Readings for the Objective Final

Above is another landscape by Thomas Cole.  Below are our readings from after the midterm.

Washington Irving's "The Wife" and "Rip Van Winkle"

Catherine Maria Sedgwick's "Cacoethes Scribendi"

Jane Johnson Schoolcraft's "Mishosha"

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" and "Young Goodman Brown"

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Fall of the House of Usher"

(We also mentioned William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "My Lost Youth" as well as Anne Bradstreet's "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent on Publick Employment.")

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "The Seamstress" and "Trials of a Housekeeper"

Herman Melville's "Bartleby"

Margaret Fuller's "Our City Charities"

Fanny Fern's "Blackwells Island [I-III]"

Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government" and Walden (Where I Lived, What I Lived For and Conclusion)

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (1, 6, 13) and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Emily Dickinson (TBA)