Puritanism and Native American Voices

(The New Land to 1750)

Navajo Tribe
The Navajo Origin Legend (oral legend)

Iroquois Tribe
The Iroquois Constitution (circa 1570)

Bradford, William (1590-1657)
The History of the Plymouth Plantation (1620)

Smith, John (1580-1631)

Bradstreet, Anne (1612?1672)
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
“TO My Dear Loving Husband”

Edwards, Esther (1732-1758)
“Diary Entries” (1743)

Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
Religious Affections (1754)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1745)

The Revolutionary Period

(1750-1800)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Wheatly, Phillis (1753-1784)
“On Being Brought to America from Africa”
“To His Excellency General Washington”

Henry, Patrick (1736?1799)
Speech in the Virginia Convention (1775)

Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Adams, Abigail (1744-1798)
Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House (1800)

A Growing Nation

(1800-1840)

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
“Thanatopsis” (1811)

Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
“The Devil and Tom Walker” (1824)
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820)

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1894)
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
The Tell Tale Heart

Romanticism: New England Renaissance

(1840-1855)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
“The Birthmark” (1843)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
“Paul Revere’s Ride”

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
“The Chambered Nautilus”
“The Last Leaf”

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
“Selection from Biglow Papers”

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
“The Barefoot Boy”

Dickenson, Emily (1830-1886)
“Emancipation”
“I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Poems

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Walden (1854)
“Civil Disobedience” (1866)

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Billy Budd (1924)

Division War and Reconciliation

(1855-1865)

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
“O Captain, My Captain”

Negro Spirituals
“Go Down Moses”
“Deep River”
“Roll Jordan, Roll”
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
“The Gettysburg Address” (1863)

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1840-1904)
“I Will Fight No More Forever” (1877 Surrender) -movie

Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Realism, Naturalism and the Frontier

(1865-1915)

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

James, Henry (1843-1916)
Portrait of a Lady (1881)
“Daisy Miller” (1878)

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Up From Slavery (1901)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1869)

Chopin, Kate (1851-1904)
“The Story of an Hour” (1894)

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie (1900)

London, Jack (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (1903)
White Fang (1906)

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868 -1950)
“Lucinda Matlock” (1916)

Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
“Richard Cory” (1897)
“Cassandra” (1921)
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (1921)

The Modern Age: Late Romanticism/Naturalism

(1915-1946)

Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
The Jungle (1906)

Warton, Edith (1862-1937)
Ethan Frome (1922)

20th Century Poetry:

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)

Cather, Willa (1873-1945)
The Song of the Lark (1915)
My Antonia (1918)

Eliot, T.S. (1888 – 1965)
“Prufrock” (1915)
“Hippopotamus” (1920)
“The Wasteland” (1922)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Cummings, E.E. (1894-1962)
Crane, Hart (1899-1932)
“The Bridge” (1930)
“Voyages” (1923)
“At Melville’s Tomb (1926)

Milay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
“Harp Weaver”
“God’s World”
“Renascence”

Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)

Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
A New Song (1933)

Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
“The Road Not Taken” (1916)
“Fire and Ice” (1916)
“Once by the Pacific” (1916)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1922)
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1923)
“Death of a Hired Hand”

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
The Unvanquished (1938)

Hurston, Zora Neale (1901-1960)
Mules and Men (1935)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
The Pearl (1947)

The Modern Age: Realism/Naturalism

(1946-1960)

20th Century Drama:

O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888-1953)
The Emperor Jones (1924)

Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984)
The Little Foxes (1939)

Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie (1945)

Miller, Arthur (1915-2005)
The Crucible (1953)

Knowles, John (1926-2001)
A Separate Peace (1959)

O’Conner, Flannery (1925-1964)
“Everything That Rises Must Converge” (1965)

Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)
“A Worn Path” (1940)

Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (1930)

Contemporary Writers

(1960-Present)

Potok, Chiam (1929-2002)
The Chosen (1967)

Burns, Olive Ann (1924-1990)
Cold Sassy Tree (1984)

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