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Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature.
Each volume continues to offer a flexible organization, with literary merit as the guiding principle of selection. The new photos and illustrations illuminate the texts and literary/historical timelines help students put works in context.
List of illustrationsPreface
AN AGE OF EXPANSION, 1865-1910From Romanticism to Realism Regionalism The Gilded Age Timeline: An Age of Expansion NEW VOICES IN POETRYWALT WHITMAN (1819–1892) Song of Myself I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Cavalry Crossing a Ford When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd To a Common Prostitute A Noiseless Patient Spider EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 49 [I never lost as much but twice] 67 [Success is counted sweetest] 130 [These are the days when Birds come back—] 214 [I taste a liquor never brewed—] 241 [I like a look of Agony] 249 [Wild Nights—Wild Nights!] 252 [I can wade Grief—] 258 [There's a certain Slant of light] 280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune—] 288 [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] 290 [Of Bronze—and Blaze—] 303 [The Soul selects her own Society—] 320 [We play at Paste—] 324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church] 328 [A Bird came down the Walk—] 341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes—] 376 [Of Course—I prayed—] 401 [What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—] 435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense—] 441 [This is my letter to the World] 448 [This was a Poet—It is That] 449 [I died for Beauty—but was scarce] 465 [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—] 511 [If you were coming in the Fall] 556 [The Brain, within its Groove] 579 [I had been hungry, all the Years—]585 [I like to see it lap the Miles—] 632 [The Brain—is wider than the Sky—] 636 [The Way I read a Letter's—this—] 640 [I cannot live with You—] 650 [Pain—has a Element of Blank—] 657 [I dwell in Possibility—] 712 [Because I could not stop for Death—] 732 [She rose to His Requirement—dropt] 754 [My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—] 816 [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] 823 [Not what We did, shall be the test] 986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 1052 [I never saw a Moor—] 1078 [The Bustle in a House] 1082 [Revolution is the Pod] 1100 [The last Night that She lived] 1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—] 1207 [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow—] 1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book] 1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] 1463 [A Route of Evanescence] 1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief] 1587 [He ate and drank the precious Words—] 1624 [Apparently with no surprise] 1732 [My life closed twice before its close—] 1760 [Elysium is as far as to]
CROSSCURRENTS: Freedom in the Gilded Age WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892) From Democratic Vistas HENRY ADAMS (1838–1918) From The Education of Henry AdamsChapter XVII: President Grant (1869) GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844–1915) From The Freedman’s Case in Equity [The Perpetual Alien] BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856–1915) From Up from Slavery The Struggle for an Education
REALISM AND NATURALISM, 1880–1920RealismSpiritual Unrest Naturalism Timeline: The Turn of the Century LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) From Little Women Playing Pilgrims A Merry Christmas The Laurence Boy MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County From Roughing It [When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] From Life on the Mississippi The Boys' Ambition [A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn How to Tell a Story The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) From Criticism and Fiction Chapter II [The True Standard of the Arts] Chapter XIII [How Can an Art Decay?] Chapter XXI [American and Old World Novelists] Chapter XXIV [The Prudishness of the Anglo-Saxon Novel] Editha HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) Daisy Miller The Real Thing The Beast in the Jungle The Art of Fiction BRET HARTE (1836-1902) The Outcasts of Poker Flat RED CLOUD (c. 1822-1909) [All I Want Is Peace and Justice] SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (1844-1891) From Life among the Piutes Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) *ChickamaugaGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1925) Belles Demoiselles Plantation JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908) The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match at Last HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) The Dynamo and the Virgin SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) A White Heron KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904) The Story of an Hour The Awakening MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) The Revolt of "Mother" CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) The Passing of Grandison ABRAHAM CAHAN *A Ghetto Wedding
CROSSCURRENTS: Prosperity and Social Justice at the Turn of the Century ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835–1919) From Wealth STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900) The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869–1910) Gloucester Moors On Soldier Fallen in the Philippines ZITKALA-SA (1876–1938) Retrospection W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868–1963) From The Souls of Black Folk Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940) Under the Lion's Paw CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) The Yellow Wallpaper FRANK NORRIS (1870-1902) A Plea for Romantic Fiction STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) A God in Wrath Once I Saw Mountains Angry A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky God Lay Dead in Heaven Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind The Wayfarer A Man Said to the Universe Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The Open Boat PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906) We Wear the Mask A Death Song Life's Tragedy At the Tavern Sympathy EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) The Muse's Tragedy Roman Fever THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) The Second Choice EDITH MAUD EATON (SUI SIN FAR) (1865–1914) In the Land of the Free JACK LONDON (1876-1916) To Build a Fire
LITERARY RENAISSANCE, 1910-1930Twentieth-Century Renaissance Poetry between the Wars Timeline: Literary Renaissance NEW DIRECTIONS: THE FIRST WAVEEDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)Luke Havergal The House on the Hill Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Eros Turannos Mr. Flood's Party The Mill Firelight New England WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) Neighbour Rosicky ELLEN GLASGOW (1873-1945) Jordan's End GERTRUDE STEIN (1873-1945)From Tender ButtonsFrom The Making of AmericansJOHN MILTON OSKISON (1874–1947) The Problem with Old Harjo EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950) Petit, the Poet Elsa Wertman Hamilton Greene Carl Hamblin Lucinda Matlock Davis Matlock ROBERT FROST (1874-1946) The Tuft of Flowers Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man Home Burial After Apple-Picking The Wood-Pile The Road Not Taken The Oven Bird Birches The Hill Wife The Ax-Helve Fire and Ice Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Desert Places Design Come In Directive CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) *ChicagoFog Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard Gone A Fence Grass Southern Pacific WasherwomanSHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) The Book of the Grotesque
