1．Benjamin Franklin 2
From The Autobiography 2
2．Philip Freneau 8
The Wild Honey Suckle 8
The Indian Burying Ground 10
3．Henry Wadsworth LongtellowThe Secret of the Sea 14
Hymn to the Night 17
4．William Cullen Bryant 20
To a Waterfowl 20
O Fairest of the Rural Maids 22
5．Washington Drving 25
From"Rip Van Winkle" 25
6．Ralph Waldo Emerson 33
From"The American Scholar" 33
7．Henry David Thoreau 39
From Walden;or,Life in the Woods 39
8．Edgar Allan Poe 48
Annabel Lee 48
To Helen 51
9．Walt Whitman 54
I Hear America Singing 54
Come up from the Fields Father 56
10．Emily Elizabeth DickinsonThere's a Certain Slant of Light 61
Again His Voice Is at the Door 63
11．Nathaniel Hawthorne 67
From"Dr.Heidegger's Experiment" 67
12．Jack London 78
The Law of Life 78
13．Henry James 87
Paste 87
14．Mark Twain 106
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 106
15．Stephen Crane 115
From The Red Badge of Courage 115
16．Theodore Dreiser 126
From Sister Carrie 126
17．Robert Frost 135
The Road Not Taken 135
Mending Wall 137
18．Ezra Pound 141
In a Station of the Metro 141
A Pact 142
19．Thomas Stearns Eliot 145
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 145
20．Ernest Hemingway 152
In Another Country 152
21．Francis Scott FitzgeraldFrom The Great Gatsby 161
22．John Cheever 175
The Swimmer 175
23．John Updike 190
A ＆ P 190
24．Jack Kerouac 200
From On the Road 200
25．Gary Snyder 205
Riprap 205
Piute Creek 207
Meeting the Mountains 209
26．Katherine Anne Porter 212
Theft 212
27．Alice Walker 222
Everyday Use 222
28．Dsaac Bashevis Singer 234
The Son from America 234
29．Saul Bellow 243
A Father-to-Be 243
30．Langston Hughes 257
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 257
Mother to Son 259
31．Ralph Ellison 262
From Invisible Man 262
32．Toni Morrison 269
From Song of Solomon 269
33．William Faulkner 280
A Rose for Emily 280
34．Vladimir Nabokov 292
Signs and Symbols 292
35．Eugene Gladstone O'NeillFrom Long Day's Journey into Night 300
36．Jerome David Salinger 328
From The Catcher in the Rye 328
37．Bernard Malamud 338
The Magic Barrel 338
38．Donald Barthelme 358
The Glass Mountain 358
Glossary ot Literary Terms 364