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Introduction to Poetry, An

ISBN: 9780321209399 | 0321209397
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Kennedy/Gioia's "An Introduction to Poetry, 12e" continues to inspire readers and writers with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. This bestselling anthology includes more than 500 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Both noted poets themselves, the text's editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with wit and a contagious enthusiasm. Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary de... MORE
Prefacexxxi
To the Instructorxxxv
About the Authorsxlv
Poetry
3(600)
Readin... MORE
5(16)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
7(3)
William Butler Yeats
Lyric Poetry
10(2)
Piano
10(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
11(1)
Adrienne Rich
Narrative Poetry
12(3)
Sir Patrick Spence
12(2)
Anonymous
``Out, Out---''
14(1)
Robert Frost
Dramatic Poetry
15(3)
My Last Duchess
16(2)
Robert Browning
Writer's Perspective
Recalling ``Aunt Jennifer's Tigers''
18(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing Critically
Can a Poem be Paraphrased?
19(1)
Ask Me
19(1)
William Stafford
A Paraphrase of ``Ask Me''
20(1)
William Stafford
Writing Assignment
20(1)
Listening to a Voice
21(32)
Tone
21(6)
My Papa's Waltz
22(1)
Theodore Roethke
For a Lady I Know
23(1)
Countee Cullen
The Author to Her Book
23(1)
Anne Bradstreet
To a Locomotive in Winter
24(1)
Walt Whitman
I Like to See it Lap the Miles
25(1)
Emily Dickinson
To the Desert
26(1)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
For My Daughter
27(1)
Weldon Kees
The Person in the Poem
27(8)
White Lies
28(1)
Natasha Trethewey
Luke Havergal
29(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Hawk Roosting
30(1)
Ted Hughes
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
31(1)
William Wordsworth
Journal Entry
32(1)
Dorothy Wordsworth
A Glass of Beer
33(1)
James Stephens
Her Kind
34(1)
Anne Sexton
The Red Wheelbarrow
35(1)
William Carlos Williams
Irony
35(8)
Oh No
36(1)
Robert Creeley
The Unknown Citizen
37(1)
W. H. Auden
Rites of Passage
38(1)
Sharon Olds
In Westminster Abbey
39(1)
John Betjeman
The Golf Links
40(1)
Sarah N. Cleghorn
Civilian
41(1)
Josephine Miles
The Covetous Cat
41(1)
Connie Bensley
The Workbox
42(1)
Thomas Hardy
For Review and Further Study
The Chimney Sweeper
43(1)
William Blake
At Home with Dollface
44(1)
Robert McDowell
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
44(1)
William Stafford
I Love the World, as Does Any Dancer
45(1)
H. L. Hix
To Lucasta
45(1)
Richard Lovelace
Dulce Et Decorum Est
46(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writer's Perspective
War Poetry
47(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writing Critically
Paying Attention to the Obvious
48(1)
Writing Assignment
48(1)
Student Essay
Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's ``My Papa's Waltz''
49(3)
Further Suggestions for Writing
52(1)
Words
53(27)
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
53(5)
This is Just to Say
54(1)
William Carlos Williams
Silence
55(1)
Marianne Moore
Down, Wanton, Down!
56(1)
Robert Graves
Batter my Heart, Three-Personed God, for You
57(1)
John Donne
The Value of a Dictionary
58(4)
Aftermath
59(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mouse's Nest
60(1)
John Clare
Friend, on this Scaffold Thomas More lies Dead
61(1)
J. V. Cunningham
Advice to a Friend Who Paints
62(1)
Kelly Cherry
Grass
62(1)
Carl Sandburg
Word Choice and Word Order
62(9)
Upon Julia's Clothes
65(2)
Robert Herrick
Blandeur
67(1)
Kay Ryan
The Ruined Maid
68(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
69(1)
Richard Eberhart
Lonely Hearts
70(1)
Wendy Cope
For Review and Further Study
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
71(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Names
72(2)
Billy Collins
Carnation Milk
74(1)
Anonymous
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
74(1)
William Wordsworth
Mutability
74(1)
William Wordsworth
Scottsboro
75(1)
Anonymous
Jabberwocky
75(2)
Lewis Carroll
Writer's Perspective
Humpty Dumpty Explicates ``Jabberwocky''
77(1)
Lewis Carroll
Writing Critically
How Much Difference Does a Word Make?
78(1)
Writing Assignment
79(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
79(1)
Saying and Suggesting
80(14)
Cargoes
81(1)
John Masefield
London
82(2)
William Blake
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
84(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Independent Man
85(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Epitaph
85(1)
Timothy Steele
Merlin
86(1)
Geoffrey Hill
The Listeners
86(2)
Walter de la Mare
Fire and Ice
88(1)
Robert Frost
Final Love Note
88(1)
Clare Rossini
Tears, Idle Tears
89(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
90(1)
Richard Wilbur
Writer's Perspective
Concerning ``Love Calls Us to the Things of This World''
91(1)
Richard Wilbur
Writing Critically
The Ways a Poem Suggests
92(1)
Writing Assignment
93(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
93(1)
Imagery
94(24)
In a Station of the Metro
94(1)
Ezra Pound
The Piercing Chill I Feel
94(2)
Taniguchi Buson
The Winter Evening Settles Down
96(1)
T. S. Eliot
Root Cellar
96(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Fish
97(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Victory
99(1)
Anne Stevenson
Fork
100(1)
Charles Simic
A Route of Evanescence
100(1)
Emily Dickinson
Reapers
101(1)
Jean Toomer
Pied Beauty
101(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
About Haiku
102(3)
The Falling Flower
102(1)
Arakida Moritake
Heat-Lightning Streak
103(1)
Matsuo Basho
In the Old Stone Pool
103(1)
Matsuo Basho
On the One-Ton Temple Bell
103(1)
Taniguchi Buson
I Go
103(1)
Taniguchi Buson
Only One Guy
103(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Cricket
103(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Rain Shower from Mountain
104(1)
Suiko Matsushita
Cosmos in Bloom
104(1)
Suiko Matsushita
War Forced us from California
104(1)
Neiji Ozawa
The War
104(1)
Neiji Ozawa
Even the Croaking of Frogs
104(1)
Hakuro Wada
A Selection of Haiku
104(1)
Etheridge Knight
Lee Gurga
Penny Harter
Jennifer Brutschy
John Ridland
Connie Bensley
Adelle Foley
For Review and Further Study
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
105(1)
John Keats
The Runner
106(1)
Walt Whitman
Image
106(1)
T. E. Hulme
Tired Sex
106(1)
Chana Bloch
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
107(1)
Robert Bly
Piute Creek
107(1)
Gary Snyder
H. D., Heat
108(1)
Mock Orange
108(1)
Louise Gluck
Embrace
108(1)
Billy Collins
Winter News
109(1)
John Haines
Not Waving But Drowning
110(1)
Stevie Smith
Writer's Perspective
The Image
111(1)
Ezra Pound
Writing Critically
Analyzing Images
112(1)
Writing Assignment
113(1)
Student Essay
Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in ``The Fish''
113(4)
Further Suggestions for Writing
117(1)
Figures of Speech
118(23)
Why Speak Figuratively?
118(4)
The Eagle
119(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
119(1)
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
120(2)
Howard Moss
Metaphor and Simile
My Life Had Stood -- a Loaded Gun
122(1)
Emily Dickinson
Flower in the Crannied Wall
123(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
To See a World in a Grain of Sand
124(1)
William Blake
Metaphors
124(1)
Sylvia Plath
Simile
124(1)
N. Scott Momaday
It Dropped So Low -- in My Regard
125(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
125(3)
Craig Raine
Other Figures
128(6)
The Wind
129(2)
James Stephens
Elegy, Written with His Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution
131(1)
Chidiock Tichborne
You Fit into Me
132(1)
Margaret Atwood
The Cathedral Is
132(1)
John Ashbery
The Pulley
132(1)
George Herbert
Plain Speaking
133(1)
Louis MacNeice
For Review and Further Study
The Silken Tent
134(1)
Robert Frost
Leaving Forever
135(1)
Denise Levertov
The Suitor
135(1)
Jane Kenyon
The Secret Sits
136(1)
Robert Frost
H. D., Love That I Bear
136(1)
Coward
136(1)
A. R. Ammons
Turtle
136(1)
Kay Ryan
Hands
137(1)
Robinson Jeffers
Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
137(1)
Robert Burns
Writer's Perspective
The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
138(1)
Robert Frost
Writing Critically
How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning
139(1)
Writing Assignment
140(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
140(1)
Song
141(24)
Singing and Saying
141(7)
To Celia
142(1)
Ben Jonson
The Cruel Mother
143(2)
Anonymous
Take, O, Take Those Lips Away
145(1)
William Shakespeare
Richard Cory
146(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
147(1)
Paul Simon
Ballads
148(4)
Bonny Barbara Allan
148(3)
Anonymous
Ballad of Birmingham
151(1)
Dudley Randall
Blues
152(2)
Jailhouse Blues
153(1)
Bessie Smith
Clarence Williams
Funeral Blues
154(1)
W. H. Auden
Rap
154(3)
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper
156(1)
For Review and Further Study
Eleanor Rigby
157(1)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
The Times They Are a-Changin'
158(2)
Bob Dylan
Queen of the Blues
160(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Writer's Perspective
Creating ``Eleanor Rigby''
162(1)
Paul McCartney
Writing Critically
Is There a Difference Between Poetry and Song?
163(1)
Writing Assignment
164(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
164(1)
Sound
165(23)
Sound as Meaning
165(5)
True Ease in Writing Comes from Art, Not Chance
166(2)
Alexander Pope
Who Goes with Fergus?
168(1)
William Butler Yeats
Recital
169(1)
John Updike
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
169(1)
William Wordsworth
Rain
170(1)
Emanuel di Pasquale
When Maidens are Young
170(1)
Aphra Behn
Alliteration and Assonance
170(3)
Eight O'Clock
172(1)
A. E. Housman
Upon Julia's Voice
172(1)
Robert Herrick
The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls
173(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Rime
173(8)
On My Boat on Lake Cayuga
174(2)
William Cole
Rough Weather
176(1)
James Reeves
The Hippopotamus
177(1)
Hilaire Belloc
Leda and the Swan
178(1)
William Butler Yeats
God's Grandeur
179(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narcissus and Echo
179(1)
Fred Chappell
Desert Places
180(1)
Robert Frost
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud
181(4)
In Memoriam John Coltrane
183(1)
Michael Stillman
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies
183(1)
William Shakespeare
Lai with Sounds of Skin
184(1)
Chryss Yost
Virginia
184(1)
T. S. Eliot
Writer's Perspective
The Music of Poetry
185(1)
T. S. Eliot
Writing Critically
Is it Possible to Write About Sound?
186(1)
Writing Assignment
186(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
186(2)
Rhythm
188(24)
Stresses and Pauses
188(8)
We Real Cool
193(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Break, Break, Break
193(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time with My Salt Tears
194(1)
Ben Jonson
Atticus
195(1)
Alexander Pope
With Serving Still
196(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Resume
196(1)
Dorothy Parker
Meter
196(13)
On the Imprint of the First English Edition of the Works of Max Beerbohm
197(6)
Max Beerbohm
Rose-Cheeked Laura, Come
203(1)
Thomas Campion
Factory Windows are Always Broken
204(1)
Vachel Lindsay
Counting-Out Rhyme
205(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I was One-and-Twenty
206(1)
A. E. Housman
Heel & Toe to the End
206(1)
William Carlos Williams
Beat! Beat! Drums!
207(1)
Walt Whitman
Song of the Powers
208(1)
David Mason
Dream Boogie
208(1)
Langston Hughes
Writer's Perspective
Hearing ``We Real Cool''
209(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing Critically
Freeze-Framing the Sound
210(1)
Writing Assignment
211(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
211(1)
Closed Form
212(25)
Formal Patterns
213(8)
This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable
214(2)
John Keats
Counting the Beats
216(1)
Robert Graves
Song (``Go and Catch a Falling Star'')
217(1)
John Donne
Brief Bio
218(1)
Phillis Levin
Yield
219(2)
Ronald Gross
The Sonnet
221(6)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
221(1)
William Shakespeare
Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part
222(1)
Michael Drayton
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
223(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Acquainted with the Night
223(1)
Robert Frost
First Poem for You
224(1)
Kim Addonizio
Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying
224(1)
Mark Jarman
Scenes from the Playroom
225(1)
R. S. Gwynn
Summer
226(1)
Timothy Steele
Sine Qua Non
226(1)
A. E. Stallings
The Epigram
227(3)
A Selection of Epigrams
227(2)
Alexander Pope
Sir John Harrington
Robert Herrick
William Blake
E. E. Cummings
Langston Hughes
J. V. Cunningham
John Frederick Nims
Stevie Smith
Brad Leithauser
Dick Davis
Anonymous
Hilaire Belloc
Wendy Cope
Clerihews
229(1)
W. H. Auden
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Cornelius J. Ter Maat
Other Forms
230(4)
ABC
230(1)
Robert Pinsky
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
231(1)
Dylan Thomas
Triolet
232(1)
Robert Bridges
Sestina
232(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Writer's Perspective
Poetic Inspiration and Poetic Form
234(1)
Robert Graves
Writing Critically
Turning Points
235(1)
Writing Assignment
236(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
236(1)
Open Form
237(22)
Ancient Stairway
237(5)
Denise Levertov
Buffalo Bill's
242(1)
E. E. Cummings
For the Anniversary of My Death
242(1)
W. S. Merwin
The Dance
243(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Heart
244(1)
Stephen Crane
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
244(1)
Walt Whitman
The Garret
245(1)
Ezra Pound
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
245(3)
Wallace Stevens
The Colonel
248(1)
Carolyn Forche
Visual Poetry
248(5)
Easter Wings
249(1)
George Herbert
Swan and Shadow
250(1)
John Hollander
from Papyrus
251(1)
Terry Ehret
Concrete Cat
252(1)
Dorthi Charles
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse
253(3)
In Just
253(1)
E. E. Cummings
Homage to my Hips
254(1)
Lucille Clifton
I Shall Paint My Nails Red
255(1)
Carole Satyamurti
What I Like
255(1)
Alice Fulton
Writer's Perspective
The Poetry of the Future
256(1)
Walt Whitman
Writing Critically
Lining Up for Free Verse
257(1)
Writing Assignment
257(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
258(1)
Symbol
259(19)
The Boston Evening Transcript
260(1)
T. S. Eliot
The Lightning is a Yellow Fork
261(2)
Emily Dickinson
Neutral Tones
263(1)
Thomas Hardy
Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed
264(1)
The World
264(1)
George Herbert
Most Like an Arch This Marriage
265(1)
John Ciardi
The Road Not Taken
266(1)
Robert Frost
Uphill
267(1)
Christina Rossetti
Supernatural Love
267(2)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
For Review and Further Study
The Beaks of Eagles
269(1)
Robinson Jeffers
The Flight
270(1)
Sara Teasdale
The Term
271(1)
William Carlos Williams
Carrie
272(1)
Ted Kooser
What the Body Told
272(1)
Rafael Campo
An Evening Walk
273(1)
Jon Stallworthy
Popcorn-Can Cover
274(1)
Lorine Niedecker
Anecdote of the Jar
274(1)
Wallace Stevens
Writer's Perspective
Poetic Symbols
275(1)
William Butler
Writing Critically
How to Read a Symbol
276(1)
Writing Assignment
276(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
277(1)
Myth and Narrative
278(28)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
280(1)
Robert Frost
Bavarian Gentians
281(1)
D. H. Lawrence
The Oxen
281(1)
Thomas Hardy
The World Is Too Much with Us
282(1)
William Wordsworth
H. D., Helen
283(1)
Archetype
283(2)
Medusa
284(1)
Louise Bogan
Personal Myth
285(6)
The Second Coming
286(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Names of the Rapids
287(1)
Jonathan Holden
The Heaven of Animals
288(1)
James Dickey
Memento Mori in Middle School
289(2)
Diane Thiel
Myth and Popular Culture
291(7)
Taken Up
292(1)
Charles Martin
Imperial Adam
293(1)
A. D. Hope
Cinderella
294(4)
Anne Sexton
Writer's Perspective
Transforming Fairy Tales
298(1)
Anne Sexton
Writing Critically
Demystifying Myth
299(1)
Writing Assignment
300(1)
Student Essay
The Bonds Between Love and Hatred In H. D.'s ``Helen''
301(4)
Further Suggestions for Writing
305(1)
Poetry and Personal Identity
306(22)
Lady Lazarus
307(3)
Sylvia Plath
The Women on my Mother's Side Were Known
310(1)
Julia Alvarez
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
311(6)
America
311(1)
Claude McKay
Bilingual/Bilingue
312(2)
Rhina Espaillat
The Shrine Whose Shape I Am
314(1)
Samuel Menashe
The X in My Name
314(1)
Francisco X. Alarcon
For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian
315(1)
Wendy Rose
Indian Boy Love Song (#1)
316(1)
Sherman Alexie
Facing It
316(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Gender
317(3)
Sous-Entendu
318(1)
Anne Stevenson
Listening
318(1)
Emily Grosholz
Men at Forty
319(1)
Donald Justice
Women
320(1)
Adrienne Rich
For Review and Further Study
Learning to Love America
320(1)
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
321(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Quinceanera
322(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Speaking a Foreign Language
323(1)
Alastair Reid
Aubade
323(2)
Philip Larkin
Writer's Perspective
Being a Bilingual Writer
325(1)
Rhina Espaillat
Writing Critically
Poetic Voice and Personal Identity
326(1)
Writing Assignment
327(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
327(1)
Translation
328(17)
Is Poetic Translation Possible?
328(1)
Eingang
329(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Entrance
329(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dana Gioia
World Poetry
329(7)
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese Text)
330(1)
Li Po
Yueh Hsia Tu Chc, Moon-Beneath Alone Drink (Literal Translation)
331(1)
Li Po
Drinking Alone by Moonlight
331(1)
Li Po
Arthur Waley
Odes I (11) (Carpe Diem)
332(1)
Horace
Odes I
333(2)
Horace
Edwin Arlington Robinson
James Michie
A. E. Stallings
Rubai
335(1)
Omar Khayyam
Rubai
335(1)
Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald
Robert Graves
Omar Ali-Shah
Dick Davis
Parody
336(6)
We four Lads from Liverpool are
337(1)
Anonymous
A Nursery Rhyme (as it Might have been written by William Wordsworth)
338(1)
Wendy Cope
What, Still Alive at Twenty-two?
338(1)
Hugh Kingsmill
The Lady Speaks Again
339(1)
Bruce Bennett
If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent
339(1)
Gene Fehler
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tortilla
340(2)
Aaron Abeyta
Writer's Perspective
The Method of Translation
342(1)
Arthur Waley
Writing Critically
Parody Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
343(1)
Writing Assignment
343(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
344(1)
Critical Casebook: Latin American Poetry
345(25)
Sor Juana
347(2)
Asegura La Confianza de que Ocultura de Todo un Secreto
348(1)
She Promises to Hold a Secret in Confidence
348(1)
Diane Thiel
Presente en Que el Carino Hace Regalo la Llaneza
348(1)
A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection
348(1)
Diane Thiel
Pablo Neruda
349(4)
Muchos Somos
350(1)
We Are Many
350(1)
Alastair Reid
Cien Sonetos de Amor (V)
351(1)
One Hundred Love Sonnets (V)
352(1)
Stephen Tapscott
Jorge Luis Borges
353(3)
Amorosa Anticipacion
354(1)
Anticipation of Love
354(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Los Enigmas
355(1)
The Enigmas
355(1)
John Updike
Octavio Paz
356(1)
Con Los Ojos Cerrados
357(1)
With Our Eyes Shut
357(1)
John Felstiner
Certeza
357(1)
Certainty
357(1)
Charles Tomlinson
Surrealism in Latin American Poetry
357(5)
The Two Fridas
359(1)
Frida Kahlo
La Colera Que Quiebra al Hombre en Ninos
359(1)
Cesar Vallejo
Anger
360(1)
Cesar Vallejo
Thomas Merton
La Realidad y el Deseo
360(1)
Olga Orozco
Reality and Desire
361(1)
Olga Orozco
Stephen Tapscott
Poems for Further Reading
Peso Ancestral
362(1)
Alfonsina Storni
Ancestral Burden
362(1)
Alfonsina Stoni
Diane Thiel
Alta Traicion
362(1)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
High Treason
363(1)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
Alastair Reid
Latin American Poets on Poetry
Reply to Sor Philothea
363(1)
Sor Juana
Towards the Splendid City
364(1)
Pablo Neruda
The Riddle of Poetry
365(1)
Jorge Luis Borges
In Search of the Present
366(1)
Octavio Paz
Critics on Latin American Poetry
Endgames: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
366(1)
Stephanie Merrim
Translating Neruda
367(1)
Alastair Reid
Borges and Paz
368(1)
Emir Rodriguez Monegal
Suggestions for Writing
369(1)
Recognizing Excellence
370(26)
O Moon, When I Gaze on Thy Beautiful Face
372(1)
Anonymous
Life
372(1)
Grace Treasone
A Dying Tiger--moaned for Drink
373(3)
Emily Dickinson
Thoughts on Capital Punishment
376(1)
Rod McKuen
Traveling Through the Dark
376(1)
William Stafford
Reincarnation
377(2)
Wallace McRae
Recognizing Excellence
379(14)
Sailing to Byzantium
379(3)
William Butler Yeats
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
382(1)
Arthur Guiterman
Ozymandias
382(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Whipping
383(1)
Robert Hayden
One Art
384(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
September 1, 1939
385(3)
W. H. Auden
O Captain! My Captain!
388(2)
Walt Whitman
Fog
390(1)
Carl Sandburg
The New Colossus
391(1)
Emma Lazarus
Annabel Lee
392(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer's Perspective
A Long Poem Does Not Exist
393(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writing Critically
How to Begin Evaluating a Poem
393(1)
Writing Assignment
394(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing
395(1)
What Is Poetry?
396(5)
Ars Poetica
396(1)
Archibald MacLeish
Some Definitions of Poetry
397(3)
Dante
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
Mina Loy
T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
J. V. Cunningham
Elizabeth Bishop
Jorge Luis Borges
Octavio Paz
William Stafford
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Bly
Missed Time
400(1)
Ha Jin
Two Critical Casebooks: Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes
401(40)
Emily Dickinson
401(1)
Poems
Success is Counted Sweetest
402(1)
Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
402(1)
There's a Certain Slant of Light
403(1)
I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain
403(1)
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
404(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
404(1)
Some keep The Sabbath Going to Church
405(1)
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
405(1)
Much Madness is Divinest Sense
405(1)
This is my Letter to the World
406(1)
I Heard a Fly Buzz--when I Died
406(1)
I Started Early -- Took My Dog
406(1)
Because I Could not Stop for Death
407(1)
The Bustle in a House
408(1)
Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant
408(1)
Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson
Recognizing Poetry
409(1)
Self-Description
410(2)
Critics on Emily Dickinson
Meeting Emily Dickinson
412(1)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Discovery of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts
413(2)
Thomas H. Johnson
The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson
415(1)
Richard Wilbur
Dickinson and Death (A Reading of ``Because I could not Stop for Death'')
416(2)
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
A Reading of ``My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun''
418(2)
Judith Farr
Langston Hughes
420(1)
Poems
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
421(1)
Mother to Son
421(1)
Dream Variations
422(1)
I, Too
422(1)
The Weary Blues
423(1)
Song for a Dark Girl
424(1)
Desire
424(1)
Prayer
424(1)
Battle of the Landlord
425(1)
End
426(1)
Island
426(1)
Theme for English B
426(1)
Subway Rush Hour
427(1)
Sliver
428(1)
Harlem [Dream Deferred]
428(1)
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
429(1)
The Harlem Renaissance
430(2)
Critics on Langston Hughes
Hughes as an Experimentalist
432(1)
Arnold Rampersad
Langston Hughes and Harlem
433(2)
Rita Dove
Marilyn Nelson
Black Identity in Langston Hughes
435(1)
Darryl Pinckney
Langston Hughes and Jazz
436(2)
Peter Townsend
A Reading of ``Dream Deferred''
438(2)
Onwuchekwa Jemie
For Further Reading
440(1)
Suggestions for Writing
440(1)
Poems for Further Reading
441(132)
Lord Randall
442(1)
Anonymous
The Three Ravens
443(1)
Anonymous
The Twa Corbies
444(1)
Anonymous
Western Wind
445(1)
Anonymous
Last Words of the Prophet
445(1)
Anonymous
Dover Beach
445(1)
Matthew Arnold
At North Farm
446(1)
John Ashbery
Romantic
447(1)
Margaret Atwood
As I Walked Out One Evening
448(2)
W. H. Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts
450(1)
W. H. Auden
Filling Station
451(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Tyger
453(1)
William Blake
The Sick Rose
454(1)
William Blake
Anorexic
455(1)
Eavan Boland
The Mother
456(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Preacher Ruminates: Behind the Sermon
457(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
458(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
458(2)
Robert Browning
Merciless Beauty
460(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Donkey
461(1)
G. K. Chesterton
Kubla Khan
462(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Care and Feeding
463(1)
Billy Collins
My Grandmother's Love Letters
464(1)
Hart Crane
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond
465(1)
E. E. Cummings
Death Be Not Proud
466(1)
John Donne
The Flea
467(1)
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
468(1)
John Donne
Summit Beach, 1921
469(1)
Rita Dove
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
470(1)
John Dryden
Journey of the Magi
471(2)
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
473(4)
T.S. Eliot
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
477(1)
Louise Erdrich
A Starlit Night
478(1)
B. H. Fairchild
Birches
479(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
480(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
481(1)
Robert Frost
A Supermarket in California
482(1)
Allen Ginsberg
California Hills in August
483(1)
Dana Gioia
The Man with Night Sweats
484(1)
Thom Gunn
Names of Horses
485(1)
Donald Hall
The Convergence of the Twain
486(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
487(1)
Thomas Hardy
Hap
488(1)
Thomas Hardy
Those Winter Sundays
489(1)
Robert Hayden
Digging
490(1)
Seamus Heaney
Mother of the Groom
491(1)
Seamus Heaney
Adam
492(2)
Anthony Hecht
Love
494(1)
George Herbert
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
495(1)
Robert Herrick
Spring and Fall
495(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No Worst, There is None
496(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover
497(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
497(1)
A. E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young
498(1)
A. E. Housman
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
499(1)
Randall Jarrell
To the Stone-Cutters
500(1)
Robinson Jeffers
On My First Son
500(1)
Ben Jonson
Counting the Mad
501(1)
Donald Justice
Ode on a Grecian Urn
501(2)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
503(1)
John Keats
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
504(1)
John Keats
To Autumn
505(1)
John Keats
Home is so Sad
506(1)
Philip Larkin
Poetry of Departures
507(1)
Philip Larkin
The Bull Calf
508(1)
Irving Layton
They Feed They Lion
509(1)
Philip Levine
Looking for Judas
510(1)
Adrian Louis
Skunk Hour
510(2)
Robert Lowell
To His Coy Mistress
512(1)
Andrew Marvell
Kite Poem
513(1)
James Merrill
The Farmer's Bride
514(1)
Charlotte Mew
Recuerdo
515(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
How Soon Hath Time
516(1)
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light is Spent
516(1)
John Milton
Poetry
517(1)
Marianne Moore
The Master
518(1)
Frederick Morgan
A Strange Beautiful Woman
519(1)
Marilyn Nelson
The War in the Air
520(1)
Howard Nemerov
Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves
521(1)
Lorine Niedecker
A Selection of Hokku
522(1)
Yone Noguchi
The One Girl at the Boys' Party
523(1)
Sharon Olds
Anthem for Doomed Youth
524(1)
Wilfred Owen
Ethics
524(1)
Linda Pastan
Running on Empty
525(1)
Robert Phillips
Daddy
526(3)
Sylvia Plath
A Dream Within a Dream
529(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
A Little Learning is a Dang'Rous Thing
530(1)
Alexander Pope
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
530(2)
Ezra Pound
A Different Image
532(1)
Dudley Randall
Piazza Piece
533(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Naming of Parts
533(1)
Henry Reed
Living in Sin
534(1)
Adrienne Rich
Power
535(1)
Adrienne Rich
Miniver Cheevy
536(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elegy for Jane
537(1)
Theodore Roethke
Welcome to Hiroshima
538(2)
Mary Jo Salter
When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
540(1)
William Shakespeare
Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
541(1)
William Shakespeare
Weary with Toil, I Haste me to My Bed
541(1)
William Shakespeare
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
542(1)
William Shakespeare
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
542(1)
William Shakespeare
American Poetry
543(1)
Louis Simpson
Titanic
543(1)
David R. Slavitt
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry
544(2)
Christopher Smart
American Primitive
546(1)
William Jay Smith
Stamp Collecting
547(1)
Cathy Song
The Farm on the Great Plains
548(1)
William Stafford
Peter Quince at the Clavier
549(2)
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
551(1)
Wallace Stevens
Second Hand Coat
552(1)
Ruth Stone
A Description of the Morning
552(1)
Jonathan Swift
Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand
553(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
554(2)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Fern Hill
556(1)
Dylan Thomas
Ex-Basketball Player
557(2)
John Updike
The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles
559(2)
Amy Uyematsu
The Virgins
561(1)
Derek Walcott
Go, Lovely Rose
562(1)
Edmund Waller
A Noiseless Patient Spider
562(1)
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
563(1)
Walt Whitman
The Writer
564(1)
Richard Wilbur
Elms
565(1)
C. K. Williams
Spring and All
565(1)
William Carlos Williams
To Waken an Old Lady
566(1)
William Carlos Williams
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
567(1)
William Wordsworth
A Blessing
568(1)
James Wright
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
569(1)
James Wright
In This Strange Labyrinth
569(1)
Mary Sidney Wroth
They Flee from me That Sometime Did Me Seke
570(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
571(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Magi
572(1)
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
572(1)
William Butler Yeats
Lives of the Poets
573(30)
Writing
603(90)
Writing About Literature
605(11)
Beginning
605(1)
Keeping a Journal
606(1)
Using Critical Sources and Maintaining Academic Integrity
607(1)
Discovering Essay Ideas
607(3)
Drafting and Revising, Or Creativity vs. Analysis
610(3)
The form of Your Finished Paper
613(1)
Using Spell-Check and Grammer-Check Programs
613(3)
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers
614(2)
Jerrold H. Zar
Writing About a Poem
616(20)
Explicating
617(5)
Design
618(1)
Robert Frost
Sample Student Essay (Explication)
618(4)
Analyzing
622(3)
Sample Student Essay (Analysis)
623(2)
Comparing and Contrasting
625(4)
Wing-Spread
626(1)
Abbie Huston Evans
Sample Student Essay (Comparison)
627(2)
How to Quote a Poem
629(2)
Before You Begin
631(1)
Suggestions for Writing
632(4)
In White (early draft of ``Design'')
634(2)
Robert Frost
Writing a Research Paper
636(22)
Doing Research for an Essay
636(2)
Evaluating and Using Internet Sources
638(3)
Guarding Academic Integrity
641(1)
Acknowledging and Documenting Sources
641(9)
Concluding Thoughts
650(1)
Reference Guide for Citations
651(7)
Critical Approaches to Literature
658(35)
Formalist Criticism
659(4)
The Formalist Critic
660(1)
Cleanth Brooks
On Robert Browning's ``My Last Duchess''
661(2)
Robert Langbaum
Biographical Criticism
663(3)
The Relationship of Poet and Poem
664(1)
Leslie Fiedler
On Elizabeth Bishop's ``One Art''
665(1)
Brett C. Millier
Historical Criticism
666(4)
Imagism
667(2)
Hugh Kenner
``To His Coy Mistress'' and the Renaissance Tradition
669(1)
Joseph Moldenhauer
Psychological Criticism
670(2)
The Destiny of Oedipus
671(1)
Sigmund Freud
Poetic Influence
672(1)
Harold Bloom
Mythological Criticism
672(3)
The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes
673(1)
C. G. Jung
Mythic Archetypes
674(1)
Northrop Frye
Sociological Criticism
675(3)
Content Determines Form
676(1)
Georg Lukacs
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
677(1)
Alfred Kazin
Gender Criticism
678(2)
Toward a Feminist Poetics
678(1)
Elaine Showalter
The Freedom of Emily Dickinson
679(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Reader-Response Criticism
680(4)
An Eskimo ``A Rose for Emily''
681(1)
Stanley Fish
``How Do We Make a Poem?''
682(2)
Robert Scholes
Deconstructionist Criticism
684(3)
The Death of the Author
685(1)
Roland Barthes
On Wordsworth's ``A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal''
686(1)
Geoffrey Hartman
Cultural Studies
687(6)
What is Cultural Studies?
689(1)
Mark Bauerlein
The Stance of Observation in William Blake's ``London''
690(3)
Heather Glen
Glossary of Literary Terms693(18)
Acknowledgments711(12)
Index of First Lines of Poetry723(6)
Index of Authors and Titles729(24)
Index of Literary Terms753

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