The Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th edition)
[edited by Paul Lauter et al., published by Wadsworth, 2006]
Volume C: Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1910)
Publishing and Writing
Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Women
Circumstances and Literary Achievements of African Americans
Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Native Americans
Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Mexican Americans
Circumstances and Literary Achievements of Asian Americans
Immigration, Urban Conditions, and Reform
Nation, Regions, Borders
African American Folktales
Animal Tales
----------- When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race
----------- Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit
----------- How Sandy Got His Meat
----------- Who Ate Up the Butter?
----------- Fox and Rabbit in the Well
----------- The Signifying Monkey
Memories of Slavery
----------- Malitis
----------- The Flying Africans
Conjure Stories
----------- Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida
John and Old Marster
----------- Master Disguised
----------- The Diviner
----------- Massa and the Bear
----------- Baby in the Crib
----------- John Steals a Pig and a Sheep
----------- Talking Bones
----------- Old Boss Wants into Heaven
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
from Roughing It
----------- Chapter XLVIII, Buck Fanshaw's Funeral
A True Story
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
from The Autobiography of Mark Twain
----------- Chapter 4
----------- As Regards Patriotism
The War Prayer
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
----------- Chapter II, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
----------- Chapter IV, How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches
----------- Free Joe and the Rest of the World
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
What Is a White Man?
The Goophered Grapevine
The Passing of Grandison
The Wife of His Youth
Cluster: Literacy, Literature, and Democracy in Postbellum America
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Learning to Read
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
How to Write a Letter
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
from Criticism and Fiction
Editor's Easy Chair
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
----------- Notice and Explanatory
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
The Western Association of Writers
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
Review of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
Preface to Contending Forces
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
from Journal
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker
from Lyrics of Lowly Life
----------- Frederick Douglass
----------- An Ante-Bellum Sermon
----------- We Wear the Mask
----------- When Malindy Sings
from Lyrics of the Hearthside
----------- Sympathy
George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
'Tite Poulette
Grace King (1852-1932)
The Little Convent Girl
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Sister Josepha
Ghost Dance Song
Ghost Dance Songs
Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
Ode to Sequoyah
Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo
Fus Fixico's Letter Number 44
John Milton Oskison (1874-1947)
The Problem of Old Harjo
Corridos
Kiansis I/Kansas I
Gregorio Cortez
Jacinto Treviño
Hijo Desobediente/The Disobedient Son
Recordando al Presidente/Remembering the President
Corrido de César Chávez/Ballad of César Chávez
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895)
from The Squatter and the Don
----------- Chapter 5, The Don in His Broad Acres
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
from The Editor's Study
Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune
Mary E. Wilkins's Short Stories
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
Editha
Henry James (1843-1916)
Daisy Miller: A Study
The Art of Fiction
The Jolly Corner
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Désirée's Baby
The Awakening
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Chickamauga
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Up the Coulé: A Story of Wisconsin
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A Mystery of Heroism
The Open Boat
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
from The Black Riders and Other Lines
----------- God Lay Dead in Heaven
from War Is Kind
----------- Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
----------- The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart
----------- A Man Said to the Universe
----------- A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices
----------- There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood
from Uncollected Poems
----------- Chant You Loud of Punishments
Jack London (1876-1916)
South of the Slot
Critical Visions of Postbellum America
Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908)
What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark
Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)
from The Soul of the Indian
----------- Chapter I, The Great Mystery
from From the Deep Woods to Civilization
----------- Chapter VII, The Ghost Dance War
Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891)
from Life Among the Piutes
----------- Chapter I, First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Aunt Chloe's Politics
The Martyr of Alabama
A Double Standard
Songs for the People
Woman's Political Future
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Turned
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
The Wanderers
The Popularity of Firemen
The Piano in the Parlor
Immigration
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
The Jungle
----------- from Chapter II
----------- from Chapter IX
----------- from Chapter XI
----------- from Chapter XII
----------- from Chapter XIV
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
----------- Chapter VI, The Virgin of Chartres
from The Education of Henry Adams
----------- Chapter XXV, The Dynamo and the Virgin
Developments in Women's Writing
Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900)
from A Brand Plucked from the Fire
----------- Chapter XVII, My Call to Preach the Gospel
----------- Chapter XIX, Public Effort-Excommunication
----------- Chapter XX, Women in the Gospel
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
My Contraband
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
Circumstance
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
Miss Grief
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
A White Heron
Martha's Lady
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
A New England Nun
The Revolt of "Mother"
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
from Contending Forces
----------- Chapter VIII, The Sewing Circle
----------- Chapter XIV, Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League
A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth- Century American Women
Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1894)
Giving Back the Flower
Shapes of a Soul
The Palace-Burner
We Two
His Mother's Way
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Goddess of Liberty, Answer
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
Love and the Witches
Sophie Jewett (1861-1909)
Entre Nous
Armistice
I Speak Your Name
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913)
The Camper
The Corn Husker
The Indian Corn Planter
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953)
The Wood-Chopper to His Ax
The Cross and the Pagan
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
I Sit and Sew
You! Inez!
The Proletariat Speaks
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959)
Behold the Lillies
The Making of "Americans"
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
from Yekl
----------- Chapter 4, The Meeting
----------- Chapter 9, The Parting
----------- Chapter 10, A Defeated Victor
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914)
Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
from Mrs. Spring Fragrance
----------- In the Land of the Free
Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875-1954)
A Half Caste
Mary Austin (1868-1934)
from Earth Horizon
----------- Chapter III
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa, Sioux) (1876-1938)
from The School Days of an Indian Girl
----------- Chapter I, The Land of Red Apples
----------- Chapter II, The Cutting of My Long Hair
----------- Chapter III, The Snow Episode
----------- Chapter VI, Four Strange Summers
----------- Chapter VII, Incurring My Mother's Displeasure
Why I Am a Pagan
Mary Antin (1881-1949)
from The Promised Land
----------- from Chapter IX
José Martí (1853-1895)
Our America
Volume D: Modern Period (1910-1945)
The Centers of the Modern
Modernism and the Self
Modernism and the New Negro Renaissance
Modernism and the South
Modernism, Popular Culture, and the Media
Toward the Modern Age
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
from Up from Slavery
----------- Chapter I, A Slave Among Slaves
----------- Chapter III, The Struggle for an Education
----------- Chapter VI, Black Race and Red Race
----------- Chapter XIII, Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech
----------- Chapter XIV, The Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
from The Souls of Black Folk
----------- Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings
----------- Chapter III, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
----------- Chapter XIV, Of the Sorrow Songs
The Song of the Smoke
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Lift Every Voice and Sing
O Black and Unknown Bards
from Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
----------- Chapter X
The Creation
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
The Clerks
Aunt Imogen
Momus
Eros Turannos
The Tree in Pamela's Garden
Mr. Flood's Party
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
The Professional Instinct
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
The Valley of Childish Things
Souls Belated
The Other Two
The Life Apart (L'âme close)
The Eyes
Roman Fever
Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
from Spoon River Anthology
----------- Petit, the Poet
----------- Seth Compton
----------- Lucinda Matlock
----------- The Village Atheist
from The New Spoon River
----------- Cleanthus Trilling
from Lichee Nuts
----------- Ascetics and Drunkards
----------- Great Audiences and Great Poets
from The Harmony of Deeper Music
----------- Not to See Sandridge Again
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
A Wagner Matinée
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Trifles
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Credo
Rock and Hawk
The Purse-Seine
Self-Criticism in February
The Bloody Sire
The Excesses of God
Cassandra
The Beauty of Things
Carmel Point
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Pasture
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
An Old Man's Winter Night
The Oven Bird
Out, OutThe Line-Gang
The Ax-Helve
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desert Places
Once by the Pacific
Design
Provide, Provide
Directive
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Hands
Death in the Woods
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
The Second Choice
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Spring
The Spring and the Fall
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]
Dirge Without Music
[Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]
The Return
[Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea]
[His stalk the dark delphinium]
Sonnet xli
Sonnet xcv
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
Alienation and Literary Experimentation
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
A Virginal
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
L'art, 1910
A Retrospect
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
----------- E.P. Ode pour L'electionde Son Sepulchre
----------- Yeux Glauques
----------- Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma
----------- Brennbaum
----------- Mr. Nixon
----------- Envoi (1919)
The Cantos
I [And then went down to the ship]
XIII [Kung walked]
XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone]
LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold]
CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
A Lady
Patterns
The Letter
Summer Rain
Venus Transiens
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
Opal
Wakefulness
Grotesque
The Sisters
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
from The Making of Americans
Susie Asado
Preciosilla
Ladies' Voices
from Composition as Explanation
from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the
Human Mind
from The Mother of Us All
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Danse Russe
The Young Housewife
Portrait of a Lady
Spring and All
The Pot of Flowers
The Rose
To Elsie
Young Sycamore
The Flower
The Poor
Burning the Christmas Greens
The Descent
The Pink Locust
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
The Hairy Ape
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
Smoke
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
Death at Bearwallow
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Sea Rose
The Helmsman
Oread
Helen
from Trilogy
----------- from The Walls Do Not Fall [43]
----------- from Tribute to the Angels [8,12,19,20,23,43]
Cluster: Political Poetry in the Modern Period
Joseph Kalar (1906-1972)
Papermill
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
1933
Alfred Hayes (1911-1985)
In a Coffee Pot
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)
I Want You Women Up North to Know
Kay Boyle (1903-1993)
A Communication to Nancy Cunard
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Goodbye Christ
Air Raid over Harlem
Lola Ridge (1871-1941)
Stone Face
Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Asbestos
Season of Death
First Love
Elegia
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)
Up State-Depression Summer
To the Negro People
Ode in Time of Crisis
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
[Buffalo Bill's]
[into the strenuous briefness]
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
[i like my body when it is with your]
[my sweet old etcetera]
[since feeling is first]
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]
[Picasso]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
[plato told]
[what if a much of a which of a wind]
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Tradition and the Individual Talent
The Waste Land
The Dry Salvages
Cluster: Modernism, Lyric Poetry, Facts
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Great Figure
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
Dirge
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Johannesburg Mines
The English
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Poetry
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Course of a Particular
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
After Rain
[Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies]
Children
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Oil
Facts
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
May Day
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Flowering Judas
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
England
To a Chameleon
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
The Pangolin
What Are Years?
Nevertheless
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Women
The Sleeping Fury
Roman Fountain
After the Persian
The Dragonfly
Night
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Sunday Morning
The Snow Man
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Anecdote of the Jar
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
Of Modern Poetry
Of Mere Being
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Courtship
Delta Autumn
Barn Burning
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
At Melville's Tomb
from The Bridge
----------- To Brooklyn Bridge
----------- The River
The Broken Tower
The New Negro Renaissance
Alain Locke (1885-1954)
The New Negro
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
from Cane
Karintha
Song of the Son
Blood-Burning Moon
Seventh Street
Box Seat
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
Drum
The Same
Negro
Bad Luck Card
I, Too
Dream Variations
Harlem
Freedom Train
Big Meeting
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
When the Negro Was in Vogue
Radioactive Red Caps
Thank You, M'am
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Incident
From the Dark Tower
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
Yet Do I Marvel
Pagan Prayer
Heritage
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
Heritage
To Usward
Advice
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home
Strong Men
Ma Rainey
Slim in Hell
Remembering Nat Turner
Song of Triumph
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Sweat
The Gilded Six-Bits
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
The Harlem Dancer
If We Must Die
The Lynching
Harlem Shadows
I Shall Return
America
In Bondage
Flame-Heart
Flower of Love
A Red Flower
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
Lines to a Nasturtium
Substitution
For Jim, Easter Eve
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
from Passing
----------- One
----------- Two
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)
Our Greatest Gift to America
The Negro-Art Hokum
Blues Lyrics
Blues Lyrics
Issues and Visions in Modern America
Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
Trans-National America
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)
America and I
Michael Gold (1893-1967)
from Jews Without Money
----------- The Soul of a Landlord
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
The Sahara of the Bozarts
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
from U.S.A.
----------- The Body of an American
----------- The Bitter Drink
Albert Maltz (1908-1985)
The Happiest Man on Earth
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
from Scoundrel Time
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
----------- Names
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
Waiting for Lefty
Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)
Women on the Breadlines
Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)
from Coyote Stories
----------- Preface
----------- The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)
from Sundown
----------- I
----------- II
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)
Blue Winds Dancing
D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)
Hard Riding
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A.
Infant Boy at Midcentury
The Leaf
Evening Hawk
Heart of Autumn
Amazing Grace in the Back Country
Fear and Trembling
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Here Lies a Lady
Philomela
Piazza Piece
The Equilibrists
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
[How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted]
Aphrodite Vrania
[The shoemaker sat in the cellars dusk beside his bench]
Hellenist
[In steel clouds]
[About an excavation]
The English in Virginia, April 1607
from Testimony
----------- I
----------- II
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums
from The Grapes of Wrath
----------- Chapter One
----------- Chapter Five
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Bright and Morning Star
Between the World and Me
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
from Jubilee
----------- 7. Cook in the Big House
----------- 8. Randall Ware
Southern Song
For My People
Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad
Solace
The Crystal Palace
Saunders Redding (1906-1988)
from No Day of Triumph
----------- Chapter One, Troubled in Mind
Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)
Christ in Concrete
Younghill Kang (1903-1972)
from East Goes West
----------- Part One, Book Three
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
from The Voyage
----------- 5 [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival]
----------- 8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox]
from The Detainment
----------- 20 [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?]
----------- 30 [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out]
----------- 31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls]
from The Weak Shall Conquer
----------- 35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came]
----------- 38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window]
----------- 42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants]
from About Westerners
----------- 51 [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly]
----------- 55 [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears]
from Deportees, Transients
----------- 57 [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea]
----------- 64 Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape
----------- 69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]