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The Teachable Alternative Volume One: Beginnings to 1865 $39.00 net Available Now Paperbound, 1389 pages ISBN-10: 0–312–48299–X ISBN-13: 978–0–312–48299–2 Volume Two: 1865 to the Present $39.00 net Available February 2008 Paperbound, 1400 pages ISBN-10: 0–312–41208–8 “With this anthology, unlike many others, I can see myself teaching almost everything included here.” — Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy ISBN-13: 978–0–312–41208–1 Radford University Package of Volumes One and Two $46.00 net Available February 2008 ISBN-10: 0–312–41209–6 ISBN-13: 978–0–312–41209–8 For maximum flexibility in course planning and a pleasurable reading experience Bedford College Editions — The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, Benito Cereno, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — can be economically packaged with the anthology. First volume (a $5 value) packaged for free; subsequent volumes packaged for $3 net. 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