The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 to 1922

by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)

Overview

"Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." — The Literary Sisters
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 supplement the authoritative texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486780771
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections , #2
Pages:	688
Sales rank:	776,156
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

An English professor at the City University of New York's Kingsborough College, Bob Blaisdell is the editor of numerous Dover Thrift Editions and many other books. He has published essays about his own experiences as a teacher and regularly reviews books for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor.

Table of Contents

Emily Dickinson

Poems: [Escape]; [Compensation]; "A wounded deer leaps highest"; "Heaven is what I cannot reach!"; [Hope]; "There’s a certain slant of light"; "I’m nobody! Who are you?"; "The nearest dream recedes, unrealized"; [The Master]; [In the Garden]; [Retrospect]; "I died for beauty, but was scarce"; [Dying]; "It was not death, for I stood up"; [The Railway Train]; [The Mystery of Pain]; [A Thunder-storm]; [The Lost Thought]; [The Snake]; "Nature rarer uses yellow"; [A Book]; [The Humming-Bird] (1860s-c.1885)

Letters: To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1862-1869)

Mark Twain

Travel Writing: Chapters 42 and 53 from Roughing It (1872)

Novel: Chapter 2 from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

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

Speech: "To the Whitefriars" (1899)

Sitting Bull, Tatanka Yotanka

Speeches: "Behold, My Friends, the Spring Is Come" (1875); "This Land Belongs to Us" (c. 1882)

Bret Harte

Short Story: "My Friend, the Tramp" (1878)

Henry James

Novella: Daisy Miller (1878)

Ulysses S. Grant

Autobiography: Chapter XVI from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)

Ambrose Bierce

Short Stories: "A Tough Tussle" (1888) and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Short Story: "The Revolt of ‘Mother’" (1891)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Short Stories: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and "If I Were a Man" (1914)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poems: "Sympathy" and "We Wear the Mask" (1896); Short Story: "The Scapegoat" (1904)

Navajo, Pima, Inuit

Native American Poems: "Song from the Mountain Chant"; "Quail Song"; "Dance Song" (1896-1918)

Stephen Crane

Short Story: "The Little Regiment" (1896)

Kate Chopin

Short Stories: "A Pair of Silk Stockings" (1897) and "Azelie" (1897)

Charles W. Chesnutt

Short Story: "Uncle Wellington’s Wives" (1899)

Booker T. Washington

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

Helen Keller

Autobiography: Chapters IV-VII from The Story of My Life (1903)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Essay: "Sorrow Songs" (1903)

Jack London

Novel: The Call of the Wild (1903)

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech: "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon" (1903)

O. Henry

Short Stories: "The Cop and the Anthem" (1906) and "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910)

Emma Goldman

Speech: "What Is Patriotism?" (1908)

Ezra Pound

Poems: "Translations from Heine" (from Die Heimkehr, Nos. 1, 4, 8 ["Night Song"]); "The Seafarer"; "The Garden"; "Meditatio"; "In a Station of the Metro"; "Alba"; "The Lake Isle"; "Song of the Bowmen of Shu"; "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter"; "The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance"; "Lament of the Frontier Guard"; "Exile’s Letter"; "Separation on the River Kiang"; "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (Sections VII, IX) (1911-1921)

Edith Wharton

Novel: Ethan Frome (1911)

Carl Sandburg

Poems: "Chicago" (1914); "Fog" and "Window" (1916)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Poems: "The Garden"; "The Pool"; "Fragment XXXVI"; "Song"; "At Baia" (1915-1921)

T.S. Eliot

Poems: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and "The Waste Land" (1922)

Wallace Stevens

Poems: "Peter Quince at the Clavier"; "Sunday Morning"; "The Worms at Heaven’s Gate"; "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"; "The Wind Shifts"; "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"; "Earthy Anecdotes"; "Anecdote of the Jar"; "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"; "The Snow Man"; "Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb"; "The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws"; "Bantams in Pine-Woods"; "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (1915-1922)

William Carlos Williams

Poems: "The Young Housewife"; "Pastoral (‘When I was younger’)"; "Apology"; "Danse Russe"; "Smell!"; "Spring Strains"; "To a Solitary Disciple"; "Dedication for a Plot of Ground"; "Le Medicin Malgre Lui"; "To Mark Anthony in Heaven"; "To Waken an Old Lady"; "Complaint"; "Complete Destruction"; "The Widow’s Lament in Springtime"; "The Lonely Street"; "The Great Figure" (1916-1921)

Theodore Dreiser

Short Story: "The Lost Phoebe" (1916)

Robert Frost

Poems: "The Road Not Taken"; "Meeting and Passing"; "Birches"; "A Time to Talk"; "The Line-Gang"; "The Sound of the Trees"; "Fragmentary Blue"; "Place for a Third"; "Fire and Ice" (1916-1920)

Rose Cohen

Memoir: FromOut of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side (1918)

Willa Cather

Short Story: "Paul’s Case" (1920)

Sherwood Anderson

Short Stories: "The Egg" and "The Other Woman" (1921)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems: "Thursday"; "To the Not Impossible Him"; "Exiled"; "Travel"(1921)

Langston Hughes

Poem: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)

Gertrude Stein

Prose: "Every Afternoon: A Dialogue" (1922)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Short Story: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922)