Chapter 1 American Indian Lengend Literature 1
Chapter 2 The Literature of the Colonial and Puritan America 3
Unit 1 Anne Bradstreet 7
To My Dear and Loving Husband 8
Unit 2 Philip Morin Freneau 8
The Wild Honeysuckle 10
Chapter 3 The Literature of Reason and Revolution 11
Unit 1 Yankee Doodle 12
Unit 2 Beniamin Franklin 14
The Autobiography 16
Unit 3 Katharine Lee Bates 23
America the Beautiful 24
Chapter 4 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism 25
Unit 1 Washington Irving 29
Rip Van Winkle 30
Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson 36
Nature 37
Unit 3 Henry David Thoreau 39
Walden 40
Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne 46
The Scarlet Letter 48
Unit 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 57
A Psalm of Life 58
The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls 60
My Lost Youth 61
Unit 6 Walt Whitman 64
Song of Myself 65
City of Orgies 66
O Captain！My Captain！ 67
Unit 7 Emily Dickinson 69
There Is Another Sky 70
I'm Nobody！ 71
Chapter 5 American Realism and Naturalism 72
Unit 1 Mark Twain 77
The Million Pound Bank Note 79
Unit 2 Henry James 102
Daisy Miller 104
Unit 3 O.Henry 116
After Twenty Years 117
Chapter 6 American Modernism Literature 122
Unit 1 Robert Frost 128
The Road Not Taken 129
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 131
Unit 2 Carl Sandburg 132
Chicago 134
Fog 136
Unit 3 William Carlos Williams 136
The Red Wheelbarrow 138
Unit 4 Ezra Pound 138
In a Station of the Metro 139
Unit 5 Hart Crane 140
To Brooklyn Bridge 141
Unit 6 Edward Estlin Cummings 143
L(a 144
Unit 7 F.Scott Fitzgerald 145
The Great Gatsby 147
Unit 8 William Faulkner 162
The Sound and the Fury 164
Unit 9 Ernest Hemingway 166
A Day's Wait 167
Unit 10 Eugene O'Neill 172
The Hairy Ape 173
Chapter 7 American Literature Post-World WarⅡ 184
Unit 1 John Cheever 191
The Enormous Radio 192
Unit 2 Arthur Miller 203
Death of a Salesman 205
Unit 3 Robert Traill Spence Lowell 212
Memories of West Street and Lepke 214
Unit 4 Jerome David Salinger 216
The Catcher in the Rye 218
Unit 5 Kurt Vonnegut 227
Slaughterhouse-Five 229
Unit 6 Joseph Heller 242
Catch-22 244
Unit 7 John Ashbery 254
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 256
Unit 8 Bob Dylan 259
Blowing in the Wind 261
Unit 9 John Denver 262
Take Me Home,Country Road 262
Chapter 8 Canadian Literature 264
Unit 1 Red River Valley 267
Unit 2 Margaret Laurence 268
The Loons 270
Unit 3 Alice Munro 284
Runaway 285
References 290