《美国文学选读》

CONTENTS1

再版前言1

Jonathan Edwards1

Personal Narrative2

Benjamin Franklin19

from Autobiography20

Hector St John de Crevecoeur36

from Letters from an Ameri can Farmer37

Philip Freneau45

The Wild Honey Suckle46

The Indian Burying Ground48

Washington Irving51

from The Author's Account of Himself52

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow56

James Fenimore Cooper93

from The Pioneers95

Ralph Waldo Emerson115

from Nature116

from The American Scholar126

Edgar Allan Poe133

The Raven135

The Fall of the House of Usher142

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow168

A Psalm of Life169

The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls172

The Slave's Dream173

Henry David Thoreau176

from Walden177

Nathaniel Hawthorne198

from The Scarlet Letter200

Herman Melville237

from Moby-Dick239

Walt Whitman281

from Song of Myself283

I Hear America Singing297

I Sit and Look Out298

O Captain,My Captain300

Emily Dickinson302

Because I Could Not Stop for Death305

I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died307

My Life Closed Twice before Its Close308

As Imperceptibly as Grief309

Mine—by the Right of the White Election310

Wild Nights—Wild Nights311

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass312

Apparently with No Surprise314

I Died for Beauty—but Was Scarce315

Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant316

I Like to See It Lap the Miles316

The Brain—Is Wider than the Sky318

Harriet Beecher Stowe319

from Uncle Tom's Cabin320

William Dean Howells334

from The Rise of Silas Lapham335

Mark Twain348

from The Gilded Age350

from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn372

Henry James397

The Art of Fiction399

from The Ambassadors424

Bret Harte441

Tennessee's Partner442

Hamlin Garland454

Mrs.Ripley's Trip455

Stephen Crane470

from The Red Badge of Courage471

Frank Norris503

from The Octopus504

Theodore Dreiser522

from Sister Carrie523

Jack London552

from Martin Eden553

The Law of Life566