Student Webpages for
ENGL 2220 American Literature

Dr. Kevin O'Donnell, Instructor


The following student web pages were done for English 2220 classes that I taught in Spring and Summer 2000 at East Tennessee State University.   There is some fine student work here.  Read and enjoy!
Comments or responses?  Please email me.  -- K.O'D.

Summer 2000:

A Man of the People:  A Brief Discussion of Carl Sandburg and His Poem, "Government"
by Shane Allen
Tennessee Williams:  A Southern Legend
by Heather Blacky
Lee Smith:  A Brief Introduction to Her Life and Works
by Randi Jones
A Brief Introduction to the Life and Career of Robert Frost
by Amanda McCoy
Meet Fanny Fern: An Insight into the Life of Sara Payson Willis Parton, with a Reprint of One of Her  Newspaper Columns
by Naomi Michael
The Nature of Frost:  Commentary on Robert Frost’s Relationship with Elinor Miriam White, with Discussion of  His 1915 Poem, "My Butterfly"
by Deb Moody
Mary Murfree's Moonshining Mountainfolk:  A Brief Look into the Life and Career of Mary Noailles Murfree
by T. M.
Lydia Maria (Francis) Child: The Woman That Broke All the Taboos in 19th Century Writing
by A. P.
Bret Harte:  The Birth of American Regionalism and Realism (with Excerpts, Summary and Commentary on "The Luck of Roaring Camp")
by Shawn Swisher


Spring 2000:

Falcone, Caterina;   "The Snow Man," by Wallace Stevens
Carver, Adam;   "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe
Hallenbeck, Kathy;   "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin
Hocker, John;   "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe
Ingram, Daniel;   "Good Hours," by Robert Frost
Nelson, Amanda;   "love IX," by Emily Dickenson
Prather, Linda;   "Alone," by Edgar Allen Poe
Sorrell, Ben;     "The Veteran," Stephen Crane
Thompson, Joshua;    "Song of the Spirit-Dance" and "Kehare Katzaru," songs by the Pawnee Indians

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