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MT&C: Timeline of Primary Texts

By claire.ryan
  • "London" by William Blake

    "London" by William Blake

  • "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth

  • "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

    "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

  • "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen

  • "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

  • "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

  • "The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

  • "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

  • "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

    Included in "Leaves of Grass"

  • The Works of Emily Dickenson

    The bulk of Dickenson's works, published after her death in 1886, were compiled into two books. The first of these was published in 1890, the second in 1955. It seems important to recognize that, though they were belatedly published, her work more likely coincides with that of other important American writers such as Emerson or Whitman.
    Works to be read include:
    "A charm invests a face"
    "Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
    "Much madness is divinest sense"
    "I'm nobody! Who are you?"
  • "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

    "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

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

    Published in the literary magazine, "Poetry"

  • "Preface to Some Imagist Poets" by Amy Lowell

  • "Sea Rose" by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

    An Imagist poem

  • "The Rose is Obsolete" by William Carlos Williams

  • "To Elsie" By William Carlos Williams

  • "To The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolfe

  • "Story in Harlem Slang" by Zora Neale Hurston

  • "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay (1889-1948)

    Published post-humously

  • "Wide Sargasso Sea" by John Rhys

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

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

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

    Originally published in the New York Times

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

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

  • "The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz