Serious Reading....

Complete Reading List for the semester:

James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
Toni Morrison, Sula
Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
Junot Diaz, Drown
Sapphire, Push
Werner Sollors, (selected texts)


Selected Readings from:


Giovanni Da Verrazano
Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Samuel De Champlain
John Smith
William Bradford
Thomas Morton
John Winthrop
Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson
Cotton Mather
John Woolman
St. Jean De Crèvecoeur
William Bartram
John Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Phyllis Wheatley
Assorted Native American Texts
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland
Francis Parkman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Henry Wadswoth Longfellow
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
James Russel Lowell
Walt Whitman


Dante La vita nuova
Tasso Jerusalem Delivered
Racine Phedra
Goethe Faust
Leopardi Selected poems
Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
Flaubert Salammbo
Rilke Duino Elegies
Hesse Steppenwolf


Cædmons' Hymn
The Dream of the Rood
The Battle of Maldon
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chaucer: Prologue to Canterbury Tales, Miller's Tale, Wife of Bath, Pardoner's Tale
William Langland, assorted
The Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play
Assorted Medieval Lyrics
Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur
Assorted Elizabethan Lyrics
Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, Epithalamion
Shakespeare, assorted sonnets, Twelfth Night
John Webster, The Dutchess of Malfi
John Donne, assorted songs and sonnets
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Thomas Browne, assorted selections from Religio Medici and Hydrotaphia
Ben Jonson, assorted
Robert Herrick, assorted
George Herbert, assorted
Andrew Marvell, assorted
Richard Crashaw, assorted
Henry Vaughn, assorted
John Milton, Paradise Lost


Good Stuff.