Chapter One Early American Literature Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Chapter Two American Romanticism and Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau Walden Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Nathanlel Hawhome The Minister's Black Veil Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Herman Melville Moby Dick Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Cavalry Crossing a Ford Come Up from the Fields, Father Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Emily Dickinson Wild blights-Wild blights! A Bird Came down the Walk I Died for Beauty-But Was Scarce Because I Could Not Stop for Death Chapter Three American Realism and American Naturalism Samuel Longhorne Clemens The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Henry James Daisy Miller Edith Wharton Ethan Frame Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Theodore Dreiser Old Rogaum and His Theresa Jack London The Law of Life Chapter Four American Modernism Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Fire and Ice Mending Wall Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Thomas Steams (T.S.) Eliot The Love Song of J. ALfred Prufrock Sherwood Anderson Sophistication, Concerning Helen White Emest Hemingwoy A Clean, Well-lighted Place William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Eugene 0'Neill Desire under the Elms Chapter Five Post-war American Literature Soul Bellow Looking for Mr. Green Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Flannery O'Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Alice Walker Everyday Use Gish Jen In the American Society References