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Homer (C)
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William Langland (M)
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| Revelations of Divine Love |
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| Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum |
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| Historia Regum Britanniae |
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| The Consolation of Philosophy |
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| Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart |
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Caedmon (M)
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John Lydgate (M)
(open GATE=open BOOK) |
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Thomas Kyd (R)
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| “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” |
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The Merchant of Venice, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, "Let
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| “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" |
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| “The Doubt of Future Foes |
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| The History of King Richard the Third |
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Lady Mary Wroth (R)
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| The Countess of Montgomery's Urania |
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| Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit |
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Thomas Nashe (R)
(NASH instead of cash = UNFORTUNATE) |
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| The Unfortunate Traveller |
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John Heywood (R)
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Ben Jonson (R)
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| "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
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Daniel Defoe (RN)
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Jonathan Swift (RN)
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| "The Imperfect Enjoyment" |
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Christopher Smart (RN)
(SMART CAT) |
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| "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" |
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Oliver Goldsmith (RN)
(Conquer the gold) |
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Samuel Pepys (RN)
(Peep in a diary) |
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| A Model of Christian Charity |
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John Smith (AL-COL)
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| The General History of Virginia |
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Cotton Mather (AL-COL)
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Cotton Mather (AL-COL)
(COTTON is white and INVISIBLE ghosts are white) |
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| The Wonders of the Invisible World |
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William Bradford (AL-COL)
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| "A Short Narrative of My Life" |
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Olaudah Equiano (AL-COL)
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| The Interesting Narrative |
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Anne Bradstreet (AL-COL)
(HOUSE=STREET) |
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| "Upon the Burning of Our House" |
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Anne Bradstreet (AL-COL)
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| Phillis Wheatley (AL-COL) |
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| "On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
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Michael Wigglesworth (AL-COL)
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Thomas Paine (AL-COL)
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| Thomas Jefferson (AL-COL) |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia |
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| Thomas Jefferson (AL-COL) |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| Benjamin Franklin (AL-COL) |
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| J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (AL-COL) |
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| Letters from an American Farmer |
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Jonathan Edwards (AL-COL)
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
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Thomas Paine (AL-REV)
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| Phyllis Wheatley (AL_REV) |
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| "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
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| Phyllis Wheatley (AL_REV) |
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| "On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
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| Benjamin Franklin (AL-REV) |
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| Washington Irving (AL-REV) |
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| James Fenimore Cooper (AL-REV) |
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William Hill Brown (AL-REV)
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| Charles Brockden Brown (AL-REV) |
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| A Dictionary of the English Language |
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Alexander Pope (RN)
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Jonathan Swift (RN)
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Summer's Last Will and
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"A Dialogue between two
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Sir Thomas More (R)
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| Amoretti and Epithalamion |
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| "On Monsieur's Departure" |
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Christopher Marlowe (R)
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Christopher Marlowe (REN)
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The Tragical History of
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John Lydgate (MED)
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John Lydgate (MED)
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| The Tale of Apollonius of Tyre |
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| Yvain, the Knight of the Lion |
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| Perceval, the Story of the Grail |
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Maria de France (MED)
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| The Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick |
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Lord Byron (Rom)
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| "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" |
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Lord Byron (Rom)
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| "The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale" |
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William Blake (ROM)
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| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
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William Blake (ROM)
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William Wordsworth (ROM)
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| The Prelude, Guide to the Lakes |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ROM)
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| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ROM)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ROM)
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Ann Radcliffe (ROM)
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Ann Radcliffe (ROM)
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| The Romance of the Forest |
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Ann Radcliffe (ROM)
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| The Italian: or The Confessional of the Black Penitents |
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William Gilpin (ROM)
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| Observations on the River Wye |
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| Matthew Gregory Lewis (ROM) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (ROM)
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley (ROM) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (ROM)
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley (ROM) |
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Horace Walpole (ROM)
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John Ruskin (REAL)
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George Gissing
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Elizabeth Eastlake (REAL)
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| Thomas Babington Macaulay (REAL) |
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| "Minute on Indian Education" |
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| "Our Indian Fellow Subjects" |
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Henry Mayhew (REAL)
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| London Labour and the London Poor |
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| Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn |
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| "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" |
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| The English Governess at the Siamese Court |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning (REAL) |
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Mary Austin (REAL)
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (REAL) |
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| Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (REAL) |
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| Who Would Have Thought It? |
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| Booker T. Washington (REAL) |
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| David Copperfield, Great Expectations |
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| In Darkest England and the Way Out |
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| Christina Rossetti (REAL) |
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| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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| "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald (MOD) |
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Virginia Woolf (MOD)
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Zora Neale Hurston (MOD)
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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Katherine Anne Porter (MOD)
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| "In a Station of the Metro" |
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| William Carlos Williams (MOD) |
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| H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (MOD) |
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Anne Sexton (POST)
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Jack Kerouac (POST)
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| Go Tell it on the Mountain |
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Gloria Anzaldúa (POST)
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| Tennessee Williams (POST) |
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| Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems |
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| A Good Man is Hard to Find |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko (POST) |
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| "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" |
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| The Woman Who Fell from the Sky |
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