The Literature of the United States of America

Typesetby ## OXPRINTLTD Oxford. The paperback edition ofthis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent, in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Terms of a Tradition....Pages 1-14 The colonies....Pages 15-31 The revolution....Pages 32-42 The waiting poem....Pages 43-54 Renaissance....Pages 55-79 Realisms....Pages 80-115 Modernisms....Pages 116-160 Diversity....Pages 161-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-236