Comprehensive Exams List

Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman

O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night

Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie

Adams, Henry - "The Virgin and the Dynamo"

Baldwin, James - "Notes of a Native Son"

Bradford, William - Of Plymouth Plantation (as excerpted in Norton Anth. of Lit, vol. 1, 5th ed, 1998)

Edwards, Jonathan - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Eiseley, Loren - "The Bird and the Machine"

Emerson, Ralph W. - "Nature"

Franklin, Benjamin -  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Hughes, Langston - "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

King, Martin Luther Jr. - "I Have a Dream"

LaFlesche, Francis - The Middle Five

Leopold, Aldo - "Thinking Like a Mountain"

Momaday, N. Scott - The Way to Rainy Mountain

Rowlandson, Mary - Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Williams, Terry T. - "Clan of the One-Breasted Woman"

Cather, Willa - O Pioneers

Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - A Scarlett Letter

Jewett, Sarah Orne - Country of the Pointed Firs

Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony

Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath 

Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Alexie, Sherman -

• "On the Amtrack from Boston to New York City"
• "Crazy Horse Speaks"
• "Evolution"

Bradstreet, Ann 

• "The Flesh and the Spirit"
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
• "Upon the Burning of our House" 
• "To My Dear Children"

Brooks, Gwendolyn

• "Kitchenette Building"
• "The Mother"
• "We Real Cool"
• "Sadie and Maud"

Cummings, E.E.

• "in Just—"
• "O sweet spontaneous"
• "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
• "next to of course god America I"
• "I sing Olaf glad and big"
• "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
• "my father moved through dooms of love" 

Dickinson, Emily

• "'Faith' is a fine invention"
• "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
• "This World is not Conclusion"
• "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—"
• "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
• 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant—"
• "I never lost as much but twice"
• "Success is counted sweetest"
• "I'm 'wife'—l've finished that—"
• "I tasted liquor never brewed"
• "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!"
• "There's a certain Slant of Light";
• "He fumbles at your Soul"
• "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"
• "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died—"
• "Publication—is the Auction"
• "My Life had stood—a loaded Gun"
• "The Bible is an antique Volume—"
• "Apparently with no surprise"

Dove, Rita

• "Adolescence (I, II, III)
• "Bannecker"
• "The Event"
• "Straw Hat"
• "The Zepplin Factory"
• "Heroes"
• "Rosa"

Dubar, Paul Laurence

• "Sympathy" 
• "We Wear the Mask"

Eliot, T.S.

• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Frost, Robert

• "Mending Wall" 
• "After Apple-Picking"
• "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Giovanni, Nikki

• "Nikki-Rosa"

Harjo, Joy 

• "She Had Some Horses" 
• "Deer Ghost"

Hogan, Linda

• from Seeing Through the Sun: "The Truth Is", "Tiva's Tapestry: La Llorona"

Hughes, Langston

• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 
• "Mother to Son" 
• "The Weary Blues" 
• "I, Too"
• "Refugee in America" 
• "Madam's Calling Cards"
• "Note on Commercial Theatre" 
• "Democracy"
• "Harlem"
• "Dream Variations" 
• "Theme for English B"

Knight, Etheridge

• "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane"
• "A WASP Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison"

Kooser, Ted 

• from Delights and Shadows: "At the Cancer Clinic"; "A Rainy Morning"; "The China Painters"; "Pearl"

Lowell, Robert

• "Colloquy in Black Rock"
• "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"
• "Skunk Hour" 
• "Night Sweat" 
• "For the Union Dead"

Randall, Dudley 

• "The Melting Pot"

Robinson, Edwin A. 

• "Richard Cory"
• "Miniver Cheevy"
• "Mr. Flood's Party"

Roethke, Theodore

• "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze"
• "My Papa's Waltz"
• "The Lost Son"
• "The Waking"
• "I Knew a Woman" 
• "The Far Field" 
• "Wish for a Young Wife" 
• "In a Dark Time" 
• "The North American Sequence"
• "Cuttings"

Stevens, Wallace

• "Sunday Morning"

Tohe, Laura

• "Our Tongues Slapped into Silence" 

Welch, James

• "Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation"

Wheatley, Phyllis

• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" 

Whitman, Walt

• "Song of Myself" 
• "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Williams, William C. 

• "Spring and All"
• "The Red Wheelbarrow" 
• "This is Just to Say"

Zepeda, Ofelia

• "Riding the Earth"

Alexie, Sherman - "Every Little Hurricane" 

Balwin, James - "Sonny's Blues"

Bonnin, Gertrude - "Soft Hearted Sioux" (available online etext)

Carver, Raymond - "Cathedral"

Chestnutt, Charles - "The Goophered Grapevine" 

Cisneros, Sandra - "Barbi-Q"; "Woman Hollering Creek" 

Crane, Stephen - "The Open Boat"

Davis, Rebecca H. - "Life in the Iron Mills" 

Ellison, Ralph - from Invisible Man: "Prologue"; "Battle Royal"

Faulkner, William - "The Bear" 

Freeman, Mary W. - "A New England Nun"

Hemingway, Ernest - "Big Two-Hearted River"

Irving, Washington - "Rip Van Winkle"

James, Henry - "Daisy Miller"

Johnson, Pauline - "A Red Girl's Reasoning" (available online etext) 

Melville, Herman - "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

O'Connor, Flannery - "Good Country People"

Oskison, John - "The Problem of Old Harjo" 

Poe, Edgar Allen - "The Fall of the House of Usher" 

Twain, Mark - "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 

Updike, John - "A & P" 

Welty, Eudora - "Petrified Man"

Tyler, Royall - The Contrast

Warren, Mercy Otis - The Group

Boucicault, Dion - The Octoroon

Fitch, Clyde William - The City

Mowatt, Anna Corra - Fashion; or, Life in New York 

Albee, Edward - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? 

Henree, James A. - Shore Acres

Kushner, Tony - Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2 

Mamet, David - Glengarry Glen Ross

Miller, Arthur - The Crucible

O'Neill, Eugene 

• The Iceman Cometh
• Desire Under the Elms 

Wasserstein, Wendy - The Heidi Chronicles

Williams, Tennessee 

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Night of the Iguana

Wilson, August

• The Piano Lesson 
• Joe Turner's Come and Gone

All selections from:

American Poetry: The Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. David S. Shields. New York: Library of America, 2007. Print.

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Vols 1 & 2. Ed. John Hollander. New York: Library of America, 1993. Print.

Johnson, Edward (1598-1672) - New England’s Annoyances

Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672).

• The Prologue
• A Dialogue between Old England and New
• The Author to her Book

Wigglesworth, Michael (1631-1705) - from The Day of Doom

Alsop, George (1636-c1673) - The Author to His Book

Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)

• Selections from Preparatory Meditations (first series) 1, 2, 9, 23, 32, 39, 46
• from Preparatory Meditations (second series) 18, 34, 150

Wright, Susanna (1697-1784)

• Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th 
• On the Death of a little Girl
• My own Birth Day
• To Eliza Norris—at Fairhill

Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c1806) - An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley, Ethopian Poetess...

Freneau, Philip (1752-1832)

• Libera nos, Domine...
• The Indian Student, or Force of Nature
• Lines occasioned by a Visit to an old Indian Burying Ground
• To Sir Toby...
• The Republican Genius of Europe
• On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine...

Wheatley, Phillis (c1753-1784)

• To Maecenas
• To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
• On being brought from Africa to America
• To S.M., a young African Painter. . .
• A Farewel to America
• To His Excellency General Washington
• Liberty and Peace

Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

• Thanatopsis
• To a Waterfowl
• A Winter Piece
• An Indian at the Burying-Place of His Fathers
• The Prairies
• The Painted Cup

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

• Each and All
• The Problem
• To Rhea
• The World-Soul
• Hamatreya 
• The Rhodora
• The Humble-Bee
• Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing
• Merlin I & II
• Muskitaquid
• Threnody
• Brahma

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

• A Psalm of Life
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• The Village Blacksmith
• The Warning
• Seaweed
• The Bridge
• The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
• The Children’s Hour

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

• The Haschich
• Maud Muller
• Barbara Frietchie
• What the Birds Said
• Burning Drift-Wood

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

• “Stanzas”
• To Science Fairy-Land
• “Alone”
• To Helen
• The Conqueror Worm
• Lenore
• The Raven
• The Bells Annabel Lee

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

• From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
• In Paths Untrodden
• Scented Herbage of My Breast
• Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
• When I Heard at the Close of Day
• We Two Boys Together Clinging
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

• “The ribs and terrors in the whale,”
• The Portent
• Misgivings
• The Conflict of Convictions
• A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
• Shiloh: A Requiem
• The House-top: A Night Piece
• “Formerly a Slave”

Cary, Alice (1820-1871)

• The Sea-Side Cave 
• To Solitude
• Katrina on the Porch
• The West Country

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

• “The bee is not afraid of me.”
• “Bring me the sunset in a cup,”
• “These are the days when Birds come back—“
• “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”
• “I like the look of Agony,”
• “I can wade Grief—“  
• “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers”
• “I felt a funeral, in my Brain,”
• “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
• “I should have been too glad, I see—“
• “I cannot dance upon my Toes—“
• “Of Course—I prayed—“
• “There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,”
• “’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,”
• “Much Madness is divinest Sense—“
• "I died for Beauty—but was scarce”
• “I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs—“
• “Mine—by the Right of the White Election!”
• “They shut me up in Prose—“
• “I dwell in Possibility—“
• “One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—“
• “A Pit—but Heaven over it—“

Robinson, E. A. (1869-1935)

• Aaron Stark
• Walt Whitman
• John Evereldown
• Luke Havergal
• Reuben Bright
• Cliff Klingenhagen

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

• Accountability
• Compensation
• The Colored Soldiers

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

• selections from The Black Riders and Other Lines
• selections from War is Kind
• “A man adrift on a slim spar”
• “A naked woman and a dead dwarf”

• Emp Lace
• Lifting Belly
• Tender Buttons
• Patriarchal Poetry
• Stanzas in Meditation

• The Snow Man
• Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
• A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
• Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
• Anecdote of the Jar
• To the One of Fictive Music
• Peter Quince at the Clavier
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• The Idea of Order at Key West
• Examination of the Hero in a Time of War  
• Notes toward a Supreme Fiction

• Portrait d’une Femme
• The Seafarer
• A Pact
• A Station in the Metro
• The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
• Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
• The Cantos (I, II, III, IV, IX, XIII, XIV)

• Pastoral
• Queen Anne’s Lace
• To Elsie
• Portrait of a Lady
• This Is Just To
• Say
• Burning the Christmas Greens
• Paterson: The Falls
• The Dance
• Perpetuum Mobile: The City

• Sea Rose 
• Sea Lily
• Hermes of the Ways
• The God
• Adonis
• Eurydice 
• Oread
• Orion Dead
• Demeter
• Circe
• Leda
• Helen
• Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall

• The Steeple Jack
• The Hero
• The Plumet Basilisk
• The Frigate Pelican
• The Fish
• Poetry (both versions)
• Critics & Connoisseurs ∗ England
• When I Buy Pictures 
• What Are Years?
• Bird-Witted
• The Pangolin
• Like a Bulwark
• Granite and Steel
• Baseball and Writing
• Tell Me, Tell Me

• Portrait of a Lady
• Preludes ∗ Gerontion
• The Hollow Men
• Ash-Wednesday
• The Waste Land
• Four Quartets: Burnt Norton

All selections available in Seventh Generation: Anthology of Native American Plays

Geigamaha, Hanay - 

Howe, LeAnne and Gordon, Roxy - "Indian Radio Days" 

Yellow Robe, William - "Study of Susanna"

Deloria Jr., Vine - "Custer Died for Your Sins" 

Silko, Leslie - Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Occum, Samson - "A Sermon Preached... Moses Paul"

Deloria, Ella Cara - Waterlily 

Howe, LeAnne - Shell Shaker

McNickle, D'Arcy - The Surrounded

Day, A. Grove - The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians

Selections from From the Belly of My Beauty

• "Euro-American Womanhood Ceremony"
• "Rubys Summer Fruit"
• "Ruby's Answer"

Hobson, Geary - "Deer Hunting"

Selections from Indian Cartography

• "Looking for a Cure"
• "Indian Cartography"

Momaday, N. Scott 

• "The Bear"
• "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"

Ortiz, Simon 

• "Dry Root in a Wash"
• "A New Story"

Revard, Carter - "An Eagle Nation"

Tapahonso, Luci 

• "Hills Brother Coffee"
• "They are Silent and Quick"

Selections from Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie (Ed.)

Conley, Robert - "The Witch of Goingsnake"

Silko, Leslie M. - "Storyteller"

Beowulf (Heaney trans.)

Old English Biblical Verse (choose one):

• Genesis A & B
• Judith

Chaucer -  The Canterbury Tales

• General Prologue
• Knight's Prologue and Tale
• Miller's Prologue and Tale

Plus choose two:

• Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
• Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
• Reeve's Prologue and Tale
• Tale of Sir Thopas
• Prioress's Prologue and Tale
• Chaucer's Retraction

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Borrofftrans.)

Middle English Romances (choose one):

• Havelok the Dane
• Sir Orfeo
• King Horn
• The Turk and Sir Gawain
• The Tale of Gamelyn
• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell

Spenser - The Faerie Queene (choose two):

• Book 1, Cantos 1-6
• Book 1, Cantos 7-12
• Book 2, Cantos 1-6
• Book 2, Cantos 7-12
• Book 3, Cantos 1-6
• Book 3, Cantos 7-12
• Book 4, Cantos 1-6
• Book 4, Cantos 7-12
• Book 5, Cantos 1-6
• Book 5, Cantos 7-12
• Book 6, Cantos 1-6
• Book 6, Cantos 7-12
• Mutabilitie cantos

Milton - Paradise Lost, Books 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12

Butler, Samuel - Hudibras, Part I, Canto I

Pope, Alexander - Rape of the Lock

Thomson, James, The Seasons, "Winter"

Old English Lyric (in translation)

• "Dream of the Rood" (Kennedy trans.)
• Plus choose one:
  • "The Wife's Lament"
  • "The Wanderer"
  • "The Ruin"
  • "Caedmon's Hymn"

Marie De France, Lais (Hanning and Ferrante trans.)

• Prologue
• "Lanval"
• Plus choose one:
  • "Guigemar"
  • "Le Fresne"
  • "Bisclavret"
  • "Yonec"

Skelton

• "Philip Sparrow"
• "The Tunning of Elinour Rumming" (beginning to the end of the "Primus Passus")

Donne

• "The Canonisation"
• "The Ecstasy";
• "Air and Angels"
• "A Fever"

Marvell

• "The Garden"
• "The Mower, Against Gardens"
• "The Mower to the Glo-Worms"
• "The Mower's Song"

Renaissance Sonnets

• Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
• "My Galley"
• "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor"
• Shakespeare, 3, 17, 18, 20, 73, 105, 126, 127, 130, 138
• Donne, Divine Sonnets 5, 10, 14, 19

Lyric Sub-Specialties (Renaissance)

Choose from two of the following sub-specialties: 

• Country-House Poem
  • Lanyer, Aemilia - "Description of Cooke-ham"
  • Jonson, Ben - "To Penshurst"
  • Marvell - "Upon Appleton House"
• Epithalamion
  • Spenser - "Epithalamion"
  • Donne - "Epithalamion... on St. Valentines Day" 
  • Jonson - "Epithalamion"
• Pastoral/Elegy
  • Spenser - The Shepheardes Calender, "August" and "October" 
  • Marlowe - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" 
  • Ralegh, Sir Walter - "The Nymph's Reply"
  • Milton - "Lycidas"
• Religious/Devotional 
  • Herbert, George
    
    • "The Collar"
    • "Easter Wings" 
    • "Jordan (I)"
  • Donne - "Hymn to God, My God in My Sickness"
  • Lanyer, Aemilia - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (lines 1-328 and 745-856)
  • Marvell - "A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body"
• Epyllion (Short Ovidian Epic)
  • Marlowe - "Hero and Leander"
  • Marston, John - "The Metamorphisis of Pygmalion's Image"
• Carpe Diem/Erotic/Persuasion Poetry
  • Elizabeth I - "Ah, Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid?"
  • Donne - "The Flea"
  • Herrick, Robert
    • "Corrina's Going A-Maying"
    • "Delight in Disorder" 
    • "To the Virgins, to Mkae Much of Time"
  • Marvel - "To His Coy Mistress"
• Satire
  • Skelton - "The Bowge of Court" (line 1-182)
  • Wyatt, "Mine Own John Poynz"
  • Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, Satrye 8

Rochester

• "The Disabled Debauchee"
• "The Imperfect Enjoyment"
• "Upon Nothing"

Behn, Aphra - "The Disappointment"

Dryden, John -  Mac Flecknoe

Finch, Anne

• "The Introduction"
• "The Spleen"
• "A Nocturnal Reverie"

Swift, Jonathan - "The Lady's Dressing Room"

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley - "The Reasons that Induced Dr S to Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room"

Johnson, Samuel -  "London"

Collins, William -  "Ode to Evening"

Gray, Thomas - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Barbauld, Anna - "A Summer Evening's Meditation"; "Washing Day"

Shakespeare

Choose two of the following plays (you may elect to fill in one slot with a play of your own choosing):

• Titus Andronicus
• Twelfth Night
• Hamlet
• The Tempest
• 1 Henry4
• As You Like It
• Antony and Cleopatra

Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama (Besides Shakespeare)

Choose one play from each of the following two groups:

• Christopher Marlowe
  • Edward II
  • Jew of Malta
  • Dr. Faustus
• Ben Jonson
  • Volpone
  • The Alchemist 
  • Epicoene
  • Bartholomew Faire

Restoration/Eighteenth-Century Drama (Choose One)

• Thomas Shadwell - The Virtuoso
• John Gay - The Beggar's Opera
• Thomas Sheridan - School for Scandal 

Táin bó Cuailgne

Four Branches of the Mabinogi:

• "Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed"
• "Branwen, Daughter of Llyr"
• "Manawydan, Son of Llyr"
• "Math, Son of Mathonwy"

Medieval Women Mystics (choose one):

• Margery Kempe, Book of Margery Kempe
• Julian of Norwich, Showings (Short Text)

Arthurian Tradition: 

Thomas Malory, from Le Morte Darthur (Oxford World Classics ed.): "The Noble Tale of the Sangrail" (pp. 310-402)

Plus choose one: 

• "From the Marriage of King Uther Unto King Arthur" (selections: pp. 3-32, 50-81)
• "The Death of Arthur" (pp. 468-527)

Welsh Arthurian Tradition (choose two):

• Culhwch and Olwen
• Peredur
• Gereint
• The Lady of the Fountain
• The Dream of Rhonabwy

Sir Thomas More, Utopia (in translation) 

Elizabeth I

• "Response to a Parliamentary Delegation on Her Marriage" (1559, 1566)
• "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
• "The Golden Speech to Parliament" (1601)

Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Posey

Miscellaneous Renaissance Prose

Choose two of the following prose groups: 

• HUMANIST TRACTS
  • Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (in translation)
  • Montaigne, Essais, "Of Friendship"; "Of Cannibals" (Donald Frame's translation)
  • Bacon, Essays, "Of Parents and Children"; "Of Marriage and Single Life"; "Of Love"
  • Milton, Areopagitica
• POPULAR LITERATURE
  • Thomas Deloney, "Jack of Newbury"
  • Thomas Nashe, "The Unfortunate Traveller"
  • Robert Green, "A Notable Discovery of Cozenage"
• ANTI-FEMINIST CONTROVERSY 
  • Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women 
  • Joseph Swetnam, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women 
  • Hic Muilier (anonymous) 
  • Haec Vir (anonymous)
• RRELIGIOUS/DEVOTIONAL
  • Anne Askew, Examiniations I and II 
  • Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Meditations 10, 17, 19; Expost. 19 
  • Donne, Death's Duel
• WRITING ON MELANCHOLY AND DEATH 
  • Donne, Biathanatos, "Conclusion" 
  • Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy: First Partion, Section 1 ("Of Diseases in General..."); Second Partition, Section 1 ("Cure of Melancholy in General", Third Partition, Section 2 ("Love Melancholy") 
  • Sir Thomas Brown, "Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial"

John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1 (including Author's Apology) 

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

Miscellaneous Enlightenment Philosophy

Chose one of the following prose groups 

• MORAL PHILOSOPHY 
  • John Locke, Essay upon Human Understanding: Bk. 2, chap 1-2; Bk. 4, chap. 19
  • David Hune, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Intro., Parts 1 and 4
  • Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, Section 1
• POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, chapters 1-5
  • Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage (incl. Preface)
  • Edmund Burke, Reflections upon the Revolution in France (Norton excerpt) 
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Intro., chapters 1-4

Miscellaneous Augustan Satire (choose 1):

• Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub 
• John Gay, Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London
• Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV

Miscellaneous Enlightenment Literary Criticism (choose 1): 

• Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
• Edmund Burke, Inquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
• Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Poets: "Cowley"; "Milton"; "Shakespeare"; "Pope"

Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Imagination Papers

Daniel Defoe (choose 1):

• Robinson Crusoe
• Moll Flanders

Elixa Haywood, Fantomina 

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Book 2, (Voyage to Brobdingnag) 

Samuel Johnson, Rasselas

James Boswell, The Life of Johnson (Norton excerpt)

Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative (Norton excerpt) 

Miscellaneous Eighteenth-Century Novel (choose 2):

• Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess
• Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
• Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy. Vols. 1-2
• Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto
• Lawrence Sterne, Sentimental Journey
• Frances Burney, Evelina
• Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

Relevant Theory or Literary Criticism (optional write-in category)

Arnold, Matthew.

• "Dover Beach,"
• "The Buried Life,"
• "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse,"
• "The Scholar Gypsy"; excerpt from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time*

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice

Baillie, Joanna. "Introductory Discourse" to the Plays on the Passions**

Barbauld, Anna Latetia. "Eighteen-Hundred and Eleven"**

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell*

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. From Aurora Leigh, excerpts "Book One" and "Book Two"*

Browning, Robert.

• "My Last Duchess,"
• "Love Among the Ruins,"
• "Two in the Campagna,"
• "Caliban upon
• Setebos,"
• "Rabbi Ben Ezra,"
• "Fra Lippo Lippi"*

Byron, Lord (George Gordon). "Manfred," excerpt from "Chi Ide Harold's Pilgrimage," excerpt from "Don Juan."*

Carlyle, Thomas. Excerpt from Sartor Resartus *

Clare, John.

• "Clock a Clay,"
• "'I Am,"
• "The Mores" **

Coleridge, Samuel.

• "Kubla Khan,"
• 'The Time of the Ancient Mariner,"
• "The Eolian Harp,"
• "Frost at Midnight,"
• "Christabel"; excerpt from Biographia Literaria*

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations

Eliot, George. Middlemarch

Equia no, Olaudah. Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life**

Fitzgerald, Edward. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure

Hemens, Felicia. "Casabianca" *

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

• "God's Grandeur,"
• "Pied Beauty,"
• "The Windhover,"
• "[Carrion Comfort]," and
• "The Wreck of the Deutschland" *

Keats, John.

• "Ode on a Grecian Urn,"
• "To Autumn,"
• "To a Nightingale,"
• "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer,"
• "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," and
• "Lamia"*

Radcliffe, Ann. The Italian

Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Markket" *

Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus*

Shelley, P.B.

• "Ozymandias,"
• "Mont Blanc,"
• "England in 1819,"
• "Adonais,"
• "Alastor" *

Smith, Charlotte. Excerpt from "Beachy Head"**

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.

• "The Lady of Shalott,"
• "Ulysses,"
• Excerpt from "In Memoriam A.H.H.," and
• "Locksley Hall"*

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest*

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman**

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Excerpt from The Grasmere Journal**

Wordsworth, William.

• "The Prelude,"
• "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,"
• "Tintern Abbey,"
• "Resolution and Independence,"
• "Ode, Intimations of Immorality,"
• Lyrical Ballads (with 1800 Preface)*

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot

Breeze, Jean.

• "Binta,"
• "Riddyn Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem),"
• "Cherry Tree Garden"***

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness

Davie, Donald.

• "Hearing Russian Spoken,"
• "Rejoinder to a Critic,"
• "Rodez,"
• "Out of East Anglia,"
• "A Conditioned Air,"
• "Inditing a Good Matter"***

Duffy, Carol Ann.

• "Standing Female Nude,"
• "And How Are We Today?,"
• "Psychopath," '
• 'Translating the English, 1989,"
• "Poet for Our Times"***

Eliot, T.S.

• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
• The Waste Land,
• "Little Gidding";
• "Tradition and the Individual Talent"*

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

Gunn. Thom.

• "The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death,"
• "Confessions of the Life Artist,"
• "Moly,"
• "Seesaw,"
• "A Sketch of the Great Dejection,"
• "Lament"***

Hardy, Thomas.

• "The Darkling Thrush,"
• "Channel Firing"*

Heany, Seamus.

• "Bog land,"
• "North,"
• "Singing School,"
• "Oysters,"
• "The Toome Road,"
• "The Underground," from "Station lsland: VII, XII,"
• "The Mud Vision"***

Hughes, Ted.

• "View of a Pig,"
• "Pike,"
• "Out,"
• "Pibroch,"
• "Wodwo,"
• "Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door,"
• "Flounder"***

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kinsella, Thomas.

• "Baggot Street Deserta,"
• "Ritual of Departure"***

Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love

Larkin, Phillip.

• "Church Going,"
• "Toads,"
• "Nothing to Be Said,"
• "Water,"
• "The Whitsun Weddings,"
• "An Arundel Tomb,"
• "High Windows,"
• "Going, Going,"
• "Homage to a Government,"
• "This be the Verse,"
• "The Explosion"

Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook

Mansfield, Katherine.

McGuckian, Medbh.

• "Tulips,"
• "The Seed-Picture,"
• "Slips,"
• "Aviary,"
• "The War Ending,"
• "The Albert Chain"***

Monk, Geraldine.

• "La Quinta del Sordo,"
• "Where?"***

Montague, John.

• "The Trout,"
• "A Bright Day,"
• "The Cage,"
• "This Neutral Realm,"
• "The Well Dreams"***

Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net

Nichols, Grace.

• "The Fat Black Woman Remebers,"
• "The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics,"
• "Skanking Englishman Between Trains,"
• "Long-Man"***

O'Casey, Sean. Juno and the Paycock

O'Sullivan, Maggie.

• "Starlings,"
• "Garb,"
• "Hill Figures"***

Pinter Harold. The Caretaker

Ray, Jackie. From "The Adoption Papers, Chapter 7: Black Bottom"***

Riley, Denise.

• "Affections Must Not,"
• "Lure, 1963,"
• "When it's Time to Go,"
• "Pastoral"***

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbaro

Silken, Jon.

• "Death of a Son,"
• "First it was Singing,"
• "Dandelion,"
• "A Daisy,"
• "A Word About Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv"***

Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Thomas, Dylan.

• "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,"
• "Fern Hill," and
• "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night"*

Tomlinson, Charles.

• "Aesthetic,"
• "Distinctions,"
• "Saving the Appearances,"
• "Swimming Chenango Lake,"
• "Prometheus,"
• "Annunciation,"
• "The Plaza,"
• "The Garden"***

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse; excerpt from A Room of One's Own*

Yeats, William Butler.

• "Easter 1916,"
• "The Second Coming,"
• "Leda and the Swan,"
• "Sailing to Byzantium," and
• "Among School Children"*

Some selections are found in these readily available anthologies of British Literature; the number of asterisks indicates the preferred excerpt or selections:

*Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (7th Ed.)

**Longman Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (2nd Ed.)

*"*Anthology ofTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001)

Novels and plays are available in a number of editions and can be found in the UNO Library. Poems, as well, can be found in collected in editions and era-specific anthologies in the UNO Library.

Julia Alvarez, “Picky Eater”

Roger Angell, “This Old Man"

James, Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”

Jo Ann Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter”

Wendy Call, “Beautiful Flesh”

Lisa Chavez, “Independence Day, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.”

Alexander Chee, “Girl”

Joan Didion, “The White Album”

Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels”

Brian Doyle,

• “Leap”
• “Joyas Voladoras”

Loren Eiseley, “The Brown Wasps”

Louise Erdrich, “Big Grass”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”

Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography… (selection from Norton Anthology of American

Autobiography)

Roxanne Gay, “What Fullness Is: On Getting Weight Reduction Surgery”

Elise Collette Goldbach, “White Horse”

Silas Hansen, “What Real Men Do”

Ed Hoagland, “The Courage of Turtles”

bell hooks, “Earthbound” (from Colors of Nature)

Sonya Huber, “Pain Woman Takes Your Keys”

Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Pico Iyer, “Why We Travel”

Leslie Jamison, “The Empathy Exams”

Ruchir Joshi, "Clarity" (from Best American Essays 2021)

Tom Junod, “‘Can You Say…Hero?’”

Jamaica Kincaid, “In History” (from Colors of Nature)

Barry Lopez, "Love in a Time of Terror" (from Best American Essays 2021)

Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple”

John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens”

Michel de Montaigne,

• “Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions”
• “Of Idleness”

Sy Montgomery, “Deep Intellect”

Michele Morano, “In the Subjunctive Mood”

N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Peacock" and “Vampire Squid” (from World of Wonders)

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Zitkala-Ša, “The Great Spirit”

Scott Russell Sanders, “The Inheritance of Tools”

David Sedaris, “I Like Guys”

Richard Selzer, “The Knife”

Leslie Silko, “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination”

Dariel Suarez, "In Orbit" (from Best American Essays 2021)

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”

Henry David Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”

June Thunderstorm, “Revenge of the Mouth Breathers: A Smoker’s Manifesto” (original title,

"Off Our Butts")

Twain, from Life on the Mississippi (selection from Norton Anthology of American

Autobiography)

Alice Walker, “Looking for Zora”

E.B. White, “Once More to the Lake”

Terry Tempest Williams, “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women”

David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster”

Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”

Chris Anderson, “Error, Ambiguity, and the Peripheral”

Emily W. Blacker, “Ending the Endless: The Art of Ending Personal Essays”:

Barrie Jean Borich “The Craft of Writing Queer”

Annie Dillard, “To Fashion a Text”

Peter Elbow, "The Pleasures of Voice in the Literary Essay"

Melissa Febos, "A Big Shitty Party: Six Parables of Writing About Other People" (from Body

Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative)

Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination”

Silas Hansen, “On Asking the Hard Questions”

Sonya Huber, "Voices of Joy" (from Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto)

Mary Karr, "Blind Spots and False Selves" (from The Art of Memoir)

Carl Klaus, “Toward a Collective Poetics of the Essay” (from Essayists on the Essay)

Lisa Low, “Proleptic Strategies in Race-Based Essays: Jordan K. Thomas, Rita Banerjee, and

Durga Chew-Bose”

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”

Jen Soriano, “Multiplicity from the Margins: The Expansive Truth of Intersectional Form”

Diana Wilson, “Laces in the Corset: Structures of Poetry and Prose that Bind the Lyric Essay”

Virginal Woolf, “The Modern Essay”

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

M.F.K Fisher, The Gastronomical Me

Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior

Chaney Kwak, The Passenger

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould’s Secret

Claudia Rankin, Citizen: An American Lyric

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (the complete edition)

Elie Wiesel, Night

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Connors, Robert J. “The Erasure of the Sentence.” CCC 52.1 (2000): 96---128.

Elbow, Peter. “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking.” College English 55.2 (Feb. 1993): 187---206.

Freire, Paulo. “The Banking Concept of Education” (Chapter 2).

Geller, Anne E., Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, and Elizabeth H. Boquet. The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice. Logan, UT: Utah State UP: 2007.

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Reynolds, Nedra. “Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition”

Shaugnessy, Mina. “Introduction to Errors and Expectations

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Bruffe, Kenneth A. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.’”

Ede, Lisa and Andrea Lunsford. “Audience Addressed”

Flower and Hayes. “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing”

Hartwell, Patrick. “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.”

Kinneavy, James E. “The Basic Aims of Discourse”

Matsuda, Paul Kei. “Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor”

Rose, Mike. “Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism”

Sommers, Nancy. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”

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Wardle, Elizabeth. “Understanding Transfer from FYC: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Study.”
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Yancey, “Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment as a Rhetorical Act.”
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Gorgias, Defense of Helen (42---46) Anonymous, Dissoi Logoi (47---55)

Aspasia, From Plato, Cicero, Athenaeus, and Plutarch (56---66)

Plato, Gorgias (80---137)

Plato, Phaedrus (138---168)

Aristotle, From Rhetoric (169---240)

Cicero, From De Oratore and Orator (283---343)

Locke, From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Selections from Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

Burke, Kenneth. Excerpts from A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives, Language as Symbolic Action.

Perelman & Olbrechts---Tyteca. From The New Rhetoric

Toulmin, Stephen. From The Uses of Argument

Foucault, Michel. From Archeology of Knowledge

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