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Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Five: The Long Nineteenth Century: My life closed twice before its close

Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Five: The Long Nineteenth Century
My life closed twice before its close
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  1. Unit 1: Romanticism
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
    1. Confessions
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
    1. Faust
  4. William Blake (1757-1827)
    1. Songs of Innocence: The Lamb
    2. Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper
    3. Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday
    4. Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday
    5. Songs of Experience: The Chimney Sweeper
    6. Songs of Experience: The Tyger
    7. London
  5. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
    1. from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  6. Olympe De Gouges (1748-1793)
    1. The Rights of Woman
  7. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
    1. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
    2. from Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    3. Michael, a Pastoral Poem
    4. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
    5. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
    1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    2. Kubla Khan
  9. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
    1. To Wordsworth
    2. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
    3. Ozymandias
    4. A Song: "Men of England"
    5. Ode to the West Wind
    6. Mutability
    7. from A Defence of Poetry
  10. John Keats (1795-1821)
    1. When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
    2. Ode to a Nightingale
    3. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  11. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
    1. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
    2. Mathilda
    3. The Last Man
  12. Unit 2: Realism
  13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
    1. from Sonnets from the Portuguese
    2. The Cry of the Children
    3. Lord Walter's Wife
  14. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
    1. The Lotos-Eaters
    2. Ulysses
  15. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
    1. Porphyria's Lover
    2. My Last Duchess
    3. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
  16. Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)
    1. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  17. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
    1. Song of Myself
    2. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
    3. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
    4. O Captain! My Captain!
  18. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
    1. A Simple Soul
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
    1. Notes from Underground
  20. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
    1. Correspondences
    2. The Corpse
    3. Spleen
    4. Hymn to Beauty
  21. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
    1. The Death of Ivan Ilych
  22. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
    1. A Doll's House
    2. An Enemy of the People
  23. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    1. Because I could not stop for Death
    2. A bird came down the walk
    3. The brain is wider than the sky
    4. Hope is the thing with feathers
    5. I died for beauty, but was scarce
    6. I heard a fly buzz when I died
    7. If I can stop one heart from breaking
    8. My life closed twice before its close
    9. The soul selects her own society
    10. Success is counted sweetest
    11. There's a certain slant of light
    12. Wild nights! Wild nights!
  24. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
    1. After Death
    2. Up-Hill
    3. Goblin Market
    4. "No, Thank You, John"
  25. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)
    1. The Poison Tree
  26. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
    1. Boule de Suif
    2. The Diamond Necklace
  27. Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
    1. The Story of an African Farm
  28. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
    1. The Yellow Wall-Paper
  29. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
    1. The Lady with the Dog
    2. The Cherry Orchard
    3. A Doctor's Visit
  30. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
    1. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    2. When You Are Old
    3. Easter 1916
    4. The Second Coming
  31. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
    1. The Invisible Man
    2. The Island of Doctor Moreau
    3. The War of the Worlds

My life closed twice before its close

My life closed twice before its close License: Public Domain Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close;

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell.

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