Chapter 9
America in the Modern World: 1913–1945
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro; A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste
Robert Frost, Reluctance; Mending Wall; Fire and Ice
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer (painting)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig
Marianne Moore, Poetry
Claude McKay, If We Must Die
Theodore Dreiser, A Certain Oil Refinery
E. E. Cummings, in Just-
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure; This Is Just to Say
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
Eleanor Roosevelt, What Libraries Mean to the Nation
Works Progress Administration, Bookmobile, Louisiana (photograph)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address: One-Third of a Nation
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Harry S. Truman, Statement by the President of the United States
Conversation | The Influence of Jazz
Conversation | Japanese Internment and Reparations: Making It Right?
Conversation | What Is American Literature?