LETTERATURA ANGLOAMERICANA
Prof. Luigi Sampietro

Da The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition, vol. 1:
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
67 ("Success is counted sweetest")
185 ("‘Faith’ is a fine invention")
216 ("Safe in their Alabaster chambers-")
241 ("I like a look of Agony")
258 ("There’s a certain Slant of light")
280 ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
303 ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
315 ("He fumbles at your Soul")
341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
435 ("Much Madness is divinest Sense-")
441 ("This is my letter to the World")
448 ("This was a Poet-It is That")
449 ("I died for Beauty-but was scarse")
528 ("Mine-by the Right of the White Election!")
650 ("Pain-has an Element of Blank-")
709 ("Publication-is the Auction")
939 ("What I see not, I better see-")
1072 ("Title divine-is mine!")
1125 ("Oh Sumptuous moment")
1126 ("Shall Itake thee, the Poet said")
1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
1138 ("A Spider sewed at Night")
1545 ("The Bible is an antique Volume-")
1581 ("The farthest Thunder that I heard")
1601 ("O God we ask one favor")
1651 ("A World made Flesh is seldom")
1732 ("My life closed twice before its close;")
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
[Say If My Verse Is Alive?] (April 15, 1862)
[Thank You for the Surgery] (April 25, 1862)
[Will You Be My Preceptor?] (June 7, 1862)
[My Business Is Circumference] (July 1862)
Letters on "E.D." from T.W. Higginson to His Wife
[August 16, 1870]
[August 17, 1870]

Da The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition, vol. 2:
(NB: i testi segnati con * sono opere complete non incluse nella antologia):

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1865-1914: Introduction, Timeline.
- SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (Mark Twain) (1835-1910): Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- W.D. HOWELLS (1837-1920): Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading.
- HENRY JAMES (1843.1916): The Art of Fiction; *The Portrait of a Lady.
- SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909): A White Heron.
- KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904): The Awakening.
- MARY E. WILKINS FREEMANN (1852-1930): A New England Nun.
- CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935): The Yellow Wall-paper; Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wall-paper"?
- EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937): *Ethan Frome.
- STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900): *The Red Badge of Courage.
- THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945): Old Rogaum and His Theresa.

AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN THE WARS 1914-1945: Introduction, Timeline
- EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950): Serepta Mason; Trainor, the Druggist; Doc Hill; Margaret Fuller Slack; Abel Melveny; Lucinda Matlock.
- EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935): Luke Havergal; The House on the Hill; Richard Cory; Credo; Miniver Cheevy; Eros Turannos; Mr. Flood’s Party.
- WILLA CATHER (1873-1947): My Ántonia.
- GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946): The Making of Americans; From Tender Buttons: Objects.
- ROBERT FROST (1874-1963): The Pasture; Mowing; Mending Wall; The Death of the Hired Man; Home Burial; After Apple-Picking; The Road Not Taken; Birches; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Spring Pools; Design; The Gift Outright; Directive; The Figure a Poem Makes.
- SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941):Winesburg, Ohio; Chicago; Halsted Street Car.
- WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955): The Snow Man; Sunday Morning; Anecdote of the Jar; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Study of Two Pears; Of Modern Poetry.
- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963): The Young Housewife; Queen-Ann’s-Lace; Spring and All; The Red Wheelbarrow; This Is Just to Say; A Sort of a Song; The Dance; Lanscape with the Fall of Icarus.
- EZRA POUND (1885-1972): In a Station of the Metro; Hugh Selwyn Madberley (Life and Contacts); The Cantos: XLV ("With Usura").
- H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961): Leda; Helen; The Walls Do Not Fall: 1-6.
- MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972): Poetry; To a Snail; Nevertheless; The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing.
- T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; From Tradition and the Individual Talent; The Waste Land.
- EUGENE O?NEILL (1888-1953): Long Day’s Journey into Night.
- ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960): From Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950): I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently; [I, being born a woman]; Apostrophe to Man.
- E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962): The fingers make early flowers of the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls "next to of course god america I pity this busy monster, manunking.
- JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970): U.S.A., The Big Money: Newsreel LXVIII, The Camera Eye (51), Mary French.
- F. SCOTT FITZGERLD (1896-1940): *The Great Gatsby.
- WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962): *The Sound and the Fury.
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961): The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
- HART CRANE (1899-1932): The Bridge.
- LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967): The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Mother to Son; I, Too; Mulatto.
- RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960): The Man Who Was Almost a Man.

AMERICAN PROSE SINCE 1945: Introduction, Timeline.
- TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983): A Streetcar Named Desire.
- BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986): The Magic Barrel.
- RALPH ELLISON (1914.1994): Invisible Man: Prologue, Chapter I [Battle Royal].
- SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915): Looking for Mr. Green.
- TONI MORRISON (b. 1931): Recitatif.
- THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937): Entropy.
- RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988): Cathedral.

AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1945: Introduction, Timeline.
- ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979): The Fish; In the Waiting Room; The Moose; One Art.
- ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977): Memories of West Street and Lepke; Skunk Hour; Epilogue.
- RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921): The Beautiful Changes; Love Calls Us to the Things of This World; Years-end; The Mind-Reader.
- ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997): Howl.
- JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927): Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
- ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974): Sylvia’s Death; Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman.
- SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963): Lady Lazarus; Ariel, Daddy.

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