Roads to Safe Places

Thanks. :) We didn't even have a passage taken from a drama - even though I thought we would, really. o.O The teachers among us have set texts which had to also cover the following requirements:

1. two texts by English authors
2. one poem, one prose text (passage from a novel or short story), a third text that's either a part of a drama, a letter, a speech, diary entry, etc.
3. one exam for students whose main field is Linguistics
4. one text by a US author
5. two texts by English authors.

It was clear that I'd go for the poem in any case, regardless of the author's nationality. There's no way I'd have been as happy with E.M. Forster's Room with a View, or the third text, which, as I said, was an extract of a short story by a US author I didn't recognised and whom the people who choose to write about him apparently had to look up in their dictionaries. o.O