-1999)................................................... 445 Maxime Chernoff (1952-)...................................................... 565 Kurt Vonnegut. Jr. (1922-).................................................... 452 Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-)................................................... Joyce Carol Oates (1938-).................................................... 456 52. Ethnic Literatures: Tino Villanueva, Ronald Arias, Américo 43. Hundred years of Crime Thriller. From E. A. Poe to Raymond Parédes (#39), Victor Hernandez Cruz, Corky Gonzales, Chandler (1888-1959), Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Carlos Cortez, Alurista, Denise Chavez, Lione G. Garcia, «Ellery Queen» (Frederic Dannay), «Ed McBain» (Evan Mª Irene Fornes, Martín Espada, Laura del Fuego, Gloria Hunter); Mickey Spillane. James Crumley. Anzaldua, Danny Santiago, Gary Soto, N. Scott Momaday, Hisaye Yamamoto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Carolyn Forché, 44. Science Fiction Writers: Walter M. Miller. Isaac Asimov, Maxime Hong Kingston, Amy Tam. 573 Samuel R. Delany, Robert A. Heinlein, Delany Zelazny, José Armas (1944-)................................................................ 577 Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-). Sandra Cisneros (1954-)....................................................... 581 Ray Bradbury (1920-)............................................................ 465 Helena María Viramontes 1954-)........................................ 584 Jamaica Kincaid (1952-)....................................................... vii TITLES OF TEXTS ANTHOLOGIZED FROM EACH PERIOD #1-2-3 «TheAuthortoHerBook»& ................................. 1 #35 «Wash»&................................................................. 319 «TomyDearHusband»byA.Bradstreet ............. 2 «ARoseforEmily»byWilliamFaulkner.............. 326 #4-5 «OnbeingBroughtto...»byPh.Wheatley ............ 2 #36 «TheJiltingofGranny...»byK.A.Porter.............. 331 #6 «RipvanWinkle»byWashingtonIrving ............... 3 «AWornPath»byEudoraWelty ........................... 336 «AGoodManisHard...»byF.O’Connor ........... 341 #7 «TheSimpleLife»byHenryD.Thoreau............... 11 «Sucker»byCarsonMcCullers.............................. 349 «FutureofWomen»byMargaretFuller................ 14 #37 «Blood-BurningMoon»byJeanToomer .............. 354 #8 «TheFalloftheHouseofUsher»& ..................... 17 «ThemeforEnglishB»byLangstonHughes ........ 359 «TheMaskoftheRedDeath»byE.A.Poe.......... 28 «Saturday»&PoemsbyCountéeCullen .............. 361 «Howitfeelstobe...»byN.N.Hurston.............. 362 #9 «YoungGoodmanBrown»byN.Hawthorne......... 31 «MisterToussan»byRalphEllison....................... 364 #10 «Bartleby,theScrivener»byH.Melville .............. 39 «Weareleaving»byRichardWright .................... 368 «Lifeistragic»byJamesBaldwin......................... 369 #11-12 «Incidents...»byLindaBrent................................. 60 «InService»LuisaM.Alcott .................................. 62 #38 «Constantly...»byL.Ferlinghetti.......................... 371 «AuntChloe’sPolitics»byF.Harper ................... 67 «TheLottery»byShirleyJackson.......................... 372 «GettysburgAddress»byA.Lincoln ..................... 67 «Supermarket»byA.Gingsberg ............................ 377 «TheBattleHymnof...»byJ.Howe..................... 69 «TheDharmaBums»byJ.Kerouac ...................... 378 #13 «PassagetoIndia»& ............................................. 70 #39 «CherrylogRoad»byJamesDickey...................... 381 «WhenLilacsLast...»byW.Whitman.................... 76 «Insideout»byDianaWakoski ............................. 383 «Conjoined»byJudithMinty................................. 384 #14 «BecauseIcouldnotStopforDeath»&................ 81 «Aworkofartifice»&aliabyM.Piercy.............. 385 «IheardaFlybuzz»byE.Dickinson ................... 82 «Marks»byLindaPastan....................................... 386 «TheHammonandthe...»byA.Parédes.............. 387 #15 «Tennessee’sPartner»byBretHarte.................... 83 «MissAsphyxia»byHarrietB.Stowe ................... 88 #40 «TheMagicBarrel»byB.Malamud ..................... 390 «AWhiteHeron»bySaraO.Jewett ...................... 93 «TheSwimmer»& ................................................... 399 «Storm»&aliabyKateChopin............................. 98 «Justonemoretime»byJohnCheever ................ 405 «TheConversionoftheJews»byP.Roth............. 408 #16 «Luck»byMarkTwain............................................ 102 «A&P»byJohnUpdike........................................ 416 «TheFurnishedRoom»byO.Henry ..................... 104 «GoodbyandGoodLuck»byGracePaley........... 420 «Haircut»byRingLardner.................................... 108 «TheKey»byIsaacBashevisSinger ..................... 425 #17-18 «Editha»byWilliamD.Howells............................ 114 «IStandHereIroning»byTillieOlsen ................ 430 19-20 «ThePupil»byHenryJames.................................. 121 #41 «Wake»byNormanMailer..................................... 435 «TheYellowWall-Paper»byCh.P.Gilman ......... 141 «Alice’sRestaurant»byA.Guthrie....................... 439 #21 «ToBuildaFire»&................................................ 150 «Exit,PursuedbyaBear»byOgdenNash .......... 443 «LawofLife»byJackLondon ............................... 158 #42 «Yossarian»byJosephHeller................................ 445 «TheBrideComestoYellowSky»& ..................... 162 «HarrinsonBergeron»byKurtVonnegut,Jr.......... 452 «TheBlueHotel»byStephenCrane...................... 168 «Wherearewegoing»byJoyceCarolOates.......... 456 «TheLostPhoebe»byTheodoreDreiser .............. 182 «Chickamauga»&................................................... 189 #43-44 «December2001»& ............................................... 465 «Occurrence...»byAmbroseBierce....................... 193 «TheHappinessBoys»byRayBradbury.............. 468 #22 «Love»byJesseStuart ........................................... 198 #45 «Game»byDonaldBarthelme ............................... 473 «TheGolfLinks»bySaraN.Cleghorn ................. 199 «Entropy»byThomasPynchon .............................. 476 «TheOtherTwo»byEdithWharton ...................... 200 «Paul’sCase»byWillaCather.............................. 210 #46 «TheMother»byGwendolynBrooks..................... 483 «DeathintheWoods»byS.Anderson .................. 220 «intheinnercity»byLucilleClifton .................... 484 «ReportfromZenith»byS.Lewis.......................... 226 «ThePeckwood...»byMayaAngelou .................... 485 «EverydayUse»byAliceWalker........................... 489 #23 [«TheValleyofAshes»]byFitzgerald.................. 230 «Bluesain´tno...»byToniCadeBambara........... 494 «Cassation»byDjunaBarnes ................................ 236 «Nikki-Rose»byNikkiGiovanni............................ 498 «Penelope»&aliabyDorothyParker.................. 240 «TheCatbirdSeat»byJamesThurber.................. 241 #47 «Lachute»byCharlesOlson................................. 499 «OhNo»byRobertCreely..................................... 500 #24 «Margaret»,«Lost»&aliabyC.Sandburg ......... 246 «Leavingforever»byDeniseLevertov.................. 500 «««PRHaiectahteta»rrn&ds»CaboliyrayA»bmybyHyL.EDo.woAoe.llRiltto.l.b.e.i..n....s...o....n.............................................................................. 222445780 ««BTheyaotntidmteh»ebAylpWs».D&.«SSnkoudngkr»asbsy..R......L..o..w...e..l.l.................... 550013 «TheRiver’s...»&aliabyEzraPound................ 251 ««TMoetaaFphrioernsd»WbyhSoyslev..i.a»PAlnanthe.S..e..x.t..o..n............................................ 550045 #25 «Design»&«TheDraftHorse»byR.Frost............ 252 ««PDarpivai’nsgWtoa.l.t.z»»bbyyRTohbeeordtoBrleyR..o...e.t..h..k..e........................................ 550067 #26 TheWasteLandbyT.S.Eliot ............................... 256 ««AThBeleFsissihn»g»bybEylJiazambeesthWBriisghhotp............................................................ 550078 #27 «ToBrooklynBridge»byHartCrane ................... 268 «Transit»byRichardWilbur.................................. 509 «Disillusionmentof...»byW.Stevens .................. 269 ««TThheesWnoomwagnloabtet»hebyWH.Z.Nooe»mbeyroRv..J..a..r.r..e..l.l.......................... 550190 #28 «TheDance»etal.byW.C.Williams................... 271 ««OThdeysFsueruys»ofb..y.»Wb.ySR.MicherawrdinE.b..e..r.h..a...r.t........................................ 551111 #29 «Countingout...»byE.St.V.Millay .................... 273 «AtaBachConcert»etal.byA.Rich................... 512 «ArsPoetica»byArchibaldMacLeish................... 274 #48 «Thecathedralis»byJohnAshbery ..................... 514 «nobodyloses...»byE.E.Cummings.................... 276 «ATrueAccountof...»etal.byF.O’Hara .......... 515 «Poetry»byMarianneMoore ................................ 278 «Mendingsump»byKennethKoch........................ 517 «PiazzaPiece»byJ.C.Ransom ............................ 279 «Women»byLuiseBogan....................................... 280 #49 «OldWitherington»byDuddleyRandall.............. 518 «Inplaceofacurse»byJohnCiardi.................... 280 «Nothingin...»byX.J.Kennedy ........................... 281 #50 «Oleanna»byDavidMamet................................... 519 #30-31 «Pitkin’sWest»byNathanielWest ........................ 282 #51 «AverageWavesin...»byAnnTyler...................... 537 32 «Proteus»byJohnDosPassos .............................. 291 «Cathedral»byRaymondCarver .......................... 542 «TheChrysanthemums»byJ.Steinbeck................ 293 «GreasyLake»byT.CoraghessanBoyle.............. 550 «TheLoverofHorses»byTessGallagher............ 556 #33 «OnlytheDeadKnow...»byThomasWolfe .......... 299 «TheSpiritofGiving»byMaximeChernoff......... 563 «CatintheRain»,................................................... 303 «BigBerthaStories»byBobbieAnnMason......... 565 «AClean,Well-LightedPlace»,&......................... 305 «TheKillers» ........................................................... 308 #52 «ElTontodelBarrio»byJoséArmas ................... 573 «Kitty»byPaulBowles........................................... 314 «OneHolyNight»bySandraCisneros ................. 577 «TheMoths»byHelenaMaríaViramontes .......... 581 #34 «TheFire»byJohnHersey.................................... 316 «Girl»byJamaicaKincaid..................................... 584 viii AUTHORS ANTHOLOGIZED Alcott, Luisa May (1832-1888).............................. 62 Lardner, Ring W. (1885-1933)................................ 108 Angelou, Maya (1928-)........................................... 485 Levertov, Denise (1923-1997)................................. 500 Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)........................... 220 Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951).................................... 226 Armas, José (1944-)................................................ 573 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865).............................. 67 Ashbery, John (1927-)............................................. 514 London, Jack (1870-1916)...................................... 150 Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)........................................ 248 Baldwin, James (1924-1987)................................... 369 Lowell, Robert (1917-1977).................................... 501 Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-).................................. 494 Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)..................................... 236 MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982).......................... 274 Barth, John (1930-)................................................. 502 Mailer, Norman (1923-2007)..................................... 435 Barthelme, Donald (1931-1989)............................. 473 Malamud, Bernard (1914-1986)................................. 390 Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)................................. 189 Mamet, David (1947-)............................................... 519 Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)................................ 508 Mark Twain (1835-1910)........................................... 102 Bly, Robert (1926-).................................................. 507 Mason, Bobbie Ann (1940-)....................................... 565 Bogan, Louise (1897-1970)..................................... 280 McCullers, Carson (1917-1967)................................. 349 Bowles, Paul (1910-)............................................... 314 Melville, Herman (1819-1891)................................. 39 Boyle, T. Coraghessan (1948-)............................... 550 Merwin, W. S. (1927-)................................................ 511 Bradbury, Ray (1920-)............................................ 465 Milay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)......................... 273 Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)................................. 1 Minty, Judith (1937-)................................................. 384 Brent, Linda (1818-1890)....................................... 60 Moore, Marianne (1887-1982).................................. 278 Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) ............................ 483 Nash, Odgen (1902-1970)....................................... 443 Carver, Raymond (1939-1988)............................... 542 Nemerov, Howard (1920-1991)............................... 509 Cather, Willa (1873-1947)...................................... 210 Cheever, John (1912-1965)..................................... 399 Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-)..................................... 456 Chernoff, Maxime (1952-)....................................... 563 O’Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)........................... 341 Chopin, Kate (1851-1904)...................................... 98 O’Hara, Frank (1926-1960).................................... 515 Ciardi, John (1916-1986)....................................... 280 O. Henry (1862-1910)............................................. 104 Cisneros, Sandra (1954-)........................................ 577 Olsen, Tillie (1913-)................................................ 430 Cleghorn, Sara N. (1876-1959).............................. 199 Olson, Charles (1919-1970).................................... 499 Clifton, Lucille (1936-)............................................ 484 Crane, Hart (1899-1932)......................................... 268 Paley, Grace (1922-)............................................... 420 Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)................................... 162 Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967).................................. 240 Creely, Robert (1926-)............................................ 500 Pastan, Linda (1932-)............................................. 386 Cullen, Countée (1903-1946).................................. 361 Parédes, Americo (1915-1999)............................... 387 Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962)................................. 276 Piercy, Marge (1936-)............................................. 385 Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)....................................... 505 Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)................................ 81 Dickey, James (1923-)............................................. 381 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)............................... 17 Dos Passos, John (1896-1970)............................... 291 Porter, Katherine A. (1890-1980)........................... 331 Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945).............................. 182 Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)........................................ 251 Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)........................................ 476 Eberhart, Richard (1904-) ...................................... 511 Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)........................................... 256 Randall, Duddley (1914-)....................................... 518 Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)..................................... 364 Ranson, John Crowe (1888-1974)........................... 279 Rich, Adrienne (1929-)............................................ 512 Faulkner, William (1897-1962).............................. 319 Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)................ 247 Ferlinghetti, Laurence (1919-)................................ 371 Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963).............................. 506 Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)............................. 230 Roth, Philip (1933-)................................................. 408 Frost, Robert (1874-1963)...................................... 252 Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)................................ 14 Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)................................... 246 Sexton, Anne (1932-1974)....................................... 504 Gallagher, Tess (1932-).......................................... 556 Singer, Isaac B. (1904-1992).................................. 425 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)................. 141 Snodgrass, W. D. (1926-)........................................ 503 Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)................................... 377 Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)................................... 293 Giovanni, Nikki (1943-) .......................................... 498 Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)................................. 269 Guthrie, Arlo (1947-)............................................ 439 Stowe, Harriet B. (1811-1896)............................... 88 Stuart, Jesse (1907-)............................................... 198 Harte, Bret (1836-1902)......................................... 83 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)....................... 31 Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1860)...................... 11 Harper, Frances E. W. (1825-1911)...................... 67 Thurber, James (1894-1961)................................... 241 H. D. Hilda Dolittle (1886-1961)........................... 250 Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)...................................... 354 Heller, Joseph (1923-1999).................................... 445 Tyler, Ann (1941-)................................................... 537 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)............................. 303 Hersey, John (1914-1993)....................................... 316 Updike, John (1932-2009).................................... 416 Howe, Julia W. (1819-1910).................................. 69 Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)....................... 114 Viramontes, Helena Mª (1954-).............................. 581 Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)............................... 359 Vonnegut Jr., Kurt (1922-2007)........................... 452 Hurston, Zora Neale (1901-1960)........................... 362 Wakoski, Diana (1937-) .......................................... 383 Irving, Washington (1783-1859)............................. 3 Walker, Alice (1944-).............................................. 489 Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)..................................... 336 Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965).................................. 372 West, Nathanael (1903-1940).................................. 282 James, Henry (1843-1916)...................................... 121 Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)................................... 200 Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965).................................. 510 Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753-1784).............................. 2 Jewett, Sara Orne (1849-1909).............................. 93 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)................................... 70 Wilbur, Richard (1921-).......................................... 509 Kennedy, X. J. (1929-)............................................ 281 Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963).................... 271 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)..................................... 378 Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938).................................... 299 Kincaid, Jamaica (1952-)........................................ 584 Wright, James (1927-1980).................................... 507 Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002).................................... 517 Wright, Richard (1908-1960).................................. 368 ix iv

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