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Reading Assignments

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
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  • Home
    • What is STORY
    • The Elements of Fiction
    • What Is A Short Story
    • Literary Theory Guide
  • Lit. 214
    • Class Presentations
  • Colonial Period
    • Native American >
      • Red Jacket's Speech
      • Story Collections
      • Lyrics, Poems and Chants
    • Spanish Explorers
    • Early Colonial >
      • New England Primer
      • Anne Bradstreet
      • Mary Rowlandson
      • John Winthrop
      • John Smith
      • Colonial Song Lyrics
    • Colonial and Revolutionary >
      • Readings >
        • Ben Franklin >
          • Advice on the Choice of a Mistress
          • Excerpts from The Autobiography
          • A Tale
        • Phyllis Wheatly >
          • Poems
        • Thomas Paine >
          • Common Sense
        • Philip Freneau >
          • Freneau Poems
        • Thomas Jefferson >
          • Writings
        • Jupiter Hammon >
          • An Evening Thought
      • Lyrics
  • Romantic Period
    • Elements of American Romanticism
    • Authors >
      • Washington Irving >
        • Irving's Place >
          • Irving's Place2
        • Irving on the Tale
        • Rip Van Winkle
        • Rip 2
        • Rip 3
        • Poetry
      • James Fenimore Cooper >
        • LOTH Silent Movie
        • Chapter 32
        • Chapter 32 B
      • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. >
        • Selected Poems
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson >
        • Selected Writings
        • Transcendentalism
      • Edgar Allen Poe >
        • Poe's Approach to Fiction
        • Life of Poe
        • Selected Poems
        • "The Raven"
        • The Black Cat
        • The Tell-Tale Heart
      • William Cullen Bryant >
        • Bryants Poems
      • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow >
        • Selected Poetry
      • Margaret Fuller
      • Fanny Fern
      • Herman Melville >
        • Moby Dick
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne >
        • Scarlett Letter Excepts
        • Young Goodman Brown
      • C. Clement Moore
    • Lyrics >
      • Folk / Gospel
      • Parlor Music
      • Music Hall
      • Stephen Foster >
        • Music
      • George Root
  • Civil War Period
    • 1850 - 1861 >
      • Harriet Anne Jacobs
      • Francis Harper
      • Frederick Douglass
      • Songs of Protest, Freedom, Sadness
    • 1861 - 1866 >
      • Julie Ward Howe
      • Emily Dickinson
      • Walt Whitman >
        • Excerpts
      • Abraham Lincoln
      • Louisa May Alcott
      • Misc. Poets
      • Warriors & Memoirs
    • Civil War Songs