1. Edith Wharton 1862-1937
Roman Fever
2. Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945
From Sister Carrie
3. Willa Cather 1873-1947
A Wagner Matinee
4. Robert Frost 1874-1963
Mending Wall
Home Burial
The Road Not Taken
Birches
"Out, Out -"
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desig
Desert Places
5. Jack London 1876-1916
The Law of Life
6. Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941
Death in the Woods
7. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
8. William Carlos Williams 1883- 1963
The Widow ''s Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
To a Poor Old Woman
The Dance
9. Ezra Pound 1885-1972
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant''s Wife : A Letter
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
10. T. S.Eliot 1888-1965
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
11. Eugene O''Neill 1888-1953
From Long Day''s Journey into Night
12. Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980
The Grave
13. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940
From The Great Gatsby
14. William Faulkner 1897-1962
A Rose for Emily
15. Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961
Indian Camp
Hills Like White Elephants
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place
16. John S teinbeck 1902-1968
From The Grapes of Wrath
17. Langston Hughes 1902-1967
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
The Weary Blues
Song for a Dark Girl
Freedom Train
Harlem
18. Eudora Welty 1909-2001
A Worn Path
19. Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979
The Fish
At the Fishhouses
Sestina
One Art
20. Ralph Ellison 1913-1994
From Invisible Man
21. Saul Bellow 1915-2005
From Seize the Day
22. Arthur Miller 1915-2005
From Death of a Salesman
23. Flannery O''Connor 1925-1964
Good Country People
24. Toni Morrison b. 1931
The Bluest Eye
25. John Updike 1932-2009
Separating
26. Alice Walker b. 1944
Everyday Use