Part One　The Colonial Period1. Benjamin Franklin ……………………………………………………………1 Autobiography ……………………………………………………………………22. Anne Bradstreet ………………………………………………………………6 To My Dear and Loving Husband …………………………………………………73. Philip Freneau …………………………………………………………………9 The Wild Honey Suckle ……………………………………………………… 104. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ………………………………………… 13 Letters from an American Farmer ……………………………………………… 145. Thomas Jefferson …………………………………………………………… 19 Declaration of Independence …………………………………………………… 20Part Two　The Romantic Period6. Washington Irving ………………………………………………………… 23 Rip Van Winkle ………………………………………………………………… 247. Nathaniel Hawthorne ……………………………………………………… 37 Young Goodman Brown ……………………………………………………… 388. Walt Whitman ……………………………………………………………… 55 Song of Myself ………………………………………………………………… 56 O Captain! My Captain! ……………………………………………………… 589. Emily Dickinson …………………………………………………………… 61 I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died — ………………………………………… 62 Because I Could Not Stop for Death — ………………………………………… 62 Wild Nights — Wild Nights! …………………………………………………… 63 A Bird, Came down the Walk — ……………………………………………… 64 This Is My Letter to the World ………………………………………………… 65 I Know That He Exists. ………………………………………………………… 6510. Edgar Allan Poe …………………………………………………………… 67 Annabel Lee …………………………………………………………………… 6811. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ………………………………………… 71 The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls ………………………………………………… 72 The Arrow and the Song ……………………………………………………… 74Part Three　American Realism12. Mark Twain ………………………………………………………………… 76 Running for Governor ………………………………………………………… 7713. Bret Harte …………………………………………………………………… 84 The Luck of Roaring Camp ………………………………………………… 8514. Kate Chopin ………………………………………………………………… 97 The Story of an Hour ………………………………………………………… 9815. Theodore Dreiser …………………………………………………………102 Sister Carrie ……………………………………………………………………10416. Jack London ………………………………………………………………114 Love of Life ……………………………………………………………………11617. Edwin Arlington Robinson ………………………………………………138 Richard Cory …………………………………………………………………139 Miniver Cheevy ………………………………………………………………141Part Four　Modern American Literature18. Ezra Pound …………………………………………………………………145 In a Station of the Metro ………………………………………………………14619. Robert Frost…………………………………………………………………148 The Road Not Taken …………………………………………………………14920. William Carlos Williams …………………………………………………152 The Red Wheelbarrow …………………………………………………………153 This Is Just to Say ………………………………………………………………15421. Carl Sandburg ……………………………………………………………156 Fog ……………………………………………………………………………15722. Wallace Stevens ……………………………………………………………159 Anecdote of the Jar ……………………………………………………………16023. Edward Estlin Cummings ………………………………………………162 (Me up at does) …………………………………………………………………16424. Francis Scott Fitzgerald …………………………………………………165 The Great Gatsby ………………………………………………………………16625. Ernest Hemingway ………………………………………………………173 Cat in the Rain …………………………………………………………………17526. William Faulkner …………………………………………………………179 A Rose for Emily ………………………………………………………………18127. Langston Hughes …………………………………………………………192 The Negro Speaks of Rivers ……………………………………………………194 As I Grew Older ………………………………………………………………195 I, Too, Sing America ……………………………………………………………197 Ballad of the Landlord …………………………………………………………19728. Sherwood Anderson ………………………………………………………200 The Egg ………………………………………………………………………202