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Colonial period（11607-1775）

John Smith A True Relation of Virginia and General History of Virginia.

Anne Bradstreet The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)

Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Revolutionary period（1775 1799）

Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth

Thomas Paine Common Sense / American Crisis/Rights of Man

Downfall of Despotism / The Age of Reason

Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America / The British Prison Ship / To the Memory of the Brave Americans / The Indian Burying Ground

Romanticism（1800-18865）

William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis / To a Waterfowl

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life / My Lost Youth

Hymn to the Night / The Song of Hiawatha

Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque /The Fall of the House of Usher / Annabel Lee / The Raven / To Helen

Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar

Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance/The Marble Faun/The House of the Seven Gables /Twice-Told Tales/Mosses from an Old Manse /The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales/Young Goodman Brown

Herman Melville Typee /Omoo/Mardi/Redburn /White Jacket/Pierre/Billy Budd

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass/“O Capitan，My Capitan” / “Song of Myself” “ There Was a Child Went Forth”/I hear America Singing

Realistic period（1865-1918）

Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Gilded Age / The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / The Prince and the Pauper / Life on the Mississippi

Henry James Daisy Miller/The American/The Portrait of A Lady/The Europeans /The Bostonians / The Ambassadors /The Golden Bowl /The Wings of the Dove

William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham

Hamlin Garland Main-Traveled Roads

Francis Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring Camp

Naturalism(1898-1910)

Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie/Jennie Gerhardt/An American Tragedy/The Genius...