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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