Literautre In English: Modern Texts and Contexts English Literature

By Kleimana

  • "London" by William Blake

    Published in Songs of Experience

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

    The first novel Jane Austen published!

  • "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

    Even though the poem is called "London, 1802," the poem was not actually publised until 1807! The poem references Milton.

  • "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    There is a Breaking Bad episode titled "Ozymandias" which was previewed by a reading of the poem by the show's star, Bryan Cranston!

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Contraty to popular belief, Frankesntein referrs to the sceintist, NOT the monster!

  • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

    Originally publshed anonymously.

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

    Written only a few years after Douglass was a slave.

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    Published at first under the pen name "Currer Bell."

  • "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

    Written in free verse.

  • "Im nobody! Who are you?" "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Much madness is divinest sense" by Emily Dickinson

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

    First performed in 1985.

  • "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

    The poem is made up of only 14 words.

  • "Preface to Some imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell

    The Imagist movment began in 1908 when a group of poets was formed by T.E. Hulme.

  • "Sea Rose" by H.D.

  • "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay

    Part of the Harlem Renaissance.

  • "The Rose is Obsolete" by William Carlos Williams

  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    A novel of high modernism.

  • "Story in Harlem Slang" by Zora Neale Hurston

    Published in a National Magazine.

  • "The African Writer and the English Language" by Chinua Achebe

    A Nigerian novelist.

  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

    A prequel to Jane Eyre.

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o et al. "on the Abolition of the English Department"

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o "The Language of African Literature"

  • "If Black English Isn't a Langauge, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James Baldwin

    A man who can write perfeclty well in good english decided to write this work in "Black English" to prove his point more efficiently.

  • Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa

    A novel against war.

  • "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

    Set in New Jersey by Junot Diaz.