Authors & Readings

Links to Authors & Readings

Note: If an author link does not lead to the intended author, click on this link

http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Browse/Product/12 and put the author’s name in the search box.

Prose

Mortimer Adler.................................................................................. “How to Mark a Book”
Frederick Buechner................................................................ “The Dwarves in the Stable”
Raymond Carver............................................................................................... “Cathedral”
John Ciardi........................................................................... “Another School Year, Why?”
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.......................................................................... “The Other Wife”
Frederick Douglass.................................................... from The Life of Frederick Douglass
Robert Fink..................................................... “How I Found Religion at a Baseball Game”
E.M. Forster....................................................................................................... “My Wood”
Ian Frazier.................................................................... “Laws Concerning Food and Drink”
Robert Frost............................................................................ “The Figure a Poem Makes”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman................................................................ “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Mark Helprin..................................................................... “Statesmanship and Its Betrayal”
Langston Hughes................................................................................................ “Salvation”
Zora Neale Hurston.......................................................... “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Henrik Ibsen............................................................................................... “A Doll’s House”
James Joyce............................................................................................................. “Araby”
Garrison Keillor.......................................................................................... "Letter from Jim"
Martin Luther King, Jr............................................................ “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
C. S. Lewis.......................................................................................................... “Theology”
C. S. Lewis........................................................... “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
Malcolm X.................................................................. “Freedom through Learning to Read”
Guy de Maupassant..............................................................."Clair de Lune" ("Moonlight")
Thomas Merton...............................................“Pray for Your Own Discovery” (pgs. 37-46)
John Henry Newman........................................................... from “The Idea of a University”
Henri Nouwen............................................................................................. “Adam’s Peace”
Frank O’Connor....................................................................................... “First Confession”
Flannery O’Connor........................................................................... “Letter to Alfred Corn”
Flannery O’Connor........................................................................................... "Revelation"
George Orwell................................................................................. "Shooting an Elephant"
I. L. Peretz..................................................................................................... “If Not Higher”
Margaret Sanger........................................................ “The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery”
Dorothy L. Sayers..................................................................... “The Dogma Is the Drama”
William Shakespeare................................. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene 5, lines 94-113
Jonathan Swift..................................................................................... “A Modest Proposal”
Henry David Thoreau........................... “Where I Lived and What I Lived for” from Walden
Leo Tolstoy.............................................................. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
Mark Twain............. ....................... “Jim” (ch. XXXI) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain............... “The Grangerfords” (ch. XVIII) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Updike............................................................................................. “Pigeon Feathers”
Gene Edward Veith................................................................................ “Arenas of Service”
Dan Wakefield.................................................................................... “Returning to Church”
Alice Walker........................................................................................ “The Welcome Table”
- Click on database titled “Academic Search Complete.”
- Select 2 fields; one is “author” (type in Alice Walker) & the second is “title” (type in the welcome table).
- Click on “search” and then “HTML full text.”
Christian Wiman......................................................................... “Love Bade Me Welcome”

Poetry

Matthew Arnold............................................................................................ “Dover Beach”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer......................................................................................... “Who Am I?”
E. E. Cummings.............................................................. “next to of course god America I”
Emily Dickinson..................................................................... “I’m Nobody Who Are You?”
Emily Dickinson................................................................ “Success Is Counted Sweetest”
Emily Dickinson........................................................................ “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”
John Donne............................................................................................. “Holy Sonnet XIV”
Robert Frost..................................................................................... “The Road Not Taken”
Joy Harjo........................................................................................................ “Eagle Poem”
Robert Hayden.............................................................................. “Those Winter Sundays”
George Herbert................................................................................................. “The Collar”
George Herbert................................................................................................ “The Pulley”
Gerard Manley Hopkins........................................................... “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
Gerard Manley Hopkins........................................................................... “God’s Grandeur”
Gerard Manley Hopkins................................................................................. “Pied Beauty”
Gerard Manley Hopkins.............................................................................. “The Windover”
Ben Jonson............................................................................................. “On My First Son”
Ben Jonson..................................................................................... “On My First Daughter”
Galway Kinnell............................................................................ “St. Francis and the Sow”
Walt McDonald.......................................................................... “Faith is a Radical Master”
John Frederick Nims....................................................................................... “Love Poem”
Naomi Shihab Nye................................................................................................ “Famous”
Mary Oliver................................................................................................. “Morning Poem”
Mary Oliver................................................................................................. “The Kingfisher”
Wilfred Owen.................................................................................. “Dulce et Decorum Est“
Theodore Roethke.................................................................................. “My Papa’s Waltz”
William Shakespeare........................................................................................ “Sonnet 73”
Percy Bysshe Shelley.................................................................................... “Ozymandias”