Part I From the Beginning to the Revolution (1492-1783) Chapter 1 American Colonialism Historical Background American Indians Listen! Rain Approaches Calling One's Own The Northern Puritans William Bradford(1590 -1657) Of Plymouth Plantation Anne Bradstreet(1612 -1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband Upon the Burning of Our House Jonathan Edwards(1703 -1758) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God The Southern Colonists John Smith(1580 -1631) A Description of New England William Byrd(1674 -1744) A Progress to the Mines Chapter 2 American Revolution and Enlightenment Historical Background American Enlightenment Thomas Paine(1737 -1809) Common Sense Thomas Jefferson(1743 - 1826) The Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin(1706 -1790) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Part �� From the Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) Chapter 3 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism Historical Background American Romanticism and Transcendentalism Washington Irving(1783 -1859) Rip Van Winkle William Cullen Bryant(1794 -1878) Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl Edgar Allan Poe(1809 - 1849) To Helan The Raven Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803 -1882) Nature The American Scholar Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804 -1864) The Scarlet Letter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807 - 1882) A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls Walt Whitman(1819 -1892) Song of Myself I Hear America Singing Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811 - 1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin Frederick Douglass(1817 - 1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) Success is counted sweetest I died for Beauty - but was scarce Tell all the Truth but tell it slant The Brain - is wider than the Sky Because I could not stop for Death The Soul selects her own Society Elysium is as far as to ��Nature�� is what we see Part �� From the Civil War to World War I (1861-1914) Chapter 4 American Realism and Naturalism Historical Background American Realism Mark Twain(1835 -1910) Life on the Mississippi The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James(1843 -1916) Daisy Miller William Dean Howells(1837 -1920) Editha Kate Chopin(1850-1904) The Story of an Hour Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869 -1935) Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Eros Turannos American Naturalism Stephen Crane(1871 -1900) The Red Badge of Courage Theodore Dreiser(1871 - 1945) Sister Carrie Jack London(1876 -1916) The Law of Life Part �� From World War I to World War I�� (1914-1945) Chapter 5 American Modernism Historical Background American Modernism Ezra Pound(1885 -1972) In a Station of the Metro A Pact The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter T. S. Eliot(1888 -1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Robert Frost(1874 -1963) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Nothing Gold Can Stay Fire and Ice Sherwood Anderson(1876 -1941) Winesburg, Ohio Ernest Hemingway(1899 - 1961) A Farewell to Arms F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896 - 1940) The Great Gatsby John Steinbeck(1902 -1968) The Grapes of Wrath William Faulkner(1897 - 1962) Dry September Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) Long Day's Journey into Night Part V American Literature since World War �� (1945 Chapter 6 American Contemporary Literature Historical Background American Post-modernism Joseph Heller(1923 - 1999) Catch-22 Saul Bellow(1915 -2005) Saul Bellow's Nobel Lecture Flannery O'Connor(1925 -1964) A Good Man Is Hard to Find Allen Ginsberg(1926 -1997) Howl Robert Lowell(1917 - 1977) Katherine's Dream Epilogue Toni Morrison(1931 -2019) Sweetness Alice Walker(1944 Everyday Use Maxine Hong Kingston(1940 The Woman Warrior N. Scott Momaday(1934 The Way to Rainy Mountain