My Summer--First Draft

50 Book Exam List
Katie L. Price

Genre—Poetry

1. Unknown, The Dream of the Rood and Selected Exeter Book Riddles ed. Williamson 7, 8, 14, 15, 25, 26, 29, 32, 44, 47, 60 (10th century)
2. Unknown, Selected Middle English Lyrics: ed. Luria and Hoffman 6, 77, 80, 81, 82, 90, 138, 178, 181, 182, 190, 197, 198 (14th century)
3. Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1591); The Defence of Poesy (1595)
4. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1633)
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Aeolian Harp"(1795), "Lines on Leaving a Scene of Retirement"(1796),"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"(1797), "Kubla Khan" (1797),"The Nightingale"(1798), "Frost at Midnight"(1798), "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798), "Christabel"(1798,1800), "Dejection: An Ode"(1802) "Pains of Sleep."
6. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1799-1805, pub. 1850)
7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
8. Emily Dickinson, selections from the poems: "Papa above!" (61); "One dignity delays for all" (98); "Faith is a fine invention" (185); "I taste a liquor never brewed" (214); "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" (216); "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" (249); "`Hope' is a thing with feathers--" (254); "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (280); "The Soul selects her own Society--" (303); "There came a Day at Summer's full" (322); "A Bird came down the Walk--" (328); "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--" (341); "Much Madness is divinest sense--" (435); "This is my letter to the World" (441); "This was a Poet--it is That" (448); "I died for Beauty--but was scarce" (449); "It was not Death, for I stood up" (510); "I started Early--Took my Dog--" (520); "Mine--by the Right of White Election" (528); "Publication--is the Auction" (709); "Because I could not stop for Death" (712); "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun" (754); "It is an honorable Thought" (946); "The Bible is an antique Volume--" (1545); "Apparently with no surprise" (1624); (19th century)
9. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, selected poems (1891 edition): "Song of Myself," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When I Heard at the Close of the Day," "A March in the Ranks Hard Prest," and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." (19th century)
10. Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (1914); “Composition as Explanation”
11. Mina Loy, Songs to Johannes (1916/7)
12. Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems ed. Charles Bernstein (1940-1978)
13. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (1955; pub. 1996)
14. Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems; “Personism: A Manifesto” (1964)
15. Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery (1965)




Historical Period—Modernism

1. Manifestos: Stéphane Mallarmé, “A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance” (1897); Filipo Tommaso Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909); Victor Khlebnikov and Alexey Kruchenykh, “The Letter as Such” (1913) and “The Word as Such” (1913); Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts By an Imagiste” (1913) and “A Retrospect” (1913, 1918); Mina Loy, “Feminist Manifesto” (1914); “Aphorisms on Futurism” (1914-1919), “Aphorisms on Modernism” (1914-1919), “The Artist and the Public” (1917); Wyndham Lewis, “Bless England” (1914-1915) and “Curse with Expletive of Whirlwind the Britannic Aesthete” (1914-1915)
2. Henry James, In the Cage (1898)
3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
4. Gertrude Stein, Three Lives (1909)
5. James Joyce, Dubliners (1914)
6. Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918)
7. T.S. Eliot, LOA Selection (1922 pub. “The Waste Land”)
8. Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)
9. William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
11. Laura (Riding) Jackson, from A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) and from Contemporaries and Snobs (1928)
12. Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
13. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
14. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
15. H.D., Trilogy (written 1942-44)
16. Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos (1948)
17. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952; 1956)
18. Peter Nicholls, Modernisms (criticism)


Theme/Theory—Textual Conditions: Form, Material, Constraint, Experiment
1. Sappho (trans. Anne Carson), If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (5th Century BCE; 2003)
2. Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436)
3. Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759)
4. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789; 1794); Book of Thel (1789); Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
5. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822)
6. Charles Reznikoff, Testimony: The United States (1895-1905); Recitative (1965)
7. Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916 (1918)
8. Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
9. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1951; pub. 1957)
10. William Burroughs, Nova Express (1959)
11. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)
12. Kenneth Goldsmith, Fidget (2001)
13. Christian Bok, Eunoia (2003)
14. Peter McGann, The Textual Condition (criticism)
15. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat, eds., Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print (criticism)
16. Fridrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (criticism)
17. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (criticism)