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"Life in the Iron Mills"
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)- Written in 1861
- Realism piece
- Short story
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"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Originally published as "The Sleeping" on March 1st, 1862
- Final version appeared in 1912
- Poem
- Romanticism period
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"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- First published under the title "My Sabbath"
- Poem
- Romanticism piece
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"Success is counted sweetest"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Written in 1859, but published anonymously in 1864
- Poem
- Romanticism period
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"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)- Short Story
- Vernacular realism
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"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Originally titled "The Snake"
- Poem
- Late 19th century, Romanticism piece
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"We Wear the Mask"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)- Poem
- Published in 1886
- Gilded Age piece
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"There's a certain slant of light"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Written in 1861, but not published until 1890
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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"The Bustle in a House"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- First published as "Aftermath"
- Written in 1866, published in 1890
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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"Because I could not stop for death-"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- First published in 1890 under the title "The Chariot"
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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"This is my letter to the World"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Written in 1862, published in 1890
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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"Faith is a fine invention"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- Written in 1860, first published in 1891
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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"A bird came down the Walk"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)- First published in 1891
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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"The Yellow Wall-Paper"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -Published in January 1892
- Short story
- Told in journal entry form
- Latw 19th Century
- Realism piece, end of the Gilded Age Photo Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Yellowwp_med.jpg -
"An Ante-Bellum Sermon"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)- Published in 1896
- Poem
- Pre Civil War
- Realism piece, local color
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"The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)- First published in 1897
- Short story
- Late 19th century Realism
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"A Sweatshop Romance"
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) -Published in 1898
- Short story
- Told from third person
- Realism piece Photo Source: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-chj2md2Shlg/TsEckSV31ZI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/t5qy8N2-fhA/Abraham252520Cahan252520A252520Sweatshop252520Romance.jpg -
"The Wife of His Youth"
Charles W. Chestnutt (1858-1932)- Short story
- First published in July 1898
- Published short story book in 1899
- Realism, local color piece
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"Sympathy"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)- Poem
- Published in 1899
- This poem inspired Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
- Late 19th century Realism piece Photo Source: http://studentsisonline.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/0/0/8700433/8261746_orig.png
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"Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)- Real name was Sui Sin Far
- Published in May of 1912
- Short story collection
- End of Realism era, Realism piece
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"In the Station of a Metro"
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)- Very short poem
- Published in April 1913
- Appeared first in Poetry magazine
- End of Realism era
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"The Captured Goddess"
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)- Published in 1914 in a collection called 'Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds'
- Free verse poem
- Early modernisn piece
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"September, 1918"
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)- Free verse poem
- Written four years before World War 1 ended
- Modernisn poem
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"Mending Wall"
Robert Frost (1874-1963)- Blank verse poem
- Published in 1914 by David Nutt
- Early modernisn piece
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"After Apple Picking"
Robert Frost (1874-1963)- Mixed poem
- Published in North of Boston in 1915
- Early modernism piece
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"Venus Transiens"
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)- Published in April 1915 in Poetry magazine
- Poem
- Modernisn/Imagism piece
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock"
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)- Began writing in February 1910
- First published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry maagzine
- Poem
- Modernisn piece
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"A Pact"
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)- Poem
- Modernism piece, free verse
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"Trifles"
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)- One act play
- First performed at the Wharf Theatre in 1916
- Modernism piece
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"The Harlem Dancer"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance
- First appeared in a 1917 issue of Sevem Arts magazine
- Modernisn piece
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"If We Must Die"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance
- Written during The Red Summer of 1919
- Modernism piece, with themes of alienation
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"in Just-"
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)- Free verse poem
- Published in May 1920
- Modernism piece, start of Harlem Renaissance era
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"O sweet spontaneous"
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)- Free verse poem
- Published in May 1920
- Modernism piece, start of Harlem Renaissance era
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"Impressions of an Indian Childhood"
Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)- Missionary given name was Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
- Originally published in 1921
- Part of a collection of published short stories in 'American Indian Stories' (This was published in October 2008)
- Modernisn piece, with cultural change
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)- Poem
- Written when he was 17 on a train crossing the Mississippi River
- Modernism, Harlem Renaissance piece
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"America"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)- Poem
- Published in December 1922
- Modernism/ Harlem Renaissance era
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"The Lynching"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance, Modernism era
- Published in 1922, after the end of slavery, but still during a violent time for African Americans
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"Africa"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)- Poem
- Originally apeared in the collection Harlem Shadows in 1922
- Modernism / Harlem Renaissance era
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"The Red Wheekbarrow"
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)- Imagist period
- Poem
- First appeared in 'Spring and All' in 1923
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"The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance / Modernism era
- Written in 1925
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"next to of course god america i"
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)- Free verse poem
- Published in 1926
- Modernism piecem experimentation with styles
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"One Art"
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)- Villanelle poem
- Published in 1926 in her book The Complete Poems
- Modernism era
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"Babylon Revisited"
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)- Short story
- Jazz age / Harlem Renaissance era
- Much of it based on personal experience
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"The Gilded Six-Bits"
Zora Neale Hurston (1861-1960)- Short Story
- Part of the Harlem Renaissance
- Focused on African American lifestyle
- Published in 1933
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"This Is Just To Say"
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)- Imagist poem
- Published in 1934
- Harlem Renaissance / Modernism era
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"Barn Burning"
Willim Faulkner (1897-1962)- Short story
- First appeard in Harper's in June 1939
- End of Harlem Renaissance era
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"I, Too"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)- Poem
- Published in 1945
- Harlem Renaissance era
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"The White Troops Had Their Orders"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)- Poem
- Published in 1945
- Social/Political change
- Modernism era
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"Theme For English B"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)- Poem
- Published in 1951 in Hughes' thirteenth published book of poetry
- Contemporary era Photo Source: http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/pic/th/langston-hughes-theme-english-10472743
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"The Invisible Man" (Chapter 1)
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)- First chapter of the novel
- Published by Random House in 1952
- Contemporary era
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"Good Country People"
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)- Short story
- Published in 1955
- Contemporary era
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"Howl"
Alan Ginsberg (1926-1997)- Poem
- Written in 1955, published in 1956
- Contemporary era
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"We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)- Couplet poem
- Published in 1960
- Contemporary era
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"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)- Short story
- First published in Esquire magazine in 1936
- Published as a whole in 1961
- Contemporary era
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"My Papa's Waltz"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)- Rhymed stanza poem
- Published in 1961
- Contemporary era
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"kitchenette building"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)- Sonnet poem
- Published in 1963 in her book Selected Poems
- Contemporary era
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"The Bell Jar"
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)- The only novel ever written by Sylvia Plath
- Originally titled 'Victoria Lucas'
- Semi autobiographical
- Strong theme of Feminism
- Conflicts with identity and individuality
- Contemporary era
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"the mother"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)- Couplet poem
- Published in 1963 in her book Selected Poems
- Contemporary era
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Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)- Poem
- Published in 1965 in her book Questions of Travel
- Contemporary era
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"Lullaby"
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )- Part of the Native American Renaissance
- Short story
- Published in 1981
- Contemporary era
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"Recitatiff"
Toni Morrison (1931- )- Author's only published short story
- Published in 1983
- Contemporary era
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"Dear John Wayne"
Louise Erdrich (1954- )- Poem
- Published in 1984
- Contemporary era
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"I Was Sleeping Where The Black Oaks Move"
Louise Erdrich (1954- )- Poem
- Published in 2003
- Contemporary era
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"Grief"
Louise Erdrich (1954- )- Poem
- Published in 2004
- Contemporary era
