Anthology of American Literature

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Anthology of American Literature is written by George L. McMichael and published by Longman Publishing Group. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0205779360 (ISBN 10) and 9780205779369 (ISBN 13).

This two-volume series represents America's literary heritage from colonial times through the American renaissance to the contemporary era of post-modernism. Volume I offers early contextual selections from Christopher Columbus and Gaspar Perez de Villagra, as well as an excerpt from the Iroquois League's Constitution of the Five Nations, and ends with an extensive selection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This anthology is best known for its useful pedagogy, including extensive and straightforward headnotes and introductions, as well as its balanced approach to editorial selection process