Volume 2 includes poetry, essays, fiction, letters, and plays by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry Adams, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chesnutt, Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Elinor Wylie, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O'Neill, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, Countee Cullen, Katherine Anne Porter, F.

Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature. Each volume continues to offer a flexible organization, with literary merit as the guiding principle of selection. The new photos and illustrations illuminate the texts and literary/historical timelines help students put works in context.

Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature. Each volume continues to offer a flexible organization, with literary merit as the guiding principle of selection. The new photos and illustrations illuminate the texts and literary/historical timelines help students put works in context.

Volume 2 includes poetry, essays, fiction, letters, and plays by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry Adams, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chesnutt, Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Elinor Wylie, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O'Neill, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, Countee Cullen, Katherine Anne Porter, F.

Volume 2 includes poetry, essays, fiction, letters, and plays by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Henry Adams, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chesnutt, Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Elinor Wylie, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O'Neill, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, Countee Cullen, Katherine Anne Porter, F.