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| Introduction | |
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| Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Introduction to Fiction | |
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| The Telling of the Tale | |
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| The Short Story Genre | |
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| Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction | |
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| * Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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| Rip Van Winkle | |
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| Nathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | |
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| The Minister's Black Veil | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | |
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| * The Cask of Amontillado | |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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| A White Heron | |
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| Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) | |
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| Mother Savage | |
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| Kate Chopin (1851-1904) | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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| Roman Fever | |
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| Willa Cather (1876-1947) | |
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| Paul's Case | |
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| James Joyce (1882-1941) | |
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| Araby | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | |
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| Sweat | |
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| William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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| A Rose for Emily | |
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| Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | |
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| Up in Michigan | |
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| Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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| The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
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| John Cheever (1912-1982) | |
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| Reunion | |
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| Ralph Ellison (1914-1995) | |
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| A Party Down at the Square | |
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| Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) | |
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| The Lottery | |
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| Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) | |
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| Seventeen Syllables | |
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| Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) | |
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| Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
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| Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez (b. 1928) | |
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| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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| Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) | |
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| Dead Men's Path | |
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| Alice Munro (b. 1931) | |
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| The Bear Came Over the Mountain | |
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| Raymond Carver (1938-1988) | |
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| Cathedral | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) | |
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| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
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| Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) | |
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| Happy Endings | |
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| Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) | |
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| Shiloh | |
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| Alice Walker (b. 1944) | |
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| Everyday Use | |
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| * Tobias Wolff (b. 1945) | |
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| Hunters in the Snow | |
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| Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947) | |
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| * Waiting for the Evening News | |
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| Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) | |
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| Woman Hollering Creek | |
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| Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) | |
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| The Red Convertible | |
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| Gish Jen (b. 1955) | |
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| In the American Society | |
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| * Helen Simpson (b. 1959) | |
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| Diary of an Interesting Year | |
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| Sherman Alexie | |
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| This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | |
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| * Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) | |
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| A Temporary Matter | |
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| * Susan Perabo (b. 1969) | |
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| The Payoff | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Introduction to Poetry | |
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| An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts | |
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| Speaker, Listener, and Context | |
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| "The Star-Spangled Banner" | |
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| Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic | |
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| The Language of Poetry | |
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| Figurative Language | |
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| Allegory and Symbol | |
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| Tone of Voice | |
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| Repetition: Sounds and Schemes | |
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| Meter and Rhythm | |
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| Free Verse and Open Form | |
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| Stanza Forms | |
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| Fixed Forms | |
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| Literary History and Poetic Conventions | |
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| Writing about Poetry | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Western Wind | |
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| Bonny Barbara Allan | |
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| Sir Patrick Spens | |
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| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) | |
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| They Flee from Me | |
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| Whoso List to Hunt | |
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| Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) | |
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| Amoretti : Sonnet 75 | |
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| Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) | |
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| Astrophel and Stella : Sonnet 1 | |
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| Robert Southwell (1561?-1595) | |
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| The Burning Babe | |
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| Michael Drayton (1563-1631) | |
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| Idea : Sonnet 61 | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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| Sonnet 18 | |
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| Sonnet 20 | |
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| Sonnet 29 | |
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| Sonnet 73 | |
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| Sonnet 116 | |
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| Sonnet 130 | |
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| When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter) | |
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| Thomas Campion (1567-1620) | |
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| There Is a Garden in Her Face | |
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| John Donne (1572-1631) | |
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| The Flea | |
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| Holy Sonnet 10 | |
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| Holy Sonnet 14 | |
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| The Sun Rising | |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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| Ben Jonson (1573-1637) | |
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| On My First Son | |
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| Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount | |
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| Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?) | |
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| In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn | |
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| Robert Herrick (1591-1674) | |
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| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
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| George Herbert (1593-1633) | |
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| Easter Wings | |
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| The Pulley | |
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| Redemption | |
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| Edmund Waller (1606-1687) | |
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| Song | |
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| John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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| How Soon Hath Time | |
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| On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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| Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) | |
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| To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | |
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| Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| John Dryden (1631-1700) | |
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| To the Memory of Mr. Oldham | |
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| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |
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| A Description of a City Shower | |
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| Alexander Pope (1688-1744) | |
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| from An Essay on Criticism | |
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| Ode on Solitude | |
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| Thomas Gray (1716-1771) | |
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| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
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| William Blake (1757-1827) | |
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| The Chimney Sweeper | |
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| The Little Black Boy | |
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| A Poison Tree | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| Robert Burns (1759-1796) | |
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| A Red, Red Rose | |
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| John Barleycorn | |
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| William Wordsworth (1770-1850) | |
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| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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| It Is a Beauteous Evening | |
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| Ode: Intimations of Immortality | |
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) | |
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| Frost at Midnight | |
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| Kubla Khan | |
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| Work Without Hope | |
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| George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) | |
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| She Walks in Beauty | |
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| Stanzas | |
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| When We Two Parted | |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) | |
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| Ode to the West Wind | |
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| Ozymandias | |
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| John Keats (1795-1821) | |
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| * Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art | |
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| La Belle Dame sans Merci | |
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| Ode to a Nightingale | |
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| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) | |
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| Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18 | |
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| Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 | |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) | |
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| The Arsenal at Springfield | |
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| The Cross of Snow | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | |
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| The Haunted Palace | |
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| The Raven | |
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| Sonnet to Science | |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) | |
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| The Lady of Shallot | |
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| Tears, Idle Tears | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| Robert Browning (1812-1889) | |
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| My Last Duchess | |
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| Porphyria's Lover | |
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| Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
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| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| O Captain, My Captain | |
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| A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Grey and Dim | |
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| Song of Myself, 6 | |
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| Song of Myself, 11 | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) | |
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| Dover Beach | |
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| Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
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| After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes | |
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| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | |
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| The Brain Is Wider than the Sky | |
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| A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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| Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church | |
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| The Soul Selects Her Own Society | |
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| Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant | |
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| Wild Nights--Wild Nights | |
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| Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) | |
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| Up-Hill | |
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| Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | |
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| Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? | |
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| Chanel Firing | |
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| Neutral Tones | |
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| The Ruined Maid | |
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) | |
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| God's Grandeur | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| Spring and Fall: To a Young Child | |
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| Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
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| The New Colossus | |
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| A. E. Housman (1859-1936) | |
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| Eight O'Clock | |
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| Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now | |
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| Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall | |
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| "Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff ." | |
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| William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | |
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| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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| Leda and the Swan | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
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| Firelight | |
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| The Mill | |
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| Richard Cory | |
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| Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
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| The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers | |
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| The Wayfarer | |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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| We Wear the Mask | |
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| Robert Frost (1874-1963) | |
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| Acquainted with the Night | |
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| After Apple-Picking | |
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| Design | |
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| Home Burial | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1034) | |
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| Amaze | |
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| Languor after Pain | |
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| Trapped | |
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| Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | |
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| Anecdote of the Jar | |
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| Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | |
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| The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
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| The Snow Man | |
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| Sunday Morning | |
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| The Worms at Heaven's Gate | |
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| William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | |
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| The Last Words of My English Grandmother | |
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| The Red Wheelbarrow | |
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| Spring and All | |
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| Ezra Pound (1885-1972) | |
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| In a Station of the Metro | |
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| Portrait d'une Femme | |
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| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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| Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) | |
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| Let No Charitable Hope | |
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| Ophelia | |
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| H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) | |
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| Pear Tree | |
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| Sea Rose | |
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| Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) | |
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| Dreamers | |
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| Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) | |
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| The Purse-Seine | |
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| Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
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| The Fish | |
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| Silence | |
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| T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) | |
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| Journey of the Magi | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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| If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way | |
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| Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word | |
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| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
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| Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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| e. e. cummings (1894-1962) | |
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| pity this busy monster,manunkind | |
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| plato told | |
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| r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r | |
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| * somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond | |
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| Jean Toomer (1894-1967) | |
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| Georgia Dusk | |
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| Louise Bogan (1897-1970) | |
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| Women | |
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| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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| Dream Boogie | |
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| * Harlem Sweeties | |
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| The Weary Blues | |
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| Countee Cullen (1903-1946) | |
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| Incident | |
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| Yet Do I Marvel | |
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| W. H. Auden (1907-1973) | |
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| As I Walked Out One Evening | |
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| Mus�e des Beaux Arts | |
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| The Unknown Citizen | |
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| Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) | |
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| Dolor | |
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| My Papa's Waltz | |
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| Root Cellar | |
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| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) | |
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| The Fish | |
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| One Art | |
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| * The Shampoo | |
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| Robert Hayden (1913-1980) | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| Dudley Randall (b. 1914) | |
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| Ballad of Birmingham | |
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| William Stafford (1914-1993) | |
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| Traveling through the Dark | |
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| Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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| Poem in October | |
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| Weldon Kees (1914-1955) | |
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| For My Daughter | |
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| Margaret Walker (b. 1915) | |
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| For Malcolm X | |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) | |
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| the ballad of chocolate Mabbie | |
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| the mother | |
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| We Real Cool | |
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) | |
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| A Coney Island of the Mind, #15 | |
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| May Swenson (1919-1989) | |
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| How Everything Happens | |
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| Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) | |
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| A Primer of the Daily Round | |
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| Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) | |
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| * For C | |
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| The Writer | |
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| Year's End | |
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| Philip Larkin (1922-1985) | |
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| Next, Please | |
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| This Be the Verse | |
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| The Whitsun Weddings | |
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| James Dickey (1923-1997) | |
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| The Heaven of Animals | |
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| Alan Dugan (b. 1923) | |
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| Love Song: I and Thou | |
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| Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) | |
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| The Dover Bitch | |
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| Third Avenue in Sunlight | |
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| Louis Simpson (b. 1923) | |
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| American Classic | |
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| My Father in the Night Commanding No | |
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| Vassar Miller (1924-1997) | |
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| Subterfuge | |
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| Donald Justice (b. 1925) | |
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| Counting the Mad | |
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| Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) | |
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| The Ungrateful Garden | |
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| Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) | |
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| Noted in the New York Times | |
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| Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) | |
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| A Supermarket in California | |
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| James Merrill (1926-1995) | |
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| Casual Wear | |
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| Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) | |
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| The Day Lady Died | |
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| W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) | |
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| Mementos, I | |
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| John Ashbery (b. 1927) | |
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| Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape | |
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| Paradoxes and Oxymorons | |
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| W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) | |
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| For the Anniversary of My Death | |
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| The Last One | |
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| James Wright (1927-1980) | |
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| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | |
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| Saint Judas | |
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| Philip Levine (b. 1928) | |
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| You Can Have It | |
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| Anne Sexton (1928-1974) | |
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| Cinderella | |
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| Thom Gunn (b. 1929) | |
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| From the Wave | |
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| Terminal | |
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| X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929) | |
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| In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day | |
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| Little Elegy | |
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| Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) | |
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| Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | |
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| Diving into the Wreck | |
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| Rape | |
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| Ted Hughes (b. 1930) | |
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| Pike | |
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| Gary Snyder (b. 1930) | |
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| A Walk | |
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| Miller Williams (b. 1930) | |
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| The Book | |
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| Linda Pastan (b. 1932) | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) | |
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| Daddy | |
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| Edge | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Gerald Barrax (b. 1933) | |
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| Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985 | |
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| Mark Strand (b. 1934) | |
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| The Tunnel | |
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| Russel Edson (b. 1935) | |
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| Ape | |
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| Mary Oliver (b. 1935) | |
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| The Black Walnut Tree | |
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| Fred Chappell (b. 1936) | |
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| Narcissus and Echo | |
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| Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) | |
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| homage to my hips | |
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| wishes for sons | |
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| Marge Piercy (b. 1936) | |
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| What's That Smell in the Kitchen? | |
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| Betty Adcock (b. 1938) | |
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| Voyages | |
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| Robert Phillips (b. 1938) | |
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| The Stone Crab: A Love Poem | |
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| Dabney Stuart (b. 1938) | |
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| Discovering My Daughter | |
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| Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) | |
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| Siren Song | |
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| Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) | |
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| The Sacred | |
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| Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) | |
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| Punishment | |
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| Ted Kooser (b. 1939) | |
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| Abandoned Farmhouse | |
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| Tom Disch (b. 1940) | |
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| Ballade of the New God | |
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| Florence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940) | |
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| All American Sestina | |
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| Pattiann Rogers (b. 1940) | |
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| Foreplay | |
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| Billy Collins (b. 1941) | |
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| Litany | |
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| Robert Hass (b. 1941) | |
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| Meditation at Lagunitas | |
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| Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941) | |
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| The Serenity in Stones | |
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| Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941) | |
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| The Visitor | |
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| Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942) | |
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| Combing | |
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| B.H. Fairchild (b. 1942) | |
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| Body and Soul | |
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| Charles Martin (b. 1942) | |
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| E.S.L | |
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| Sharon Olds (b. 1942) | |
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| The One Girl at the Boys Party | |
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| Diane Lockward (b. 1943) | |
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| My Husband Discovers Poetry | |
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| Ellen Bryant Voight (b. 1943) | |
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| Daughter | |
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| Robert Morgan (b. 1944) | |
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| Mountain Bride | |
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| Craig Raine (b. 1944) | |
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| A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | |
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| Enid Shomer (b. 1944) | |
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| Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen | |
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| Wendy Cope (b. 1944) | |
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| Rondeau Redoubl� | |
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| Dick Davis (b. 1945) | |
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| A Monorhyme for the Shower | |
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| Kay Ryan (b. 1945) | |
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| Bestiary | |
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| Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945) | |
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| The Day Kennedy Died | |
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| John Whitworth (b. 1945) | |
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| The Examiners | |
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| Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946) | |
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| The Ballad of Aunt Geneva | |
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| Ai (1947-2010) | |
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| Child Beater | |
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| Jim Hall (b. 1947) | |
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| Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too | |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) | |
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| Facing It | |
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| Timothy Steele (b. 1948) | |
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| Sapphics against Anger | |
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| James Fenton (b. 1949) | |
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| God, a Poem | |
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| Sarah Cortez (b. 1950) | |
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| Tu Negrito | |
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| Carolyn Forch� (b. 1950) | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Dana Gioia (b. 1950) | |
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| Planting a Sequoia | |
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| Rodney Jones (b. 1950) | |
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| Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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| Timothy Murphy (b. 1950) | |
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| Case Notes | |
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| Joy Harjo (b. 1951) | |
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| She Had Some Horses | |
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| Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951) | |
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| Air View of an Industrial Scene | |
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| * Robert Wrigley | |
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| Thatcher Bitchboy | |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) | |
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| The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica | |
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| Rita Dove (b. 1952) | |
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| American Smooth | |
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| Mark Jarman (b. 1952) | |
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| After Disappointment | |
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| Julie Kane (b. 1952) | |
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| Alan Doll Rap | |
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| Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) | |
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| The Traveling Onion | |
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| Alberto R�os (b. 1952) | |
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| The Purpose of Altar Boys | |
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| Julia Alvarez (b. 1953) | |
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| Bilingual Sestina | |
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| Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) | |
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| Dim Lady | |
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| Kim Addonizio (b. 1954) | |
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| Sonnenizio on a Line from Michael Drayton | |
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| David Mason (b. 1954) | |
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| Fog Horns | |
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| Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954) | |
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| Welcome to Hiroshima | |
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| Cathy Song (b. 1955) | |
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| Stamp Collecting | |
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| Ginger Andrews (b. 1956) | |
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| Primping in the Rearview Mirror | |
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| * Amy Gerstler (b. 1956) | |
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| Advice from a Caterpillar | |
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| * Rebecca Faust (b. 1957) | |
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| Family Story | |
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| Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963) | |
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| Useful Advice | |
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| Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) | |
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| The Exaggeration of Despair | |
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| Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) | |
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| Domestic Work, 1937 | |
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| * Craig Arnold (1967-2009) | |
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| The Singers | |
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| Allison Joseph (b. 1967) | |
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| The Athlete | |
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| Brian Turner (b. 1967) | |
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| Here, Bullet | |
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| Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968) | |
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| Occupation | |
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| A. E. Stallings (b. 1968) | |
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| First Love: A Quiz | |
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| * Ernest Hilbert (b. 1970) | |
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| Domestic Situation | |
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| Sophie Hannah (b. 1971) | |
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| The Guest Speaker | |
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| Emily Moore (b. 1977) | |
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| Auld Lang Syne | |
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| * Erica Dawson | |
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| Somewhere between Columbus and Cincinnati | |
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| Drama | |
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| Introduction to Drama | |
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| The Play's the Thing | |
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| Origins of Drama | |
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| Aristotle on Tragedy | |
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| Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions | |
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| Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.) | |
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| Antigone | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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| * Twelfth Night | |
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| Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) | |
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| An Enemy of the People | |
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| Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) | |
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| The Glass Menagerie | |
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| Athold Fugard (b. 1932) | |
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| "Master Harold" . and the boys | |
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| August Wilson (b. 1945) | |
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| The Piano Lesson | |
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| David Ives (b. 1950) | |
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| Sure Thing | |
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| Milcha Sanchez-Scott (b. 1953) | |
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| The Cuban Swimmer | |
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| * Yasmina Reza (b. 1959) | |
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| The God of Carnage | |
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| Writing about Literature | |
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| Thematic Approaches to Literature | |
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| Index of Critical Terms | |
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| Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems | |
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| Pearson Penguin Packages | |