ART AND BEAUTY
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Fiction
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| James Baldwin |
Sonny's Blues |
| Raymond Carver |
Cathedral |
| Lorrie Moore |
How to Become a Writer |
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Poetry
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| W. H. Auden |
Musée des Beaux Arts |
| Robert Browning |
My Last Duchess |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Pied Beauty |
| John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Cathy Song |
Girl Powdering Her Neck |
| William Wordsworth |
I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| William Butler Yeats |
Sailing to Byzantium |
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Drama
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| William Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
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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 |
| Kate Chopin |
The Story of an Hour |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Hills Like White Elephants |
| James Joyce |
Araby |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| 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 |
The Fish |
| T. S. Eliot |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
| Theodore Roethke |
My Papa's Waltz |
| William Stafford |
Traveling through the Dark |
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Drama
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| Susan Glaspell |
Trifles |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House |
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MORTALITY AND ULTIMATE QUESTIONS
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Fiction
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| Herman Melville |
Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
The Management of Grief |
| Tim O'Brien |
The Things They Carried |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
| Eudora Welty |
A Worn Path |
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Poetry
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| Lucille Clifton |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 |
| 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— |
| Michael S. Harper |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Ben Jonson |
On My First Son |
| John Keats |
When I have fears that I may cease to be |
| John Milton |
Lycidas |
| Wilfred Owen |
Dulce et Decorum Est |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 73 |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Crossing the Bar |
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Drama
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| William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
| Sophocles |
Antigone |
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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 |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Rocking-Horse Winner |
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Poetry
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| John Donne |
Batter my heart, three-personed God |
| Richard Garcia |
Why I Left the Church |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
God's Grandeur |
| Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Philip Larkin |
High Windows |
| Walt Whitman |
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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Drama
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| Edward Albee |
The Sandbox |
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