ART AND BEAUTY
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Fiction
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| Willa Cather |
Paul's Case |
| Sarah Orne Jewett |
A White Heron |
| Lorrie Moore |
How to Become a Writer |
| Alice Walker |
Everyday Use |
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Poetry
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| W. H. Auden |
Musže des Beaux Arts |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron |
She Walks in Beauty |
| Jayne Cortez |
Into This Time |
| Anita Endrezze |
The Girl Who Loved the Sky |
| Seamus Heaney |
Digging |
| Robert Herrick |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Pied Beauty |
| John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Marianne Moore |
Poetry |
| Frank O'Hara |
The Day Lady Died |
| Robert Pinsky |
Shirt |
| Cathy Song |
Girl Powdering Her Neck |
| Richard Wilbur |
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World |
| William Carlos Williams |
The Red Wheelbarrow |
| William Wordsworth |
I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| William Butler Yeats |
Sailing to Byzantium |
| Paul Zimmer |
Zimmer Imagines Heaven |
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Drama
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| Anton Chekhov |
The Cherry Orchard |
| William Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Essays
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| Joan Didion |
On Keeping a Notebook |
| Annie Dillard |
Seeing |
| Alice Walker |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
| Virginia Woolf |
Professions for Women |
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EMOTIONS AND DECISIONS
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Fiction
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| Sherman Alexie |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Toni Cade Bambara |
The Lesson |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Lady with the Dog |
| Kate Chopin |
The Story of an Hour |
| Louise Erdrich |
The Red Convertible |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Winter Dreams |
| Ernest Hemingway |
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place |
| James Joyce |
Araby |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Horse Dealer's Daughter |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| John Steinbeck |
The Chrysanthemums |
| John Updike |
A & P |
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Poetry
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| Matthew Arnold |
Dover Beach |
| Aphra Behn |
On Her Loving Two Equally |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
One Art |
| Michael Drayton |
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part |
| T. S. Eliot |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Robert Frost |
The Road Not Taken |
| Kimiko Hahn |
When You Leave |
| Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
| Theodore Roethke |
My Papa's Waltz |
| William Stafford |
Traveling through the Dark |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt |
They flee from me |
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Drama
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| Susan Glaspell |
Trifles |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus Rex |
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Essays
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| Maya Angelou |
Graduation |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
| George Orwell |
Shooting an Elephant |
| Richard Rodriguez |
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For |
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MORTALITY AND ULTIMATE QUESTIONS
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Fiction
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| Stephen Crane |
The Open Boat |
| Herman Melville |
Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
The Management of Grief |
| Tim O'Brien |
The Things They Carried |
| Grace Paley |
A Conversation with My Father |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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Poetry
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| Anonymous |
Sir Patrick Spens |
| Lucille Clifton |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Cold as Heaven |
| Emily Dickinson |
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— |
| Emily Dickinson |
Because I could not stop for Death— |
| Thomas Gray |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Michael S. Harper |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Geoffrey Hill |
In Memory of Jane Fraser |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Spring and Fall |
| John Keats |
When I have fears that I may cease to be |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
Facing It |
| John Milton |
Lycidas |
| Robert Morgan |
Mountain Bride |
| Sylvia Plath |
Daddy |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 73 |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Crossing the Bar |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Ulysses |
| Walt Whitman |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
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Drama
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| William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
| Sophocles |
Antigone |
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Essays
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| Sophronia Liu |
So Tsi-Fai |
| Jessica Mitford |
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain |
| E. B. White |
Once More to the Lake |
| Virginia Woolf |
The Death of the Moth |
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THE SPIRITUAL AND THE
SUPERNATURAL
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Fiction
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Young Goodman Brown |
| Yusuf Idris |
The Chair Carrier |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Rocking-Horse Winner |
| Eudora Welty |
A Worn Path |
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Poetry
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| Agha Shahid Ali |
I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi |
| Marilyn Chin |
Turtle Soup |
| John Donne |
Batter my heart, three-personed God |
| Philip Freneau |
The Indian Burying Ground |
| Robert Frost |
After Apple-Picking |
| Richard Garcia |
Why I Left the Church |
| George Herbert |
The Pulley |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The Windhover |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
God's Grandeur |
| Philip Larkin |
High Windows |
| John Milton |
When I consider how my light is spent |
| Christopher Smart |
From Jubilate Agno |
| Walt Whitman |
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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Drama
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| Edward Albee |
The Sandbox |
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Essays
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| Langston Hughes |
Salvation |
| N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| Plato |
The Allegory of the Cave |
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