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Chinua Achebe
"Marriage is a Private Affair" (1952)
"Dead Men's Path" (1953)
Louisa May Alcott
"Transcendental Wild Oats"
Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Cantos 1-5
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Matthew Arnold
"The Buried Life"
"Dover Beach"
"Morality"
John Ashbery
"The Fear of Death"
"Myrtle"
"The Problem of Anxiety"
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Francis Bacon
First Ten "Essays"
James Baldwin
"Sonny's Blues"
George Berkeley
Sections 1-33 of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
The Bible
The Abraham--Isaac--Jacob Cycles
Ecclesiastes
The Epistle of James
The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
Esther
Exodus (Selections)
Genesis 1-1, From Creation to the Descendants of Shem
Job
Jonah
"The Last Days of Jesus" as described in the four canonical
gospels
and the so-called Gospel of Peter
"Sermon on the Mount," Matthew 5-7
Biblical Texts
Song of Songs
Lamentations
William Blake
Songs of Experience
Heinrich Böll
"Christmas Every Day"
Gwendolyn Brooks
"First Fight, Then Fiddle"
"Negro Hero"
Niels Bohr
"Atoms and Human Knowledge," address to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
Jorge Luis Borges
The Library of Babel
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
"The Lottery in Babylon"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Kate Chopin
At the 'Cadian Ball
The Storm
The Story of an Hour
Joseph Conrad
The Heart of Darkness
Nicholas Copernicus
First nine chapters of "On the Revolutions"
Hart Crane
"To Brooklyn Bridge"
Stephen Crane
"I Explain the Silvered Passing of a Ship at Night"
"In the Desert"
e. e. cummings
"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
"O sweet spontaneous"
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Charles Darwin
Selections from The Origin of Species (1859; 6th edition 1872)
An Historical Sketch
Introduction
Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory
Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Objections
to the Theory of Natural Selection
Summary from Chapter XI
Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion
The Declaration of Independence
Rene Descartes
Meditation 2 (1641)
The Dhammapada
(Sayings of the Buddha)
Everett M. Dirksen
Congressional speech to end the Senate filibuster on the Civil Rights
bill, June 10, 1964
Frederick Douglass
May 11, 1857 Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
John Donne
"The Flea"
"The Canonization"
"Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Life and Sayings of the Elder Zosima"
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Albert Einstein
"Foreword to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
Albert Einstein, Boris Poldosky, and Nathan Rosen
EPR Paradox: "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?" Physical Review 41, 777 (15 May 1935; 4 pp.)
T. S. Eliot
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ralph Ellison
"Flying Home"
"In a Strange Country"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord's Supper
Epictetus
Enchiridion
Euripides
Bacchae
Media
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James Faulkner
Barn Burning
A Rose for Emily
Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
Robert Frost
"Mending Wall"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Desert Places"
Shen Fu
Selections from Six Records of a Floating Life
"The Joys of the Wedding Chamber"
"The Sorrows of Misfortune"
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Zona Gale
"The Cobweb" (1909)
Galileo Galilei
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
Nadine Gordimer
"The Defeated" (1952)
Graham Greene
The Destructors
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ethan Brand
Young Goodman Brown
Lillian Hellman
Little Foxes
Ernest Hemingway
"A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
Henry James
"The Tree of Knowledge"
Herodotus
"Tales from Herodotus" including Solon and Croesus, The
Rise of Cyrus,
and Rhampsinitis and the Thief
Werner Heisenberg
"Remarks on the Origin of the Relations of Uncertainty"
Gerald Manley Hopkins
"Andromeda"
"The Candle Indoors"
"Inversnaid"
"The Sea and the Skylark"
Langston Hughes
Cora Unashamed
Little Dog
Red-Headed Baby
Slave on the Block
David Hume
Miracles
On the Immortality of the Soul
Zora Neale Hurston
Magnolia
Spunk
Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt
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James Joyce
The Dead
Shirley Jackson
"The Lottery"
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Franz Kafka
The Burrow
John F. Kennedy
Report to the People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963
Shimaki Kensaku
Black Cat
Centipede
Red Frog
Wasps
John Koethe
(Milwaukee Port Laureate, 2000-2002)
"In Italy"
"Theories of Prayer"
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D. H. Lawrence
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
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Archibald MacLeish
You, Andrew Marvell
The End of the World
Nicolo Machiavelli
Selections from "The Prince"
Katherine Mansfield
This Flower
The Child-Who-Was-Tired
Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
Gabriel García Márquez
"Eyes of a Blue Dog" (1978)
"Eva is Inside Her Cat" (1978)
"One of These Days" (1968)
Guy de Maupassant
Apparition
The Devil
Diary of a Madman
The Necklace
Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Happy Failure
John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book I
Gabriela Mistral
What You Loved
The Sad Mother
Molière
The Misanthrope
Michel de Montaigne
On Cannibals
On Presumption
Marianne Moore
"To a Steam Roller"
"What are Years?"
Pablo Neruda
The Word and Past
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Flannery O'Connor
The Artificial Nigger
Everything That Rises Must Converge
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The River
One Thousand and One Nights
12 short tales
José Ortega y Gasset
Selection from Revolt of the Masses
George Orwell
Politics and the English Language
Shooting an Elephant
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Octavio Paz
Between Going And Coming
Brotherhood
Sylvia Plath
"Morning Song"
"Elm"
Plato
Crito
The Death of Socrates
Euthyphro
Phaedrus
Edgar Allen Poe
Imp of the Perverse
Cask of the Amontillado
Luigi Pirandello (Nobel Prize, 1934)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Qu'ran
Sura 4, "The Women,"
Sura 6, "The Cattle"
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Ayn Rand
The Objectivist Ethics
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not A Christian
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied (Sonnet II)
If I should learn, in some quite casual way (Sonnet V)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Wall
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger's Cat: Sections 5 and 6 from "The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics" from the original 1935 paper in Die Naturwissenschaften.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Cymbeline
The Tempest
Sophocles
Antigone
Wole Soyinka
The Swamp Dwellers
Shelby Steele
Selections from The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990), chapts.1, 2, and 7
Laurence Sterne
Book 1 from The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67)
Wallace Stevens
"The Snow Man"
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
"The Idea of Order at Key West"
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Marilyn Taylor
(Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004-2006)
"Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles"
"To Lucy, Who Came First"
"The Blue Water Buffalo"
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotus-Eaters
Dylan Thomas
"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
"A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
Henry David Thoreau
"A Winter Walk"
Thucydides
Pericles' Funeral Oration and the Plague at Athens from Book 2 of
"The Peloponnesian War"
Leo Tolstoy
Death of Ivan Ilych
Mark Twain
Diary of Adam and Eve
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
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Miguel de Unamuno
Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr
John Updike
A & P
The United States Constitution
The United States Supreme Court
Roe versus Wade (Opinions of Justices Blackmun and Renquist)
The Dred Scott Decision
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Virgil
Aeneid, Book 6
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George C. Wallace
4th of July speech (1964) against Civil Rights legislation
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying
Walt Whitman
"I Sing the Body Electric"
Virginia Woolf
"An Unwritten Novel"
"The Mark on the Wall"
William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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William Butler Yeats
"Among School Children"
"Politics"
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"The Second Coming"
"Vacillation"
"When You Are Old"
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