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	1859 	III: The Snow Episode
	1861 	V: Iron Routine

1863 	The Literature of a New Century, 1912-1945
		Introduction
	1864 	New World; New Writers
	1866 	The Great War
	1867 	The Age of Business and Frolic
	1869 	Racism and Sexism
	1870 	An Alienated Generation
	1871 	The Making of American Modernists
	1872 	From the Crash to the New Deal
	1873 	Social Criticism and Marxism
	1874 	The Second World War
	1876 	The Dawn of Postmodernism

1879 WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
	1880 	Neighbour Rosicky

1900 ROBERT FROST (1875-1963)
	1903 	Mending Wall
	1904 	The Road Not Taken
	1905 	The Oven Bird
	1905 	After Apple-picking
	1906 	Birches
	1908 	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
	1908 	Once by the Pacific
	1909 	Desert Places
	1909 	Design
	1910 	The Most of It
	1911 	Directive

1912 SUSAN KEATING GLASPELL (187*1948)
	1914 	Trifles

1925 SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
	1928 	The Egg

1935 CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
	1937 	Chicago
	1937	Fog
	1938	Cool Tombs