Part One Poetry 2
Edgar Allan Poe（1809—1849） 2
To Helen 3
The Raven 5
Annabel Lee 10
Suggested Readings 12
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807—1882） 13
A Psalm of Life 14
The Arrow and the Song 16
The Tide Rises,The Tide Falls 17
Hiawatha's Childhood 18
Suggested Readings 23
Walt Whitman（1819—1892） 24
Song of Myself 25
Bivouac on a Mountain Side 33
Suggested Readings 34
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson（1830—1886） 36
"Hope"is the thing with feathers 37
The Soul selects her own Society 38
I'm Nobody！Who are you？ 39
My life closed twice before its close 40
A narrow Fellow in the Grass 41
This is my letter to the World 43
Suggested Readings 43
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound（1885—1972） 45
A Pact 47
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley（Life and Contacts） 48
Canto XLIX 51
Suggested Readings 55
Thomas Stearns Eliot（1888—1965） 56
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 58
Suggested Readings 67
William Carlos Williams（1883—1963） 68
Paterson 69
The Red Wheelbarrow 71
Spring and All（By the road to the contagious hospital） 72
The Dance 74
Suggested Readings 75
Langston Hughes（1902—1967） 76
The Weary Blues 77
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 80
Harlem 82
I,too 83
Dream Variations 85
Suggested Readings 86
e.e.cummings（1894—1962） 87
i carry your heart with me 88
O sweet spontaneous 89
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r 91
Buffalo Bill's 92
Suggested Readings 93
Robert Lee Frost（1874—1963） 94
Mending Wall 95
Fire and Ice 98
Birthes 99
Suggested Readings 102
Wystan Hugh Auden（1917—1973） 103
The Unknown Citizen 104
Musee des Beaux Arts 106
In Memory of W.B.Yeats 108
Suggested Readings 114
Irwin Allen Ginsberg（1926—1997） 115
Howl 117
Suggested Readings 129
Part Two Essay and Fiction 132
Ralph Waldo Emerson（1803—1882） 132
Experience 133
Suggested Readings 154
Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804—1564） 155
The Birthmark 156
Suggested Readings 172
Henry David Thoreau（1817—1862） 173
Solitude 174
Suggested Readings 183
Herman Melville（1819—1891） 184
The Fiddler 185
Suggested Readings 193
Mark Twain（1835—1910） 194
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 195
Suggested Readings 202
O.Henry（1862—1910） 203
The Furnished Room 204
Suggested Readings 211
Jack London（1876—1916） 212
To Build a Fire 213
Suggested Readings 229
Ernest Hemingway（1899—1961） 230
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 232
Suggested Readings 261
William Faulkner（1897—1962） 262
Barn Burning 265
Suggested Readings 281
John Steinbeck（1902—1968） 283
The Chrysanthemums 284
Suggested Readings 297
Jeromy David Salinger（1919—2010） 298
For Esmé—With Love and Squalor 299
Suggested Readings 320
Joseph Heller（1923—1999） 321
Catch-22 322
Suggested Readings 334
Bibliography 335