English Lit By dalenck Jan 1, 1794 "London" by William Blake Jan 1, 1801 "Preface to the 'Lyrical Ballads'" by William Wordsworth Jan 1, 1807 "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth Dec 1, 1817 "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen Jan 1, 1818 "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley Jan 11, 1818 "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley Jan 1, 1820 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats Jan 1, 1844 "The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson Jan 1, 1845 "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" by Frederick Douglass Oct 16, 1847 "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë Jan 1, 1855 "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman Jan 1, 1862 "Much madness is divinest sense" by Emily Dickinson Year not known for certain Feb 14, 1895 "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde Production date; published in 1899 Jan 1, 1913 "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound Jan 1, 1915 "Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell Jan 1, 1916 "Sea Rose" by H.D. Jan 1, 1919 "If We Must Die" by Claude Mckay Jan 1, 1923 "The Rose is Obsolete" by William Carlos Williams Jan 1, 1923 "The Rose is Obsolete" by William Carlos Williams May 5, 1927 "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf Jul 1, 1942 “A Story in Harlem Slang” by Zora Neale Hurston Jan 1, 1965 "The African Writer and the English Language" by Chinua Achebe Oct 1, 1966 "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys Jan 1, 1972 "On the Abolition of the English Department" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o et al. Jul 29, 1979 "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James Baldwin Jul 29, 1979 “The Language of African Literature” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o Jan 1, 1985 "Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English" by Ken-Saro Wiwa Sep 6, 2007 “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz