American Literature.
1. Poetry. Class work on selected poems of Bryant, Poe, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Walt Whitman.
2. The Novel.
- House of Seven Gables. Hawthorne, or
- Marble Faun. Hawthorne, or
- Rise of Silas Lapham. Howells.
3. The Short Story. Hawthorne and Poe.
4. The Essay. One of the following:
- Fortune of the Republic. Emerson.
- The American Scholar. Emerson.
- Compensation. Emerson.
- Democracy. Lowell.
Collateral Reading.
- Franklin. Autobiography.
- Sketch Book. Irving.
- The Alhambra. Irving.
- Knickerbocker History of New York. Irving.
- Last of the Mohicans, or any other novel. Cooper.
- Lesser poets of the Creative Period:
- Aldrich.
- Bayard Taylor.
- Buchanan Read.
- Alice and Phoebe Cary.
- Holland.
- Later Poets:
- Lanier.
- Bret Harte.
- Edward Rowland Sill.
- Helen Hunt.
- Eugene Fields.
- James Whitcomb Riley.
- Richard Watson Gilder.
- Edwin Markham.
- The Man Without a Country. Edward Everett Hale.
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Holmes.
- Walden. Thoreau.
Method.