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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
- Written in 1861
- Realism piece
- Short story
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Originally published as "The Sleeping" on March 1st, 1862
- Final version appeared in 1912
- Poem
- Romanticism period
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- First published under the title "My Sabbath"
- Poem
- Romanticism piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Written in 1859, but published anonymously in 1864
- Poem
- Romanticism period
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Short Story
- Vernacular realism
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Originally titled "The Snake"
- Poem
- Late 19th century, Romanticism piece
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- Poem
- Published in 1886
- Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Written in 1861, but not published until 1890
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- First published as "Aftermath"
- Written in 1866, published in 1890
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- First published in 1890 under the title "The Chariot"
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Written in 1862, published in 1890
- Poem
- Romanticism, Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Written in 1860, first published in 1891
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- First published in 1891
- Poem
- Gilded Age piece
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -Published in January 1892
- Short story
- Told in journal entry form
- Latw 19th Century
- Realism piece, end of the Gilded Age Photo Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Yellowwp_med.jpg -
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- Published in 1896
- Poem
- Pre Civil War
- Realism piece, local color
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
- First published in 1897
- Short story
- Late 19th century Realism
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Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) -Published in 1898
- Short story
- Told from third person
- Realism piece Photo Source: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-chj2md2Shlg/TsEckSV31ZI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/t5qy8N2-fhA/Abraham252520Cahan252520A252520Sweatshop252520Romance.jpg -
Charles W. Chestnutt (1858-1932)
- Short story
- First published in July 1898
- Published short story book in 1899
- Realism, local color piece
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- Poem
- Published in 1899
- This poem inspired Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
- Late 19th century Realism piece Photo Source: http://studentsisonline.weebly.com/uploads/8/7/0/0/8700433/8261746_orig.png
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Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)
- Real name was Sui Sin Far
- Published in May of 1912
- Short story collection
- End of Realism era, Realism piece
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Very short poem
- Published in April 1913
- Appeared first in Poetry magazine
- End of Realism era
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Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Published in 1914 in a collection called 'Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds'
- Free verse poem
- Early modernisn piece
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Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Free verse poem
- Written four years before World War 1 ended
- Modernisn poem
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Blank verse poem
- Published in 1914 by David Nutt
- Early modernisn piece
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Mixed poem
- Published in North of Boston in 1915
- Early modernism piece
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Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Published in April 1915 in Poetry magazine
- Poem
- Modernisn/Imagism piece
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T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Began writing in February 1910
- First published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry maagzine
- Poem
- Modernisn piece
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Poem
- Modernism piece, free verse
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Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
- One act play
- First performed at the Wharf Theatre in 1916
- Modernism piece
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance
- First appeared in a 1917 issue of Sevem Arts magazine
- Modernisn piece
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance
- Written during The Red Summer of 1919
- Modernism piece, with themes of alienation
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E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Free verse poem
- Published in May 1920
- Modernism piece, start of Harlem Renaissance era
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E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Free verse poem
- Published in May 1920
- Modernism piece, start of Harlem Renaissance era
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Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)
- Missionary given name was Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
- Originally published in 1921
- Part of a collection of published short stories in 'American Indian Stories' (This was published in October 2008)
- Modernisn piece, with cultural change
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Poem
- Written when he was 17 on a train crossing the Mississippi River
- Modernism, Harlem Renaissance piece
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
- Poem
- Published in December 1922
- Modernism/ Harlem Renaissance era
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance, Modernism era
- Published in 1922, after the end of slavery, but still during a violent time for African Americans
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
- Poem
- Originally apeared in the collection Harlem Shadows in 1922
- Modernism / Harlem Renaissance era
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Imagist period
- Poem
- First appeared in 'Spring and All' in 1923
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Poem
- Harlem Renaissance / Modernism era
- Written in 1925
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E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Free verse poem
- Published in 1926
- Modernism piecem experimentation with styles
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- Villanelle poem
- Published in 1926 in her book The Complete Poems
- Modernism era
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- Short story
- Jazz age / Harlem Renaissance era
- Much of it based on personal experience
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Zora Neale Hurston (1861-1960)
- Short Story
- Part of the Harlem Renaissance
- Focused on African American lifestyle
- Published in 1933
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Imagist poem
- Published in 1934
- Harlem Renaissance / Modernism era
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Willim Faulkner (1897-1962)
- Short story
- First appeard in Harper's in June 1939
- End of Harlem Renaissance era
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Poem
- Published in 1945
- Harlem Renaissance era
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Poem
- Published in 1945
- Social/Political change
- Modernism era
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Poem
- Published in 1951 in Hughes' thirteenth published book of poetry
- Contemporary era Photo Source: http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/pic/th/langston-hughes-theme-english-10472743
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Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
- First chapter of the novel
- Published by Random House in 1952
- Contemporary era
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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
- Short story
- Published in 1955
- Contemporary era
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Alan Ginsberg (1926-1997)
- Poem
- Written in 1955, published in 1956
- Contemporary era
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Couplet poem
- Published in 1960
- Contemporary era
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- Short story
- First published in Esquire magazine in 1936
- Published as a whole in 1961
- Contemporary era
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
- Rhymed stanza poem
- Published in 1961
- Contemporary era
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Sonnet poem
- Published in 1963 in her book Selected Poems
- Contemporary era
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- The only novel ever written by Sylvia Plath
- Originally titled 'Victoria Lucas'
- Semi autobiographical
- Strong theme of Feminism
- Conflicts with identity and individuality
- Contemporary era
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Couplet poem
- Published in 1963 in her book Selected Poems
- Contemporary era
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- Poem
- Published in 1965 in her book Questions of Travel
- Contemporary era
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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )
- Part of the Native American Renaissance
- Short story
- Published in 1981
- Contemporary era
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Toni Morrison (1931- )
- Author's only published short story
- Published in 1983
- Contemporary era
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Louise Erdrich (1954- )
- Poem
- Published in 1984
- Contemporary era
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Louise Erdrich (1954- )
- Poem
- Published in 2003
- Contemporary era
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Louise Erdrich (1954- )
- Poem
- Published in 2004
- Contemporary era
