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American Literature, Volume II
As part of the Penguin Academic series, American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price.
1584 pages, Paperback
First published January 2, 2003
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May 16, 2016
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Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- "Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses"
- "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
W. D. Howells
- "Editha"
Sarah Orne Jewett
- "A White Heron"
Kate Chopin
- "The Storm"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "The Yellow Wall-paper"
Charles W. Chesnutt
- "The Sheriff's Children"
Jack London
- "To Build a Fire"
Archibald Macleish
- "Ars Poetica"
Amy Lowell
- "New Heaves for Old"
- "Madonna of the Evening Flowers"
Robert Frost
- "Mending Wall"
- "The Wood-Pile"
- "The Road Not Taken"
- "Fire and Ice"
- "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep"
Wallace Stevens
- "The Snow Man"
- "Anecdote of the Jaw"
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
- "The Death of a Soldier"
- "Of Modern Poetry"
- "The Plain Sense of Things"
William Carlos Williams
- "Portrait of a Lady"
- "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- "This Is Just To Say"
- "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Ezra Pound
- "In a Station of the Metro"
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- "Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses"
- "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
W. D. Howells
- "Editha"
Sarah Orne Jewett
- "A White Heron"
Kate Chopin
- "The Storm"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "The Yellow Wall-paper"
Charles W. Chesnutt
- "The Sheriff's Children"
Jack London
- "To Build a Fire"
Archibald Macleish
- "Ars Poetica"
Amy Lowell
- "New Heaves for Old"
- "Madonna of the Evening Flowers"
Robert Frost
- "Mending Wall"
- "The Wood-Pile"
- "The Road Not Taken"
- "Fire and Ice"
- "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep"
Wallace Stevens
- "The Snow Man"
- "Anecdote of the Jaw"
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
- "The Death of a Soldier"
- "Of Modern Poetry"
- "The Plain Sense of Things"
William Carlos Williams
- "Portrait of a Lady"
- "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- "This Is Just To Say"
- "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Ezra Pound
- "In a Station of the Metro"
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September 23, 2022My son's huge textbook. Figured I'd use it to catch up a bit on some authors that I've never read, and so could sample here. Still took me forever to page through, reading here and there, finally closing in Sept. 2022.
Anyway.
Edith Maude Eaton aka Sui Sin Far has an interesting biography. The bit enclosed here is memoir and also interesting.
I really like the poem "A Blessing" by James Wright even though it reminds me of a certain one by Frost.
My son and I both got a kick out of "Sonnet" (All we need is fourteen lines,....) by Billy Collins.
And a big thank you to Nikki Giovanni for "Nikki-Rosa."
Not a bad collection, though, of course & as usual, a little too much emphasis on the important & weighty stuff, the stuff regular people don't much read.
Anyway.
Edith Maude Eaton aka Sui Sin Far has an interesting biography. The bit enclosed here is memoir and also interesting.
I really like the poem "A Blessing" by James Wright even though it reminds me of a certain one by Frost.
My son and I both got a kick out of "Sonnet" (All we need is fourteen lines,....) by Billy Collins.
And a big thank you to Nikki Giovanni for "Nikki-Rosa."
Not a bad collection, though, of course & as usual, a little too much emphasis on the important & weighty stuff, the stuff regular people don't much read.
July 5, 2008
Includes a wide variety of prose, poetry, and history. A good introduction to American literature. It's not really my style, but it delivers what it's meant to.
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