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Dig in daily, and use this along with the Encyclopedia for best results. ffi CHAPTER 1 American Literature Up to the Puritan Age Early American Puritan Poets Anne Bradstreet Concerning the Their Conversion and The Tenth Muse Lately Necessity, End, and Coming Up to God in Sprung Up in America Useful of Af ictions Christ The Author to Her Book Unto God’s Children Upon Wedlock, & In Memory of My Dead Death of Children Edward Taylor Grandchild Elizabeth Upon a Spider The Metrical History of Bradstreet Catching a Fly Christianity Michael Wigglesworth Preparatory The Day of Doom, or A Meditations Before My Poetical Description of Approach to the Lord’s the Great and Last Supper Judgement God’s Determinations Meat Out of the Eater: Touching His Elect and or Meditations the Elects Combat in fl Histories and Journals Captain John Smith John Winthrop The A True Relation of such History of New England occurrences and accidents of note, as hath happened in Virginia A Description of New England The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity The Journal of The Cotton-Mather Family John Cotton Right Thoughts in Sad Sion’s Saviour in New Milk for Babes, Drawn Hours England out of the Breasts of Manuductio ad William Hubbard Both Testaments Ministerium History of New England Increase Mather William Bradford A Narrative of Troubles An Essay for Recording History of Plymouth with the Indians of Illustrious Plantation, 620-47 Providences The May ower Case of Conscience Compact Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men Edward Johnson A History of New Cotton Mather England/The Wonder- Magnalia Christi Working Providence of Americana fl Captivity Narratives Mary Rowlandson The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Cotton Mather The Captivity of Hannah Dustin Jonathan Dickinson God’s Protecting Providence Literature in Southern and Middle Colonies Robert Beverley Jr. History and Present State of Virginia William Byrd II A Discourse Concerning the Plague Jupiter Hammon An Evening Thought Salem Witch Trials in the Literature of America Jonathan Scott Giles Corey of Salem The Sorceress, or Salem Farms Delivered Arthur Miller John Neal The Crucible Rachel Dyer Nathaniel Hawthrone Elizabeth George The House of the Seven Speare Gables The Witch of Blackbird Alice Doane’s Appeal Pond Young Goodman Maryse Condé Brown I, Tituba, Black Witch of Henry Wadsworth Salem Longfellow CHAPTER 2 The Revolutionary Age American Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin On the Religion of Arthur Mervyn Pennsylvania Chronicle Nature Ormond The Busy Body The American Soldier Edgar Huntley Poor Richard’s The Wilde Honey Walsteins School of Almanack Suckle History The British Prison-Ship The Difference Thomas Paine The Beauties of Santa Between History and Common Sense Cruz Romance The American Crisis The House of Night Rights of Man The Age of Reason Joel Barlow The Prospect of Peace Philip Freneau American Mercury The Indian Burning Hasty Pudding Ground On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Charles Brockden Man Wieland Early National Period Washington Irving Also Portraying The Sketch Book of American Scenery and Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Manners Rip Van Winkle The Red Rover The Legend of Sleepy The Water Witch; Or, Hollow The Skimmers of the Biography of George Sea Washington The Bravo The American James Fenimore Democrat; Or, Hints on Cooper the Social and Civic Precaution Relations of the United The Spy: A Tale of States of America Neutral Ground, The Sea Lions Referring to Some Leatherstocking Tales Particular Occurences During American War, CHAPTER 3 Early 19th Century  American Westerners James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking Tales Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Guy Vanderhaeghe Trilogy of Western novels Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers American Dream Benjamin Franklin Toni Morrison Autobiography of Song of Solomon Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Willa Cather My Antonia F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman American Renaissance FO Matthiessen Walden American Renaissance: Walt Whitman Art and Expression in Leaves of Grass the Age of Emerson and Whitman Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables Herman Melville Moby-Dick Henry David Thoreau CHAPTER 4 Slavery and Su rage ff Major Authors and their Works Sojourner Truth Three Years in Europe, Frederick Douglass Ain’t I a Woman? or Places I Have Seen Narrative of the Life of and People I Have Met Frederick Douglass Harriet E Wilson Clotel, or The The Heroic Slave, a Our Nig President’s Daughter Heartwarming The Escape, or A Leap Narrative of the Harriet Beecher Stowe for Freedom Adventures of Madison Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Black Man: His Washington, in Pursuit The Minister’s Wooing Antecedents, His of Liberty Dred: A Tale of the Genius and His My Bondage and My Great Dismal Swamp Achievements Freedom The Negro in the Life and time of William Wells Brown Frederick Douglass American Rebellion Narrative of William W Self-made Men My Southern Home, or Brown, a Fugitive Slave, What to the Slave is the The South and Its Written by Himself 4th of July People Major Authors and their Works Harriet Jacobs The Negro in the South Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Tubman Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman Booker T Washington The Future of the American Negro Up from Slavery Characters Building Working with the Hands CHAPTER 5 Transcendentalism Major Authors and their Works Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller Epitaph on the World Nature Woman in the Nineteenth The Inward Morning The American Scholar Century Pray to What Earth Self-Reliance Summer on the Lakes in All Things are Current The Over-Soul 1843 Found Politics Papers on Literature and Great God, I Ask for No Representative Men Art Meaner Pelf The Conduct of Life At Home and Abroad I am the Autumnal Sun Brahma Life Without and Life What’s the Railroad to Days Within Me? They Who Prepare The Problems My Evening Meal Below Henry David Thoreau The Rhodora Smoke Walden: Life in the The Old Marlborough Hamatreya Woods Road The Snow-Storm Paradise (to be) Regained The World-Soul Civil Disobedience Each and All Slavery in Massachusetts A Plea for Captain John Brown Major Authors and their Works Walt Whitman There was a Child Went Franklin Evans, or The Once I Passed through a Forth Inebriate: A Tale of the Populous City Thoughts Times Pioneers! O Pioneers! I Sit and Look Out Leaves of Grass The Song of the Broad A Glimpse Drum Taps Axe All is Truth Sequel to Drum Taps When Lilacs Last in the I Saw in Louisiana a Live- Democratic Vistas Dooryard Bloom’d Oak Growing Passage to India Song of Myself A Noiseless, Patient Memoranda During the Out of the Cradle Spider War Endlessly Rocking O Captain! My Captain! Two Rivulets Crossing Brooklyn Ferry On the Beach at Night November Boughs I Sing the Body Electric On the Beach at Night Good-bye, My Fancy The Song of the Open Alone Road France, the 18th Year of One’s Self I Sing Theses States I Heard America Singing Poets to Come Prayer of Columbus CHAPTER 6 Dark Romanticism Major Authors and their Works Nathaniel Hawthorne To Science The Murders at the Rue Fanshawe Israfel Morgue Mosses from an Old To Helen The Cask of Amontillado Manse The Raven Never Bet the Devil Your The Bells Head The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Eldorado Annabel Lee Herman Melville Gables The Blithedale Romance Lenore Typee The Snow Images Twice- MS. Found in a Bottle White Jacket Told and Other Tales The Pit and the Pendulum Moby-Dick or The Whale A Wonder Book for Girls The Fall of the House of The Con dence Man and Boys Usher Billy Budd, Sailor Tanglewood Tales The Purloined Letter Mardi The Marble Faun The Tell-Tale Heart Pierre Our Old Home The Haunted Palace The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane Al Aaraaf, A Palace fi Major Authors and their Works Emily Dickinson My Life had stood a Wild Night Loaded Gun Final Harvest After great pain, a formal A Brighter Garden feeling comes Because I could not Stop Felt a Funeral, in my Brain for Death Before I got my eye put My Life closed twice out before its close I taste a liquor never I heard a Fly buzz - when I brewed died Safe in their Alabaster Hope is the thing with Chambers feathers A Dimple in the Tomb A Bird came down the I Cannot Live With You Walk I Measure Every Grief I There is a certain Slant of Meet Light A Light Exists in Spring Nature is What We See CHAPTER 7 Brahmin and Fireside Poets Major Authors and their Works William Cullen Bryant Voices of the Night James Russell Lowell The Embargo; or, Ballads and Other Sketches of the Times Poems The Biglow Papers A Satire by a Youth of Hyperion A Fable for Critics” Thirteen The Bells of Lynn Thanatopsis The Village Blacksmith To A Waterfowl Evangeline, A Tale of Letters of a Traveller Acadie The Song of Hiawatha John Greenleaf Paul Revere’s Ride Whittier Justice and Expediency Oliver Wendell Holmes Snow-bound: A Winter Old Ironsides Idyl The Chambered Henry Wadsworth Nautilus Longfellow CHAPTER 8 Civil War and the Period of Realism Major Authors and their Works Abraham Lincoln The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead The American First Inaugural Address Wilson and the Comedy of Daisy Miller Emancipation Proclamation those Extraordinary Twins The Portrait of a Lady Gettysburg Address The American Claimant What Maisie Knew Tom Sawyer Abroad The Turn of the Screw Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Detective The Wings of the Dove The Innocents Abroad Personal Recollections of The Ambassadors Roughing It Joan of Arc The Golden Bowl The Gilded Age Following the Equator The Man that Corrupted O. Henry The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Hadley-burg The Gift of the Magi A Tramp Abroad What is Man The Last Leaf The Prince and The Pauper Is Shakespeare Dead The Newspaper Life on the Mississippi The Mysterious Stranger The Romance of a Busy The Adventures of Autobiography Broker Huckleberry Finn Letters from the Earth The Cop and The Anthem A Connecticut Yankee in One Dollar’s Worth Henry James After 20 Years King Arthur’s Court Watch and Ward Roderick Hudson CHAPTER 9 Early Feminist Writers Major Authors and their Works Susanna Rowson Hope Leslie, or, Early Times Charlotte Perkins Victoria in the Massachusetts Gilman Poems on Various Subjects Clarence, or A Tale of Our Art Gems for the Home and Mary; or The Test of Honour Own Times Fireside Charlotte, a Tale of Truth The Linwoods, or, “Sixty The Yellow Wallpaper Slaves in Algiers Years Since” in America In this Our World Rebecca; or The Fille de Married or Single? Women and Economics Chamber Kate Chopin Moving the Mountain Charlotte’s Daughter; or The Herland At Fault Three Orphans With Her in Ourland The Awakening A Spelling Dictionary When I Was a Witch Bayou Folk Biblical Dialogues Between Desirée’s Baby a Father and His Family The Story of an Hour Catharine Maria The Storm Sedgwick The Locket Regret A New England Tale A Pair of Silk Stockings Redwood A Night in Acadie CHAPTER 10 The Early 20th Century Major Authors and their Works Edith Wharton The Children World So Wide The Age of Innocence Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive Stephen Crane The Decoration of Houses Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The Great Inclination Sinclair Lewis The Red Badge of Courage The Touchstone Hike and the Aeroplane The Open Boat The Valley of Decision Our Mr. Wrenn The House of Mirth Theodore Dreiser Main Street Ethan Frome Sister Carrie Babbitt Madame de Treymes An American Tragedy Arrowsmith The Reef Jennie Gerhardt Elmer Gantry The Custom of the Country The Genius Dodsworth The Marne Dreiser Looks at Russia Ann Vickers A Son at the Front The Financier It Can’s Happen Here Henry James’s The Portrait The Titan The Prodigal Parents of a Lady (1881): A The Stoic Gideon Planish Retrospect Cass Timberlane The Mother’s Recompense Kingsblood Royal Twilight Sleep The God-Seeker Major Authors & Works Jack London Upton Sinclair The Call of the Wild The Jungle White Fang Of these, Dragon’s Teeth The People of the Abyss World’s End The Sea-Wolf The War of the Classes The Game Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Smoke Bellow The Valley of the Moon John Barleycorn The Star Rover The Son of the Wolf A Daughter of the Snows The Cruise of the Dazzler CHAPTER 11 Harlem Renaissance Major Authors & Works WEB Du Bois Democracy in America, Folks from Dixie The Suppression of the 1860-1880 The Strength of Gideon and African Slave Trade to the Dusk at Dawn: An Essay Other Stories United States 1638-1870 Toward an Autobiography The Sport of the Gods The Philadelphia Negro of a Race Concept We Wear the Mask The Souls of Black Folk The Ordeal of Mansart The Lesson The Quest of the Silver Mansart Builds a School Sympathy Fleece Worlds of Color Ode to Ethiopia The Negro The Conservation of Races Life Darkwater: Voices from Strivings of the Negro People Jessie Fauset Within the Veil The Study of the Negro There is Confusion Dark Princess Criteria of Negro Art Plum Bun Black Reconstruction in The Talented Tenth The Chinaberry Tree America: An Essay Toward a Comedy: American Style History of the Part Which Paul Laurence Dunbar Black Folk Played in the Oak and Ivy Attempt to Reconstruct The Uncalled Major Authors & Works Alain LeRoy Locke If We Must Die Tell My Horse The New Negro Harlem Shadows Moses, Man of the Four Negro Poets America Mountain Plays of Negro Life I Shall Return Seraph on the Suwanee The Negro in Art Enslaved Dusk Tracks on a Road Flame-Heart Conor Struck Claude McKay The Harlem Dancer Mule Bone: A Comedy of Songs of Jamaica A Long Way from Home Negro Life Constab Ballads Harlem: Negro Metropolis My Green Hills of Jamaica Jean Toomer Home to Harlem Springs in New Hampshire Cane Zora Neale Hurston Harlem Shadows The Liberator Characteristics of Negro Negros in America Expression Banjo Spunk Gingertow Jonah’s Gourd Vine Banana Bottom There Eyes Were Watching God Major Authors & Works Langston Hughes Dreams White Man, Listen The Negro Speaks of Rivers Po’ Boy Blues The Long Dream The Weary Blues Let America Be America American Hunger Fine Clothes to the Jew Again Not Without Laughter I, Too, Sing America The Ways of White Folks Harlem Mulatto A Dream Deferred The Big Sea I Wonder as I Wonder Shakespeare in Harlem Richard Wright The Negro Artist and the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Radical Mountain Native Son Fields of Wonder Black Boy One Way Ticket The Outsider Montage of a Dream Savage Holiday Deferred Black Power The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Color Curtain Mother to Son Pagan’s Pain CHAPTER 12 The Imagist Movement Major Authors & Works Amy Lowell The Embankment Ezra Pound A Dome of Many Colored Above the Dock Des Imagistes Glass Conversation A Lume Spento Sword Blades and Poppy The Poet Personae Seed Mana Aboda Exultations Men, Women and Ghosts A Sudden Street The Spirit of Romance Can Grande’s Castle William Carlos Provenca Pictures of the Floating Canzoni Williams World Ripostes Patterson East Wind Lustra The Red Wheel Barrow The Pike Quia Pauper Amavi The Yachts Venus Transiens Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Spring and All Sestina Altafore T.E. Hulme Landscape with the Fall of In a Station of the Metro War Notes Icarus Autumn This is Just to Say A City Sunset Major Authors & Works Hilda Doolittle John Gould Fletcher Images 1910-1915 Sea Garden Collected Poems Selected Poems Hymen The Book of Nature Heliodora and Other Poems The Dominant City Red Roses for Bronze Fire and Wine Palimpsest Fool’s Gold Asphodel Visions of the Evening HERmione Irradiations: Sand and Spray Pilate’s Wife Goblins and Pagodas Oread The Pool Sea Rose Richard Aldington Mid-Day Death of a Hero Garden The Colonel’s Daughter Sea Violet All Men are Enemies Portrait of a Genius, But... Life is for Life’s Sake Major Authors & Works e.e. cummings Poems 1923-1954 (1894-1962) Ninety-Five Poems 73 Poems The Enormous Room Complete Poems Tulips and Chimneys 1913-1962 XLI Poems Anyone Lived in a Pretty is 5 How Town Him Buffalo Bill’s Anthropos, or the Future of All in Green Went My Love Art Riding Santa Claus, A Morality, I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big Tom, A Ballet As Freedom is a Breakfast ViVa [O sweet spontaneous] No Thanks pity this busy monster, 1/20 manunkind Collected Poems Grasshopper 50 Poems 1×1 CHAPTER 13 The Lost Generation  Major Authors & Works Sherwood Anderson Poems 1909-25 Sweeney Agonistes: An Windy McPherson’s Son Collected Poems 1909-35 Aristophanic Fragment Marching Men Four Quartets The Rock American Chants The Sacred Wood Murder in the Cathedral Poor White Homage to John Dryden The Family Reunion The Triumph of the Egg For Lancelot Andrews: The Cocktail Party Many Marriages Essays on Style and Order The Con dential Clerk Horses and Men The Use of Poetry and the The Elder Statesman Dark Laughter Use of Criticism After Strange Gods: A Archibald MacLeish T.S. Eliot Primer of Modern Heresy Ars Poetica The Love Song of J Alfred The Idea of a Christian Voyage to the Moon Prufrock University Poems Notes Towards the Ara Cos Prec and Other De nition of Culture Poems On Poetry and Poets The Waste Land To Criticise the Critic fi fi Major Authors & Works Ernest Hemingway Tales of the Jazz Age A Saturday Afternoon The Old Man and the Sea All the Sad Young Men Third or Fourth Day of The Sun Also Rises Taps at Reveille Spring A Farewell to Arms The Crack Up The Angel is My Watermark! For Whom the Bell Tolls The Pat Hobby Stories The Tailor Shop The Old Man and the Sea Jabberwhorl Cronstadt Henry Miller Into the Night Life A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Tropic of Cancer Walking Up and Down Hills Like White Elephants Black Spring Burlesk A Day’s Wait Tropic of Capricorn Megalopolitan Maniac F Scott Fitzgerald The Colossus of Maroussi Sexus This Side of Paradise The Plight of the Creative Plexus The Beautiful and Damned Artist in the United States of Nexus The Great Gatsby America Tender is the Night The Air-Conditioned The Last Tycoon Nightmare Flappers and Philosophers Remember to Remember The Fourteenth Ward CHAPTER 14 Realism in Drama Major Authors & Works James A. Herne Desire Under the Elms Margaret Fleming Mourning Becomes Electra Ah, Wilderness! Susan Glaspell The Iceman Cometh The Glory of the Conquered A Moon for the Misbegotten A Jury of Hers Peers The Emperor Jones Inheritors The Hairy Ape The Road to the Temple The Great God Brown Alison’s House Eugene O’Neill Beyond the Horizon Anna Christie Strange Interlude Long Day’s Journey into Night The Dreamy Kid All God’s Chillun Got Wings CHAPTER 15 Drama in the Depression Era Major Authors & Works Clifford Odets Death of a Salesman Camino Real Waiting for Lefty The Crucible Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Awake and Swing A View From the Bridge Suddenly Last Summer Till the Day I Die After the Fall Sweet Bird of Youth Paradise Lost Incident at Vichy The Night of the Iguana Golden Boy The Price Rocket to the Moon The Creation of the World Night Music and Other Business Clash by Night The American Clock The Big Knife Elegy for a Lady The Country Girl Some Kind of Love Story The Last Yankee Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Death of a Salesman The Man Who Had All the The Fugitive Kind Luck The Glass Menagerie All My Sons A Street Car Named Desire The Rose Tattoo CHAPTER 16 Fiction in the Depression Era Major Authors & Works William Faulkner Barn Burning A Fable Wealthy Jew Soldier’s Pay Wash Mosquitoes John Steinbeck The Sound and the Fury Cup of Gold Sartoris Tortilla Flat As I Lay Dying The Pearl Light in August The Winter of Our Sanctuary Discontent Pylon East of Eden Absalom, Absalom! In Dubious Battle The Unvanquished Of Mice and Men Go Down, Moses The Grapes of Wrath Intruders in the Dust Requiem for a Nun Dry September A Rose for Emily CHAPTER 17 Other Modernist Playwrights Major Authors & Works Maxwell Anderson Elmer Rice Thronton Wilder White Desert Minority Report The Bridge on San Luis Rey What Price Glory? A Voyage to Purilia Our Town Both Your Houses Imperial City The Skin of Our Teeth Winterset The Show Must Go On The Cabala High Tor The Living Theatre The Woman of Andros The Miracle of the Danube On Trial Heaven’s My Destination Candle in the Wind The Adding Machine The Ides of March The Eve of St Mark The Street Scene The Eighth Day Storm Operation We, the People Theophilus North Truckline Cafe Judgement Day Joan of Lorraine Between Two Worlds Lost in the Stars American Landscape The Bad Seed Flight to the West Elizabeth the Queen A New Life Mary of Scotland Anne of the Thousand Days Major Authors & Works Lillian Hellman Who’s Afraid of Virginia Pentimento: A Book of Woolf? Portraits Tiny Alice The Children’s Hour The Lady from Dubuque The Little Foxes Watch on the Rhime Another Part of the Forest The Autumn Garden Toy in the Attic Edward Albee A Delicate Balance Seascape Three Tall Women The Zoo Story The Death of Bessie Smith The Sandbox The American Dream CHAPTER 18 Modernist Poetry Major Authors & Works E.A. Robinson Red Faces Rootabaga Stories The Collected Poems America Rootabaga Pigeons The Children of the Night Daughter Potato Face Captain Craig and Other Q.E.D Three Lives Hart Crane Poems The Making of Americans White Buildings The Town Down the River Word Portraits The Bridge: To Brooklyn Merlin Tender Buttons Bridge Lancelot Collected Poems Tristram Carl Sandburg Cornhuskers Gertrude Stein The War Years The Autobiography of Alice Complete Poems of Carl B. Toklas Sandburg A rose is a rose is a rose Reckless Ecstasy What Do I See? Smoke and Steel Why Do You Feel Abraham Lincoln: The Differently? Prairie Years Kneeling The American Songbag Susie Asado Good Morning America Major Authors & Works Robert Frost The Gift Outright Ogden Nash New Hampshire Wallace Stevens The Cricket of Caradon A Further Range Spring Comes to Murray Hill Harmonium Steeple Bush Hard Lines The Auroras of Autumn In the Clearing Happy Days Earthly Anecdote A Boy’s Will The Bad Parent’s Garden of The Snow Man North of Boston Verse Ploughing on Sunday Mending Wall Bed Riddance: A Posy for Sunday Morning After Apple-Picking the Indisposed Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Home Burial There’s Always Another Peter Quince at the Clavier The Death of the Hired Man Windmill Thirteen Ways of Looking at The Road Not Taken a Blackbird Birches The Woman Turns to Nature Stopping by Woods on a Anecdote of the Jar Snowy Evening The Emperor of Ice-Cream Fire and Ice Of Modern Poetry Miles to Go Before I Sleep Man With the Blue Guitar Two Tramps in Mud Time Provide Provide CHAPTER 19 Critical Movements New Criticism John Crowe Ransom The Hidden God The Forlorn Demon: Poems about God The Shaping Joy Didactic and Critical Essays Chills and Fever The Man of Letters in the RP Blackmur Modern World: Selected Grace after Meat The Double Agent Essays 1928-55 Two Gentlemen in Bonds Language as Gesture The New Criticism The Lion and the Yvor Winters God Without Thunder: An Honeycomb: Essays in Orthodox Defense of Primitivism and Decadence Solicitude and Critique and Orthodoxy Maule’s Curse Critique The World’s Body The Anatomy of Nonsense Form and Value in Modern Cleanth Brooks Poetry Defence of Reason Forms of Discovery Modern Poetry and Allen Tate Tradition Robert Penn Warren The Fathers The Well Wrought Urn: All the King’s Men Reactionary Essays on Studies in Structure of Pure and Impure Poetry Poetry and Ideas Poetry A Poem of Pure Imagination Reason in Madness Literary Criticism: A Short On the Limits of Poetry History New Criticism William K Wimsatt, Jr The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson Literary Criticism: A Short History Reader Response Criticism Norman N Holland The Materiality of The First Modern Comedies Language: Gender, Politics, The Shakespearean and the University Imagination 5 Readers Reading Stanley Fish (b. 1938) John Skelton’s Poetry Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities David Bleich (b. 1940) Readings and Feelings Subjective Criticism Other Critics Edmund Wilson M.H. Abrams Irving Howe Axel’s Castle The Mirror and the Lamp: A World More Attractive: A To the Finland Station Romantic Theory and the View of Modern Literature Travels in Two Democracies Critical Tradition and Politics The Milk of Paradise: The World of Our Fathers: The Kenneth Burke Effect of Opium Visions on Journey of the East A Grammar of Motives the Works of De Quincey, European Jews to America Language as Symbolic Crabbe, Francis Thompson and the Life They Found Action and Coleridge and Made Dramatism and Natural Supernaturalism: The American Newness: Development Tradition and Revolution in Culture and Politics in the Romantic Literature Age of Emerson Malcolm Cowley Exile’s Return Leslie Findler A Second Flowering: Works Love and Death in the and Days of the Lost American Novel Generation Waiting for the End Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity Other Critics Noam Chomsky Regarding the Pain of Syntactic Structures Others Judith Butler Aspects of the Syntax Gender Trouble Understanding Power Fredric Jameson Bodies that Matter Requiem for the American The Political Unconscious Excitable Speech: A Politics Dream Postmodernism or The of the Performative Cultural Logic of Late Precarious Life: The Powers Harold Bloom Capitalism of Mourning Shelley’s Mythmaking Allegory and Ideology A Map of Misreading Mind Over a Universe of Eve Kosofsky Death Sedgwick The Anxiety of In uence: A Epistemology of the Closet Theory of Poetry Between Men: English Literature and Male Susan Sontag Homosocial Desire Against Interpretation Tendencies Styles of Radical Will Fat Art, Thin Art Illness as Metaphor A Dialogue on Love fl CHAPTER 20 Beat Generation and Other Post- War Poets  Major Authors and their Works William S Burroughs Lawrence Ferlinghetti Howl and Other Poems Junkie: Confessions of an Pictures of the Gone World Kaddish Unredeemed Drug Addict A Coney Island of the Mind Love Poem on a Theme by Naked Lunch Starting From San Franciso Whitman Queer Landscapes of Living and The Reply And the Hippos Were Dying Don’t Grow Old Boiled in Their Tanks A Far Rockaway of the Heart America Nova Trilogy: Poetry as Insurgent Air Sun ower Sutra The Soft Machine A Supermarket in California The Ticket that Exploded Jack Kerouac Nova Express Gary Snyder The Town and the City Herbert Huncke On the Road Riprap The Evening Sun Turned The Dharma Burns Myths and Texts Crimson The Subterraneans Six Sections from Mountains Guilty of Everything: The Doctor Sax and Rivers Without End Autobiography of Herbert Big Sur The Back Country Huncke Regarding Wave From Dream to Dream Allen Ginsberg Turtle Island Axe Handles fl CHAPTER 21 Confessional Poetry  Major Authors and their Works Robert Lowell The Awful Rowing Toward Time’s Power Lord Weary’s Castle God Dark Fields of the Republic Land of Unlikeness The Book of Folly Fox The Mills of the Kavanaughs The Death Notebooks A Human Eye: Essay on Art For the Union Dead The Bedlam and the Part in Society Notebook Way Back Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Life Studies Transformations Diving in the Wreck On a Mad Negro Soldier The Moss of His Skin Snapshots of a Daughter-in- Con ned at Munich Her Kind Law Man and Wife The Truth the Dead Know Arts of the Possible: Essays Commander Lowell All My Pretty Ones and Conversations Skunk Hour Wanting to Die What is Found There: For the Union Dead The Fury of Cocks Notebooks on Poetry and Night Sweat Sylvia’s Death Politics Of Woman Born: Anne Sexton Adrienne Rich Motherhood as Experience Live or Die Diving into the Wreck: and Institution 45 Mercy Street Poems 1971-1972 All My Pretty Ones The Dream of a Common Language fi Major Authors and their Works Sylvia Plath The Surgeon at 2 a.m. Colossus and Other Poems Ariel Crossing the Water Winter Trees The Collected Poems The Bell Jar Daddy Lady Lazarus The Colossus Mirror Poppies in October Morning Song Mad Girl’s Love Song Fever 103 Blackberrying Medusa Edge Tulips CHAPTER 22 Jewish American Literature Major Authors and their Works Bernard Malamud Mr. Sammler’s Planet The Sonderberg Case The Fixer Humboldt’s Gift All Rivers Run to the Sea The Assistant And the Sea is Never Full A New Life Grace Paley The Tenants Leaning Forward Philip Roth Dubin’s Lives Long Walks and Intimate Goodbye, Columbus and God’s Grace Talks Five Short Stories The Magic Barrel Begin Again Portnoy’s Complaint Idiots First The Little Disturbances of American Pastoral Pictures of Fidelman Man The Human Stain Rembrandt’s Hat Enormous Changes at the The Breast Last Minute Saul Bellow Later the Same Day Dangling Man The Victim The Adventures of Augie Elie Wiesel Night March A Beggar in Jerusalem Seize the Day The Testament Henderson the Rain King The Fifth Son Herzog CHAPTER 23 Other Post-War Writers  Major Authors and their Works Eudora Welty Flannery O’Connor Vladimir Nabokov Optimist’s Daughter Wise Blood Mashenka A Curtain of Green The Violent Bear It Away King, Queen, Knave The Robber Bridegroom A Good Man is Hard to Find The Defence Delta Wedding Everything That Rises Must Despair Why I Live at the PO Converge Invitation to a Beheading Death of a Travelling Salesman William Styron Speak, Memory The Confession of Nat Lolita The Wide Net Turner Pnin Carson McCullers Lie Down in Darkness Pale Fire The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Sophie’s Choice Poems and Problems Re ections in a Golden Eye Darkness Invisible The Member of the Wedding E.L. Doctorow Clock Without Hands The Book of Daniel The Mortgaged Heart Ragtime Billy Bathgate The March fl Major Authors and their Works J.D. Salinger Go Set a Watchman The Naked and the Dead The Catcher in the Rye The White Negro: Nine Stories Ken Kesey Super cial Re ections on Raise High the Roof Beam, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s the Hipster Carpenters and Seymour: Nest An American Dream An Introduction Of a Fire on the Moon Don DeLillo Marilyn Franny and Zooey Americana Hapworth Ratner’s Star White Noise Truman Capote Gore Vidal Libra Other Voices, Other Rooms United States: Essays Breakfast at Tiffany’s Mao II 1952-1992 In Cold Blood Underworld Julian Music for Chameleons The Body Artist Myra Breckinridge A Diamond Guitar Cosmopolis Lincoln Palimpsest Norman Mailer Harper Lee The Armies of the Night To Kill a Mockingbird The Executioner’s Song fi fl Major Authors and their Works Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Life-Story Bluebeard Cat’s Cradle The School Donald Barthelme A City of Churches Slaughterhouse-Five Come Back, Dr. Caligari Breakfast of Champions The Indian Uprising Unspeakable Practices The Joker’s Greatest Unnatural Acts Joseph Heller Triumph City Life Catch-22 (1961) Robert Kennedy Saved from Sadness Drowning Amateurs John Barth Views of My Father Great Days The Literature of Exhaustion Weeping Sixty Stories The Floating Opera At the Tolstoy Museum Overnight to Many Distant The End of the Road Snow White Cities The Sot-Weed Factor The Dead Father Sam’s Bar Giles Goat-Boy Paradise Forty Stories Letters The King Flying to America: 45 More The Development Stories Lost in the Funhouse The Balloon Night-Sea Journey Kierkegaard Unfair to Title Schlegel Major Authors and their Works John Updike All the Pretty Horses Because it is Better, and Rabbit Run The Crossing Because it is My Heart Rabbit Redux Cities of the Plain Black Water Rabbit is Rich No Country for Old Men What I Lived For Rabbit at Rest The Road Blonde The Centaur The Coup Thomas Pynchon Raymond Carver The Witches of Eastwick V. Cathedral Memories of the Ford The Crying of Lot 49 Will You Please Be Quiet, Administration Gravity’s Rainbow Please Brazil Vineyard What We Talk About When In the Beauty of the Lilies Mason and Dixon We Talk About Love Toward the End of Time Bleeding Edge What the Doctor Said Gertrude and Claudius Entropy A Small Good Thing Seek My Face Errand Terrorist Joyce Carol Oates Gazebo Where Are You Going, So Much Water So Close to Cormac McCarthy Where Have You Been Home Suttree Wonderland Blood Meridian Major Authors and their Works Sam Shepard Buried Child Cowboys Icarus’s Mother La Tourista Operation Sidewinder Mad Dog Blues The Tooth of Crime Action Geography of a Horse Dreamer The God of Hell Curse of the Starving Class A Buried Child True West CHAPTER 24 Horror & Cyberpunk Fiction Major Authors and their Works Robert A. Heinlein Rudy Rucker Dan Simmons Solution Unsatisfactory Software The Rise of Endymion For Us the Living Wetware The River Styx Runs Rocket Ship Galileo Freeware Upstream Starship Troopers Realware Stranger in a Strange Land John Shirley I Fear No Evil Stephen King Eclipse Carrie Eclipse Penumbra Isaac Asimov The Shining Eclipse Corona Foundation Series The Stand Galactic Empire series It The Robert series Misery The Dark Tower Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 William Gibson The Sprawl Trilogy Dandelion Wine The Difference Engine The Martian Chronicles The Bridge Trilogy CHAPTER 25 African American Literature Major Authors and their Works Richard Wright The Mother Tell Me How Long the Train’s Native Son The Children of the Poor Been Gone Black Boys To be in Love If Beale Street Could Talk The Outsider Sadie and Maud Just Above My Head White Man, Listen! Boy Breaking Glass The Amen Corner The Bean Eaters Blues for Mr. Charlie Ralph Ellison The Anniad One Day, When I Was Lost Invisible Man The Wall A Deed from the King of Shadow and Act Spain Going to the Territory Alex Haley The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr Gwendolyn Brooks Malcolm X I Have a Dream A Street in Bronzeville Roots Annie Allen Maud Martha Lorraine Hansberry James Baldwin A Raisin in the Sun from Bronzeville Boys and Girls Go Tell It on the Mountain Langston In the Mecca Giovanni’s Room Kitchenette Building Another Country We Real Cool A Sunset of the City Major Authors and their Works Maya Angelou The Movement: Sonia Sanchez I Know Why the Caged Bird Documentary of a Struggle The Bronx is Next Sings for Equality Sister Son/ja Gather Together in My The Sign in Sidney Homecoming Name Brustein’s Window We A BaddDDD People The Heart of a Woman Love Poems A Song Flung Up to Heaven Toni Morrison Homegirls & Handgrenades Phenomenal Woman The Bluest Eye Under a Soprano Sky And Still I Rise Sula Touched by an Angel The Black Book Audre Lorde Woman Works Songs of Solomon The First Cities Hey Black Child Tar Baby Cables to Rage Love Coal Adrienne Kennedy A Mercy The Black Unicorn Funnyhouse of a Negro Home The Cancer Journals A Lesson in Dead Language Beloved A Burst of Light People Who Led to My Plays Jazz Sister Outsider: Essays and What Use are Flowers Paradise Speeches The Drinking Gourd Major Authors and their Works Amiri Baraka Re: Creation Wild Series A Good Girl is Hard to Find My House Clay’s Ark The Baptism The Women and the Men Dawn The Toilet Sacred Cows… and Other Adulthood Rites Dutchman Edibles Imago The Slave Racism 101 A Black Mass The True Import of Present Ntozake Shange Preface to a Twenty Volume Dialogue, Black vs. Negro For Colored Girls Who Have Suicide Note Knoxville, Tennessee Considered Suicide/When The Dead Lecturer Nikki Rosa the Rainbow is Enuf It’s Nation Time A Journey Spell No. 7 In Our Terribleness Life Cycles Spirit Reach I Wrote a Good Omelet Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Am/Trak Place Thoughts for You! Octavia E. Butler Linden Hills Transbluesency Kindred Mama Day Patternmaster Nikki Giovanni Mind of My Mind Bailey’s Cafe Black Feeling, Black Talk Survivor Black Judgement Major Authors and their Works Alice Walker Speechlessness: A Poet Suzan Lori Parks The Color Purple Encounters the Horror in Topdog/Underdog In Search of Our Mother’s Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Getting Mother’s Body Garden: Womanist Prose Palestine/Israel Betting on the Dust The Third Life of Grange Hard Times Require Furious Commander Copeland Dancing 365 Plays/365 Days Meridian The Chicken Chronicles Father Comes Home From The Temple of My Familiar the Wars Part 1,2 & 3 Rita Dove (b. 1952) Possessing the Secret of Joy The Red Letter Plays Ten Poems By the Light of My Father’s The Only Dark Spot in the Smile Sky Lynn Nottage Once Crumbs from the Table of Mandolin Horses Make a Landscape Joy The Yellow House on the Look More Beautiful Mud, River, Stone Corner Collected Poems Intimate Apparel Museum Taking the Arrow Out of the By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Thomas and Beulah Heart Ruined Mother’s Love Now is the Time to Open Sweat Your Heart Mlima’s Tale CHAPTER 26 Contemporary Writers Major Authors and their Works Billy Collins Morgan’s Passing Paul Auster Pokerface Dinner at the Homesick City of Glass Best Cigarette Restaurant Ghosts The Apple that Astonished The Accidental Tourist The Locked Room Paris Ladder of Years The Invention of Solitude Questions about Angels Digging to America In the Country of Last Nine Horses A Spool of Blue Thread Things The Trouble with Poetry French Braid Moon Palace Aimless Love The Music of Chance The Rain in Portugal Marilynne Robinson Leviathan Whale Day Absence of Mind: The Mr. Vertigo Forgetfulness Dispelling of Inwardness Timbuktu Fishing on the Susquehanna from the Modern Myth of The Book of Illusions in July the Self Oracle Night The Names Housekeeping Man in the Dark Gilead 4321 Anne Tyler Home Breathing Lessons Lila If Morning Ever Comes Jack Major Authors and their Works David Mamet Son American Slavery Project James McBride Heist The Color of Water: A Black The Duck Variations Coming up for Air Man’s Tribute to His White Sexual Perversity in Chicago March 13, 2020 Mother American Buffalo The Good Lord Bird Speed-the-Plow Charles Frazier Cold Mountain George Saunders Marsha Norman Thirteen Moons Lincoln in the Bardo Night, Mother Nightwoods Civil War Land in Bad Getting Out Varina Decline Third and Oak Pastoralia The Fortune Teller Tony Kushner In Persuasion Nation The Secret Garden Angels in America: A Gay Tenth of December: Stories Fantasia on National James Patterson Themes (1991-1993) Liberation Day: Stories Along Came a Spider A Bright Room Called Day Cassandra Medley The Intelligent Ma Rose Homosexual’s Guide to Dearborn Heights Capitalism and Socialism Maiden Lane with a Key to the Scriptures  Major Authors and their Works Jonathan Franzen Je rey Eugenides Colson Whitehead The Corrections The Virgin Suicides The Underground Railroad The Twenty-Seventh City Middlesex The Nickel Boys Strong Motion The Marriage Plot The Intuitionist Freedom Fresh Complaint Apex Hides the Hurt Purity Sag Harbor Crossroads: A Novel Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games How to be Alone Madeline Miller Catching Fire Farther Away The Song of Achilles Mockingjay The End of the End of the Circe The Ballad of Songbirds Earth and Snakes Facts The Failure The Fall Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero Breakup Stories American Psycho Two’s Company Glamorama Agreeable Lunar Park Ambition Imperial Bedrooms ff CHAPTER 32 Native American Literature Major Authors and their Works Maurice Kenny Pushing the Bear: A Novel Solar Storms The Hopeless Kill of the Trail of Tears People of the Whale Dead Letters Sent and Primer of the Obsolete The Woman Who Watches Other Poems Stone Heart: A Novel of Over the World North: Poems of Home Sacajawea Dwellings: A Spiritual Dancing Back Strong the In-Between Places History of the Living World Nation Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues Gladys Cardi Leslie Marmon Silko The Mama Poems To Frighten a Storm Ceremony Winkte A Bare Unpainted Table Storyteller Tinselled Bucks: A Historical Almanac of the Dead Study in Indian Gardens in the Dunes Linda Hogan Homosexuality Long Time Ago Calling Myself Home Toe’sh: A Laguna Coyote Daughters, I Love You James Welch Story Eclipse Winter in the Blood Seeing Through the Sun Fools Crow Savings Dark. Sweet. Diane Glancy Mean Spirit ff  Major Authors and their Works Wendy Rose Secrets from the Center of Sherman Alexie Academic Squaw the World Reservation Blues If I am Too Brown or Too Crazy Brave The Lone Ranger and Tonto White for You Poet Warrior Fist ght in Heaven Truganinny Deer Dancer Crow Testament For the White Poets Who Insomnia and the Seven Evolution Would be Indian Steps to Grace I Expected My Skin and My Tommy Orange Blood to Ripen Louise Erdrich There There The Night Watchman Joy Harjo Love Medicine The Last Song The Beet Queen She Had Some Horses Tracks The Woman Who Fell from The Bingo Palace the Sky The Plague of Doves An American Sunrise The Round House What Moon Drove Me to LaRose This? fi