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CONTENTS
Chapter 1:
Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
Chapter 2:
Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
Chapter 3:
The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Essayists and Poets
Chapter 4:
The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Fiction
Chapter 5:
The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
Chapter 6:
Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
Chapter 7:
American Poetry, 1945-1990: The Anti-Tradition
Chapter 8:
American Prose, 1945-1990: Realism and Experimentation
Chapter 9:
Contemporary American Poetry
Chapter 10:
Contemporary American Literature
Glossary
Bibliography
Copyright Notice
 
Written by—
Kathryn VanSpanckeren
Executive Editor—
George Clack
Managing Editor—
Paul Malamud
Contributing Editor—
Kathleen Hug
Art Director—
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Kathryn VanSpanckeren, professor of English at the University of Tampa, has lectured in American literature widely abroad, and is former director of the Fulbright-sponsored Summer Institute in American Literature for international scholars. Her publications include poetry and scholarship. She received her Bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
 
(Posted December 2006)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The following text materials may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder.

"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. From Ezra Pound Personae. Copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Translated and reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923. © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co., Inc., © 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted and translated by permission of Henry Holt and Co., Inc.

"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens. From Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1923 and renewed 1951 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

"The Red Wheelbarrow" and "The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams. Collected Poems. 1909-1939. Vol. I. Copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions.

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes. From Selected Poems by Langston Hughes. Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and renewed 1954 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell from Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems; © 1945 by Randall Jarrell, © 1990 by Mary Von Schrader Jarrell, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Permission granted by Rhoda Weyr Agency, New York.

"The Wild Iris" from The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck. Copyright © 1993 by Louise Gluck. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

"Chickamauga" from Chickamauga by Charles Wright. Copyright © 1995 by Charles Wright. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

"To The Engraver of my Skin" from Source by Mark Doty. Copyright © 2001 by Mark Doty. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

"Mule Heart" from The Lives of The Heart by Jane Hirshfield. Copyright © 1997 by Jane Hirshfield. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

"The Black Snake" copyright © 1979 by Mary Oliver. Used with permission of the Molly Malone Cook Literary Agency.

"The Dead" is from Questions About Angels by Billy Collins, © 1991. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.

"The Want Bone" from The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky. Copyright © 1991 by Robert Pinsky. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It" from Dien Cai Dau in Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems © 2001 by Yusef Komunyakaa and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

A number of the illustrations appearing in this volume are also copyrighted, as is indicated on the illustrations themselves. These may not be reprinted without the permission of the copyright holder.
 
 


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