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Respond to a Reading: Antigone by Sophocles
Draw Connections: Antigone and Seven Against Thebes
Collaborate on a Reading: Antigone by Sophocles
Respond to a Reading: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Draw Connections: Scenes from Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy, and The Revenger’s Tragedy
Collaborate on a Reading: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Respond to a Reading: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Draw Connections: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Collaborate on a Reading: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Respond to a Reading: “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet
Draw Connections: “The Author to Her Book” and “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”
Collaborate on a Reading: “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet
Respond to a Reading: “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Draw Connections: “Mending Wall” and “The Wood-Pile”
Collaborate on a Reading: “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Respond to a Reading: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
Draw Connections: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Starting from Paumanok”
Collaborate on a Reading: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
Respond to a Reading: “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Draw Connections: “To His Coy Mistress” and “The Flea”
Collaborate on a Reading: “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Respond to a Reading: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
Draw Connections: “The Story of an Hour,” “The Storm,” and “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”
Collaborate on a Reading: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
Respond to a Reading: “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Draw Connections: “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Salem Witch Trial documents
Collaborate on a Reading: “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Respond to a Reading: “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
Draw Connections: “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Collaborate on a Reading: “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Elements of Fiction
Character
Plot
Point of View
Setting
Style
Symbolism
Theme
The Formal Elements of Poetry
Assonance
Denotation and Connotation
Diction
Image
Irony
Meter
Rhyme
Tone
Word Order
The Formal Elements of Drama
Character
Dialogue
Performance
Plot
Setting and Staging
Theme
Allegory
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Critical Approaches to Literature
Deconstruction
Feminist Criticism
Formalism
Marxist Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Structuralism
The New Criticism
The New Historicism
A Glossary of Literary Terms
Chris Abani, The Lottery
Diane Ackerman, Plato: The Perfect Union
Joan Acocella, A Few Too Many
Daniel Akst, What Meets the Eye
Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me
Akhil Reed Amar, Second Thoughts
Maya Angelou, Graduation in Stamps
Marie Arana, Ghosts: Pishtacos
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Dave Barry, Beauty and the Beast
Lynda Barry, Today’s Demon: Magic
Thomas Beller, The Problem with T-Shirts
Charles Bowden, Our Wall
David Brooks, People Like Us
Ken Burns, Our Best Selves
Augusten Burroughs, Absolutely Fabulous
Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
Stephen L. Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty
Raymond Carver, My Father’s Life
Michael Chabon, Faking It
Susan Cheever, Drinking with Daddy
Jill Christman, The Sloth
Judith Ortiz Cofer, American History
Bernard Cooper, A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood
Amy Cunningham, Why Women Smile
Meghan Daum, Toy Children
Don DeLillo, In the Ruins of the Future
Jared Diamond, The Ends of the World as We Know Them
Joan Didion, On Morality
Annie Dillard, The Death of a Moth
Annie Dillard, The Deer at Providencia
E.L. Doctorow, Why We Are Infidels
John Donne, Meditation XVII, from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
Brian Doyle, Joyas Volardores
Brian Doyle, Pop Art
Brian Doyle, The Greatest Nature Essay Ever
Mark Edmundson, Dwelling in Possibilities
Barbara Ehrenreich, Will Women Still Need Men?
Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
Nora Ephron, The Boston Photographs
Joseph Epstein, The Perpetual Adolescent
Kai Erikson, The Witches of Salem Village
Anne Fadiman, Under Water
James Fallows, Throwing Like a Girl
Jonathan Safran Foer, Let Them Eat Dog
Richard Ford, A City Beyond the Reach of Empathy
Anne Frank, from Diary of a Young Girl
Erich Fromm, Is Love an Art?
Henry Louis Gates Jr., In the Kitchen
John Taylor Gatto, Against School
Atul Gawande, Hellhole
Jon Gertner, The Futile Pursuit of Happiness
Daniel Gilbert, Next to Nothing
Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Emma Goldman, Defense
Cynthia Gorney, The Urge to Merge
Stephen J. Gould, Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
Michihiko Hachiya, from Hiroshima Diary
Daniel Harris, Celebrity Bodies
Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Visit to Niagara
Vicki Hearne, What’s Wrong with Animal Rights
Christopher Hitchens, Believe Me, It’s Torture
Edward Hoagland, On Stuttering
bell hooks, from Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity
Langston Hughes, Salvation
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Siri Hustvedt, Eight Days in a Corset
Pico Iyer, The Inner Climate
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Ha Jin, Arrival
Lacy M. Johnson, White Trash Primer
Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Stephen King, Everything You Need to Know about Writing Successfully—in Ten Minutes
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Caroline Knapp, Love
Laura Kipnis, Against Love
Geeta Kothari, If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
Chang-Rae Lee, Coming Home Again
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, What Should You Worry About?
Michael Lewis, The Mansion: A Subprime Parable
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Stuart Lishan, Winter Count, 1964
Barry Lopez, Emancipation
Thomas Lynch, Into the Oblivion
Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple
Malcolm X, My First Conk
David Mamet, The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood
Adam Mayblum, The Price We Pay
James McBride, Hip-Hop Planet
Charles McGrath, The Pleasures of the Text
Louis Menand, Name that Tone
Dinaw Mengestu, Home at Last
Walter Ben Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity
Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man
Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Errol Morris, Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Martha Nussbaum, Veiled Threats
Joyce Carol Oates, I, the Juror
Barack Obama, Grant Park Victory Speech
Barack Obama, Origins
Danielle Ofri, SAT
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Camille Paglia, The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery
Paul, 1 Corinthians 13
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature
Michael Pollan, What’s Eating America
Katha Pollitt, Webstalker
Katha Pollitt, Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls
Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Randall Robinson, Can a Black Family Be a Legal Nuisance?
Salman Rushdie, Imagine There’s No Heaven
William Safire, Changing Warming
Michael J. Sandel, Designer Babies
Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Marjane Satrapi, My Speech at West Point
Marjane Satrapi, The Cigarette
Eric Schlosser, Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good
David Sedaris, What I Learned and What I Said at Princeton
Rebecca Solnit, The Thoreau Problem
Art Spiegelman, from Maus
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Grace Talusan, My Father’s Noose
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Mark Twain, The Story of the Good Little Boy
Jill Tweedie, The Experience
Melvin I. Urofsky, Two Scenes from a Hospital
Joyce Wadler, Peter Rabbit Must Die
David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech, Kenyon College
Will Wright, Dream Machines
Word Choice and Word Order
Tone
Images
Figures of Speech
Symbol and Allegory
Irony
Sounds
Patterns of Rhythm
Poetic Forms
Chinua Achebe, Marriage Is a Private Affair
Kim Addonizio, Survivors
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Birdsong
Sherman Alexie, Somebody Kept Saying Powwow
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
Sherman Alexie, War Dances
Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Monica Ali, Dinner with Dr. Azad
Isabel Allende, And of Clay Are We Created
Isabel Allende, The Judge’s Wife
Dorothy Allison, Jason Who Will Be Famous
Julia Alvarez, Daughter of Invention
Martin Amis, The Last Days of Muhammad Atta
Sherwood Anderson, Hands
Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape
Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Margaret Atwood, There Was Once
Alison Baker, Better Be Ready ’Bout Half Past Eight
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
Rick Bass, Her First Elk
Ann Beattie, The Four-Night Fight
Ann Beattie, Snow
Aimee Bender, Tiger Mender
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Amy Bloom, By-and-by
Amy Bloom, Hold Tight
Roberto Bolaño, Jim
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
George Bowering, A Short Story
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Admiral
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Balto
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Carnal Knowledge
Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven!
Laura Brodie, Spiderman Summer
Rebecca Brown, The Gift of Sweat
Mark Budman, Diary of a Salaryman
José Antonio Burciaga, La Puerta
Edgar Rice Burroughs, from Tarzan of the Apes
Robert Olen Butler, Christmas 1910
Robert Olen Butler, Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot
A.S. Byatt, Baglady
Ron Carlson, Max
Angela Carter, A Souvenir of Japan
Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Willa Cather, Paul’s Case
Michael Chabon, Along the Frontage Road
May-lee Chai, Saving Sourdi
Anton Chekhov, A Blunder
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros, Eleven
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Nada
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, The Hand
Joseph Conrad, An Outpost of Progress
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women
Lydia Davis, Blind Date
Lydia Davis, Letter to a Funeral Parlor
Lydia Davis, What She Knew
Don DeLillo, Videotape
Junot Díaz, Drown
Junot Díaz, Fiesta, 1980
Junot Díaz, How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie
Charles Dickens, from Hard Times
Linh Dinh, “!”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clothes
Andre Dubus, Killings
Dave Eggers, Accident
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Harlan Ellison, “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
Nathan Englander, Free Fruit For Young Widows
Louise Erdrich, Fleur
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
Rivka Galchen, Wild Berry Blue
Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Gabriel García Márquez, One of These Days
Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Dagoberto Gilb, Love in L.A.
Dagoberto Gilb, Romero’s Shirt
Dagoberto Gilb, Shout
Dagoberto Gilb, Uncle Rock
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
Gail Godwin, A Sorrowful Woman
Ray Gonzalez, The Jalapeño Contest
Alasdair Gray, Pillow Talk
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap
Mark Halliday, Young Man on Sixth Avenue
Ron Hansen, My Kid’s Dog
Ron Hansen, Nebraska
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lady Eleanore’s Mantle
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Bessie Head, Looking for a Rain God
Bessie Head, The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Pam Houston, How to Talk to a Hunter
Langston Hughes, On the Road
Langston Hughes, Thank You, M’am
Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Gish Jen, Who’s Irish?
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Ha Jin, Love in the Air
Ha Jin, Saboteur
Ha Jin, The Bridegroom
Edward P. Jones, Bad Neighbors
June Jordan, Many Rivers to Cross
James Joyce, Araby
James Joyce, Counterparts
James Joyce, Eveline
Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Bel Kaufman, Sunday in the Park
Yasunari Kawabata, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket
Stephen King, All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Hari Kunzru, Raj, Bohemian
Jhumpa Lahiri, Going Ashore
Jhumpa Lahiri, Hell-Heaven
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri, A Temporary Matter
Jhumpa Lahiri, When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Andrea Lee, Anthropology
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Dennis Lehane, Until Gwen
Jonathan Lethem, Super Goat Man
Yiyun Li, The Princess of Nebraska
Yiyun Li, The Science of Flight
Paul Lisicky, What Might Life Be Like in the 21st Century?
Jack London, To Build a Fire
Barry Holstun Lopez, Winter Count 1973: Geese, They Flew Over in a Storm
Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day
Naguib Mahfouz, The Answer Is No
Naguib Mahfouz, Zaabalawi
Rebecca Makkai, The Briefcase
Bernard Malamud, Idiots First
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield, The Fly
Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party
Hayashi Mariko, Wine
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
Alice McDermott, Enough
Ian McEwan, The Use of Poetry
Richard McGuire, Here
James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread
David Means, The Secret Goldfish
Peter Meinke, The Cranes
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Ana Menéndez, Her Mother’s House
Lydia Millet, Girl and Giraffe
Katherine Min, Courting a Monk
Susan Minot, Lust
Maggie Mitchell, It Would Be Different If
Rick Moody, Boys
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
Rosario Morales, The Day It Happened
Toni Morrison, Recitatif
Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief
Bharati Mukherjee, Orbiting
Herta Müller, Workday
Alice Munro, An Ounce of Cure
Alice Munro, Child’s Play
Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Alice Munro, Miles City, Montana
Alice Munro, Prue
Alice Munro, Wild Swans
Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
R. K. Narayan, An Astrologer’s Day
Joyce Carol Oates, Hi Howya Doin
Joyce Carol Oates, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates, The Night Nurse
Joyce Carol Oates, Three Girls
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Achy Obejas, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?
Téa Obreht, Blue Water Djinn
Tim O’Brien, How to Tell a True War Story
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor, Parker’s Back
Flannery O’Connor, Revelation
Frank O’Connor, My Oedipus Complex
Olaf Olafsson, On the Lake
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Michael Oppenheimer, The Paring Knife
Daniel Orozco, Orientation
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Z. Z. Packer, Brownies
Z. Z. Packer, Geese
Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father
Grace Paley, Samuel
Karen Palmer, Virtuoso Mio
Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Ann Petry, Like a Winding Sheet
Jayne Anne Phillips, Cheers
Luigi Pirandello, War
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Anne Porter, The Witness
E. Annie Proulx, 55 Miles to the Gas Pump
Nahid Rachlin, Departures
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, The Secret Lion
Salman Rushdie, The Free Radio
Salman Rushdie, The Prophet’s Hair
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Richard Russo, The Whore’s Child
Scott Russell Sanders, Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair
Marjane Satrapi, The Veil
George Saunders, The End of FIRPO in the World
Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Ira Sher, The Man in the Well
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
Lee Smith, The Happy Memories Club
Zadie Smith, The Girl with Bangs
Muriel Spark, The First Year of My Life
June Spence, Missing Women
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Susan Straight, Mines
James Thurber, Fables
James Thurber, The Greatest Man in the World
Terry L. Tilton, That Settles That
Tatyana Tolstaya, See the Other Side
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Iván Ilých
David Updike, Summer
John Updike, A & P
John Updike, Outage
Karen van der Zee, from A Secret Sorrow
Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Alice Walker, The Flowers
Alice Walker, Roselily
Daly Walker, I Am the Grass
David Foster Wallace, Good People
David Foster Wallace, Incarnations of Burned Children
Bruce Weigl, Spike
Fay Weldon, IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
John Edgar Wideman, Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies
Punyakante Wijenaike, Anoma
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
Bill Willingham, The Christmas Pies
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
Tobias Wolff, Say Yes
Tobias Wolff, That Room
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Geoff Wyss, Child Of God
Xu Xi, Famine
Joan Ackermann, Quiet Torrential Sound
Woody Allen, Death Knocks
Woody Allen, Old Saybrook
Jane Anderson, The Reprimand
Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
Andrew Biss, What’s The Meta?
Sharon E. Cooper, Mistaken Identity
Cusi Cram, West of Stupid
Larry David,
Christopher Durang, Wanda’s Visit
Harvey Fierstein, On Tidy Endings
Athol Fugard, “MASTER
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Václav Havel, Unveiling
Michael Hollinger, Naked Lunch
David Henry Hwang, As the Crow Flies
David Henry Hwang, Trying to Find Chinatown
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
David Ives, Moby-Dude, Or: The Three-Minute Whale
David Ives, Sure Thing
David Ives, The Blizzard
Elaine Jarvik, Dead Right
Mark Lambeck, Intervention
John Leguizamo, from Mambo Mouth
Kari Lizer,
Josefina Lopez, Real Women Have Curves
Suzan Lori-Parks, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1)
Eduardo Machado, Crossing the Border
David Mamet, Oleanna
Jane Martin, Rodeo
Terrence McNally, Andre’s Mother
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Don Nigro, Letters from Quebec to Providence in the Rain
Lynn Nottage, Poof!
Joyce Carol Oates, When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me
Marco Ramirez, I Am Not Batman
Edwin Sanchez, Pops
Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare, Othello
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Diana Son, Stop Kiss
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel
Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed
Kelly Stuart, The New New
Nilaja Sun, No Child...
Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos
Wendy Wasserstein, Tender Offer
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams, This Property Is Condemned
August Wilson, Fences
August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
Willa Cather, Paul’s Case
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Aphra Behn, On Her Loving Two Equally
William Blake, London
William Blake, The Lamb
William Blake, The Tyger
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Emily Bronte, Riches I hold in light esteem
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Robert Browning, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
Lord George Gordon Byron, She walks in beauty
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Stephen Crane, Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God
John Donne, The Flea
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
T. S. Eliot, Preludes
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Philip Freneau, The Indian Burying Ground
Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
George Herbert, The Pulley
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”
A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
Ben Jonson, On My First Son
John Keats, To Autumn
Claude McKay, America
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wild Swans
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Christina Rossetti, Song
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Edward Taylor, Housewifery
Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Anonymous, Scarborough Fair
Anonymous, The Frog
Anonymous, There was a young lady named Bright
Anonymous, Western Wind
Blake, William. Infant Sorrow
Blake, William. The Chimney Sweeper
Blake, William. The Garden of Love
Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Browning, Robert. Meeting at Night
Browning, Robert. Parting at Morning
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. from Tarzan of the Apes
Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky
Cather, Willa. A Wagner Matinée
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. What Is an Epigram?
Conrad, Joseph. An Outpost of Progress
Crane, Stephen. A Man Said to the Universe
Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Dickinson, Emily. A Description of Herself
Dickinson, Emily. Apparently With No Surprise
Dickinson, Emily. “Faith” is a fine invention
Dickinson, Emily. I Know That He Exists
Dickinson, Emily. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Dickinson, Emily. Oh Sumptuous Moment
Dickinson, Emily. Portraits Are to Daily Faces
Dickinson, Emily. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—
Dickinson, Emily. The Bustle in a House
Dickinson, Emily. The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film—
Dickinson, Emily. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Dickinson, Emily. Water, is taught by thirst
Dickinson, Emily. Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
Donne, John. Death Be Not Proud
Donne, John. Song
Donne, John. The Apparition
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Theology
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. To a Captious Critic
Eliot, George. In a London Drawingroom
Farries, Helen. Magic of Love
Frost, Robert. An Old Man's Winter Night
Frost, Robert. Home Burial
Frost, Robert. “In White”: An Early Version of “Design”
Frost, Robert. Mending Wall
Frost, Robert. Mowing
Frost, Robert. My November Guest
Frost, Robert. “Out, Out—”
Frost, Robert. Storm Fear
Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird
Frost, Robert. The Pasture
Frost, Robert. The Wood-Pile
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People
Hardy, Thomas. Hap
Hardy, Thomas. In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
Harper, Frances E. W. Learning to Read
Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birthmark
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister's Black Veil
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown
Herbert, George. The Collar
Herrick, Robert. Delight in Disorder
Herrick, Robert. Upon Julia's Clothes
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Hurrahing in Harvest
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Pied Beauty
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Windhover
Housman, A.E. Is my team ploughing
Housman, A.E. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Housman, A.E. When I was one-and-twenty
Howe, Julia Ward. Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk
James, Henry. The Jolly Corner
James, Henry. The Real Thing
Jonson, Ben. Still to Be Neat
Jonson, Ben. To Celia
Joyce, James. Eveline
Keats, John. La Belle Dame sans Merci
Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats, John. Ode to a Nightingale
Keats, John. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Keats, John. To one who has been long in city pent
Keats, John. When I have fears that I may cease to be
Keats, John. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
Lawrence, D. H. The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus
London, Jack. The Law of Life
London, Jack. To Build a Fire
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Snow-Flakes
Lowell, Amy. The Pond
Mansfield, Katherine. Miss Brill
Mansfield, Katherine. The Fly
Marlowe, Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress
Mayor of London, Objections to the Elizabethan Theater 1597
Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. First Fig
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Recuerdo
Milton, John. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Milton, John. When I consider how my light is spent
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Haunted Palace
Pope, Alexander. from An Essay on Criticism
Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Robinson, Mary. London's Summer Morning
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Richard Cory
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. In Progress
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Promises Like Pie-Crust
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. The World
Sandburg, Carl. Buttons
Sandburg, Carl. Chicago
Sappho. Beautiful-throned, Immortal Aphrodite
Sappho. Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne
Sassoon, Siegfried. “They”
Shakespeare, William. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Shakespeare, William. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Shakespeare, William. When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ode to the West Wind
Sidney, Sir Phillip. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. Indian Names
Southey, Robert. from “The Cataract of Lodore”
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Sestina
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Break, Break, Break
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. The Charge of the Light Brigade
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Crossing the Bar
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Tears, Idle Tears
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Ulysses
Twain, Mark. The Story of the Good Little Boy
Wharton, Edith. The Quicksand
Whitman, Walt. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Whitman, Walt. from “I Sing the Body Electric”
Whitman, Walt. from Song of Myself
Whitman, Walt. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Whitman, Walt. One's-Self I Sing
Whitman, Walt. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Williams, William Carlos. To Waken an Old Lady
Wordsworth, William. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth, William. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Wordsworth, William. London, 1802
Wordsworth, William. Mutability
Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up
Wordsworth, William. The Solitary Reaper
Wordsworth, William. The World Is Too Much With Us
Zitkala-Sa. The School Days of an Indian Girl
Thinking (Aloud) About Literature
Think Aloud: Student Chelsea Dickson
Think Aloud: Student Laura Paik
Think Aloud: Student Stephen Epples
Respond to a Reading: “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Respond to a Reading: “I heard a Fly buzz” by Emily Dickinson
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Respond to a Reading: “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
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Respond to a Reading: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
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Respond to a Reading: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
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Respond to a Reading: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
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Respond to a Reading: “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
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Respond to a Reading: “A&P” by John Updike
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Respond to a Reading: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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Respond to a Reading: “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
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