Reading Assignments for Spring 2016

This list presents required readings for this term.

Please note that Assigned Readings are presented by the Starting Page Numbers and frequently with an Abbreviated or Short Titles.

Readings that have a Blue * have been covered in class.  Readings with Red * have been assigned but passed over in class.  However, students are responsible for reading the assigned materials for exams and/or papers.

                                                                                          READINGS

Author:  Walt Whitman                                                                                Author: Emily Dickinson
“Inscriptions”                                      118 *                                                    #49                             177 *
“To You”                                               118 *                                                    #67                             179 *
“One’s-Self I Sing”                              118 *                                                   #185                            179 *
“I Hear America Singing”                 118 *                                                   #241                            181 *
“Poets to Come”                                  118 *                                                   #280                           182 *
“When I Heard . . .”                            132 *                                                  #303                            182 *
“Beat! Beat! Drums!”                         133 *                                                  #324                            183 *
“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”                 134 *                                                  #449                            186 *
“Bivouac on a Mountain Side”         134  *                                                 #465                            186 *
“Vigil Strange. . . “                              134  *                                                 #670                             190 *
“The Wound Dresser”                       135  *                                                  #712                              191 *   
“The Artilleryman’s Vision”             Handout *                                        #986                              192 *
“There was a Child. . . “                     145 *                                                  #1760                            197 *
“A Noiseless Patient . . . “                 155 *   

Bret Harte:
"The Outcasts of Poker Flats"  *       Webpage
                                                        
Mark Twain:
  Chapter 31 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  *        344 - 349
  Chapter 24 Roughing It       *                                       Webpage

Charles Waddell Chesnutt:
   "The Wife of his Youth"      467 - 474  (Feb. 23)

Paul Lawrence Dunbar     p. 963:   (Feb. 25)                
   "We Wear the Mask"          964                            "The Colored Soldiers"       968
   "When Malindy Sings"       966                            "When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers"     970    
    "Sympathy"                          971                             "Ere Sleep Comes Down to sooth the Weary Eyes"   974

Langston Hughes            p. 1621   (Mar.3)
  "Early Autumn"                   Webpage                    All Poems   (pp. 1622-1627)

Stephen Crane:                 Poetry                              (pp. 786-790)             Handout: Naturalism  Webpage

Edit Wharton:                 "Roman Fever"                Webpage
 
Edwin Arlington Robinson:         all poems  (pp. 1119-1125)

Ernest Hemingway:        "In another Country"     1592
                                             "A Sea Change"               Webpage