Includes index.

Introduction -- The puritans of New England -- God as the measure -- Puritan literature -- Gentlemen of Virginia -- The king's dearest daughter / John Smith -- Arrival at Cape Cod / William Bradford -- First Spring, first Thanksgiving / William Bradford -- Communal farming fails / William Bradford -- Dancing and frisking and worse / William Bradford -- Pequot War, and a murder / William Bradford -- A happiness better than all the world / John Winthrop -- Control of wages and prices / John Winthrop -- The Roger Williams infection / John Winthrop -- Letters to and from his wife / John Winthrop -- Harvard commencement / John Winthrop -- Trial for adultery / John Winthrop -- A little speech on liberty / John Winthrop -- If Jesus Christ were present / Roger Williams -- The civil and the spiritual estates / Roger Williams -- The case against intolerance / Roger Williams -- The courteous Pagan shall condemn / Roger Williams -- Boast not, proud English / Roger Williams -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- The flesh and the spirit / Anne Bradstreet -- Contemplations / Anne Bradstreet -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment / Anne Bradstreet -- Upon the burning of out house / Anne Bradstreet -- The day of doom: men of good works / Michael Wigglesworth -- The preface / Edward Taylor -- The soul's admiration / Edward Taylor -- The joy of church fellowship / Edward Taylor -- Upon a wasp chilled with cold / Edward Taylor -- Upon a spider catching a fly / Edward Taylor -- Housewifery / Edward Taylor -- The ebb and flow / Edward Taylor -- The reflection / Edward Taylor -- The experience / Edward Taylor -- What love is this / Edward Taylor -- Am I thy gold? / Edward Taylor -- I Kenning through astronomy / Edward Taylor -- Life of William Bradford / Cotton Mather -- Poetry and style / Cotton Mather -- Courtship of Madam Winthrop / Samuel Sewall -- Sarah Pierrepont / Jonathan Edwards -- Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards -- God glorified in man's dependence / Jonathan Edwards -- A divine and supernatural light / Jonathan Edwards -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- Religious affections / Jonathan Edwards -- God designedly orders all things / Jonathan Edwards -- Images or shadows of divine things / Jonathan Edwards -- A young Quaker's inward life / John Woolman -- Uneasiness as to slavery / John Woolman -- A plain way of living / John Woolman -- Love toward the Indians / John Woolman -- Life of a Virginia gentleman / William Byrd -- The dismal swamp / William Byrd -- The alligator / William Byrd -- Plantation life in North Carolina / William Byrd -- A visit to the Indians / William Byrd -- A visit to a neighbor's / William Byrd -- Goddesses and women / William Byrd -- A prude / William Byrd -- THE NEOCLASSIC AGE: -- Reason as the measure -- The worldly charm of Philadelphia -- Making thirteen clocks strike together -- A cultural anchor: The classical tradition -- Family / Benjamin Franklin -- A bookish inclination / Benjamin Franklin -- I became a deist / Benjamin Franklin -- The Reverend Mr. Whitefield / Benjamin Franklin -- Public service / Benjamin Franklin -- The way to wealth / Benjamin Franklin -- Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one / Benjamin Franklin -- An edict of the King of Prussia / Benjamin Franklin -- The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin -- Dialogue between Franklin and the gout / Benjamin Franklin -- Faith, hope, and charity upside down / Benjamin Franklin -- The effect of oil on water / Benjamin Franklin -- A memory of Cotton Mather / Benjamin Franklin -- A deistic creed / Benjamin Franklin -- What is an American? / St. Jean de Crèvecoeur -- A moderate opinion / John Dickinson -- A Tory opinion / Samuel Seabury -- Thoughts on the present state of American affairs / Thomas Paine -- The times that try men's souls / Thomas Paine -- A Deist's belief / Thomas Paine -- Revelation / Thomas Paine -- The order of nature / Thomas Paine -- God and human reason / Thomas Paine -- The world-machine / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- No dictators / Thomas Jefferson -- Religious freedom / Thomas Jefferson -- Negro slavery / Thomas Jefferson -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Advice to a young daughter / Thomas Jefferson -- Reason is the only oracle / Thomas Jefferson -- Thrown on a wide world / Thomas Jefferson -- Aristocracy, natural versus artificial / Thomas Jefferson -- An aristocrat / Thomas Jefferson -- The wisdom of Unitarians / Thomas Jefferson -- A strong central government / Alexander Hamilton -- Interests and passions of majorities and minorities / James Madison -- Tom Brainless as student and preacher / John Trumbull -- Harriet Simper has her day / John Trumbull -- An amorous temper / John Trumbull -- Sweet simplicity / Timothy Dwight -- Two ways of visiting / Timothy Dwight -- The hasty pudding / Joel Barlow -- Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow -- The power of fancy / Philip Freneau -- The house of night / Philip Freneau -- The beauties of Santa Cruz / Philip Freneau -- To the memory of the brave Americans / Philip Freneau -- The hurricane / Philip Freneau -- The wild honeysuckle / Philip Freneau -- The Indian student / Philip Freneau -- The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau -- To an author / Philip Freneau -- On a honey bee / Philip Freneau -- To a caty-did / Philip Freneau -- On the uniformity and perfection of nature / Philip Freneau -- On the religion of nature / Philip Freneau -- Unitarian Christianity / William Ellery Channing -- THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT: -- A young Democracy -- The romantic revolt -- Concord and other centers -- The romantic view of life -- Literary art -- The golden reign of Wouter Van Twiller / Washington Irving -- Chronicles of the reign of William the Testy / Washington Irving -- The author's account of himself / Washington Irving -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Westminster Abbey / Washington Irving -- Legend of the rose of the Alhambra / Washington Irving -- American literature / James Fenimore Cooper -- The Americans and the English / James Fenimore Cooper -- An aristocrat and a democrat / James Fenimore Cooper -- Preface to the leather-stocking tales / James Fenimore Cooper -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- The yellow violet / William Cullen Bryant -- Inscription for the entrance to a wood / William Cullen Bryant -- To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- Green River / William Cullen Bryant -- A winter piece / William Cullen Bryant -- O fairest of the riral maids / William Cullen Bryant -- A forest hymn / William Cullen Bryant -- To Cole, the painter, departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant -- The prairies / William Cullen Bryant -- On the nature of poetry / William Cullen Bryant -- Dreams / Edgar Allan Poe -- The happiets day, the happiest hour / Edgar Allan Poe -- Song from Al Aaraaf / Edgar Allan Poe -- Romance / Edgar Allan Poe -- To science / Edgar Allan Poe -- A dream withing a dream / Edgar Allan Poe -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Israfel / Edgar Allan Poe -- The city in the sea / Edgar Allan Poe -- Lenore / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Valley of unrest / Edgar Allan Poe -- To sleeper / Edgar Allan Poe -- To one in paradise / Edgar Allan Poe -- Dream-land / Edgar Allan Poe -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe -- For Annie / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Letter to B / Edgar Allan Poe -- The poetic principle / Edgar Allan Poe -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- A descent into the Maelström / Edgar Allan Poe -- The masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --

Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- America, my country / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Each and all / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The humble-bee / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The problem / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Woodnotes, I / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Grace / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ode / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Merlin / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Bacchus / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Give all to love / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hamatreya / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Two rivers / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Seashore / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Fate / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Letters to Emerson / Henry David Thoreau -- Sic Vita / Henry David Thoreau -- Winter memories / Henry David Thoreau -- Mist / Henry David Thoreau -- Smoke / Henry David Thoreau -- Inspiration / Henry David Thoreau -- Journals / Henry David Thoreau -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Economy / Henry David Thoreau -- Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- Sounds / Henry David Thoreau -- Visitors / Henry David Thoreau -- Brute neighbors / Henry David Thoreau -- Conclusion / Henry David Thoreau -- Brook farm / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Concord friends / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Herman Melville / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hints for stories / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The old manse / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Roger malvin's burial / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ethan brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The celestial railroad / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The great art of telling the truth / Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Billy Budd / Herman Melville -- The portent / Herman Melville -- Malvern Hill / Herman Melville -- The Maldive Shark / Herman Melville -- Far off-shore / Herman Melville -- Proem / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Dedication / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The shoemakers / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Massachusetts to Virginia / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Song of slaves in the desert / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Ichabod / John Greenleaf Whittier -- First-day thoughts / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Skipper Ireson's ride / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Laus Deo! / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Abraham Davenport / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Hymn to the night / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The skeleton in armore / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Nuremberg / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The fire of drift-wood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Jewish cemetery at Newport / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- My lost youth / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The saga of King Olaf / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Divina Commedia / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Chaucer / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Milton / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Venice / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The three silences of Molinos / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The monk of Casal-Maggiore / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A dutch picture / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Emerson / James Russell Lowell -- Whittier / James Russell Lowell -- Hawthorne / James Russell Lowell -- Lowell / James Russell Lowell -- A letter / James Russell Lowell -- What Mr. Robinson thinks / James Russell Lowell -- The courtin' / James Russell Lowell -- Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell -- Emerson the lecturer / James Russell Lowell -- Dante / James Russell Lowell -- The ballad of the Oysterman / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- My aunt / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The chambered Nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Contentment / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The autocrat of the breakfast-table / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- One's-self I sing / Walt Whitman -- Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman -- Once I pass'd through a populous city / Walt Whitman -- When I heard at the close of the day / Walt Whitman -- A glimpse / Walt Whitman -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- Come up from the fields father / Walt Whitman -- A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown / Walt Whitman -- A sight in camp at the daybreak gray and dim / Walt Whitman -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Walt Whitman -- Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- On the beach at night / Walt Whitman -- Passage to India / Walt Whitman -- Prayer of Columbus / Walt Whitman -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- To the man-of-war-bird / Walt Whitman -- The dismantled ship / Walt Whitman -- American democracy, actual and ideal / Walt Whitman -- An American literature / Walt Whitman -- Autobiography / Abraham Lincoln -- Reply to Horace Greeley / Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Letter to Mrs. Bixby / Abraham Lincoln -- Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Ethnogenesis / Henry Timrod -- The cotton boll / Henry Timrod -- Charleston / Henry Timrod -- Ode / Henry Timrod -- The symphony / Sidney Lanier -- Song of the Chattahoochee / Sidney Lanier -- The marshes of Glynn / Sidney Lanier -- THE RISE OF REALISM -- To the West and to the cities -- The triumph of the machine -- The gilded age -- Science as the measure -- Realism in literature -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- O bury me not on the lone prairie -- Whoopee, ti yi yo, git along, little dogies -- Casey Jones -- Go down, Moses -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Interview with President Lincoln / Artemus Ward -- The tower of London / Artemus Ward -- Essa on the Muel / Josh Billings -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens -- Italian guides / Samuel L. Clemens -- We were Americans! / Samuel L. Clemens -- Trouble will begin at 8 / Samuel L. Clemens -- Baker's blue-jay yarn / Samuel L. Clemens -- The boys ambition / Samuel L. Clemens -- I want to be a cub-pilot / Samuel L. Clemens -- A cub-pilot's experience / Samuel L. Clemens -- A daring deed / Samuel L. Clemens -- Perplexing lessons / Samuel L. Clemens -- Continued perplexities / Samuel L. Clemens -- Completing my education / Samuel L. Clemens -- Sounding / Samuel L. Clemens -- A pilot's needs / Samuel L. Clemens -- Rank and dignity of piloting / Samuel L. Clemens -- The pilot's monopoly / Samuel L. Clemens -- Racing days / Samuel L. Clemens -- Cut-offs and Stephen / Samuel L. Clemens -- I take a few extra lessons / Samuel L. Clemens -- Brown and I exchange compliments / Samuel L. Clemens -- A catastrophe / Samuel L. Clemens -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel L. Clemens -- Little Bessie would assist Providence / Samuel L. Clemens.

The luck of roaring camp / Bret Harte -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Belles demoiselles plantation / George W. Cable -- Mr. Benjamin Ram and his wonderful fiddle / Joel Chandler Harris -- Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Criticism and Realism / William Dean Howells -- The English novel since Jane Austen / William Dean Howells -- Democracy and the American novel / William Dean Howells -- Decency and the American novel / William Dean Howells -- Editha / William Dean Howells -- Hawthorne: the thinness of American life / Henry James -- Four meetings / Henry James -- The real thing / Henry James -- The death of the lion / Henry James -- Maud-Evelyn / Henry James -- The art of fiction / Henry James -- Trollope / Henry James -- Turgenev and Flaubert / Henry James -- Maupassant / Henry James -- Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson -- Exultation is the going / Emily Dickinson -- Some things that fly / Emily Dickinson -- To fight aloud / Emily Dickinson -- It's such a little thing to weep / Emily Dickinson -- The thought beneath / Emily Dickinson -- I taste a liquor / Emily Dickinson -- Wild Nights / Emily Dickinson -- " Hope" is the thing / Emily Dickinson -- There's a certain slant / Emily Dickinson -- Where ships of purple / Emily Dickinson -- The soul selects / Emily Dickinson -- The day came slow / Emily Dickinson -- I know that he exists / Emily Dickinson -- The first day's night / Emily Dickinson -- Much madness / Emily Dickinson -- This is my letter / Emily Dickinson -- I heard a fly buzz / Emily Dickinson -- ' Tis little I could care / Emily Dickinson -- If you were coming / Emily Dickinson -- To hear an Oriole / Emily Dickinson -- I like to see it lap / Emily Dickinson -- I years had been / Emily Dickinson -- The brain is wider / Emily Dickinson -- I cannot live with you / Emily Dickinson -- A thought went up / Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop / Emily Dickinson -- I many times thought peace / Emily Dickinson -- It dropped so low / Emily Dickinson -- Presentiment / Emily Dickinson -- A death blow / Emily Dickinson -- A narrow fellow / Emily Dickinson -- That such have died / Emily Dickinson -- I never saw a Moor / Emily Dickinson -- The sky is low / Emily Dickinson -- The bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson -- The last night / Emily Dickinson -- We never know how high / Emily Dickinson -- He preached upon "Breadth" / Emily Dickinson -- A route of evanescence / Emily Dickinson -- How happy is the little stone / Emily Dickinson -- He ate and drank / Emily Dickinson -- There came a wind / Emily Dickinson -- Apparently with no suprise / Emily Dickinson -- My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson -- To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson -- Elysium / Emily Dickinson -- THE REALISTIC MOVEMENT AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- Naturalism and the revival of poetry -- A disillusioned generation -- The quest of values -- On machinery / Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") -- Review of the rough riders / Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") -- An ode in time of hesitation / William Vaughn Moody -- Gloucester Moors / William Vaughn Moody -- Chaos / Henry Adams -- The dynamo and the virgin / Henry Adams -- Vis Nova / Henry Adams -- The choice / Edith Wharton -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- War is kind / Stephen Crane -- A slant of sun / Stephen Crane -- A man said to the universe / Stephen Crane -- The trees in the garden / Stephen Crane -- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- The children of the night / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Beorge Crabbe / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- John Evereldown / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Cliff Klingenhagen / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Isaac and Archibald / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- For a dead lady / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The man against the sky / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Flammonde / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Cassandra / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Mowing / Robert Frost -- The tuft of flowers / Robert Frost -- Reluctance / Robert Frost -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- The pasture / Robert Frost -- Home burial / Robert Frost -- The black cottage / Robert Frost -- Birches / Robert Frost -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- An old man's winter night / Robert Frost -- Not to keep / Robert Frost -- The oven bird / Robert Frost -- " Out, out " / Robert Frost -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- New Hampshire / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost -- Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost -- Departmental / Robert Frost -- A considerable speck / Robert Frost -- The gift outright / Robert Frost -- Come in / Robert Frost -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- Lilacs / Amy Lowell -- Renascence / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- I know I am but Summer to your heart / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Heart, have no pity on this house of bone / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- General William Booth enters into heaven / Vachel Lindsay -- The Congo / Vachel Lindsay -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- Nocturne in a deserted brickyard / Carl Sandburg -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- I am the people, the mob / Carl Sandburg -- Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- The man in the street is fed / Carl Sandburg -- The people will live on / Carl Sandburg -- A virginal / Ezra Pound -- The river merchant's wife / Ezra Pound -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- Canto I / Ezra Pound -- Prelude / T. S. Eliot -- Morning at the window / T. S. Eliot -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- The Hippopotamus / T. S. Eliot -- Gerontion / T. S. Eliot -- The Waste Land / T. S. Eliot -- Animula / T. S. Eliot -- Ash Wednesday / T. S. Eliot -- The dry salvages, V / T. S. Eliot -- The metaphysical poets / T. S. Eliot -- Literature and the modern world / T. S. Eliot -- Roan Stallion / Robinson Jeffers -- Gale in April / Robinson Jeffers -- To the stone-cutters / Robinson Jeffers -- Boats in a fog / Robinson Jeffers -- Science / Robinson Jeffers -- Apology for bad dreams / Robinson Jeffers -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- Self-criticism in February / Robinson Jeffers -- Shine, perishing republic / Robinson Jeffers -- Battle / Robinson Jeffers -- The slaver / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish -- American letter / Archibald MacLeish -- Landscape as a nude / Archibald MacLeish -- Burying ground by the Ties / Archibald MacLeish -- Speech to those who say comrade / Archibald MacLeish -- Pole Star / Archibald MacLeish -- Domination of black / Wallace Stevens -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens -- Peter Quince at the Clavier / Wallace Stevens -- Death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens -- Study of two pears / Wallace Stevens -- Of modern poetry / Wallace Stevens -- To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Van Winkle / Hart Crane -- The river / Hart Crane -- Cutty Sark / Hart Crane -- The emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill -- Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather -- " Queer" / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who knew Coolidge / Sinclair Lewis -- Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Lover of mankind / John Dos Passos -- Meester Veelson / John Dos Passos -- Tin Lizzie / John Dos Passos -- Power superpower / John Dos Passos -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The four lost men / Thomas Wolfe -- María Concepcíon / Katherine Anne Porter -- The bear / William Faulkner --

Footnote on criticism / H. L. Mencken -- The critic and American Life / Irving Babbitt -- The criterion / Paul Elmer More -- Symbolism / Edmund Wilson -- The reading of modern poetry / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Poets without laurels / John Crowe Ransom -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Address to the scholars of New England / John Crowe Ransom -- Tract / William Carlos Williams -- The yachts / William Carlos Williams -- a wind has blown / e.e. cummings -- in Just-spring / e.e. cummings -- Buffalo Bill's defunct / e.e. cummings -- somewhere i have never travelled / e.e. cummings -- may my heart alsays / e.e. cummings -- all ignorance / e.e. cummings -- The steeple-jack / Marianne Moore -- In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore -- University / Karl Shapiro -- Hollywood / Karl Shapiro -- Drug store / Karl Shapiro -- Elegy for a dead soldier / Karl Shapiro -- The conscientious objector / Karl Shapiro --