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Unit 1: Creating a Nation, Beginnings to 1789

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1996 by Rabindranath Tagore
from the Aeneid by Virgil
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
Anansi's Fishing Expedition translated by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone by Sophocles
from the Apology from the Dialogues by Plato
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
from Beowulf by Anonymous
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
Bisclavret: The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
Bishop Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe by Liliana Heker
Bonny Barbara Allan by Anonymous
from The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The Burning of Rome by Tacitus
from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling
Coyote Finishes His Work retold by Barry Lopez
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
from the Decameron: Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
Discoveries by Eduardo Langagne
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable Bede
Edju and the Two Friends translated by Paul Radin
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
from Everyman by Anonymous
Eve's Apology by Aemilia Lanyer
For My Mother Said by Sappho
Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden
from Genesis from the King James Bible
Get Up and Bar the Door by Anonymous
from Gilgamesh by Anonymous
from The Histories by Herodotus
How the World Was Made retold by James Mooney
from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from the Iliad by Homer
from The Immortality of Writers translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
from The Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
from the Iroquois Constitution by Dekanawida
Ithaca by C. P. Cavafy
from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
from La Relación by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
Laura from Canzoniere by Petrarch
from Le Morte d' Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Letter to Her Daughter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson
Life in Benin from Equiano's Travels by Olaudah Equiano
from The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy
The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine
Love Does Not Know Secrets translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
Love is Not All: It is Not Meat nor Drink by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Magic Words translated by Edward Field
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Meditation 17 by John Donne
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
The Names of Women by Louise Erdrich
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
The Night Face Up by Julio Cortázar
Night of Sine by Léopold Sédar Senghor
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Oak and the Reed by Jean de la Fontaine
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon
Offer of Help by Canassatego
from Omeros by Derek Walcott
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
from the Popol Vuh: Creation Hymn translated by Ralph Nelson
from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Prayer to the Pacific by Leslie Marmon Silko
Psalm 23 from the King James Bible
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Seafarer by Anonymous
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous
Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
The Sky Tree retold by Joseph Bruchac
Some Say Thronging Cavalry by Sappho
from the Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
Sonnet 8 by Louise Labé
Sonnet 239 by Michelangelo
from The Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
from Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay with John Man
The Story of the Dress that Sang translated by A. W. Cardinall
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
Sudden Moods translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
from Sundiata from The Lion's Awakening retold by D. T. Niane
from the Tanakh, Genesis 6-9: The Flood from the King James Bible
Tears of Love translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Tribal Scars or The Voltaique by Ousmane Sembène
The Trojans by Constantine Cavafy
Tselane and the Giant translated by B. L. Leshoai
Two Countries by José Martí
Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
from the Voyage of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus
Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling