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Realism
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Emily Dickinson "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"
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Lewis Carrol "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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Naturalism
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Mark Twain "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
thirthy thousand copies released -
Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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Stephen Crane "Maggie: A Girl on the Streets"
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Stephen Crane "The red Badge of Courage"
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Regionalism
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Sarah Orne Jewett "The Country of the Pointed Firs"
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Jack London "The Call of the Wild"
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Willa Cather "The Troll Garden"
A collection of stories containing "A Wagner Matinee", "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "Pauls' Case". -
Ezra Pound "A Lume Spento"
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Modernism
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Willa Cather "O Pioneers!"
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TS Elltiot "Prufrock and Other Observations"
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William Carlos Williams "Sour Grapes"
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TS Elliot "The Journey of the Magi"
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Ezra Pound "ABC of Reading"
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Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes "Let America be America Again"
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H. D "The Walls Do Not fall"
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William Carlos Williams "The Wedge"
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Post-Modernism
post-war anything, space race, cold war, WWII end, science advancments -
Randal Jarrell "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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Langston Hughes "Simple Speaks His Mind"
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Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
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Langston Hughes "I Wonder as I Wander"
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H. D "Bid Me to Live"
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Sylvia Plath: The Colossus and Other Poems
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James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
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James Baldwin "No name in the Street"
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James Bladwin "The Devil Finds Work"