Nolan Catholic High School's

Online Literary Anthology

~ English II ~

~ Short Fiction Selections ~

"The Lesson," Toni Cade Bambara

"The Chrysanthemums," John Steinbeck

"The Bet," Anton Chekov

"Desiree's Baby," Kate Chopin

"A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner

"Barn Burning," William Faulkner

"Yellow Wall Paper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Minister's Black Veil," Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Hills Like White Elephants," Ernest Hemingway

"The Lottery," Shirley Jackson

"The Monkey's Paw," W.W. Jacobs

"Haircut," Ring Lardner

"Rocking-Horse Winner," D.H. Lawrence

"Where are you going, Where have you been?" Joyce Carol Oates

"The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brian

"A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor

"The Mask of the Red Death," Edgar Allan Poe

"The Chrysanthemums," John Steinbeck

"What Men Live By," Leo Tolstoy

"Everyday Use," (web page title is "Use") Alice Walker

"The Worn Path," Eudora Welty

~ Non-Fiction Selections ~

"Learning to Read and Write," Frederick Douglass

"What is Art?" (Excerpts) Leo Tolstoy

"Allegory of the Cave," Plato

~ Poetry Selections ~

"We Wear the Mask," Paul Laurence Dunbar

"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," Walt Whitman

 "I Died for Beauty," Emily Dickinson

"Hatred," Wislawa Szymborska (Poem number 5)

"The World is Too Much With Us," William Wordsworth

"Poetry," Marianne Moore

"Ulysses," Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Dover Beach," Matthew Arnold

"Musee des Beaux Arts," W.H. Auden

"O What is that Sound," W.H. Auden

"Ars Poetica," Archibald MacLeish

"Ode to a Grecian Urn," John Keats

"On Looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats

"Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning

"Wirers," Siegfried Sassoon 

"The Soldier," Rupert Brooke

"The Ballad of East and West," Rudyard Kipling 

"Sonnet 29 and 30, " William Shakespeare

"Sonnet 116," William Shakespeare

"Tichborne's Elegy," Chidiock Tichborne

"Ballad of Birmingham," Dudley Randall

"Daddy," Sylvia Plath

"The Windhover, " Gerald Manley Hopkins

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