860 IndexAmmons, A. R., 544–545
Anaya, Rudolfo A., 734,
753–754
The Ancient Child
(Momaday), 783
Ancient Evenings (Mailer), 571
And Live Apart (Peacock), 625
Anderson, Maxwell, 423–424
Anderson, Robert, 688
Anderson, Sherwood, 319,
340, 342–344, 455
Andrews, Bruce, 721, 722,
723, 724
“Anecdote of the Jar”
(Stevens), 384
Angelou, Maya, 641
Angels Fall (Wilson), 694
Angle of Repose (Stegner), 574
animals
Leithauser on, 628–629
Moore on, 387–388
in Native American stories,
5, 8, 10–11, 12
see also nature
“Animals are Passing from
our Lives” (Levine), 544
Anna Christie (O’Neill), 427
Annie John (Kincaid), 677
“Annunciation” (Le Sueur), 460
Another Country (Baldwin),
655
Anthology of Magazine Verse,
493
Anthony, Susan B., 400
Anti-Slavery Catechism
(Child), 154–155
Antin, David, 749
Antin, Mary, 301–302
“Antique Harvesters”
(Ransom), 436
antiquity
Pound’s use of, 367–369
see also classical writers,
influence; myths and
legends
Antler, 823–824
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 141
Apache people, 5–6, 10
Apess, William, 136apocalypse
in early 20th-century
works, 319
Merrill on, 623
in Native American
stories, 5
post-9/11, 800, 822,
823–824
Pynchon on, 705, 707
and science fiction,
737–738
Appeal for the Indians
(Child), 155
An Appeal in Favor of That
Class of Americans
Called Africans (Child),
154
An Appeal to the Christian
Women of the South
(Weld), 155–156
“The Approaching War”
(Bly), 824–825
The Archbishop’s Calling
(Miller), 683
Archer, Isabel (The Portrait of
a Lady), 264–267
Archer, Lew (Macdonald
character), 730
Archer, Newland (The Age of
Innocence), 328–329
Arenas, Reinaldo, 763
Argosy, 505
Arias, Ron, 756
Ariel (Plath), 560–563
Armies of the Night (Mailer),
571
Armstrong, Louis, 497
Armstrong, Samuel, 321
Army Life in a Black Regiment
(Higginson), 147
Arnaz, Desi: literary
treatments, 762
Arnow, Harriette S., 457
The Arrivistes (Simpson), 532
“Arrow” (Dove), 650
art
and New York poets, 615,
616, 620
Schnackenberg on, 626Art Decoration Applied to
Furniture (Spofford),
286
“The Art of Fiction” (James),
262, 263
Arthur Mervyn (Brown),
85, 86
Artifice of Absorption
(Bernstein), 725
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner),
416, 417
Asa Vickers (Lewis), 342
Ash Wednesday (Eliot),
372, 374
Ashbery, John, 615, 616, 618,
620–622, 720
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 57
Asian Americans: writings
early and mid-20th
century, 305–307,
469–471, 525
late 20th century, 567–568,
698–700, 734, 763–779,
804, 821, 822
Asimov, Isaac, 737
“Asphodel, That Greeny
Flower” (Williams),
378, 548
The Assistant (Malamud),
576–577
Astoria (Irving), 95
Astounding Science Fiction,
736
“At Melville’s Tomb” (Crane),
396
“At the Bomb Testing Site”
(Stafford), 547
“At the Fishhouses”
(Bishop), 552
“The Atlantic Cable” (Ridge),
135
Atlantic Monthly, 206, 214,
225, 236, 256, 262
Atkinson, Michael, 819
Auchincloss, Louis, 572
Auden, W. H., 533, 558
audience, see readers, authors’
relationship with
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