Modern Period - Jazz Age

Ernest Hemingway. Hills Like White Elephants. A Farewell to Arms/The Old Man and the Sea.

William Faulkner. Delta Autumn/The Bear.

4.3 Poetry selection:

I. Lee Masters. Elsa Wertman. Hamilton Green.

Ii. E.A.Robinson. Luke Havergal.

Iii. Robert Frost. The Gift Outright.

Iv. Carl Sandburg. Grass.

V. E.E.Cummings. Pity This Busy Monster. Manunkind.

Vi. Langston Hughes. The Negro Speaks of Rivers.

5. 1939 +: The Contemporary Period

Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye.

Ray Bradbury. From “Martian Chronicles”/Farenheit 451.

James Baldwin. Sonny’s blues.

5.4 Poetry selection:

Theodore Roethke. Dolor.

Robinson Jeffers. Cassandra.

Allen Ginsberg. America. Sunflower sutra.

Sylvia Plath. Tulips.

Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine.

[1] "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. if you read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating. But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." - Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935