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AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

James Fenimore Cooper

 The Last Mohicans, Chap. 12 (excerpt)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Nature, Introduction, Chap. 1 (excerpt)

 The American Scholar, Part 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 The Minister's Black Veil

Edgar Allan Poe

 —To Helen

 The Masque of the Red Death

Henry David Thoreau

 Walden, or Life in the Woods, Economy (excerpt)

 Where I lived, and What I Lived for

Walt Whitman

 Song of Myself, 1, 6, 16, 17, 24, 42, 51, 52

 Come up from the Fields, Father

 O Captain! My Captain!

Herman Melville

 Moby Dick, Chaps. 36, 42

Emily Dickinson

 Because I Could Not Stop for Death

 I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died

 A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

 Elysium Is as Far as to

 We Learned the Whole of Love

 My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

 Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant

AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN 1865-1914

Marh Twain

 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chap 19

Henry ,lames

 Daisy Miller, Part 3

Kale ChOPin

 The Story of an Hour

Stephen Crane

 The Red Badge of Courage, Chaps. 9, 24

AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN THE TWO WARS: 1914-1945

Robert Frost

 Mending Wall

 The Road Not Taken

 Fire and Ice

 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

 Birches

Sherwood Anderson

 Hands

William Carlos Williams

 The Red Wheelbarrow

 Spring and All

 This Is Just to Say

 The Dance

Ezra Pound

 In a Station of the Metro

 L'Art, 1910

 A Pact

 The River—Merchant's Wife: A Letter

F. scott Fltzgeraid

 The Great Gatsby, Chap. 9

Eilliam Fauilmer

 A Rose for Emily

Eraeat Hemingaway

 The Killers

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1945-

J.D. Salinger

 The Catcher in the Rye, Chap. 22

Joseph Hellor

 Catch-22, Chap. 5 (excerpt)

Allen Ginsberg

 How1

M. scott Memaday

 House Made of Dawn, Prologue; Part 1, Chap. 1

Teal Morrlson

 Beloved, Part 1, Chap. 5

Raymond Carver

 So Much Water So Close to Home

Maxine Hong Kingston

 The Woman Warrior, Part 1

William Gibson

 Neuromancer, Part 1, Chap. 1(excerpt)