《新编美国文学经典作品选读》按照美国文学史的发展历程，选取了自殖民地时期至20世纪的经典作家作品。本书按照作家作品介绍、选读、注释、思考题和参考书目的体例进行编排。“史”与“选读”相结合可以满足国内普通高校美国文学课程的教学，得到良好的教学效果；“注释”“思考题”“参考书目”的设置可以满足普通英语学习者阅读和赏析经典的文学文本。故本教材既可供高等院校英语专业作为美国文学课程的教学用书，也可供英语学习者、美国文学爱好者作为英语读物，帮助其形成较高的文学审美和敏锐的跨文化意识。

Part One The Colonial Period
1.Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
2.Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
3.Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
4.Hector St.John de Crèvecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer
5.Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Part Two The Romantic Period
6.Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
7.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
8.Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
O Captain! My Captain
9.Emily Dickinson
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Wild Nights—Wild Nights
A Bird, Came down the Walk
This Is My Letter to the World
I Know That He Exists
10.Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
11.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Arrow and the Song
Part Three American Realism
12.Mark Twain
Running for Governor
13.Bret Harte
The Luck of Roaring Camp
14.Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour
15.Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
16.Jack London
Love of Life
17.Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Part Four Modern American Literature
18.Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
19.Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
20.William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
21.Carl Sandburg
Fog
22.Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar
23.Edward Estlin Cummings
(Me up at does)
24.Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
25.Ernest Hemingway
Cat in the Rain
26.William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
27.Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
As I Grew Older
I, Too, Sing America
Ballad of the Landlord
28.Sherwood Anderson
The Egg