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Features include: • Eleven in-depth Period Introductions, which include timelines to frame literary works in historical context; five Thematic Introductions; and carefully crafted Author Bios to accompany each selection. • Eleven Crosscurrents — brief, pointed excerpts to illuminate major periods and ideas, resonating against other selections within the Crosscurrents. • Six Pre-built Readers for each period that can be used “as is” or customized to fit your specific course needs. Search all selections by: Author:  — All — Henry Adams Louisa May Alcott Sherman Alexie Rudolfo Anaya Sherwood Anderson Maya Angelou William Apess John Ashbery Mary Austin — All — James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Amiri Baraka Joel Barlow John Barth William Bartram Ann Beattie Edward Bellamy John Berryman — All — Ambrose Bierce Elizabeth Bishop Black Elk Robert Bly Louise Bogan T. Coraghessan Boyle William Bradford Anne Bradstreet Joseph Brodsky — All — Gwendolyn Brooks Charles Brockden Brown Brule Sioux Myth William Cullen Bryant Ed Bullins William Byrd Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca George Washington Cable Abraham Cahan — All — Nash Candelaria Truman Capote Raymond Carver Alice Cary Willa Cather Lorna Dee Cervantes Samuel de Champlain Denise Chavez John Cheever — All — Charles W. Chesnutt Kate Chopin Sandra Cisneros Christopher Columbus James Fenimore Cooper Ebenezer Cook Rose Terry Cooke Stephen Crane Davy Crockett — All — Countee Cullen Rebecca Harding Davis St. Jean De Crèvecoeur Don DeLillo James Dickey John Dos Passos Frederick Douglass Rita Dove Theodore Dreiser — All — W. E. B. Du Bois Paul Laurence Dunbar Bob Dylan Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) Jonathan Edwards Ralph Waldo Emerson Olaudah Equiano William Faulkner The Federalist — All — Fannie Fern F. Scott Fitzgerald Benjamin Franklin Harold Frederic Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Philip Freneau Robert Frost Margaret Fuller Hamlin Garland — All — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ellen Glasgow Susan Glaspell Caroline Gordon Angelina Weld Grimké Woody Guthrie Richard Hakluyt George Washington Harris Joel Chandler Harris — All — Bret Harte Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway Oliver Wendell Holmes Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins William Dean Howells Langston Hughes Washington Irving Shirley Jackson — All — Harriet Jacobs Henry James Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers Thomas Jefferson Sarah Orne Jewett Charles Johnson James Weldon Johnson Chief Joseph — All — Jamaica Kincaid Grace Elizabeth King Martin Luther King, Jr. Maxine Hong Kingston Galway Kinnell Caroline Kirkland Sarah Kemble Knight Kenneth Koch Jhumpa Lahiri — All — Sidney Lanier Ring Lardner Li-Young Lee Denise Levertov Meriwether Lewis Abraham Lincoln Jack London Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Augustus Baldwin Longstreet — All — Amy Lowell James Russell Lowell Robert Lowell Archibald MacLeish Bernard Malamud Edgar Lee Masters Cotton Mather Claude McKay Herman Melville — All — W. S. Merwin Edna St. Vincent Millay Czeslaw Milosz N. Scott Momaday William Vaughn Moody Marianne Moore Toni Morrison Thomas Morton Bharati Mukherjee — All — Mary Noailles Murfree Howard Nemerov Frank Norris Joyce Carol Oates Tim O'Brien Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Hara Eugene O'Neill Simon J. Ortiz — All — John M. Oskison Thomas Paine Francis Parkman Ann Petry Marge Piercy Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Katherine Anne Porter John Crowe Ransom — All — Red Cloud Red Jacket Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Rodriguez Theodore Roethke Philip Roth Mary Rowlandson Susanna Haswell Rowson Muriel Rukeyser — All — Sacco and Vanzetti Carl Sandburg Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Chief Seattle (Seatlh) Catherine Maria Sedgwick Samuel Sewall Anne Sexton Leslie Marmon Silko Charles Simic — All — William Gilmore Simms Dave Smith John Smith Gary Snyder Cathy Song William Stafford Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Harriet Beecher Stowe — All — Allen Tate Edward Taylor Tecumseh Henry David Thoreau T. B. Thorpe James Thurber Tiwa Myth Sojourner Truth Mark Twain — All — Anne Tyler Royall Tyler Giovanni da Verrazzano Diane Wakoski Alice Walker Susan Warner Mercy Otis Warren Robert Penn Warren Booker T. Washington — All — Eudora Welty Edith Wharton Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier Michael Wigglesworth Richard Wilbur John Winthrop Roger Williams — All — John Wise John Woolman Constance Fenimore Woolson James Wright Jay Wright Elinor Wylie Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin) Crosscurrents Period Introduction Thematic Section Introduction Native Literature: The Oral Tradition Spirituals, Blues, Folksongs Traditional Songs Other Restrict to: Female authors African-American authors Major authors Genre:  — All — Drama Essay/Non-Fiction Other Poetry Short Story/Fiction Spirituals, Blues, Folksongs Traditional Songs Period:  — All — Beginnings: From Exploration to Revolution Early 19th Century: From the Romantic Temper to the Inevitable Conflict Late 19th Century: From the Age of Expansion to the Turn of the Century The Modern Era: Literary Renaissance and a Literature of Social and Cultural Challenge The Second World War and Its Aftermath Contemporary: A Century Ends and a New Millennium Begins Theme:  — All — Multiculturalism: The American Kaleidoscope Personal Narratives Systems of Belief/Ideas of Order The Individual and Society The People and the Land Women's Experience Format: 8.5" x 11" pages 6" x 9" pages Or click here to modify one of these pre-built readers Visit the authors' personal website * Due to permissions issues, not all the selections from Perkins-Perkins: The American Tradition in Literature are available for use in Primis custom texts. 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