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"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"
1865
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Mark Twain
Realism
1865 - 1910
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"Daisy Miller: A Study"
1879
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Henry James
"A White Heron"
1886
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Sarah Orne Jewett
"The Revolt of Mother"
1891
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
"Desiree's Baby"
1892
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Kate Chopin
"The Yellow Wall-Paper"
1892
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"An Ante-Bellum Sermon" Poem
1896
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"We Wear the Mask" Poem
1896
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"When Malindy Sings" Poem
1896
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The Open Boat"
1897
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Stephan Crane
"Sympathy" Poem
1899
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
1899 - 1900
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Mark Twain
"The Real Question" Poem
1899
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The School Days of an Indian Girl"
1900
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Gertrude Bonin (Zitkala-Sa)
Excerpt from "Up From Slavery"
1901
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Booker Taliaferro Washington
"The Souls of Black Folk"
1903
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Excerpt from "The Making of Americans"
1906 - 1911
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Modernism
1910 - 1945
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"In the Land of the Free"
1912
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Edith Maud Eaton
"Danse Russe" Poem
1916
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William Carlos Williams
"In the Station of a Metro" Poem
1916
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Ezra Pound
"L,art 1910" Poem
1916
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Ezra Pound
"The Harlem Dancer" Poem
1917
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Claude McKay
"The Young Housewife" Poem
1917
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William Carlos Williams
"Trifles" Play
1917
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Susan Glaspell
"If We Must Die" Poem
1919
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Claude McKay
"[Buffalo Bill's]" Poem
1920 - 1923
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E. E. Cummings
"The Lynching" Poem
1920
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Claude McKay
"America" Poem
1921
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Claude McKay
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Poem
1921
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Langston Hughes
"Spring and All" Poem
1923
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William Carlos Williams
"[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]" Poem
1923
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E. E. Cummings
"The Red Wheelbarrow" Poem
1923
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William Carlos Williams
"To Elsie" Poem
1923
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William Carlos Williams
"Dream Variations" Poem
1924
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Langston Hughes
"I, Too" Poem
1925
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Langston Hughes
"The Weary Blues" Poem
1925
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Langston Hughes
"Sweat"
1926
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Zora Neale Hurston
"Hills Like White Elephants"
1927
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Earnest Hemingway
"Johannesburg Mines" Poem
1928
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Langston Hughes
"Babylon Revisited"
1935
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Susie Asado" Poem
1935
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Gertrude Stein
"Roman Fever"
1936
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Edith Wharton
"The Cantos"
1936
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Ezra Pound
Contemporary
1945 - present
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Excerpt from "The Mother of Us All"
1945 - 1946
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Gertrude Stein
"Man-Moth" Poem
1946
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Elizabeth Bishop
"The Fish" Poem
1946
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Elizabeth Bishop
"Harlem" Poem
1951
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Langston Hughes
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
1953
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Flannery O'Connor
"Howl" Poem
1955 - 1956
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Allen Ginsberg
"America" Poem
1956
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Allen Ginsberg
"Riprap" Poem
1959
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Gary Snyder
"Vapor Trails" Poem
1959
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Gary Snyder
"A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi." Poem
1960
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Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till" Poem
1960
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Gwendolyn Brooks
"We Real Cool" Poem
1960
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Gwendolyn Brooks
"Filling Station" Poem
1965
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Elizabeth Bishop
"It Was When" Poem
1969
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Gary Snyder
"Wave" Poem
1969
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Gary Snyder
"Facing It" Poem
1988
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Yusef Komunyakaa
"Prisoners" Poem
1988
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Yusef Komunyakaa
"Thnaks" Poem
1988
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Yusef Komunyakaa
"Tu Do Street" Poem
1988
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Yusef Komunyakaa
"Typical American"
1991
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Gish Jen
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"Recitatif"
1995
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Toni Morrison
"Why I Live at the P.O."
1998
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Eudora Welty
Works Cited
2015
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print.