ChapterOneEarlyAmericanLiterature
 JonathanEdwards
 SinnersintheHandsofanAngryGod
 BenjaminFranklin
 TheAutobiography
 ChapterTwoAmericanRomanticismandTranscendentalism
 RalphWaldoEmerson
 Nature
 Self-Reliance
 HenryDavidThoreau
 Walden
 EdgarAllanPoe
 TheRaven
 NathanlelHawhome
 TheMinister'sBlackVeil
 HenryWadsworthLongfellow
 APsalmofLife
 HermanMelville
 MobyDick
 WaltWhitman
 WhenIHeardtheLearn'dAstronomer
 CavalryCrossingaFord
 ComeUpfromtheFields,Father
 OutoftheCradleEndlesslyRocking
 EmilyDickinson
 Wildblights-Wildblights!
 ABirdCamedowntheWalk
 IDiedforBeauty-ButWasScarce
 BecauseICouldNotStopforDeath
 ChapterThreeAmericanRealismandAmericanNaturalism
 SamuelLonghorneClemens
 TheCelebratedJumpingFrogofCalaverasCounty
 HenryJames
 DaisyMiller
 EdithWharton
 EthanFrame
 StephenCrane
 TheRedBadgeofCourage
 TheodoreDreiser
 OldRogaumandHisTheresa
 JackLondon
 TheLawofLife
 ChapterFourAmericanModernism
 EzraPound
 InaStationoftheMetro
 RobertFrost
 TheRoadNotTaken
 FireandIce
 MendingWall
 StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening
 ThomasSteams(T.S.)Eliot
 TheLoveSongofJ.ALfredPrufrock
 SherwoodAnderson
 Sophistication,ConcerningHelenWhite
 EmestHemingwoy
 AClean,Well-lightedPlace
 WilliamFaulkner
 ARoseforEmily
 Eugene0'Neill
 DesireundertheElms
 ChapterFivePost-warAmericanLiterature
 SoulBellow
 LookingforMr.Green
 ArthurMiller
 DeathofaSalesman
 JeromeDavidSalinger
 TheCatcherintheRye
 FlanneryO'Connor
 TheLifeYouSaveMayBeYourOwn
 AllenGinsberg
 ASupermarketinCalifornia
 RaymondCarver
 WhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutLove
 AliceWalker
 EverydayUse
 GishJen
 IntheAmericanSociety
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