Twentieth Century

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

"Queer"
"The Book of thr Grotesque"
"Introduction" to Winesburg, Ohio



T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)

"The Hollow Men" (1925)



Ezra Pound (1885-1872)

"In a Station of the Metro" (1913,1916)



William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

"This is Just to Say" (1934)



Wallace Stevens (1879-1985)

"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" (1915)



Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"After Apple-Picking" (1914)



Francis S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

The Great Gatsby (1925)



William Faulkner (1897-1962)

"Barn Burning" (1939)



Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952)



Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

"I, Too" (1925)



Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

"The Gilded Six-Bits" (1933)



Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

"Souls Belated" (1899)


Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Death of a Salesman (1949)



Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Howl (1955)



Thomas Pynchon (b.1937)

"Entropy" (1960)



Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

"Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law" (1963)



LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) (b. 1934)

Dutchman (1964)



Ursula K.Le Guin (b. 1929)

"She Unnames Them" (1982)



Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

"Cathedral" (1983)



N.Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)



Judith Ortiz Cofer (b.1952)

"The Witch's Husband"(1993)

Nineteenth Century

Washintong Irving (1783-1859)

The Alhambra (1832)



James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)



Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nature (1836) "Hamatreya"



Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Walden (1854)



Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)



Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Moby-Dick (1851)



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"A Psalm of Life" (1838)



Edgard Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"Tha Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
"The Raven"



Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)



Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)



Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Song of Myself" (1881)



Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"This is my letter to the World""Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died"
"My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun"



Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)



Henry James (1843-1916)

Daisy Miller: A Study (1878)



Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

"Desirée's Baby" (1892)



Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

"The Open Boat" (1897)

Eighteenth Century

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God






Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The Autobiography



 Olaudah Equiano(c.1745-1797)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African



Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)

"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
"to the University of Cambridge, in New England"
"To His Excellency General Washington"

Seventeenth Century

John Smith (1580-1631)

The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624)



William Bradford (1590-1657)

Of Plymouth Plantation (1630)



Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)

"The Author to Her Book"
"To my Dear and Loving Husband"
"Upon the Burning of our House"
"On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet"



Mary Rowlandson (c.1637-1711)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs Mary Rowlandson