AP® English Literature and Composition
European & American Literature
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Introduction
Syllabus: Overview and Schedule
Time Periods, Authors, and Works
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Assignments
Timed and Revised Essays
Research Assignments
Background: American Literature with Contrasting Interpretations
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Handouts: Ancient Mediterranean
Terms for Sappho, Homeric Hymns, and Bacchae
Republic
Nicomachean Ethics
Gospel of John
City of God
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Readings: Ancient Mediterranean
Atrahasis
Epic of Gilgamesh (selections)
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Euripides, Bacchae
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selections)
Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura)
Horace, Odes (selections)
Aesop’s Fables (selections) (Bonus: Reception of Aesop’s Fables)
Augustine, City of God (selections)
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Readings: Medieval Europe
Patrick, Confession and Letter
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, sermons 1-2
Bernard of Clairvaux, “Of the Pilgrim, the Dead and the Crucified”
Jacques de Vitry, “A Sermon to Pilgrims”
“In the vale of restless mind” (In the vaile of restles mynd)
The Song of Roland
Chrétien de Troyes, The Story of the Grail (Perceval)
Marie de France, “Lanval”
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Readings: Early Modern and Modern Europe
Petrarch, Canzoniere (selections)
Cervantes, Don Quixote (selections)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
Molière, Tartuffe
Voltaire, Candide
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Goethe, Faust
Georg Büchner, Danton’s Death
Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus
Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis”
Henrik Ibsen, Doll’s House
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
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Readings: American Literature
Frances Trollope, from Domestic Manners of the Americans
John Smith, from General History of Virginia
William Bradford, [“Mr. Morton of Merrymount”], from Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to My Husband, Absent upon Public Employment,” “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”
Edward Taylor, “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children,” “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold”
Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World
“In Adam’s Fall,” from the New England Primer
David Cusick, “The Iroquois Creation Story”
Samson Occom, from A Short Narrative of My Life
Red Jacket, “Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram”
Jonathan Edwards, “A Divine and Supernatural Light,” “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Thomas Jefferson, from The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative, chs. I-II, VII
Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”, “To the University of Cambridge, in New England”
James Fenimore Cooper, from The Last of the Mohicans
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”, “The Jewish Cemetery at Newport”, “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Abraham Lincoln, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863”, “Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Bells”, “The Cask of Amontillado”
Mark Twain, “How to Tell a Story”; Innocents Abroad, ch. 19
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”, “Miniver Cheevy”, “Mr. Flood’s Party”
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “An Ante-Bellum Sermon”, “We Wear the Mask”, “The Poet”
Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “Birches”, “Fire and Ice”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Emily Dickinson, “I dreaded that first Robin, so”, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”, “The Soul selects her own Society”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died”, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass”, “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”, “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!”, “Publication – is the Auction”, “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”, “There’s a certain Slant of light”
Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”, “There is no Frigate like a Book”, “I never saw a Moor”
Henry James, “The Real Thing”
Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West”
William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “This Is Just to Say”, “The Dance”
Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits”
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, “Mulatto”, “Note on Commercial Theatre”, “Theme for English B”
E. E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, “my father moved through dooms of love”
E. E. Cummings, “maggie and milly and molly and may”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Recuerdo”
Ogden Nash, “Very like a whale”
Billy Collins, “Forgetfulness”, “I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of ‘Three Blind Mice’”
Kurt Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”
Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt”
Raymond Carver, “A Small, Good Thing”
Art Spiegelman, from Maus