Poetry

Part 1 American Poetry of the Colonial Period:The Poetry of Elizabethan Initiative , Ingenuity , and Democracy

Chapter 1 Anne Bradstreet

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Chapter 2 Philip Freneau

The Wild Honey Suckle

The Indian Burying Ground

Part 2 American Poetry of Romantic Period:The Witness of Growth,Independence and Originality

Chapter 1 William Cullen Bryant

To a Waterfowl

Chapter 2 Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen

Annabel Lee

Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls

Chapter 4 Walt Whitman

O Captain!My Captain!

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

I Hear America Singing

Chapter 5 Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Success

Wild Nights-Wild Nights

I Died for Beauty

I Heard a Fly buzz-When I died-

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Part 3 American Poetry of the Modernist Period:The Search for Impersonality,Objectivity and Distillation

Chapter 1 Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

Chapter 2 Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Fire and Ice

Chapter 3 Stephen Crane

Black Riders Came from the Sea

A Man Said to the Universe

Chapter 4 Carl Sandburg

Fog

Grass

Chapter 5 Wallace Stevens

Anecdote of theJar

The Snow Man

Chapter 6 William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow

Chapter 7 Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

A Pact

Chapter 8 Hilda Doolittle

Oread

Helen

Chapter 9 Edward Estlin Cummings

L(a

Part 4 American Poetry of Contemporary Times:The Disruption of Authority;the Coming of All-embracing

Chapter 1 James Mercer Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Dreams

words like Freedom

Warning

Chapter 2 Theodore Huebner Roethke

My Papa's Waltz

Chapter 3 Elizabeth Bishop

The Fish

Chapter 4 The Confessional School:Robert Lowell

Skunk Hour

Chapter 5 The Beat School:Allen Ginsberg

Novel

Part 1 American Novel of Romanticism Period:The Concern for Humanitarian Reforms and National Morality

Chapter 1 Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle

Chapter 2 James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Chapter 3 Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Chapter 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlet Letter

Chapter 5 Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Part 2 American Novel of Realism Period:The Rendering of the Ordinary,Commonplace and the Low

Chapter 1 Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 2 Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

Part 3 American Novel of Naturalism Period:Dismissing the Validity of Comforting Moral Truths and Presenting the Extreme Life

Chapter 1 Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

Chapter 2 Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

Chapter 3 Frank Norris

Chapter 4 Sherwood Anderson

WinesburgOhio

Chapter 5 Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Part 4 American Novel of Modernism Period:The Experience of Horrors and the Lost in Faith

Chapter 1 Willa Cather

Chapter 2 Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

Chapter 3 Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Chapter 4 William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Chapter 5 Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Chapter 6 John Ernst Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Part 5 American Novel Since 1945:The Normalization of Chaos and Absurdity

Chapter 1 Vladimir Nabokov

Chapter 2 Saul Bellow

Herzog

Chapter 3 Jerome David Salinger

The Cather in the Rye

Chapter 4 Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Chapter 5 Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 6 Flannery O'Connor

Chapter 7 Thomas Pynchon

Chapter 8 John Updike

Chapter 9 Ken Kesey

Part 6 American Multiethnic Novel Since 1945:Boiling of the Melting Pot

Chapter 1 Richard Wright

Chapter 2 Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Chapter 3 Alex Haley

Chapter 4 Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Chapter 5 Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior

Chapter 6 Alice Walker

Drama

American Drama:The Critical Perception of the Changing Society and Life

Chapter 1 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Chapter 2 Thomas Lanier Williams Ⅲ

Chapter 3 Arthur Asher Miller

Chapter 4 Edward Franklin Albee Ⅲ

Essay

American Essay:The Recording of Truth and Times

Chapter 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

Chapter 2 Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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