Introduction to Literature
Poetry
Story II. The Oilman and His Parrot by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Sonnet VII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXXVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXXIII by William Shakespeare
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barret Browning
Say over Again . . . (Sonnet 21) by Elizabeth Barret Browning
When I Heard at the Close of Day by Walt Whitman
Never Give All the Heart by W. B. Yeats
June Sunset by Sarojini Naidu
Because I Could Not Stop for Death—(479) by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers—(314) by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (269) by Emily Dickinson
Short Stories
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin
Her Letters by Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Garden-Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Drama
Trifles by Susan Glaspell
The Novel
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Writing About Literature
Poetic Devices
Reading Poetry
Elements of Fiction
Character
Analyzing Characters and Making Inferences
Setting
Drama
The Novel
How to Write a Literary Research Paper