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

    IDied 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 the Jar

    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  Washingtonlrving

    Rip Van Winkle

  Chapter 2 James Fenimore Cooper

    The Last of the Mohicans

  Chapter 3  EdgarAllan 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

    Winesburg, Ohio

  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  SaulBellow

    Herzog

  Chapter 3  Jerome David Salinger

    The Cather in the Rye

  Chapter 4  JackKerouac

    On the Road

  Chapter 5  Kurt Vonnegut

  Chapter 6  FlanneryO'Connor

  Chapter 7  Thomas Pynchon

  Chapter 8  John Updike

  Chapter9  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