Chapter 1 The Literature of Early and Revolutionary Periods 1
Ⅰ．An Outline of the Literature of This Period 1
Ⅱ．Benjamin Franklin 5
Poor Richard's Almanac(Excerpt) 5
Ⅲ．Thomas Jefferson 8
The Declaration of Independence 8
Ⅳ．Philip Freneau 12
The Wild Honey Suckle 12
Chapter 2 The Literature of Romanticism 15
Ⅰ．An Outline of the Literature of This Period 15
Ⅱ．William Cullen Bryant 25
Thanatopsis 25
To a Waterfowl 29
Ⅲ．Ralph Waldo Emerson 31
Nature(Excerpt) 31
Self-Reliance(Excerpt) 34
Ⅳ．Henry David Thoreau 38
Walden(Excerpt) 38
Ⅴ．Nathaniel Hawthorne 44
The Scarlet Letter(Excerpt) 44
Young Goodman Brown 53
Ⅵ．Edgar Allan Poe 64
The Raven(Excerpt) 64
To Helen 67
Annabel Lee 68
Ⅶ．Herman Melville 70
Moby-Dick(Excerpt) 70
Ⅷ．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 77
A Psalm of Life 77
Ⅸ．Walt Whitman 80
Inscriptions 80
Song of Myself(Excerpt) 82
O Captain!My Captain 90
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 92
Ⅹ．Emily Dickinson 94
Success 94
There's a Certain Slant of Light 96
I'm Nobody!Who Are you? 98
A Bird Came down the Walk— 99
After Great Pain,a Formal Feeling Comes— 102
Much Madness Is Divine Sense— 104
I Died for Beauty—But Was Scarce 105
I Like to See It Lap the Miles— 106
I Dwell in Possibility— 108
Because I Could Not Stop for Death— 110
I Never Saw a Moor— 113
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant— 114
There Is No Frigate like a Book 115
A Route of Evanescence 116
To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clove and One Bee 118
Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism 120
Ⅰ．An Outline of the Literature of This Period 120
Ⅱ．Mark Twain 127
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Excerpt) 127
Ⅲ．Henry James 137
Daisy Miller(Excerpt) 137
Ⅳ．Jack London 149
The Law of Life 149
Ⅴ．Theodore Dreiser 155
Sister Carrie(Excerpt) 155
Ⅵ．Kate Chopin 166
The Awakening(Excerpt) 166
The Story of an Hour 175
Ⅶ．O.Henry 178
The Last Leaf 178
The Cop and the Anthem 184
Ⅷ．Stephen Crane 190
The Open Boat 190
Chapter 4 The Modem Period 195
Ⅰ．An Outline of the Literature of This Period 195
Ⅱ．Ezra Pound 216
In a Station of the Metro 216
A Pact 217
Ⅲ．Robert Frost 218
Mending Wall 218
The Road Not Taken 220
Fire and Ice 222
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 223
Acceptance 224
Design 225
Nothing Gold Can Stay 227
Ⅳ．Arthur Miller 228
Death of a Salesman(Excerpt) 228
Ⅴ．Ralph Ellison 235
Invisible Man(Excerpt) 235
Ⅵ．John Steinbeck 249
The Grapes of Wrath(Excerpt) 249
Ⅶ．Eugene O'Neill 255
The Hairy Ape(Excerpt) 255
Ⅷ．William Faulkner 261
A Rose for Emily 261
Ⅸ．Ernest Hemingway 270
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place 270
Ⅹ．F.Scott Fitzgerald 275
Great Gatsby(Excerpt) 275
Ⅺ．Sherwood Anderson 289
Winesburg,Ohio(Excerpt) 289
Ⅻ．Joseph Heller 295
Catch-22(Excerpt) 295
References 305