The United States in Literature—All My Sons Edition

by James Edwin Miller , Robert Hayden , Robert O’Neill , William Bradford , John Smith , Anne Bradstreet , Esther Edwards , J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur , Benjamin Franklin , Phyllis Wheatley , Thomas Jefferson , William Bartram , Washington Irving , William Cullen Bryant , Edgar Allan Poe , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Herman Melville , Martin Luther King Jr. , Martin Buber , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell , James Wilson Pennington , Henry Timrod , Abraham Lincoln , Sidney Lanier , Mark Twain , Walt Whitman , Ambrose Bierce , Emily Dickinson , Stephen Crane , Edith Wharton , Theodore Dreiser , Sherwood Anderson , Katherine Anne Porter , Ernest Hemingway , John Steinbeck , Richard Wright , Eudora Welty , Prudencio De Pereda , Carson McCullers , Donald Barthelme , John Updike , Americo Paredes , E. B. White , George Santayana , Art Buchwald , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Archibald MacLeish , Donald A. Stauffer , John Dos Passos , Edgar Lee Masters , Jesse Stuart , T. S. Eliot , Ezra Pound , William Carlos Williams , Robert Frost , Edwin Arlington Robinson , Carl Sandburg , Vachel Lindsay , Stephen Vincent Benét , Luis Munoz Marin , Paul Laurence Dunbar , James Weldon Johnson , Langston Hughes , Countee Cullen , Claude McKay , Marianne Moore , John Crowe Ransom , Elinor Wylie , W. H. Auden , Allen Tate , Kenneth Fearing , Robinson Jeffers , Richard Eberhart , Margaret Walker , Theodore Roethke , Gwendolyn Brooks , Howard Nemerov , James Wright , Richard Wilbur , Randall Jarrell , Robert Earl Hayden , Robert Lowell , John Ciardi , Robert Fitzgerald , Robert Davis , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , William Stafford , Henry Dumas , Mona Van Duyn , Robert Creeley , Amiri Baraka , Michael Harper and Victor Hernández Cruz

First published 1973