American Literature

Individual Authors: 19th Century Onwards

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature; Self-Reliance; The American Scholar; The Poet;
Experience.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Purloined
Letter; The City in the Sea; The Raven; The Philosophy of Composition; Eureka.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter.
Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses; Moby-Dick; Bartleby, the Scrivener: A
Story of Wall-Street.
Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass: Preface; Song of Myself; from Sea-Drift: Out of
the Cradle Endless Rocking; As I Ebbd with the Ocean of Life.
Emily Dickinson, I never lost as much but twice; Wild Nights Wild Nights!: I felt a
Funeral, in my Brain; Im Nobody! Who are you?; This is my letter to the World; This was a
Poet-It is That; This World is not Conclusion; The Brain-is wider than the Sky-; Because I
could not stop for Death; Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.
Robert Frost, Mending Wall; The Road Not Taken; Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy
Evening; Design; An Old Mans Winter Night.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Babylon Revisited; The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button.
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; The Bear; As I Lay Dying; Absalom,
Absalom! Barn Burning.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Harrison Bergeron; Hocus Pocus.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22; Something Happened; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; V.; Entropy.
Donald Barthelme, Snow White; The Indian Uprising.
John Barth, The Floating Opera; Lost in the Funhouse.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Pale Fire.
Philip Roth, Portnoys Complaint; American Pastoral; Operation Shylock. A
Confession.