1．Edith Wharton(1862-1937) 1
Roman Fever 3
2．Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945) 18
From Sister Carrie 20
3．Willa Cather(1873-1947) 46
A Wagner Matinée 48
4．Robert Frost(1874-1963) 57
Mending Wall 59
Home Burial 60
The Road Not Taken 64
Birches 65
"Out，Out—" 67
Nothing Gold Can Stay 68
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 68
Design 69
Desert Places 70
5．Jack London(1876-1916) 71
The Law of Life 73
6．Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941) 81
Death in the Woods 84
7．Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) 98
The Snow Man 100
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 100
Anecdote of the Jar 101
8．William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) 103
The Widow's Lament in Springtime 105
Spring and All 106
The Red Wheelbarrow 107
This Is Just to Say 107
To a Poor Old Woman 108
The Dance 109
9．Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 110
A Pact 113
In a Station of the Metro 113
The River-Merchant's Wife:A Letter 113
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 115
10．T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) 119
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 121
11．Eugene O'Neill(1888-1953) 127
From Long Day's Journey into Night 129
12．Katherine Anne Porter(1890-1980) 159
The Grave 161
13．F.Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940) 168
From The Great Gatsby 171
14．William Faulkner(1897-1962) 188
A Rose for Emily 191
15．Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) 202
Indian Camp 205
Hills Like White Elephants 209
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place 214
16．John Steinbeck(1902-1968) 220
From The Grapes of Wrath 222
17．Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 248
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 251
Mother to Son 251
The Weary Blues 252
Song for a Dark Girl 253
Freedom Train 254
Harlem 256
18．Eudora Welty(1909-2001) 258
A Worn Path 260
19．Elizabeth Bishop(1911-1979) 270
The Fish 272
At the Fishhouses 274
Sestina 277
One Art 278
20．Ralph Ellison(1913-1994) 280
From Invisible Man 282
21．Saul Bellow(1915-2005) 299
From Seize the Day 301
22．Arthur Miller(1915-2005) 327
From Death of a Salesman 329
23．Flannery O'Connor(1925-1964) 377
Good Country People 379
24．Toni Morrison(b.1931) 402
The Bluest Eye 404
25．John Updike(1932-2009) 426
Separating 428
26．Alice Walker(b.1944) 442
Everyday Use 444