Introduction What Is Literature and How to Read Literature
Unit One Identity
Ⅰ.I'm Nobody! Who are you ? by Emily Dickinson
Ⅱ.Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Ⅲ.Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Ⅳ.Two Songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Ⅴ.Dumplings by Yi Sha
Ⅵ.“Hamlet's Soliloquy” from Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1) by William Shakespeare
Ⅶ.A Clean, Well—lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
Ⅷ.A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
Ⅸ.Rice by Mary Loh Chieu Kwuan
Ⅹ.Luck by Mark Twain
Unit Two Spiritual Growth
Ⅰ.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Ⅱ.Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
Ⅲ.lncident by Countee Cullen
Ⅳ.When I Was One—and—Twenty by A.E.Housman
Ⅴ.Araby by James Joyce
Ⅵ.A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih
Ⅶ.The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Ⅷ.Three Days to See by Helen Keller
Unit Three Love
Ⅰ.“Guan Ju” from Shijing (Book of Verse)
Ⅱ.La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats
Ⅲ.The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine
Ⅳ.A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Ⅴ.SONNET 130 by William Shakespeare
Ⅵ.When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
Ⅶ.How Do ILove Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ⅷ.Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood
Ⅸ.Under the Willow Tree by Hans Christian Andersen
Ⅹ.“Balcony Scene” from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Ⅺ.The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen
Ⅻ.The Beggar by Anton Chekhov
Unit Four Family
Ⅰ.The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ⅱ.From “On Children” of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Ⅲ.My Father's Song by Simon J.Ortiz
Ⅳ.A Story Wet as Tears by Marge Piercy
Ⅴ.The Victims by Sharon Olds
Ⅵ.The Photos by Diane Wakoske
Ⅶ.My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor
Ⅷ.“Chapter 1” from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ⅸ.A Selection from A Doll's House (Act Ⅲ) by Henrik Ibsen
Unit Five Man and Society
Ⅰ.Two Poems by W.H.Auden
Ⅱ.Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Ⅲ.Trust by Andy Rooney
Ⅳ.The Man Who Married Himself by Charlie Fish
Ⅴ.Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe
Ⅵ.The Bad Zouave by Alphonse Daudet
Ⅶ.Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant
Ⅷ.The Law of Life by Jack London
Unit Six Contemplations
Ⅰ.The Lamb by William Blake
Ⅱ.God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ⅲ.Design by Robert Frost
Ⅳ.Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ⅴ.To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker
Ⅵ.Allegory of the Cave by Plato
Ⅶ.How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy
Ⅷ.“Solitude”from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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