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Tables of Contents for Concise Anthology of American Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xxix
The Literature of Colonial America
1
188
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
13
9
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage
15
7
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America
Thursday 11 October 1492
19
2
Sunday 14 October 1492
21
1
Captain John Smith (1580-1631)
22
15
The General History of Virginia
The Third Book
24
12
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War
36
1
Native American Voices I
37
15
Myths and Tales
38
14
How the World Began
38
8
How the World Was Made
46
1
The Beginning of Summer and Winter
47
2
The Gift of the Sacred Pipe
49
2
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow
51
1
William Bradford (1590-1657)
52
16
Of Plymouth Plantation
``Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal''
54
2
``Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden...''
56
1
``Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage...''
57
3
``Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation...''
60
2
``Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]''
62
3
``Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]''
65
2
``Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]''
67
1
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
68
11
The Journal of John Winthrop
69
10
The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
79
3
The Bay Psalm Book
79
3
The New England Primer (c. 1683)
82
7
The New England Primer
83
6
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
89
20
The Prologue
91
1
Contemplations
92
7
The Flesh and the Spirit
99
3
The Author to Her Book
102
1
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
102
1
To My Dear and Loving Husband
103
1
A Letter to Her Husband...
103
1
In Reference to Her Children...
104
2
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild...
106
1
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet...
107
1
Upon the Burning of Our House...
107
2
Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)
109
16
Prologue
110
10
Preparatory Meditations
The Reflexion
111
1
Meditation 6 (First Series)
112
1
Meditation 8 (First Series)
113
1
Meditation 38 (First Series)
114
1
Meditation 39 (First Series)
115
2
Meditation 150 (Second Series)
117
1
God's Determinations
The Preface
118
1
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
119
1
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
120
2
Huswifery
122
1
The Ebb and Flow
122
1
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death
123
2
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
125
11
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
126
10
Mary Rowlanandson (c. 1637-1711)
136
18
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
137
17
William Byrd II (1674-1744)
154
5
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
155
4
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
159
30
Sarah Pierrepont
161
1
Personal Narrative
162
10
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
172
17
Images or Shadows of Divine Things
184
5
The Literature of Reason and Revolution
189
250
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
195
127
[Silence Dogood, No. 4]
197
7
Poor Richard Improved, 1758
199
5
An Address to the Public
204
1
The Autobiography
205
117
Michel-Guillaume-Jean De Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
322
15
Letters from an American Farmer
Letter III (What Is an American?)
324
9
Letter IX (Description of Charleston...)
333
4
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
337
10
Common Sense
339
1
The American Crisis
340
7
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
347
20
The Declaration of Independence
349
12
Notes on the State of Virginia
Query V: Cascades
351
1
Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal
352
4
Query XVII: Religion
356
3
Query XVIII: Manners
359
1
Query XIX: Manufactures
360
1
To James Madison
361
3
To John Adams
364
3
The Federalist (1787-1788)
367
10
The Federalist No. 10
368
5
The Federalist No. 51
373
4
Phillis Wheatley (1754?-1784)
377
8
On Virtue
378
1
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
378
1
On Being Brought from Africa to America
379
1
On Imagination
379
2
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
381
1
Recollection
382
1
To His Excellency General Washington
383
2
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
385
10
The Power of Fancy
386
4
The Hurricane
390
1
To Sir Toby
391
2
The Wild Honey Suckle
393
1
The Indian Burying Ground
393
2
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
395
1
William Bartram (1739-1823)
395
17
Travels through North and South Carolina...
397
15
Native American Voices II
412
27
A Son of the Forest
413
7
Crashing Thunder...
420
2
Story of the Indian
422
2
Pawnee Hero Stories
424
1
Legend of the Snake Order...
424
4
When the Coyote Married the Maiden
428
4
The Creation of the Horse
432
1
Poems
432
3
Orations
435
4
The Age of Romanticism
439
704
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
445
45
A History of New York
447
6
Diedrich Knickerbocker
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Author's Account of Himself
453
2
Rip Van Winkle
455
13
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
468
22
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)
490
9
The Big Bear of Arkansas
491
8
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
499
43
Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales
502
40
The Deerslayer
504
18
The Pioneers
522
13
The Prairie
535
7
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
542
9
Thanatopsis
544
2
To a Waterfowl
546
1
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
547
1
To the Fringed Gentian
547
1
The Prairies
548
3
Abraham Lincoln
551
1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
551
61
Sonnet---To Science
554
1
To Helen
554
1
The City in the Sea
555
1
Sonnet---Silence
556
1
Lenore
557
1
The Raven
558
2
Annabel Lee
560
2
Ligeia
562
11
The Fall of the House of Usher
573
14
The Purloined Letter
587
16
``Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne'' [A Review]
600
3
The Philosophy of Composition
603
9
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
612
70
Nature
614
28
The American Scholar
642
13
Self-Reliance
655
17
The Rhodora
672
1
Each and All
673
1
Concord Hymn
674
1
The Problem
674
2
Ode
676
3
Hamatreya
679
1
Give All to Love
680
1
Days
681
1
Brahma
681
1
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
682
33
Young Goodman Brown
685
10
The Minister's Black Veil
695
9
The Birth-Mark
704
11
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
715
93
Bartleby, the Scrivener
717
26
Billy Budd
743
58
The Portent
801
1
Shiloh
802
1
Malvern Hill
802
1
The College Colonel
803
1
The Æolian Harp
804
2
The Tuft of Kelp
806
1
The Maldive Shark
806
1
The Berg
806
1
Art
807
1
Greek Architecture
808
1
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
808
111
Civil Disobedience
810
109
Walden
827
92
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
919
9
A Psalm of Life
920
1
The Arsenal at Springfield
921
2
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
923
2
My Lost Youth
925
2
Aftermath
927
1
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
927
1
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
928
7
Massachusetts to Virginia
929
3
Ichabod
932
1
Skipper Ireson's Ride
933
2
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
935
17
To the Dandelion
936
16
The Biglow Papers, First Series
938
5
A Fable for Critics
943
9
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
952
41
Uncle Tom's Cabin
953
40
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
993
19
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
994
18
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1012
4
To Horace Greeley
1013
1
Gettysburg Address
1014
1
Second Inaugural Address
1014
2
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
1016
107
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
1018
15
Inscriptions
One's-Self I Sing
1033
1
When I Read the Book
1033
1
Song of Myself
1033
49
Children of Adam
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd
1080
1
Once I pass'd through a populous city
1081
1
Facing west from California's shores
1081
1
Calamus
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
1082
1
I hear it was charged against me
1082
1
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
1082
25
Sea-Drift
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
1087
5
By the Roadside
When I heard the learn'd astronomer
1092
1
The Dalliance of the Eagles
1093
1
Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!
1093
1
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
1094
1
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
1094
1
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night
1094
1
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown
1095
1
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
1096
1
The Wound-Dresser
1097
2
Memories of President Lincoln
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
1099
7
Autumn Rivulets
There was a child went forth
1106
1
Passage to India
1107
8
The Sleepers
1115
8
Whispers of Heavenly Death
A noiseless patient spider
1122
1
From Noon to Starry Night
To a Locomotive in Winter
1122
1
Good-Bye My Fancy
L. of G.'s Purport
1123
1
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
1123
20
I never lost as much but twice
1125
1
Success is counted sweetest
1125
1
For each ecstatic instant
1126
1
These are the days when Birds come back
1126
1
A Wounded Deer---leaps highest
1127
1
``Faith'' is a fine invention
1127
1
The thought beneath so slight a film
1127
1
I taste a liquor never brewed
1127
1
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
1128
1
I like a look of Agony
1128
1
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!
1128
1
There's a certain Slant of light
1129
1
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
1129
1
A Clock stopped
1130
1
The Soul selects her own Society
1130
1
A Bird came down the Walk
1131
1
I know that He exists
1131
1
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
1132
1
What Soft---Cherubic Creatures
1132
1
Much Madness is divinest Sense
1133
1
This is my letter to the World
1133
1
This was a Poet---It is That
1133
1
I died for Beauty---but was scarce
1133
1
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died
1134
1
It was not Death, for I stood up
1134
1
I like to see it lap the Miles
1135
1
I cannot live with You
1135
2
Pain---has an Element of Blank
1137
1
One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted
1137
1
Publication---is the Auction
1137
1
Because I could not stop for Death
1138
1
Renunciation---is a piercing Virtue
1138
1
My life had stood---a Loaded Gun
1139
1
Presentiment---is that long Shadow---on the Lawn
1139
1
Death is a Dialogue between
1140
1
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1140
1
I never saw a Moor
1140
1
The Bustle in a House
1141
1
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
1141
1
He preached upon ``Breadth'' till it argued him narrow
1141
1
A Route of Evanescence
1141
1
The Bible is an antique Volume
1142
1
Apparently with no surprise
1142
1
My life closed twice before its close
1142
1
The Age of Realism
1143
412
Mary E. Wilkins Freman (1852-1930)
1143
16
A New England Nun
1151
8
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
1159
8
A White Heron
1160
7
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
1167
8
Tennessee's Partner
1168
7
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
1175
10
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
1175
2
Free Joe and the Rest of the World
1177
8
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
1185
195
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
1187
1
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1188
4
Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech
1192
4
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1196
184
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
1380
12
Editha
1382
10
Henry James (1843-1916)
1392
81
Daisy Miller: A Study
1393
40
The Real Thing
1433
18
The Jolly Corner
1451
22
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
1473
6
Neg Creol
1474
5
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
1479
27
Black riders came from the sea
1480
1
In the desert
1480
1
A good in wrath
1481
1
Supposing that I should have the courage
1481
1
On the horizon the peaks assembled
1481
1
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
1481
1
A man said to the universe
1482
1
A man adrift on a slim spar
1482
1
A Mystery of Heroism: A Detail of an American Battle
1483
6
The Open Boat
1489
17
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
1506
17
The Other Two
1509
14
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
1523
22
Free
1524
21
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
1545
10
The Education of Henry Adams
1546
9
Twentieth-Century Literature
1555
777
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
1562
6
Richard Cory
1563
1
Cliff Klingenhagen
1563
1
Miniver Cheevy
1564
1
How Annandale Went Out
1565
1
Eros Turannos
1565
1
Mr. Flood's Party
1566
2
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
1568
17
Mending Wall
1569
1
Home Burial
1570
3
After Apple-Picking
1573
1
The Road Not Taken
1574
1
An Old Man's Winter Night
1575
1
Birches
1575
2
The Oven Bird
1577
1
For Once, Then, Something
1577
1
Fire and Ice
1578
1
Design
1578
1
Nothing Gold Can Stay
1578
1
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1579
1
Acquainted with the Night
1579
1
West-Running Brook
1580
2
Desert Places
1582
1
Neither out Far Nor in Deep
1582
1
The Silken Tent
1583
1
Directive
1583
2
In Winter in the Woods Alone
1585
1
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
1585
22
Neighbour Rosicky
1586
21
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
1607
25
Three Lives
The Gentle Lena
1609
21
Susie Asado
1630
1
Picasso
1630
2
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
1632
9
Death in the Woods
1633
8
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
1641
32
The Hairy Ape
1643
30
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
1673
12
Portrait d'une Femme
1674
1
Salutation
1675
1
A Pact
1676
1
In a Station of the Metro
1676
1
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
1676
9
High Selwyn Mauberley
[E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre]
1677
1
[The age demanded an image]
1678
1
[The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.]
1678
1
[These fought in any cause]
1679
1
[There dired a myriad]
1680
1
The Cantos
[And then went down to the ship]
1680
3
[With Usura]
1683
1
[What thou lovest well remains]
1684
1
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
1685
32
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1687
3
Preludes
1690
2
Gerontion
1692
2
The Waste Land
1694
17
Notes on ``The Waste Land''
1706
5
Journey of the Magi
1711
1
Burnt Norton
1712
5
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
1717
8
[in Just-]
1718
1
[O sweet spontaneous]
1719
1
[Buffalo Bill's defunct]
1720
1
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
1720
1
[nobody loses all the time]
1721
1
[``next to of course god america i'']
1722
1
[my sweet old etcetera i'']
1722
1
[r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]
1723
1
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
1723
1
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]
1724
1
[1(a]
1725
1
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
1725
15
Chaplinesque
1727
1
At Melville's Tomb
1727
1
Voyages
1728
12
The Bridge
To Brooklyn Bridge
1730
1
Powhatan's Daughter
1731
1
The Harbor Dawn
1731
1
Van Winkle
1732
2
The River
1734
4
Atlantis
1738
2
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
1740
12
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
1742
1
Sunday Morning
1742
1
The Death of a Soldier
1742
4
Anecdote of the Jar
1746
1
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
1746
1
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
1747
1
The Idea of Order at Key West
1748
1
Of Modern Poetry
1749
1
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
1750
1
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
1751
1
The Plain Sense of Things
1751
1
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
1752
16
Con Brio
1753
1
Tract
1754
2
Danse Russe
1756
1
Queen-Anne's-Lace
1756
1
Spring and All
1757
1
To Elsie
1758
1
The Red Wheelbarrow
1759
1
At the Ball Game
1760
1
Between Walls
1761
1
This Is Just to Say
1761
1
The Yachts
1762
1
These
1763
1
Seafarer
1764
1
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
1764
1
The Use of Force
1765
3
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
1768
10
To a Steam Roller
1769
1
The Fish
1769
1
Poetry
1770
1
No Swan So Fine
1771
1
The Student
1772
1
The Pangolin
1773
3
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
1776
1
In Distrust of Merits
1777
1
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
1778
7
Yet Do I Marvel
1779
1
For a Lady I Know
1780
1
From the Dark Tower
1780
1
A Brown Girl Dead
1781
1
Heritage
1781
3
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
1784
1
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
1785
3
Here Lies a Lady
1785
1
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
1786
1
Blue Girls
1787
1
Piazza Piece
1787
1
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
1788
4
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
1789
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
1792
29
The Rich Boy
1794
27
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
1821
23
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
1822
22
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
1844
20
That Evening Sun
1846
11
A Rose for Emily
1857
7
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
1864
9
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
1865
1
The Weary Blues
1865
1
Young Gal's Blues
1866
1
I, Too
1867
1
Note on Commercial Theatre
1867
1
Dream Boogie
1868
1
Harlem
1869
1
Theme for English B
1869
1
On the Road
1870
3
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
1873
14
Flight
1874
13
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
1887
10
Flowering Judas
1888
9
Eudora Welty (1909- )
1897
10
Death of a Traveling Salesman
1898
9
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
1907
9
Eight Men
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1908
8
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
1916
12
Invisible Man
Chapter 1
1917
11
Arthur Miller (1915- )
1928
68
Death of a Salesman
1931
65
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
1996
4
Open House
1997
1
Cuttings
1997
1
Cuttings (Later)
1997
1
Root Cellar
1998
1
My Papa's Waltz
1998
1
I Knew a Woman
1999
1
In a Dark Time
1999
1
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
2000
14
A Miracle for Breakfast
2001
1
The Fish
2002
1
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
2003
2
Visits to St. Elizabeths
2005
2
Sestina
2007
1
The Armadillo
2008
2
Brazil, January 1, 1502
2010
1
In the Waiting Room
2011
2
One Art
2013
1
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
2014
15
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
2015
4
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
2019
2
Memories of West Street and Lepke
2021
1
Skunk Hour
2022
2
For the Union Dead
2024
2
Waking Early Sunday Morning
2026
2
Will Not Come Back
2028
1
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
2029
18
Howl
2030
8
A Supermarket in California
2038
1
America
2039
3
American Change
2042
2
Mugging
2044
3
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
2047
8
The Farmer's Wife
2047
1
Ringing the Bells
2048
1
All My Pretty Ones
2049
1
And One for My Dame
2050
2
The Addict
2052
1
Us
2053
1
Rowing
2054
1
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
2055
14
All the Dead Dears
2056
1
Two Views of a Cadaver Room
2057
1
The Bee Meeting
2058
2
Lady Lazarus
2060
2
Ariel
2062
1
The Applicant
2063
2
Daddy;
2065
2
Fever 103°
2067
2
James Dickey (1923-1997)
2069
9
The Lifeguard
2070
1
Reincarnation (I)
2071
1
In the Mountain Tent
2072
1
Cherrylog Road
2073
3
The Shark's Parlor
2076
2
W. S. Merwin (1927- )
2078
8
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
2079
1
The Drunk in the Furnace
2080
1
Noah's Raven
2080
1
The Dry Stone Mason
2081
1
Fly
2081
1
Strawberries
2082
1
Direction
2083
1
Thanks
2083
1
The Morning Train
2084
2
Louise Gluck (1943- )
2086
6
Hesitate to Call
2086
1
The Chicago Train
2087
1
The Edge
2087
1
My Neighbor in the Mirror
2087
1
Thanksgiving
2088
1
Mock Orange
2088
1
The Reproach
2089
1
Celestial Music
2090
1
Vespers
2091
1
Field Flowers
2092
1
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
2092
23
Sonny's Blues
2093
22
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
2115
12
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2116
11
John Updike (1932- )
2127
13
Flight
2129
11
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
2140
13
The Magic Barrel
2141
12
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- )
2153
6
In Memory of Radio
2154
1
An Agony. As Now
2155
1
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
2156
1
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
2156
1
A Poem for Half-White College Students
2157
1
Biography
2158
1
Rita Dove (1952- )
2159
10
Kentucky, 1833
2160
1
Adolescence-I
2161
1
Adolescence-II
2161
1
Adolescence-III
2161
1
Banneker
2162
1
Jiving
2163
1
The Zeppelin Factory
2164
1
Under the Viaduct, 1932
2165
1
Roast Possum
2166
1
Weathering Out
2167
1
Daystar
2168
1
Edward Albee (1928- )
2169
18
The Zoo Story
2170
17
Saul Bellow (1915- )
2187
A Silver Dish
2188
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )
2028
193
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again
2209
12
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
2221
3
The School
2221
3
Ann Beattie (1947- )
2224
11
The Lawn Party
2225
10
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- )
2235
12
Shiloh
2237
10
Gloria Naylor (1950- )
2247
11
The Women of Brewster Place
Lucielia Louise Turner
2248
10
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
2258
12
Cathedral
2259
11
Sandra Cisneros (1954- )
2270
3
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Mericans
2270
3
Louise Erdrich (1954- )
2273
9
Love Medicine
The Red Convertible (1974)
2275
7
Toni Morrison (1931- )
2282
10
Sula
1922
2283
9
David Mamet (1947- )
2292
40
House of Games
2294
38
Reference Works, Bibliographies
2332
4
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History
2336
7
Chronology
2343
27
Acknowledgments
2370
9
Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines
2379