Reading List for Majors

James:

• The Ambassabors
• The American

DuBois:

• Souls of Black Folk

Wharton:

• House of Mirth

Joyce:

• Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Woolf:

• To the Lighthouse
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Jacob's Room

Conrad:

• Heart of Darkness

Yeats:

• "Sailing to Byzantium"
• "The Second Coming"
• "Among School Children"
• "Easter, 1916
• "The Tower"
• "Leda and the Swan"

Eliot:

• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
• The Waste Land
• Four Quartets

Hurston:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

Cather:

• The Professor's House
• My Antonia

Shaw:

• Saint Joan
• Man and Superman

Williams:

• "The Dance" (1944)
• "Spring and All"
• "Pictures from Breughel"

Stevens:

• "The Idea of Order at Key West"
• "The Anecdote of the Jar"
• "The Snowman"
• "Sunday Morning"
• "On Modern Poetry"
• "Man and Bottle"

Toomer:

• Cane

Faulkner:

• The Sound and the Fury
• Go Down, Moses

Wright:

• Black Boy

Ellison:

• Invisible Man

Miller:

• Death of a Salesman

Hansberry:

• A Raisin in the Sun

Achebe:

• Things Fall Apart

Rich:

• Twenty-one Love Poems
• "Cartographies of Silence"

Morrison:

• Beloved

Rita Dove:

• Selected Poems

Donald Hall:

• Old and New Poems

Denise Levertov:

• Breathing the Water

Galway Kinnell:

• Selected Poems

Baldwin:

• Go Tell It on the Mountain

Rushdie:

• Midnight’s Children