5: Poetry Readings
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Assigned Readings
- 5.13: Additional Readings
- 5.13.8: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Song to the Men of England" (1839)
- 5.13.13: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" (1916)
- 5.13.9: Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)
- 5.13.3: Margaret Cavendish's "The Hunting of the Hare" (1653)
- 5.13.10: Stephen Crane's "In the Desert" (1895)
- 5.13.5: Robert Burns' "To a Mouse" (1785)
- 5.13.15: Yoon Dong-joo's "A Poem That Came Easily" (1942)
- 5.13.17: Sean Hill's "Distance Between Desires" (2013)
- 5.13.6: John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819)
- 5.13.1: Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599)
- 5.13.11: Alice Ruth Moore's "Amid the Roses" (1895)
- 5.13.18: Hieu Minh Nguyen's "The Study" and "White Boy Time Machine- Override" (2018)
- 5.13.2: Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (1600)
- 5.13.12: Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory" (1897)
- 5.13.4: Phillis Wheatley's "An Hymn to the Morning" and "An Hymn to the Evening" (1773)
- 5.13.14: William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1923)
- 5.13.7: Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" (1832-42)
- 5.13.19: Athena Kashyap's "Partition Story" (2019)
- 5.13.16: Maya Angelou's “On the Pulse of Morning” (1993)
Supplemental Readings
These linked readings are not included in this textbook due to copyright permissions and/or space constraints.
- Poetry Foundation includes extensive online libraries of poetry
- The Academy of American Poets is an extensive library of poetry and poetry resources
For an extensive list of American poetry readings, ordered chronologically, please refer to Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-present by Berke, Bleil, & Cofer, sourced from University of North Georgia Press, CC-BY-SA.