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Introduction
Helena Marvin and OpenAI
1. David Foster Wallace (1962 - 2008)
Amy Berke; Robert Bleil; Jordan Cofer; and Doug Davis
2. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )
3. William Faulkner (1897 – 1962)
4. Reading and Review Questions
Amy Berke; Robert Bleil; Jordan Cofer; Doug Davis; and OpenAI
5. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
6. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” - 1921
Langston Hughes
7. Alice Walker (1944 - )
8. Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
Wikipedia
9. Late Romanticism Introduction
Robert Bleil
10. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
11. "Song of Myself" - 1892
Walt Whitman
12. "Oh Captain! My Captain!" - 1865
13. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
14. “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” - 1862
Emily Dickinson
15. “My Life Had Stood—a Loaded Gun” - 1863
16. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” - 1890
17. Realism Introduction
Amy Berke; Jordan Cofer; and Doug Davis
18. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
19. “The Celebrated Jumping frog of Calaveras County” - 1865
Mark Twain
20. “The War Prayer” - 1905
21. Bret Harte (1836-1902)
22. "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - 1869
Bret Harte
23. William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)
Amy Berke; Robert Bleil; and Jordan Cofer
24. "Editha" - 1905
William Dean Howells
25. Ambrose Bierce (1842–circa 1914)
26. “Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” - 1890
Ambrose Bierce
27. Henry James (1843 - 1916)
28. “Daisy Miller” - 1878
Henry James
29. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
30. "A White Heron" - 1886
Sarah Orne Jewett
31. Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904)
32. "At The 'Cadian Ball" - 1845
Kate Chopin
33. ”The Storm” - 1868
34. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930)
35. “A New England Nun” - 1891
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
36. “The Revolt of ‘Mother’” - 1890
37. Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)
38. “The Passing of Grandison” - 1899
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
39. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)
40. "The Yellow Wall-Paper” -1892
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
41. Naturalism & Modernism
42. Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
43. “A Plea for Romantic Fiction” - 1901
Frank Norris
44. Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
45. “The Open Boat” - 1897
Stephen Crane
46. Jack London (1876 - 1916)
47. “To Build a Fire” - 1908
Jack London
48. Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
49. Selections From "Up From Slavery" - 1901
Booker T. Washington
50. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963)
51. Selections From "The Souls of Black Folk" - 1903
W.E.B. Du Bois
52. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
53. “Mending Wall” - 1914
Robert Frost
54. “Home Burial” - 1914
55. Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
56. “The Emperor of Ice Cream” - 1923
Wallace Stevens
57. William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
58. “The Red Wheelbarrow” - 1923
William Carlos Williams
59. Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
60. “In a Station of The Metro” - 1926
Ezra Pound
61. Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972)
62. "Poetry" - 1919
Marianne Moore
63. T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
64. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - 1915
T. S. Eliot
65. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
66. “First Fig” - 1921
Edna St. Vincent Millay
67. “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently” - 1921
68. e.e. Cummings (1894 - 1962)
69. “in Just-” - 1919
e.e. Cummings
70. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
71. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” - 1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald
72. "Winter Dreams" - 1922
73. Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
74. Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)
75. Southern Renaissance & The Harlem Renaissance
76. Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
77. “Dare’s Gift” - 1917
Ellen Glasgow
78. Eudora Alice Welty (1909 - 2001)
79. Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 - 1961)
80. "Sleeper Awakes” - 1921
Jessie Redmon Fauset
81. Nella Larsen (1891 - 1964)
82. Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946)
83. “Heritage” - 1925
Countee Cullen
84. "Yet Do I Marvel" - 1925
85. Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964)
86. Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965)
87. Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
88. Williams: “Streetcar Named Desire” Scenes 5-10
Tennessee Williams
89. Postmodernism
90. James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
91. Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)
92. Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019)
93. Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
94. Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
Glossary
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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