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College Board List

This is a complete list of poetry and cultural and historical texts recommended by College Board for college-bound readers. The poetry and other texts below didn't fit neatly into the 101 Great Books list, but are worth reading again and again.

Author (Last, First Name) Title
Blake, William London
Blake, William The Tyger
Keats, John Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats, John La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Keats, John The Eve of St.Agnes
Brooks, Gwendolyn We Real Cool
Brooks, Gwendolyn The Mother
Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters
Moore, Marianne Marriage
Moore, Marianne Poetry
Moore, Marianne The Fish
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khant
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Frost at Midnight
O'Hara, Frank Why I Am Not a Painter
O'Hara, Frank The Day Lady Died
O'Hara, Frank Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
Dickinson, Emily There's a certain Slant of light
Dickinson, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Dickinson, Emily Because I could not stop for Death
Shakespeare, William Sonnets
Donne, John A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Donne, John Death, be not proud
Donne, John The Flea
Stein, Gertrude Tender Buttons
Stein, Gertrude Stanzas in Meditation
Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land
Eliot, T.S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Williams, William Carlos The Red Wheelbarrow
Williams, William Carlos This is Just to Say
Williams, William Carlos Spring and All
Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur
Hopkins, Gerard Manley Windhover
Hopkins, Gerard Manley Carrion Comfort
Wordsworth, William Tintern Abbey
Wordsworth, William Prelude
Wordsworth, William Lyrical Ballads (with S.T. Coleridge)
Hughes, Langston Theme for English B
Hughes, Langston The Negro Speaks of Rivers