Romanticism Continued

• William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
• John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”

Individualism and the Rise of the Short Story

• Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
• Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”

Realism and Capitalism

• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

American Poetry

• Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” sections 16, 17, 24
• Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” sections 1-4
• Emily Dickinson, 269: “Wild nights – Wild nights!”
• Emily Dickinson, 348: “I would not paint – a picture – ”
• Emily Dickinson, 355: “It was not Death, for I stood up,”
• Emily Dickinson, 519: “This is my letter to the World”
• Emily Dickinson, 1263: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant –”

Victorianism and Empire

• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

The Irish Question

• Anonymous, “Proclamation of an Irish Republic”
• James Joyce, “Araby”
• W. B. Yeats, “Easter 1916”
• Seamus Heaney, “Punishment”

Modernism

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The Great War and Modern Poetry

• T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
• Pound, selections

Refractions and Perspectives

• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Politics and Totalitarianism

• W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939”
• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”

Postmodern Drama

• Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Postcolonialism and its Discontents

• Nadine Gordimer, July’s People
• Seamus Heaney, “From the Republic of Conscience”

Literature and Intermediality

• Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen