"Ser capaz de equilibrar una amplia selección de clase y actividades no académicas significa que un estudiante es disciplinado y tiene responsabilidad". Bill Conley, Encargado de Admisiones, Case Western Reserve University.
Las poesías y otros textos listados a continuación no se adecuaban perfectamente a la lista de grandes libros, pero merecen la pena ser leídos una y otra vez.
Textos culturales e históricos clásicos
Autor
Título
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The Arabian Nights
Kennedy, John F.
Profiles in Courage
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The Bible
King, Martin Luther Jr.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adams, Henry
The Education of Henry Adams
Malory, Sir Thomas
Le Morte D'Arthur
Aesop
Aesop's Fables
Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Prince
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Marx, Karl
The Communist Manifesto
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Paine, Thomas
Common Sense
DuBois, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk
Plato
The Republic
Franklin, Benjamin
Autobiography
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Democracy in America
Hamilton, Edith
Mythology
X, Malcolm
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hamilton, John, et al.
The Federalist Papers
Poesía
Autor
Título
Blake, William
"London" y "The Tyger"
Keats, John
"Ode on a Grecian Urn," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," y "The Eve of St. Agnes"
Brooks, Gwendolyn
"We Real Cool," "The Mother," y "The Bean Eaters"
Moore, Marianne
"Marriage," "Poetry," y "The Fish"
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," y "Frost at Midnight"
O'Hara, Frank
"Why I Am Not a Painter," "The Day Lady Died", y "Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)"
Dickinson, Emily
"There's a certain Slant of light" (258), "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (280), y "Because I could not stop for Death" (712)
Shakespeare, William
Sonnets
Donne, John
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Death, be not proud" (Holy Sonnet 10), y "The Flea"
Stein, Gertrude
"Tender Buttons" y "Stanzas in Meditation"
Eliot, T.S.
"The Waste Land" y "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Williams, William Carlos
"The Red Wheelbarrow," "This is Just to Say," y "Spring and All"
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
"God's Grandeur," "Windhover," y "Carrion Comfort"
Wordsworth, William
"Tintern Abbey," "Prelude," y "Lyrical Ballads" (con S.T. Coleridge)
Hughes, Langston
"Theme for English B" y "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
