American Modernism Literary Works

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Poet
Media
Title of Work
Student who will analyze
Amy Lowell
Poem
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.

Amy Lowell
Poem
Astigmatism

Amy Lowell
Poem
Opal

Amy Lowell
Poem
Red Slippers

Angelina Weld Grimke
Poem
The Black Finger

Angelina Weld Grimke
Poem
Trees

Arna Bontemps
Poem
A black man talks of reaping

Carl Sandburg
Poem
Chicago

Carl Sandburg
Poem
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio

Carl Sandburg
Poem
I am the People, the Mob

Claude McKay
Poem
If We Must Die

Claude McKay
Poem
The Tropics in New York

Countee Cullen
Poem
Any Human to Another

Countee Cullen
Poem
Incident

Dorothy Parker
Poem
The Waltz (in Norton Anthology Volume 2)

e e cummings
Poem
o sweet spontaneous

e e cummings
Poem
next to of course god america i

e e cummings
Poem
Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal

e e cummings
Poem
Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond

e e cummings
Poem
Anyone lived in a pretty how town

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poem
Recuerdo

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poem
Apostrophe To Man

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poem
I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines

Ezra Pound
Poem
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

Ezra Pound
Poem
To Whistler, American

Ezra Pound
Poem
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour

H.D.
Poem
Leda

H.D.
Poem
At Baia

Hart Crane
Poem
At Melville's Tomb

Hart Crane
Poem
Chaplinesque

Hart Crane
Poem
To Emily Dickinson

Ishmael Reed
Poem
beware: do not read this poem

James Weldon Johnson
Poem
My City

John Crowe Ransom
Poem
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter

John Crowe Ransom
Poem
An American Addresses Philomela

Langston Hughes
Poem
I, Too

Langston Hughes
Poem
The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes
Poem
When the Negro Was in Vogue

Langston Hughes
Poem
Cross

Langston Hughes
Poem
The Ballad Of The Landlord

Louise Bogan
Poem
Evening in the Sanitorium

Marianne Moore
Poem
Poetry

Marianne Moore
Poem
The Paper Nautilus

Mark Strand
Poem
Eating Poetry

Randall Jarrell
Poem
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Robinson Jeffers
Poem
Shine, Perishing Republic

Robinson Jeffers
Poem
Be Angry At The Sun

Robinson Jeffers
Poem
Vulture

T.S. Eliot
Poem
Gerontion

T.S. Eliot
Poem
The Journey Of The Magi

T.S. Eliot
Poem
Rhapsody On A Windy Night

Wallace Stevens
Poem
Anecdote of the Jar

Wallace Stevens
Poem
The High-Toned Old Christian Woman

Wallace Stevens
Poem
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Wallace Stevens
Poem
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

Wallace Stevens
Poem
Study of Two Pears

William Carlos Williams
Poem
The Widow's Lament In Springtime

William Carlos Williams
Poem
The Young Housewife

William Carlos Williams
Poem
Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus

Anzia Yezierska
Short Story
The Lost “Beautifulness”

Bernard Malamud
Short Story
The Magic Barrel

E.B. White
Short Story
The Second Tree From the Corner

Elie Wiesel
Short Story
from All Rivers Run to the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
Short Story
In Another Country

Ernest Hemingway
Short Story
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Norton Anthology)

Eudora Welty
Short Story
A Worn Path

Eudora Welty
Short Story
Petrified Man

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Story
Winter Dreams

Flannery O’Connor
Short Story
The Life You Save May Be Your Own

James Baldwin
Short Story
The Rock Pile

James Thurber
Short Story
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

John Hersey
Short Story
from Hiroshima

John Steinbeck
Short Story
Breakfast

Katherine Anne Porter
Short Story
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Richard Wright
Short Story
from Black Boy

Sherwood Anderson
Short Story
The Egg

Thomas Wolfe
Short Story
The Lost Boy

William Faulkner
Short Story
A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner
Short Story
Barn Burning (Norton Anthology)

Zora Neale Hurston
Short Story
from Dust Tracks on a Road