The United States in Literature
By: [compiled by] James E. Miller, Jr., Robert Hayden [and] Robert O'Neal
Contributors: Blair, Walter, 1900-
Edition: The Glass Menagerie Edition
Series: America Reads
Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Glenview, Il, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780673034274
Copyright date: 1973
Other titles: Literature of the United States.
Notes: Previous editions compiled by W. Blair and others published under title: The literature of the United States.

Grade 11.
Table of contents: title: William Faulkner; title: Nobel Acceptance Speech; title: N Scott Momaday; title: From The Way to Rainy Mountain; title: Bernard Malamud; title: The First Seven Years; title: The Nobel Prize; title: The Pulitzer Prize; title: The National Book Awards; title: Karl Shapiro; title: Auto Wreck; title: Ralph Ellison; title: Did You Ever Dream Lucky?; title: Willa Cather; title: The Sculptor's Funeral; title: Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Piano After War; title: Mentors; title: Amy Lowell; title: Patterns; title: William Saroyan; title: The Oyster and the Pearl; title: Randall Jarrell; title: The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner; title: Sinclair Lewis; title: From Babbitt; title: John Steinbeck; title: From Travels with Charley; title: THE AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION' 1607 / 1899 PAGE 1C; title: JAMES THURBER THE LAST FLOWER PACE 2C; title: chapter one PLANTERS AND PURITANS; title: WILLIAM BRADFORD; title: 20 C from THE HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION; title: 23 C THE PILGRIMS MEET THE INDIANS; title: CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH; title: 25 C CAPTAIN SMITH AMONG THE INDIANS; title: ANNE BRADSTREET; title: 28 C UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE; title: WILLIAM BYRD II; title: 30 C from A PROGRESS TO THE MINES IN THE YEAR 1732; title: JONATHAN EDWARDS; title: 33 C from SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD; title: ESTHER EDWARDS; title: 36 C "... THE AWFUL SWEETNESS OF WALKING WITH GOD"; title: COTTON MATHER; title: 38 C from THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD (1693); title: A COLONIAL BEST SELLER 41 C; title: EDWARD TAYLOR; title: 42 C UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY; title: 43 C UPON WHAT BASE?; title: THEN AND NOW 45 C; title: ARTHUR MILLER; title: 46 C from THE CRUCIBLE; title: chapter two FOUNDERS OF THE NATION; title: HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR; title: 52 C WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?; title: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; title: 55 C from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1706 / 1730; title: 59 C from THE WAY TO WEALTH; title: 60 C SPEECH IN THE CONVENTION, AT THE CONCLUSION OF ITS DELIBERATIONS, SEPTEMBER 17, 1787; title: THOMAS JEFFERSON; title: 69 C THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; title: WILLIAM BARTRAM; title: 73 C from TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA; title: 74 C OBSERVATIONS ON THE CREEK AND CHEROKEE INDIANS; title: THOMAS PAINE; title: 64 C from THE AMERICAN CRISIS; title: PHILLIS WHEATLEV; title: 66 C TO S. M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER ON SEEING HIS WORKS; title: 67 C HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON; title: THEN AND NOW 77 C; title: THOMAS JEFFERSON; title: 78 C A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED; title: chapter three EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD; title: WASHINGTON IRVING; title: 84 C from KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK; title: 85 C THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER; title: JAMES FENIMORE COOPER; title: 94 C from THE DEERSLAYER; title: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT; title: 101 C HYMN OF THE CITY; title: 101 C THANATOPSIS; title: EDGAR ALLAN POE; title: 104 C THE BLACK CAT; title: 109 C THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER; title: 119 C ANNABEL LEE; title: 119 C TO HELEN; title: 120 C THE SLEEPER 120 C THE LAKE—TO—; title: THEN AND NOW 123 C; title: SAMUEL CLEMENS; title: 124 C from FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENSES; title: chapter four RENAISSANCE PAGE 126 C; title: TRANSCENDENTALISM 128 C; title: RALPH WALDO EMERSON; title: 129 C FABLE; title: 130 C from "NATURE" / I BECOME A TRANSPARENT EYEBALL; title: 131 C from "SELF-RELIANCE" / A NONCONFORMIST; title: 132 C from "SELF-RELIANCE" / TRAVELING; title: 132 C from "SELF-RELIANCE" / RELIANCE ON PROPERTY; title: 133 C from "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR" / MAN THINKING; title: 134 C from "THE POET" / THE SUBLIME VISION; title: 135 C EACH AND ALL; title: 135 C BRAHMA; title: 136 C DAYS; title: 136 C TERMINUS; title: HENRY DAVID THOREAU; title: 140 C from WALDEN / WHY I WENT TO THE WOODS; title: 141 C from WALDEN / THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS; title: 143 C from WALDEN / WHY I LEFT THE WOODS; title: 145 C from CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE; title: EDITORIAL FEATURE 153 C; title: THE FACTORY GIRLS OF LOWELL; title: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; title: 155 C THE BIRTHMARK; title: HERMAN MELVILLE; title: 164 C from A PASSAGE TO THE ENCHANTED ISLES: LAS ENCANTADAS; title: 168 C SHILOH; title: 169 C STONEWALL )ACKSON 169 C THE PORTENT (1859); title: THEN AND NOW 172 C; title: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.; title: 173 C A LEGACY OF CREATIVE PROTEST; title: WEBB MILLER; title: 174 C from HOMAGE TO GANDHI; title: MARTIN BUBER; title: 175 C MAN'S DUTY AS MAN VIM; title: chapter live END OF AN ERA; title: THE FIRESIDE POETS; title: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; title: 178 C DIVINA COMMEDIA I and II; title: 179 C NATURE; title: 179 C MEZZO CAMMIN; title: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; title: 180 C THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS; title: 181 C THE LAST LEAF; title: JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL; title: 182 C THE BIGLOVV PAPERS; title: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; title: 183 C ICHABOD; title: 184 C TELLING THE BEES; title: CRISIS WITHIN; title: SPIRITUALS; title: 188 C SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT; title: 188 C DEEP RIVER; title: 188 C GO DOWN, MOSES; title: JAMES W. C. PENNINGTON; title: 189 C ESCAPE: A SLAVE NARRATIVE; title: FREDERICK DOUGLASS; title: 201 C from WHAT THE BLACK MAN WANTS; title: EDITORIAL FEATURE 204 C; title: SINGERS IN BLUE AND CRAY; title: HENRY TIMROD; title: 206 C CHARLESTON 206 C ODE; title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN; title: 208 C SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1865; title: SIDNEY LANIER; title: 210 C THE CLOUD; title: 212 C THE RAVEN DAYS; title: THEN AND NOW 214 C; title: BARRIE STAVIS; title: 215 C from HARPERS FERRY; title: chapter six THE MODERN TEMPER; title: SAMUEL CLEMENS; title: 222 C THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY; title: 225 C from LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI; title: 228C THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED; title: 237 C THE WAR PRAYER; title: WALT WHITMAN; title: 241 C I HEAR AMERICA SINGING; title: 242 C THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH; title: 243 C CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY; title: 246 C SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL; title: 247 C CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD; title: 247 C BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE; title: 247 C TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST; title: 247 C A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER; title: AMBROSE BIERCE; title: 251 C AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE; title: FOLK SONGS OF THE WEST; title: 257 C SHENANDOAH; title: 257 C THE WAGONER'S LAD; title: EMILY DICKINSON; title: 258 C THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD; title: 258 C SURGEONS MUST BE VERY CAREFUL; title: 258 C MUCH MADNESS IS DIVINEST SENSE; title: 258 C A MAN MAY MAKE A REMARK; title: 258 C IN THIS SHORT LIFE; title: 258 C OPINION IS A FLITTING THING; title: 259 C I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED; title: 259 C A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS; title: 259 C THE SUN WENT DOWN-NO MAN LOOKED ON; title: 259 C TO MAKE A PRAIRIE IT TAKES A CLOVER AND ONE BEE; title: IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL; title: WE LEARNED THE WHOLE OF LOVE; title: OF ALL THE SOULS THAT STAND CREATE; title: I NEVER HEAR THE WORD "ESCAPE"; title: I FELT A FUNERAL, IN MY BRAIN; title: I YEARS HAD BEEN FROM HOME; title: HAD I NOT SEEN THE SUN; title: THIS WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION; title: I HEARD A FLY BUZZ—WHEN I DIED; title: BECAUSE I COULD NOT; title: STOP FOR DEATH; title: 262 C DEATH IS THE SUPPLE SUITOR; title: STEPHEN CRANE; title: 264 C THE OPEN BOAT; title: 276 C A MAN ADRIFT ON A SLIM SPAR; title: 277 C THE LIVID LIGHTNINGS FLASHED IN THE CLOUDS; title: 277 C THE WAYFARER; title: 277 C A NEWSPAPER IS A COLLECTION OF HALF-INJUSTICES; title: EDITH WHARTON; title: 280 C A JOURNEY; title: THEN AND NOW 286 C; title: AMY LOWELL; title: 287 C from WALT WHITMAN AND THE NEW POETRY; title: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; title: chapter seven THE NEW SHORT STORY; title: THEODORE DREISER; title: 4M MCEWEN OF THE SHINING SLAVE MAKERS; title: SHERWOOD ANDERSON; title: 13 M BROTHER DEATH; title: KATHERINE ANNE PORTER; title: 22 M THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL; title: FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD; title: 29 M BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR; title: WILLIAM FAULKNER; title: 43 M THE BEAR; title: ERNEST HEMINGWAY; title: 52 M IN ANOTHER COUNTRY; title: JOHN STEINBECK; title: 56 M FLIGHT; title: RICHARD WRIGHT; title: 66 M THE MAN WHO SAW THE FLOOD; title: EUDORA WELTY; title: 70 M A WORN PATH; title: PRUDENCIO DE PEREDA; title: 75 M CONQUISTADOR; title: CARSON MCCULLERS; title: 83 M THE HAUNTED BOY; title: DONALD BARTHELME; title: 91 M THE lOKER'S GREATEST TRIUMPH; title: JOHN UPDIKE; title: 96 M THE FAMILY MEADOW; title: AMERICO PAREDES; title: 100 M THE HAMMON AND THE BEANS; title: chapter eight ARTICLE AND ESSAY PAGE 104 M; title: E. B. WHITE; title: 106 M WALDEN; title: GEORGE SANTAYANA; title: 11 1 M WAR; title: ART BUCHWALD; title: 113 M THE FEMININE MI5TAQUE; title: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY; title: 115 M FEAR; title: H. L. MENCKEN; title: 120 M from THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE; title: ARCHIBALD MACLEISH; title: 124 M ARS POETICA; title: DONALD STAUFFER; title: 124 M MACLEISH'S "ARS POETICA"; title: THEODORE SPENCER; title: 127 M HOW TO CRITICIZE A POEM; title: chapter nine BIOGRAPHY PAGE 130 M; title: JAMES BALDWIN; title: 132 M from NOTES OF A NATIVE SON; title: JOHN DOS PASSOS; title: 137 M ARCHITECT; title: LORRAINE HANSBERRY; title: 140 M from TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK; title: EDGAR LEE MASTERS; title: 144 M DREISER AT SPOON RIVER; title: JESSE STUART; title: 153 M COUNTRY SCHOOLTEACHER; title: chapter ten POETRY: DEVELOPMENTS AND DEPARTURES PAGE 158 M; title: T. S. ELIOT; title: 160 M THE LOVE OF SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK; title: EZRA POUND; title: 164 M IN A STATION OF THE METRO; title: 164 M PORTRAIT D'UNE FEMME; title: 165 M EPITAPHS FU I, LI PO); title: HILDA DOOLITTLE (H.D.J; title: 166 M PALLAS; title: 167 M HEAT; title: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS; title: 168 M SPRING AND ALL; title: 169 M THE BOTTICELLIAN TREES; title: THE NEW POETRY MOVEMENT 170 M; title: EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON; title: 180 M MINIVER CHEEVY; title: 180 M RICHARD CORY; title: 181 M CASSANDRA; title: CARL SANDBURG; title: 183 M GONE; title: 184 M COOL TOMBS; title: 185 M CHICAGO; title: 186 M from "FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND"; title: EDGAR LEE MASTERS; title: 188 M LUCINDA MATLOCK; title: 188 M RICHARD BONE; title: 188 M MRS. CHARLES BLISS; title: 189 M JOHN M. CHURCH; title: 190 M HANNAH ARMSTRONG; title: 190 M THE VILLAGE ATHEIST; title: VACHEL LINDSAY; title: 192 M GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN; title: STEPHEN VINCENT BENET; title: 194 M from JOHN BROWNS BODY,; title: BOOK IV / "lOHN BROWN LIES DEAD IN HIS GRAVE . . ."; title: 195 M from JOHN BROWN S BODY.; title: BOOK VII / "YOU TOOK A CARRIAGE TO THAT BATTLEFIELD"; title: LUIS MUNOZ MARIN; title: 197 M PAMPHLET; title: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR; title: 198 M ROBERT GOULD SHAW; title: 199 M THE POET; title: 199 M TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC; title: JAMES WELDON JOHNSON; title: 200 M THE CREATION; title: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE 202 M; title: LANGSTON HUGHES; title: 204 M THEME FOR ENGLISH B; title: 205 M AS I CREW OLDER; title: COUNTEE CULLEN; title: 206 M HERITAGE; title: 208 M ANY HUMAN TO ANOTHER; title: CLAUDE MCKAY; title: 209 M THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK; title: 209 M IF WE MUST DIE; title: MARIANNE MOORE; title: 210 M WHAT ARE YEARS?; title: 211 M POETRY; title: JOHN CROWE RANSOM; title: 213 M JANET WAKING; title: ELINOR WYLIE; title: 214 M PURITAN SONNET; title: 215 M THE PURITAN'S BALLAD; title: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY; title: 216 M JUSTICE DENIED IN MASSACHUSETTS; title: 217 M THE RETURN; title: 217 M XLVII / WELL, I HAVE LOST YOU . . .; title: 218 M CLXX / READ HISTORY . . .; title: SOAPBOXES ON PARNASSUS 220 M; title: W. H. AUDEN; title: 222 M THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN; title: 223 M O WHAT IS THAT SOUND; title: ALLEN TATE; title: 224 M THE WOLVES; title: KENNETH FEARING; title: 225 M AMERICAN RHAPSODY (4); title: E. E. CUMMINGS; title: 227 M PITY THIS BUSY MONSTER,; title: MANUNKIND; title: 228 M CHANSON INNOCENTE; title: ROBINSON JEFFERS; title: 230 M SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC; title: 231 M BOATS IN A FOG; title: RICHARD EBERHART; title: 232 M THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREE; title: ARCHIBALD MAC LEISH; title: 233 M THE END OF THE WORLD; title: MARGARET WALKER; title: 234 M IOWA FARMER; title: 234 M CHILDHOOD; title: THEODORE ROETHKE; title: 235 M NIGHT JOURNEY; title: GWENDOLYN BROOKS; title: 236 M THE EXPLORER; title: 237 M MEDGAR EVERS; title: HOWARD NEMEROV; title: 238 M THE VACUUM; title: JAMES WRIGHT; title: 239 M MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIE OF A DEAF CHILD; title: RICHARD WILBUR; title: 240 M POTATO; title: JOURNEY AND RETURN 242 M; title: RANDALL JARRELL; title: 244 M THE MACHINE-GUN; title: ROBERT HAYDEN; title: 245 M THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS; title: 246 M RUNAGATE RUNAGATE 249 M FREDERICK DOUGLASS; title: 249 M trom "WORDS IN THE MOURNING TIME'; title: 250 M A PLAGUE OF STARLINGS; title: ROBERT LOWELL; title: 252 M FOR THE UNION DEAD; title: JOHN CIARDI; title: 254 M THE GIFT; title: 255 M ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL; title: ROBERT FITZGERALD; title: 256 M THE IMPRISONED; title: ROBERT A. DAVIS; title: 259 M DUST BOWL; title: LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI; title: 260 M DOG 262 M 14; title: AMERICAN POETRY TODAY 264 M; title: WILLIAM STAFFORD; title: 266 M THE CONCEALMENT: ISHI, THE LAST WILD INDIAN; title: HENRY DUMAS; title: 267 M THOUGHT; title: 267 M ROSE JUNGLE; title: MONA VAN DUYN; title: 268 M POSTCARDS FROM CAPE SPLIT; title: DENISE LEVERTOV; title: 272 M FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK; title: ROBERT CREELEY; title: 273 M "DO YOU THINK . . ."; title: IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (LE ROI JONES); title: 274 M EACH MORNING; title: 275 M PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE; title: MICHAEL S. HARPER; title: 276 M MOVIN' WES; title: VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ; title: 277 M SNAPS; title: 277 M ALONE DECEMBER NIGHT; title: chapter eleven MODERN DRAMA PAGE 278 M; title: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THE GLASS MENAGERIE PAGE 280 M