American Literature Canon

"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Ambrose Bierce

"Thanatopsis"

William Cullen Bryant

__Tarzan of the Apes__

Edgar Rice Burroughs

__Slaughterhouse Five__

Kurt Vonnegut

__The Last of the Mohicans__

James Fenimore Cooper

“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me”

Emily Dickinson

"Self-Reliance"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

__The Sound and the Fury__

“The Barn Burning”

William Faulkner

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

"Rip Van Winkle"

Washington Irving

__Profiles in Courage__

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

__The Call of the Wild__

Jack London

__Spoon River Anthology__

Edgar Lee Masters

"The Ice Man Cometh"

Eugene O'Neill

"The Raven"

Edgar Allan Poe

__Of Mice and Men__

John Steinbeck

__Walden__

Henry David Thoreau

__A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court__

Mark Twain

__The Color Purple__

Alice Walker

"O Captain, My Captain"

Walt Whitman

"Richard Cory"

Edwin Arlington Robinson