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Colonial Period
EDWARD TAYLOR: "I am the living bread" - poem.
"The reflexion" -poem.
WILLIAM BRADFORD: "A plymouth plantation" -novel
"On the various heresies in old and new England" -peom -
Age of Reason
BENJAMIN FLANKIN: "Join or die" -cartoon
"The speech of Polly Baker" -story
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Virginia statute for religious freedom".
"A summary view of the rights of british america" -
Romanticism
EDGAR ALLAN POE: "The Raven" (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature. "The Black cat" -short story about horror.
WASHINGTON IRVING: "The legend of sleepy hollow" - his most famous story. "The devil and Tom Walker" -short story -
Transcendentalism
MARGARET FULLER: "Woman in the nineteenth century- book first major feminist work. "The passion flower" -poem.
WIALT WHITMAN: "Leaves of grass" - book.
"Memoranda during the war2 -poem -
Anti- trascendentalism
HERMAN MELVILLE: "The confidence man" -novel.
"Timoleons" -poems
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: "The ambitious guest" -short story.
"Chiefly about war matters" -essay -
Realism
HENRY JAMES: "The portrait o a lady" - novel.
"The wings of the dove" -second written of the books
MARK TWAIN: "Advice to youth" -essay
"Cannibalism in the car" -book -
Naturalism
JACK LONDON: "The sea-wolf" -book
"A daughter of the snow" -book.
FRANK NORRIS. "A Lost Story." In: The Spinners' Book of Fiction. -short story.
"Not guilty" -article. -
Regionalism
FRANK NORRIS: "The ship that saw a ghost" -short story
"A man's woman" -fiction story.
KATY CHOPIN: "At fault" -novel
"The awakening" -novel. -
Modernism
ROBERT FROST: "A boy's will" -poetry book
"A girl's farden" -poem
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: "The great Gatsby" - story
"This side of paradise" -novel -
Contemporary
STEPHEN KING: "A death" - short story.
"A new introduction to John Fowles's the collector -essay
JOYCE CAROL: "The edge of impossiblity" -essay.
"Anonymous sins & other poems" -poem.
