Author Description

This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Other selections include the works of Emily Dickenson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Edgar Allen Poe; and Walt Whitman. For readers of American literature.