Chapter 1 The Literature of Early and Revolutionary Periods I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period II. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richards Almanac (Excerpt) III. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence IV. Philip Freneau The Wild Honey Suckle Chapter 2 The Literature of Romanticism I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period II. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl III. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (Excerpt) Self-Reliance (Excerpt) IV. Henry David Thoreau Walden (Excerpt) V. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (Excerpt) Young Goodman Brown VI. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven (Excerpt) To Helen Annabel Lee VII. Herman Melville Moby-Dick (Excerpt) VIII. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life IX. Walt Whitman Inscriptions Song of Myself (Excerpt) O Captain! My Captain Cavalry Crossing a Ford X. Emily Dickinson Success Theres a Certain Slant of Light Im Nobody! Who Are you? A Bird Came down the Walk After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes Much Madness Is Divine Sense I Died for Beauty——But Was Scarce I Like to See It Lap the Miles I Dwell in Possibility Because I Could Not Stop for Death I Never Saw a Moor Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant There Is No Frigate like a Book A Route of Evanescence To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clove and One Bee Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period II. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Excerpt) III. Henry lames Daisy Miller (Excerpt) IV. lack London The Law of Life V. Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie (Excerpt) VI. Kate Chopin The Awakening (Excerpt) The Story of an Hour VII. O. Henry The Last Leaf The Cop and the Anthem VIII. Stephen Crane The Open Boat Chapter 4 The Modem Period I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period II. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro A Pact III. Robert Frost Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Fire and Ice Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Acceptance Design Nothing Gold Can Stay IV. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman (Excerpt) V. Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (Excerpt) VI. Iohn Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (Excerpt) VII. Eugene ONeill The Hairy Ape (Excerpt) VIII. William Faulkner A Rose for Emily IX. Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place X. F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (Excerpt) XI. Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio (Excerpt) XII. Joseph Heller Catch-22 (Excerpt) References