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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 | |