North american literature

Recommended Reading for Students of American Literature and Culture. Source ©

• Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
  • "The Author to Her Book" (1678)
  • "For Deliverance from a Sore Fit" (1678)
• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
  • Poems from Poems on Various Subjects
  • Religious and Moral (1773)
• Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
  • "The Raven" (1845)
  • "Annabel Lee" (1849)
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892). "Song of Myself' (1855)
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  • "My life closed twice before its close" (1896)
  • "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (1929)
  • "To Make a Prairie" (1863)
• Ezra Pound (1885-1972). "In a Station of the Metro" (1913)
• Robert Frost (1874-1963)
  • "The Road Not Taken" (1916)
  • "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923)
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
  • Picasso (1924)
  • Tender Buttons (1914)
• William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
  • "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1923)
  • "This Is Just to Say" (1934)
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  • "The Weary Blues (1926)
  • "I, too" (1932)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). "The Fish" (1946)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
  • "Howl"(1956)
  • "A Supermarket in California" (1956)
• Claude McKay (1889-1948). “If We Want to Die” (1919)
• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
  • "Daddy" (1962)
  • "Lady Lazarus" (1965)
• Amiri Baraka (1934-2014). “Black Art” (1966)
• Audre Lorde (1934-1992). "Coal" (1969)
• Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
  • "Diving into the Wreck'' (1973)
  • "From a Survivor" (1973)
• Susan Howe (1937). "The Nonconformist's Memorial" (1993)
• Sherman Alexie (1966). "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" (1996)
• Countee Cullen (1903-1946). “Yet do I marvel” (1925)
• Bob Dylan (1941). “The Times They Are a-Changin’” (1964)