Course Readings

• Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron"

• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun”

• Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine"

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening

• Booker T. Washington, Chapter XIV from Up from Slavery

• W. E. B. Du Bois, Chapter III from The Souls of Black Folk

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-paper;” "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper"

• Edith Wharton, "Souls Belated"

• Robert Frost, "Mending Wall;” "Home Burial;” "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening;” "The Figure a Poem Makes”

• Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man;” "A High Toned Old Christian Woman;” "Anecdote of the Jar;” "The Idea of Order at Key West"

• Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro;” "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter;" Canto I

• T. S. Eliot, from "Tradition and the Individual Talent;”The Waste Land

• William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife;” "Queen Anne's Lace;” "Spring and All;" "To Elsie;” “The Red Wheelbarrow"

• Marianne Moore, "Poetry;” "A Grave;” "What Are Years?” "The Paper Nautilus;” "Nevertheless"

• Claude McKay, "The Harlem Dancer;” "The Lynching;” "If We Must Die"

• Langston Hughes (1891 - 1892), "The Negro Speaks of Rivers;” "The Weary Blues;” "Mulatto"

• Zora Neale Hurston, "The Eatonville Anthology;" "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"

• Sherwood Anderson, "Queer"

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"

• Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

• Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

• Amiri Baraka, Dutchman

• Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People"

• Ralph Ellison, Prologue to Invisible Man; Chapter I: "Battle Royal"

• Toni Morrison, "Recitatif"

• Grace Paley, "A Conversation with My Father"

• Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon"

• Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"

• Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"

• Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish;” "Questions of Travel;” "In the Waiting Room;” "The Moose"

• Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

• Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke;” "Skunk Hour;” "For the Union Dead"

• Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song;” "Lady Lazarus"

• Anne Sexton, "Sylvia's Death;” "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman"

• Adrienne Rich, "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law;" "Power”