Part 1 - Modern short stories; Modern essays and articles, appreciation and criticism - writers at work, history and biography; Modern Poetry; New Voices in Modern Poetry; Light Verse; Modern Drama. Part 2 - The Growth of American The Colonial Time; The Making of a Nation; The American Imagination Awakens; Two Major Novelists (Hawthorne and Melville); New England's Golden Years; Growth and The Advancing Frontier; The War Between the States; The Postwar West. Time of New Directions in Poetry; New Directions in Prose.
