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Colonial Literature William Bradford—//Of Plymouth Plantation // Anne Bradstreet—"To My Dear…" "Upon the Burning…" Jonathan Edwards—"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" John Smith William Byrd—//History of the Dividing Line // Sarah Kemble Knight—"Journal" Olaudah Equiano Salem Witch Trials Federal period Enlightenment (Deism) Ben Franklin Patrick Henry—//Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses// Thomas Paine—//The Crisis// Thomas Jefferson—//The Declaration of Independence// deCrevecoeur—//Letters from an American Farmer// Wheatley—//To his Excellency, George Washington// Early Romanticism Washington Irving—"The Devil and Tom Walker" Stephen Benet—"The Devil and Daniel Webster" James F. Cooper—//Deerslayer // William C. Bryant—"To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis" Edgar A. Poe—"Fall of the House of Usher" "Oval Portrait" "To Helen" "The Raven" "The Bells" Ralph Waldo Emerson--From Nature and Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau--from Walden and his journal Nathaniel Hawthorne --“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” “Minister’s Black Veil” Herman Melville  Longfellow --"Psalm of Life" "Nature" "The Arrow and the Song" From //Evangeline// "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" Whittier from //Snowbound // Colonial Christmas traditions, foods Holmes "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus" Lowell "The Courtin’" tone Emily Dickinson --"I Never Saw a Moor," "Exultation Is the Going," "I Taste a Liquor…" "Some Keep the Sabbath," "’Faith’ is a Fine Invention," "’Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers," "Success I Counted Sweetest," "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," "I Took My Power in My Hand," "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense," "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves," "Apparently with No Surprise""A Narrow Fellow in the Grass," "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close," "Because I could Not Stop for Death" Whitman— From "Song of Myself," "One’s-Self I Sing," "I Hear America Singing" "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "Beat! Beat! Drums" "A March in the Ranks…" Lincoln—"The Gettysburg Address"Native American literature "Song of the Sky Loom" "Prayer Spoken…" "Blackfeet Genesis" Black Hawk’s Farewell Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Baker's Bluejay Yarn" from //Life on the Mississippi// Bret Harte—"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" Stephen Crane—"The Open Boat" Jack London—"To Build a Fire" Upton Sinclair— The Jungle Olaf Rolvaag— Giants in the Earth Willa Cather—"The Sculptor’s Funeral" E. A. Robinson -- "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy" "Mr. Flood’s Party" E. L. Masters --"George Gray" "Lucinda Matlock" "Fiddler Jones" Katherine Porter—"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" Alice Walker—"Everyday Use" William Faulkner—"A Rose for Emily" Isaac Singer—"Lost" Susan Glaspell—"Trifles" T. Williams— //A Streetcar Named Desire// T. S. Eliot//—Prufrock//
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Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms . Hersey, John. //Hiroshima//. Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Paulsen, Gary. //Nightjohn.// Paulsen, Gary. Sarnie Steinbeck, John. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Arial;">The Grapes of Wrath. Twain, Mark. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Arial;">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Wharton, Edith. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Arial;">Ethan Frome. Williams, Tennessee. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Arial;">The Glass Menagerie. Williams, Tennessee. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Arial;">A Streetcar Named Desire.
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