Lecture 1 Washington Irving(1783-1859)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text: An excerpt from Rip Van Winkle　3. Assigned readingLecture 2 Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text: The Raven　3. Assigned readingLecture 3 Nathanial Hawthorne(1804-1864)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text: Young Goodman Brown　3. Assigned readingLecture 4 Walt Whitman(1819-1892)　1. Background questions　2. Selected readings　 Text A: I Hear America Singing　　Text B: There Was a Child Went Forth　　Text C: Excerpts from "Song of Myself"　3. Assigned readingsLecture 5 Emily Dickinson( 1830-1886)　1. Background questions　2. Selected readings　　Text A. Wild Nights--Wild Nights　　Text B: This Is My Letter to the World　　Text C: I Died for Beauty--but Was Scarce　　Text D: I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died　　Text E: Because I Could Not Stop for Death　　Text F: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass　3. Assigned readingsLecture 6 Mark Twain(1835-1910)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 　3. Assigned readingLecture 7 O. Henry(1862-1910)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text. The Gift of the Magi　3. Assigned readingLecture 8 Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text: "The Egg" from The Triumph of the Egg　3. Assigned readingLecture 9 Stephen Crane(1871-1900)　1. Background questions　2. Selected reading　　Text, The Open Boat　3. Assigned readingLecture 10 Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)Lecture 11 Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)Lecture 12 Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)Lecture 13 William Faulkner(1897-1962)Lecture 14 T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)Lecture 15 Robert Frost(1874-1963)Lecture 16 Eugene O'Neill(1888-1953)