National Beginnings
1. Benjamin Franklin – Passages from The Autobiography
2. Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven; Ulalume; Annabel Lee.
Romanticism and Reason
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance; “The Poet”; Ode to Beauty; The Apology
4. Herman Melville – Moby Dick.
5. Walt Whitman – Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass; One’s Self I Sing; When I read the book; Beginning my studies; Song of Myself (parts – by choice); For You o Democracy; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Cavalry Crossing a Foral
6. Emily Dickinson – I never lost as much but twice; Success is counted sweetest; I tasted a liquor never brewed; The Soul selects her own Society; Much madness is divinest sense; This is my letter to the World; I heard a fly buzz-when I died; Because I could not stop for Death; Death is a dialogue between; My life closed twice before its close
7. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Conrage
9. Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady
Realism and Reaction
10. Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie
11. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
12. John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath and/or East of Eden
Modern Voices
13. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises and/or For Whom The Bell Tolls
14. Robert Frost – Mending Wall; After Apple-Picking; The Road Not Taken; Birches; Fire and Ice; Stopping by Woodson a Snowy Evening.
15. Eugene O’Neill – The Hairy Ape
16. Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
17. Arthur Miller – Death of A Salesman
1. Benjamin Franklin – Passages from The Autobiography
2. Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven; Ulalume; Annabel Lee.
Romanticism and Reason
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance; “The Poet”; Ode to Beauty; The Apology
4. Herman Melville – Moby Dick.
5. Walt Whitman – Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass; One’s Self I Sing; When I read the book; Beginning my studies; Song of Myself (parts – by choice); For You o Democracy; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Cavalry Crossing a Foral
6. Emily Dickinson – I never lost as much but twice; Success is counted sweetest; I tasted a liquor never brewed; The Soul selects her own Society; Much madness is divinest sense; This is my letter to the World; I heard a fly buzz-when I died; Because I could not stop for Death; Death is a dialogue between; My life closed twice before its close
7. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Conrage
9. Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady
Realism and Reaction
10. Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie
11. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
12. John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath and/or East of Eden
Modern Voices
13. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises and/or For Whom The Bell Tolls
14. Robert Frost – Mending Wall; After Apple-Picking; The Road Not Taken; Birches; Fire and Ice; Stopping by Woodson a Snowy Evening.
15. Eugene O’Neill – The Hairy Ape
16. Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
17. Arthur Miller – Death of A Salesman