xiv Contents
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Roughing It 448
(Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral) 448
Life on the Mississippi 452
Learning the River 452
Essays 462
Fenimore Copper’s Literary Offences 462
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us [selections] 467
Story 469
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 469
The Mysterious Stranger 491
Chapter 11 491
Autobiography [selections] 492
William Dean Howells 498
The Rite of Silas Lapham 500
Chapter I 500
Criticism and Fiction[selection] 509
Henry Adams 519
The Education of Henry Adams 519
The Dynamo and the Virgin 519
Sidney Lanier 525
Poetry 525
The Symphony 525
Corn 525
The Marshes of Glynn 532
Henry James 534
The Art of Fictions 537
The Beast in the Jungle 547
George Washington Cable 568
Belles Demoiselles Plantation 568
Edwin Arlington Robinson 577
Poetry 578
Luke Havergal 578
Credo 578
Flammonde 579
Bewick Finzer 580
The Man Against the Sky 580
The Dark Hills 583
Mr. Flood’s Party 583
Stephen Crane 584
The Blue Hotel 585
Theodore Dreiser 598
My Brother Paul 599
The Old Neighborhood 612
Willa Cather 625
Neighbor Rosicky 627
Robert Frost 641
The Figure a Poem Makes 642
Poetry 644
The Road Not Taken 645
An Old Man’s Winter Night 645
Brown’s Descent OR the Willy-Nilly Slide 645
Two Look at Two 646
The Bear 646
Desert Places 647
Neither Out Far Not in Deep 647
Two Tramps in Mud-time 647
A Leaf Treader 648
Departmental 649
Triple Bronze 649
Sherwood Anderson 649
Hands 650
Death in the Woods 653
Carl Sandburg 659
Poetry 660
Chicago 661
To a Contemporary Bunkshooter 661
Prairie 662
Prayers of Steel 663
Grass 665
Losers 665
The People, Yes [selection] 666
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay 667
Poetry 668
A Net to Snare the Moonlight 668
On the Building of Springfield 668
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight 669
The Booker Washington Trilogy [selection] 670
The Statue of Old Andrew Jackson 671