Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism Introduction to the Background Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister's Black Veil Herman Melville Moby Dick Walt Whitman Selected Poems Emily Dickinson Selected Poems Chapter Two American Realism Introduction to the Background Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James Daisy Miller Chapter Three American Naturalism Introduction to the Background Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Robert Frost Selected Poems Chapter Four American Modernism Introduction to the Background Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro Wallace Stevens Selected Poems William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow T. S. Eliot The Waste Land Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby William Faulkner That Evening Sun Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Eugene O'Neill Long Day' s Journey into Night Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945 Introduction to the Background Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone Saul Bellow Herzog Toni Morrison Beloved Key References