1.Black Elk 1
High Horse's Courting 1
2.Benjamin Franklin 9
From The Autobiography 9
3.Philip Freneau 15
The Wild Honey Suckle 15
The Indian Burying Ground 17
4.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 21
The Secret of the Sea 21
Hymn to the Night 24
5.William Cullen Bryant 26
To a Waterfowl 26
6.Washington Irving 29
From"Rip Van Winkle" 29
7.Ralph Waldo Emerson 37
From"The American Scholar" 37
8.Henry David Thoreau 43
From Walden;or,Life in the Woods 43
9.Edgar Allan Poe 53
Annabel Lee 53
10.Walt Whitman 56
I Hear America Singing 56
Come UP from the Fields Father 58
11.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 61
There's a Certain Slant of Light 61
Again His Voice Is at the Door 63
12.Nathaniel Hawthorne 66
From"Dr.Heidegger's Experiment" 66
13.Jack London 76
The Law of Life 76
14.Henry James 85
Paste 85
15.Mark Twain 108
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 108
16.Stephen Crane 117
From The Red Badge of Courage 117
17.Theodore Dreiser 129
From Sister Carrie 129
18.Edwin Arlington Robinson 138
Richard Cory 138
19.Robert Frost 141
The Road Not Taken 141
20.Ezra Pound 144
In a Station of the Metro 144
A Pact 145
21.Thomas Stearns Eliot 147
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 147
22.Ernest Hemingway 156
In Another Country 156
23.Francis Scott Fitzgerald 166
From The Great Gatsby 166
24.John Cheever 183
The Swimmer 183
25.John Updike 199
A＆P 199
26.Jack Kerouac 209
From On the Road 209
27.Gary Snyder 214
Riprap 214
Piute Creek 216
Meeting the Mountains 218
28.Katherine Anne Porter 220
Theft 220
29.Alice Walker 230
Everyday Use 230
30.Isaac Bashevis Singer 242
The Son from America 242
31.Saul Bellow 251
A Father-To-Be 251
32.Langston Hughes 266
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 266
33.Ralph Ellison 269
From Invisible Man 269
34.Toni Morrison 276
From Song of Solomon 276
35.William Faulkner 287
A Rose for Emily 287
36.Vladimir Nabokov 301
Signs and Symbols 301
37.Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 309
From Long Day's Journey into Night 309
Glossary of Literary Terms 340