ANTHOLOGY OF

AMERICANLITERATURE

SIXTH EDITION' \

VOLUME II

Realism to the Present

GENERAL EDITOR

GEORGE MCMICHAEL California State University, Hayward

ADVISORY EDITORS

FREDERICK CREWS University of California, Berkeley

J. C. LEVENSON University of Virginia

LEO MARX Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID E. SMITH Hampshire College

SUB GiSttlngen207 772 525

PRENTICE HALL, UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NEW JERSEY 07458

Contents

Preface xxix

The Age of Realism 1

WALT WHITMAN 9

(1819-1892)

Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 11FROM Inscriptions

One's-SelflSing 26When I read the book 26

Song of Myself 26FROM Children of Adam

From pent-up aching rivers 73Out of the rolling ocean the crowd 75Once I pass'd through a populous city 76Facing west from California's shores 76

FROM CalamusIn paths untrodden 76Scented herbage of my breast 77For You O Democracy 78I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing 79I hear it was charged against me 79

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 80FROM Sea-Drift

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking 84As I ebb'd with the ocean of life 89

FROM By the RoadsideWhen I heard the learn'd astronomer 91The Dalliance of the Eagles 92

FROM Drum-TapsBeat! Beat! Drums! 92Cavalry Crossing a Ford 93Bivouac on a Mountain Side 93Vigil strange I kept on the field one night 94

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A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown 95A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim 96The Wound-Dresser 96Give me the splendid silent sun 99

FROM Memories of President Lincoln 100When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd 100

FROM Autumn RivuletsThere was a child went forth 107

Passage to India 108The Sleepers 116FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death

Chanting the square deific 123A noiseless patient spider 124

FROM Noon to Starry NightTo a Locomotive in Winter 125

FROM Goody-Bye My FancyL. of G.'s Purport 126

FROM Democratic Vistas 126

EMILY DICKINSON 148(1830-1886)

49 I never lost as much but twice 15067 Success is counted sweetest 150

125 For each ecstatic instant 150130 These are the days when Birds come back 151165 A Wounded Deer—leaps highest 151185 "Faith" is a fine invention 152210 The thought beneath so slight a film 152214 I taste a liquor never brewed 152216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 152241 Hike a look of Agony 153249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 153258 There's a certain Slant of light 153280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 154287 A Clock stopped 154303 The Soul selects her own Society 155324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 155328 A Bird came down the Walk 156338 I know that He exists . 156341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 157401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures 157414 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch 157435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 158

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441 This is my letter to the World 158448 This was a Poet—It is That 159449 I died for Beauty—but was scarce 159465 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 159510 It was not Death, for I stood up 160520 I started Early—Took my Dog 161585 I like to see it lap the Miles 161613 They shut me up in Prose 162632 The Brain—is wider than the sky 162640 I cannot live with \bu 162650 Pain—has an Element of Blank 164657 I dwell in Possibility 164670 One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted 164709 Publication—is the Auction 165712 Because I could not stop for Death 165732 She rose to His Requirement—dropt 166745 Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue 166754 My life had stood—a Loaded Gun 167764 Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn 168976 Death is a Dialogue between 168986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 168

1052 I never saw a Moor 1691078 The Bustle in a House 1691129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant 1691207 He preached upon "Breadth" till argued him narrow 1691463 A Route of Evanescence 1701545 The Bible is an antique Volume 1701624 Apparently with no surprise 1701670 In Winter in my Room 1701732 My life closed twice before its close 1711755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee 1721760 Elysium is as far as to 172

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN 172

(1852-1930)

A New England Nun 173

SARAH ORNE JEWETT 182

(1849-1909)

A White Heron 183

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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 221Free Joe and the Rest of the World 222

MARK TWAIN 231(1835-1910)

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter 233The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 234The Story of the Bad Little Boy 238FROM Old Times on the Mississippi

[A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot] 241A"Cub" Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River 246The Continued Perplexities of "Cub" Piloting 254

Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech 262Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 266How to Tell a Story 450The War Prayer 453FROM Letters from the Earth

Letter III 456Letter IV 457

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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 460(1837-1920)

Editha 462FROM Criticism and Fiction 472

HENRY JAMES 487(1843-1916)

Daisy Miller: A Study 489The Real Thing 528The Beast in the Jungle 545The Turn of the Screw 575The 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 776In the desert 776A god in wrath 777I saw a man pursuing the horizon 777Supposing that I should have the courage 777On the horizon the peaks assembled 778A man feared that he might find an assassin 778Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind 778

A man said to the universeA man adrift on a slim sparThe Red Badge of CourageThe Open Boat

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779779780862

A Deal in Wheat

FRANK NORMS 879(1870-1902)

880

The Law of Life

JACK LONDON 888(1876-1916)

889

The Other TwoRoman Fever

EDITH WHARTON 894(1862-1937)

896910

Free

THEODORE DREISER 919(1871-1945)

920

HENRY ADAMS 942(1838-1918)

FROM The Education of Henry Adams 943

Twentieth-Century Literature 985

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 992(1869-1935)

Luke HavergalZola

993994

Contents ix

Richard Cory 994Cliff Klingenhagen 994Miniver Cheevy 995How Annandale Went Out 996Eros Turannos 996Mr. Flood's Party 998

ROBERT FROST 999(1874-1963)

Mending Wall 1000Home Burial 1001After Apple-Picking 1004The Road Not Taken 1005An Old Man's Win ter Nigh t 1006Birches 1006The Oven Bird 1008The Witch of Coos 1008For Once, Then, Something 1012Fire and Ice 1012Design 1012Nothing Gold Can Stay 1013Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1013Acquainted with the Night 1014West-Running Brook 1014Desert Places 1016Neither out Far Nor in Deep 1017The Silken Tent 1017Directive 1018In Winter in the Woods Alone 1019

CARL SANDBURG 1020(1878-1967)

Chicago 1021The Harbor 1021Happiness 1022Graceland 1022Fog 1023Cool Tombs 1023Grass 1023

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WILLA CATHER 1024(1873-1947)

A Wagner Matinee 1025Neighbour Rosicky 1030

ELLEN GLASGOW 1051(1873-1945)

The Difference 1052

GERTRUDE STEIN 1067(1874-1946)

FROM Three LivesThe Gentle Lena 1070

Susie Asado 1090Picasso 1090A 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 ParallelProteus 1106

FROM 1919Newsreel XLIII 1108The Body of an American 1110

FROM The Big MoneyNewsreel LXVI 1114The Camera Eye (50) 1115Newsreel LXVIII 1116Vag 1119

Contents

EUGENE O'NEILL 1120(1888-1953)

The Hairy Ape 1122

EZRA POUND 1152(1885-1972)

Portrait d'une Femme - 1153Salutation 1154A Pact 1155In a Station of the Metro 1155The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1155FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

I [E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre] 1156II [The age demanded an image] 1157

III [The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.] 1157IV [These fought in any case] 1158V [There died a myriad] 1159

FROM The CantosI [And then went down to the ship] 1159

II [Hang it all, Robert Browning] 1162XLV [With Usura] 1166

LXXXI [What thou lovest well remains] 1167A Retrospect 1168

T. S. ELIOT 1175(1888-1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1177Preludes 1180Gerontion 1182The Waste Land 1184

Notes on 'The Waste Land" 1196Journey of the Magi 1201Burnt Norton 1202Tradition and the Individual Talent 1207

HILDA DOOLITTLE (H. D.) 1213(1886-1961)

Mid-Day 1214Garden 1215Oread 1216

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Leda 1216Heliodora 1217Helen 1220Epitaph 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 1233At Melville's Tomb 1233Voyages 1234FROM The Bridge

To Brooklyn Bridge 1236Powhatan's Daughter 1237

The Harbor Dawn 1237Van Winkle 1238The River 1240The Dance 1244Indiana 1246

The Tunnel 1248Atlantis 1252

WALLACE STEVENS 1255(1879-1955)

Peter Quince at the Clavier 1256

Contents xiii

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1258Sunday Morning 1259The Death of a Soldier 1262Anecdote of the Jar 1262A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1263The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1263The Idea of Order at Key West 1264The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air 1265Of Modern Poetry 1266No Possum, No Sop, No Taters 1267Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour 1268The Plain Sense of Things 1268

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1269

(1883-1963)

Con Brio 1270The Young Housewife 1271Pastoral 1271Tract 1272Danse Russe 1274Queen-Ann's-Lace 1274Spring and All 1275To Elsie 1276The Red Wheelbarrow 1277At the Ball Game 1278Between Walls 1279This Is Just to Say 1279The Yachts 1280These 1281Seafarer 1282Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1282The Knife of the Times 1283The Use of Force 1285

ROBINSON JEFFERS 1288

(1887-1962)

Boats in a Fog 1289Hurt Hawks 1289Shine, Perishing Republic 1290The Purse-Seine 1291

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MARIANNE MOORE 1292(1887-1972)

To a Steam Roller 1293The Fish 1294Poetry 1295No Swan So Fine 1296The Student 1296The Pangolin 1298The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1300In Distrust of Merits 1301

COUNTEE CULLEN 1303(1903-1946)

Yet Do I Marvel 1304For a Lady I Know 1305Incident 1305From the Dark Tower 1305A Brown Girl Dead 1306Heritage 1306Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song 1309

JOHN CROWE RANSOM 1310(1888-1974)

Here Lies a Lady 1311Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1311Captain Carpenter 1312Blue Girls 1314Piazza Piece 1314

LOUISE BOGAN 1315(1897-1970)

Medusa 1316The Frightened Man 1317Ad Castitatem 1317My Voice Not Being Proud 1318The Crows 1318Women 1319Evening in the Sanitarium 1319Night 1320

Contents

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 1339The Far and the Near 1342

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1345

(1896-1940)

The Rich Boy 1346Babylon Revisited 1372

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1387

(1899-1961)

The Killers 1388The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 1395

WILLIAM FAULKNER 1416

(1897-1962)

The Evening Sun 1418A Rose for Emily 1429

LANGSTON HUGHES 1436

(1902-1967)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1437The Weary Blues 1437

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Young Gal's Blues 1438I, Too 1438Note on Commercial Theatre 1438Dream Boogie 1440Harlem 1441Theme for English B 1441On 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 MenThe Man Who Was Almost a Man 1522

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RALPH ELLISON 1530(1914-1994)

FROM Invisible ManChapter 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 1717The Mother 1717Sadie and Maud 1718The Children of the Poor 1719We Real Cool 1720The Lovers of the Poor 1720The Blackstone Rangers 1722

THEODORE ROETHKE 1724(1908-1963)

Dolor 1725Open House 1726Cuttings 1726Cuttings (Later) 1727Root Cellar 1727

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My Papa's Waltz 1727The Lost Son 1728I Knew a Woman 1732In a Dark Time 1733

RANDALL JARRELL 1734

(1914-1965)

Losses 1735The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 1736A Girl in a Library 1736In Montecito 1739

ELIZABETH BISHOP 1740

(1911-1979)

A Miracle for Breakfast 1741The Fish 1742Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance 1743Visits to St. Elizabeths 1745Sestina 1747The Armadillo 1748Brazil, January 1, 1502 1750In the Waiting Room 1751One Art 1753In the Village 1754

ROBERT LOWELL 1767

(1917-1977)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 1769Mr. Edwards and the Spider 1773Memories of West Street and Lepke 1774Skunk Hour 1776For the Union Dead 1777Waking Early Sunday Morning 1779Will Not Come Back 1782

JOHN BERRYMAN 1782

(1914-1972)

The Ball Poem 1784A Professor's Song 1784FROM Dream Songs

Contents xix

1 178514 178629 178645 178748 178753 178875 178976 Henry's Confession 1789

143 1790224 Eighty 1790382 1791384 1791385 1792

RICHARD WILBUR 1793(1921- )

Mined Country 1793Museum Piece 1794Still, Citizen Sparrow 1795Juggler 1796Marginalia 1796Lamarck Elaborated 1797A Hole in the Floor 1798Playboy 1799Lying 1800Leaving 1802Trolling for Blues 1803A Finished Man 1803

ALLEN GINSBERG 1804(1926- )

Howl 1805A Supermarket in California 1813America 1814To Aunt Rose 1817American Change 1818Mugging 1820

ADRIENNE RICH 1823(1929- )

At a Bach Concert 1824Living in Sin 1825

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Breakfast in a Bowling Alley in Utica, New York 1825Diving into the Wreck 1826Mother-in-Law 1829Divisions of Labor 1830

DENISE LEVERTOV 1831

(1923- )

Beyond the End 1831Pure Products 1832Come into Animal Presence 1833The Ache of Marriage 1834O Taste and See 1834Abel's Bride 1835Mad Song 1835A Hunger 1836Zeroing In 1836

ANNE SEXTON 1837

(1928-1974)

The Farmer's Wife 1838Ringing the Bells 1839All My Pretty Ones 1839And One for My Dame 1841The Addict 1842Us 1843Rowing 1844

SYLVIA PLATH 1845

(1932-1963)

All the Dead Dears 1846Two Views of a Cadaver Room 1848The Bee Meeting 1848Lady Lazarus 1850Ariel 1852The Applicant 1853Daddy 1855Fever 103° 1857

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JAMES DICKEY 1859

(1923- )

The Lifeguard 1860Reincarnation (I) 1861In the Mountain Tent 1862Cherrylog Road 1863The Shark's Parlor 1866

W. S. MERWIN 1868

(1927- )

Grandfather in the Old Men's Home 1869The Drunk in the Furnace 1870Noah's Raven 1870The Dry Stone Mason 1871Fly 1871Strawberries 1872Direction 1872Thanks 1873The Morning Train 1874

JAMES WRIGHT 1875

(1927-1980)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 1876Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused

Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me 1876A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place 1877A Blessing 1877In 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 1880Gravelly Run 1893Corsons Inlet 1881The Unifying Principle 1884Sight Seed 1885

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Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything 1886The Damned 1888

LOUISE GLUCK 1889(1943- )

Hesitate to Call 1889The Chicago Train 1890The Edge 1890My Neighbor in the Mirror 1890Thanksgiving 1891Mock Orange 1891The Reproach 1892Celestial Music 1893Vespers 1894Field Flowers 1895

AMY CLAMPITT 1895(1920-1994)

The Kingfisher 1896Marginal Employment 1897Berceuse 1898Witness 1899Burial in Cypress Hills 1899Archaic Figure 1901Man Feeding Pigeons 1902A Whippoorwill in the Woods 1903A Winter Burial 1904The 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 1930Good Country People 1941

Contents

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 2003The Bridge 2004Notes for a Speech 2005An Agony. As Now. 2006A Poem for Democrats 2007A Poem for Speculative Hipsters 2008A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand 2009Poem for Half-White College Students 2009Biography 2010Dutchman 2011

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SONIA SANCHEZ 2024(1934- )

the final solution/ 2025to blk/record/buyers 2026FROM right on: wite america

3. 2027young/black/girl 2027womanhood 2029Masks 2031"Just Don't Never Give Up on Love" 2032

RITA DOVE 2034(1952- )

Kentucky, 1833 2036Adolescence—I 2036Adolescence—II 2037Adolescence—III 2037Banneker 2038Jiving 2039The Zeppelin Factory 2040Under the Viaduct, 1932 2041Roast Possum 2041Weathering Out 2043Daystar 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

Contents

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 ofCorrection and Began My Life over Again 2158

ALICE WALKER 2169

(1944- )

Everyday Use 2170

AMY TAN 2176(1952- )

FROM The Joy Luck ClubHalf and Half 2177

DONALD BARTHELME 2186

(1931-1989)

The School 2187

ANN BEATTIE 2189

(1947- )

The Lawn Party 2190

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BOBBIE ANN MASON 2200(1940- )

Shiloh 2201

GLORIA NAYLOR 2211

(1950- )

FROM The Women of Brewster PlaceLucielia Louise Turner 2212

LESLIE MARMON SILKO 2222(1948- )

The Man to Send Rain Clouds 2223Coyote 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 CreekMericans 2287

LOUISE ERDRICH 2290(1954- )

FROM Love MedicineThe Red Convertible (1974) 2291

Contents xxvii

TONI MORRISON 2298(1931- )

FROM Sula1922 2299

Reference Works, Bibliographies 2309

Criticism, Literary and Cultural History 2312

Chronology 2317

Acknowledgments 2344

Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines 2357