PREFACE 1
CHAPTER ONE THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN NATIONALIST 1
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790 3
from THE WAY TO WEALTH 4
from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6
Thomas Paine (1737—1809) 9
from COMMON SENSE 11
Philip Freneau (1752—1832) 13
TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS 15
THE WILD HONEY SUCKLE 17
CHAPTER TWO THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM 18
Ⅰ The Beginnings of Romance 18
Washington Irving (1783—1859 20
from RIP VAN WINKLE 22
James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851) 27
from THE DEERSLAYER (Excerpt from Chapter Ⅰ) 28
Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) 42
from THE PURLOINED LETTER 44
Ⅱ Romanticism on Puritan Soil (The American Renaissance) 54
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830—1882) 57
from THE AMERICAN SGHOLAR 59
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) 66
from THE BIRTHMARK 69
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) 74
A PSALM OF LIFE 76
THE CROSS OF SNOW 79
Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) 79
from CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 81
Herman Melville (1819—1891) 86
from MOBY DICK (Chapter 84) 89
CHAPTER THREE THE AGE OF REALISM 96
Ⅰ Romantic and Realist 96
Wall Whitman (1819—1892) 99
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! 102
from SONG OF MYSELF 103
Emily Dickinson (1830—1886) 104
POEM 107
Mark Twain (1835—1910) 109
from THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Chapter 31) 113
Henry James (1843—1916) 123
from DAISY MILLER (Excerpt from Part Two) 126
Ⅱ The Naturalistic Revolt or Social Revolt 138
Stephen Crane (1871—1900) 141
from THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE: An Episode of the American Civil War (Chapter Ⅹ Ⅷ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅳ) 143
Theodore Dreiser (1871—1945) 152
from SISTER CARRIE (Chapter Ⅰ) 155
Jack London (1876—1916) 161
from MARTIN EDEN (Chapter Ⅹ Ⅶ) 163
CHAPTER FOUR 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE 171
Ⅰ The Revival of Poetry 176
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869—1935) 179
RICHARD CORY 180
MINIVER CHEEVY 181
Robert Frost (1874—1963) 182
STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING 184
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN 185
THE PASTURE 185
Carl Sandburg (1878—1967) 186
GRASS 187
THE PEOPLE, YES 188
Ⅱ The American Theater 191
Eugene O Neill (1888—1953) 192
from DYNAMO (Act Two) 195
Ⅰ Contemporary Writers 218
Katherine Anne Porter (1890—1980) 218
THEFT 220
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) 227
from THE GREAT GATSBY (Excerpt from Chapter Ⅲ) 230
Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961) 238
A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE 241
William Faulkner (1897—1962) 245
THAT EVENING SUN 248
Langston Hughes (1902—1967) 266
THE WEARY BLUES 267
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS 268
WHO IS SIMPLE? 269
John Steinback (1902—1968) 271
from THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Chapter 15) 273
Saul Bellow (1915—) 279
from HERZOG (Chapter One) 280
REFERENCES 296