American Literature, Part I
William Bradford (1590-1657) Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet (1612-72) complete poems, such as The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson (1636-1711) Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of…
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The Autobiography
Crevecoueur (1735-1813) Letters from an American Farmer
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1784) The Interesting Narrative…
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) complete poems, such as The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) novel
Catherine Sedgewick (1789-1867) novel
William Apess (1798-1839) A Son of the Forest
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) novel, collection of stories, or selection of stories and essays
Ralph Emerson (1803-1882) selection of essays and/or poems
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Arthur Gordon Pym, or selection of stories and/or essays
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Henry Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden or selection of works
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Herman Melville (1819-1891) novel or selection of novellas
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Song of Myself and/or selections from Leaves of Grass
Harriet Wilson (1825-1900) Our Nig
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Selection of Poems
Mark Twain (1835-1910) novel or a collection of stories and/or essays
Henry James (1843-1916) novel or selection of stories and/or essays
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) novel
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) novel
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) novel or selection of stories and essays
American Lit II
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): Three Lives, Tender Buttons, or, The Making of Americans
Robert Frost (1874-1963): selection of poems
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): selection of poems
William Carlos Williams (1879-1955): selection of poems
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): selection of poems and/or essays
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): novel, work of non-fiction, or collection of stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): novel or collection of stories
William Faulkner (1897-1962): novel or collection of stories
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): novel or collection of stories
Langston Hughes (1902-1967): selection of poems or a play
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979): selection or collection of poems
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994): Invisible Man or collection of essays
Arthur Miller (1915-2005): play
Robert Lowell (1917-1977): selection or collection of poems
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): selection or collection of poems
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007): novel or collection of stories
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964): collection of stories or novel
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929): selection or collection of poems or work of non-fiction
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): A Raisin in the Sun
Toni Morrison (b. 1931): novel
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): selection of poems
Joan Didion (b. 1934): novel or work of non-fiction
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934): selection or collection of poems, novel, or play
Don Delillo (b. 1936): novel
Robert Hass (b. 1941): selection or collection of poems
August Wilson (1945-2005): play
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947): Selection or collection of poems
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948): novel or collection of stories
Tony Kushner (b. 1956): Angels in America
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966): novel, collection of poems, or collection of stories
British Lit I
Beowulf (Author unknown, written ca. 725-850 A.D.)
Judith (Author unknown, written ca. 900)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (author unknown, written ca. 1375-1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue and a selection of tales)
Margery Kempe (1373-1440) The Book of Margery Kempe
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Selections may include Utopia or selection of works
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Selections from The Fairie Queen and Amoretti
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Selection of poetry and speeches from Collected Works (eds. Marcus, Mueller, and Rose)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Selected works
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Selection of essays
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Selected plays and poems
William. Shakespeare (1564-1616) Selected plays and poems
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) Selected poems
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Selected plays and poems
John Donne (1572-1631) Selection of poems and sermons
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) Selection of plays
George Herbert (1593-1633) Selected poems
John Milton (1608-1674) Selections from Paradise Lost (to include books 1, 2, 9, 12)
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) Selection of texts
John Dryden (1631-1700) Play or selection of poems and criticism
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Selections from The Diary
George Etherege (1635-1692) A play
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Selected work(s)
William Wycherley (1641-1715) A play
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) Selected poems
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731) Selected major novel
Mary Astell (1666-1731) Selected work or essays
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Selection of poetry and prose
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) “Rape of the Lock” and selected works
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Pamela
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) Selection of Turkish Embassy Letters, poems
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) A novel or two novellas and periodical selections
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) A novel or play
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Selections may include "Preface" to the Dictionary, Lives of the Poets, Rasselas
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Selection of poems
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) A play or novel and selected poems
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) A novel
Frances Burney (1752-1840) A novel
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) A novel
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A novel or selection of essays
Anne Radcliffe (1764-1823) A novel
British Literature, Part II
William Blake (1757-1827) Selection of poems
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman or Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Selection of poems; could include “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Selection of poems; could include selections from Biographia Literaria
Jane Austen (1775-1817) A novel
Charles Dickens (1786-1851) A novel
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Selection of poems
John Keats (1795-1821) Selection of poems; could include selected significant letters.
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein
Robert Browning (1812-1889) Selected poems
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) A novel
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights
George Eliot (1819-1880) A novel
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Selection of poetry or prose
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Selection of poems or a major novel
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Selection of poems
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) A major work
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) A major work
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Selection of poems
George Shaw (1856-1950) A play
James Joyce (1882-1941) A major work
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) A novel and/or selected essays or stories
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) A major work
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Selected poems
Doris Lessing (b.1919) A novel
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Selected poems
Harold Pinter (b. 1930) A play
Derek Walcott (b. 1930) A major work
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) Selected poems
Angela Carter (1940-1992) The Bloody Chamber or a novel
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) A novel