A Brief History of World Literature
 

Dictionary of Writers

American literature

 

CONTENTS: The 17th century The 18th century Early 19th-century literature From the Civil War to 1914 The 20th century. Writing from 1914 to 1945 The 20th century. After World War II

	The 17th century John Smith William Penn John Winthrop Michael Wigglesworth Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor
	The 18th century Cotton Mather Jonathan Edwards Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton Philip Freneau Royall Tyler William Hill Brown Hugh Henry Brackenridge Charles Brockden Brown
	Early 19th-century literature William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" "Rip Van Winkle" Illustrations by Arthur Rackham James Fenimore Cooper Edgar Allan Poe 1. "Ligeia" 2. "The Raven" Illustrations by Gustave Dore 3. "The Fall of the House of Usher" 4. Illustrations from Edgar Poe by Edmund Dulac 5. Illustrations from Edgar Poe by Harry Clarke John Pendleton Kennedy William Gilmore Simms James Russell Lowell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha" Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nature" Henry David Thoreau Bronson Alcott Margaret Fuller William Lloyd Garrison John Greenleaf Whittier George Bancroft Francis Parkman Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville       "Moby Dick or The Whale" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V Illustrated by Rockwell Kent  Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass"
	From the Civil War to 1914 Bret Harte Harriet Beecher Stowe William Sydney Porter ("O. Henry") Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) "The Prince and the Pauper" Chapter I-IV, Chapter V-VII, Chapter VIII-XI, Chapter XII-XIV, Chapter XV-XVII, Chapter XVIII-XXI, Chapter XXII-XXVI, Chapter XXVII-XXXI, Chapter XXXII-XXXIII William Dean Howells Hamlin Garland Theodore Dreiser Jack London Stephen Crane Frank Norris Henry James Upton Sinclair Henry Adams Emily Dickinson "Poems" Charles Sanders Peirce William James Bordon Parker Bowne John Dewey
	The 20th century. Writing from 1914 to 1945 Eugene O’Neill Maxwell Anderson Robert E. Sherwood Marc Connelly Elmer Rice Lillian Hellman Thornton Wilder William Saroyan Edwin Arlington Robinson Robert Frost "Poems" Vachel Lindsay Carl Sandburg Edna St. Vincent Millay Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Sherwood Anderson F. Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner John Steinbeck Katherine Anne Porter Jack Kerouac Willa Cather Pearl S. Buck Mortimer Adler Erich Fromm Willard Van Orman Quine Ayn Rand Richard Rorty
	The 20th century. After World War II Robert Penn Warren Henry Miller Truman Capote Paul Bowles James Baldwin Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs Norman Mailer Irwin Shaw Joseph Heller Kurt Vonnegut John Barth Donald Barthelme Thomas Pynchon J.D. Salinger Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud Philip Roth Isaac Bashevis Singer John Cheever Ray Bradbury Isaac Asimov Robert Anson Heinlein Raymond Carver E.L. Doctorow Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Edward Albee John Updike Gore Vidal