Chapter 1The Literature of the Colonial Period1
1.1An Introduction1
1.2Anne Bradstreet 3
1.3Edward Taylor 5
Chapter 2The Literature of the Revolutionary Period 8
2.1An Introduction 8
2.2Benjamin Franklin 11
2.3Patrick Henry 15
2.4Thomas Jefferson 19
Chapter 3The Literature of the Romantic Period 25
3.1An Introduction 25
3.2Washington Irving 27
3.3Edgar Allan Poe 35
3.4Ralph Waldo Emerson38
3.5Henry David Thoreau 43
3.6Nathaniel Hawthorne 49
3.7Herman Melville 57
3.8Abraham Lincoln64
3.9Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 67
3.10Walt Whitman 71
3.11Emily Dickinson 77
Chapter 4The Literature of the Realistic Period 82
4.1An Introduction 82
4.2Mark Twain 84
4.3O. Henry 90
4.4Henry James 97
4.5Theodore Dreiser 104
4.6Robert Frost 114
4.7Willa Cather120
4.8Sherwood Anderson145
4.9Katherine Anne Porter155
Chapter 5The Literature of the Modernist Period 165
5.1An Introduction 165
5.2Ezra Pound 168
5.3William Carlos Williams 171
5.4Langston Hughes 174
5.5E. E. Cummings 176
5.6Ernest Hemingway 178
5.7F. Scott Fitzgerald 183
5.8William Faulkner 195
5.9Eugene ONeill 204
Chapter 6The Literature since World War Ⅱ 214
6.1An Introduction 214
6.2Saul Bellow 216
6.3Arthur Miller 230
6.4J. D. Salinger 235
6.5Elizabeth Bishop243
6.6Robert Lowell246
6.7Theodore Roethke250
6.8Allen Ginsberg 251
6.9Sylvia Plath 257
6.10Robert Hayden259
Appendix ⅠSample Test Paper262
Appendix ⅡAcknowledgments269