1 Colonial and Revolutionary Period(1608-1800)

2 Benjamin Franklin/From The Autobiography

3 The Romantic Period(1800-1865)

4 Washington lrving/From Rip Van Winkle

5 Wlliam Cullen Bryant/Thanatopsis

6 Edgar Allan Poe/Annable Lee

7 Nathaniel Hawthome/From Dr.Heidegger s Experiment

8 Ralph Waldo Emerson/From Self-Reliance

9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/My Lost Youth

10 Walt Whitman/I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out

11 Emily Dickinson/1.Success 2.I m Nobody!Who Are You? 3. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-

12 The Realistic Period(1865-1900)

13 Mark Twain/From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

14 O.Henry/The Gift of the Magi

15 The Modern Period(1900-the Present)

16 Edwin Arlington Robinson/Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy

17 Carl Sandburg/I Am The People,The Mob Chicago

18 T.S.Eliot/The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

19 F.Scott Fitzgerald/From The Great Gatsby

20 John Steinbeck/From The Grapes of Wrath

21 Ernest Hemingway/In Another Country

22 Robert Frost/Mending Wall The Road Not Taken

23 William Carlos Williams/The Red Wheelbarrow

24 langston Hughes/Dreams The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Glossary of Literary Terms

Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature

Answer Key to Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature

Reference Books