Monday

Poem: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats

Essay: ‘Consider the Lobster’ by David Foster Wallace

Short Story: ‘The Nose’ by Nikolai Gogol

Tuesday

Poem: ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas

Essay: ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift

Short Story: ‘Harrison Bergeron’ by Kurt Vonnegut

Wednesday

Poem: ‘My Love’ by e. e. cummings

Essay: ‘Self-Reliance’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/self/self.pdf)

Short Story: ‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier

Thursday

Poem: ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning ( https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess / check out background info on Wikipedia as this one can be dense)

Essay: 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' by George Eliot (http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl618/readings/theory/eliotsillynovels.pdf)

Short Story: ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson (https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/jackson_lottery.pdf / Beware: typos! Let me know in the comments if you find a cleaner version)

Friday

Poem: ‘Symphony in Yellow’ by Oscar Wilde

Essay: ‘Notes of a Native Son’ by James Baldwin

Short Story: ‘Borges and I’ by Jorge Luis Borges

Saturday

Poem: ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allen Poe

Essay: ‘State of the Species’ by Charles C. Mann

Short Story: ‘The Lady with the Dog’ by Anton Chekhov

Sunday

Poem: ‘This is Just to Say’ by William Carlos Williams

Essay: ‘On the Sufferings of the World’ by Arthur Schopenhauer

Short Story: ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway

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This is my first stab at doing this. Maybe this will be the first and only week of posts on this sub. Maybe others will find it useful? There's no way of knowing until I try. Let me now what you think of the suggestions for this week. All the best! — A.P.

I drew all of these from this excellent man's website https://benjaminmcevoy.com/ . Be sure to check out their other recommendations!