Literature
An Introduction to Reading and Writing Compact
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Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition is founded on the principles of writing about literature. It is not an afterthought and it is not treated as a separate chapter or appendix; but rather, it is the carefully integrated philosophy of Professor Roberts' approach to teaching literature and composition.
Complete coverage of writing about each element and a total of 26 MLA-format student essays with accompanying commentary ensure student comprehension of writing about literature and therefore, produce better student papers.
Complete coverage of writing about each element and a total of 26 MLA-format student essays with accompanying commentary ensure student comprehension of writing about literature and therefore, produce better student papers.
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Edgar V. Roberts, Emeritus Professor of English at Lehman College of The City University of New York, is a native of Minnesota. He graduated from the Minneapolis public schools in 1946, and received his Doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1960. He taught English at Minnesota, the University of Maryland Overseas Division, Wayne State University, Hunter College, and Lehman College. From 1979 to 1988, He was Chair of the English Department of Lehman College.
He served in the U.S. Army in 1946 and 1947, seeing duty in Arkansas, the Philippine Islands, and Colorado.
He has published articles about the plays of Henry Fielding, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. In 1968 he published a scholarly edition of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), and in 1969 he published a similar edition of Fielding's The Grub-Street Opera (1731), both with the University of Nebraska Press. He first published Writing About Literature (then named Writing Themes About Literature) in 1964, with Prentice Hall. Since then, this book has undergone eleven separate revisions, for a total of twelve editions. In 1986, with Henry E. Jacobs of the University of Alabama, he published the first edition of Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. After Professor Jacobs's untimely death in the summer of 1986, Professor Roberts continued working on changes and revisions to keep this text up to date. The Ninth Edition was published early in 2009, with Pearson Longman. The Fourth Compact Edition of Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing was published in 2008.
Professor Roberts is an enthusiastic devote of symphonic music and choral singing, having sung in local church choirs for forty years. Recently he has sung (bass) with the New Choral Society of Scarsdale, New York (where he lives), singing in classic works by Handel, Beethoven, Bruckner, Bach, Orff, Britten, Brahms, and others. He is a fan of both the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. When the two teams play in inter-league games, he is uneasy because he dislikes seeing either team lose. He also likes both the Giants and the Jets. He has been an avid jogger ever since the early 1960s, and he enjoys watching national and international track meets.
Professor Roberts encourages queries, comments, and suggestions from students who have been using any of the various books. Use the following email address: .
He served in the U.S. Army in 1946 and 1947, seeing duty in Arkansas, the Philippine Islands, and Colorado.
He has published articles about the plays of Henry Fielding, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. In 1968 he published a scholarly edition of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), and in 1969 he published a similar edition of Fielding's The Grub-Street Opera (1731), both with the University of Nebraska Press. He first published Writing About Literature (then named Writing Themes About Literature) in 1964, with Prentice Hall. Since then, this book has undergone eleven separate revisions, for a total of twelve editions. In 1986, with Henry E. Jacobs of the University of Alabama, he published the first edition of Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. After Professor Jacobs's untimely death in the summer of 1986, Professor Roberts continued working on changes and revisions to keep this text up to date. The Ninth Edition was published early in 2009, with Pearson Longman. The Fourth Compact Edition of Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing was published in 2008.
Professor Roberts is an enthusiastic devote of symphonic music and choral singing, having sung in local church choirs for forty years. Recently he has sung (bass) with the New Choral Society of Scarsdale, New York (where he lives), singing in classic works by Handel, Beethoven, Bruckner, Bach, Orff, Britten, Brahms, and others. He is a fan of both the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. When the two teams play in inter-league games, he is uneasy because he dislikes seeing either team lose. He also likes both the Giants and the Jets. He has been an avid jogger ever since the early 1960s, and he enjoys watching national and international track meets.
Professor Roberts encourages queries, comments, and suggestions from students who have been using any of the various books. Use the following email address: .
Content
1 * Introduction: reading, responding to, and writing about literature
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
2 * Fiction: An Overview
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Tim O'Brien, The Things they Carried
Luigi Pirandello, War
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
3 * Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrator or Speaker
Raymond Carver, Neighbors
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
Joyce Carol Oates, The Cousins
4 * Characters: The People in Fiction
Ernest Gaines, The Sky Is Gray
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Mark Twain, Luck
5 * Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
James Joyce, Araby
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
6 Structure: The Organization of Stories,
Formal Categories of Structure, ? Formal and Actual Structure
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
Tom Whitecloud, Blue Winds Dancing
7 * tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Alice Munro, The Found Boat
Frank O'Connor, First Confession
Daniel Orozco, Orientation
John Updike, A & P
8 * Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
Anonymous, The Myth of Atalanta
Anita Scott Coleman, Unfinished Masterpieces
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
St. Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
9 * Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Americo Paredes, The Hammon and the Beans
1 * Four Stories for Additional Enjoyment and Study
John Chioles, Before the Firing Squad
Andre Dubus, The Curse
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
11* Meeting Poetry: An Overview
Billy Collins, Schoolsville
Lisel Mueller, Hope
Robert Herrick, Here a Pretty Baby Lies
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens
Elizabeth Brewster, Where I Come From
William Cowper, The Poplar Field
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Robert Francis, Catch
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
John Haines, Little Cosmic Dust Poem
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Dorianne Laux, The Life of Trees
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Louis MacNeice, Snow
Eugenio Montale, English Horn (Corno Inglese)
Jim Northrup, Ogichidag
Naomi Shihab Nye, Where Children Live
Joyce Carol Oates, Loving
Molly Peacock, Desire
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To--------- ("Music, when Soft Voices Die")
Elaine Terranova, Rush Hour
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey Lines
12 * Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry
Robert Graves, The Naked and the Nude
William Blake, The Lamb
Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, O
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Hayden Carruth, An Apology for Using the Word "Heart" in Too Many Poems
E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america I
John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Bart Edelman, Chemistry Experiment
Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees
Carolyn Kizer, Night Sounds
Denise Levertov, Of Being
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Theodore Roethke, Dolor
Stephen Spender, I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Mark Strand, Eating Poetry
William Wordsworth, Daffodils
James Wright, A Blessing
13 * Imagery: The Poem's Link to the Senses
John Masefield, Cargoes
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets, No 14: If Thou Must Love Me
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Ray Durem, I Know I'm Not Sufficiently Obscure
T. S. Eliot, Preludes
Susan Griffin, Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields
Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing
George Herbert, The Pulley
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring
A. E. Housman, On Wenlock Edge
Denise Levertov, A Time Past
Thomas Lux, The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently
Eugenio Montale, Buffalo
Micheal O'Siadhail, Abundance
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Friedrich Rueckert, If You Love for the Sake of Beauty
William Shakespeare,Sonnet 13: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
James Tate, Dream On
14 * Figures of Speech, or Metaphorical Language: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats, Bright Star
John Gay, Let Us Take the Road
Jack Agueeros, Sonnet for You, Familiar Famine
William Blake, The Tyger
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning..
John Dryden, A Song for St. Cecelia's Day
Abbie Huston Evans, The Iceberg Seven-eighths Under
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Joy Harjo, Remember
John Keats, To Autumn
Maurice Kenny, Legacy
Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come
Henry King, Sic Vita
Judith Minty, Conjoined
Marge Piercy,A Work of Artifice
Muriel Rukeyser, Looking at Each Other
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 3: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
Elizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure
Mona Van Duyn, Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri
Walt Whitman, Facing West from California's Shores
William Wordsworth, London, 182
Sir Thomas Wyatt, I Find No Peace
15 * Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry
Cornelius Whur, The First-Rate Wife
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
Alexander Pope, Epigram from the French
Alexander Pope, Epigram, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog. . .
William Blake, On Another's Sorrow
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Jimmy Carter, I Wanted to Share My Father's World
Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips
Billy Collins, The Names
E. E. Cummings, she being Brand / -new
Bart Edelman, Trouble
Mari Evans, I Am a Black Woman
Seamus Heaney, Mid-term Break
William Ernest Henley, When You Are Old
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Abraham Lincoln, My Childhood's Home
Sharon Olds, The Planned Child
Robert Pinsky, Dying
Alexander Pope, From Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I
Salvatore Quasimodo, Auschwitz
Anne Ridler, Nothing Is Lost
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Jane Shore, A Letter Sent to Summer
Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning
David Wagoner, My Physics Teacher
C. K. Williams, Dimensions
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
16 * Form: The Shape of the Poem
William Wordsworth, Passage from The Prelude
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
John Milton, Passage from Lycidas
Anonymous, Spun in High Dark Clouds
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
Walt Whitman, Reconciliation
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill's
George Herbert, Easter Wings
Charles Harper Webb, The Shape of History
William Heyen, Mantle
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
May Swenson, Women
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
Billy Collins, Sonnet
John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
T. S. Eliot, Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa
Robert Hass, Museum
George Herbert, Virtue
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
John Hall Ingham, George Washington
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
Claude McKay, In Bondage
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem
John Milton, On His Blindness
Alexander Pope, From An Essay on Man, I:17-8
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
George William Russell (AE), Continuity
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Phyllis Webb, Poetics Against the Angel of Death
William Carlos Williams,The Dance
17 * Symbolism and Allusion: Windows to Wide Expanses of Meaning
Virginia Scott, Snow
Emily Bronte, No Coward Soul Is Mine
Amy Clampitt, Beach Glass
Arthur Hugh Clough, Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Peter Davison, Delphi
John Donne, The Canonization
Stephen Dunn, Hawk
Isabella Gardner, Collage of Echoes
Ralph Waldo Emerson,Concord Hymn
Louise Glueck, Celestial Music
Jorie Graham, The Geese
Susan Griffin, Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Field
Thomas Hardy, In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
George Herbert, The Collar
Josephine Jacobsen, Tears
Robinson Jeffers, The Purse-Seine
John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
X. J. Kennedy, Old Men Pitching Horseshoes
Ted Kooser, Year's End
Philip Larkin, Next, Please
David Lehman, Venice Is Sinking
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
Judith Viorst, A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Generation
Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Richard Wilbur, Year's End
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
18 * Four Major American Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson (183-1886)
Poems by Emily Dickinson, alphabetically arranged
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (J341, F 372)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (J712, F479) (See Chapter 11.)
The Bustle in a House (J178, F118)
I Cannot Live with You (J64, F76)
I Dwell in Possibility (F466, J657)
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (J28, F34)
I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died (J465, F491)
I Like to See It Lap the Miles (J585, F383)
I Never Lost as Much But Twice (J49, F39)
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (J214, F27)
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (J435, D62)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (J1732, F1773)
My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums (J1227, F1212)
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (J216, F124
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (J324, F236)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society (J33, F49)
Success Is Counted Sweetest (J67, F112)
There's a Certain Slant of Light (J258, F32)
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! (J249, F269)
Robert Frost (1873-1963),
Poems by Robert Frost
Chronologically Arranged
The Tuft of Flowers (1913)
Mending Wall (1914)
Birches (1915)
The Road Not Taken (1915)
`Out, Out-' (1916)
Fire and Ice (192)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) (In Chapter 11)
Misgiving (1923)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)
Acquainted with the Night (1928)
Desert Places (1936) (In Chapter 16)
Design (1936)
The Silken Tent (1936)
The Gift Outright (1941)
A Considerable Speck (1942)
Take Something like a Star (1943)
Langston Hughes (192-1967)
Poems of Langston Hughes, alphabetically arranged
Bad Man (1927)
Cross (1925, 1926)
Dead in There (1951)
Dream Variations (1924, 1926)
Harlem 1951 (1951)
Let America Be America Again (1936)
Madam And Her Madam (1943, 1949)
Negro (1958)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1926)
125th Street (1951)
Po' Boy Blues (1926, 1927)
Silhouette (1936)
Subway Rush Hour (1939)
Theme for English B (1959) in chapter15
The Weary Blues (1923, 1926)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poems of Sylvia Plath, alphabetically arranged
Ariel (1962)
The Colossus (1959)
Cut (1962)
Daddy (1962)
Edge (1963)
The Hanging Man (196)
Lady Lazarus (1962)
Last Words (1961)
Metaphors (1959)
Mirror (1961)
The Rival (1961)
Song for a Summer's Day (1956)
Tulips (1961)
19 Eighty-four Poems for Additional Enjoyment and Study
Anonymous (Navajo), Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant,
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach,
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen,
Wendell Berry, Another Descent,
William Blake, London
Louise Bogan, Women
Arna Bontemps, A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets . . . Number 43. How Do I Love Thee?
Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
William Cullen Bryant, To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
Leonard Cohen, `The killers that run . . .'
Billy Collins, Days
Frances Cornford, From A Letter to America on a Visit to Sussex . . .
Stephen Crane, Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
Robert Creeley, "Do you think . . ."
E. E. Cummings, if there are any heavens
Carl Dennis, The God Who Loves You
James Dickey, Kudzu
John Donne, The Good Morrow
John Donne, Holy Sonnet 1: Death Be Not Proud
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy
James Emanuel, The Negro
Lynn Emanuel, Like God
Chief Dan George, The Beauty of the Trees
Nikki Giovanni, Woman
Louise Glueck, Snowdrops
Marilyn Hacker, Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle
Daniel Halpern, Snapshot of Hue
H. S. (Sam) Hamod, Leaves
Frances E. W. Harper, She's Free!
Robert Hass, Spring Rain
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
William Heyen, The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story
A. D. Hope, Advice to Young Ladies
Carolina Hospital, Dear Tia
Robinson Jeffers, The Answer
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Irving Layton, Rhine Boat Trip
Alan P. Lightman, In Computers
Liz Lochhead, The Choosing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sound of the Sea
Audre Lorde, Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem
Amy Lowell, Patterns
Claude McKay, The White City
W. S. Merwin, Listen
N. Scott Momaday, The Bear
Howard Nemerov, Life Cycle of Common Man
Jim Northrup, wahbegan
Mary Oliver, Ghosts
Linda Pastan, Marks
Marge Piercy,The Secretary Chant
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
John Raven, Assailant
Luis Omar Salinas, In a Farmhouse
Sonia Sanchez, rite on: white america
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Siegfried Sassoon, Dreamers
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Paperweight
Alan Seeger, I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Brenda Serotte, My Mother's Face
William Shakespeare,Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace . . .
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146: Poor Soul . . .
Karl Shapiro, Auto Wreck
Leslie Marmon Silko, Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer
Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Gerald Stern, Burying an Animal on the Way to New York
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
May Swenson, Question
Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn . . .
John Updike, Perfection Wasted
Shelly Wagner, The Boxes
Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias
Edmund Waller, Go Lovely Rose
Bruce Weigl, Song of Napalm
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
Walt Whitman, Dirge for Two Veterans
Walt Whitman, Full of Life Now
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bartholdi Statue
Richard Wilbur, April 5, 1974
Paul Zimmer, The Day Zimmer Lost Religion
19A Writing About Literature with the Aid of Research, 2 Writing Essays on Poetry: Using Extra Resources for Understanding
2 * The Dramatic Vision: An Overview
Edward Albee, The Sandbox
Susan Glaspel, Trifles
Betty Keller, Tea Party
Eugene O'Neill, Before Breakfast
21 * The Tragic Vision: Affirmation
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
22 * The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anton Chekhov, The Bear
Beth Henley, Am I Blue
23 * Four Plays for Additional Enjoyment and Study
Henrik Ibsen, A Dollhouse (Et Dukkehjem)
Langston Hughes, Mulatto
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
August Wilson, Fences
23A* Writing About Literature with the Aid of Research, 3. Writing Essays on Drama: Using Extra Resources for Understanding
24 * Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature
25 * Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together
26 * Taking Examinations on Literature
AppendixI.MLA Recommendations for Documenting Electronic Sources
Appendix II. Brief Biographies of the Poets inn Part III
Glossary of important Literary Terms
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
2 * Fiction: An Overview
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Tim O'Brien, The Things they Carried
Luigi Pirandello, War
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
3 * Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrator or Speaker
Raymond Carver, Neighbors
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
Joyce Carol Oates, The Cousins
4 * Characters: The People in Fiction
Ernest Gaines, The Sky Is Gray
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Mark Twain, Luck
5 * Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
James Joyce, Araby
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
6 Structure: The Organization of Stories,
Formal Categories of Structure, ? Formal and Actual Structure
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
Tom Whitecloud, Blue Winds Dancing
7 * tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Alice Munro, The Found Boat
Frank O'Connor, First Confession
Daniel Orozco, Orientation
John Updike, A & P
8 * Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
Anonymous, The Myth of Atalanta
Anita Scott Coleman, Unfinished Masterpieces
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
St. Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
9 * Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Americo Paredes, The Hammon and the Beans
1 * Four Stories for Additional Enjoyment and Study
John Chioles, Before the Firing Squad
Andre Dubus, The Curse
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
11* Meeting Poetry: An Overview
Billy Collins, Schoolsville
Lisel Mueller, Hope
Robert Herrick, Here a Pretty Baby Lies
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens
Elizabeth Brewster, Where I Come From
William Cowper, The Poplar Field
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Robert Francis, Catch
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
John Haines, Little Cosmic Dust Poem
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Dorianne Laux, The Life of Trees
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Louis MacNeice, Snow
Eugenio Montale, English Horn (Corno Inglese)
Jim Northrup, Ogichidag
Naomi Shihab Nye, Where Children Live
Joyce Carol Oates, Loving
Molly Peacock, Desire
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To--------- ("Music, when Soft Voices Die")
Elaine Terranova, Rush Hour
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey Lines
12 * Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry
Robert Graves, The Naked and the Nude
William Blake, The Lamb
Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, O
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Hayden Carruth, An Apology for Using the Word "Heart" in Too Many Poems
E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america I
John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Bart Edelman, Chemistry Experiment
Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees
Carolyn Kizer, Night Sounds
Denise Levertov, Of Being
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Theodore Roethke, Dolor
Stephen Spender, I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Mark Strand, Eating Poetry
William Wordsworth, Daffodils
James Wright, A Blessing
13 * Imagery: The Poem's Link to the Senses
John Masefield, Cargoes
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets, No 14: If Thou Must Love Me
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Ray Durem, I Know I'm Not Sufficiently Obscure
T. S. Eliot, Preludes
Susan Griffin, Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields
Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing
George Herbert, The Pulley
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring
A. E. Housman, On Wenlock Edge
Denise Levertov, A Time Past
Thomas Lux, The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently
Eugenio Montale, Buffalo
Micheal O'Siadhail, Abundance
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Friedrich Rueckert, If You Love for the Sake of Beauty
William Shakespeare,Sonnet 13: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
James Tate, Dream On
14 * Figures of Speech, or Metaphorical Language: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats, Bright Star
John Gay, Let Us Take the Road
Jack Agueeros, Sonnet for You, Familiar Famine
William Blake, The Tyger
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning..
John Dryden, A Song for St. Cecelia's Day
Abbie Huston Evans, The Iceberg Seven-eighths Under
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Joy Harjo, Remember
John Keats, To Autumn
Maurice Kenny, Legacy
Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come
Henry King, Sic Vita
Judith Minty, Conjoined
Marge Piercy,A Work of Artifice
Muriel Rukeyser, Looking at Each Other
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 3: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
Elizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure
Mona Van Duyn, Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri
Walt Whitman, Facing West from California's Shores
William Wordsworth, London, 182
Sir Thomas Wyatt, I Find No Peace
15 * Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry
Cornelius Whur, The First-Rate Wife
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
Alexander Pope, Epigram from the French
Alexander Pope, Epigram, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog. . .
William Blake, On Another's Sorrow
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Jimmy Carter, I Wanted to Share My Father's World
Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips
Billy Collins, The Names
E. E. Cummings, she being Brand / -new
Bart Edelman, Trouble
Mari Evans, I Am a Black Woman
Seamus Heaney, Mid-term Break
William Ernest Henley, When You Are Old
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Abraham Lincoln, My Childhood's Home
Sharon Olds, The Planned Child
Robert Pinsky, Dying
Alexander Pope, From Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I
Salvatore Quasimodo, Auschwitz
Anne Ridler, Nothing Is Lost
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Jane Shore, A Letter Sent to Summer
Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning
David Wagoner, My Physics Teacher
C. K. Williams, Dimensions
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
16 * Form: The Shape of the Poem
William Wordsworth, Passage from The Prelude
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
John Milton, Passage from Lycidas
Anonymous, Spun in High Dark Clouds
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
Walt Whitman, Reconciliation
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill's
George Herbert, Easter Wings
Charles Harper Webb, The Shape of History
William Heyen, Mantle
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
May Swenson, Women
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
Billy Collins, Sonnet
John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
T. S. Eliot, Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa
Robert Hass, Museum
George Herbert, Virtue
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
John Hall Ingham, George Washington
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
Claude McKay, In Bondage
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem
John Milton, On His Blindness
Alexander Pope, From An Essay on Man, I:17-8
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
George William Russell (AE), Continuity
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Phyllis Webb, Poetics Against the Angel of Death
William Carlos Williams,The Dance
17 * Symbolism and Allusion: Windows to Wide Expanses of Meaning
Virginia Scott, Snow
Emily Bronte, No Coward Soul Is Mine
Amy Clampitt, Beach Glass
Arthur Hugh Clough, Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Peter Davison, Delphi
John Donne, The Canonization
Stephen Dunn, Hawk
Isabella Gardner, Collage of Echoes
Ralph Waldo Emerson,Concord Hymn
Louise Glueck, Celestial Music
Jorie Graham, The Geese
Susan Griffin, Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Field
Thomas Hardy, In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
George Herbert, The Collar
Josephine Jacobsen, Tears
Robinson Jeffers, The Purse-Seine
John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
X. J. Kennedy, Old Men Pitching Horseshoes
Ted Kooser, Year's End
Philip Larkin, Next, Please
David Lehman, Venice Is Sinking
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
Judith Viorst, A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Generation
Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Richard Wilbur, Year's End
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
18 * Four Major American Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson (183-1886)
Poems by Emily Dickinson, alphabetically arranged
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (J341, F 372)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (J712, F479) (See Chapter 11.)
The Bustle in a House (J178, F118)
I Cannot Live with You (J64, F76)
I Dwell in Possibility (F466, J657)
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (J28, F34)
I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died (J465, F491)
I Like to See It Lap the Miles (J585, F383)
I Never Lost as Much But Twice (J49, F39)
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (J214, F27)
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (J435, D62)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (J1732, F1773)
My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums (J1227, F1212)
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (J216, F124
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (J324, F236)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society (J33, F49)
Success Is Counted Sweetest (J67, F112)
There's a Certain Slant of Light (J258, F32)
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! (J249, F269)
Robert Frost (1873-1963),
Poems by Robert Frost
Chronologically Arranged
The Tuft of Flowers (1913)
Mending Wall (1914)
Birches (1915)
The Road Not Taken (1915)
`Out, Out-' (1916)
Fire and Ice (192)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) (In Chapter 11)
Misgiving (1923)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)
Acquainted with the Night (1928)
Desert Places (1936) (In Chapter 16)
Design (1936)
The Silken Tent (1936)
The Gift Outright (1941)
A Considerable Speck (1942)
Take Something like a Star (1943)
Langston Hughes (192-1967)
Poems of Langston Hughes, alphabetically arranged
Bad Man (1927)
Cross (1925, 1926)
Dead in There (1951)
Dream Variations (1924, 1926)
Harlem 1951 (1951)
Let America Be America Again (1936)
Madam And Her Madam (1943, 1949)
Negro (1958)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1926)
125th Street (1951)
Po' Boy Blues (1926, 1927)
Silhouette (1936)
Subway Rush Hour (1939)
Theme for English B (1959) in chapter15
The Weary Blues (1923, 1926)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poems of Sylvia Plath, alphabetically arranged
Ariel (1962)
The Colossus (1959)
Cut (1962)
Daddy (1962)
Edge (1963)
The Hanging Man (196)
Lady Lazarus (1962)
Last Words (1961)
Metaphors (1959)
Mirror (1961)
The Rival (1961)
Song for a Summer's Day (1956)
Tulips (1961)
19 Eighty-four Poems for Additional Enjoyment and Study
Anonymous (Navajo), Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant,
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach,
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen,
Wendell Berry, Another Descent,
William Blake, London
Louise Bogan, Women
Arna Bontemps, A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets . . . Number 43. How Do I Love Thee?
Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
William Cullen Bryant, To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
Leonard Cohen, `The killers that run . . .'
Billy Collins, Days
Frances Cornford, From A Letter to America on a Visit to Sussex . . .
Stephen Crane, Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
Robert Creeley, "Do you think . . ."
E. E. Cummings, if there are any heavens
Carl Dennis, The God Who Loves You
James Dickey, Kudzu
John Donne, The Good Morrow
John Donne, Holy Sonnet 1: Death Be Not Proud
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy
James Emanuel, The Negro
Lynn Emanuel, Like God
Chief Dan George, The Beauty of the Trees
Nikki Giovanni, Woman
Louise Glueck, Snowdrops
Marilyn Hacker, Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle
Daniel Halpern, Snapshot of Hue
H. S. (Sam) Hamod, Leaves
Frances E. W. Harper, She's Free!
Robert Hass, Spring Rain
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
William Heyen, The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story
A. D. Hope, Advice to Young Ladies
Carolina Hospital, Dear Tia
Robinson Jeffers, The Answer
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Irving Layton, Rhine Boat Trip
Alan P. Lightman, In Computers
Liz Lochhead, The Choosing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sound of the Sea
Audre Lorde, Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem
Amy Lowell, Patterns
Claude McKay, The White City
W. S. Merwin, Listen
N. Scott Momaday, The Bear
Howard Nemerov, Life Cycle of Common Man
Jim Northrup, wahbegan
Mary Oliver, Ghosts
Linda Pastan, Marks
Marge Piercy,The Secretary Chant
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
John Raven, Assailant
Luis Omar Salinas, In a Farmhouse
Sonia Sanchez, rite on: white america
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Siegfried Sassoon, Dreamers
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Paperweight
Alan Seeger, I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Brenda Serotte, My Mother's Face
William Shakespeare,Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace . . .
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146: Poor Soul . . .
Karl Shapiro, Auto Wreck
Leslie Marmon Silko, Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer
Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Gerald Stern, Burying an Animal on the Way to New York
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
May Swenson, Question
Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn . . .
John Updike, Perfection Wasted
Shelly Wagner, The Boxes
Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias
Edmund Waller, Go Lovely Rose
Bruce Weigl, Song of Napalm
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
Walt Whitman, Dirge for Two Veterans
Walt Whitman, Full of Life Now
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bartholdi Statue
Richard Wilbur, April 5, 1974
Paul Zimmer, The Day Zimmer Lost Religion
19A Writing About Literature with the Aid of Research, 2 Writing Essays on Poetry: Using Extra Resources for Understanding
2 * The Dramatic Vision: An Overview
Edward Albee, The Sandbox
Susan Glaspel, Trifles
Betty Keller, Tea Party
Eugene O'Neill, Before Breakfast
21 * The Tragic Vision: Affirmation
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
22 * The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anton Chekhov, The Bear
Beth Henley, Am I Blue
23 * Four Plays for Additional Enjoyment and Study
Henrik Ibsen, A Dollhouse (Et Dukkehjem)
Langston Hughes, Mulatto
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
August Wilson, Fences
23A* Writing About Literature with the Aid of Research, 3. Writing Essays on Drama: Using Extra Resources for Understanding
24 * Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature
25 * Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together
26 * Taking Examinations on Literature
AppendixI.MLA Recommendations for Documenting Electronic Sources
Appendix II. Brief Biographies of the Poets inn Part III
Glossary of important Literary Terms
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines