Reading american literature

POETRY
Introduction
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Rhythm, Motor and Rhyme
William Cullen Bryant
The Yellow Violet
To a Waterfowl
Stanza
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Annabel Lee
Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Mezzo Cammin
The Sonnet
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
O Captain! My Captain!
Free Verse
Emily Dickinson
I Never Saw a Moor
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Success Is Counted Sweetest
Diction
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Lyric
Mending Wall
Blank Verse
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter
Imagery and Imagism
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
ara
Symbols and Symbolism
E.E. Cummings
Portrait
Sunset
Pictorialism
Langston Hughes
Daybreak in Alabama
Dreams
Simile and Metaphor
Allen Ginsberg
Howl (For Carl Solomon)
A Supermarket in California

SHORT STORY
Introduction
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Setting
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
Mark Twain
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Local Color
O. Henry
The Cop and the Anthem
Irony
Sherwood Anderson
The Egg
Character
James Thnrber
The Unicorn in the Garden
Fable
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Tone and Style
Flannery O' Conner
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Plot
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Caricature
James Baldwin
Sonny' s Blues
Amy Tan
A Pair of Tickets

ESSAY
Introduction
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Nonfiction
Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Argument
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance
Exposition
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
Persuasion
Henry Louis Mencken
The American Lauguage
Elwyn Brooks White
How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet

SPEECH
Introduction
Abraham Lincoln
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National
Cemetery
William Faulkner
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Martin Luther King
I Have a Dream
John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address

Biography and Autobiography
Novel
Dramer