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MAIN ENTRY UNDER TITLE:
THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: P.
INCLUDES INDEX.
1. AMERICAN LITERATURE I. PERKINS,
GEORGE B., 1930- .
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ISBN 0-394-34074.4 (pbk.)
THE PAINTING ROOM IN BROOKLYN, 1932, BY EDWARD HOPPER, IS REPRODUCED ON THE COVER BY COURTESY OF THE MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON (CHARLES HENRY HAYDEN FUND, 1935).
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From the education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. copyright, 1946 by Charles F. Adams. reprinted by permission of houghton Mifflin company.
"Corsons inlet," "The wide land," "Cascadilla falls," and "poetics" from the selected poems 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons. Copyright 1977, 1975, 1974, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1955 by A. R. Ammons. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & company, inc.
"I want to know why" from the triumph of the egg by sherwood anderson. copyright 1921 by B. W. Huebsch; renewed 1948 by Eleanor Anderson. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates incorporated.
"As we know" from As We know by John Ashberry. copyright 1979 by John Ashberry. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc.
"Crazy weather" from houseboat days by John Ashberry. Copyright 1977 by john ashberry. reprinted by permission of viking penguin inc.
"A prison all the same" and "the desperado" from shadow train by john ashberry. copyright 1980, 1981 by john ashberry. reprinted by permission of viking penguin inc.
"some trees" and "the painter" from some trees by john ashberry. copyright 1956 by john ashberry. reprinted by permission of the sterling lord agency.
"in memory of radio" from preface to a twenty volume suicide note by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones). Copyright 1961 by LeRoi Jones. reprinted by permission of the sterling lord agency.
From lost in the funhouse by john barth. copyright 1963, 1966, 1968, 1969 by John Barth. reprinted by permission of doubleday & company, inc.
"A father-to-be" from Mosby's memoirs by saul bellow. copyright 1955 by saul bellow. copyright renewed 1983 by saul bellow. reprinted by permission of viking penguin inc.
Dreams ong #1, #14, #29, #76 #145 #153 #384 #385 from the dream songs by John Berryman. Copyright 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 by john berryman. reprinted by permission of farrar, straus and Giroux, inc.
"The ball poem" and "the moon and the night and the men" from short poems by john berryman. copyright 1948 by john berryman. copyright renewed 1976 by Kate berryman. reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
"The executive's death" and "looking at new-fallen snow from a train" from the light around the body by Robert Bly. Cpyright 1960, 1966 by Robert Bly. reprinted by permission of harper & row, Publishers Inc.
"Snowbanks north of the house" from the man in the black coat turns by robert Bly. copyright 1981 by robert bly. a dial press book. reprinted by permission of doubleday & company, inc.
"Driving toward the lac qui Parle River," "Driving to town late to mail a letter," and "watering the horse" from Silence in the snowy fields by robert bly. copyright 1961, 1962 by robert bly. reprinted by permission of robert ply.
From Of plymouth plantation by William Bradford, edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Copyright 1952 by Samuel Eliot Morison. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc,
The American Tradition in Literature, Shorter 6th Ed. (1985)
Author:
Edited by George Perkins, Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long
Edition:
Sixth Edition, Shorter Edition in One Volume
Publisher:
Random House, Inc.
Copyright:
1985
Book Type:
A History of American Literature
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