Adventures in American literature [by] Edmund Fuller [and] B. Jo Kinnick.

Includes bibliography.

MODERN NONFICTION - ESSAYS AND ARTICLES - If I were seventeen again / Jesse Sturart -- Circus at down / Thomas Wolfe -- The hidden pool from the edge of the sea / Rachel Carson -- The heraldy of the range / J.Frank Carson -- Walden (june 1939) / E.B.White -- The coming ice age / Betty Friedan - APPRECIATION AND CRITICISM : WRITERS AT WORK - Playwrights at work from act one / Moss Hart -- Why write it if you can`t sell it to pictures? / Budd Schulberg - THREE BOOK REVIEWS - The adventures of Natty Bumppo / Carl Carmer -- Hemingway at his best / Edward Weeks - A saga of domestic life / John P. Marquand -- Advice to a young writer / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Salute to Liibrarians from adventures of a biographer -- HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY - The smart ones got through / George R. Stewart -- The beard of Joseph Palmer / Stewart Holbrook -- Washington attacks at Trenton from George Washington / Douglas Southall Freeman -- Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg from Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years / Carl Sandburg -- John Paul Jones : the battle off Fambourough head from john Paul Jones : a sailor`s biography / Samuel Eliot Morison - NONFICITON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - MODERN POETRY - GUIDE TO READING POETRY - The pasture / Robert Frost -- The road not taken / Robert Frost --Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Putting in the seed / Robert Frost -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- Out out / Robert Frost -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Flossie Cabanis / Edgar Lee Masters -- Alfonso Churchill / Edgar Lee Masters -- Theorodre the poet / Edgar Lee Masters -- Seth Compton / Edgar Lee Masters -- Silence / Edgar Lee Masters -- General William booth enters into heavean / Vachel Lindsasy -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsasy -- The leaden-eyed / Vachel Lindsasy -- The eagle that is forgotten / Vachel Lindsasy -- Velvet Shoes / Elinor Wylie -- Sea Lullaby / Elinor Wylie -- Pretty words / Elinor Wylie -- Nonsense rhyme / Elinor Wylie -- The eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie -- The mountain Whippoowill / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Portrait of a southern lady from John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The coin / Sara Teasdale -- Barter / Sara Teasdale -- The long Hill / Sara Teasdale -- The lamp / Sara Teasdale -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- The creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Nocturne in a deserted brckyard / Carl Sandburg -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- The people speack from the people, yes / Carl Sandburg -- Prayers of steel / Carl Sandburg -- The harbor / Carl Sandburg -- God`s world / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- The spring and the fall / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- On hearing a simphony of Beethoven / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- Renasence / Edna St. Vincent Millary -- I thank you God / E.E.Cummings -- Sweet spring / E,E,Cummings -- I am a little church (no great cathedral) / E.E.Cummings -- Another time / W,H. Auden -- "Look stranger... / W.H.Auden -- The composer / W.H.Auden -- Epitaph on a Tyrant / W.H.Auden -- Psyche with candle / Archibald MacLeish -- Epistle to be left in the Earth / Archibald MacLeish -- Eleven / Archibald MacLeish -- Wish for the world / Marck Van Doren -- Tourist / Marck Van Doren -- Sweet William`s breath / Marck Van Doren - NEW VOICES IN MODERN POTERY - The fish / Elisabeth Bishop -- Night journey / Theodore Roethke -- Interlude III / Karl Shapiro -- Benediction / Stanley Kunitz -- On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn in New England / Richard Eberhart -- Brainstorm / Howard Nemerov -- Year's end / Richard Wilbur - AN ANALISIS OF RICHARD WILBUR´S YEAR´S END - LIGHT VERSE - Ring out the old, ring in the new but don´t get caught in between / Ogden Nash -- A little night music / Phyllis McGingley -- Babies / Richard Armour -- Argument / Richard Armour -- Comment on cows / Richard Armour --Those two boys / F.P.Adams - POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - MODERN DRAMA - GUIDE TO READING DRAMA - In the zone / Eugene O´Neill -- Our town / Thornton Wilder - DRAMA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - PART 2 : THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE - THE COLONIAL TIME - HISTORICAL INSTODUCTION - On the creation / William Bradford -- The landing al Plymouth from the history of Playmouth plantation / William Bradford -- The first Psalm / The Bay Psalm book -- (Except) / The new England Primer -- Meditation six / Eduard Taylor -- From Simmers in the hands of an angry god / Jonathan Edwards -- From her jounral / Sarah Kemble Knight -- From a history of the dividing line / William Byrd - THE MAKING OF A NATION - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - Biographical introduction -- From his autobiography / Benjamin Frankling -- Sayings of poor Richard / Benjamin Frankling -- Specch in the Virginia convention / Patrick Harvey -- From the crisis / Thomas Paine -- The declaration in independence from the first inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- A portrait of Washington / Thomas Jefferson -- The battle of the Kegs / Francis Hopkinson -- Speech in defense of the constitution / Alexander Hamilton -- Letter to the Hebrew congration in Newport R.I. / George Washington - THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION AWAKENS - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - Biogrphical introduciton / Washington Irving -- The Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- A republic of prairie dogs from a tour on the pariries / Washington Iriving -- Biographical introduction / William Cullen Bryant -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- I broke the spell that held me long / William Cullen Bryant -- Biographical introduction / Edgar Allan Poe -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- The bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- TWO MAJOR NOVELISTS - BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION - Dr Heidegger´s experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The ambition guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Capitan Ahab from Moby Dick / Herman Melville - NEW ENGLAND´S GOLDEN YEARS - HISTORICAL INTRODUCITON - Biographical introduction / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Comensation / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Forbernace / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Condcord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Voluntaries III / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Manners / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Friendship / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Compensation / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Character / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From Emerson´s journals -- Biographical introduction / Henry David Theoreau -- From Walden / Henry David Theoreau - FOUR NEW ENGLAND POETS - Biographical introduction -- The arsenal of Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The ship of state from the building of the ship / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Hymn to the night / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The western land from Evangeline / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Divina Comedia I / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The tide rises the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The couirtin´/ James Russell Lowell -- The first snowfall / James Russell Lowell -- From a fable for critics / James Russell Lowell -- From the vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell -- From Stanzas on freedom / James Russell Lowell -- My aunt / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The chambered Nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Contentment / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Proem / John Greenleaf Whittier -- From snow-bound / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The eternal Goodness / Oliver Wendell Holmes - GROWTH AND CONFLICT - THE ADVANCING FRONTIER - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - Lament of a young man for his son / Indian Folk Literature -- Song of the Sky Loom / Indian Folk Literature -- John Colter´s race of life / Stanley Vestal -- Peril ont the western trail from a frontier lady / Sarah Eleanor Royce -- The Ogrillallah village from the Oregon Trail / Francis Parkman -- From the Forescastle from two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Off the Gannet rocks from the Labrador Journal / John James Audubon - THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - Nobody knows de troubles I see / Spirituals -- Deep River / Spirituals -- Let my people go! / Spirituals -- Liberty and Union / Daniel Webster -- Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- Letter to Mrs. Bixby / Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Letter to his son / Robert Lee -- Letter to General Scott / Robert Lee -- Farewell to the army of Northern Virginia / Robert Lee -- Ode on the confederate dead / Henry Timrod - THE POSTWAR WEST - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - The little old sod shanty / Western songs and ballad -- An american Hercules / James Stevens -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bert Harte -- Biographical introduction / Marck Twain -- Across the plains by stagecoach from Roughing / Marck Twain -- I find fool gold from Roughing from his autobiography / Marck Twain -- Prairie doom from giants in the earth / Ole Rölvang -- The run for the cherokee strip from the cherokee strip / Marquis James - TIME OF CHANGE - NEW DIRECTION IN POETRY - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - Biographical introduction / Walt Whitman - From song of myself / Walt Whitman -- I hear american singing / Walt Whitman -- Miracles / Walt Whitman -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- When I heard the Leran`d Astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Beat! Beat! Drums! / Walt Whitman -- The carol of death from thou mother with thy equal blood / Walt Whitman -- Biographical introduction / Sidney Lanier -- A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier -- The mashes of Glynn / Sidney Lanier -- Biographical introduction / Emily Dickinson -- I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson -- How happy in the little stone / Emily Dickinson -- My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson -- I`m nobody / Emily Dickinson -- The sky is low / Emily Dickinson -- Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson -- A word / Emily Dickinson -- Faith is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson -- There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson -- The bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson -- Some keep the sabbath / Emily Dickinson -- If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson -- Biographical Introduction / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Oh for a poet / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Miniver cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- An old story / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The master / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The book of wisdom / Stephen Crane -- Think as I think / Stephen Crane -- There were many / Stephen Crane -- Tell brave deeds / Stephen Crane -- I saw a man / Stephen Crane -- The wayfarer / Stephen Crane - OTHER POETS IN THE TIME OF CHANGE - When the frost is on the punkin / James Whitcomb Riley -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The man with the Hoe / Edwin Markham - NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION - A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Under the lion`s paw / Hamlin Garland -- Biographical introduciton / Stephen Crane -- The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Mr Dooley on machinery / Finley Peter Dunne - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.