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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| An age of expansion, 1865-1910 From Romanticism to Realism Regionalism | |
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| The Gilded Age Timeline An Age of Expansion | |
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| New voices in poetry walt whitman (1819–1892) | |
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| Song of Myself I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Crossing Brooklyn | |
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| Ferry Out of the Cradle Endlessly | |
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| Rocking When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Cavalry Crossing a Ford When | |
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| Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd To a Common Prostitute | |
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| Emily dickinson (1830-1886) 49 | |
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| [I never lost as much but twice] 67 | |
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| [Success is counted sweetest] | |
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| [These are the days when Birds come back—] | |
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| [I taste a liquor never brewed—] | |
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| [I like a look of Agony] | |
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| [Wild Nights—Wild Nights!] | |
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| [I can wade Grief—] | |
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| [There's a certain Slant of light] | |
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| [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] | |
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| [The Robin's my Criterion for Tune—] | |
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| [I'm Nobody! Who are you?] | |
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| [Of Bronze—and Blaze—] | |
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| [The Soul selects her own Society—] | |
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| [We play at Paste—] | |
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| [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church] | |
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| [A Bird came down the Walk—] | |
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| [After great pain, a formal feeling comes—] | |
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| [Of Course—I prayed—] | |
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| [What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—] | |
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| [Much Madness is divinest Sense—] | |
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| [This is my letter to the World] | |
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| [This was a Poet—It is That] | |
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| [I died for Beauty—but was scarce] | |
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| [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—] | |
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| [If you were coming in the Fall] | |
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| [The Brain, within its Groove] | |
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| [I had been hungry, all the Years—] | |
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| [I like to see it lap the Miles—] | |
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| [The Brain—is wider than the Sky—] | |
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| [The Way I read a Letter's—this—] | |
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| [I cannot live with You—] | |
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| [Pain—has a Element of Blank—] | |
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| [I dwell in Possibility—] | |
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| [Because I could not stop for Death—] | |
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| [She rose to His Requirement—dropt] | |
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| [My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—] | |
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| [A Death blow is a Life blow to Some] | |
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| [Not what We did, shall be the test] | |
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| [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] | |
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| [I never saw a Moor—] | |
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| [The Bustle in a House] | |
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| [Revolution is the Pod] | |
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| [The last Night that She lived] | |
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| [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—] | |
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| [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow—] | |
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| [There is no Frigate like a Book] | |
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| [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken] | |
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| [A Route of Evanescence] | |
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| [As imperceptibly as Grief] | |
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| [He ate and drank the precious Words—] | |
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| [Apparently with no surprise] | |
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| [My life closed twice before its close—] | |
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| [Elysium is as far as to] Crosscurrents Freedom in the Gilded Age WALT Whitman (1819–1892) | |
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| From Democratic Vistas Henry adams (1838–1918) | |
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| From The Education of Henry Adams Chapter XVII President Grant (1869) | |
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| GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844–1915) | |
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| From The Freedman’s Case in Equity | |
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| [The Perpetual Alien] BOOKER T. Washington (1856–1915) | |
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| From Up from Slavery The Struggle for an Education Realism and naturalism, 1880–1920 | |
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| Realism Spiritual Unrest Naturalism Timeline The Turn of the Century LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) | |
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| From Little Women Playing Pilgrims A Merry Christmas The Laurence Boy Mark twain (1835-1910) | |
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| The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County From Roughing It | |
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| [When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree] From Life on the Mississippi The Boys' Ambition | |
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| [A Mississippi | |