English Graduate H<strong>and</strong>book / 17Written in a Country Churchyard;” Johnson, Samuel, “The Vanity <strong>of</strong> HumanWishes”24. Sterne, Laurence, Tristram Sh<strong>and</strong>y25. Brockden Brown, Charles, Edgar Huntly26. Wheatley, Phillis, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the RightHonorable William, Earl <strong>of</strong> Dartmouth,” “On the Death <strong>of</strong> the Rev. Mr. GeorgeWhitfield,” “To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works,” “To HisExcellency George Washington”27. Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography28. Richard Sheridan, The School for Sc<strong>and</strong>al29. Austen, Jane, Sense <strong>and</strong> Sensibility30. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein31. Cooper, James Fenimore, The Pioneers32. Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre33. Romantic Poets: Blake, William, “Songs <strong>of</strong> Innocence <strong>and</strong> Experience,” Byron,George Gordon, Prometheus; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, “Ode to the West Wind”<strong>and</strong> Adonais; <strong>and</strong> Keats, John, the Six Odes (Psyche, Nightingale, Grecian Urn,Melancholy, Autumn, <strong>and</strong> Indolence); Wordsworth, William, Preface to LyricalBallads, “The Prelude, Tintern Abbey; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Rime <strong>of</strong> theAncient Mariner, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison34. Victorian Poets: Rossetti, Christina, Goblin Market, Browning, ElizabethBarrett, Aurora Leigh, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, In Memoriam, Hopkins, GerardManley, “The Windhover,” “Pied Beauty,” From Journal, “On ‘Inscape’ <strong>and</strong>‘Instress’” <strong>and</strong> Letter to R. W. Dixon “On Sprung Rhythm.”35. Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations36. Slave Narratives: Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative <strong>of</strong> the Life <strong>of</strong>Olaudah Equiano, Douglass, Frederick, Narrative <strong>of</strong> the Life <strong>of</strong> FrederickDouglass (1845 edition), Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life <strong>of</strong> a Slave Girl, <strong>and</strong>Prince, Mary, The History <strong>of</strong> Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave37. Eliot, George, Middlemarch38. Darwin, Charles, From On the Origin <strong>of</strong> Species by Means <strong>of</strong> Natural Selection:chapter 3 “Struggle for Existence,” <strong>and</strong> From The Descent <strong>of</strong> Man: Chapter 21“General Summary <strong>and</strong> Conclusion”39. 19 th -Century American Short Fiction (see below)40. Melville, Herman, Moby Dick41. Whitman, Walt, Leaves <strong>of</strong> Grass (1855)42. Dickinson, Emily, Poems (numbered by Johnson): 49, 76, 130, 214, 241, 258, 280,290, 303, 341, 401, 435, 448, 449, 465, 508, 564, 569, 585, 640, 650, 675, 712,754, 985, 986, 1052, 1129, 1207, 1333, 1463, 1624, <strong>and</strong> 173243. James, Henry, Daisy Miller <strong>and</strong> Washington Square44. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin45. Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn
English Graduate H<strong>and</strong>book / 18III. British, American, <strong>and</strong> Anglophone World Literature, 1900-Present46. Shaw, George Bernard, Heartbreak House47. Wilde, Oscar, The Importance <strong>of</strong> Being Earnest48. American Modernist Poetry Cluster (see below)49. Twentieth-Century British Poetry Cluster (see below)50. Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God51. Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot52. Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway <strong>and</strong> “Mr. Bennett <strong>and</strong> Mrs. Brown”53. Joyce, James, The Portrait <strong>of</strong> the Artist as a Young Man54. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby55. Hemingway, Earnest, A Farewell to Arms56. Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man57. Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying58. Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita59. Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony60. Cisneros, S<strong>and</strong>ra, House on Mango Street61. Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Nervous Conditions62. Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl63. Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior64. American Plays: Hwang, David Henry, M. Butterfly, Kushner, Tony, Angels inAmerica (parts 1 <strong>and</strong> 2); O’Neill, Eugene, Long Day's Journey into Night; <strong>and</strong>Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisinin the Sun65. Morrison, Toni, Beloved66. DeLillo, Don, White Noise67. Rushdie, Salman, Midnight's Children68. Smith, Zadie, White Teeth69. British Plays: Stoppard, Tom, Travesties <strong>and</strong> Churchill, Caryl. Cloud Nine70. Contemporary Poetry Cluster (see below)Supplementary Clusters17 th Century LyricDonne, John: "The Sun Rising," “Break <strong>of</strong> Day,” “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day,Being the Shortest Day,” “The Ecstasy,” “The Relic,” “The Blossom,” "AValediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Flea," "The Bait," "Elegy XIX: To HisMistress going to Bed," Holy Sonnets 10 <strong>and</strong> 14, “A Lecture Upon the Shadow,”“Good Friday, 1613”Herbert, George: "The Altar," “Redemption,” “Easter,” “Affliction (I), "Jordan I,""Jordan II," “The Pilgrimage”