1 Colonial and Revolutionary Period(1608-1800) 1
2 Benjamin Franklin/From The Autobiography 6
3 The Romantic Period(1800-1865) 17
4 Washington lrving/From Rip Van Winkle 24
5 Wlliam Cullen Bryant/Thanatopsis 44
6 Edgar Allan Poe/Annable Lee 56
7 Nathaniel Hawthome/From Dr.Heidegger s Experiment 67
8 Ralph Waldo Emerson/From Self-Reliance 91
9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/My Lost Youth 105
10 Walt Whitman/I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out 116
11 Emily Dickinson/1.Success 2.I m Nobody!Who Are You? 3. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- 129
12 The Realistic Period(1865-1900) 145
13 Mark Twain/From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 158
14 O.Henry/The Gift of the Magi 176
15 The Modern Period(1900-the Present) 194
16 Edwin Arlington Robinson/Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy 202
17 Carl Sandburg/I Am The People,The Mob Chicago 217
18 T.S.Eliot/The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 229
19 F.Scott Fitzgerald/From The Great Gatsby 250
20 John Steinbeck/From The Grapes of Wrath 268
21 Ernest Hemingway/In Another Country 285
22 Robert Frost/Mending Wall The Road Not Taken 309
23 William Carlos Williams/The Red Wheelbarrow 328
24 langston Hughes/Dreams The Negro Speaks of Rivers 334
Glossary of Literary Terms 342
Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature 364
Answer Key to Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature 410
Reference Books 422