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1 The Norton Anthology 01 American Literature SEVENTH EDITION Nina Baym, General Editor SWANLUND CHAIR AND CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ENGLISH JUBILEE PROFESSOR OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN VOLUME D Mary Loeffelhblz W W NORTON & COMPANY New York London

2 Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XV xxiii Introduction Timeline American Literature BLACK ELK ( ) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT ( ) 1193 Black Elk Speaks 1194 III. The Great Vision 1194 EDGAR LEE MASTERS ( ) 1206 Trainor, the Druggist 1207 Doc Hill 1207 Margaret Fuller Slack 1208 Abel Melveny 1208 Lucinda Matlock 1209 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ( ) 1209 LukeHavergal 1210 Richard Cory 1211 Miniver Cheevy 1211 Mr. Flood's Party 1212 WILLACATHER ( ) 1214 MyAntonia 1216 AMY LOWELL ( ) 1349 The Captured Goddess 1350 Venus Transiens 1352 Madonna of the Evening Flowers 1352 September, Meeting-House Hill 1354 Summer Night Piece 1354 St. Louis 1355 New Heavens for Old 1355

3 viii / CONTENTS GERTRUDE STEIN ( ) 1356 The Making of Americans 1358 [Introduction] 1358 WORLD WAR 1 AND ITS AFTERMATH 1371 ALAN SEEGER: I Have a Rendezvous with Death JOHN REED: One Solid Month of Liberty 1374 ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents 1377 E. E. CUMMINGS: From The Enormous Room 1379 JESSIE REDMON FAUSET: Front There Is Confusion 1382 JOHN ALLAN WYETH, Jr.: Fromereville 1384 GERTRUDE STEIN: Front The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1385 ROBERT FROST ( ) 1388 The Pasture 1389 Mowing 1389 Mending Wall 1390 The Death of the Hired Man 1391 Home Burial 1395 After Apple-Picking 1398 The Wood-Pile 1399 The Road Not Taken 1399 The Oven Bird 1400 Birches 1400 "Out, Out " 1402 Fire and Ice 1403 Nothing Gold Can Stay 1403 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1403 Departmental 1404 Desert Places 1405 Design 1405 Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 1406 Provide, Provide 1406 The Gift Outright 1407 Directive 1409 The Figure a Poem Makes 1409 SUSAN GLASPELL ( ) 1411 Trifles 1412 SHERWOOD ANDERSON ( ) 1421 Winesburg, Ohio 1422 Hands 1422 Mother 1426 Adventure 1431

4 CONTENTS / ix CARL SANDBURG ( ) 1436 Chicago 1437 Fog 1438 Cool Tombs 1438 Grass 1439 WALLACE STEVENS ( ) 1439 The Snow Man 1441 A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1441 The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1442 Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1443 Sunday Morning 1443 Anecdote of the Jar 1446 Peter Quince at the Clavier 1446 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1448 The Death of a Soldier 1450 The Idea of Order at Key West 1451 A Postcard from the Volcano 1452 Study of Two Pears 1453 Of Modern Poetry 1453 Asides on the Oboe 1454 The Plain Sense of Things 1455 MINALOY ( ) 1456 Parturition 1457 Brancusi's Golden Bird 1460 Lunar Baedeker 1461 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ( ) 1462 The Young Housewife 1464 Portrait of a Lady 1464 Queen-Anne's-Lace 1465 The Widow's Lament in Springtime 1466 Spring and All 1466 To Elsie 1467 The Red Wheelbarrow 1469 The Dead Baby 1469 The Wind Increases 1470 Death 1471 This Is Just to Say 1472 A Sort of a Song 1473 The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess") 1473 Burning the Christmas Greens 1473 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1475 The Dance ("When the snow falls the flakes") 1476 EZRA POUND ( ) 1477 To Whistler, American 1479 Portrait d'une Femme 1479 A Virginal 1480 A Pact 1481

5 x / CONTENTS The Rest 1481 In a Station of the Metro 1482 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1482 Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 1483 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) 1484 The Cantos 1492 I ("And then went down to the ship") 1492 XVII ("So that the vines burst from my fingers") 1494 XLV ("With Usura") 1497 MODERNIST MANIFESTOS 1499 F. T MARINETTI: From Manifesto of Futurism MINA LOY: Feminist Manifesto 1502 EZRA POUND: From A Retrospect 1505 WILLA CATHER: From The Novel Demeuble 1508 WILLIAM CARLOS: Williams: From Spring and All 1510 LANGSTON HUGHES: From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 1511 H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) ( ) 1514 Mid-day 1515 Oread 1516 Leda 1516 Fragment Helen 1518 The Walls Do Not Fall MARIANNE MOORE ( ) 1531 Poetry 1532 A Grave 1533 To a Snail 1534 What Are Years? 1535 The Paper Nautilus 1535 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits 1537 RAYMOND CHANDLER ( ) 1539 Red Wind 1541 T S. ELIOT ( ) 1574 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1577 Sweeney among the Nightingales 1580 From Tradition and the Individual Talent 1581

6 CONTENTS / xi Gerontion 1585 The Waste Land 1587 The Hollow Men 1599 Journey of the Magi 1602 Four Quartets 1603 Burnt Norton 1603 EUGENE O'NEILL ( ) 1607 Long Day's Journey into Night 1610 CLAUDE McKAY ( ) 1686 The Harlem Dancer 1687 Harlem Shadows 1687 The Lynching 1688 If We Must Die 1688 Africa 1688 America 1689 Outcast 1689 Moscow 1690 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER ( ) 1690 Flowering Judas 1691 ZORA NEALE HURSTON ( ) 1700 The Eatonville Anthology 1701 How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1710 The Gilded Six-Bits 1713 NELLALARSEN ( ) 1721 Quicksand 1722 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY ( ) 1803 Recuerdo 1804 I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 1805 [I, being born a woman] 1805 Apostrophe to Man 1805 I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 1806 The Snow Storm 1806 I Forgot for a Moment 1807 E. E. CUMMINGS ( ) 1807 Thy fingers make early flowers of 1808 in Just sweet spontaneous 1809 Buffalo Bill's 1810 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 1811 "next to of course god america i sing of Olaf glad and big 1811 somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond 1813 anyone lived in a pretty how town 1813 my father moved through dooms of love 1814 pity this busy monster,manunkind 1816

7 xii / CONTENTS JEAN TOOMER ( ) 1816 Cane 1817 Georgia Dusk 1817 Fern 1818 Portrait in Georgia 1821 Seventh Street 1821 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ( ) 1822 Winter Dreams 1823 Babylon Revisited 1839 JOHN DOS PASSOS ( ) 1853 U.S.A The Big Money 1854 Newsreel LXVIII 1854 The Camera Eye (51) 1856 WILLIAM FAULKNER ( ) 1858 As I Lay Dying 1860 Barn Burning 1955 HART CRANE ( ) 1968 Chaplinesque 1969 At Melville's Tomb 1969 Voyages 1970 I ("Above the fresh ruffles of the surf) 1970 III ("Infinite consanguinity it bears ") 1971 V ("Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime") 1971 The Bridge 1972 To Brooklyn Bridge 1972 From II. Powhatan's Daughter 1973 VII. The Tunnel 1977 ERNEST HEMINGWAY ( ) 1980 The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1983 THOMAS WOLFE ( ) 1999 The Lost Boy 2001 STERLING BROWN ( ) 2020 Mister Samuel and Sam 2021 He Was a Man 2022 Master and Man 2024 Break of Day 2024 Bitter Fruit of the Tree 2025 LANGSTON HUGHES ( ) 2026 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2027 Mother to Son 2028 I, Too 2028 The Weary Blues 2029

8 CONTENTS / xiii Mulatto 2029 Song for a Dark Girl 2031 Genius Child 2031 Visitors to the Black Belt 2032 Note on Commercial Theatre 2032 Vagabonds 2033 Words Like Freedom 2033 Madam and Her Madam 2033 Freedom [1] 2034 Madam's Calling Cards 2035 Silhouette 2035 Theme for English B 2036 KAY BOYLE ( ) The White Horses of Vienna 2038 JOHN STEINBECK ( ) The Leader of the People 2050 COUNTEE CULLEN ( ) Yet Do I Marvel 2061 Incident 2061 Heritage 2062 From the Dark Tower 2065 Uncle Jim 2065 RICHARD WRIGHT ( ) The Man Who Was Almost a Man CARLOS BULOSAN ( ) Be American SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX Al A17 A21

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