American Literature Midterm/Exam Prep

Beat! Beat! Drums!

Author- Walt Whitman; Date- 1861 => Round to 1860; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

The Wound Dresser

Author- Walt Whitman; Date- 1865 => Round to 1860; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Author- Ambrose Bierce; Date- 1890; Type of Text- Short Story

The Wife of His Youth

Author- Charles Chesnutt; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

The Passing of Grandison

Author- Charles Chesnutt; Date- 1901 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

Author- James Weldon Johnson; Date- 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

When Malindy Sings

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1897 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

An Ante-Bellum Sermon

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1897 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

We Wear the Mask

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1897 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Sympathy

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Frederick Douglass

Author- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Date- 1903=> Round to 1900; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Life Among the Piutes

Author- Sarah Winnemucca; Tribal Affiliation- Paiute; Date- 1883 => Round to 1880; Type of Text- Memoir

The Problem of Old Harjo

Author- John Milton Oskinson; Tribal Affiliation- Cherokee; Date- 1907 => Round to 1910; Type of Text- Short Story

The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta

Author- John Rollin Ridge; Tribal Affiliation- Cherokee; Date- 1854 => Round to 1850; Type of Text- Novel

The Chinese Exclusion Act

Author- US Congress; Date- 1882 => Round to 1880; Type of Text- Legal Document

Poem by One Named Xu Xiangshan, Consoling Himself

Author- Xiangshan; Date- Unknown, but 1891 at the earliest; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

I Have Ten-Thousand Hopes

Author- Anonymous; Date- Unknown, but 1891 at the earliest; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

The Wisdom of the New

Author- Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far); Date- 1912 => Round to 1910; Type of Text- Short Story

A Half-Caste

Author- Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton); Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

Sister Josepha

Author- Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

Désirée's Baby

Author- Kate Chopin; Date- 1893 => Round to 1890; Type of Text- Short Story

The Story of an Hour

Author- Kate Chopin; Date- 1894 => Round to 1890; Type of Text- Short Story

The Yellow Wallpaper

Author- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Date- 1892 => 1890; Type of Text- Short Story

The Open Boat

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1897 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

[God fashioned the ship of the World carefully]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1896 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- The Black Riders; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[I saw a man pursuing the horizon]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1896 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- The Black Riders; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[Do not weep, maiden for War is kind]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- War is Kind; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[The Chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- War is Kind; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[The impact of a dollar upon the heart]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- War is Kind; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[A man said to the Universe]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- War is Kind; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[When the prophet, a complacent fat man]

Author- Stephen Crane; Date- 1899 => Round to 1900; Book It's From- War is Kind; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me until Dark

Author- Standing Bear; Tribal Affiliation- Ponca; Date- 1881 => Round to 1880; Type of Text- Oratory

Ghost Dance Songs

Tribal Affiliation- Paiute; Date- 1893 => Round to 1890; Type of Text- Apocalyptic Hymns

The Egg

Author- Sherwood Anderson; Date- 1920; Type of Text- Short Story

The Other Two

Author- Edith Wharton; Date- 1904 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Short Story

The Real Thing

Author- Henry James; Date- 1892 => Round to 1890; Type of Text- Short Story

Up from Slavery

Author- Booker T. Washington; Date- 1901 => Round to 1900; Type of Text- Memoir (Also includes the Atlanta Exposition Speech)

The Souls of Black Folk

Author- W.E.B. DuBois; Date- 1903 => 1900; Type of Text- Essays

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Author- T.S. Eliot; Date- 1915 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Author- T.S. Eliot; Date- 1919 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Essay

Poems from "Tender Buttons"

Author- Gertrude Stein; Date- 1914 => Round to 1910; Book It's From- Tender Buttons; Type of Text- Lyric Prose

What Are Master-Pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them?

Author- Gertrude Stein; Date- 1936 => Round to 1940; Type of Text- Academic Lecture (Hybrid of Essay and Oratory)

Mending Wall

Author- Robert Frost; Date- 1914 => Round to 1910; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Author- Robert Frost; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

To Elsie

Author- William Carlos Williams; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

The Red Wheelbarrow

Author- William Carlos Williams; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

This is Just to Say

Author- William Carlos Williams; Date- 1934 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

A Sort of a Song

Author- William Carlos Williams; Date- 1934 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

The Dance

Author- William Carlos Williams; Date- 1944 => Round to 1940; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[Thy fingers make early flowers of]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[in Just-]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[O sweet spontaneous]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[Buffalo Bill's]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1923 => Round to 1920; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

["next to of course god america i]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1926 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[i sing of Olaf glad and big]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1931 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1931 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

Author- E.E. Cummings; Date- 1940; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Inauguration Day

Author- Stella Leflore Carter; Tribal Affiliation- Chickasaw; Date- 1931 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Sippokni Sia

Author- Winnie Lewis Gravitt; Tribal Affiliation- Choctaw; Date- 1926 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Georgia Dusk

Author- Jean Toomer; Book It's From- Cane; Date- 1923 => 1920; Type of Text- Poem

Fern

Author- Jean Toomer; Book It's From- Cane; Date- 1923 => 1920; Type of Text- Poem

Portrait in Georgia

Author- Jean Toomer; Book It's From- Cane; Date- 1923 => 1920; Type of Text- Poem

Seventh Street

Author- Jean Toomer; Book It's From- Cane; Date- 1923 => 1920; Type of Text- Poem

The Harlem Dancer

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Harlem Shadows

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

The Lynching

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

If We Must Die

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

America

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Africa

Author- Claude McKay; Book It's From- Harlem Shadows; Date- 1922 => Round to 1920; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

It Too

Author- Langston Hughes; Date- 1925 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Author- Langston Hughes; Book It's From- The Weary Blues; Date- 1926 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Mother to Son

Author- Langston Hughes; Book It's From- The Weary Blues; Date- 1926 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

The Weary Blues

Author- Langston Hughes; Book It's From- The Weary Blues; Date- 1926 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Visitors to the Black Belt

Author- Langston Hughes; Date- 1940 => Round to 1945; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Notes on Commercial Theatre

Author- Langston Hughes; Date- 1940 => Round to 1945; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Democracy

Author- Langston Hughes; Date- 1949; Round to 1945; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Theme for English B

Author- Langston Hughes; Date- 1949; Round to 1945; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Mulatto

Author- Langston Hughes; Book It's From- Fine Clothes To the Jew; Date- 1927; Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

Song for a Dark Girl

Author- Langston Hughes; Book It's From- Fine Clothes To the Jew; Date- 1927; Round to 1930; Type of Text: Lyric Poem

How it Feels To Be Colored Me

Author- Zora Neale Hurston; Date- 1928 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Essay

The Gilded Six-Bits

Author- Zora Neale Hurston; Date- 1933 => Round to 1930; Type of Text: Short Story

What White Publishers Won't Print

Author- Zora Neale Hurston; Date- 1950; Type of Text: Essay

Hills Like White Elephants

Author- Ernest Hemingway; Date- 1927 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Short Story

Soldier's Home

Author- Ernest Hemingway; Date- 1925 => Round to 1930; Type of Text- Short Story

A Rose for Emily

Author- William Faulkner; Date- 1931 => Round to 1935; Type of Text- Short Story

Barn Burning

Author- William Faulkner; Date- 1938 => Round to 1935; Type of Text- Short Story

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

Author- Richard Wright; Date- 1939 => Round to 1940; Type of Text- Short Story

Be American

Author- Carlos Bulosan; Date- 1995 => 2000 (probably written in 1940s); Type of Text- Short Story

Invisible Man

Author- Ralph Waldo Ellison; Date- 1952 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Novel

Change the Joke, and Slip the Yoke

Author- Ralph Waldo Ellison; Date- 1958 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Essay

Personism: A Manifesto

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1959 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Essay

Autobiographia Literaria

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1949 => Round to 1950; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[The eager note on my door said "Call me"]

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1950 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Today

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1950 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Les Étiquettes Jaunes

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1950 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

[WHE EWHEE]

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1950 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

To the Film Industry Crisis

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

Why I Am Not a Painter

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1956 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem

The Day Lady Died

Author- Frank O'Hara; Date- 1959 => Round to 1955; Type of Text- Lyric Poem