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PERRINE’S LIT:STR,SND & SENSE7E

by: ARP

PERRINE’S LIT:STR,SND & SENSE7E

by: ARP

ISBN 13:
9780155038226
ISBN 10:
0155038222
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/10/1997
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

The classic text, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, and SENSE, Eighth Edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.

Preface

FICTION The Elements of Fiction

(376)

Escape and Interpretation

(38)

The Most Dangerous Game

(16)

Richard Connell

The Child by Tiger

(17)

Thomas Wolfe

Plot

(35)

The Destructors

(13)

Graham Greene

Roman Fever

(11)

Edith Wharton

The Japanese Quince

(3)

John Galsworthy

Character

(26)

I'm a Fool

(9)

Sherwood Anderson

Everyday Use

(7)

Alice Walker

Miss Brill

(5)

Katherine Mansfield

Theme

102

(46)

The Lesson

109

(7)

Toni Cade Bambara

Defender of the Faith

116

(24)

Philip Roth

In Exile

140

(8)

Anton Chekhov

Ann Dunnigan

Point of View

148

(34)

Paul's Case

154

(16)

Willa Cather

Hills Like White Elephants

170

(4)

Ernest Hemingway

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

174

(8)

Katherine Anne Porter

Symbol and Irony

182

(56)

The Guest

190

(11)

Albert Camus

Justin O'Brien

Greenleaf

201

(18)

Flannery O'Connor

Just Like a Tree

219

(19)

Ernest J. Gaines

Emotion and Humor

238

(50)

Exercises

242

(1)

The Storm

242

(10)

McKnight Malmar

Once Upon a Time

252

(5)

Nadine Gordimer

The Catbird Seat

257

(7)

James Thurber

The Drunkard

264

(8)

Frank O'Connor

A Christmas Memory

272

(9)

Truman Capote

The Night Old Santa Claus Came

281

(7)

Benjamin Capps

Fantasy

288

(26)

The Rocking-Horse Winner

290

(13)

D. H. Lawrence

Young Goodman Brown

303

(11)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scale of Value

314

(63)

General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation

317

(2)

Exercise

319

(1)

A Municipal Report

320

(13)

O. Henry

A Jury of Her Peers

333

(17)

Susan Glaspell

Exercise

349

(1)

Spotted Horses

350

(15)

William Faulkner

Mule in the Yard

365

(12)

William Faulkner

Stories for Further Reading

377

(72)

When It Happens

379

(7)

Margaret Atwood

Janus

386

(5)

Ann Beattie

The Father

391

(1)

Raymond Carver

The Swimmer

392

(9)

John Cheever

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

401

(9)

Stephen Crane

Love in L.A.

410

(2)

Dagoberto Gilb

The Gilded Six-Bits

412

(9)

Zora Neale Hurston

The Lottery

421

(7)

Shirley Jackson

Eveline

428

(4)

James Joyce

The Cask of Amontillado

432

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Worn Path

437

(7)

Eudora Welty

Say Yes

444

(5)

Tobias Wolff

Three Novellas

449

(110)

Bartleby the Scrivener

451

(28)

Herman Melville

Noon Wine

479

(36)

Katherine Anne Porter

The Death of Ivan Ilych

515

(44)

Leo Tolstoy

Louise

Aylmer Maude

POETRY The Elements of Poetry

559

(268)

What Is Poetry?

561

(17)

The Eagle

563

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Winter

564

(1)

William Shakespeare

Dulce et Decorum Est

565

(3)

Wilfred Owen

Spring

568

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Whipping

569

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Computation

570

(1)

John Donne

Hawk Roosting

571

(1)

Ted Hughes

Ballad of Birmingham

572

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Red Wheelbarrow

573

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The Pasture

573

(1)

Robert Frost

Terence, this is stupid stuff

574

(2)

A. E. Housman

Ars Poetica

576

(2)

Archibald MacLeish

Reading the Poem

578

(17)

The Man He Killed

580

(1)

Thomas Hardy

A Study of Reading Habits

581

(4)

Philip Larkin

Is my team plowing

585

(3)

A. E. Housman

General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation of Poetry

587

(1)

Break of Day

588

(1)

John Donne

There's been a death in the opposite house

588

(1)

Emily Dickinson

When in Rome

589

(1)

Mari Evans

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

590

(1)

Ezra Pound

The Mill

591

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mirror

592

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Subalterns

593

(2)

Thomas Hardy

Exercise

594

(1)

Denotation and Connotation

595

(12)

There is no frigate like a book

595

(2)

Emily Dickinson

When my love swears that she is made of truth

597

(1)

William Shakespeare

Pathedy of Manners

598

(3)

Ellen Kay

Exercises

601

(1)

Naming of Parts

601

(1)

Henry Reed

Cross

602

(1)

Langston Hughes

The world is too much with us

603

(1)

William Wordsworth

Eldorado

604

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Hymn to God the Father

605

(1)

John Donne

One Art

606

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Imagery

607

(73)

Meeting at Night

608

(1)

Robert Browning

Parting at Morning

609

(1)

Robert Browning

Spring

610

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

611

(1)

William Carlos Williams

I felt a funeral in my brain

612

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Forge

612

(1)

Seamus Heaney

After Apple-Picking

613

(2)

Robert Frost

Those Winter Sundays

615

(1)

Robert Hayden

The Letter

615

(1)

Jane Kenyon

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

616

(1)

Walt Whitman

Reapers

617

(1)

Jean Toomer

To Autumn

617

(3)

John Keats

Figurative Language 1

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy

619

(1)

The Guitarist Tunes Up

620

(1)

Frances Cornford

The Hound

620

(1)

Robert Francis

Bereft

621

(1)

Robert Frost

It sifts from leaden sieves

622

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Scholars

624

(1)

Walter de la Mare

Western Wind

625

(4)

Anonymous

Exercise

628

(1)

Mind

629

(1)

Richard Wilbur

I taste a liquor never brewed

629

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Metaphors

630

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Song: Go, lovely rose!

631

(1)

Edmund Waller

Toads

631

(2)

Philip Larkin

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

633

(1)

John Donne

To His Coy Mistress

634

(2)

Andrew Marvell

Suum Cuique

636

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

after minor surgery

636

(1)

Linda Pastan

Dream Deferred

637

(1)

Langston Hughes

Exercises

637

(1)

Figurative Language 2

Symbol, Allegory

638

(1)

The Road Not Taken

638

(2)

Robert Frost

A Noiseless Patient Spider

640

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Sick Rose

641

(2)

William Blake

Digging

643

(3)

Seamus Heaney

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

646

(1)

Robert Herrick

Peace

647

(2)

George Herbert

Fire and Ice

649

(1)

Robert Frost

Ulysses

649

(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Curiosity

652

(1)

Alastair Reid

Discovery of the New World

653

(2)

Carter Revard

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

655

(2)

John Donne

Our journey had advanced

657

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Dust of Snow

657

(1)

Robert Frost

Soft Snow

658

(2)

William Blake

Exercises

658

(1)

Figurative Language 3

Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony

659

(1)

Much madness is divinest sense

660

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Sun Rising

661

(1)

John Donne

Incident

662

(2)

Countee Cullen

One Perfect Rose

664

(2)

Dorothy Parker

The Chimney Sweeper

666

(1)

William Blake

Ozymandias

667

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Exercise

668

(1)

Batter my heart, three-personed God

668

(1)

John Donne

Sorting Laundry

669

(2)

Elisavietta Ritchie

The Unknown Citizen

671

(1)

W. H. Auden

Departmental

672

(1)

Robert Frost

The State

673

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket

674

(1)

Howard Nemerov

in the inner city

675

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Mr. Z

675

(1)

M. Carl Holman

Southern Cop

676

(1)

Sterling A. Brown

My Last Duchess

677

(3)

Robert Browning

Allusion

680

(11)

``Out, Out---''

681

(1)

Robert Frost

From Macbeth: She should have died hereafter

682

(2)

William Shakespeare

in Just-

684

(1)

e. e. cummings

On His Blindness

685

(1)

John Milton

Hero and Leander

685

(1)

John Donne

Miniver Cheevy

686

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Leda and the Swan

687

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Leda's Sister and the Geese

688

(1)

Katharyn Howd Machan

An altered look about the hills

688

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Abraham to kill him

689

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say

690

(1)

Benjamin Franklin

A monkey sprang down from a tree

690

(1)

Laurence Perrine

Two brothers devised what at sight

690

(1)

Laurence Perrine

Meaning and Idea

691

(13)

Little Jack Horner

691

(2)

Anonymous

Loveliest of Trees

693

(1)

A. E. Housman

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

693

(2)

Robert Frost

To a Waterfowl

695

(1)

William Cullen Bryant

Design

696

(1)

Robert Frost

The Indifferent

697

(1)

John Donne

Love's Deity

698

(1)

John Donne

To the Mercy Killers

699

(1)

Dudley Randall

How Annandale Went Out

700

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Caged Skylark

701

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

No worst, there is none

701

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alter! When the hills do

702

(1)

Emily Dickinson

We outgrow love

703

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Exercise

703

(1)

Tone

704

(17)

For a Lamb

706

(1)

Richard Eberhart

Apparently with no surprise

706

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Since there's no help

708

(1)

Michael Drayton

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

709

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Crossing the Bar

709

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Oxen

710

(1)

Thomas Hardy

One dignity delays for all

711

(1)

Emily Dickinson

'Twas warm at first like us

712

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Apparition

712

(2)

John Donne

The Flea

714

(1)

John Donne

Dover Beach

715

(1)

Matthew Arnold

Church Going

716

(3)

Philip Larkin

Getting Out

719

(1)

Cleopatra Mathis

A tiny cry within the night

720

(1)

Lynn Johnston

Exercises

720

(1)

Musical Devices

721

(14)

The Turtle

722

(2)

Ogden Nash

That night when joy began

724

(1)

W. H. Auden

Ettrick

725

(2)

Alicia Ann Spottiswood (``Lady John Scott'')

God's Grandeur

727

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

We Real Cool

728

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Blackberry Sweet

729

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Snowstorm

729

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As imperceptibly as grief

730

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Seal Lullaby

731

(1)

Rudyard Kipling

Shut In

732

(1)

Robert B. Shaw

Traveling through the dark

733

(1)

William Stafford

Nothing Gold Can Stay

734

(1)

Robert Frost

Exercise

734

(1)

Rhythm and Meter

735

(24)

Virtue

740

(10)

George Herbert

Exercises

749

(1)

``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence

750

(1)

William Blake

It takes all sorts

751

(1)

Robert Frost

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

752

(1)

A. E. Housman

Had I the Choice

752

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Aim Was Song

753

(1)

Robert Frost

Nevertheless

753

(2)

Marianne Moore

To a Daughter Leaving Home

755

(1)

Linda Pastan

Constantly risking absurdity

756

(1)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Because I could not stop for Death

757

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Break, break, break

758

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sound and Meaning

759

(18)

Pease porridge hot

759

(1)

Anonymous

Song: Come unto these yellow sands

760

(1)

William Shakespeare

Splinter

761

(1)

Carl Sandburg

Upon Julia's Voice

762

(4)

Robert Herrick

The Span of Life

766

(3)

Robert Frost

Exercise

767

(2)

Sound and Sense

769

(1)

Alexander Pope

I heard a fly buzz when I died

769

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Heaven-Haven

770

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anthem for Doomed Youth

771

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Landcrab

772

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Eight O'Clock

773

(1)

A. E. Housman

At the round earth's imagined corners

773

(1)

John Donne

Blackberry Eating

774

(1)

Galway Kinnell

The Bench of Boors

775

(1)

Herman Melville

The Dance

775

(2)

William Carlos Williams

Exercise

776

(1)

Pattern

777

(18)

These are the days when birds come back

778

(2)

Emily Dickinson

An epicure dining at Crewe

780

(1)

Anonymous

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

781

(1)

John Keats

That time of year

782

(2)

William Shakespeare

Exercises

783

(1)

A Handful of Limericks

784

(1)

Anonymous

Two Japanese Haiku

785

(1)

Matsuo Basho/Moritake

Poem in October

786

(2)

Dylan Thomas

From Romeo and Juliet

788

(1)

William Shakespeare

Death, be not proud

789

(1)

John Donne

A Wreath

789

(1)

George Herbert

Acquainted with the Night

790

(1)

Robert Frost

The Story We Know

791

(1)

Martha Collins

Edward

792

(2)

Anonymous

A Christmas Tree

794

(1)

William Burford

Exercise

794

(1)

Bad Poetry and Good

795

(14)

God's Will for You and Me

799

(1)

Pied Beauty

800

(1)

A Poison Tree

800

(1)

The Most Vital Thing in Life

801

(1)

Longing

802

(1)

To Marguerite

802

(1)

The Long Voyage

803

(1)

Breathes there the man

803

(1)

The Engine

804

(1)

I like to see it lap the miles

804

(1)

Little Boy Blue

805

(1)

The Toys

806

(1)

Song: Sweetest love, I do not go

807

(1)

Song: Sweetest love, return again

808

(1)

Good Poetry and Great

809

(18)

The Canonization

811

(2)

John Donne

Home Burial

813

(3)

Robert Frost

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

816

(5)

T. S. Eliot

Sunday Morning

821

(6)

Wallace Stevens

Poems for Further Reading

827

(80)

Woman Work

829

(1)

Maya Angelou

Siren Song

829

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Musee des Beaux Arts

830

(1)

W. H. Auden

On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High

831

(1)

D. C. Berry

The Lamb

832

(1)

William Blake

The Tiger

832

(1)

William Blake

Low Barometer

833

(1)

Robert Bridges

The Dead

834

(1)

Rupter Brooke

If thou must love me

834

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Good Times

835

(1)

Lucille Clifton

The Lost Baby Poem

835

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Kubla Khan

836

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Money

837

(1)

Victor Contoski

The Listeners

838

(1)

Walter de la Mare

A light exists in spring

839

(1)

Emily Dickinson

A narrow fellow in the grass

840

(1)

Emily Dickinson

There's a certain slant of light

841

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Lipstick on the Mirror

841

(1)

Tom Disch

The Good-Morrow

842

(1)

John Donne

Song: Go and catch a falling star

843

(1)

John Donne

The Triple Fool

844

(1)

John Donne

Vergissmeinnicht

844

(1)

Keith Douglas

The Colonel

845

(1)

Carolyn Forche

Birches

846

(1)

Robert Frost

Desert Places

847

(1)

Robert Frost

Mending Wall

848

(1)

Robert Frost

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

849

(1)

Robert Frost

The Oven Bird

849

(1)

Robert Frost

Pushing

850

(1)

Christopher Gilbert

Nikki-Rosa

851

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

The Allegory of the Wolf Boy

851

(1)

Thom Gunn

On the Move

852

(1)

Thom Gunn

Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins

853

(1)

R. S. Gwynn

The Red Hat

854

(1)

Rachel Hadas

Channel Firing

855

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Darkling Thrush

856

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Dream of Fair Women

857

(1)

Ann Hayes

Redemption

857

(1)

George Herbert

Riddle

858

(1)

William Heyen

Two Different Things

859

(1)

Michael Hogan

To an Athlete Dying Young

860

(1)

A. E. Housman

Bredon Hill

861

(1)

A. E. Housman

Thistles

862

(1)

Ted Hughes

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field

862

(1)

Richard Hugo

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

863

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Song: To Celia

863

(1)

Ben Johnson

Warning

863

(1)

Jenny Joseph

La Belle Dame sans Merci

864

(1)

John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn

865

(2)

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

867

(2)

John Keats

The warden said to me

869

(1)

Etheridge Knight

The Sound of Night

869

(1)

Maxine Kumin

Aubade

870

(1)

Philip Larkin

Offspring

871

(1)

Naomi Long Madgett

Life with Father

872

(1)

Walter McDonald

What Are Years?

873

(1)

Marianne Moore

Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss

874

(1)

Thomas Nashe

what gramma said about her grandpa

875

(1)

nila northSun

The Victims

875

(1)

Sharon Olds

Speaking

876

(1)

Simon J. Ortiz

The Sad Children's Song

877

(1)

Grace Paley

The Hat Lady

877

(1)

Linda Pastan

The Imperfect Paradise

878

(1)

Linda Pastan

A Work of Artifice

879

(1)

Marge Piercy

Spinster

879

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Getting Through

880

(1)

Deborah Pope

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

881

(1)

John Crowe Ransom

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

882

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Living in Sin

882

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Nani

883

(1)

Alberto Rios

Mr. Flood's Party

884

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

885

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Sheaves

886

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I knew a woman

886

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Fear no more

887

(1)

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

888

(1)

William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes

888

(1)

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

889

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Fly

889

(1)

Karl Shapiro

Small Town with One Road

890

(1)

Gary Soto

The Beating

891

(1)

Ann Stanford

The Death of a Soldier

892

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

892

(1)

Wallace Stevens

The Snow Man

893

(1)

Wallace Stevens

A Description of the Morning

893

(1)

Jonathan Swift

From In Memoriam A. H. H.

894

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

894

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill

895

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Virgins

896

(1)

Derek Walcott

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

897

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Writer

897

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Poem

898

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Spring and All

899

(1)

William Carlos Williams

To Waken an Old Lady

900

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

900

(1)

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

901

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

901

(1)

William Wordsworth

Sailing to Byzantium

902

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming

903

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Wild Swans at Coole

904

(3)

William Butler Yeats

DRAMA The Elements of Drama

907

(370)

The Nature of Drama

909

(46)

Exercises and Topics for Discussion

912

(1)

General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation of Drama

913

(1)

Mind the Gap

914

(10)

Meredith Oakes

Unveiling

924

(18)

Vaclav Havel

Jan Novak

``M'' Is for Moon among Other Things

942

(6)

Tom Stoppard

The Sandbox

948

(7)

Edward Albee

Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama

955

(124)

Two Mens'es Daughter

960

(7)

J. e. Franklin

A Doll House

967

(58)

Henrik Ibsen

Otto Reinert

The Glass Menagerie

1025

(48)

Tennessee Williams

Naomi in the Living Room

1073

(6)

Christopher Durang

Tragedy and Comedy

1079

(198)

Oedipus Rex

1086

(44)

Sophocles

Dudley Fitts

Robert Fitzgerald

Othello, the Moor of Venice

1130

(88)

William Shakespeare

The Misanthrope

1218

(49)

Moliere

Richard Wilbur

Los Vendidos

1267

(10)

Luis Valdez

Plays for Further Reading

1277

(166)

The Cherry Orchard

1279

(41)

Anton Chekhov

Michael Frayn

Death of a Salesman

1320

(71)

Arthur Miller

Fences

1391

(52)

August Wilson

Appendix: Writing about Literature

1443

(40)

Glossary of Terms

1483

(26)

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines

1509

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