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William Caxton
Old/Middle English - Translation of stories about the Trojan War
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John Gower
Old/Middle English - "Confessio Amantis"
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Margery Kempe
Old/Middle English - "Book of Margery Kempe"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Old/Middle English - "Troylus and Cryseyde" / "The Canterbury Tales"
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William Langland
Old/Middle English - "Piers Plowman"
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Sir Thomas Malory
Old/Middle English - "Morte d'Arthur"
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Julian of Norwich
Old/Middle English - "Revelations of Divine Love"
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Robert Burton
Renaissance/17th Century - "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
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John Donne
Renaissance/17th Century - "Divine Poems" / "Satires" / "The Progress of the Soul"
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George Herbert
Renaissance/17th Century - "The Collar" / "Easter Wings"
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Robert Herrick
Renaissance/17th Century - "Hesperides"
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Ben Jonson
Renaissance/17th Century - "Volpone" / "The the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
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John Lyly
Renaissance/17th Century - "Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit"
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Christopher Marlow
Renaissance/17th Century - "Doctor Faustus" / "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" / "Hero and Leander" / "Tamberlaine" / "The Jew of Malta"
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Andrew Marvell
Renaissance/17th Century - "To His Coy Mistress" / "Poems of Affairs of State"
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John Milton
Renaissance/17th Century - "Lycidas" / "Paradise Lost" / "Paradise Regained"
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Thomas More
Renaissance/17th Century - "Utopia"
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William Shakespeare
Renaissance/17th Century - "Coriolanus"
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Sir Philip Sidney
Renaissance/17th Century - "Defense of Posie"
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Edmund Spenser
Renaissance/17th Century - "Shepherd's Calendar" / The Faerie Queene"
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John Webster
Renaissance/17th Century - "The Duchess of Malfi"
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James Boswell
Restoration/18th Century - "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
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John Bunyan
Restoration/18th Century - "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" / "The Pilgrim's Progress"
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Robert Burns
Restoration/18th Century - "To a Louse"
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William Collins
Restoration/18th Century - "Ode to Simplicity" / "Ode to Evening"
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Daniel Defoe
Restoration/18th Century - "Robinson Crusoe" / "Moll Flanders"
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John Dryden
Restoration/18th Century - "Absalom and Achitophel" / "Mac Flecknoe"
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Oliver Goldsmith
Restoration/18th Century - "The Deserted Village"
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Thomas Gray
Restoration/18th Century - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
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Samuel Johnson
Restoration/18th Century - The Periodical, "The Rambler"
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Samuel Pepys
Restoration/18th Century - "Memoirs of the Navy"
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Alexander Pope
Restoration/18th Century - "An Essay of Criticism" / "An Essay on Man" / "The Rape of the Lock"
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Samuel Richardson
Restoration/18th Century - "Clarissa" / "The History of a Lady"
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Richard Steele
Restoration/18th Century - Editorials in the "Tattler"
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Lawrence Stern
Restoration/18th Century - "The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy"
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Jonathan Swift
Restoration/18th Century - "Gulliver's Travels" / "A Modest Proposal"
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Restoration/18th Century - "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
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Jane Austen
Romantic - "Northanger Abbey" / "Mansfield Park"
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Byron
Romantic - "Don Juan" / "Manfred"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romantic - "Kubla Khan" / "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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William Hazlett
Romantic - "Table-Talk" / "On Gusto"
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John Keats
Romantic - "Ode on a Grecian Urn" / Ode to a Nightingale"
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Charles Lamb
Romantic - "Essays of Elia"
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Sir Walter Scott
Romantic - "Robb Roy" / "Ivanhoe"
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Mary Shelley
Romantic - "Frankenstein"
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Romantic - "Ozymandias" / "Mont Blanc"
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Robert Southey
Romantic - "The Cataract at Ladore"
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William Wordsworth
Romantic - "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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Charlotte Bronte
Victorian - "Jane Eyre"
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian - "Aurora Leigh"
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Robert Browning
Victorian - "My Last Duchess" / "Porphyria's Lover"
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Charles Darwin
Victorian - "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" / "The Descent of Man"
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Charles Dickens
Victorian - "Hard Times" / "David Copperfield" / "Great Expectations"
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George Eliot
Victorian - "The Mill on the Floss"
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Edward FitzGerald
Victorian - "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
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Mrs. Gaskell
Victorian - "Mary Barton"
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Thomas Hardy
Victorian - "The Darkling Thrush" / "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" / "The Return of the Native"
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Victorian - "God's Grandeur" / "The Windhover" / "Pied Beauty"
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George Meredith
Victorian - "Modern Love"
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John Stuart Mill
Victorian - "On Liberty" / "What is Poetry" / Autobiography
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John Henry Cardinal Newman
Victorian - "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"
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Christina Rossetti
Victorian - "Goblin Market"
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Victorian - "The Blessed Damozel"
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John Ruskin
Victorian - "Modern Painters" / "Praeteritia"
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Victorian - "Treasure Island" / "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" / "Kidnapped"
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Victorian - "In Memoriam" / "The Lady of Shalott" / "Idylls of the King" / "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Victorian - "Vanity Fair"
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Oscar Wilde
Victorian - "The Importance of Being Earnest" / "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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Samuel Beckett
20th Century English - "Endgame" / "Waiting for Godot"
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Rupert Brooke
20th Century English - "Heaven" / "Tiara Tahiti"
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Joseph Conrad
20th Century English - "The Secret Sharer" / "Nostromo" / "Lord Jim" / "Heart of Darkness"
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T. S. Eliot
20th Century English - "Four Quartets" / "The Hollow Men"
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E. M. Forster
20th Century English - "Howard's End" / "A Room with a View" / "Passage to India"
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James Joyce
20th Century English - "The Dubliners" / "Finnegan's Wake" / "The Dead" / "Araby"
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Rudyard Kipling
20th Century English - "Recessional" / "The Jungle Book" / "Puck of Pook's Hill" / "Kim"
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D. H. Lawrence
20th Century English - "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" / "Sons and Lovers" / "Women in Love"
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Doris Lessing
20th Century English - "The Golden Notebook"
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George Orwell
20th Century English - "1984" / "Politics and the English Language"
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Harold Pinter
20th Century English - "The Room" / "The Birthday Party" / "No Man's Land"
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Siegfried Sassoon
20th Century English - "The Old Huntsman" / "Counter-Attack" / "Vigils"
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Tom Stoppard
20th Century English - "The Real Inspector Hound" / "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
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George Bernard Shaw
20th Century English - "The Devil's Disciple" / "Man and Superman" / "Major Barbara" / "Pygmalion"
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Dylan Thomas
20th Century English - "Fern Hill" / "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"
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Virginia Woolf
20th Century English - "Orlando" / "Mrs. Dalloway" / "To the Lighthouse" / "A Room of One's Own"
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William Butler Yeats
20th Century English - "The Wild Swans at Coole" / "The Second Coming"
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William Bradford
Early American - "The Mayflower Compact" / "History of Plymouth Plantation"
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Anne Bradstreet
Early American - "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" / "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
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Jonathan Edwards
Early American - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Washington Irving
Early American - "A History of New York" / "Rip Van Winkle" / "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Thomas Jefferson
Early American - "The Declaration of Independence"
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Cotton Mather
Early American - "Magnalia Christi Americana" / Transcripts from the Salem Witch Trials
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Mary Rowlandson
Early American - "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
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Phillis Wheatley
Early American - "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
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John Winthrop
Early American - "A Model of Christian Charity"
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William Cullen Bryant
American Romantic - "Thanatopsis"
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Romantic - "The Deerslayer" / "The Last of the Mohicans"
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Emily Dickenson
American Romantic - 1775 Poems! / "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" / "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
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Frederick Douglass
American Romantic - "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Romantic - "Nature" / "The American Scholar" / "Divinity School Address"
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Margaret Fuller
American Romantic - "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Romantic - "The Marble Faun" / The Scarlet Letter"
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Harriet Jacobs
American Romantic - "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Romantic - "Evangeline"
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Herman Melville
American Romantic - "Moby Dick" / "Bartleby the Scrivener"
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Edgar Allan Poe
American Romantic - "The Cask of Amontillado" / "The Raven"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Romantic - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Henry David Thoreau
American Romantic - "Civil Disobedience" / "Walden's Pond"
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Walt Whitman
American Romantic - "Song of Myself" / "Leaves of Grass" / O Captain! My Captain!"
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Ambrose Bierce
American Realism - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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Kate Chopin
American Realism - "The Awakening"
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Stephen Crane
American Realism - "The Red Badge of Courage"
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Theodore Dreiser
American Realism - "Sister Carrie"
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Bret Harte
American Realism - "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
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William Dean Howells
American Realism - "The Rise of Silas Lapham"
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Henry James
American Realism - "The Golden Bowl" / "Daisy Miller"
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Sarah Orne Jewett
American Realism - "Country of the Pointed Firs"
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Mark Twain
American Realism - ""The Prince and the Pauper"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
20th Century American - "The Great Gatsby"
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Djuna Barnes
20th Century American - "The Antiphon" / "Ryder"
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Saul Bellow
20th Century American - "Seize the Day"
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Elizabeth Bishop
20th Century American - "North & South"
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William Faulkner
20th Century American - "The Sound and the Fury" / "Sartoris" / "As I Lay Dying"
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Robert Frost
20th Century American - "The Road Not Taken" / "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Allen Ginsberg
20th Century American - "Howl" / "Kaddish"
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Ernest Hemingway
20th Century American - "For Whome the Bell Tolls" / "The Sun Also Rises" / "The Old Man and the Sea"
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David Henry Hwang
20th Century American - "M. Butterfly"
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Jack Kerouac
20th Century American - "On the Road"
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Maxine Hong Kingston
20th Century American - "The Woman Warrior" / "China Men"
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Denise Levertov
20th Century American - "The Poet in the World"
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Jack London
20th Century American - "The Call of the Wild" / "To Build a Fire"
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Archibald MacLeish
20th Century American - "J. B."
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Edgar Lee Masters
20th Century American - "Spoon River Anthology"
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Arthur Miller
20th Century American - "Death of a Salesman" / "The Crucible"
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Eugene O'Neill
20th Century American - "Long Day's Journey into Night"
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Thomas Pynchon
20th Century American - "Gravity's Rainbow" / "V." / "The Crying of Lot 49"
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Adrienne Rich
20th Century American - "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" / "Diving into the Wreck"
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
20th Century American - "Lancelot" / "Richard Cory" / "Minniver Cheevy"
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Theodore Roethke
20th Century American - "My Papa's Waltz"
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Gertrude Stein
20th Century American - "The Making of Americans"
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John Steinbeck
20th Century American - "The Grapes of Wrath" / "Tortilla Flat" / "Of Mice and Men"
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Wallace Stevens
20th Century American - "Harmonium" / "Ideas of Order"
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Amy Tan
20th Century American - "The Kitchen God's Wife"
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Alice Walker
20th Century American - "Everyday Use" / "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" / "The Color Purple"
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Eudora Welty
20th Century American - "The Optimist's Daughter"
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Edith Wharton
20th Century American - "Ethan Frome" / "The House of Mirth" / "The Age of Innocence"
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Tennessee Williams
20th Century American - "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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William Carlos Williams
20th Century American - "The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Richard Wright
20th Century American - "Native Son" / "Black Boy"
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Aristophanes
World Literature - Greek - "The Birds" / "Lysistrata"
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Aristotle
World Literature - Greek - "Poetics"
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Euripedes
World Literature - Greek - "Medea"
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Homer
World Literature - Greek - "The Illiad" / "The Odyssey"
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Plato
World Literature - Greek - "The Republic"
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Sophocles
World Literature - Greek - "Oedipus the King" / "Antigone"
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Virgil
World Literature - Roman - "The Aeneid"
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Niccolo Machiavelli
World Literature - Italian - "The Prince"
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Miguel de Cervantes
World Literature - Spanish - "Don Quixote"
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Moliere
World Literature - French - "Tartuffe"
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Voltare
World Literature - French - "Candide"
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Gustave Flaubert
World Literature - French - "Madame Bovary"
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Fyodor
World Literature - Russian - "The Brothers Karamazov"
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Dostoyevsky
World Literature - Russian - "Crime and Punishment"
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Leo Tolstoy
World Literature - Russian - "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" / "War and Peace" / "Anna Karenina"
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Anton Chekhov
World Literature - Russian - "The Cherry Orchard"
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Vladimir Nabokov
World Literature - Russian - "Ada"
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Henrik Ibsen
World Literature - Norwegian - "The Doll's House"
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Thomas Mann
World Literature - German - "Death in Venice" / "The Magic Mountain"
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V. S. Naipaul
World Literature - Trinidadian - "A House for Mr. Biswas"