Part One Poetry Edgar Allan Poe (1809��1849) To Helen The Raven Annabel Lee Suggested Readings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807��1882) A Psalm of Life The Arrow and the Song The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Hiawatha's Childhood Suggested Readings Walt Whitman (1819��1892) Song of Myself Bivouac on a Mountain Side Suggested Readings Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830��1886) "Hope" is the thing with feathers The Soul selects her own Society I'm Nobody! Who are you? My life closed twice before its close A narrow Fellow in the Grass This is my letter to the World Suggested Readings Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885��1972) A Pact Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) Canto XLIX Suggested Readings Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888��1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prnfrock Suggested Readings William Carlos Williams (1883��1963) Paterson The Red Wheelbarrow Spring and All (By the road to the contagious hospital) The Dance Suggested Readings Langston Hughes (1902��1967) The Weary Blues The Negro Speaks of Rivers Harlem I, too Dream Variations Suggested Readings e. e. cummings (1894��1962) i carry your heart with me 0 sweet spontaneous r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r Buffalo Bill's Suggested Readings Robert Lee Frost (1874��1963) Mending Wall Fire and Ice Birthes Suggested Readings Wystan Hugh Auden (1917��1973) The Unknown Citizen Musee des Beaux Arts In Memory of W. B. Yeats Suggested Readings Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926��1997) Howl Suggested Readings Part Two Essay and Fiction Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803��1882) Experience Suggested Readings Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804��1564) The Birthmark Suggested Readings Henry David Thoreau (1817��1862) Solitude : Suggested Readings Herman Melville (1819��1891) The Fiddler Suggested Readings Mark Twain (1835��1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Suggested Readings O. Henry (1862��1910) The Furnished Room Suggested Readings Jack London (1876��1916) To Build a Fire Suggested Readings Ernest Hemingway ( 1899��1961 ) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Suggested Readings William Faulkner (1897��1962) Barn Burning Suggested Readings John Steinbeck (1902��1968) The Chrysanthemums Suggested Readings Jeromy David Salinger (1919��2010) For Esme��With Love and Squalor Suggested Readings Joseph Heller (1923��1999) Catch-22 Suggested Readings Bibliography