Irving Babbitt (1865-1933)
from Rousseau and Romanticism
Willa (Sibert) Cather (1573-1947)
from My Antonia
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Robert Frost (1574-1963)
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
from Winesburg, Ohio
Mother
Departure
Carl Sanflburg (1878-1967)
Grass
from The People, Yes
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Sunday Morning
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
from The American Language
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Proletarian Portrait
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
from Babbitt-Chapter Ⅱ
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
from The Cantos
In a Station of the Metro
Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) (1886-1961)
Orchard
Oread (1914)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
from The Waste Land-1. The Burial of the Dead
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
The Emperor Jones
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Flowering Judas
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
MiChael Gold (1894-1967)
from Jews Without Money
Chapter Ⅲ: A Gang of Little Yids
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
O Sweet Spontaneous
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled Gladly Beyond
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
from Axel's Castle
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
from U. S A
F. Scott Fitzgerard (1896-1940)
from The Great Gatsby-Chapter Ⅲ
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Dry September
Malcolm Cowley (1898-)
from A Second Flowering-I. The Other War
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
from A Farewell to Arms-Chapter XLI
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
To Brooklyn Bridge
Royal Palm
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
from Look Homeward, Angel-Chapter XL
James Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
from The Grapes of Wrath - Chapter 17 Chapter 29
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
from Miss Lonelyhearts
James Farrell (1904-1979)
from The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan-Chapter 24
Lillian Hellman (1905?-1983)
from Watch on the Rhine-Act Ⅲ
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
Waiting for Lefty
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
from Native Son
Eudora Welty (1909-)
Death of a Traveling Salesman