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Writers & Poets

A	A. A. Milne Alfred, Lord Tennyson Excerpt Alice Walker Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Amiri Baraka Poem August Wilson Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half Loves

C	Charles Waddell Chesnutt Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” Collins’s The Moonstone Crumb’s Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death

D	Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Denise Levertov Reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

E

Forster’s Howards End
Edgar Allan Poe
Edmond Rostand
Edward Taylor’s “God’s Determinations Touching His Elect”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickinson
Eugene O'Neill
Excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s There’s No Forgetting (Sonata)
Excerpt from The Lord of the Flies
Excerpt from “The Secret of My Endurance” (1981), by Charles Bukowski
Ezra Pound Reading

F	Federico García Lorca Franz Kafka From Beckett’s Waiting for Godot From the Iliad Fyodor Dostoyevsky

G	Geoffrey Chaucer Eliot’s Middlemarch George Orwell Gertrude Stein Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore Gloria Steinem Gottfried’s Tristan und Isolt Greene’s The Quiet American Guillaume Apollinaire

H	Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Homer’s Iliad Hopkins’s “No Worst, There Is None” Hughes’s “Hawk Roosting”

J	James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time Joe Orton’s Loot Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Donne John Dryden John Fowles John Keats Joseph Heller Joyce Carol Oates Julian Barnes

K	Katherine Anne Porter Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

L	L.M. Montgomery Lady Gregory’s The Workhouse Ward Langston Hughes, “Harlem” From Lawrence’s Women in Love Li Bo Lorraine Hansberry Lowell’s “Skunk Hour”

M	Marianne Moore Mark Twain Mary Shelley Maya Angelou Miller’s Death of a Salesman Milton’s Comus Molière Music of the Renaissance Theater

N	Nathaniel Hawthorne

O	Oscar Wilde

P	Patrick White Philip Freneau Piers Plowman

R	Ray Bradbury Reading from “Ode to a Nightingale” Robert Graves Rubén Darío Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

S	Sean O’Casey Excerpt Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Siegfried Sassoon’s “The General” Sir Thomas Malory Sophocles’Oedipus Rex Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” Synge’s In the Shadow of the Glen

T	Tennessee Williams Excerpt The Poetry of Philip Larkin “The Walrus and the Carpenter” “To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”

W	W. B. Yeats Reading Walt Whitman Wharton's House of Mirth William Butler Yeats Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” Wyatt’s “They Flee from Me”

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