The Dover Anthology of American Literature Volume II

The Dover Anthology of American Literature

Volume II

From 1865 to 1922

EDITED BY BOB BLAISDELL

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The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 to 1922,
first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2014, is a new anthology reprinted from standard sources. For the sake of authenticity, inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation have been retained in the texts unless otherwise indicated.

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The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II : From 1865 to 1922 / edited by Bob Blaisdell.

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Summary: “At the end of the Civil War, another long and arduous struggle began as the nation attempted to reunite. Literature offered a path toward solidarity, and this concise anthology surveys the writings of major American authors from the war's end to the dawn of the Jazz Age. Featured works include those of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and other poets. Mark Twain is prominently represented among the storytellers, along with Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Three short novels appear in their entirety:
Daisy Miller
by Henry James,
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London, and
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton. Speeches by Sitting Bull and Theodore Roosevelt, memoirs by Booker T. Washington and Helen Keller, and many other selections recapture a vibrant era in American literature. Informative introductory notes and suggestions for further reading supplement the authoritative texts.”— Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Volume I: eISBN-13: 978-0-486-79901-8

Volume II: eISBN-13: 978-0-486-79889-9

1. American literature. I. Blaisdell, Robert, editor of compilation.

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Contents

Note

Emily Dickinson

    
[Escape] (c. 1859)

    
[Compensation] (c. 1859)

    
“A wounded deer leaps highest” (c. 1860)

    
“Heaven is what I cannot reach” (c. 1861)

    
[Hope] (c. 1861)

    
“There's a certain slant of light” (c. 1861)

    
“I'm Nobody! Who are you? (c. 1861)

    
“The nearest dream recedes, unrealized” (c. 1861)

    
[The Master] (c. 1862)

    
[In the Garden] (c. 1862)

    
[Retrospect] (c. 1862)

    
“I died for beauty, but was scarce” (c. 1862)

    
[Dying] (c. 1862)

    
“It was not death, for I stood up” (c. 1862)

    
[The Railway Train] (c. 1862)

    
[The Mystery of Pain] (c. 1862)

    
[A Thunder-storm] (c. 1864)

    
[The Lost Thought] (c. 1864)

    
[The Snake] (c. 1865)

    
“Nature rarer uses yellow” (c. 1865)

    
[A Book] (c. 1873)

    
[The Humming-Bird] (c. 1879)

    
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1862–1869)

Mark Twain

    
Chapters 42 and 53 from
Roughing It
(1872)

    
Chapter 2 from
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876)

    
Chapters 1, 4–7, 12–13, 23 from
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885)

    
To the Whitefriars (1899)

Sitting Bull, Tatanka Yotanka

    
Behold, My Friends, the Spring Is Come (1875)

    
This Land Belongs to Us (c. 1882)

Bret Harte

    
My Friend, the Tramp (1878)

Henry James

    
Daisy Miller
(1878)

Ulysses S. Grant

    
Chapter 16 from
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
(1885)

Ambrose Bierce

    
A Tough Tussle (1888)

    
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

    
The Revolt of  “Mother” (1891)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

    
If I Were a Man (1914)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

    
Sympathy (1896)

    
We Wear the Mask (1896)

    
The Scapegoat (1904)

Navajo, Pima, Inuit

    
Song from the Mountain Chant (1896)

    
Quail Song (1903)

    
Dance Song (1913–1918)

Stephen Crane

    
The Little Regiment (1896)

Kate Chopin

    
A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897)

    
Azélie (1897)

Charles W. Chesnutt

    
Uncle Wellington's Wives (1899)

Booker T. Washington

    
Chapter 2: Boyhood Days from
Up from Slavery
(1901)

Helen Keller

    
Chapters 4–7 from
The Story of My Life
(1903)

Jack London

    
The Call of the Wild
(1903)

Theodore Roosevelt

    
The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon (1903)

O. Henry

    
The Cop and the Anthem (1906)

    
The Ransom of Red Chief (1910)

Emma Goldman

    
What Is Patriotism? (1908)

Ezra Pound

    
Translations from Heine (from
Die Heimkehr
, Nos. 1, 4, 8 [Night Song]) (1911)

    
The Seafarer (1912)

    
The Garden (1916)

    
Meditatio (1916)

    
In a Station of the Metro (1916)

    
Alba (1916)

    
The Lake Isle (1917)

    
Song of the Bowmen of Shu (1917)

    
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (1917)

    
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (1917)

    
Lament of the Frontier Guard (1917)

    
Exile's Letter (1917)

    
Separation on the River Kiang (1917)

    
Homage to Sextus Propertius (Sections VII, IX) (1921)

Edith Wharton

    
Ethan Frome
(1911)

Carl Sandburg

    
Chicago (1914)

    
Fog (1916)

    
Window (1916)

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

    
The Garden (1915)

    
The Pool (1915)

    
Fragment XXXVI (1921)

    
Song (1921)

    
At Baia (1921)

T. S. Eliot

    
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

    
The Waste Land (1922)

Wallace Stevens

    
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)

    
Sunday Morning (1915)

    
The Worms at Heaven's Gate (1916)

    
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)

    
The Wind Shifts (1917)

    
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle (1918)

    
Earthy Anecdote (1919)

    
Anecdote of the Jar (1919)

    
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921)

    
The Snow Man (1921)

    
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb (1921)

    
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws (1921)

    
Bantams in Pine-Woods (1922)

    
The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1922)

William Carlos Williams

    
The Young Housewife (1916)

    
Pastoral (“When I was younger”) (1917)

    
Apology (1917)

    
Danse Russe (1917)

    
Smell! (1917)