Introductory course of American literature

目录
Chapter 1 The Literature of Early and Revolutionary Periods
Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
Ⅱ. Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanac(Excerpt)
Ⅲ. Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Ⅳ. Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
Chapter 2 The Literature of Romanticism
Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
Ⅱ. William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Ⅲ. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (Excerpt)
Self-Reliance (Excerpt)
Ⅳ. Henry David Thoreau
Walden (Excerpt)
Ⅴ. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (Excerpt)
Young Goodman Brown
Ⅵ. Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven (Excerpt)
To Helen
Annabel Lee
Ⅶ. Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (Excerpt)
Ⅷ. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Ⅸ. Walt Whitman
Inscriptions
Song of Myself (Excerpt)
0 Captain!My Captain
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Ⅹ. Emily Dickinson
Success
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
I’m Nobody!Who Are you?
A Bird Came down the Walk-
After Great Pain,a Formal Feeling Comes-
Much Madness Is Divine Sense-
I Died for Beauty-But Was Scarce
I Like to See It Lap the Miles-
I Dwell in Possibility-
Because I Could Not Stop for Death-
I Never Saw a Moor-
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant-
There Is No Frigate like a Book
A Route of Evanescence
To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clove and One Bee
Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism
Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
Ⅱ. Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Excerpt)
Ⅲ. Henry James
Daisy Miller (Excerpt)
Ⅳ. Jack London
The Law of Life
Ⅴ. Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (Excerpt)
Ⅵ. Kate Chopin
The Awakening (Excerpt)
The Story of an Hour
Ⅶ. O. Henry
The Last Leaf
The Cop and the Anthem
Ⅷ. Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Chapter 4 The Modem Period
Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
Ⅱ. Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
A Pact
Ⅲ. Robert Frost
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acceptance
Design
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ⅳ. Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman (Excerpt)
Ⅴ. Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (Excerpt)
Ⅵ. John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (Excerpt)
Ⅶ. Eugene O’Neill
The Hairy Ape (Excerpt)
Ⅷ. William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Ⅸ. Ernest Hemingway
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place
Ⅹ. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby (Excerpt)
Ⅺ. Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg,Ohio (Excerpt)
Ⅻ. Joseph Heller
Catch-22 (Excerpt)
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