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6th ed.

New York : Random House, c1985

xxiii, 1797 s. ; 23 cm

ISBN 0-394-34071-X (brož.)

Obsahuje bibliografii na s. 1786-1791 a rejstřík

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??? 0 7???<? ? ???Ł?. // Contents // ??? ?10??? ? ??? ?: // The Emergence of Modern American Literature 3 // NEW VOICES IN POETRY // WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 11 // Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 14 // Song of Myself 27 // CHILDREN OF ADAM // Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 63 // Once I Pass’d through a Populous City 64 // Facing West from California’s Shores 64 // As Adam Early in the Morning 64 // CALAMUS // For You ? Democracy 65 // I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing 65 // I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 65 // Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 66 // Song of the Redwood-Tree 69 // SEA-DRIFT // Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 72 // To the Man-Of-War-Bird 77 // BY THE ROADSIDE // Gods 77 // When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 78 // The Dalliance of the Eagles 78 // DRUM-TAPS // Beat! Beat! Drums! 78 // Cavalry Crossing a Ford 79 // Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 79 // A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim ’ 80 // The Wound-Dresser 80 // Look Down Fair Moon 82 // Reconciliation 82 // xiii // XIV • Contents // MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN // When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d AUTUMN RIVULETS // There Was a Child Went Forth // This Compost // To a Common Prostitute // Passage to India Prayer of Columbus The Sleepers // WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH // Darest Thou Now ? Soul Whispers of Heavenly Death Chanting the Square Deific A Noiseless Patient Spider // FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT // To a Locomotive in Winter By Broad Potomac’s

Shore // SONGS OF PARTING // Joy, Shipmate, Joy! // So Long! // Democratic Vistas // Specimen Days My Passion for Ferries Broadway Sights Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers After First Fredericksburg Patent-Office Hospital The White House by Moonlight The Wounded from Chancellorsville Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier Abraham Lincoln Virginia // Summer of 1864 // The Inauguration // Death of President Lincoln // No Good Portrait of Lincoln // Three Years Summ’d Up // The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up // Entering a Long Farm-Lane // To the Spring and Brook // Bumble-Bees // Sea-Shore Fancies // A Sun-Bath—Nakedness // In the Sleeper // 82 // 88 // 89 // 90 // 91 // 97 // 99 // 104 // 105 // 105 // 106 // 107 // 107 // 108 // 108 // 110 // 118 // 119 // 119 // 120 // 121 121 // 121 // 122 // 122 // 123 // 123 // 124 // 125 125 // 125 // 126 // 127 // 127 // 127 // 129 // 130 // 131 // Contents • XV // EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 132 // I never lost as much but twice (f. 49) 133 // Success is counted sweetest (J. 67) 134 // Exultation is the going (J. 76) 134 // These are the days when Birds come back— (J. 130) 134 // All overgrown by cunning moss (J. 148) 134 // Just lost, when I was saved! (J. 160) 134 // My River runs to thee— (J. 162) 135 // If I shouldn’t be alive (J. 182) 135 // I taste a liquor never brewed— (J. 214) 135 // • I like a look of Agony (J. 241) 135 // I can wade Grief— (J. 252) 135 // There’s a certain Slant of light (J. 258) 135 // The Robin’s

my Criterion for Tune— (J. 285) 136 // I’m Nobody! Who are you? (J. 288) 136 // Of Bronze—and Blaze— (J. 290) 136 // ¦The Soul selects her own Society— (J. 303) 136 // I’ll tell you how the Sun rose— (J. 318) 136 // We play at Paste— (J. 320) 137 // There came a Day at Summer’s full (J. 322) 137 // Some keep the Sabbath going to Church— (J. 324) 137 // A Bird came down the Walk— (J. 328) 137 // The Grass so little has to do— (J. 333) 138 // ’After great pain, a formal feeling comes— (J. 341) 138 // What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— (J. 401) 138 // • Much Madness is divinest Sense— (J. 435) 138 // This is my letter to the World (J. 441) 138 // I died for Beauty—but was scarce (J. 449) 139 // ‘ I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— (J. 465) 139 // I had no time to Hate— (J. 478) 139 // If you were coming in the Fall (J. 511) 139 // To hear an Oriole sing (J. 526) 139 // Mine—by the Right of the White Election! (J. 528) 140 // I’ve seen a Dying Eye (J. 547) 14° // The Brain, within its Groove (J. 556) 14° // I had been hungry, all the Years— (J. 579) 14° // I found the words to every thought (J. 581) 140 // I like to see it lap the Miles— (J. 585) 14° // The Way I read a Letter’s—this— (J. 636) 141 // • I cannot live with You— (J. 640) 141 // Pain—has an Element of Blank— (J. 650) 142 // A Thought went up my mind today— (J. 701) 142 // Because I could not stop for Death— (J. 712) 142 // She rose to His Requirement—dropt

(J. 732) 142 // A Death blow is a Life blow to Some (J. 816) 142 // Not what We did, shall be the test (J. 823) 142 // A narrow Fellow in the Grass (J. 986) 143 // I never saw a Moor— (J. 1052) 14? // xvi • Contents // $ // The Bustle in a House (J. 1078) // Revolution is the Pod (J. 1082) // The last Night that She lived (J. 1100) // We never know how high we are (J. 1176) // He preached upon <‘Breadth,, till it argued him narrow— (J. 1207) There is no Frigate like a Book (J. 1263) // Not with a Club, the Heart is broken (J. 1304) // Pink—small—and punctual— (J. 1332) // A Route of Evanescence (J. 1463) // Before you thought of Spring (J. 1465) // How happy is the little Stone (J. 1510) // •As imperceptibly as Grief (J. 1540) // He ate and drank the precious Words— (J. 1587) // Apparently with no surprise (J. 1624) // »My life closed twice before its close— (J. 1732) // Elysium is as far as to (J. 1760) // Letters // [To Recipient Unknown, about 1858] // [To Recipient Unknown, about 1861] // [To Recipient Unknown, early 1862?] // [To T. W. Higginson] 15 April 1862 [To T. W. Higginson] 25 April 1862 [To T. W. Higginson] 7 June 1862 [To T. W. Higginson, July 1862] // [To T. W. Higginson, August 1862] // 43 // ?? // 43 // l44 // 144 // Í44 // 144 // 144 // 144 // 45 // 45 // 45 // 45 // 45 // 45 // 146 // 146 // 146 // 148 // 148 // 49 // 150 // 151 151 // SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881) The Symphony The Stirrup-Cup The Marshes of Glynn // 152 // 153 // 161 // 161

// REALISTS AND REGIONALISTS // MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) // The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Innocents Abroad [European Guides] // Roughing It // [When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] // Life on the Mississippi Frescoes from the Past The Boys’ Ambition [A Mississippi Cub-Pilot] // Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Letters from the Earth Letter II: Satan to Michael and Gabriel // 164 // 166 // 170 // 174 // 177 // 184 // 187 // 194 // 367 // 398 // Contents • xvii // WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) 4°° // Criticism and Fiction // Chapter II [The True Standard of the Arts] 4°2 // Chapter XIII [How Can an Art Decay?] 4°5 // Chapter XXI [American and Old World Novelists] 4°6 // Chapter XXIV [The Prudishness of the Anglo-Saxon Novel] 407 // Editha 410 // HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) // Daisy Miller The Real Thing The Turn of the Screw The Beast in the Jungle The Jolly Corner The Art of Fiction // BRET HARTE (1836-1902) // The Society upon the Stanislaus Plain Language from Truthful James The Outcasts of Poker Flat // AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) // The Boarded Window // GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1925) // Belles Demoiselles Plantation // JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908) // The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Free Joe and the Rest of the World // THE SONGS OF THE PEOPLE // The Brazos River The Jam at Gerry’s Rock The Buffalo Skinners John Henry Empty Bed Blues // THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: 189O-I9IO // HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) // The Education

of Henry Adams The Dynamo and the Virgin // 420 // 422 // 462 // 479 // 547 // 576 // 598 // 612 // 613 // 614 // 615 // 622 // 623 // 626 // 627 // 638 // 639 // 640 // 650 // 651 // 653 // 654 656 // 657 // 659 // SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) A White Heron // xviii • Contents // KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904) 674 // The Awakening 675 // MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) 762 // The Revolt of “Mother” 763 // CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) 774 // The Sheriff’s Children 775 // HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940) 786 // Under the Lion’s Paw 787 // EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) 796 // Roman Fever 798 // STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) 807 // A God in Wrath 809 // Once I Saw Mountains Angry 809 // A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky 809 // God Lay Dead in Heaven 810 // Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind 810 // The Wayfarer 811 // A Man Said to the Universe 811 // The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers 811 // Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 812 // The Open Boat 853 // The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 869 // THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) 876 // The Second Choice 878 // JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 891 // To Build a Fire 892 // The Twentieth Century: // Literary Renaissance and Social Challenge 903 // NEW DIRECTIONS: THE EARLIER GENERATION // EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) 9°9 // Luke Havergal 911 // The House on the Hill 912 // The Clerks 912 // Richard Cory 9J3 // Contents • XIX // Aunt Imogen // Miniver Cheevy // Leonora // Bewick Finzer // Cassandra // Old King Cole // Eros Turannos // The Man

Against the Sky // Mr. Flood’s Party // The Mill // Firelight // The Tree in Pamela’s Garden New England // 913 // 916 // 917 // 917 // 918 // 919 // 921 // 922 // 928 // 929 // 930 // 930 // 931 // EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950) // Petit, the Poet Elsa Wertman Hamilton Greene Carl Hamblin Lucinda Matlock Davis Matlock // 931 // 932 // 933 933 // 933 // 934 // 935 // WILLA GATHER (1873-1947) // Neighbour Rosicky // GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) The Gentle Lena // 957 // 958 // ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) // The Tuft of Flowers // The Death of the Hired Man // Home Burial // Blueberries // 9 After Apple-Picking The Wood-Pile The Road Not Taken , Birches The Ax-Helve The Grindstone The Witch of Coös Fire and Ice Nothing Gold Can Stay i Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Two Look at Two Tree at My Window West-Running Brook // 977 // 979 // 980 984 987 // 989 // 990 // 991 991 // 993 // 995 // 996 // 999 1000 1000 // 1000 // 1001 // 1002 // XX • Contents // Departmental The Silken Tent \\ Come In Directive // Take Something Like a Star The Figure a Poem Makes Letters // [To John T. Bartlett] Fourth of July [1913] [To John T. Bartlett] 22 February 1914 [To Louis Untermeyer] 10 March 1924 // 1004 // 1004 // 1005 1005 1007 1007 // 1009 1011 1013 // CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)  4 // Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard 1016 // Monotone 1016 // Gone 1016 // A Fence 1016 // Grasf 1017 // Southern Pacific 101>7 // Washerwoman 101 // Stars, Songs, Faces 101g // On a Railroad Right of Way 101g

// Waiting for the Chariot 101g // SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) // The Book of the Grotesque I Want to Know Why Death in the Woods // 1019 // 1020 1022 1028 // EZRA POUND (1885-1972) // * Portrait dune Femme The Seafarer A Virginal // The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter A Pact // In a Station of the Metro 4 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley The Cantos // I “And then went down to the ship” XIII: “Kung walked” // LXXXI: “What thou lovest well remains” CXVI: “Came Neptunus” // 1036 // 1038 // 1038 // 1040 // 1041 // 1041 // 1042 1042 // 1050 // 1052 // 1054 // 1055 // . S. ELIOT (1888-1965) // Tradition and the Individual Talent \\ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prüf rock // Gerontion The Waste Land // 1057 // 1060 // 1066 // 1069 // 1072 // Contents • xxi // The Hollow Men 1086 // Four Quartets // Little Gidding ?89 // AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) x 095 // Patterns 1096 // A Decade 1098 // Meeting-House Hill 1099 // ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)  // Wild Peaches 1100 // Sanctuary 1101 // Prophecy x ?2 // Let No Charitable Hope 1102 // ? Virtuous Light 1?2 // H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) 1103 // Heat 1104 // Heliodora H04 // Lethe x 107 // Sigil 1107 // ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 1 ?8 // Boats in a Fog 2x09 // Shine, Perishing Republic xno // Granite and Cypress x x x x // To the Stone-Cutters x 111 // Roan Stallion i112 // EUGENE O’NEILL (1888-1953) 1123 // The Hairy Ape 1126 // CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973) n55 // Music I Heard with You Was More Than Music 1156 // It Is Morning,

Senlin Says X156 // Hatteras Calling X157 // Tetélestai X158 // ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982) 1161 // Ars Poetica x 162 // You, Andrew Marvell X163 // American Letter: For Gerald Murphy X164 // EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 1166 // Passer Mortuus Est 2x67 // Justice Denied in Massachusetts xx68 // xxii • Contents // I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore 1169 // What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why 1169 // This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All 1169 // Since of No Creature Living the Last Breath 117° // Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink ii7° // Even in the Moment of Our Earliest Kiss 117° // Those Hours When Happy Hours Were My Estate 1171 // E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1963) 1171 // The Fingers Make Early Flowers Of 1172 // When God Lets My Body Be 1173 // Ip Just- 1X73 // Vbuffalo Bills 1174 // Q Thou to Whom the Musical White Spring 1174 // Cfyly Sweet Old Etcetera 1175 // I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big 1176 // If There Are Any Heavens 1177 // Somewhere I Have Never Travelled,Gladly Beyond 1177 // Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 117& // My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love 117 // Up into the Silence the Green 1180 // Plato Told 11 1 // When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm 1181 // I Thank You God 1182 // JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) 1182 // Blood-Burning Moon ll83 // HART CRANE ( 1899-1932) 1189 // Voyages: I 1190 // Voyages: II 11< 1 // Royal Palm 1191 // The Bridge // To Brooklyn Bridge 1X92 // Van Winkle // The River 1194 // The Tunnel

1197 // COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946) 1201 // Yet Do I Marvel 1201 // Heritage (for Harold Jackman) 1202 // EPITAPHS // For My Grandmother 12°4 // For a Lady I Know 12°4 // Only the Polished Skeleton 12°5 // Contents • xxiii // NEW DIRECTIONS: LATER VOICES // KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) 1206 // The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1207 // F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ( 1896-1940) ! 213 // ’Babylon Revisited 1215 // WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 1228 // Spotted Horses 12 1 // That Evening Sun  43 // Barn Burning J254 // ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 1266 // »The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 1268 // THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)  89 // An Angel on the Porch  91 // JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)  96 // The Chrysanthemums ! 298 // WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) // Peter Quince at the Clavier 2306 // ’ Sunday Morning 230g // Depression Before Spring 2311 // Ploughing on Sunday 2311 // Anecdote of the Jar 2312 // ? The Snow Man 1322 // Bantams in Pine-Woods 2313 // A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 2313 // The Emperor of Ice-Cream 2314 // To the One of Fictive Music 2314 // How to Live. What to Do 2315 // ’ The Idea of Order at Key West 2316 // A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts 2317 // Of Modern Poetry 2317 // Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself 2318 // WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) i3i9 // To Mark Anthony in Heaven 2320 // • Portrait of a Lady 2321 // Tract 1322 // * The Young Housewife 2323 // Queen Anne’s Lace 2323 // The Red Wheelbarrow ? 11? // xxvi • Contents // J.

V. CUNNINGHAM (1911- )  33 // Montana Pastoral // Coffee x534 // An Interview with Doctor Drink !534 // EPIGRAMS // I Had Gone Broke, and Got Set to Come Back 1535 // I Married in My Youth a Wife x535 // DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913-1966) i535 // In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave ?53? // Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day !53? // The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me 15?1 // RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)  ? // The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner !539 // Losses 1539 // The Woman at the Washington Zoo 154° // The Lost Children 1541 // ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) 1542 // In Memory of Arthur Winslow 1544 // After the Surprising Conversions // Her Dead Brother 1548 // Skunk Hour  49 // A Roman Sarcophagus lJ>S0 // The Mouth of the Hudson 1551 // The Neo-Classical Urn ?552 // For the Union Dead lSSi // For Theodore Roethke 1555 // Reading Myself 1 55 // Obit L555 // Flight  56 // Epilogue x556 // RICHARD WILBUR (1921- ) lSS7 // The Beautiful Changes Museum Piece // The Death of a Toad 1559 // Still, Citizen Sparrow  60 // Lamarck Elaborated l5~° // Exeunt  1 // Advice to a Prophet 15®1 // Running l5 2 // MID-CENTURY PROSE // VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1977) x565 // The Vane Sisters 1 66 // Contents // ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904- ) // Gimpel the Fool // EUDORA WELTY (1909- ) // Death of a Traveling Salesman // JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982) // The Swimmer // RALPH ELLISON (194- ) // Invisible Man Chapter I [Battle Royal] // BERNARD MALAMUD (1914- ) // The Mourners // SAUL BELLOW (1915- ) // Seize

the Day // NORMAN MAILER (1923- ) // The Armies of the Night Justice // A Confrontation by the River Bust 80: Beyond the Law // JAMES BALDWIN (1924- ) // Sonny’s Blues // FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925-1964) // The Life You Save May Be Your Own Good Country People // THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY: POETRY // JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) // The Ball Poem // The Moon and the Night and the Men The Dream Songs // 1: “Huffy Henry hid the day” ( // 14: “Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.”  // 29: “There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart” // 76: Henry’s Confession  // 145: “Also I love him: me he’s done no wrong” // 153: “I’m cross with god who has wrecked this generation 384: “The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done’ // 385: “My daughter’s heavier. Light leaves are flying. // XXVll // 1575 // 1576 // 1585 // 1586 // 1595 // 1596 // 1603 // 1604 // 1614 // 1615 // 1619 // 1620 // 1684 // 1685 // 1692 // 1693 // 1698 // 1699 // I72O // I72O // I?2? // 1741 // 1742 // 1742 // 1743 // 1744 // 1744 // 1745 // 1745 // 1746 // 1746 // 1747 // xxviii • Contents // WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914- ) // Before the Big Storm // Judgments // One Home // The Farm on the Great Plains // 1747 // !748 // 1748 // 1749 // 1750 // HOWARD NEMEROV (1920- // The Sanctuary The Vacuum Figures of Thought // 1750 // 1751 // 1752 // ?752 // DENISE LEVERTOV (1923- ) // The Third Dimension To The Snake The Room // The Willows of Massachusetts Olga Poems // i: “By

the gas-fire, ???! ’’ // ii: “The high pitch of”  // vi: “Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water” // Living // The 90th Year // 175? // 1753 // 1754 // 1754 // 1755 // 1755 // 1756 // 1756 // 1757 // 1758 // JAMES DICKEY (?923- ) !759 // The Lifeguard l’i ° // Cherrylog Road 17”1 // The Shark’s Parlor // A. R. AMMONS (1926- ) // Corsons Inlet The Wide Land Cascadilla Falls Poetics // Easter Morning // 1765 // 1766 // 1769 // 1770 // 1770 // 1771 // ROBERT BLY (1926- ) L773 // Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River !774 // Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter 111A // Watering the Horse x774 // The Executive’s Death ?775 // Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train !775 // Snowbanks North of the House // ALLEN GINSBERG (1926- )  // A Supermarket in California 1?? // Howl J77 // Contents • XXIX // JAMES MERRILL (1926- ) 1783 // A Timepiece // Charles on Fire l7&5 // The Broken Home 1?85 // Yánnina iy88 // Samos 1791 // W. D. SNODGRASS (1926- ) i793 // April Inventory !793 // Heart’s Needle 6 !795 // The Examination !796 // JOHN ASHBERY (1927- ) 1798 // Some Trees !799 // The Painter !799 // Crazy Weather 1800 // As We Know 1800 // A Prison All the Same iSoi // The Desperado !8?2 // GALWAY KINNELL (1927- ) 1802 // To Christ Our Lord  ?? // The Bear 1804 // Fergus Falling !8?6 // W. S. MERWIN (1927- ) 1807 // Grandmother and Grandson 1808 // The Drunk in the Furnace 1809 // The Last One l&°9 // Vision 18n // Trees 1811 // JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)

1811 // Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl 1812 // Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, i960 18i3 // In Terror of Hospital Bills 18i3 // Two Postures Beside a Fire 18i4 // The Vestal in the Forum 1815 // ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) 1815 // The Farmer’s Wife 18i6 // The Truth the Dead Know !8i6 // All My Pretty Ones 1 l7 // XXX • Contents // With Mercy for the Greedy 1818 // Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound 1819 // ADRIENNE RICH (1929- ) 1821 // The Diamond Cutters 182i // Necessities of Life 1822 // The Trees 1824 // Face to Face 1824 // Diving into the Wreck 1825 // For the Dead 1827 // GARY SNYDER (1930- ) . 1827 // The Late Snow & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four 1828 // this poem is for bear 1829 // Not Leaving the House 1830 // SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) 1830 // Morning Song 18?1 // The Rival l83i // The Applicant 18?2 // Daddy ?833 // Lady Lazarus  ?? // Death & Co. 1837 // Mystic  38 // IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (1934- ) 1839 // In Memory of Radio  39 // An Agony. As Now. 1840 // THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY: FICTION // WILLIAM H. GASS (1924- ) 1842 // In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 1843 // JOHN BARTH (1930- ) i860 // Lost in the Funhouse i860 // TONI MORRISON (1931- ) 1875 // Sula // 1922 1876 // JOHN UPDIKE (1932- ) 1884 // The Bulgarian Poetess !885 // Separating  95 // THOMAS PYNCHON (1937- ) 1902 // Entropy !903 // Contents • XXXI // JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- ) 19O // Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

1914 // BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940- ) 1925 // Shiloh 1926 // ANNE TYLER (1941- ) ’ i935 // Average Waves in Unprotected Waters 193> // TIM O’BRIEN (1946- ) 1941 // Going After Cacciato // Night March i942 // BIBLIOGRAPHY 1951 // 1963 // INDEX