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Prentice Hall Literature: The British Tradition Timeless Voices Timeless Themes

ISBN: 9780131804371 | 0131804375
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL GROUP
Pub. Date: 4/1/2004

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Table of Contents
Unit 1 From Legend to History: The Old English and Medieval Periods (A.D. 449-1485)
Introduction
2(10)
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The Changing English Language: The Beginnings of English
12(4)
Richard Lederer
Earthly Exile, Heavenly Home
Comparing Literary Works
The Seafarer . . . Poem
16(5)
Burton Raffel
The Wanderer . . . Poem
21(4)
Charles W. Kennedy
The Wife's Lament . . . Poem
25(6)
Ann Stanford, Translator
Connections: Literature Around the World
from Tristia Poem
31(3)
Far Corners of Earth Poem
34(4)
Focus on Literary Forms: The Epic
from Beowulf
Burton Raffel
The Wrath of Grendel . . . Epic
38(3)
The Coming of Beowulf . . . Epic
41(5)
The Battle with Grendel . . . Epic
46(3)
The Monsters' Lair . . . Epic
49(1)
The Battle with Grendel's Mother . . . Epic
50(4)
The Last Battle . . . Epic
54(4)
The Spoils . . . Epic
58(1)
The Farewell . . . Epic
59(6)
Connections: Literature Around the World
from Gilgamesh
David Ferry
The Prologue . . . Epic
65(2)
from the Iliad
The Battle of Hektor and Achilleus . . . Epic
67(7)
A National Spirit
Comparing Literary Works
from A History of the English
Church and People . . . Nonfiction
74(5)
from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . . . Nonfiction
79(8)
Anne Savage
Reading Informational Materials: Maps
Literary Map of Great Britain and Ireland . . . Map
87(5)
A Closer Look
Chaucer's Guided Tour of Medieval Life and Literature
92(2)
from The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Prologue . . . Poem
94(25)
The Nun's Priest's Tale . . . Poem
119(22)
The Pardoner's Tale . . . Poem
141(14)
Connections: Literature Past and Present
Elizabeth II: A New Queen . . . Nonfiction
155(7)
Perils and Adventures
Comparing Literary Works
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . . . Poem
162(14)
Marie Borroff
from Morte d'Arthur . . . Fiction
176(14)
Sir Thomas Malory
Comparing Literary Works
Letters of Margaret Paston . . . Nonfiction
190(4)
Margaret Paston
The Twa Corbies . . . Poem
194(1)
Anonymous
Lord Randall . . . Poem
195(1)
Anonymous
Get Up and Bar the Door . . . Poem
196(2)
Anonymous
Barbara Allan . . . Poem
198(6)
Anonymous
Connections: Literature Around the World
from The Nibelungenlied
A.T. Hatto
How Siegfried Was Slain . . . Epic
204(18)
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Analyze Literary Periods
212(2)
Writing Workshop: Narration: Autobiographical Narrative
214(4)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Delivering Autobiographical Presentations
218(1)
Assessment Workshop: Sequential Order
219(3)
Unit 2 Celebrating Humanity: The English Renaissance Period (485-1625)
Introduction
222(10)
The Changing English Language: ``A Man of Fire-New Words''
232(4)
Richard Lederer
Lovers and Their Lines
Comparing Literary Works
Sonnet 1 . . . Poem
236(1)
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 35 . . . Poem
237(1)
Sonnet 75 . . . Poem
238(1)
Sonnet 31 . . . Poem
239(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 39 . . . Poem
240(5)
Pastoral Poetry
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love . . . Poem
245(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd . . . Poem
245(2)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Reading Informational Materials: Position Statements
from The Defense of Poesy . . . Position Statement
247(5)
Sir Philip Sidney
Comparing Literary Works
Sonnet 29 . . . Poem
252(2)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 106 . . . Poem
254(1)
Sonnet 116 . . . Poem
255(1)
Sonnet 130 . . . Poem
256(4)
Connections: Literature Past and Present
Sonnet 18 . . . Poem
260(1)
Francesco Petrarch
Sonnet 28 . . . Poem
261(1)
Sonnet 69 . . . Poem
261(1)
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet 89 . . . Poem
262(4)
The Influence of the Monarchy
Comparing Literary Works
from Utopia . . . Fiction
266(2)
Sir Thomas More
Speech Before Her Troops . . . Speech
268(8)
Queen Elizabeth I
Comparing Literary Works
from The King James Bible: Psalm 23 . . . Scripture
276(2)
King James
from The Sermon on the Mount . . . Scripture
278(1)
The Parable of the Prodigal Son . . . Scripture
279(6)
Connections: Literature and Media
from A Man for All Seasons . . . Screenplay
285(5)
Robert Bolt
Focus on Literary Forms: Drama
A Closer Look
The Elizabethan Theater
290(2)
Shakespeare on Stage
292(2)
Shakespeare on Film
294(6)
The Tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Act I . . . Drama
300(21)
Act II . . . Drama
321(16)
Act III . . . Drama
337(18)
Act IV . . . Drama
355(20)
Act V . . . Drama
375(18)
Connections: Literature Around the World
from Oedipus the King . . . Drama
393(15)
Sophocles
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Compare and Contrast Literary Trends
398(2)
Writing Workshop: Persuasion: Persuasive Essay
400(4)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Analyzing Advertising
404(1)
Assessment Workshop: Forms of Propaganda
405(3)
Unit 3 A Turbulent Time: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1625-1798)
Introduction
408(10)
The Changing English Language: No Harmless Drudge, He
418(4)
Richard Lederer
The War Against Time
Comparing Literary Works
Song . . . Poem
422(2)
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning . . . Poem
424(2)
Holy Sonnet 10 . . . Poem
426(2)
Meditation 17 . . . Poem
428(8)
Comparing Literary Works
On My First Son . . . Poem
436(2)
Ben Jonson
Still To Be Neat . . . Poem
438(2)
Song: To Celia . . . Poem
440(6)
Comparing Literary Works
To His Coy Mistress . . . Poem
446(3)
Andrew Marvell
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time . . . Poem
449(1)
Robert Herrick
Song . . . Poem
450(5)
Sir John Suckling
Connections: Literature and Music
Freeze Tag . . . Song
455(2)
Suzanne Vega
New Beginning . . . Song
457(5)
Tracy Chapman
A Nation Divided
Making ``Darkness Visible'': Milton's Epic Ambition
462(2)
Comparing Literary Works
Sonnet VII (``How soon hath Time'') . . . Poem
464(2)
John Milton
Sonnet XIX (``When I consider how my light is spent . . .'') . . . Poem
466(2)
from Paradise Lost . . . Epic
468(14)
Comparing Literary Works
from Eve's Apology in Defense of Women . . . Poem
482(2)
Amelia Lanier
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars . . . Poem
484(1)
Richard Lovelace
To Althea, From Prison . . . Poem
485(5)
Connections: Literature and Media
from Cromwell: The Movie . . . Screenplay
490(6)
Ken Hughes
The Ties That Bind
Comparing Literary Works
from The Diary . . . Nonfiction
496(7)
Samuel Pepys
from A Journal of the Plague Year . . . Fiction
503(11)
Daniel Defoe
Comparing Literary Works
from Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
from A Voyage to Lilliput . . . Fiction
514(6)
from A Voyage to Brobdingnag . . . Fiction
520(10)
Comparing Literary Works
from An Essay on Man . . . Poem
530(2)
Alexander Pope
from The Rape of the Lock . . . Poem
532(16)
Comparing Literary Works
from A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
from The Preface . . . Nonfiction
548(3)
Selected Entries from A Dictionary Of The English Language . . . Nonfiction
551(3)
from The Life of Samuel Johnson . . . Nonfiction
554(11)
James Boswell
Reading Informational Materials: Scientific Reports
Letter on Light and Color . . . Scientific Report
565(5)
Sir Isaac Newton
Comparing Literary Works
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . . . Poem
570(6)
Thomas Gray
A Nocturnal Reverie . . . Poem
576(7)
Anne Finch
Connections: Literature Around the World
from The Analects . . . Philosophy
583(1)
from The Declaration of Independence . . . Nonfiction
584(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Focus on Literary Forms: The Essay
Comparing Literary Works
On Spring . . . Nonfiction
588(4)
Samuel Johnson
The Aims of the Spectator . . . Nonfiction
592(7)
Joseph Addison
Connections: Literature Past and Present
Homeless . . . Nonfiction
599(13)
Anna Quindlen
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Compare and Contrast Literary Themes
602(2)
Writing Workshop: Narration: Reflective Essay
604(4)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Analyzing Persuasive Techniques
608(1)
Assessment Workshop: Writer's Point of View
609(3)
Unit 4 Rebels and Dreamers: The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
Introduction
612(10)
The Changing English Language: The Romantic Age
622(4)
Richard Lederer
Fantasy and Reality
Comparing Literary Works
To a Mouse . . . Poem
626(3)
Robert Burns
To a Louse . . . Poem
629(3)
Woo'd and Married and A' . . . Poem
632(8)
Joanna Baillie
Comparing Literary Works
The Lamb . . . Poem
640(1)
William Blake
The Tyger . . . Poem
641(2)
The Chimney Sweeper . . . Poem
643(1)
Infant Sorrow . . . Poem
644(6)
Introduction to Frankenstein . . . Nonfiction
650(8)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Connections: Literature Around the World
The Oval Portrait . . . Short Story
658(6)
Edgar Allan Poe
Focus on Literary Forms: Lyric Poetry
A Closer Look
Poetry and Friendship in the Romantic Age
664(2)
Comparing Literary Works
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey . . . Poem
666(6)
from The Prelude . . . Poem
672(3)
The World Is Too Much with Us . . . Poem
675(1)
London, 1802 . . . Poem
676(5)
Reading Informational Materials: Book Reviews
Early Reviews of Wordsworth . . . Book Review
681(5)
Francis Jeffrey
Comparing Literary Works
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . . . Poem
686(24)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan . . . Poem
710(8)
Comparing Literary Works
She Walks in Beauty . . . Poem
718(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Apostrophe to the Ocean . . . Poem
720(4)
from Don Juan . . . Poem
724(8)
Comparing Literary Works
Ozymandias . . . Poem
732(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind . . . Poem
734(3)
To a Skylark . . . Poem
737(9)
Comparing Literary Works
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer . . . Poem
746(2)
John Keats
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be . . . Poem
748(2)
Ode to a Nightingale . . . Poem
750(4)
Ode on a Grecian Urn . . . Poem
754(7)
Connections: Literature Around the World
The Lorelei . . . Poem
761(1)
Heinrich Heine
Haiku Poem
762(1)
Basho
Haiku . . . Poem
763(1)
Yosa Buson
Haiku . . . Poem
764(4)
Kobayashi Issa
The Reaction to Society's Ills
Comparing Literary Works
Speech to Parliament: In Defense of the Lower Classes . . . Speech
768(3)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
A Song: ``Men of England'' . . . Poem
771(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
On the Passing of the Reform Bill . . . Nonfiction
772(8)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Comparing Literary Works
On Making an Agreeable Marriage . . . Nonfiction
780(4)
Jane Austen
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman . . . Nonfiction
784(7)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Connections: Literature and Media
from Sense and Sensibility . . . Screenplay
791(13)
Emma Thompson
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Evaluate Literary Trends
794(2)
Writing Workshop: Workplace Writing: Job Portfolio (Cover Letter and Resume)
796(4)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Critiquing Persuasive Devices
800(1)
Assessment Workshop: Critical Reasoning
801(3)
Unit 5 Progress and Decline: The Victorian Period (1833-1901)
Introduction
804(10)
The Changing English Language: The Victorian Age
814(4)
Richard Lederer
Relationships
Comparing Literary Works
from In Memoriam, A.H.H. . . . Poem
818(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott . . . Poem
821(6)
from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears . . . Poem
827(1)
Ulysses . . . Poem
828(8)
Comparing Literary Works
My Last Duchess . . . Poem
836(3)
Robert Browning
Life in a Love . . . Poem
839(1)
Love Among the Ruins . . . Poem
840(4)
Sonnet 43 . . . Poem
844(5)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Connections: Literature Around the World
You Know the Place: Then . . . Poem
849(1)
Invitation to the Voyage . . . Poem
850(6)
Charles Baudelaire
Focus on Literary Forms: The Novel
A Closer Look
The Curious Workshop of Charles Dickens: Making Myths
856(2)
Comparing Literary Works
from Hard Times . . . Fiction
858(7)
Charles Dickens
from Jane Eyre . . . Fiction
865(12)
Charlotte Bronte
Connections: Literature Around the World
from War and Peace . . . Fiction
877(7)
Leo Tolstoy
The Empire and Its Discontents
Comparing Literary Works
Dover Beach . . . Poem
884(2)
Matthew Arnold
Recessional . . . Poem
886(3)
Rudyard Kipling
The Widow at Windsor . . . Poem
889(7)
Comparing Literary Works
Condition of Ireland . . . Nonfiction
896(4)
Progress in Personal Comfort . . . Nonfiction
900(7)
Sydney Smith
Reading Informational Materials: Web Sites
The Victorian Web Web . . . Site
907(4)
George Landow
Connections: Literature Past and Present
Opening Statement for the Inaugural Session of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation . . . Speech
911(7)
Judge Catherine McGuinness
Gloom and Glory
Comparing Literary Works
Remembrance . . . Poem
918(3)
Emily Bronte
The Darkling Thrush . . . Poem
921(2)
Thomas Hardy
``Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?'' . . . Poem
923(7)
Comparing Literary Works
God's Grandeur . . . Poem
930(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child . . . Poem
932(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young . . . Poem
933(1)
A. E. Housman
When I Was One-and-Twenty . . . Poem
934(4)
Connections: Literature Around the World
Eternity . . . Poem
938(14)
Arthur Rimbaud
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Analyze Literary Periods
940(2)
Writing Workshop: Research: Research Paper
942(6)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Delivering a Persuasive Speech
948(1)
Assessment Workshop: Paired Passages
949(3)
Unit 6 A Time of Rapid Change: The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901--Present)
Introduction
952(10)
The Changing English Language: Britspeak, A to Zed
962(4)
Richard Lederer
Waking From the Dream
Comparing Literary Works
When You Are Old . . . Poem
966(2)
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree . . . Poem
968(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole . . . Poem
969(2)
The Second Coming . . . Poem
971(2)
Sailing to Byzantium . . . Poem
973(7)
A Closer Look
Modernism and Beyond
980(2)
Comparing Literary Works
Preludes . . . Poem
982(2)
T. S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi . . . Poem
984(2)
A Closer Look
Critical Commentary on ``The Hollow Men''
986(3)
The Hollow Men . . . Poem
989(9)
Comparing Literary Works
In Memory of W. B. Yeats . . . Poem
998(4)
W. H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts . . . Poem
1002(2)
Carrick Revisited . . . Poem
1004(3)
Louis MacNeice
Not Palaces . . . Poem
1007(6)
Stephen Spender
Reading Informational Materials: Mission Statements
The National Gallery: Role and Objectives . . . Mission Statement
1013(5)
Shooting an Elephant . . . Nonfiction
1018(14)
George Orwell
The Demon Lover Short . . . Story
1032(11)
Elizabeth Bowen
Connections: Literature Around the World
The Diameter of the Bomb . . . Poem
1043(1)
Yehuda Amichai
Everything Is Plundered . . . Poem
1044(2)
Anna Akhmatova
Testament . . . Poem
1046(4)
Bei Dao
Conflicts Abroad and at Home
Comparing Literary Works
The Soldier . . . Poem
1050(2)
Rupert Brooke
Wirers . . . Poem
1052(1)
Siegfried Sassoon
Anthem for Doomed Youth . . . Poem
1053(1)
Wilfred Owen
Birds on the Western Front . . . Nonfiction
1054(10)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Comparing Literary Works
Wartime Speech . . . Speech
1064(4)
Sir Winston Churchill
Defending Nonviolent Resistance . . . Speech
1068(10)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Fiddle Short . . . Story
1078(12)
Alan Sillitoe
The Distant Past Short . . . Story
1090(14)
William Trevor
Comparing Literary Works
Follower . . . Poem
1104(3)
Seamus Heaney
Two Lorries . . . Poem
1107(2)
Outside History . . . Poem
1109(7)
Eavan Boland
No Witchcraft for Sale Short . . . Story
1116(11)
Doris Lessing
Connections: Literature Past and Present
The Rights We Enjoy, the Duties We Owe . . . Nonfiction
1127(7)
Tony Blair
Focus on Literary Forms: The Short Story
Comparing Literary Works
The Lagoon . . . Short Story
1134(13)
Joseph Conrad
Araby . . . Short Story
1147(11)
James Joyce
Comparing Literary Works
The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection . . . Short Story
1158(6)
Virginia Woolf
The First Year of My Life . . . Short Story
Muriel Spark
1164(12)
Comparing Literary Works
The Rocking-Horse Winner . . . Short Story
1176(14)
D. H. Lawrence
A Shocking Accident . . . Short Story
1190(8)
Graham Greene
Connections: Literature Around the World
The Book of Sand . . . Short Story
1198(8)
Jorge Luis Borges
From the National to the Global
Comparing Literary Works
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night . . . Poem
1206(2)
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill . . . Poem
1208(2)
The Horses . . . Poem
1210(3)
Ted Hughes
The Rain Horse . . . Short Story
1213(13)
Comparing Literary Works
An Arundel Tomb . . . Poem
1226(2)
Philip Larkin
The Explosion . . . Poem
1228(2)
On the Patio . . . Poem
1230(2)
Peter Redgrove
Not Waving but Drowning . . . Poem
1232(6)
Stevie Smith
B. Wordsworth . . . Short Story
1238(12)
V.S. Naipaul
The Train from Rhodesia . . . Short Story
1250(10)
Nadine Gordimer
Comparing Literary Works
from Midsummer XXIII . . . Poem
1260(2)
Derek Walcott
from Omeros: from Chapter XXVIII . . . Poem
1262(3)
From Lucy: Englan' Lady . . . Poem
1265(7)
James Berry
A Devoted Son . . . Short Story
1272(16)
Anita Desai
from We'll Never Conquer Space . . . Nonfiction
1288(10)
Arthur C. Clarke
Skills Workshops
Writing About Literature: Evaluate Literary Trends
1298(2)
Writing Workshop: Exposition: Multimedia Report
1300(4)
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Analyzing Bias in News Media
1304(1)
Assessment Workshop: Strategy, Organization, and Style
1305
Resources
Suggestions for Sustained Reading
1(6)
Glossary
7(3)
Tips for Improving Reading Fluency
10(2)
Literary Terms Handbook
12(10)
Grammar and Mechanics Handbook
22(6)
Internet Research Handbook
28(2)
Citing Sources
30(2)
Rubric Handbook
32(4)
Preparing for College Entrance and AP™ Exams
36(3)
College Application Essays
39(1)
Writing About Literature
40(5)
Formatting Business Letters
45(1)
Commonly Misspelled Words
46(1)
Indexes
47(8)
Acknowledgments (continued)
55(1)
Credits
58


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