Chapter Ⅰ American Colonial and Early National Literature (1620-1820)
1. Native American Voices
Literary Review
Selected Readings
How the World Began
2. Anne Bradstreet
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Verses upon the Burning of Our House
To My Dear and Loving Husband
3. Edward Taylor
Literary Review
Selected Readings
God' s Determinations
4. Benjamin Franklin
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
5. Thomas Jefferson
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter Ⅱ Romanticism (1820-1865)
6. Washington Irving
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Rip Van Winkle
7. James Fenimore Cooper
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Last of the Mohicans
8. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The American Scholar
9. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Minister's Black Veil
10. Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Tell-Tale Heart
11. Walt Whitman
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Song of Myself (1881)
I Hear America Singing
12. Herman Melville
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Moby Dick
13. Emily Dickinson
Literary Review
Selected Readings
"67 Success is counted sweetest
249 Wild Nights-Wild Nights!
288 I'm Nobody! Who are you?
1'129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Chapter Ⅲ Realism (1865-1914)
14. Mark Twain
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15. Henry James
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Daisy Miller. A Study
16. Stephen Crane
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
17. Theodore Dreiser
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Sister Carrie
Chapter Ⅳ Modernism (1914-1945)
18. Robert Frost
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
19. Sherwood Anderson
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Egg
20. William Carlos Williams
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
21. Ezra Pound
Literary Review
Selected Readings
In a Station of the Metro
A Pact
22. Eugene O'Neill
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Hairy Ape
23. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Diamond as Big as the 'Ritz
24. William Faulkner
Literary Review
Selected Readings
A Rose for Emily
25. Ernest Hemingway
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Cat in the Rain
26. Langston Hughes
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Theme for English B
27. John Steinbeck
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Breakfast
Chapter Ⅴ Postmodernism (1945-)
28. Arthur Miller
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Crucible
29. Robert Lowell
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Skunk Hour
30. Joseph Heller
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Catch-22
31. James Baldwin
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Sonny' s Blues
32. Flalmery O'Connor
Literary Review
Selected Readings
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
33. Allen Ginsberg
Literary Review
Selected Readings
Howl
34. Toni Morrison
Literary Review
Selected Readings
The Beloved
Bibliography