《美国文学选讲》

1 Colonial and Revolutionary Period(1608-1800)1

2 Benjamin Franklin/From The Autobiography6

3 The Romantic Period(1800-1865)17

4 Washington lrving/From Rip Van Winkle24

5 Wlliam Cullen Bryant/Thanatopsis44

6 Edgar Allan Poe/Annable Lee56

7 Nathaniel Hawthome/From Dr.Heidegger s Experiment67

8 Ralph Waldo Emerson/From Self-Reliance91

9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/My Lost Youth105

10 Walt Whitman/I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out116

11 Emily Dickinson/1.Success 2.I m Nobody!Who Are You? 3. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-129

12 The Realistic Period(1865-1900)145

13 Mark Twain/From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn158

14 O.Henry/The Gift of the Magi176

15 The Modern Period(1900-the Present)194

16 Edwin Arlington Robinson/Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy202

17 Carl Sandburg/I Am The People,The Mob Chicago217

18 T.S.Eliot/The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock229

19 F.Scott Fitzgerald/From The Great Gatsby250

20 John Steinbeck/From The Grapes of Wrath268

21 Ernest Hemingway/In Another Country285

22 Robert Frost/Mending Wall The Road Not Taken309

23 William Carlos Williams/The Red Wheelbarrow328

24 langston Hughes/Dreams The Negro Speaks of Rivers334

Glossary of Literary Terms342

Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature364

Answer Key to Skill-building Exercises in Reading Literature410

Reference Books422