The Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th edition) [edited by Paul Lauter et al., published by Wadsworth, 2006]
Volume C: Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1910)
Publishing and Writing Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Women Circumstances and Literary Achievements of African Americans Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Native Americans Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Mexican Americans Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Asian Americans Immigration, Urban Conditions, and Reform
Nation, Regions, Borders
African American Folktales Animal Tales ------When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race ------Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit ------How Sandy Got His Meat ------Who Ate Up the Butter? ------Fox and Rabbit in the Well ------The Signifying Monkey Memories of Slavery ------Malitis ------The Flying Africans Conjure Stories ------Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida John and Old Marster ------Master Disguised ------The Diviner ------Massa and the Bear ------Baby in the Crib ------John Steals a Pig and a Sheep ------Talking Bones ------Old Boss Wants into Heaven
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog from Roughing It ------Chapter XLVIII, Buck Fanshaw's Funeral A True Story The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg from The Autobiography of Mark Twain ------Chapter 4 ------As Regards Patriotism The War Prayer
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings ------Chapter II, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story ------Chapter IV, How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches ------Free Joe and the Rest of the World
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) What Is a White Man? The Goophered Grapevine The Passing of Grandison The Wife of His Youth
Cluster: Literacy, Literature, and Democracy in Postbellum America
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Learning to Read
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) How to Write a Letter
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) from Criticism and Fiction Editor's Easy Chair
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ------Notice and Explanatory
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) The Western Association of Writers
Alice Brown (1857-1948) Review of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) Preface to Contending Forces
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) from Journal
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker from Lyrics of Lowly Life ------Frederick Douglass ------An Ante-Bellum Sermon ------We Wear the Mask ------When Malindy Sings from Lyrics of the Hearthside ------Sympathy
George Washington Cable (1844-1925) 'Tite Poulette
Grace King (1852-1932) The Little Convent Girl
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Sister Josepha
Ghost Dance Song Ghost Dance Songs
Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) Ode to Sequoyah Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo Fus Fixico's Letter Number 44
John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) The Problem of Old Harjo
Corridos Kiansis I/Kansas I Gregorio Cortez Jacinto Treviño Hijo Desobediente/The Disobedient Son Recordando al Presidente/Remembering the President Corrido de César Chávez/Ballad of César Chávez
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895) from The Squatter and the Don ------Chapter 5, The Don in His Broad Acres
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) from The Editor's Study Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune Mary E. Wilkins's Short Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories Editha
Henry James (1843-1916) Daisy Miller: A Study The Art of Fiction The Jolly Corner
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) Désirée's Baby The Awakening
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) Chickamauga
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) Up the Coulé: A Story of Wisconsin
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) A Mystery of Heroism The Open Boat The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky from The Black Riders and Other Lines ------God Lay Dead in Heaven from War Is Kind ------Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind ------The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart ------A Man Said to the Universe ------A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices ------There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood from Uncollected Poems ------Chant You Loud of Punishments
Jack London (1876-1916) South of the Slot
Critical Visions of Postbellum America
Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908) What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark
Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939) from The Soul of the Indian ------Chapter I, The Great Mystery from From the Deep Woods to Civilization ------Chapter VII, The Ghost Dance War Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891) from Life Among the Piutes ------Chapter I, First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Aunt Chloe's Politics The Martyr of Alabama A Double Standard Songs for the People Woman's Political Future
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) The Yellow Wall-Paper Turned
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) The Wanderers The Popularity of Firemen The Piano in the Parlor Immigration
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) The Jungle ------from Chapter II ------from Chapter IX ------from Chapter XI ------from Chapter XII ------from Chapter XIV
Henry Adams (1838-1918) from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres ------Chapter VI, The Virgin of Chartres from The Education of Henry Adams ------Chapter XXV, The Dynamo and the Virgin
Developments in Women's Writing
Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) from A Brand Plucked from the Fire ------Chapter XVII, My Call to Preach the Gospel ------Chapter XIX, Public Effort-Excommunication ------Chapter XX, Women in the Gospel
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) My Contraband Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) Circumstance
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) Miss Grief
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) A White Heron Martha's Lady
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) A New England Nun The Revolt of "Mother"
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) from Contending Forces ------Chapter VIII, The Sewing Circle ------Chapter XIV, Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League
A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth- Century American Women
Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1894) Giving Back the Flower Shapes of a Soul The Palace-Burner We Two His Mother's Way
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) Goddess of Liberty, Answer
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) Love and the Witches
Sophie Jewett (1861-1909) Entre Nous Armistice I Speak Your Name
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913) The Camper The Corn Husker The Indian Corn Planter
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) The Wood-Chopper to His Ax The Cross and the Pagan
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) I Sit and Sew You! Inez! The Proletariat Speaks
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959) Behold the Lillies
The Making of "Americans"
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) from Yekl ------Chapter 4, The Meeting ------Chapter 9, The Parting ------Chapter 10, A Defeated Victor
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914) Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian from Mrs. Spring Fragrance ------In the Land of the Free
Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875-1954) A Half Caste
Mary Austin (1868-1934) from Earth Horizon ------Chapter III
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Sioux) (1876-1938) from The School Days of an Indian Girl ------Chapter I, The Land of Red Apples ------Chapter II, The Cutting of My Long Hair ------Chapter III, The Snow Episode ------Chapter VI, Four Strange Summers ------Chapter VII, Incurring My Mother's Displeasure Why I Am a Pagan
Mary Antin (1881-1949) from The Promised Land ------from Chapter IX
José Martí (1853-1895) Our America Volume D: Modern Period (1910-1945)
The Centers of the Modern Modernism and the Self Modernism and the New Negro Renaissance Modernism and the South Modernism, Popular Culture, and the Media
Toward the Modern Age
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) from Up from Slavery ------Chapter I, A Slave Among Slaves ------Chapter III, The Struggle for an Education ------Chapter VI, Black Race and Red Race ------Chapter XIII, Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech ------Chapter XIV, The Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) from The Souls of Black Folk ------Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings ------Chapter III, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others ------Chapter XIV, Of the Sorrow Songs The Song of the Smoke
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Lift Every Voice and Sing O Black and Unknown Bards from Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ------Chapter X The Creation
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) The Clerks Aunt Imogen Momus Eros Turannos The Tree in Pamela's Garden Mr. Flood's Party
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) The Professional Instinct
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Valley of Childish Things Souls Belated The Other Two The Life Apart (L'âme close) The Eyes Roman Fever
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) from Spoon River Anthology ------Petit, the Poet ------Seth Compton ------Lucinda Matlock ------The Village Atheist from The New Spoon River ------Cleanthus Trilling from Lichee Nuts ------Ascetics and Drunkards ------Great Audiences and Great Poets from The Harmony of Deeper Music ------Not to See Sandridge Again
Willa Cather (1873-1947) A Wagner Matinée
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) Trifles
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) Credo Rock and Hawk The Purse-Seine Self-Criticism in February The Bloody Sire The Excesses of God Cassandra The Beauty of Things Carmel Point
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Pasture Mending Wall The Road Not Taken An Old Man's Winter Night The Oven Bird Out, Out- The Line-Gang The Ax-Helve Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Desert Places Once by the Pacific Design Provide, Provide Directive
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Hands Death in the Woods
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) The Second Choice
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Spring The Spring and the Fall [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare] Dirge Without Music [Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink] The Return [Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea] [His stalk the dark delphinium] Sonnet xli Sonnet xcv Justice Denied in Massachusetts
Alienation and Literary Experimentation
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) A Virginal A Pact In a Station of the Metro L'art, 1910 A Retrospect from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) ------E.P. Ode pour L'electionde Son Sepulchre ------Yeux Glauques ------Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma ------Brennbaum ------Mr. Nixon ------Envoi (1919) The Cantos I [And then went down to the ship] XIII [Kung walked] XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone] LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold] CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]
Amy Lowell (1874-1925) A Lady Patterns The Letter Summer Rain Venus Transiens Madonna of the Evening Flowers Opal Wakefulness Grotesque The Sisters
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) from The Making of Americans Susie Asado Preciosilla Ladies' Voices from Composition as Explanation from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind from The Mother of Us All
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Danse Russe The Young Housewife Portrait of a Lady Spring and All The Pot of Flowers The Rose To Elsie Young Sycamore The Flower The Poor Burning the Christmas Greens The Descent The Pink Locust
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) The Hairy Ape
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) Smoke Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941) Death at Bearwallow
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Sea Rose The Helmsman Oread Helen from Trilogy ------from The Walls Do Not Fall [43] ------from Tribute to the Angels [8,12,19,20,23,43]
Cluster: Political Poetry in the Modern Period
Joseph Kalar (1906-1972) Papermill
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) 1933
Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) In a Coffee Pot
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913) I Want You Women Up North to Know
Kay Boyle (1903-1993) A Communication to Nancy Cunard
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Goodbye Christ Air Raid over Harlem
Lola Ridge (1871-1941) Stone Face
Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954) Asbestos Season of Death First Love Elegia
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) Up State-Depression Summer To the Negro People Ode in Time of Crisis To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) [Buffalo Bill's] [into the strenuous briefness] [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] [i like my body when it is with your] [my sweet old etcetera] [since feeling is first] [i sing of Olaf glad and big] [Picasso] [anyone lived in a pretty how town] [plato told] [what if a much of a which of a wind] [pity this busy monster, manunkind]
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Tradition and the Individual Talent The Waste Land The Dry Salvages
Cluster: Modernism, Lyric Poetry, Facts
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Red Wheelbarrow The Great Figure
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) Dirge
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Johannesburg Mines The English
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) Poetry
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Course of a Particular
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) After Rain [Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies] Children Gary Snyder (b. 1930) Oil Facts
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) May Day The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Flowering Judas
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) England To a Chameleon An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish The Pangolin What Are Years? Nevertheless The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
Louise Bogan (1897-1970) Women The Sleeping Fury Roman Fountain After the Persian The Dragonfly Night
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Hills Like White Elephants
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Sunday Morning The Snow Man Peter Quince at the Clavier Anecdote of the Jar A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Of Modern Poetry Of Mere Being
William Faulkner (1897-1962) A Courtship Delta Autumn Barn Burning Hart Crane (1899-1932) Black Tambourine Chaplinesque At Melville's Tomb from The Bridge ------To Brooklyn Bridge ------The River The Broken Tower
The New Negro Renaissance
Alain Locke (1885-1954) The New Negro
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) from Cane Karintha Song of the Son Blood-Burning Moon Seventh Street Box Seat
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Weary Blues Drum The Same Negro Bad Luck Card I, Too Dream Variations Harlem Freedom Train Big Meeting The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain When the Negro Was in Vogue Radioactive Red Caps Thank You, M'am
Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Incident From the Dark Tower Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Yet Do I Marvel Pagan Prayer Heritage Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) Heritage To Usward Advice Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home Strong Men Ma Rainey Slim in Hell Remembering Nat Turner Song of Triumph
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Sweat The Gilded Six-Bits
Claude McKay (1889-1948) The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die The Lynching Harlem Shadows I Shall Return America In Bondage Flame-Heart Flower of Love A Red Flower
Anne Spencer (1882-1975) Lines to a Nasturtium Substitution For Jim, Easter Eve
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) from Passing ------One ------Two
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977) Our Greatest Gift to America The Negro-Art Hokum Blues Lyrics Blues Lyrics
Issues and Visions in Modern America
Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) Trans-National America
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970) America and I
Michael Gold (1893-1967) from Jews Without Money ------The Soul of a Landlord
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) The Sahara of the Bozarts
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) from U.S.A. ------The Body of an American ------The Bitter Drink
Albert Maltz (1908-1985) The Happiest Man on Earth
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) from Scoundrel Time
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ------Names
Clifford Odets (1906-1963) Waiting for Lefty
Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996) Women on the Breadlines
Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936) from Coyote Stories ------Preface ------The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979) from Sundown ------I ------II
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972) Blue Winds Dancing
D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977) Hard Riding
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A. Infant Boy at Midcentury The Leaf Evening Hawk Heart of Autumn Amazing Grace in the Back Country Fear and Trembling
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) Here Lies a Lady Philomela Piazza Piece The Equilibrists
Allen Tate (1899-1979) Ode to the Confederate Dead
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) [How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted] Aphrodite Vrania [The shoemaker sat in the cellars dusk beside his bench] Hellenist [In steel clouds] [About an excavation] The English in Virginia, April 1607 from Testimony ------I ------II
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The Chrysanthemums from The Grapes of Wrath ------Chapter One ------Chapter Five Richard Wright (1908-1960) Bright and Morning Star Between the World and Me
Margaret Walker (1915-1998) from Jubilee ------7. Cook in the Big House ------8. Randall Ware Southern Song For My People Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad Solace The Crystal Palace
Saunders Redding (1906-1988) from No Day of Triumph ------Chapter One, Troubled in Mind
Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992) Christ in Concrete
Younghill Kang (1903-1972) from East Goes West ------Part One, Book Three
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants from The Voyage ------5 [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival] ------8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox] from The Detainment ------20 [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?] ------30 [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out] ------31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls] from The Weak Shall Conquer ------35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came] ------38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window] ------42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants] from About Westerners ------51 [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly] ------55 [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears] from Deportees, Transients ------57 [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea] ------64 Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape ------69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]