Part One　The Colonial Period 1. Benjamin Franklin ……………………………………………………………1 Autobiography ……………………………………………………………………2 2. Anne Bradstreet ………………………………………………………………6 To My Dear and Loving Husband …………………………………………………7 3. Philip Freneau …………………………………………………………………9 The Wild Honey Suckle ……………………………………………………… 10 4. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ………………………………………… 13 Letters from an American Farmer ……………………………………………… 14 5. Thomas Jefferson …………………………………………………………… 19 Declaration of Independence …………………………………………………… 20 Part Two　The Romantic Period 6. Washington Irving ………………………………………………………… 23 Rip Van Winkle ………………………………………………………………… 24 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne ……………………………………………………… 37 Young Goodman Brown ……………………………………………………… 38 8. Walt Whitman ……………………………………………………………… 55 Song of Myself ………………………………………………………………… 56 O Captain! My Captain! ……………………………………………………… 58 9. Emily Dickinson …………………………………………………………… 61 I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died — ………………………………………… 62 Because I Could Not Stop for Death — ………………………………………… 62 Wild Nights — Wild Nights! …………………………………………………… 63 A Bird, Came down the Walk — ……………………………………………… 64 This Is My Letter to the World ………………………………………………… 65 I Know That He Exists. ………………………………………………………… 65 10. Edgar Allan Poe …………………………………………………………… 67 Annabel Lee …………………………………………………………………… 68 11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ………………………………………… 71 The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls ………………………………………………… 72 The Arrow and the Song ……………………………………………………… 74 Part Three　American Realism 12. Mark Twain ………………………………………………………………… 76 Running for Governor ………………………………………………………… 77 13. Bret Harte …………………………………………………………………… 84 The Luck of Roaring Camp ………………………………………………… 85 14. Kate Chopin ………………………………………………………………… 97 The Story of an Hour ………………………………………………………… 98 15. Theodore Dreiser …………………………………………………………102 Sister Carrie ……………………………………………………………………104 16. Jack London ………………………………………………………………114 Love of Life ……………………………………………………………………116 17. Edwin Arlington Robinson ………………………………………………138 Richard Cory …………………………………………………………………139 Miniver Cheevy ………………………………………………………………141 Part Four　Modern American Literature 18. Ezra Pound …………………………………………………………………145 In a Station of the Metro ………………………………………………………146 19. Robert Frost…………………………………………………………………148 The Road Not Taken …………………………………………………………149 20. William Carlos Williams …………………………………………………152 The Red Wheelbarrow …………………………………………………………153 This Is Just to Say ………………………………………………………………154 21. Carl Sandburg ……………………………………………………………156 Fog ……………………………………………………………………………157 22. Wallace Stevens ……………………………………………………………159 Anecdote of the Jar ……………………………………………………………160 23. Edward Estlin Cummings ………………………………………………162 (Me up at does) …………………………………………………………………164 24. Francis Scott Fitzgerald …………………………………………………165 The Great Gatsby ………………………………………………………………166 25. Ernest Hemingway ………………………………………………………173 Cat in the Rain …………………………………………………………………175 26. William Faulkner …………………………………………………………179 A Rose for Emily ………………………………………………………………181 27. Langston Hughes …………………………………………………………192 The Negro Speaks of Rivers ……………………………………………………194 As I Grew Older ………………………………………………………………195 I, Too, Sing America ……………………………………………………………197 Ballad of the Landlord …………………………………………………………197 28. Sherwood Anderson ………………………………………………………200 The Egg ………………………………………………………………………202