Portal:American literature
Literature by form edit
American poetry edit
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- "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant (1811)
- "Defence of Fort McHenry" ("Star-Spangled Banner"), by Francis Scott Key (1814)
- "To a Waterfowl", by William Cullen Bryant (1818)
- "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
- The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
- "Bury Me in a Free Land", by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1858)
- "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- "O Captain! My Captain!", by Walt Whitman (1865)
- "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl", by John Greenleaf Whittier (1866)
- Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (1882)
- "Because I could not stop for Death —", by Emily Dickinson (1890)
- "We Wear the Mask", by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
- "When de Co'n Pone's Hot", by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
- "The House of Falling Leaves", by William Stanley Braithwaite (1908)
- "Fog", by Carl Sandburg (1916)
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost (1922)
American novels edit
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- The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1840)
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
- The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
- Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (1851)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain (1882)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884)
- Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (1891)
- The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1895)
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (1903)
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (1906)
- White Fang, by Jack London (1906)
- Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (1911)
- Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey (1912)
- Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
- Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter (1913)
- A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)
- My Ántonia, by Willa Cather (1918)
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920)
- Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
- Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (1925)
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (1927)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather (1927)
American short stories edit
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving (1819)
- "Rip Van Winkle", by Washington Irving (1819)
- "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
- "The Pit and the Pendulum", by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
- "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
- "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)
- "Bartleby the Scrivener", by Herman Melville (1856)
- "The Man without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale (1863)
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain (1865)
- "The Idyl of Red Gulch", by Bret Harte (1870)
- "The Luck of Roaring Camp", by Bret Harte (1870)
- "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", by Bret Harte (1870)
- "The Yellow Wall Paper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1901)
- "The Gift of the Magi", by O. Henry (1906)
- "The Ransom of Red Chief", by O. Henry (1907)
- "To build a Fire", by Jack London (1910)
- "Beyond Lies the Wub", by Philip K. Dick (1952)
American journals and autobiographies edit
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass (1845)
- Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington (1901)
- The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams (1918)
American essays edit
- Common Sense, by Thomas Paine (1776)
- Nature, collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)
- Walden, or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
- The Souls of Black Folk, collection of essays by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
American orations edit
- "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", by Jonathan Edwards (1741)
- "Resistance to Civil Government", by Henry David Thoreau (1849)
- "Ain't I a Woman?", by Sojourner Truth (1851)
- "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", by Frederick Douglass (1852)
- "Gettysburg Address", by Abraham Lincoln (1863)
- "Atlanta Compromise", by Booker T. Washington (1895)
- "Pearl Harbor speech", by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
- "We choose to go to the moon", by John F. Kennedy (1962)
American dramatic works edit
- The Prince of Parthia, by Thomas Godfrey (1765)
- André, by William Dunlap (1798)
- Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly (1867)
- Madame Butterfly, by David Belasco and John Luther Long (1900)
- Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill (1918)
- A Star is Born (1937) (Commons file), by Dorothy Parker, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, and Alan Campbell
Other American works edit
- The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan (1678)
- The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain (1869)
- Ten Days in a Mad-House, by Nellie Bly (1887)
- How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis (1890)
Collections of American literature edit
- The Poets and Poetry of America, edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1842)
- The Female Prose Writers of America, edited by John Seely Hart (1852)
- The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson (1922)
- Representative American Plays, edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1922)
Individual authors edit
- For a more extensive listing see Category:United States authors.
Colonial period (17th & 18th centuries) edit
- William Bradford
- Anne Bradstreet
- Charles Brockden Brown
- John Bunyan
- William Dunlap
- Jonathan Edwards
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- William Penn
- John Trumbull
- Phillis Wheatley
- John Woolman
19th century edit
- Louisa May Alcott
- William Cullen Bryant
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (Nellie Bly)
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Augustin Daly
- Emily Dickinson
- Frederick Douglass
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Francis Bret Harte
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Julia Ward Howe
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- James Russell Lowell
- Herman Melville
- John Neal
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Henry David Thoreau
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
1900 to 1960 edit
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Willa Cather
- e. e. cummings
- Philip K. Dick
- John Dos Passos
- Theodore Dreiser
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- William Faulkner
- Edna Ferber
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Frost
- Zona Gale
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Zane Grey
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Amy Lowell
- Claude McKay
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Andre Norton
- Eugene O'Neill
- Dorothy Parker
- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
- Ezra Pound
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Carl Sandburg
- Upton Sinclair
- Gertrude Stein
- Booth Tarkington
- Booker T. Washington
- Edith Wharton
- Thornton Wilder
Works about American literature edit
Books edit
- A History of the American Theatre (1832) by William Dunlap (external scan)
- The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917)
- The American Novel (1921/1940) by Carl Clinton Van Doren (1940 version)
- Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920 (1922) by Carl Clinton Van Doren (transcription project)
- Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) by D. H. Lawrence
Articles and Chapters edit
- "American Literature" in America To-Day, Observations and Reflections (1900) by William Archer
- "Supernatural Horror in Literature", by H. P. Lovecraft (1927)
Encyclopedic articles edit
- "Literature of the United States" in The American Cyclopædia (1879) by C. S. Weyman and Robert Carter
- "American Literature," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Literary magazines edit
See also edit
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