Introductory reading: Sila's Marner -- Paradise lost -- The old writings: Salem court documents -- The cantebury tales (Chaucer) -- Elegy written in the country churchyard (Gray) -- Pilgrim's progress -- Black writings -- Life on a slave ship (Equino) -- Benjamin Franklin -- Autobiographical writing: Emily Dickinson -- Ernest Hemingway -- Mark Twain -- Robert Browning -- Egar Allan Poe -- Helen Keller -- Robert Louie Stevenson -- Robert Frost -- James Baldwin -- Historical, Political, Socio-cultural notes, Speeches and Essays: Abraham Lincoln -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Stokely Michael -- William Faulkner -- On Rosa Parks -- James Adler -- Albert Einstein -- James Baldwin -- Henry David Thoreau -- Carl Sagan -- Samuel Johnson -- Contemporary Essays and Short Stories: Randall Williams -- Joan Didion -- Deborah Tannen -- Maya Angelou -- Lewis Thomas -- Alie Walker -- Annie Dillard -- Representative British/American writers and their representative writings in prose and poetry: Jhon Keats -- William Woodsworth -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Carl Sandburg -- Thomas Dylan -- Robert Frost -- Archibald MacLeish -- Langston Hughes -- William Cullen Bryant -- Alexander Pope -- Poetry: Edwin Markham -- Prose: Edgar Allan Poe -- O Henry -- Lucy Stone -- Flannery O'Connor -- James Baldwin -- William Faulkner -- Essay: Francis Bacon -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shakespeare -- Literary Mini-Critic: Definition of literary theory -- Contemporary theory/or trend -- Language as expression -- Writer's life and times; the reader; the work itself -- Opening line/initial text technique: Passage to India (E.M. Forster) -- Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) -- A haunted house (Vriginia Woolf) -- The golden notebook (Doris Lessing) -- Pride and prejudice (Jane Austen) -- The bloody chamber (Angela Carter -- Mr. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) -- The good soldier (Ford Madox) -- Lord of the flies (William Golding) -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) -- Break, Burn and Blow Technique: The world is too much with us (William Woodsworth) -- The chimney sweeper (William Blake) -- Because I could not stop for death (Emily Dickinson) -- Jazzonia (Langston Hughes) -- In the whirlpool of the whirlwind (Black Amer poetry) Prelude to Laon & Cythna (Percy Byssey Shelley) -- Paradise lost (John Milton) -- How sweey I roam'd (William Blake) -- Incomplete Education Technique: How to tell Keats from Shelley -- Benjamin Franklin -- Alexander Pope -- William Woodsworth -- Camus' final years -- John Milton "When I consider" -- Virginia Woolf "A room of one's own" -- Simone de Beauvoir "The secret sex" -- The red room: Literature of terror -- Baudelaire's "Anywhere out of the world" -- Charles Dicken's "A tale of two cities" -- Washington Irving's "The legend of sleepy hollow" -- Herman Milville's "Moby Dick" -- A day in the life of Maya Angelou -- Emily Bronte's "Wuthering heights" -- Truman Capote -- Shakepeare's "Venus and Adonis" -- George Eliot's "Silas Marner" -- Helen Keller: A light in the darkness -- Olaudah Equino: British black writer -- Interview with Willian Faulkner -- Cleopatra: Shakespeare's intriguing character.