PART 1: FACING TROUBLED TIMES
T. S. Eliot 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Ezra Pound 'A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste'
'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter' Poem
'In a Station of the Metro' Poem
William Carlos Williams 'The Red Wheelbarrow' Poem
'The Great Figure' Poem
'This Is Just to Say' Poem
H. D. 'Pear Tree' Poem
'Heat' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
E. E. Cummings 'old age sticks' Poem
'anyone lived in a pretty how town' Poem
W. H. Auden 'The Unknown Citizen' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Wallace Stevens 'Of Modern Poetry' Poem
'Anecdote of the Jar' Poem
Archibald MacLeish 'Ars Poetica' Poem
Marianne Moore 'Poetry' Poem
PART 2: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: THE SHORT STORY
Comparing Literary Works
Ernest Hemingway 'In Another Country' Short Story
Sherwood Anderson 'The Corn Planting' Short Story
Eudora Welty 'A Worn Path' Short Story
PART 3: FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE LAND
Comparing Literary Works
Carl Sandburg 'Chicago' Poem
'Grass' Poem
Katherine Anne Porter 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' Short Story
Comparing Literary Works
William Faulkner 'Race at Morning' Short Story
'Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech' Speech
Comparing Literary Works
Robert Frost 'Birches' Poem
'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' Poem
'Mending Wall' Poem
'Out, Out—' Poem
'The Gift Outright' Poem
'Acquainted With the Night' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Langston Hughes 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' Poem
'Ardella' Poem
'Dream Variations' Poem
'Refugee in America' Poem
Claude McKay 'The Tropics in New York' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Countee Cullen 'From the Dark Tower' Poem
Arna Bontemps 'A Black Man Talks of Reaping' Poem
Jean Toomer 'Storm Ending' Poem
Unit 6: Prosperity and Protest (1946–Present)
PART 1: LITERATURE CONFRONTS THE EVERYDAY
Flannery O'Connor 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' Short Story
John Updike 'The Brown Chest' Short Story
Comparing Literary Works
Robert Lowell 'Hawthorne' Poem
Robert Penn Warren 'Gold Glade' Poem
William Stafford 'Traveling Through the Dark' Poem
Theodore Roethke 'The Light Comes Brighter' Poem
'The Adamant' Poem
Anne Tyler 'Average Waves in Unprotected Waters' Short Story
Alice Walker 'Everyday Use' Short Story
Julia Alvarez 'Antojos' Short Story
Comparing Literary Works
Lorna Dee Cervantes 'Freeway 280' Poem
Martín Espada 'Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper' Poem
Diana Chang 'Most Satisfied by Snow' Poem
Simon Ortiz 'Hunger in New York City' Poem
Garret Hongo 'What For' Poem
PART 2: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: ESSAY
Comparing Literary Works
Carson McCullers from The Mortgaged Heart Nonfiction
William Safire 'Onomatopoeia' Nonfiction
Ian Frazier 'Coyote v. Acme' Nonfiction
PART 3: SOCIAL PROTEST
James Baldwin 'The Rockpile' Short Story
John Hersey from Hiroshima Nonfiction
Randall Jarrell 'Losses' Poem
'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Sylvia Plath 'Mirror' Poem
Adrienne Rich 'In a Classroom' Poem
Gwendolyn Brooks 'The Explorer' Poem
Robert Hayden 'Frederick Douglass' Poem
'Runagate Runagate' Poem
Comparing Literary Works
Colleen McElroy 'For My Children' Poem
Louise Erdrich 'Bidwell Ghost' Poem
E. L. Doctorow 'The Writer in the Family' Short Story
Comparing Literary Works
Yusef Komunyakaa 'Camouflaging the Chimera' Poem
Tim O'Brien 'Ambush' from The Things They Carried Short Story
Drama
Arthur Miller The Crucible
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV Drama