Southern writers

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From Notes on Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Ode to the Confederate dead / Henry Timrod -- Song of the chattahoochee / Sidney Lanier -- The marshes of Glynn / Sidney Lanier -- The struggle for an education / Booker T. Washington -- Janet Waking / John Crowe Ranson -- Circus at dawn / Thomas Wolfe -- from Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Spotted horses / William Faulkner -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers -- From River of earth / James Still -- A visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Childhood / Margaret Walker -- Another April / Jesse Stuart -- The crop / Flannery O'Connor -- Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor -- The rain guitar / James Dickey -- Sled burial, dream ceremony / James Dickey -- That distant land / Wendell Berry -- I've been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Eagle Rock / Alice Walker -- Cat-like / John Holman.