Amer. Trad. In Literature, Volume Ii - 12th edition

List of illustrations

Preface

AN AGE OF EXPANSION, 1865-1910 From Romanticism to Realism Regionalism The Gilded Age Timeline: An Age of Expansion

NEW VOICES IN POETRY WALT WHITMAN (1819'1892) Song of Myself I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Cavalry Crossing a Ford When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd To a Common Prostitute A Noiseless Patient Spider

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 49 [I never lost as much but twice] 67 [Success is counted sweetest] 130 [These are the days when Birds come back'] 214 [I taste a liquor never brewed'] 241 [I like a look of Agony] 249 [Wild Nights'Wild Nights!] 252 [I can wade Grief'] 258 [There's a certain Slant of light] 280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 285 [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune'] 288 [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] 290 [Of Bronze'and Blaze'] 303 [The Soul selects her own Society'] 320 [We play at Paste'] 324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church] 328 [A Bird came down the Walk'] 341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes'] 376 [Of Course'I prayed'] 401 [What Soft'Cherubic Creatures'] 435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense'] 441 [This is my letter to the World] 448 [This was a Poet'It is That] 449 [I died for Beauty'but was scarce] 465 [I heard a Fly buzz'when I died'] 511 [If you were coming in the Fall] 556 [The Brain, within its Groove] 579 [I had been hungry, all the Years'] 585 [I like to see it lap the Miles'] 632 [The Brain'is wider than the Sky'] 636 [The Way I read a Letter's'this'] 640 [I cannot live with You'] 650 [Pain'has a Element of Blank'] 657 [I dwell in Possibility'] 712 [Because I could not stop for Death'] 732 [She rose to His Requirement'dropt] 754 [My Life had stood'a Loaded Gun'] 816 [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] 823 [Not what We did, shall be the test] 986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] 1052 [I never saw a Moor'] 1078 [The Bustle in a House] 1082 [Revolution is the Pod] 1100 [The last Night that She lived] 1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant'] 1207 [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow'] 1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book] 1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] 1463 [A Route of Evanescence] 1540 [As imperceptibly as Grief] 1587 [He ate and drank the precious Words'] 1624 [Apparently with no surprise] 1732 [My life closed twice before its close'] 1760 [Elysium is as far as to]

CROSSCURRENTS: Freedom in the Gilded Age

WALT WHITMAN (1819'1892) From Democratic Vistas

HENRY ADAMS (1838'1918) From The Education of Henry Adams Chapter XVII: President Grant (1869)

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844'1915) From The Freedman's Case in Equity [The Perpetual Alien]

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856'1915) From Up from Slavery The Struggle for an Education

REALISM AND NATURALISM, 1880'1920 Realism Spiritual Unrest Naturalism Timeline: The Turn of the Century

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) From Little Women Playing Pilgrims A Merry Christmas The Laurence Boy

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County From Roughing It [When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] From Life on the Mississippi The Boys' Ambition [A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn How to Tell a Story The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) From Criticism and Fiction Chapter II [The True Standard of the Arts] Chapter XIII [How Can an Art Decay?] Chapter XXI [American and Old World Novelists] Chapter XXIV [The Prudishness of the Anglo-Saxon Novel]