Readings in Sophomore Humanities
Edited by
R. Cook, T. Dibble, T. Dillon, C. Farmer, A. Iles, J. LeRoy-Frazier, J. Mathews & T. Thomas
Revised for Fall 2006
CONTENTS
John Locke (1632-1704)
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(selections)
John Wesley (1703-1791)
Biography
The Almost Christian
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Poor Richard Improved (selections)
Autobiography
(selections)
David Hume (1711-1776)
An Inquiry Concerning Human
Understanding (selections)
Rousseau (1712-1778)
Extracts from the Social Contract
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
The Encyclopedia
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Excerpts from
The Age of Reason
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking
the Sea Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
Johann Wilhem von Goethe (1749-1832)
Prometheus
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Clod and the Pebble
Holy Thursday II
The Little Black Boy
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
For a’ That and a’ That
John Anderson My Jo
Flow Sweetly, Sweet Afton
Holy Willie’s Prayer
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
To a Louse
To A Mouse
Mary Wollstonecraft (1770-1850)
Biography
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
We Are Seven
The Tables Turned
The Solitary Reaper
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The
Declaration of Independence (1776)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Prometheus
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1842)
The
Over-Soul
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Aurora Leigh (selections)
Sonnet 43 (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
-- “How Do I Love Thee”
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Porphyria’s Lover
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Civil Disobedience
Excerpts from Walden
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
The Latest Decalogue
In A Lecture Room
All Is Well
With Whom Is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning
The Questioning Spirit
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
From “Song of Myself”
1 – I celebrate myself and sing myself
6 – A child said, “What is grass?”
11 – Twenty-eight young men…
52 – The spotted hawk swoops…
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
A Noiseless, Patient Spider
Beat, Beat, Drums
To a Locomotive in Winter
Reconciliation
The Dalliance of the Eagles
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach
Christine Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Winter: My Secret
Promises Like Pie-Crust
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Diary of Adam and Eve
A True Story
A Fable
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Hap
The Darkling Thrush
The Oxen
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
God’s Grandeur
Pied Beauty
The Windhover
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Is My Team Ploughing
To an Athlete Dying Young
Loveliest of Trees
When I Was One-and-Twenty