ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SIXTH EDITION ' \ VOLUME II Realism to the Present GENERAL EDITOR GEORGE MCMICHAEL California State University, Hayward FREDERICK CREWS ADVISORY EDITORS University of California, Berkeley J. C. LEVENSON University of Virginia LEO MARX Massachusetts Institute of Technology DAVID E. SMITH Hampshire College SUB GiSttlngen 207 772 525 PRENTICE HALL, UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NEW JERSEY 07458
Preface xxix The Age of Realism 1 WALT WHITMAN 9 (1819-1892) Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 11 FROM Inscriptions One's-SelflSing 26 When I read the book 26 Song of Myself 26 FROM Children of Adam From pent-up aching rivers 73 Out of the rolling ocean the crowd 75 Once I pass'd through a populous city 76 Facing west from California's shores 76 FROM Calamus In paths untrodden 76 Scented herbage of my breast 77 For You O Democracy 78 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing 79 I hear it was charged against me 79 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 80 FROM Sea-Drift Out of the cradle endlessly rocking 84 As I ebb'd with the ocean of life 89 FROM By the Roadside When I heard the learn'd astronomer 91 The Dalliance of the Eagles 92 FROM Drum-Taps Beat! Beat! Drums! 92 Cavalry Crossing a Ford 93 Bivouac on a Mountain Side 93 Vigil strange I kept on the field one night 94 iii
iv Contents A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown 95 A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim 96 The Wound-Dresser 96 Give me the splendid silent sun 99 FROM Memories of President Lincoln 100 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd 100 FROM Autumn Rivulets There was a child went forth 107 Passage to India 108 The Sleepers 116 FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death Chanting the square deific 123 A noiseless patient spider 124 FROM Noon to Starry Night To a Locomotive in Winter 125 FROM Goody-Bye My Fancy L. of G.'s Purport 126 FROM Democratic Vistas 126 EMILY DICKINSON 148 (1830-1886) 49 I never lost as much but twice 150 67 Success is counted sweetest 150 125 For each ecstatic instant 150 130 These are the days when Birds come back 151 165 A Wounded Deer leaps highest 151 185 "Faith" is a fine invention 152 210 The thought beneath so slight a film 152 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 152 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 152 241 Hike a look of Agony 153 249 Wild Nights Wild Nights! 153 258 There's a certain Slant of light 153 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 154 287 A Clock stopped 154 303 The Soul selects her own Society 155 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 155 328 A Bird came down the Walk 156 338 I know that He exists. 156 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 157 401 What Soft Cherubic Creatures 157 414 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch 157 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 158
441 This is my letter to the World 158 448 This was a Poet It is That 159 449 I died for Beauty but was scarce 159 465 I heard a Fly buzz when I died 159 510 It was not Death, for I stood up 160 520 I started Early Took my Dog 161 585 I like to see it lap the Miles 161 613 They shut me up in Prose 162 632 The Brain is wider than the sky 162 640 I cannot live with \bu 162 650 Pain has an Element of Blank 164 657 I dwell in Possibility 164 670 One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted 164 709 Publication is the Auction 165 712 Because I could not stop for Death 165 732 She rose to His Requirement dropt 166 745 Renunciation is a piercing Virtue 166 754 My life had stood a Loaded Gun 167 764 Presentiment is that long Shadow on the Lawn 168 976 Death is a Dialogue between 168 986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 168 1052 I never saw a Moor 169 1078 The Bustle in a House 169 1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant 169 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till argued him narrow 169 1463 A Route of Evanescence 170 1545 The Bible is an antique Volume 170 1624 Apparently with no surprise 170 1670 In Winter in my Room 170 1732 My life closed twice before its close 171 1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee 172 1760 Elysium is as far as to 172 v MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN 172 (1852-1930) A New England Nun 173 SARAH ORNE JEWETT 182 (1849-1909) A White Heron 183
BRET HARTE 190 (1836-1902) Tennessee's Partner 191 GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE 197 (1844-1925) Belles Demoiselles Plantation 199 CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT 211 (1858-1932) The Goophered Grapevine 212 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS 220 (1848-1908) How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox 221 Free Joe and the Rest of the World 222 MARK TWAIN 231 (1835-1910) The Dandy Frightening the Squatter 233 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 234 The Story of the Bad Little Boy 238 FROM Old Times on the Mississippi [A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot] 241 A"Cub" Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River 246 The Continued Perplexities of "Cub" Piloting 254 Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech 262 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 266 How to Tell a Story 450 The War Prayer 453 FROM Letters from the Earth Letter III 456 Letter IV 457
vii WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 460 (1837-1920) Editha 462 FROM Criticism and Fiction 472 HENRY JAMES 487 (1843-1916) Daisy Miller: A Study 489 The Real Thing 528 The Beast in the Jungle 545 The Turn of the Screw 575 The Art of Fiction 646 AMBROSE BIERCE 661 (1842-1914) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 662 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 668 (1860-1935) The Yellow Wall-Paper 671 KATE CHOPIN 682 (1851-1904) The Awakening 683 STEPHEN CRANE 775 (1871-1900) Black riders came from the sea 776 In the desert 776 A god in wrath 777 I saw a man pursuing the horizon 777 Supposing that I should have the courage 777 On the horizon the peaks assembled 778 A man feared that he might find an assassin 778 Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind 778
A man said to the universe A man adrift on a slim spar The Red Badge of Courage The Open Boat Contents 779 779 780 862 FRANK NORMS 879 (1870-1902) A Deal in Wheat 880 JACK LONDON 888 (1876-1916) The Law of Life 889 EDITH WHARTON 894 (1862-1937) The Other Two Roman Fever 896 910 THEODORE DREISER 919 (1871-1945) Free 920 HENRY ADAMS 942 (1838-1918) FROM The Education of Henry Adams 943 Twentieth-Century Literature 985 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 992 (1869-1935) Luke Havergal Zola 993 994
Richard Cory 994 Cliff Klingenhagen 994 Miniver Cheevy 995 How Annandale Went Out 996 Eros Turannos 996 Mr. Flood's Party 998 ix ROBERT FROST 999 (1874-1963) Mending Wall 1000 Home Burial 1001 After Apple-Picking 1004 The Road Not Taken 1005 An Old Man's Win ter Nigh t 1006 Birches 1006 The Oven Bird 1008 The Witch of Coos 1008 For Once, Then, Something 1012 Fire and Ice 1012 Design 1012 Nothing Gold Can Stay 1013 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1013 Acquainted with the Night 1014 West-Running Brook 1014 Desert Places 1016 Neither out Far Nor in Deep 1017 The Silken Tent 1017 Directive 1018 In Winter in the Woods Alone 1019 CARL SANDBURG 1020 (1878-1967) Chicago 1021 The Harbor 1021 Happiness 1022 Graceland 1022 Fog 1023 Cool Tombs 1023 Grass 1023
x Contents WILLA CATHER 1024 (1873-1947) A Wagner Matinee 1025 Neighbour Rosicky 1030 ELLEN GLASGOW 1051 (1873-1945) The Difference 1052 GERTRUDE STEIN 1067 (1874-1946) FROM Three Lives The Gentle Lena 1070 Susie Asado 1090 Picasso 1090 A Movie 1092 SHERWOOD ANDERSON 1094 (1876-1941) Death in the Woods 1095 JOHN DOS PASSOS 1103 (1896-1970) FROM U.S.A. Preface 1105 FROM The 42nd Parallel Proteus 1106 FROM 1919 Newsreel XLIII 1108 The Body of an American 1110 FROM The Big Money Newsreel LXVI 1114 The Camera Eye (50) 1115 Newsreel LXVIII 1116 Vag 1119
EUGENE O'NEILL 1120 (1888-1953) The Hairy Ape 1122 EZRA POUND 1152 (1885-1972) Portrait d'une Femme - 1153 Salutation 1154 A Pact 1155 In a Station of the Metro 1155 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1155 FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley I [E. P. Ode pour l'election de son Sepulchre] 1156 II [The age demanded an image] 1157 III [The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.] 1157 IV [These fought in any case] 1158 V [There died a myriad] 1159 FROM The Cantos I [And then went down to the ship] 1159 II [Hang it all, Robert Browning] 1162 XLV [With Usura] 1166 LXXXI [What thou lovest well remains] 1167 A Retrospect 1168 T. S. ELIOT 1175 (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1177 Preludes 1180 Gerontion 1182 The Waste Land 1184 Notes on 'The Waste Land" 1196 Journey of the Magi 1201 Burnt Norton 1202 Tradition and the Individual Talent 1207 HILDA DOOLITTLE (H. D.) 1213 (1886-1961) Mid-Day 1214 Garden 1215 Oread 1216
xii Contents Leda 1216 Heliodora 1217 Helen 1220 Epitaph 1221 E. E. CUMMINGS 1221 (1894-1962) [in Just-]. 1222 [O sweet spontaneous] 1223 [Buffalo Bill's defunct] 1224 [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] 1224 [nobody loses all the time] 1225 ["next to of course god america i"] 1226 [my sweet old etcetera] 1226 [i sing of Olaf glad and big] 1227 [somewhere i have never travelled.gladly beyond] 1228 [r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r] 1228 [anyone lived in a pretty how town] 1229 [pity this busy monster,manunkind] 1230 [when serpents bargain for the right to squirm] 1231 [l(a] 1231 HART CRANE 1231 (1899-1932) Chaplinesque 1233 At Melville's Tomb 1233 Voyages 1234 FROM The Bridge To Brooklyn Bridge 1236 Powhatan's Daughter 1237 The Harbor Dawn 1237 Van Winkle 1238 The River 1240 The Dance 1244 Indiana 1246 The Tunnel 1248 Atlantis 1252 WALLACE STEVENS 1255 (1879-1955) Peter Quince at the Clavier 1256
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1258 Sunday Morning 1259 The Death of a Soldier 1262 Anecdote of the Jar 1262 A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1263 The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1263 The Idea of Order at Key West 1264 The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air 1265 Of Modern Poetry 1266 No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 1267 Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour 1268 The Plain Sense of Things 1268 xiii WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1269 (1883-1963) Con Brio 1270 The Young Housewife 1271 Pastoral 1271 Tract 1272 Danse Russe 1274 Queen-Ann's-Lace 1274 Spring and All 1275 To Elsie 1276 The Red Wheelbarrow 1277 At the Ball Game 1278 Between Walls 1279 This Is Just to Say 1279 The Yachts 1280 These 1281 Seafarer 1282 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1282 The Knife of the Times 1283 The Use of Force 1285 ROBINSON JEFFERS 1288 (1887-1962) Boats in a Fog 1289 Hurt Hawks 1289 Shine, Perishing Republic 1290 The Purse-Seine 1291
xiv Contents MARIANNE MOORE 1292 (1887-1972) To a Steam Roller 1293 The Fish 1294 Poetry 1295 No Swan So Fine 1296 The Student 1296 The Pangolin 1298 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1300 In Distrust of Merits 1301 COUNTEE CULLEN 1303 (1903-1946) Yet Do I Marvel 1304 For a Lady I Know 1305 Incident 1305 From the Dark Tower 1305 A Brown Girl Dead 1306 Heritage 1306 Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song 1309 JOHN CROWE RANSOM 1310 (1888-1974) Here Lies a Lady 1311 Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1311 Captain Carpenter 1312 Blue Girls 1314 Piazza Piece 1314 LOUISE BOGAN 1315 (1897-1970) Medusa 1316 The Frightened Man 1317 Ad Castitatem 1317 My Voice Not Being Proud 1318 The Crows 1318 Women 1319 Evening in the Sanitarium 1319 Night 1320
JEAN TOOMER 1321 (1894-1967) Blood-Burning Moon 1322 ZORA NEALE HURSTON 1328 (1901?-1960) The Gilded Six-Bits 1329 THOMAS WOLFE 1337 (1900-1938) Only the Dead Know Brooklyn 1339 The Far and the Near 1342 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1345 (1896-1940) The Rich Boy 1346 Babylon Revisited 1372 ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1387 (1899-1961) The Killers 1388 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 1395 WILLIAM FAULKNER 1416 (1897-1962) The Evening Sun 1418 A Rose for Emily 1429 LANGSTON HUGHES 1436 (1902-1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1437 The Weary Blues 1437
xvi Contents Young Gal's Blues 1438 I, Too 1438 Note on Commercial Theatre 1438 Dream Boogie 1440 Harlem 1441 Theme for English B 1441 On the Road 1442 JOHN STEINBECK 1445 (1902-1968) Flight 1446 KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 1459 (1890-1980) Flowering Judas 1460 JAMES THURBER 1469 (1894-1961) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1471 EUDORA WELTY 1475 (1909- ) Death of a Traveling Salesman 1476 RAYMOND CHANDLER 1485 (1888-1959) Red Wind 1486 RICHARD WRIGHT 1521 (1908-1960) FROM Eight Men The Man Who Was Almost a Man 1522
xvii RALPH ELLISON 1530 (1914-1994) FROM Invisible Man Chapter 1 1531 " TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 1541 (1911-1983) The Glass Menagerie 1544 ARTHUR MILLER 1589 (1915- ) Death of a Salesman 1592 LORRAINE HANSBERRY 1656 (1930-1965) A Raisin in the Sun 1658 GWENDOLYN BROOKS 1716 (1917- ) Kitchenette Building 1717 The Mother 1717 Sadie and Maud 1718 The Children of the Poor 1719 We Real Cool 1720 The Lovers of the Poor 1720 The Blackstone Rangers 1722 THEODORE ROETHKE 1724 (1908-1963) Dolor 1725 Open House 1726 Cuttings 1726 Cuttings (Later) 1727 Root Cellar 1727
xviii Contents My Papa's Waltz 1727 The Lost Son 1728 I Knew a Woman 1732 In a Dark Time 1733 RANDALL JARRELL 1734 (1914-1965) Losses 1735 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 1736 A Girl in a Library 1736 In Montecito 1739 ELIZABETH BISHOP 1740 (1911-1979) A Miracle for Breakfast 1741 The Fish 1742 Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance 1743 Visits to St. Elizabeths 1745 Sestina 1747 The Armadillo 1748 Brazil, January 1, 1502 1750 In the Waiting Room 1751 One Art 1753 In the Village 1754 ROBERT LOWELL 1767 (1917-1977) The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 1769 Mr. Edwards and the Spider 1773 Memories of West Street and Lepke 1774 Skunk Hour 1776 For the Union Dead 1777 Waking Early Sunday Morning 1779 Will Not Come Back 1782 JOHN BERRYMAN 1782 (1914-1972) The Ball Poem 1784 A Professor's Song 1784 FROM Dream Songs
1 1785 14 1786 29 1786 45 1787 48 53 1787 1788 75 1789 76 Henry's Confession 1789 143 1790 224 Eighty 1790 382 1791 384 1791 385 1792 xix RICHARD WILBUR 1793 (1921- ) Mined Country 1793 Museum Piece 1794 Still, Citizen Sparrow 1795 Juggler 1796 Marginalia 1796 Lamarck Elaborated 1797 A Hole in the Floor 1798 Playboy 1799 Lying 1800 Leaving 1802 Trolling for Blues 1803 A Finished Man 1803 ALLEN GINSBERG 1804 (1926- ) Howl 1805 A Supermarket in California 1813 America 1814 To Aunt Rose 1817 American Change 1818 Mugging 1820 ADRIENNE RICH 1823 (1929- ) At a Bach Concert 1824 Living in Sin 1825
xx Contents Breakfast in a Bowling Alley in Utica, New York 1825 Diving into the Wreck 1826 Mother-in-Law 1829 Divisions of Labor 1830 DENISE LEVERTOV 1831 (1923- ) Beyond the End 1831 Pure Products 1832 Come into Animal Presence 1833 The Ache of Marriage 1834 O Taste and See 1834 Abel's Bride 1835 Mad Song 1835 A Hunger 1836 Zeroing In 1836 ANNE SEXTON 1837 (1928-1974) The Farmer's Wife 1838 Ringing the Bells 1839 All My Pretty Ones 1839 And One for My Dame 1841 The Addict 1842 Us 1843 Rowing 1844 SYLVIA PLATH 1845 (1932-1963) All the Dead Dears 1846 Two Views of a Cadaver Room 1848 The Bee Meeting 1848 Lady Lazarus 1850 Ariel 1852 The Applicant 1853 Daddy 1855 Fever 103 1857
xxi JAMES DICKEY 1859 (1923- ) The Lifeguard 1860 Reincarnation (I) 1861 In the Mountain Tent 1862 Cherrylog Road 1863 The Shark's Parlor 1866 W. S. MERWIN 1868 (1927- ) Grandfather in the Old Men's Home 1869 The Drunk in the Furnace 1870 Noah's Raven 1870 The Dry Stone Mason 1871 Fly 1871 Strawberries 1872 Direction 1872 Thanks 1873 The Morning Train 1874 JAMES WRIGHT 1875 (1927-1980) Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 1876 Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me 1876 A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place 1877 A Blessing 1877 In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned 1878 A. R. AMMONS 1878 (1926- ) So I Said I Am Ezra 1880 Gravelly Run 1893 Corsons Inlet 1881 The Unifying Principle 1884 Sight Seed 1885
xxii Contents Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything 1886 The Damned 1888 LOUISE GLUCK 1889 (1943- ) Hesitate to Call 1889 The Chicago Train 1890 The Edge 1890 My Neighbor in the Mirror 1890 Thanksgiving 1891 Mock Orange 1891 The Reproach 1892 Celestial Music 1893 Vespers 1894 Field Flowers 1895 AMY CLAMPITT 1895 (1920-1994) The Kingfisher 1896 Marginal Employment 1897 Berceuse 1898 Witness 1899 Burial in Cypress Hills 1899 Archaic Figure 1901 Man Feeding Pigeons 1902 A Whippoorwill in the Woods 1903 A Winter Burial 1904 The Subway Singer 1905 JAMES BALDWIN 1906 (1924-1987) Sonny's Blues 1907 FLANNERY O'CONNOR 1929 (1925-1964) A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1930 Good Country People 1941
JOHN UPDIKE 1955 (1932- ) Flight 1957 PHILIP ROTH 1968 (1933- ) The Conversion of the Jews 1969 BERNARD MALAMUD 1979 (1914-1986) The Magic Barrel 1980 TILLIE OLSEN 1992 (1913- ) I Stand Here Ironing 1993 TOMAS RIVERA 1998 (1935-1984)... And the Earth Did Not Part 1999 AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) 2002 (1934- ) In Memory of Radio 2003 The Bridge 2004 Notes for a Speech 2005 An Agony. As Now. 2006 A Poem for Democrats 2007 A Poem for Speculative Hipsters 2008 A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand 2009 Poem for Half-White College Students 2009 Biography 2010 Dutchman 2011
xxiv SONIA SANCHEZ 2024 (1934- ) Contents the final solution/ 2025 to blk/record/buyers 2026 FROM right on: wite america 3. 2027 young/black/girl 2027 womanhood 2029 Masks 2031 "Just Don't Never Give Up on Love" 2032 RITA DOVE 2034 (1952- ) Kentucky, 1833 2036 Adolescence I 2036 Adolescence II 2037 Adolescence III 2037 Banneker 2038 Jiving 2039 The Zeppelin Factory 2040 Under the Viaduct, 1932 2041 Roast Possum 2041 Weathering Out 2043 Daystar 2043 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 2044 (1940- ) No Name Woman 2045 EDWARD ALBEE 2054 (1928- ) The Zoo Story 2055 SAUL BELLOW 2071 (1915- ) Seize the Day 2072
THOMAS PYNCHON 2138 (1937- ) Entropy 2139 TONI CADE BAMBARA 2151 (1939- ) The Hammer Man 2152 JOYCE CAROL OATES 2156 (1938- ) How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again 2158 ALICE WALKER 2169 (1944- ) Everyday Use 2170 AMY TAN 2176 (1952- ) FROM The Joy Luck Club Half and Half 2177 DONALD BARTHELME 2186 (1931-1989) The School 2187 ANN BEATTIE 2189 (1947- ) The Lawn Party 2190
xxvi Contents BOBBIE ANN MASON 2200 (1940- ) Shiloh 2201 GLORIA NAYLOR 2211 (1950- ) FROM The Women of Brewster Place Lucielia Louise Turner 2212 LESLIE MARMON SILKO 2222 (1948- ) The Man to Send Rain Clouds 2223 Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand 2226 RAYMOND CARVER 2232 (1938-1988) Cathedral 2233 DON DELILLO 2243 (1936- ) FROM White Noise 2244 SANDRA CISNEROS 2287 (1954- ) FROM Woman Hollering Creek Mericans 2287 LOUISE ERDRICH 2290 (1954- ) FROM Love Medicine The Red Convertible (1974) 2291
TONI MORRISON 2298 (1931- ) xxvii FROM Sula 1922 2299 Reference Works, Bibliographies 2309 Criticism, Literary and Cultural History 2312 Chronology 2317 Acknowledgments 2344 Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines 2357