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The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two

1865 to Present

ISBN-10: 0-312-41208-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-41208-1
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Susan Belasco
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Linck Johnson
Colgate University

*Indicates a complete longer work

VOLUME TWO: 1865 TO THE PRESENT

American Literature, 1865–1914

Introduction
The Aftermath of the Civil War

Comparative Timeline
Expansion, Industrialization, and the Emergence of Modern America
Map: Immigrants to the United States, 1900
Innovation, Technology, and the Literary Marketplace

Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
Introduction

] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “THE AMERICA OF THE MIND”: CRITICS, WRITERS, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY
] Introduction
] Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911)
]      FROM A Plea for Culture
] Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904)
]      Recent American Novels
] Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934)
]      FROM The American Element in Fiction
] Henry James (1843–1916)
]      FROM The Art of Fiction
] Anonymous (A “Lady from Philadelphia”)
]      FROM The Coming American Novelist
] William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
]      FROM Criticism and Fiction
] Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)
]      FROM Literary Emancipation of the West
] Frank Norris (1870–1902)
]      A Plea for Romantic Fiction

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910)
     Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
     A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I heard It
     Old Times on the Mississippi, sections I–III
     The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
     The War Prayer
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
     Editha
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
     Chickamauga
Henry James (1843–1916)
     *Daisy Miller
     The Real Thing
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
     A White Heron
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
     A New England Nun
Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
     At the ’Cadian Ball
     The Storm: A Sequel to the ’Cadian Ball
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
     The Passing of Grandison
Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930)
     “As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother’s Children”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
     The Yellow Wall-Paper
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)
     A Ghetto Wedding
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
     The Other Two
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865–1914)
     In the Land of the Free
Mary Austin (1868–1934)
     The Basket Maker
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
     The House on the Hill
     Luke Havergal
     Zola
     Richard Cory
     Miniver Cheevy
     Eros Turannos
     The Mill
     Mr. Flood’s Party
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
     A Deal in Wheat
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
     *The Open Boat
     FROM The Black Riders and Other Lines
          I [Black riders came from the sea.]
          III [In the desert]
          X [Should the wide world roll away]
          XIV [There was a crimson clash of war.]
          XIX [A god in wrath]
          XXIV [I saw a man pursuing the horizon]
          XLVI [I was in darkness;]
          [Many red devils ran from my heart]

     FROM War Is Kind
          I [Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.]
          XXI [A man said to the universe;]
     FROM Uncollected Poems
          [A man adrift on a slim spar]
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
     Butcher Rogaum’s Door
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
     An Ante-bellum Sermon
     We Wear the Mask
     Sympathy
Willa Cather (1873–1947)
     A Wagner Matinée
Jack London (1876–1916)
     The Law of Life

Writing “American” Lives
Introduction
José Martí (1853–1895)
     Impressions of America, I and III
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844–1891)
     Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
          FROM Chapter 1: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Zitkala-·a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938)
     The School Days of an Indian Girl
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
     Up from Slavery
          Chapter 14: The Atlanta Exposition Address
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 –1963)
     The Souls of Black Folk
          I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
          III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Henry Adams (1838–1918)
     The Education of Henry Adams
          Preface
          Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin
Mary Antin (1881–1949)
     The Promised Land
          FROM Chapter 9: The Promised Land

American Literature, 1914–1945

Introduction
Art and Society in the Era of the Great War
Comparative Timeline
American Culture in the 1920s
Map: The Great Migration, 1914–1930
From the Great Depression to World War II

Modernisms in American Poetry
Introduction

] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “MAKE IT NEW”: POETS ON POETRY
] Introduction
] Harriet Monroe (1860–1936)
]      The Motive of the Magazine
] Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
]      FROM A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste
] Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
]      The New Manner in Modern Poetry
] T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
]      FROM Tradition and the Individual Talent
] James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
]      FROM The Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry
] Mina Loy (1882–1966)
]      FROM Modern Poetry
] Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
]      The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
] Hart Crane (1899–1932)
]      FROM Modern Poetry
] Robert Frost (1874–1963)
]      The Figure a Poem Makes
] William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
]      Introduction to The Wedge

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
     The Creation
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
     The Taxi
     Aubade
     Venus Transiens
     Madonna of the Evening Flowers
     A Decade
     Meeting-House Hill
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
     Mending Wall
     Home Burial
     After Apple-Picking
     The Road Not Taken
     Birches
     “Out, Out —”
     The Oven Bird”
     Fire and Ice
     Design
     Nothing Gold Can Stay
     Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
     Desert Places
     The Gift Outright
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966)
     The Heart of a Woman
     Black Woman
     Cosmopolite
     I Want to Die While You Love Me
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
     Chicago
     The Harbor
     Graceland
     A Fence
     Fog
     Prayers of Steel
     Cool Tombs
     Grass

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
     Sunday Morning
     Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
     The Death of a Soldier
     Anecdote of the Jar
     The Snow Man
     The Emperor of Ice-Cream
     A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
     The Idea of Order at Key West
     Of Modern Poetry
     The Plain Sense of Things
Mina Loy (1882–1966)
     Love Songs
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
     Tract
     The Young Housewife
     Danse Russe
     Portrait of a Lady
     Willow Poem
     Queen-Anne’s-Lace
     The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
     The Great Figure
     Spring and All
     To Elsie
     The Red Wheelbarrow
     This Is Just to Say
     These
     A Sort of a Song
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
     Portrait d’une Femme
     A Virginal
     The Return
     A Pact
     The Rest
     In a Station of the Metro [First Version]
     In a Station of the Metro [Final Version]
     FROM Cathay
          The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
          The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
          Lament of the Frontier Guard
          Taking Leave of a Friend
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
     Oread
     Garden
     Mid-day
     Sheltered Garden
     Leda
     Helen

Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
     Poetry [First Version]
     Poetry [Final Version]
     The Fish
     A Grave
     To a Snail
     What Are Years?
Jun Fujita (1888–1963)
     Diminuendo
     Michigan Boulevard
     Chicago River
     My Sister
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
     The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
     *The Waste Land
     The Journey of the Magi
     Burnt Norton
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
     The Harlem Dancer
     If We Must Die
     The Lynching
    America
     Africa
     Outcast
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
     First Fig
     Second Fig
     [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.]
     [I, being born a woman and distressed]
     [Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!]
     To Inez Milholland
     Justice Denied in Massachusetts
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
     [in Just-]
     [Buffalo Bill ’s]
     [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
     [“next to of course god america i]
     [my sweet old etcetera]
     [sing of Olaf glad and big]
     [you shall above all things be glad and young.]
     [anyone lived in a pretty how town]
     [thank You God for most this amazing]
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
     Testimony
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
     Voyages I–VI
     To Brooklyn Bridge
     The Broken Tower
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
     Ma Rainey
     Strong Men
     Tin Roof Blues
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
     The Negro Speaks of Rivers
     Mother to Son
Jazzonia
     I, Too
     The Weary Blues
     Cross
     Down and Out
     Brass Spittoons
     Angels Wings
     Mulatto
     Afro-American Fragment
     Christ in Alabama
     Dream Boogie
     Harlem
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
     Yet Do I Marvel
     Heritage
     From the Dark Tower

The Emergence of Modern American Drama
Introduction
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)
*Trifles

Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
*The Emperor Jones

At Home and Abroad: American Fiction between the Wars
Introduction

] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION: AMERICAN WRITERS AND THE CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY

] Introduction
] Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
]      FROM Apology for Crudity
] Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
]      FROM Composition as Explanation
] Donald Davidson (1893–1968)
]      FROM A Mirror for Artists, in I’ll Take My Stand
] Michael Gold (1893–1967)
]      FROM Proletarian Realism
] Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
]      FROM Characteristics of Negro Expression
] John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
]      The Writer as Technician
] Richard Wright (1908–1960)
]      FROM Blueprint for Negro Writing

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
     Ada
     Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
     Picasso
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
     FROM Winesburg, Ohio
          The Book of the Grotesque
          Hands
          Paper Pills
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
     Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
     The Gilded Six-Bits
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
     Sanctuary
María Cristina Mena (1893–1965)
     The Vine Leaf
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
     FROM Cane
          Portrait in Georgia
          Blood Burning Moon
          Seventh Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
     The Ice Palace
John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
     1919—Two Portraits
     Vag
William Faulkner (1897–1962)
     That Evening Sun
     Barn Burning
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
     Big Two-Hearted River
John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
     Flight
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
     Almos’ a Man
Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
     A Worn Path
Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)
     The End of the War

American Literature Since 1945

Introduction
Comparative Timeline

From Modernism to Postmodernism
Introduction
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
     My Papa’s Waltz
     Cuttings
     Cuttings (later)
     Root Cellar
     The Waking
     I Knew a Woman
     The Far Field
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
     Sestina
     The Armadillo
     Brazil, January 1. 1502
     In the Waiting Room
     One Art
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
     *Portrait of a Madonna
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
     Middle Passage
Tillie Olsen (1912?–2007)
     I Stand Here Ironing
John Berryman (1914–1972)
     FROM The Dream Songs
          1 [Huffy Henry hid the day,]
          4 [Filling her compact & delicious body]
          14 [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.]
          26 [The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.]
          45 [He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.]
          77 [Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world]
          384 [The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done,]
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994)
     The Invisible Man
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
     The First Seven Years
Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
     Looking for Mr. Green

Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
     *Death of a Salesman
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
     Memories of West Street and Lepke
     Skunk Hour
     For the Union Dead
     Waking Early Sunday Morning
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
     FROM A Street in Bronzeville
          kitchenette building
          the mother
          a song in the front yard
          the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon
     The Bean Eaters
     We Real Cool
     Malcolm X
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
     Seventeen Syllables
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
     Notes of a Native Son
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
     A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
     *Howl
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
     The One Thing That Can Save America
     My Erotic Double
     Paradoxes and Oxymorons
     One Coat of Paint
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
     The Sandbox
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
     Trying to Talk with a Man
     A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
     Diving into the Wreck
     Power
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
     She Unnames Them
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
     Riprap
     Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body
     Wave
     Axe Handles
     Ripples on the Surface
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)
     The School
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
     Recitatif

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
     Morning Song
     Blackberrying
     Mirror
     Daddy
     Lady Lazarus
John Updike (b. 1932)
     A & P
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
     *Dutchman
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
     Coal
     The Woman Thing
     Black Mother Woman
     Stations
Don DeLillo (b. 1936)
     Videotape
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
     American History
     Dear John, Dear Coltrane
     Martin’s Blues
     “Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis
Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
     Are These Actual Miles?
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)
     El sonavabitche
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
     Everyday Use
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946)
     The Things They Carried
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
     Yellow Woman
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
     New Orleans
     Anchorage
     If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth
     The Land Is a Poem
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
     David Walker
     The House Slave
     Kentucky, 1833
     Canary
     History
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
     Mericans
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
     Bully
     Latin Night at the Pawnshop
     Federico’s Ghost
     Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
     What You Pawn I Will Redeem

] AMERICAN CONTEXTS
] “INVENTING THE TRUTH”: THE CONTEMPORARY MEMOIR
] Introduction
] N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
]      FROM The Names: A Memoir
] Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
]      FROM The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
] Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
]      FROM An American Childhood
] David Mamet (b. 1947)
]      The Rake: Scenes from My Childhood
] bell hooks (b. 1952)
]      FROM Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
] Gary Soto (b. 1952)
]      Like Mexicans