Includes Index.

Book B: A National Literature and Romantic individualism, 1826-1861: Edgar Allan Poe. Nathaniel Hawthorne. John Greenleaf Whittier. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. James Russell Lowell. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Henry David Thoreau. Herman Melville. Walt Whitman. — Literature of the Nonliterary World: Political Writing: Calhoun, Fitzhugh, Walker, Garrison, Douglass, Brown, Lincoln, Lee. — The Natural Setting: Travel Literature: Audubon, Olmsted, Dana. — Tale and Character: Smith, Crockett, Longstreet, Fink, Thorpe, Harris, Brannan. — The Literary Historians: Prescott, Parkman. — Folk Songs and the White People. — Folk Songs and the Black People. — Indian Oratory. — Indian Poetry.

Book C: The New Consciousness, 1861-1914: Emily Dickinson. - Bret Harte. - Samuel Clemens. - William Dean Howells. - Henry James. — Intellectual History: Henry Adams. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - William James. - George Santayana. — New England Twilight: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. - Sarah Orne Jewett. - Edith Wharton. — The New Realism: Ambrose Bierce. - Stephen Crane. — The Literature of the South: Mary Boykin Chesnut. - George Washington Cable. - Kate Chopin. - Joel Chandler Harris. - Sidney Lanier. — Black Literature. From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance: Booker T. Washington. - Paul Lawrence Dunbar. - Charles Wadell Chesnut. - W.E.D. Du Bois. - James Weldon Johnson. — The Folk.

Book D: The Moderns: Founders and Beyond, 1914-1945: Native Traditions. Poets in the American Grain. — Realism and the American Dream. — From Imagism to Symbolism. The Crisis in Culture: A Sheaf of Imagist Poems. — The Cult of Experience and the Gospel of Style. — Poverty, Politics, and the Artistic Impulse: The Inmigrant Imagination. - Depression Themes. — Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century: The Fugitives. — Harlem Renaissance. — Folk Songs and Blues. — Experiments and Continuities: Some Instances in Our Time, 1945 to the Present.