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The Literature of Early America 1 | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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Christopher Columbus (1451���1506) | |
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Letter Describing His First Voyage | |
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Thomas Hariot (1560���1621) | |
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From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia of the Nature and Manners of the People | |
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John Winthrop (1588���1649) AND ANNE HUTCHINSON (1591���1643) | |
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From The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton November 1637 | |
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The Iroquois League | |
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From The Constitution of the Five Nations | |
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Literature of Early America | |
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Captain John Smith (1580���1631) | |
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From The General History of Virginia | |
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The Third Book | |
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Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War | |
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William Bradford (1590���1657) | |
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From Of Plymouth Plantation | |
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The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550���1607 | |
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Of Their Settling in Holland, and Their Manner of Living | |
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Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal | |
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Of Their Departure from Leyden | |
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Of Their Voyage | |
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Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation | |
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The Mayflower Compact | |
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Narragansett Challenge | |
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End of the "Common Course . . ." | |
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Mr. Roger Williams | |
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The Pequot War | |
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Wiinslow's Final Departure | |
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John Winthrop (1588���1649) | |
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From The Journal of John Winthrop | |
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Anne Bradstreet (C. 1612���1672) | |
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The Prologue | |
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Contemplations | |
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The Flesh and the Spirit | |
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The Author to Her Book | |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment | |
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In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet | |
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On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet | |
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[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit | |
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Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
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As Weary Pilgrim | |
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Edward Taylor (C. 1642���1729) | |
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Prologue | |
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From Preparatory Meditations | |
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The Reflexion | |
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Meditation 6 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 8 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 38 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 150 (Second Series) | |
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From God's Determinations | |
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The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended | |
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Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
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Huswifery | |
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The Ebb and Flow | |
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A Fig for Thee Oh! Death | |
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Samuel Sewall (1652���1730) | |
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The Selling of Joseph | |
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From the Diary of Samuel Sewall | |
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Mary Rowlandson (C. 1637���1711) | |
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration | |
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William Byrd Ii (1674���1744) | |
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From the Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709���1712 | |
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Jonathan Edwards (1703���1758) | |
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Sarah Pierrepont | |
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From A Divine and Supernatural Light | |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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The Literature of the Eighteenth Century | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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Correspondence | |
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Thomas Jefferson to James Madison | |
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams | |
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Abigail Adams to John Adams | |
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John Adams to Abigail Adams | |
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Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson | |
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Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker | |
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The Federalist/Anti-Federalist Controversy | |
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The Federalist No. 1 (Alexander Hamilton) | |
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The Federalist No. 2 (John Jay) | |
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Literature of the Eighteenth Century | |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706���1790) | |
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From the Autobiography | |
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Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph | |
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From the Pennsylvania Gazette | |
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The Witches of Mount Holly | |
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Information to Those Who Would Remove to America | |
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Michel -Guillaume-Jean De Cr Vecoeur (1735���1813) | |
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From Letters from an American Farmer | |
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Letter III (What Is an American?) | |
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Letter IX (Description of Charleston) | |
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Thomas Paine (1737���1809) | |
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From Common Sense | |
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From the American Crisis | |
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Thomas Jefferson (1743���1826) | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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From Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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From Query V: Cascades | |
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From Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal | |
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From Query XVII: Religion | |
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From Query XVIII: Manners | |
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From Query XIX: Manufactures | |
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Phillis Wheatley (1754?���1784) | |
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On Virtue | |
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To the University of Cambridge, in New England | |
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On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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On Imagination | |
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To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works | |
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To His Excellency General Washington | |
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Philip Freneau (1752���1832) | |
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The Power of Fancy | |
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The Hurricane | |
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To Sir Toby | |
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The Wild Honey Suckle | |
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The Indian Burying Ground | |
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On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature | |
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William Bartram (1739���1823) | |
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From Travels through North and South Carolina | |
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Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762���1824) | |
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Slaves in Algiers | |
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Red Jacket (C. 1750-1830) | |
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The Indians Must Worship the Great Spirit in Their Own Way | |
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The Literature of the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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William Lloyd Garrison (1805���1879) | |
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On the Constitution and the Union | |
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Stephen A. Douglas (1813���1861) | |
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From Third Joint Debate, at Jonesboro | |
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Women 'S Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York (1848) | |
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Declaration of Sentiments | |
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Literature of the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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Washington Irving (1783���1859) | |
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From the Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent | |
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The Author's Account of Himself | |
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Rip Van Winkle | |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
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Black Hawk (1767���1838) | |
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From Black Hawk's Autobiography | |
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William Apess (1798���1839) | |
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Eulogy on King Philip | |
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Penina Mo Se (1797���1880) | |
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To Persecuted Foreigners | |
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The Mirror and the Echo | |
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To a Lottery Ticket | |
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789���1851) | |
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Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales | |
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From the Pioneers | |
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From the Deerslayer | |
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William Cullen Bryant (1794���1878) | |
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Thanatopsis | |
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To a Waterfowl | |
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To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe | |
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To the Fringed Gentian | |
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The Prairies | |
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Abraham Lincoln | |
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809���1849) | |
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Sonnet to Science | |
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To Helen | |
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The City in the Sea | |
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Sonnet Silence | |
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Lenore | |
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The Raven | |
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Annabel Lee | |
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The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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The Black Cat | |
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The Purloined Letter | |
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From "Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne" [A Review] | |
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The Philosophy of Composition | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803���1882) | |
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Nature | |
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Self-Reliance | |
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The Rhodora | |
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Each and All | |
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Concord Hymn | |
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The Problem | |
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Ode | |
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Hamatreya | |
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Give All to Love | |
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Days | |
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Brahma | |
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Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806���1867) | |
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January 1, 1828 | |
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January 1, 1829 | |
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The Lady in the White Dress, I Helped into the Omnibus | |
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Maria Stewart (1803���1879) | |
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An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female | |
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Intelligence Society of America 6 | |
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George Moses Horton (1797���1883) | |
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On Liberty and Slavery | |
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The Lover's Farewell | |
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On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom | |
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Division of An Estate | |
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Death of an Old Carriage Horse | |
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George Moses Horton, Myself | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804���1864) | |
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Young Goodman Brown | |
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The Birth-Mark | |
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Rappaccini's Daughter | |
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Herman Melville (1819���1891) | |
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Bartleby, the Scrivener | |
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Benito Cereno | |
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The Portent | |
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Shiloh | |
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Malvern Hill | |
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A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight | |
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The House-Top | |
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The Swamp Angel | |
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The College Colonel | |
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The Tuft of Kelp | |
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The Maldive Shark | |
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The Berg | |
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Art | |
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Greek Architecture | |
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Lydia Maria Child (1802���1880) | |
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The Black Saxons | |
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Frederick Douglass (1818���1895) | |
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From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | |
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Henry David Thoreau (1817���1862) | |
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Civil Disobedience | |
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From Walden | |
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I Economy | |
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II Where I Lived, and What I Lived for | |
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XII Brute Neighbors | |
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XVIII Conclusion | |
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They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below | |
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On Fields O'er Which the Reaper's Hand Has Passed | |
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Smoke | |
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Conscience | |
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My Life Has Been the Poem | |
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William Gilmore Simms (1806���1870) | |
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Grayling; or "Murder Will Out" | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807���1882) | |
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A Psalm of Life | |
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The Arsenal at Springfield | |
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The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807���1892) | |
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The Hunters of Men | |
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The Farewell | |
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Barbara Frietchie | |
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James Russell Lowell (1819���1891) | |
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To the Dandelion | |
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From A Fable for Critics | |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811���1896) | |
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FROM Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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Preface | |
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Chapter I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity | |
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Chapter VII the Mother's Struggle | |
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Fanny Fern (1811���1872) | |
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Aunt Hetty on Matrimony | |
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Hints to Young Wives | |
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The Tear of a Wife | |
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Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking" | |
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Blackwell's Island | |
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Blackwell's Island No. 3 | |
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Independence | |
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The Working-Girls of New York | |
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William Wells Brown (1814���1884) | |
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The Escape | |
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813���1897) | |
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From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
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Chapter I Childhood | |
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Chapter V the Trials of Girlhood | |
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Chapter VI the Jealous Mistress | |
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Chapter X A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life | |
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Chapter XXI the Loophole of Retreat | |
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Chapter XLI Free at Last | |
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James M. Whitfield (1822���1871) | |
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America | |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809���1865) | |
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To Horace Greeley | |
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Gettysburg Address | |
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Second Inaugural Address | |
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Frances E. W. Harper (1825���1911) | |
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Bury Me in a Free Land | |
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To the Union Savers of Cleveland | |
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Eliza Harris | |
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The Slave Mother | |
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Learning to Read | |
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Aunt Chloe's Politics | |
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Emma Lazarus (1849���1887) | |
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In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport | |
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The New Colossus | |
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1492 | |
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Walt Whitman (1819���1892) 1 | |
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Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass | |
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Song of Myself | |
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From Inscriptions | |
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To You | |
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One's-Self I Sing | |
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When I Read the Book | |
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I Hear America Singing | |
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Poets to Come | |
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From Children of Adam | |
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From Pent-Up Aching Rivers | |
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Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | |
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As Adam, Early in the Morning | |
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Once I Pass'd through a Populous City | |
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From Calamus | |
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What Think You I take My Pen In Hand? | |
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I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | |
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I Hear It Was Charged Against Me | |
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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From Sea-Drift | |
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | |
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From By the Roadside | |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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The Dalliance of the Eagles | |
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From Drum-Taps | |
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Beat! Beat! Drums! | |
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Cavalry Crossing a Ford | |
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Bivouac on a Mountain Side | |
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night | |
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A sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim | |
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The Wound-Dresser | |
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From Memories of President Lincoln | |
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | |
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From Autumn Rivulets | |
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There Was a Child Went Forth | |
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Sparkles From the Wheel | |
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Passage to India | |
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From Whispers of Heavenly Death | |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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From Noon to Starry Night | |
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To a Locomotive in Winter | |
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Emily Dickinson (1830���1886) | |
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49 I never lost as much but twice | |
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67 Success is counted sweetest | |
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165 A Wounded Deer leaps highest | |
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185 "Faith" is a fine invention | |
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210 the thought beneath so slight a film | |
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214 I taste a liquor never brewed | |
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216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers | |
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241 I like a look of Agony | |
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249 Wild Nights Wild Nights! | |
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258 There's a certain Slant of light | |
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280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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303 the Soul selects her own Society | |
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324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church | |
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328 A Bird came down the Walk | |
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338 I know that He exists | |
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341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes | |
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401 What Soft Cherubic Creatures | |
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435 Much Madness is divinest Sense | |
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441 This is my letter to the World | |
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449 I died for Beauty but was scarce | |
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465 I heard a Fly buzz when I died | |
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520 I started Early Took my Dog | |
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585 I like to see it lap the Miles | |
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632 the Brain is wider than the sky | |
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640 I cannot live with You | |
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670 One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted | |
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709 Publication is the Auction | |
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712 Because I could not stop for Death | |
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764 Presentiment is that long Shadow on the Lawn | |
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976 Death is a Dialogue between | |
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986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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1052 I never saw a Moor | |
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1078 the Bustle in a House | |
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1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant | |
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1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow | |
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1463 A Route of Evanescence | |
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1545 the Bible is an antique Volume | |
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1624 Apparently with no surprise | |
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1670 In Winter in my Room | |
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1732 My life closed twice before its close | |
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1755 to make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee | |
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1760 Elysium is as far as to | |
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Letters to T. W. Higginson | |
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The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS) (1835���1910) | |
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From Life on the Mississippi | |
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[Sir Walter Scott and the Southern Character] | |
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Albion Tourgee (1838���1905) | |
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From the Invisible Empire | |
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Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835���1910) | |
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
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Story of the Bad Little Boy | |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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A Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth | |
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The War-Prayer | |
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852���1930) | |
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A New England Nun | |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858���1932) | |
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The Goophered Grapevine | |
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William Dean Howells (1837���1920) | |
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Editha | |
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Henry James (1843���1916) | |
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Daisy Miller: A Study | |
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The Jolly Corner | |
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Ambrose Bierce (1842���1914) | |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860���1935) | |
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The Yellow Wall-Paper | |
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Kate Chopin (1851���1904) | |
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The Storm | |
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Stephen Crane (1871���1900) | |
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Black riders came from the sea | |
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In the desert | |
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A god in wrath | |
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I saw a man pursuing the horizon | |
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Supposing that I should have the courage | |
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On the horizon the peaks assembled | |
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A man feared that he might find an assassin | |
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Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind | |
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A man said to the universe | |
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A man adrift on a slim spar | |
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The Open Boat | |
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Frank Norris (1870���1902) | |
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A Deal in Wheat | |
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Jack London (1876���1916) | |
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The Law of Life | |
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Edith Wharton (1862���1937) | |
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The Other Two | |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872���1906) | |
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We Wear the Mask | |
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An Ante-Bellum Sermon | |
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When Malindy Sings | |
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The Colored Soldiers | |
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When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers | |
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Sympathy 1 | |
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Theodore Dreiser (1871���1945) | |
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The Lost Phoebe | |
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The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1900 to 1945) | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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Booker T. Washington (1856���1915) | |
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The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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Literature of the Twentieth Century | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868���1963) | |
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From the Souls of Black Folk | |
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A Litany of Atlanta | |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869���1935) | |
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Richard Cory | |
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Cliff Klingenhagen | |
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Miniver Cheevy | |
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How Annandale Went Out | |
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Eros Turannos | |
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Mr. Flood's Party | |
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Robert Frost (1874���1963) | |
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Mending Wall | |
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Home Burial | |
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After Apple-Picking | |
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The Road Not Taken | |
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An Old Man's Winter Night | |
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Birches | |
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The Oven Bird | |
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For Once, Then, Something | |
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Fire and Ice | |
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Design | |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa) (1876���1938) | |
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From the School Days of an Indian Girl | |
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Carl Sandburg (1878���1967) | |
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Chicago | |
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Lost | |
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Graceland | |
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Fog | |
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Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight | |
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Willa Cather (1873���1947) | |
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Paul's Case | |
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Ellen Glasgow (1873���1945) | |
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The Shadowy Third | |
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Gertrude Stein (1874���1946) | |
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Susie Asado | |
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Picasso | |
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A Movie | |
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Sherwood Anderson (1876���1941) | |
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I Want to Know Why | |
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John Dos Passos (1896���1970) | |
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From U.S.A | |
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Preface | |
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From the 42nd Parallel | |
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Proteus 1 | |
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From 1919 | |
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Newsreel XLIII | |
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The Body of an American | |
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From the Big Money | |
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Newsreel LXVI | |
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The Camera Eye (50) | |
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From U.S.A | |
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Vag | |
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Eugene O'neill (1888���1953) | |
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The Hairy Ape | |
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Susan Glaspell (1876���1948) | |
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Trifles | |
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Ezra Pound (1885���1972) | |
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Portrait d'une Femme | |
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Salutation | |
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A Pact | |
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In a Station of the Metro | |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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T. S. Eliot (1888���1965) | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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Preludes | |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales | |
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The Waste Land | |
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Notes on "The Waste Land" | |
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E. E. Cummings (1894���1962) | |
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[in Just-] | |
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[O sweet spontaneous] | |
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[Buffalo Bill's defunct] | |
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[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] | |
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[All in green went my love riding] | |
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[when god lets my body be] | |
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Hart Crane (1899���1932) | |
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Chaplinesque | |
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At Melville's Tomb | |
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Voyages | |
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From the Bridge | |
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To Brooklyn Bridge | |
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The Harbor Dawn | |
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Van Winkle | |
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868���1950) | |
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From Spoon River Anthology | |
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Knowlt Hoheimer | |
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Nellie Clark | |
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Petit, the Poet | |
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Anne Rutledge | |
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Lucinda Matlock | |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892���1950) | |
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Spring | |
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First Fig | |
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[I shall forget you presently, my dear] | |
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[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare] | |
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Wallace Stevens (1879���1955) | |
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Peter Quince at the Clavier | |
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | |
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Domination of Black | |
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | |
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The Snow Man | |
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Anecdote of the Jar | |
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A High-Toned Old Christian Woman | |
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
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The Idea of Order at Key West | |
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William Carlos Williams (1883���1963) | |
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Con Brio | |
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The Young Housewife | |
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Pastoral | |
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Tract | |
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Danse Russe | |
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El Hombre | |
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To a Solitary Disciple | |
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Queenannslace | |
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Portrait of a Lady | |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime | |
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The Red Wheelbarrow | |
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Between Walls | |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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Marianne Moore (1887���1972) | |
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The Past Is the Present | |
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To a Steam Roller | |
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The Fish | |
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Poetry | |
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A Graveyard | |
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The New Negro (1925) | |
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Fog, by John Matheus | |
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White Houses, by Claude McKay | |
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The Black Finger, by Angelina Grimke | |
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The Road, by Helene Johnson | |
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Count Ee Cullen (1903���1946) | |
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Yet Do I Marvel | |
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For a Lady I Know | |
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Incident | |
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From the Dark Tower | |
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A Brown Girl Dead | |
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Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song | |
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Jean Toomer (1894���1967) | |
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From Cane | |
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Blood-Burning Moon | |
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891?���1960) | |
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John Redding Goes to Sea | |
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Thomas Wolfe (1900���1938) | |
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Only the Dead Know Brooklyn | |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896���1940) | |
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Winter Dreams | |
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Ernest Hemingway (1899���1961) | |
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In Another Country | |
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William Faulkner (1897���1962) | |
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Barn Burning | |
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Langston Hughes (1902���1967) | |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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Aunt Sue's Stories | |
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Question | |
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The New Moon | |
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Mexican Market Woman | |
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I Too | |
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Dream Boogie | |
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Harlem | |
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John Steinbeck (1902���1968) | |
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The Chrysanthemums | |
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890���1980) | |
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Marüa Concepciòn | |
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The Literature of the Twentieth Century (1945 to Present) | |
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Reading the Historical Context | |
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929���1968) | |
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I Have a Dream | |
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James R. Mcdonough (1946��� ) | |
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From Platoon Leader | |
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"Just Like You and Me" | |
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Barack Obama (1961��� ) | |
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Inauguration Speech | |
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Literature of the Twentieth Century | |
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Eudora Welty (1909���2001) | |
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Powerhouse | |
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Richard Wright (1908���1960) | |
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911���1979) | |
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A Miracle for Breakfast | |
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The Armadillo | |
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Brazil, January 1, 1502 | |
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One Art | |
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Robert Lowell (1917���1977) | |
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Memories of West Street and Lepke | |
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Skunk Hour | |
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For the Union Dead | |
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Will Not Come Back | |
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Anne Sexton (1928���1974) | |
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And One for My Dame | |
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The Addict | |
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Us | |
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Rowing | |
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Sylvia Plath (1932���1963) | |
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Lady Lazarus | |
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Daddy | |
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W. S. Merwin (1927��� ) | |
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Grandfather in the Old Men's Home | |
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The Drunk in the Furnace | |
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Noah's Raven | |
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The Dry Stone Mason | |
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Fly | |
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Strawberries | |
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Direction | |
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A. R. Ammons (1926���2001) | |
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Sight Seed | |
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Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything | |
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The Damned | |
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James Baldwin (1924���1987) | |
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Sonny's Blues | |
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Flannery O'connor (1925���1964) | |
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Good Country People | |
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Bernard Malamud (1914���1986) | |
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The Magic Barrel | |
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Sonia Sanchez (1934��� ) | |
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The final solution/ | |
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To blk/record/buyers | |
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Womanhood | |
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Black Fire (1968) | |
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Neon Diaspora, by David Henderson | |
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For the Truth, by Edward Spriggs | |
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"Oh shit a riot!" by Jacques Wakefield | |
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June Jordan (1936���2002) | |
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Poem About My Rights | |
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Poem for Guatemala | |
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A New Politics of Sexuality | |
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Maxine Hong Kingston (1940��� ) | |
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No Name Woman | |
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Edward Albee (1928��� ) | |
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The Zoo Story | |
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Saul Bellow (1915���2005) | |
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A Silver Dish | |
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N. Scott Momaday (1934��� ) | |
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From the Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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The Arrowmaker | |
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Joyce Carol Oates (1938��� ) | |
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How I Contemplated the World | |
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James Alan Mcpherson (1943��� ) | |
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The Faithful | |
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Tim O'brien (1946��� ) | |
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From the Things They Carried | |
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On the Rainy River 2113 | |
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Amy Tan (1952��� ) | |
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From the Joy Luck Club | |
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Half and Half | |
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Bobbie Ann Mason (1940��� ) | |
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Shiloh | |
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Gloria Naylor (1950��� ) | |
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From the Women of Brewster Place | |
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Lucielia Louise Turner | |
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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948��� ) | |
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The Man to Send Rain Clouds | |
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Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand | |
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Gloria Anzald A (1942���2004) | |
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From Borderlands/La Frontera: the New Mestiza | |
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The Homeland, Aztlà n | |
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Louise Erdrich (1954��� ) | |
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From Love Medicine | |
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The Red Convertible (1974) | |
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Tina Howe (1937��� ) | |
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Painting Churches | |
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Thomas Pynchon (1937��� ) | |
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Entropy | |
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August Wilson (1945���2005) | |
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Fences | |
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Simon Ortiz (1941��� ) | |
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A Designated National Park | |
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Canyon de Chelly | |
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Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving | |
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George Saunders (1958��� ) | |
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Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz | |
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Sherman Alexie (1966��� ) | |
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Class | |
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Defending Walt Whitman | |
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Reference Works, Bibliographies | |
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Criticism, Literary and Cultural History | |