●Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colonial Period
1.1An Introduction
1.2Anne Bradstreet
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
1.3Edward Taylor
"Huswifery1"
Chapter 2 The Literature of the Revolutionary Period
2.1An Introduction
2.2Benjamin Franklin
An Excerpt from Chapter Ⅷ of The Autobiography
2.3Patrick Henry
Speech in the Virginia Convention
2.4Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Chapter 3 The Literature of the Romantic Period
3.1An Introduction
3.2Washington Irving
An Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle
3.3Edgar Allan Poe
"To Helen1"
"Annabel Lee1"
3.4Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.5Henry David Thoreau
An Excerpt from Walden
3.6Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chapter 23 from The Scarlet Letter
3.7Herman Melville
An Excerpt from Chapter 41 of Moby?Dick
3.8Abraham Lincoln
3.9Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A Psalm of Life"
Excerpts from "Song of Myself 1"
3.10.3"I Hear America Singing"
3.11Emily Dickinson
"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?1"
"Success Is Counted Sweetest"
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Chapter 4 The Literature of the Realistic Period
4.1An Introduction
4.2Mark Twain
An Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Huckleberry Finn
4.3O. Henry
"The Cop and the Anthem"
4.4Henry James
An Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Portrait of a Lady
4.5Theodore Dreiser
An Excerpt from Chapter 47 of Sister Carrie
4.6Robert Frost
"Fire and Ice"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
4.7Willa Cather
4.8Sherwood Anderson
4.9Katherine Anne Porter
Chapter 5 The Literature of the Modernist Period
5.1An Introduction
5.2Ezra Pound
"In a Station of the Metro1"
"A Pact"
5.3William Carlos Williams
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"Spring and All"
5.4Langston Hughes
"Dreams"
"Cross1"
5.5E. E. Cummings
"Your Little Voice"
5.6Ernest Hemingway
"Indian Camp"
5.7F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby
5.8William Faulkner
5.9Eugene O'Neill
An Excerpt from ACT 2, SCENE II of Long Day's Journey into Night
Chapter 6 The Literature since World War Ⅱ
6.1An Introduction
6.2Saul Bellow
An Excerpt from Seize the Day
6.3Arthur Miller
An Excerpt from Act II of The Death of a Salesman
6.4J. D. Salinger
An Excerpt from Chapter 21 of The Catcher in the Rye
6.5Elizabeth Bishop
6.6Robert Lowell
6.7Theodore Roethke
6.8Allen Ginsberg
An Excerpt from "Howl"
6.9Sylvia Plath
6.10Robert Hayden
Appendix ⅠSample Test Paper
Appendix ⅡAcknowledgment
Key（參考答案）
內容簡介
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