目 录 前 言 Part One The th Century Chapter 1 American Puritanism 2 Chapter 2 Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) 7 To my Dear and Loving Husband 8 Part Two The th Century Chapter 1 Enlightenment 10 Chapter 2 Philip Freneau (1752-1832) 14 The Wild Honey Suckle 15 To the Memory of the Brave Americans 16 Part Three The th Century Chapter 1 American Romanticism 19 Chapter 2 William Cullen Bηant(1794-1878) 27 To a Waterfowl 28 Chapter 3 Washington Irving (1783-1859) 30 Rip Van Winkle 31 Chapter 4 J ames Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 45 The Last of the Mohicans 47 Chapter 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) 59 A Psalm of Life 59 The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls 61 Daybreak 62 Chapter 6 Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 64 O Captain! My Captain! 65 Song of Myself 66 Chapter 7 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 69 Success Is Counted Sweetest 70 I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce 70 Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant 71 The Soul Selects Her own Society 71 Because 1 Could Not Stop for Death 72 Capter 8 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 74 To Helen 75 Annabel Lee 76 The Fall of the House of Usher 77 Chapter 9 Nathaniel Hawthome (1804-1864) 92 The Scarlet Letter 96 Chapter 10 Herman Melville (1819-1891) 106 Moby Dick 111 Chapter 11 American Realism 116 Chapter 12 Mark Twain(1835-1910) 120 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 122 Chapter 13 Henry J aD1es (1843-1916) 128 The Portrait of a Lady ,,,,, 131 Chapter 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 142 Uncle Tom' s Cabin 143 Chapter 15 American Naturalism 150 Chapter 16 Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935) 154 Richard Cory ,,, 155 Miniver Cheevy 156 Chapter 17 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) 158 The Open Boat 160 Parl Four The Ih Cenlury 164 Chapter 1 Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) 165 Sister Carrie 168 Chapter 2 Jack London (1876-1916) 175 The Call of the Wild 177 Chapter 3 American Modernism 190 Chapter 4 Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 201 In a Station of the Metro 202 A Pact 202 A Virginal 203 Chapter 5 Robert Lee Frost(1874-1963) 204 The Road Not Taken 205 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 206 Chapter 6 Carl August Sandburg(1878-1967) 207 Grass 208 Chapter 7 Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 209 Dreams 210 Dream Deferred 210 The Negro Speaks of Ri vers 211 Chapter 8 Sinclair Iewis (1885-1951) 212 Babbit 214 Chapter 9 Francis scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 222 The Great Gatsby 226 Chapter 10 Ernett Hemingway (1899-1961) 240 The Sun Also Rises 247 Chapter 11 William Faulkner (1897-1962) 251 The Sound and the Fury 255 Chapter 12 John Emst Steinbeck (1902-1968) 267 The Grapes of Wrath 270 Chapter 13 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) 278 The Hairy Ape 284 Chapter 14 Edward Albee (1928-) 289 The American Dream 290