Realistic Period (1861-1915)
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Poetry
"Douglass," Paul Laurence Dunbar "Richard Cory," Edwin Arlington Robinson "Lucinda Matlock," Edgar Lee Masters "Some keep the Sabbath going to church," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" & "There's a Certain Slant of Light," Emily Dickinson "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" & "When I Heard a Learn'd Astronomer," Walt Whitman + Video 
“Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey”, Thomas Moran, 1880
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Nonfiction
"And Ain't I a Woman?" Sojourner Truth The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass "How to Tell a Story," Mark Twain Fiction "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Ambrose Bierce (A link to the film adaptation is located on the Film Study page under the Resources tab.) "To Build a Fire," Jack London "Open Boat," Stephen Crane, "Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin, "Wagner Matinee," Willa Cather The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country" & "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy," Mark Twain |
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