Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The Autobiography (Excerpt) 2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Cask of Amontillado 11 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Self-Reliance (Excerpt) 20 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter—— Chapter 2 28 Herman Melville (181%1891) Moby Dick—— Chapter 41 36 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden —— Chapter 2 (Excerpt) 47 19th-Century American Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 53 EdgarAllan Poe (1809-1849) 57 Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 60 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 63 Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 68 Henry James (1843-1916) The Jolly Corner 77 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Open Boat 104 Willa Cather (1873-1947) Miss Jewett 124 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) The Triumph of the Egg 133 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 143 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby —— Chapter 9 152 William Faulkner (1897-1962) Barn Burning 166 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 181 20th-Century American Poets (I) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 187 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 188 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 190 Robert Frost (1874-1963) 193 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 198 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) 202 Eugene Glastone ONeill (1888-1953) Desire Under the Elms —— Scene IV 208 Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985) Once More to the Lake 215 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire 222 Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) Invisible Man —— Chapter 1 243 20th-Century American Poets (H) Robert Lowell (1917-1977) 255 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) 258 Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) 263 Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 265 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) 267 Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 270 Robert Bly (1926-) 272 MayaAngelou (1928-) 275 Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Death of a Salesman Act II (Excerpt) 281 Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Looking for Mr. Green 295 Joseph Heller (1923-1999) Catch-22 (Chapter 41) 312 Toni Morrison (1931- ) Recitatif 323 Louise Erdrich (1954-) Lulu s Boys 339