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The Bedford Anthology of American Literature
VOLUME ONE: BEGINNINGS TO 1865
Colonial Settlements
Introduction
Captain John Smith (1580–1631)
The Generall Historie of Virginia, NewEngland, and the Summer Isles
The Third Book, Ch. II, “What
Happened till the First Supply”
Literature to 1750
Introduction
Comparative Timeline
America before Columbus
Map: Native American Peoples, 1492
Christianity, Islam, and the Lure
of Asia
Conquest and Colonization in the
New World
Map: Early European Explorations
The Protestant Reformation and
the Puritan “Errand into the
Wilderness”
Literature and Cultural Diversity
in Colonial America
Native American Origin and
Creation Stories
Introduction
Iroquois Confederacy
Origin of Folk Stories (Seneca)
A Tale of the Foundation of the
Great Island, Now North America
(Tuscarora)
• Indicates a complete longer work
Cherokee
How the World Was Made
Akimel O’odham (Pima)
The Story of the Creation
Lakota
Pocahontas to Her English Husband,
John Rolfe
William Bradford (1590–1657)
Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe
Hupa
The Boy Who Grew Up at Ta’k’imilding
Native American Stories through a
Modern Lens
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
The Becoming of the Native: Man in
America before Columbus
Explorations and Early Encounters
Introduction
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
Letter of Columbus, Describing the
Results of His First Voyage
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
(c. 1490–c. 1557)
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
Proem and Chapters 14, 15, 16, 19–21
Samuel de Champlain (c. 1570–1635)
FROM The Voyages of
Jamestown through a Modern Lens
Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939)
Samuel de Champlain
Of Plimoth Plantation
[Book 1]
FROM Chapter 1
Chapter 4: Showing the reasons &
....causes of their remoovall
Chapter 9: Of their vioage, & how they
passed the sea, and of their safe arrivall
at Cape Codd
Chapter 10: Showing how they
sought out a place of habitation,
and what befell them theraboute
Booke 2
The remainder of Anno: 1620
[The Mayflower Compact; Difficult
Beginnings; Early Relations with the
Indians and the Peace Treaty]
FROM Anno: 1621 [The First Harvest
and Thanksgiving]
FROM Anno Domini: 1632
[Prosperity Brings Dispersal of the
Population and the Division of the
Church at Plymouth]
Plymouth Plantation through a
Modern Lens
Wamsutta (Frank B.) James
(1923–2001)
Suppressed Speech on the 350th
Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Landing
at Plymouth Rock, September 10, 1970
John Winthrop (1588–1649)
A Modell of Christian Charity
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)
The Prologue
In Honour of that High and Mighty
Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy
Memory
An Epitaph on My Dear and
Ever-Honoured Mother Mrs.
Dorothy Dudley
To Her Father with Some Verses
The Flesh and the Spirit
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon
Public Employment
Some Verses upon the Burning of
Our House
As Weary Pilgrim
Letter of Christopher Columbus, 1494 Edition (Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division)
Bradstreet through a
Modern Lens
Rose Murray
Puritan Woman
Mary Rowlandson (1636?–1711)
•The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729)
Preparatory Meditations
Prologue
Meditation 8
Meditation 38
God’s Determinations
The Preface
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly
Attended
Miscellaneous Poems
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Huswifery
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death
Francis Daniel Pastorius
(1651–c. 1719)
Letter Sent from Philadelphia,
May 30, 1698
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
COLONIAL DIARIES AND JOURNALS
Introduction
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)
FROM
The Secret Diary of William Byrd
of Westover
FROM
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
On Sarah Pierpont
Personal Narrative
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
FROM Images or Shadows of
Divine Things
Edwards through a Modern Lens
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
The Diary of Cotton Mather
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727)
The Private Journal of a Journey
from Boston to New York
FROM
• Indicates a complete longer work
Franklin through a Modern Lens
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
The Late Benjamin Franklin
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755)
FROM Some Account of the Fore Part of
the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
John Woolman (1720–1772)
The Journal of John Woolman
Chapter I [Early Life and Vocation]
FROM Chapter III [Business Became
My Burden]
Samson Occom (1723–1792)
A Short Narrative of My Life
American Literature, 1750–1830
Introduction
Comparative Timeline
Print Culture and the Road
to Revolution
Map: The Thirteen Colonies in 1775
Society and Culture in the
New Nation
Map: The Missouri Compromise
Occom through a Modern Lens
James Ottery (b. 1953)
The Diary of Samson Occum
Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the
African, Written by Himself
Chapter 2 [Kidnapping, Enslavement,
and the Middle Passage]
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
The Emergence of American
Literature
“TO BEGIN THE WORLD OVER AGAIN”:
THE EMERGING IDEA OF “AMERICA”
Writing Colonial Lives
Introduction
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
(1735–1813)
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
FROM
William Byrd (1674–1744)
Introduction
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin
FROM Part One
FROM Part Two
Letters from an American Farmer
FROM Letter III, What Is an American?
John Dickinson (1732–1808)
The Liberty Song
Hannah Griffitts (1727–1817)
The Female Patriots
Quaker Meeting in Philadelphia (Courtesy of the Yale University library)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
FROM
Common Sense, 1776
John Adams (1735–1826) and Abigail
Adams (1744–1818)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John
Adams, March 31, 1776
Letter from John Adams to Abigail
Adams, April 14, 1776
Letters from John Adams to Abigail
Adams, July 3, 1776
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Notes on the State of Virginia
Query XVII: The different religions
received into that state?
FROM Query XVIII: The particular
customs and manners that may happen
to be received in that state?
George Washington (1732–1799)
Letter to the Touro Synagogue, Newport,
Rhode Island, 1790
Absalom Jones (1746–1818)
Petition of the People of Colour
Tecumseh (1768–1813)
Speech of Tecumseh to Governor Harrison
Literature for a New Nation
Introduction
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK?”:
CALLS FOR A NATIONAL LITERATURE
Introduction
Royall Tyler (1757–1826)
Prologue to The Contrast
Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)
FROM
The Gleaner, Number 96
Charles Brockden Brown
(1771–1810)
FROM The Preface to The American
Review, and Literary Journal
William Tudor (1779–1830)
FROM
An Essay on American Scenery
Edward Tyrell Channing
(1790–1856)
FROM
On Models in Literature
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
FROM
Notions of the Americans
Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
To Sir Toby
On the Emigration to America
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)
On Being Brought from Africa
to America
To the University of Cambridge, in
New England
To the Right Honourable William,
Earl of Dartmouth
To S. M. a Young African Painter, on
Seeing His Works
A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W.
To His Excellency General Washington
Liberty and Peace, A Poem
Letter to Samson Occom,
February 11, 1774
Wheatley through a Modern Lens
Kevin Young (b. 1970)
Homage to Phillis Wheatley
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
The Sketch Book
The Author’s Account of Himself
The Wife
Rip Van Winkle
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
(1789–1867)
Cacoethes Scribendi
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(1790–1870)
Georgia Scenes
Georgia Theatrics
The Dance
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
Thanatopsis
The Yellow Violet
To a Waterfowl
To Cole, The Painter, Departing
for Europe
The Prairies
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
(1800–1841)
Mishosha, or the Magician and
His Daughters
American Literature, 1830-1865
Introduction
Comparative Timeline
Technology, Transportation, and
the Growth of the Literary
Marketplace
Religion, Immigration, and
Territorial Expansion
Sectionalism and the Coming of
the Civil War
Map: The Compromise of 1850 and the
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Era of Reform
Introduction
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
William Apess (1798–1839)
An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the
White Man
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)
Letter from New-York
[The Trial of Amelia Norman]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Nature
Introduction
Chapter I. Nature
Chapter III. Beauty
Chapter IV. Language
Chapter VII. Spirit
FROM Chapter VIII. Prospects
The American Scholar
•Self-Reliance
Circles
Experience
“I WILL BE HEARD”: THE RHETORIC
OF ANTEBELLUM REFORM
Introduction
David Walker (1785–1830)
An Appeal to the Colored Citizens
of the World
FROM
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
To the Public
Orestes A. Brownson (1803–1876)
FROM
The Laboring Classes
Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
FROM
A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Seneca Falls Woman’s Convention
(July 19–20, 1848)
Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893)
FROM
Woman and Her Needs
Sojourner Truth (1795–1883)
Speech to a Women’s Rights Convention
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Library of Congress)
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
New Year’s Day
Our City Charities
Things and Thoughts in Europe, Number 18
FROM
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
Trials of a Housekeeper
The Seamstress
The Freeman’s Dream: A Parable
Preface to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897)
Letter from a Fugitive Slave [New-York
Tribune, 1853]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Preface by the Author
I. Childhood
VII. The Lover
X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave
Girl’s Life
XIV. Another Link to Life
XVII. The Flight
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
XLI. Free at Last
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Resistance to Civil Government
Walden
FROM Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
The Bean-Field
The Village
Spring
Conclusion
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
•Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave, Written by Himself
American Facts and American Fiction
Introduction
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“COUNTLESS PHENOMENA OF THE
TIMES”: THE ROLE OF THE
PERIODICAL PRESS
Introduction
James Ewell Heath (1792–1862)
Southern Literature, Southern Literary
Messenger
John L. O’Sullivan (1813–1895)
Introduction, The United States
Magazine and Democratic Review
FROM
Frederick Douglass
African American Slave Songs
(1800–1865)
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had
Many Thousand Go
Go Down, Moses
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Steal Away to Jesus
I Thank God I’m Free at Las’
Frederick Douglass (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution/Art Resource, NY)
Slave Songs through a Modern Lens
James Weldon Johnson
(1871–1938)
O Black and Unknown Bards
• Indicates a complete longer work
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Paradise of Bachelors and
the Tartarus of Maids
Donald Grant Mitchell
(Ik Marvel) (1822–1908)
A Bachelor’s Reverie
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
(1823–1902)
Lemorne versus Huell
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879)
Editors’ Table, Godey’s Lady’s Book
• Life in the Iron-Mills
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
Charles F. Briggs (1804–1877)
Introductory, Putnam’s Monthly Magazine
Thomas Hamilton (1822–1865)
Douglass through a Modern Lens
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
Dollars and Dimes
Blackwell’s Island [Numbers I–III]
The “Coming” Woman
Apology, The Anglo-African Magazine
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
The Wives of the Dead
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Birth-Mark
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Purloined Letter
Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis
Parton) (1811–1872)
The Tear of a Wife
The Brothers
New Poetic Voices
Introduction
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
THE AMERICAN MUSE: POETRY AT
MIDCENTURY
Introduction
Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865)
Indian Names
To a Shred of Linen
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
The Rhodora
The Snow-Storm
Hamatreya
Days
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893)
The Unattained
The Drowned Mariner
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
My Lost Youth
John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807–1892)
The Hunters of Men
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
to Her Daughters
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
[Sonnet—to Science]
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911)
The Slave Mother
Ethiopia
Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892)
Here
Captive
“The Harvest Is Past”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Leaves of Grass
Inscriptions
One’s-Self I Sing
•Song of Myself
Children of Adam
Once I Pass’d through a
Populous City
Facing West from
California’s Shores
As Adam Early in the Morning
Calamus
In Paths Untrodden
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
Trickle Drops
City of Orgies
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak
Growing
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
Sea-Drift
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By the Roadside
When I Heard the Learn’d
Astronomer
I Sit and Look Out
The Dalliance of the Eagles
Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field
One Night
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak
Gray and Dim
The Wound-Dresser
Reconciliation
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom’d
Whispers of Heavenly Death
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Songs of Parting
So Long!
Whitman through a Modern Lens
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Old Walt
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
A Supermarket in California
Select Poems (1848) by Lydia Sigourney
(University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Manuscript Version of “These are the days
when Birds come back—” and 1890 Version
130 [Fr122] These are the days when Birds
come back—
49 [Fr39] I never lost as much but twice
67 [Fr112] Success is counted sweetest
84 [Fr121] Her breast is fit for pearls,
185 [Fr202] “Faith” is a fine invention
199 [Fr225] I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that—
211 [Fr205] Come slowly—Eden!
214 [Fr207] I taste a liquor never brewed
216 [Fr124] Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
(1859 and 1861 versions)
241 [Fr339] I like a look of Agony,
249 [Fr269] Wild Nights—
Wild Nights!
252 [Fr312] I can wade Grief—
258 [Fr320] There’s a certain Slant of light,
271 [Fr307] A solemn thing—it was—
I said—
280 [Fr340] I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
288 [Fr260] I’m Nobody! Who are you?
303 [Fr409] The Soul selects her own
Society—
324 [Fr236] Some keep the Sabbath going
to Church—
327 [Fr336] Before I got my eye put out
328 [Fr359] A Bird came down
the Walk—
338 [Fr365] I know that He exists.
341 [Fr372] After great pain, a formal
feeling comes—
357 [Fr615] God is a distant—stately
Lover—
401 [Fr675] What Soft—Cherubic
Creatures—
409 [Fr545] They dropped like Flakes—
435 [Fr620] Much Madness is divinest
Sense
441 [Fr519] This is my letter to the World
444 [Fr524] It feels a shame to be Alive—
448 [Fr446] This was a Poet—It is That
449 [Fr448] I died for Beauty—
but was scarce
465 [Fr591] I heard a Fly buzz—
when I died—
501 [Fr373] This World is not Conclusion.
502 [Fr377] At least—to pray—
is left—is left—
508 [Fr353] I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being
Theirs—
510 [Fr355] It was not Death, for I stood
up,
512 [Fr360] The Soul has Bandaged
moments—
605 [Fr513] The Spider holds a
Silver Ball
632 [Fr598] The Brain—is wider
than the Sky—
640 [Fr706] I cannot live with You—
650 [Fr760] Pain—has an Element
of Blank—
657 [Fr466] I dwell in Possibility—
675 [Fr772] Essential Oils—
are wrung—
709 [Fr788] Publication—is the
Auction
712 [Fr479] Because I could not stop
for Death—
754 [Fr764] My Life had stood—
a Loaded Gun—
883 [Fr930] The Poets light but
Lamps—
986 [Fr1096] A narrow Fellow in
the Grass
1052 [Fr800] I never saw a Moor—
1072 [Fr194] Title divine—is mine!
1078 [Fr1108] The Bustle in a House
1082 [Fr1044] Revolution is the Pod
1129 [Fr1263] Tell all the Truth but tell
it slant—
1463 [Fr1489] A Route of Evanescence
1545 [Fr1577] The Bible is
an antique Volume—
1624 [Fr1668] Apparently with
no surprise
1651 [Fr1715] A Word made Flesh
is seldom
1732 [Fr1773] My life closed twice before
its close—
1737 [Fr267] Rearrange a “Wife’s”
affection!
1739 [Fr586] Some say goodnight—
at night—
1760 [Fr1590] Elysium is as far as to
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
The House-top
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
The Gettysburg Address,
November 19, 1863
Second Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1865
Letters
Exchange with Susan Gilbert
Dickinson, summer 1861
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
7 June 1862
Dickinson through a Modern Lens
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)
FROM A Memorial Discourse
[Delivered February 12, 1865]
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
(1823–1886)
A Diary from Dixie, April 19–22, 1865
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
The Death of Lincoln
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
(1836–1919)
Arlington Heights
Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
The Charleston Ode
Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911)
Learning to Read
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
FROM
Memoranda during the War
Index of Authors and Titles
“I Am in Danger—Sir—”
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
A Poet in the House
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY”:
THE MEANINGS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Introduction
John Brown (1800–1859)
Last Speech, December 2, 1859
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889)
Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861
Civil War Songs
Dixie’s Land
John Brown’s Body
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
Men of Color, to Arms!
John Steuart Curry, Tragic Prelude (Kansas State Historical Society)
• Indicates a complete longer work
The Bedford Anthology of American Literature
VOLUME TWO: 1865 TO THE PRESENT
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
Chickamauga
Henry James (1843–1916)
• Daisy Miller
The Real Thing
Zola
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Eros Turannos
The Mill
Mr. Flood’s Party
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
A White Heron
American Literature, 1865–1914 *
Introduction
The Aftermath of the Civil War
Comparative Timeline
Expansion, Industrialization, and
the Emergence of Modern America
Map: Immigrants to the United States,
1900
Innovation, Technology, and the
Literary Marketplace
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904)
Recent American Novels
Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934)
FROM
The American Element in Fiction
Henry James (1843–1916)
FROM
The Art of Fiction
Anonymous (A “Lady from
Philadelphia”)
FROM
The Coming American Novelist
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
FROM
Criticism and Fiction
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)
Literary Emancipation of the West
Realism, Regionalism, and
Naturalism
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
Introduction
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
(1835–1910)
FROM
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
A New England Nun
Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
At the ’Cadian Ball
The Storm: A Sequel to the ’Cadian Ball
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
The Passing of Grandison
Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930)
“As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our
Mother’s Children”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860–1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)
A Plea for Romantic Fiction
A Ghetto Wedding
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“THE AMERICA OF THE MIND”:
CRITICS, WRITERS, AND THE
REPRESENTATION OF REALITY
Introduction
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823–1911)
FROM
A Plea for Culture
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
Editha
*Selected Works of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson is available to package for free with Volume Two. It features the same collection
of works by each author and accompanying editorial apparatus that is included in Volume One.
A Deal in Wheat
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as
I heard It
Old Times on the Mississippi, sections I–III
The Private History of a Campaign that
Failed
The War Prayer
Mark Twain (Library of Congress)
The Other Two
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)
(1865–1914)
In the Land of the Free
Mary Austin (1868–1934)
The Basket Maker
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869–1935)
The House on the Hill
Luke Havergal
• The Open Boat
The Black Riders and Other Lines
I [Black riders came from the sea.]
III [In the desert]
X [Should the wide world roll away]
XIV [There was a crimson clash of war.]
XIX [A god in wrath]
XXIV [I saw a man pursuing the
horizon]
XLVI [I was in darkness;]
[Many red devils ran from my heart]
FROM
War Is Kind
I [Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.]
XXI [A man said to the universe;]
FROM Uncollected Poems
[A man adrift on a slim spar]
FROM
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
Butcher Rogaum’s Door
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
An Ante-bellum Sermon
We Wear the Mask
Sympathy
Willa Cather (1873–1947)
A Wagner Matinée
Jack London (1876–1916)
The Law of Life
Writing “American” Lives
Introduction
José Martí (1853–1895)
Impressions of America, I and III
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
(1844–1891)
Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs
and Claims
FROM Chapter 1: First Meeting of
Piutes and Whites
The School Days of an Indian Girl
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
Up from Slavery
Chapter 14: The Atlanta Exposition
Address
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“MAKE IT NEW”: POETS ON POETRY
Introduction
Harriet Monroe (1860–1936)
The Motive of the Magazine
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
The Souls of Black Folk
I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
and Others
Henry Adams (1838–1918)
The Education of Henry Adams
Preface
Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and
the Virgin
The Promised Land
FROM Chapter 9: The Promised Land
FROM
A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
The New Manner in Modern Poetry
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
FROM
Tradition and the Individual Talent
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
The Preface to The Book of
American Negro Poetry
FROM
Mina Loy (1882–1966)
FROM
Modern Poetry
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
The Negro Artist and the Racial
Mountain
American Literature, 1914–1945
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
Introduction
Art and Society in the Era of the
Great War
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Comparative Timeline
• Indicates a complete longer work
Modernisms in American Poetry
Introduction
Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons
Bonnin) (1876–1938)
Mary Antin (1881–1949)
Hester Street, NY, 1903 (National Archives)
From the Great Depression to
World War II
American Culture in the 1920s
Map: The Great Migration, 1914–1930
FROM
Modern Poetry
The Figure a Poem Makes
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Introduction to The Wedge
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
The Creation
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
The Taxi
Aubade
Venus Transiens
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
A Decade
Meeting-House Hill
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Mending Wall
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
“Out, Out — ”
The Oven Bird”
Fire and Ice
Design
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desert Places
The Gift Outright
Georgia Douglas Johnson
(1877–1966)
The Heart of a Woman
Black Woman
Cosmopolite
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Chicago
The Harbor
Graceland
A Fence
Fog
Prayers of Steel
Cool Tombs
Grass
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
Sunday Morning
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Death of a Soldier
Anecdote of the Jar
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
The Idea of Order at Key West
Of Modern Poetry
The Plain Sense of Things
Mina Loy (1882–1966)
FROM Cathay
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Taking Leave of a Friend
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
Oread
Garden
Mid-day
Sheltered Garden
Leda
Helen
Portrait d’une Femme
A Virginal
The Return
A Pact
The Rest
In a Station of the Metro [First Version]
In a Station of the Metro [Final Version]
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• The Waste Land
The Journey of the Magi
Burnt Norton
The Harlem Dancer
If We Must Die
The Lynching
America
Africa
Outcast
Love Songs
Tract
The Young Housewife
Danse Russe
Portrait of a Lady
Willow Poem
Queen-Anne’s-Lace
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
The Great Figure
Spring and All
To Elsie
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
These
A Sort of a Song
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Edna St. Vincent Millay by
Arnold Genthe (Corbis)
First Fig
Second Fig
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.]
[I, being born a woman and distressed]
[Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!]
To Inez Milholland
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
Poetry [First Version]
Poetry [Final Version]
The Fish
A Grave
To a Snail
What Are Years ?
Jun Fujita (1888–1963)
Diminuendo
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago River
My Sister
[in Just-]
[Buffalo Bill ’s]
[the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls]
[“next to of course god america i]
[my sweet old etcetera]
[sing of Olaf glad and big]
[you shall above all things be glad and
young.]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
[thank You God for most this amazing]
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
Testimony
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
Voyages I–VI
To Brooklyn Bridge
The Broken Tower
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
Ma Rainey
Strong Men
Tin Roof Blues
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
Jazzonia
I, Too
The Weary Blues
Cross
Down and Out
Brass Spittoons
Angels Wings
Mulatto
Afro-American Fragment
Christ in Alabama
Dream Boogie
Harlem
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Heritage
From the Dark Tower
The Emergence of Modern
American Drama
Introduction
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)
•Trifles
Blood Burning Moon
Seventh Street
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
•The Emperor Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Ice Palace
At Home and Abroad: American
Fiction between the Wars
John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
1919—Two Portraits
Vag
Introduction
William Faulkner (1897–1962)
That Evening Sun
Barn Burning
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE GREAT
DEPRESSION: AMERICAN WRITERS AND
THE CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Introduction
John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
Big Two-Hearted River
Flight
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
FROM
Apology for Crudity
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
FROM
A Mirror for Artists, in I’ll Take My
Stand
Michael Gold (1893–1967)
FROM Proletarian Realism
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
FROM
Characteristics of Negro Expression
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
FROM Winesburg, Ohio
The Book of the Grotesque
Hands
Paper Pills
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
The Writer as Technician
The Gilded Six-Bits
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
FROM
Blueprint for Negro Writing
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Ada
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
Picasso
• Indicates a complete longer work
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Almos’ a Man
Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
Composition as Explanation
Donald Davidson (1893–1968)
FROM
Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer (Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Sanctuary
María Cristina Mena (1893–1965)
The Vine Leaf
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
FROM Cane
Portrait in Georgia
A Worn Path
Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)
The End of the War
American Literature Since 1945
Introduction
Comparative Timeline
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Introduction
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
My Papa’s Waltz
Cuttings
Cuttings (later)
Root Cellar
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
The Far Field
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
Sestina
The Armadillo
Brazil, January 1. 1502
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
• Portrait of a Madonna
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
Middle Passage
Tillie Olsen (1912?–2007)
I Stand Here Ironing
John Berryman (1914–1972)
FROM The Dream Songs
1 [Huffy Henry hid the day,]
4 [Filling her compact & delicious
body]
14 [Life, friends, is boring. We must
not say so.]
26 [The glories of the world struck
me, made me aria, once.]
45 [He stared at ruin. Ruin stared
straight back.]
77 [Seedy Henry rose up shy in de
world]
384 [The marker slants, flowerless,
day’s almost done,]
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994)
The Invisible Man
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
The First Seven Years
Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
Looking for Mr. Green
Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
•Death of a Salesman
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
FROM A Street in Bronzeville
kitchenette building
the mother
a song in the front yard
the preacher: ruminates behind
the sermon
The Bean Eaters
We Real Cool
Malcolm X
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Diving into the Wreck
Power
John Updike (b. 1932)
A&P
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
She Unnames Them
• Dutchman
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap
Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant
Hills, Your Body
Wave
Axe Handles
Ripples on the Surface
Coal
The Woman Thing
Black Mother Woman
Stations
Don DeLillo (b. 1936)
Videotape
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)
The School
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
American History
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Martin’s Blues
“Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis
Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
Seventeen Syllables
Are These Actual Miles?
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)
Notes of a Native Son
El sonavabitche
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Everyday Use
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
• Howl
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946)
The Things They Carried
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
The One Thing That Can Save America
My Erotic Double
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
One Coat of Paint
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
The Sandbox
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Trying to Talk with a Man
Copies of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” on display at City Lights
Bookstore, San Francisco, CA (Kim Kulish/Corbis)
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Morning Song
Blackberrying
Mirror
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Yellow Woman
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
New Orleans
Anchorage
If You Look with the Mind of the
Swirling Earth
The Land Is a Poem
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
David Walker
The House Slave
Kentucky, 1833
Canary
History
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
Mericans
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Bully
Latin Night at the Pawnshop
Federico’s Ghost
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
AMERICAN CONTEXTS
“INVENTING THE TRUTH”: THE
CONTEMPORARY MEMOIR
Introduction
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
FROM
The Names: A Memoir
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
FROM The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of
a Girlhood among Ghosts
Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
FROM
An American Childhood
David Mamet (b. 1947)
The Rake: Scenes from My Childhood
bell hooks (b. 1952)
FROM Bone Black: Memories
of Girlhood
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
Like Mexicans
Editorial Advisory Board for
The Bedford Anthology of American Literature
Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts University
AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman’s University
Stephanie Browner, Berea College
Lisa Logan, University of Central Florida
Donna Campbell, Washington State
University
Richard Millington, Smith College
David J. Carlson, California State University,
San Bernardino
David Chinitz, University of Loyola, Chicago
Matt Cohen, Duke University
Pattie Cowell, Colorado State University
Linda Morris, University of California, Davis
Barbara Packer, University of California, Los
Angeles
Venetria Patton, Purdue University
Sarah Robbins, Kennesaw State University
Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Paul Sorrentino, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Paul Crumbley, Utah State University
Michael Soto, Trinity University
Willliam Merrill Decker, Oklahoma State
University
Nicholas Spencer, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston State
University
Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock
Thomas C. Gannon, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts,
Boston
Sharon M. Harris, University of Connecticut
Susan S. Williams, Ohio State University
“Susan Belasco and Linck Johnson
have done a fine job conceptualizing a
kind of American literature anthology
not currently available. Their focused
attention to reading, writing, and print
culture will remind students (and all
of us) of the significance of literature
as a way of knowing. As I read I also
considered whether the introductory
American survey I teach would need
significant revision if I were to use an
anthology like this one. I found I could
teach my course with their book.”
—Pattie Cowell
Colorado State University
About the Editors
Susan Belasco
(B.A., Baylor University; Ph.D.,
Texas A&M University),
professor of English and
women’s studies at the
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, has taught courses in
writing and American literature at several
institutions since 1974, including McLennan
Community College; Allegheny College;
California State University, Los Angeles; and
the University of Tulsa. The editor of Margaret
Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes and Fanny Fern’s
Ruth Hall, she is also the coeditor of three
collections of essays: Approaches to Teaching
Stowe’s UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, Periodical Literature
in Nineteenth-Century America, and LEAVES OF
GRASS: The Sesquicentennial Essays. The editor of
“Walt Whitman’s Periodical Poetry” for the Walt
Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org), she is
the current president of the Research Society for
American Periodicals.
Linck Johnson
(B.A., Cornell University;
Ph.D., Princeton University),
the Charles A. Dana Professor
of English at Colgate University,
has taught courses in writing
and American literature and
culture since 1974. He is the author of
Thoreau’s Complex Weave: The Writing of “A
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,”
with the Text of the First Draft, the Historical
Introduction to A Week in the Princeton
University Press edition of the Writings of
Henry D. Thoreau, and numerous articles
and contributions to books. The recipient of
a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship at the American Antiquarian
Society, he is a member of the Editorial
Board of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo
Emerson (Harvard University Press) and
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
“I admire this anthology
a great deal. But what
recommends it, finally, is
not simply its economies
but the acuity of its choices,
the unobtrusive depth
of its learning, and its
pedagogical and historical
imaginativeness.”
— Richard Millington
Smith College