Includes bibliographical references (pages 2819-2862) and index.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (c. 1490-1558)

Stories of the beginning of the world

Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)

John Smith (1580-1631)

Native American trickster tales

Winnebago

Koasati

Navajo

Early American Literature 1620-1820

William Bradford (1590-1657)

John Winthrop (1588-1649)

Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)

Mary Rowlandson (c. 1636-1711)

Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Samson Occom (1723-1792)

J. Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur (1735-1813)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

John Greenleaf Whitter (1807-1882)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915)

Charles W. Chesnut (1858-1932)

Charlotte Perkings Gilman (1860-1935)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Jack London (1876-1916)

Native American chants and songs

The Navajo night chant

Chippewa songs

Ghost dance songs

Wovoka (c. 1856-1932)

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938)

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

American literature between the wars, 1914-1945

Black Elk (1863-1950) and John G. Neihardt (1881-1973)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Eugene O'neill (1888-1953)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

John Cheever (1912-1982)

Ralph Ellison (1941-1994)

Saul Bellow (b. 1915)_

Grace Paley (b. 1922)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

John Updike (b. 1932)

Philip Roth (b.1933)

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

Thomas Pynchon (b.1937)

Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Ann Beattie (b. 1947)

Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)

Denise Chavez (b. 1948)

Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)

American poetry since 1945

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

A. R. Ammons (b. 1926)

James Merril (1926-1995)

Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

James Wright (1927-1980)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)

Joy Harjo (b. 1951)

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Alberto Rios (b. 1952)

Cathy Song (b. 1955)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)