V. The Age of Realism and Naturalism (1871-1913)

Poetry: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) A Route of Evanescence; A Narrow Fellow in the Grass; Because I Could Not Stop for Death

I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of Eye – And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky

Of Visitors – the fairest – For Occupation – This – The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise – 1862

Regional Prose:

• Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) (1848-1908)

• Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868)

• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemence) (1835-1910) The Innocents Abroad (1869); Roughing It (1872); The Prince and the Pauper (1882); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889); Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Life on the Mississippi (1883); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

• VI. The age of realism (1871-1913)

• Naturalism: Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Red Badge of Courage (1895); Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)

- Norris, Frank (1870-1902) McTeague, The Octopus (1901), The Pit (1903)

- Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945) Sister Carry (1912); Jennie Gerhardt (1911), "Trilogy of Desire": The Financier (1912). The Titan (1914), The Stoic (posthum.), An American Tragedy (1925)

VII. Modern literature (1914–1945)

Poetry

- Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) Spoon River Anthology (1915)

- Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) The Congo and Other Poems (1914), 'General William Booth Enters into Heaven' (1913), Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (1914). A Study of the Negro race Then I had religion, then I had a vision. I couldn’t turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the Jungle with a golden track.

- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Chicago (1914), People, Yes (1936) Hog-butcher for the World, Tool-maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight-handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

- Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mending Wall (1914), Birches (1916), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Afternoon Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though, He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and dawny flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. -- e e cummings (1894-1962)

c. Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Mauberly (1920); Cantos – walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving came home,. home to a lie, home to many deceits… d. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) – so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

e. e e cummings (1894-1962) why don't be sil ly , o no in- deed; money can't do (never did & never will)any damn thing : far from it; you 're wrong; my friend.

Drama

- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) Our Town (1938)

- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) The Emperor Jones (1920), The Hairy Ape (1922), The Great God Brown (1926), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), The Glass Menagerie (1944)

- Arthur Miller (1915–) Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953)

Novel

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and the Damned (1921), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender Is the Night (1934)

- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1922) Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922),

- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

- John Dos Passos (1896-1970) U.S.A. (1937)

- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Look Homeward, Angel (1929), You can't Go Home Again (1940)

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

- William Faulkner (1895-1962) The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom (1936), The Fable (1964), The Town (1957)

Short Story

- Ring Lardner (1885-1933), Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), James Thurber (1894-1961), Irwin Shaw (1913-84), William Saroyan (1908-81), John O'Hara (1905-70), John Cheever (1912-82), J.D. Salinger (born 1919), and Raymond Carver (1938-88)