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ISBN: 9780073252117 | 0073252115
Edition: 6th
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 12/20/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
DiYanni'sLiterature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Dramafeatures student-centered approaches to literature -- from experience to interpretation to evaluation -- and an emphasis on making connections between texts and thinking critically about literature. Known for its clear presentation of the formal elements of literature and literary analysis, this anthology effectively balances classic, modern, and contemporary works across the three major genres, blending well-known writers with a diverse gathering of newer, international figures. This liter... MORE
About the Authoriii
Brief Contentsvii
Prefacexxxvii
INTRODUCTION: LITERATURE: READING, WRITING, AND CRITICAL THINKING
1(24)
... MORE
Critical Thinking and the Pleasures of Literature
1(9)
The Pleasures of Fiction
2(1)
Thinking Critically about a Story
2(1)
Learning to Be Silent
3(2)
Critical Thinking and Contexts: Learning to Be Silent
5(1)
The Pleasures of Poetry
5(1)
Thinking Critically about a Poem
6(1)
Robert Frost Dust of Snow
6(1)
Critical Thinking and Contexts: Dust of Snow
7(1)
The Pleasures of Drama
8(1)
Drama and Imaginative Thinking
8(1)
Critical Thinking and Oprah's Book Club: An Exercise
9(1)
Approaching Literature with Critical Thinking: Experience, Interpretation, Evaluation
10(2)
Critical Thinking and Context: Hemingway's Sketch
12(1)
Critical Thinking and Writing about Literature
12(13)
Reasons for Writing about Literature
13(1)
Ways of Writing about Literature
13(4)
The Writing Process
17(2)
Stephen Crane War Is Kind
19(1)
Ironic Contrasts in Crane's War Is Kind
20(1)
War at Home and on the Battlefield
21(4)
PART ONE FICTION
25(2)
READING AND WRITING ABOUT FICTION
27(103)
Reading Stories
27(16)
Luke The Prodigal Son
27(1)
The Experience of Fiction
28(1)
The Interpretation of Fiction
29(2)
Reading in Context
30(1)
The Evaluation of Fiction
31(6)
John Updike A & P
32(5)
The Act of Reading Fiction
37(6)
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
38(5)
Types of Short Fiction
43(6)
Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale
43(3)
Aesop The Wolf and the Mastiff
44(1)
Petronius The Widow of Ephesus
44(2)
The Short Story
46(1)
The Nonrealistic Story
47(1)
The Short Novel
47(2)
Elements of Fiction
49(62)
Plot and Structure
49(10)
Frank O'Connor Guests of the Nation
51(8)
Character
59(7)
Kay Boyle Astronomer's Wife
62(4)
Setting
66(11)
Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh
67(10)
Point of View
77(8)
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
79(6)
Language and Style
85(5)
James Joyce Araby
86(4)
Theme
90(7)
Eudora Welty A Worn Path
91(6)
Irony and Symbol
97(14)
Irony
97(2)
Symbol
99(1)
D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner
100(11)
Writing about Fiction
111(19)
Reasons for Writing about Fiction
111(1)
Informal Ways of Writing about Fiction
111(5)
Annotation
112(1)
Katherine Anne Porter Magic
112(3)
Freewriting
115(1)
Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction
116(14)
Student Papers on Fiction
117(8)
Questions for Writing About Fiction
125(2)
Suggestions for Writing
127(3)
THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT FICTION
130(189)
Three Fiction Writers in Context
130(130)
Reading Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and Sandra Cisneros in Depth
130(2)
Edgar Allan Poe in Context
132(5)
Poe and Journalism
132(1)
Poe and the Horror Story
133(1)
Poe and the Detective Story
134(1)
The Dimension of Style
135(2)
Edgar Allan Poe: Stories
137(38)
The Black Cat
137(7)
The Cask of Amontillado
144(5)
The Fall of the House of Usher
149(13)
The Purloined Letter
162(13)
Edgar Allan Poe: Essays
175(3)
The Short Story
175(1)
True Poetry
176(1)
The Imp of the Perverse
177(1)
Critics on Poe
178(6)
Daniel Hoffman On ``The Purloined Letter''
178(2)
Christopher Benfey On ``The Black Cat'' and ``The Tell-Tale Heart''
180(1)
Louise J. Kaplan On ``The Fall of the House of Usher''
181(2)
David S. Reynolds On ``The Cask of Amontillado''
183(1)
Flannery O'Connor in Context
184(4)
Southern Gothic
185(1)
The Catholic Dimension
185(1)
O'Connor's Irony
186(2)
Flannery O'Connor: Stories
188(44)
Good Country People
188(14)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
202(11)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
213(10)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
223(9)
Flannery O'Connor: Essays and Letters
232(3)
On Symbol and Theme
232(1)
From a letter to Dr. T. R. Spivey, May 25, 1959, On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''
233(1)
From a letter to a Professor of English, March 28, 1961, On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''
233(1)
On ``Good Country People''
233(2)
Critics on O'Connor
235(3)
Frederick Asals On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''
235(1)
Kathleen Feeley On ``Good Country People''
236(1)
Dorothy Tuck Mcfarland On ``Everything That Rises Must Converge''
237(1)
Sandra Cisneros in Context
238(3)
Culture and Identity
238(1)
Literature of the American Southwest
239(1)
The Feminist Dimension
239(2)
Sandra Cisneros: Stories
241(13)
Eleven
241(2)
Barbie-Q
243(2)
There Was a Man, There Was a Woman
245(1)
Woman Hollering Creek
246(8)
Cisneros on Herself
254(3)
Becoming a Latina Writer
254(2)
On Writing
256(1)
Critics on Cisneros
257(3)
Jeff Thompson On Identity in Cisneros
257(1)
Robin Ganz On Woman Hollering Creek
258(2)
Literary Nonfiction
260(44)
What Is Literary Nonfiction?
260(1)
An Album of Literary Nonfiction
261(43)
Rick Bragg 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways
261(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer Silent Dancing
265(7)
Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels
272(4)
Mary Karr From The Liars' Club
276(5)
Chang-Rae Lee Coming Home Again
281(8)
James McBride Shul/School
289(11)
Zadie Smith Times Five
300(4)
Envisioning Narrative
304(15)
Visual Stories
304(1)
An Album of Visual Narratives
305(14)
Charles Schulz Peanuts
306(2)
Marjane Satrapi The Veil
308(4)
Rachel Masilamani Two Kinds of People
312(7)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION
319(442)
A Collection of Contemporary Fiction
319(53)
Sherman Alexie Indian Education
320(5)
T. C. Boyle After the Plague
325(15)
Gish Jen Who's Irish?
340(8)
Jhumpa Lahiri Hell-Heaven
348(14)
Maile Meloy Ranch Girl
362(5)
Carol Shields Dressing Up for the Carnival
367(5)
A Selection of World Fiction
372(43)
Chinua Achebe Marriage Is a Private Affair
373(5)
Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of Forking Paths
378(7)
Ha Jin Taking a Husband
385(12)
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
397(2)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
399(5)
Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool
404(11)
For Further Reading
415(346)
Julia Alvarez The Kiss
416(8)
Margaret Atwood Happy Endings
424(3)
Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson
427(6)
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
433(22)
Raymond Carver Cathedral
455(11)
Anton Chekhov The Lady with the Little Dog
466(11)
Kate Chopin The Storm
477(5)
Stephen Crane The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
482(9)
Andre Dubus Killings
491(13)
Ralph Ellison Battle Royal
504(11)
William Faulkner Barn Burning
515(12)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited
527(15)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
542(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
553(10)
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
563(4)
Zora Neale Hurston Spunk
567(5)
Shirley Jackson The Lottery
572(7)
James Joyce The Boarding House
579(5)
James Joyce The Dead
584(28)
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
612(30)
Katherine Mansfield Bliss
642(10)
Lorrie Moore How to Become a Writer
652(6)
Alice Munro Friend of My Youth
658(14)
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
672(12)
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
684(13)
Frank O'Connor My Oedipus Complex
697(9)
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing
706(6)
Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
712(7)
Leslie Silko Yellow Woman
719(7)
John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums
726(8)
Amy Tan Rules of the Game
734(9)
Alice Walker Everyday Use
743(7)
Eudora Welty Why I Live at the P.O.
750(11)
PART TWO POETRY
761(2)
READING AND WRITING ABOUT POETRY
763(99)
Reading Poems
763(12)
The Experience of Poetry
764(1)
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays
764(1)
The Interpretation of Poetry
765(4)
Robert Frost Stopping by the Woods On a Snowy Evening
767(2)
The Evaluation of Poetry
769(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks A Song in the Front Yard
771(1)
The Act of Reading Poetry
772(3)
Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz
773(2)
Types of Poetry
775(4)
Narrative Poetry
775(2)
Lyric Poetry
777(2)
Elements of Poetry
779(64)
Voice: Speaker and Tone
779(8)
Stephen Crane War Is Kind
780(1)
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
781(2)
Muriel Stuart In the Orchard
783(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins [Thou art indeed just, Lord]
784(1)
Anonymous Western Wind
785(1)
Henry Reed Naming of Parts
785(1)
Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
786(1)
Diction
787(6)
William Wordsworth [I wandered lonely as a cloud]
788(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy
790(2)
William Wordsworth It is a beauteous evening
792(1)
Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder
792(1)
Imagery
793(6)
Elizabeth Bishop First Death in Nova Scotia
794(2)
William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree
796(1)
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
797(1)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Heat
797(1)
Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones
798(1)
Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor
799(5)
William Shakespeare That time of year thou may'st in me behold
800(1)
John Donne Hymn to God the Father
801(1)
Robert Wallace The Double Play
802(1)
Louis Simpson The Battle
803(1)
Judith Wright Woman to Child
804(1)
Symbolism and Allegory
804(6)
Peter Meinke Advice to My Son
805(2)
Christina Rossetti Up-Hill
807(1)
William Blake A Poison Tree
807(1)
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
808(1)
George Herbert Virtue
809(1)
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death
810(1)
Syntax
810(7)
John Donne The Sun Rising
811(2)
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed
813(1)
William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
814(1)
Robert Frost The Silken Tent
815(1)
e. e. cummings ``Me up at does''
816(1)
Stevie Smith Mother, among the Dustbins
816(1)
Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance
817(7)
Gerard Manley Hopkins In the Valley of the Elwy
819(1)
Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain
820(1)
Alexander Pope Sound and Sense
821(1)
Bob McKenty Adam's Song
822(1)
May Swenson The Universe
823(1)
Helen Chasin The Word Plum
824(1)
Rhythm and Meter
824(8)
Robert Frost The Span of Life
825(3)
Metrical Variation
828(2)
George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib
830(1)
Anne Sexton Her Kind
831(1)
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
831(1)
Structure: Closed Form and Open Form
832(9)
John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
833(1)
Walt Whitman When I heard the learn'd astronomer
834(1)
e.e. cummings 1(a
835(1)
e.e. cummings [Buffalo Bill's]
836(1)
William Carlos Williams The Dance
837(1)
Denise Levertov O Taste and See
838(1)
Theodore Roethke The Waking
838(1)
Christine K. Molito Reflections in Black & Blue
839(1)
C. P. Cavafy The City
840(1)
Theme
841(2)
Emily Dickinson Crumbling is not an instant's Act
841(2)
Writing about Poetry
843(19)
Reasons for Writing about Poetry
843(1)
Informal Ways of Writing about Poetry
843(3)
Annotation
844(1)
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays
844(1)
Freewriting
844(1)
Robert Graves Symptoms of Love
845(1)
Formal Ways of Writing about Poetry
846(16)
Sylvia Plath Mirror
847(1)
Student Papers on Poetry
848(1)
A Paper That Compares Two Versions of a Poem
849(9)
Questions for Writing about Poetry
858(1)
Suggestions for Writing
859(3)
THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT POETRY
862(165)
Transformations
862(41)
Revisions
862(10)
William Blake London
863(3)
William Butler Yeats A Dream of Death
866(1)
Emily Dickinson The Wind begun to knead the Grass
867(1)
D. H. Lawrence The Piano
868(3)
Langston Hughes Ballad of Booker T.
871(1)
Parodies
872(3)
William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say
872(1)
Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
873(1)
William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
874(1)
Howard Moss Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
874(1)
Robert Frost Dust of Snow
875(1)
Bob McKenty Snow on Frost
875(1)
Translations
875(9)
Catullus Vivamus, mea Lesbia, et amemus (We should live, my Lesbia, and love)
876(1)
Francesco Petrarca S' amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' io sento? (If it's not love, then what is it I feel?)
877(2)
Rainer Maria Rilke Der Panther (The Panther)
879(2)
Guillaume Apollinaire Le Pont Mirabeau (Mirabeau Bridge)
881(2)
Juan Ramon Jimenez Nocturno Sonado (Dream Nocturne)
883(1)
Responses (Point-Counterpoint)
884(8)
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
884(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
885(1)
William Shakespeare Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
886(1)
Archibald MaCleish ``Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments''
886(1)
William Blake The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)
887(1)
The Chimney Sweeper (Experience)
888(1)
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
889(1)
Anthony Hecht The Dover Bitch: a Criticism of Life
890(1)
William Carlos Williams Queen-Ann's-Lace
891(1)
Anne C. Coon Queen Anne's Lace
891(1)
Adaptations (Poetry and Song)
892(11)
From Ecclesiastes: 3.1--8 To Everything There Is a Season
893(1)
Pete Seeger Turn! Turn! Turn!
893(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
894(1)
Paul Simon Richard Cory
895(1)
Langston Hughes Dream Deferred
896(1)
Same in Blues
896(1)
Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land
897(1)
Bessie Smith Lost Your Head Blues
898(1)
Lonnelle Johnson No Mo' Blues
899(1)
Sonia Sanchez Blues
900(1)
John Newton Amazing Grace
900(1)
Don McLean Vincent
901(2)
Envisioning Poetry
903(4)
Poems and Paintings
903(4)
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night
Anne Sexton The Starry Night
Francisco de Goya The Third of May, 1808
David Gewanter Goya's ``The Third of May, 1808''
Pieter Breughel the Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
W. H. Auden Musee des Beaux Arts
William Carlos Williams Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
William Blake The Sick Rose
Henri Matisse Dance
Natalie Safir Matisse's Dance
Jan Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Jug
Stephen Mitchell Vermeer
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase
X. J. Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase
Rembrandt van Rijn The Return of the Prodigal Son
Elizabeth Bishop The Prodigal
Utamaro Girl Powdering Her Neck
Cathy Song Girl Powdering Her Neck
Romare Bearden At Five in the Afternoon
Federico Garcia Lorca Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
Giorgio de Chirico The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
Roy Jacobstein The Mystery and the Melancholy of the Street
Lun-Yi Tsai Disbelief
Lucille Clifton tuesday 9/11/01
Three Poets in Context
907(120)
Reading Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes in Depth
907(2)
Emily Dickinson in Context
909(5)
The Nineteenth-Century New England Literary Scene
909(1)
Dickinson and Modern Poetry
910(1)
Dickinson and Christianity
911(1)
Dickinson's Style
911(1)
Emily Dickinson I cannot dance upon my Toes
912(1)
Emily Dickinson The Soul selects her own Society
912(2)
Emily Dickinson: Poems
914(28)
Success is counted sweetest
914(1)
Surgeons must be very careful
914(1)
These are the days when Birds come back---
914(1)
Water, is taught by thirst
915(1)
``Faith'' is a fine invention
915(1)
I'm ``wife''---I've finished that
916(1)
I taste a liquor never brewed
917(1)
I like a look of Agony
918(1)
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!
918(1)
I can wade Grief
919(1)
There's a certain Slant of light
919(1)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
920(1)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
920(1)
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
921(1)
A Bird came down the Walk
921(1)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
922(1)
I dreaded that first Robin, so
923(1)
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
924(1)
We grow accustomed to the Dark
925(1)
Much Madness is divinest Sense
925(1)
This was a Poet---It is That
925(1)
I died for Beauty---but was scarce
926(1)
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died
926(1)
``Why do I love'' You, Sir?
927(1)
This World is not Conclusion
927(1)
I'm ceded---I've stopped being Theirs
928(1)
The Soul has Bandaged moments
928(1)
The Heart asks Pleasure---first
929(1)
I reckon---when I count at all
929(1)
I like to see it lap the Miles
930(1)
There is a pain---so utter
930(1)
The Brain---is wider than the sky
931(1)
Pain---has an Element of Blank
931(1)
I dwell in Possibility
931(1)
``Nature'' is what we see
932(1)
Remorse---is Memory---awake
933(1)
My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun
934(1)
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
934(1)
Further in Summer than the Birds
935(1)
The Bustle in a House
936(1)
The last Night that She lived
936(2)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
938(1)
A Spider sewed at Night
939(1)
A Route of Evanescence
939(1)
Apparently with no surprise
939(1)
Volcanoes be in Sicily
940(1)
My life closed twice before its close
941(1)
Three Dickinson Poems with Altered Punctuation
942(1)
Poems Inspired by Dickinson
943(4)
Jane Kenyon Notes from the Other Side
943(1)
Jane Hirshfield Three Times My Life Has Opened
944(1)
Billy Collins Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
944(2)
Francis Heaney Skinny Domicile
946(1)
Linda Pastan Emily Dickinson
946(1)
Dickinson on Herself and Her First Poems
947(1)
Letter to Thomas Higginson
947(1)
Critics on Dickinson
948(5)
Allen Tate Dickinson and Knowledge
948(1)
Judith Farr On ``Wild Nights''
949(2)
Allen Tate On ``Because I Could Not Stop for Death''
951(1)
Helen Mcneil Dickinson's Method
952(1)
Robert Frost in Context
953(5)
Frost and Popularity
954(2)
Frost and Nature
956(1)
Frost and the Sonnet
956(2)
Frost's Voices
958(1)
Robert Frost: Poems
958(21)
The Tuft of Flowers
958(2)
Mending Wall
960(1)
Birches
961(2)
Home Burial
963(4)
After Apple-Picking
967(1)
Putting in the Seed
968(1)
Two Look at Two
968(2)
Fire and Ice
970(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
971(1)
Acquainted with the Night
972(1)
Tree at my Window
973(1)
Departmental
974(1)
Design
975(1)
Desert Places
976(1)
Provide, Provide
977(2)
Poets Inspired by Frost
979(4)
Edward Thomas When First
979(1)
W.S. Merwin Unknown Bird
979(2)
Seamus Heaney The Forge
981(1)
Neal Bowers Driving Lessons
981(2)
Critical Comments by Frost
983(2)
From ``The Figure a Poem Makes''
983(1)
From ``The Constant Symbol''
984(1)
From ``The Unmade Word, Or Fetching and Far-Fetching''
985(1)
Critics on Frost
985(4)
William Pritchard On ``Stopping by Woods''
985(1)
Richard Poirier On ``Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening''
986(1)
Richard Poirier On ``Mending Wall''
987(1)
Yvor Winters Robert Frost: Or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet
988(1)
Langston Hughes in Context
989(5)
The Harlem Renaissance
989(2)
Hughes and Music
991(1)
Hughes's Influences
992(1)
Hughes's Style
992(2)
Langston Hughes: Poems
994(21)
Dream Deferred
994(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
995(1)
Mother to Son
995(1)
I, Too
996(2)
My People
998(1)
Dream Variations
998(1)
Song for a Dark Girl
999(1)
Young Gal's Blues
1000(1)
The Weary Blues
1001(1)
Morning After
1001(1)
Trumpet Player
1002(1)
Dream Boogie
1003(2)
Ballad of the Landlord
1005(1)
Madam and the Rent Man
1006(1)
When Sue Wears Red
1007(1)
Listen Here Blues
1008(1)
Consider Me
1008(1)
Theme for English B
1009(2)
Aunt Sue's Stories
1011(1)
Madrid---1937
1011(2)
Let America Be America Again
1013(1)
I'm Still Here
1014(1)
Poets Inspired by Hughes
1015(4)
Rita Dove Testimonial
1015(1)
Michael S. Harper Martin's Blues
1016(1)
Dudley Randall The Ballad of Birmingham
1016(1)
Kevin Young Langston Hughes
1017(2)
Hughes on Harlem, The Blues
1019(2)
A Toast to Harlem
1019(1)
I Remember the Blues
1020(1)
Critics on Hughes
1021(6)
Arnold Rampersad Langston Hughes as Folk Poet
1021(1)
Onwuchekwa Jemie Hughes and the Evolution of Consciousness in Black Poetry
1022(1)
Richard K. Barksdale On Hughes's ``Ballad of the Landlord''
1023(1)
Onwuchekwa Jemie On ``The Negro Speaks of Rivers''
1024(1)
James A. Emanuel On ``Trumpet Player''
1025(2)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS
1027(218)
A Selection of Contemporary Poetry
1027(14)
Billy Collins Sonnet
1027(1)
Jennifer Ritter-Compasso All I Hear Is Silence
1028(1)
Wendy Cope The Ted Williams Villanelle (for Ari Badaines)
1029(1)
Doretta Cornell Steady as Any Ship My Father
1030(1)
Mark Doty Golden Retrievals
1031(1)
Bart Edelman Had You Not
1032(1)
Deborah Garrison A Working Girl Can't Win
1033(2)
Jane Kenyon Peonies at Dusk
1035(1)
Ted Kooser A Spiral Notebook
1035(2)
Taylor Mali Like Lilly Like Wilson
1037(2)
Krishna Tateneni Valentine for Amy
1039(2)
A Selection of World Poetry
1041(14)
Anna Akhmatova (Russia) From Requiem 1935-1940
1041(3)
Bella Akhmadulina (Russia) The Bride
1044(1)
Yehuda Amichai (Israel) A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention
1045(1)
Chairil Anwar (Indonesia) At the Mosque
1045(1)
Matsuo Basho (Japan) Three Haiku
1046(1)
Rosario Castellanos (Mexico) Chess
1046(1)
Bernard Binlin Dadie. . . (Ivory Coast) I Give You Thanks My God
1047(1)
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Pakistan) Before You Came
1048(1)
Eugenio Montale (Italy) The Eel
1048(1)
Pablo Neruda (Chile) Ode to My Socks
1049(2)
Boris Pasternak (Russia) Hamlet
1051(1)
Octavio Paz (Mexico) The Street
1052(1)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Hamlet
1052(1)
Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) The Acrobat
1053(1)
Derek Walcott (Caribbean) House of Umbrage
1053(2)
For Further Reading
1055(170)
Sherman Alexie Indian Boy Love Song (#1)
1055(1)
Indian Boy Love Song (#2)
1056(1)
Anonymous Barbara Allan
1056(1)
Anonymous Edward, Edward
1057(2)
Margaret Atwood This Is a Photograph of Me
1059(1)
Spelling
1060(1)
W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen
1061(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
1062(2)
Funeral Blues
1064(1)
September 1, 1939
1065(2)
Jimmy Santiago Baca From Meditations on the South Valley
1067(1)
Elizabeth Bishop Sestina
1068(1)
One Art
1069(1)
The Fish
1069(2)
William Blake The Clod & the Pebble
1071(1)
The Lamb
1072(1)
The Tyger
1072(1)
The Garden of Love
1073(1)
Eavan Boland Anorexic
1073(2)
David Bottoms Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
1075(1)
Neal Bowers Driving Lessons
1075(2)
Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband
1077(1)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite Ogoun
1077(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
1079(1)
First fight. Then fiddle
1079(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
1080(1)
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
1080(1)
Thomas Campion There Is a Garden in Her Face
1081(1)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Jabberwocky
1081(1)
Raymond Carver Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year
1082(1)
Sandra Cisneros Pumpkin Eater
1083(1)
Lucille Clifton Homage to My Hips
1084(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Game
1084(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
1086(1)
Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry
1087(1)
The History Teacher
1088(1)
My Number
1088(1)
The Listener
1089(1)
Gregory Corso Marriage
1090(3)
Joseph Coulson After the Move
1093(1)
Countee Cullen Incident
1094(1)
e.e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town
1094(1)
i thank You God for most this amazing
1095(1)
John Donne Song: Go and catch a Palling star
1096(1)
The Canonization
1097(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
1098(1)
The Flea
1099(1)
Death, be not proud
1100(1)
Batter my heart, three-personed God
1100(1)
Rita Dove Canary
1101(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask
1101(1)
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1102(4)
Louise Erdrich Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
1106(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity
1106(1)
Carolyn Forche The Memory of Elena
1107(1)
Nikki Giovanni Ego Tripping
1108(2)
Nikki Rosa
1110(1)
Louise Gluck The School Children
1111(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron She walks in beauty
1111(1)
Donald Hall My son, my executioner
1112(1)
Kicking the Leaves
1112(3)
Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid
1115(1)
Channel Firing
1116(1)
Joy Harjo Eagle Poem
1117(1)
Robert Hass Meditation at Lagunitas
1118(1)
Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass
1119(1)
Seamus Heaney Digging
1119(1)
Mid-Term Break
1120(1)
George Herbert The Altar
1121(1)
Robert Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes
1122(1)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
1122(1)
Edward Hirsch Fast Break
1123(1)
Garrett Hongo What For
1124(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur
1126(1)
The Windhover
1126(1)
Pied Beauty
1127(1)
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
1127(1)
A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
1128(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young
1128(1)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey The soote season
1129(1)
Andrew Hudgins Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
1130(1)
Ben Jonson On My First Son
1130(1)
Song: To Celia
1131(1)
John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be
1131(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
1132(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes
1133(10)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
1143(2)
Ode to a Nightingale
1145(2)
Jane Kenyon Otherwise
1147(1)
Let Evening Come
1148(1)
Galway Kinnell Blackberry Eating
1148(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It
1149(1)
Philip Larkin A Study of Reading Habits
1149(1)
D. H. Lawrence Snake
1150(2)
When I read Shakespeare
1152(1)
Li-Young Lee I Ask My Mother to Sing
1153(1)
Michael Longley The Butchers
1153(1)
Robert Lowell Skunk Hour
1154(2)
Audre Lorde Hanging Fire
1156(1)
Archibald Macleish Ars Poetica
1157(1)
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
1158(2)
Claude McKay The Tropics in New York
1160(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
1160(1)
Czeslaw Milosz Encounter
1161(1)
John Milton When I consider how my light is spent
1161(1)
Marianne Moore Poetry
1162(1)
Paul Muldoon Hedgehog
1163(1)
Sharon Olds Size and Sheer Will
1164(1)
Rite of Passage
1164(1)
35/10
1165(1)
Mary Oliver Poem for My Father's Ghost
1165(1)
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est
1166(1)
Robert F. Panara On His Deafness
1167(1)
Linda Pastan Ethics
1168(1)
Marge Piercy A Work of Artifice
1169(1)
Robert Pinsky Dying
1169(1)
Sylvia Plath Blackberrying
1170(1)
Metaphors
1171(1)
Morning Song
1172(1)
Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
1172(1)
The Raven
1173(3)
Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man
1176(1)
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro
1176(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
1177(1)
Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
1178(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926] The Cadet Picture of My Father
1179(1)
Alberto Rios A Dream of Husbands
1179(1)
Theodore Roethke Elegy for Jane
1180(1)
Root Cellar
1181(1)
Kraft Rompf Waiting Table
1181(1)
Siegfried Sassoon ``They''
1182(1)
Mary Jo Salter Welcome to Hiroshima
1183(1)
Sonia Sanchez Towhomitmayconcern
1184(1)
Anne Sexton Two Hands
1185(1)
William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
1186(1)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
1186(1)
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
1187(1)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
1187(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
1188(1)
Cathy Song Lost Sister
1188(2)
Gary Soto Behind Grandma's House
1190(1)
Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand
1191(1)
William Stafford Traveling through the dark
1191(1)
Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
1192(2)
Disillusionment of Ten o'clock
1194(1)
May Swenson Strawberrying
1194(1)
Women
1195(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
1196(2)
The Eagle: A Fragment
1198(1)
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
1198(2)
Do not go gentle into that good night
1200(1)
Jean Toomer Song of the Son
1200(1)
Reapers
1201(1)
Ellen Bryant Voigt Two Trees
1201(1)
Walt Whitman One's Self I Sing
1202(1)
A noiseless patient spider
1203(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
1203(4)
Richard Wilbur The Death of a Toad
1207(1)
C. K. Williams Invisible Mending
1208(1)
William Carlos Williams Spring and All
1209(1)
Danse Russe
1210(1)
The Young Housewife
1211(1)
William Wordsworth The world is too much with us
1211(1)
The Solitary Reaper
1212(1)
Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
1212(4)
Baron Wormser Friday Night
1216(1)
James Wright Lying in a Hammock a William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
1217(1)
A Blessing
1217(1)
Thomas Wyatt They flee from me
1218(1)
William Butler Yeats The Second Coming
1219(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole
1219(1)
Leda and the Swan
1220(1)
Sailing to Byzantium
1221(1)
A Coat
1222(1)
The Scholars
1222(1)
When you are old
1223(1)
Adam's Curse
1223(2)
Lives of Poets
1225(20)
PART THREE DRAMA
1245(2)
READING AND WRITING ABOUT DRAMA
1247(601)
Reading Plays
1247(18)
The Experience of Drama
1249(11)
Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory The Rising of the Moon
1252(8)
The Interpretation of Drama
1260(2)
The Evaluation of Drama
1262(3)
Types of Drama
1265(3)
Tragedy
1265(1)
Comedy
1266(2)
Elements of Drama
1268(16)
Plot
1268(2)
Character
1270(3)
Dialogue
1273(4)
Subtext
1276(1)
Staging
1277(3)
Symbolism and Irony
1280(2)
Irony
1281(1)
Theme
1282(2)
Writing about Drama
1284(18)
Reasons For Writing about Drama
1284(1)
Informal Ways of Writing about Drama
1284(4)
Annotation
1285(2)
Double-Column Notebook
1287(1)
Formal Ways of Writing about Drama
1288(14)
Student Papers on Drama
1289(3)
Two papers on Oedipus the King
1292(5)
Questions for Writing About Drama
1297(1)
Questions for In-Depth Reading
1298(1)
Suggestions for Writing
1299(3)
The Greek Theater: Sophocles in Context
1302(85)
Reading Sophocles in Context
1302(5)
Athens in the Golden Age
1302(1)
Greek Tragedy
1303(1)
Sophocles and His Works
1304(2)
Oedipus the King
1306(1)
Sophocles: Plays
1307(71)
Oedipus Rex
1307(40)
Antigone
1347(31)
Critics on Sophocles
1378(9)
Aristotle The Six Elements of Tragedy
1378(1)
Simple and Complex Plots
1379(1)
Sigmund Freud The Oedipus Complex
1380(2)
Bernard Knox Sophocles' Oedipus
1382(2)
Adrian Poole Oedipus and Athens
1384(2)
George Steiner Principal Constants of Conflict in Antigone
1386(1)
The Elizabethan Theater: Shakespeare in Context
1387(276)
Reading Shakespeare in Context
1387(4)
London in the Age of Elizabeth
1387(1)
The Arts in the Age of Elizabeth
1388(1)
Stagecraft in the Elizabethan Age
1388(1)
Shakespeare and His Works
1389(2)
Shakespeare: Plays
1391(258)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1391(63)
The Tragedy of Othello
1454(90)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1544(105)
Critics on Shakespeare
1649(14)
Russ McDonald from Introduction to Midsummer Night's Dream
1649(2)
Joseph Summer from Dreams of Love and Power
1651(2)
Adrian Poole Hamlet and Oedipus
1653(1)
John Ashworth Olivier, Freud, and Hamlet
1654(1)
Maynard Mack The Readiness Is All: Hamlet
1655(4)
Carolyn Heilbrun The Character of Hamlet's Mother
1659(1)
A. D. Nuttal Othello
1660(1)
Maurice Charney Shakespeare's Villains
1661(2)
The Modern Realistic Theater: Ibsen in Context
1663(54)
Reading Ibsen in Context
1663(54)
Realism
1663(1)
A Note on the Theater of the Absurd
1664(1)
Ibsen, Exile, and Change
1665(1)
Henrik Ibsen A Doll House
1666(51)
Envisioning Drama: Williams and Miller in Performance
1717(131)
Envisioning The Glass Menagerie
1717(57)
Tennessee Williams Production Notes to The Glass Menagerie
1718(4)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
1722(52)
Envisioning Death of A Salesman
1774(74)
Jo Mielziner Notes
1774(3)
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman
1777(71)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS
1848(269)
A Collection of Modern Drama
1848(133)
Anton Chekhov A Marriage Proposal
1849(9)
Susan Glaspell Trifles
1858(12)
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
1870(67)
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
1937(44)
A Collection of Contemporary Plays
1981(136)
David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly
1982(51)
David Ives Sure Thing
2033(10)
Milcha Sanchez-Scott The Cuban Swimmer
2043(14)
Wendy Wasserstein Tender Offer
2057(6)
August Wilson Fences
2063(54)
PART FOUR RESEARCH AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
2117
Writing with Sources
2119(34)
Why Do Research about Literature?
2119(1)
Clarifying the Assignment
2120(1)
Selecting a Topic
2120(1)
Finding and Using Sources
2121(1)
Using Computerized Databases
2122(2)
Using the Internet for Research
2124(2)
Searching Tips
2124(1)
Evaluating Internet Sources
2124(2)
A Sampling of Internet Resources for Literature
2126(1)
Developing a Critical Perspective
2126(1)
Developing a Thesis
2127(1)
Drafting and Revising
2128(1)
Conventions
2128(3)
Using Quotations
2128(1)
Verb Tense Conventions in Literary Papers
2129(1)
Manuscript Form
2129(1)
Plagiarism
2130(1)
Documenting Sources
2131(2)
MLA Style: Parenthetical Citations Paired with a List of Works Cited
2131(1)
The Works Cited List
2132(1)
Documenting Electronic Sources
2133(3)
Source on CD-ROM
2133(1)
Online Sources
2134(2)
Alternate Documentation Style: Endnotes and Footnotes
2136(1)
Using Endnotes and Footnotes
2136(1)
Endnotes List
2136(1)
A Student Essay Using one Source as a Stimulus
2137(5)
Patricia Kane The Prodigal Daughter in Alice Walker's ``Everyday Use''
2137(2)
Student Papers
2139(3)
A Research Paper on a Single Work Using Multiple Sources
2142(5)
Student Papers
2143(4)
A Research Paper Using Multiple Works and Multiple Sources
2147(6)
Student Papers
2148(5)
Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature
2153(41)
Readings for Analysis
2153(3)
William Carlos Williams The Use of Force
2154(2)
Emily Dickinson I'm ``wife''---I've finished that---
2156(1)
The Canon and the Curriculum
2156(5)
What We Read
2157(1)
Why We Read
2158(1)
How We Read
2159(1)
Canon and Curriculum: Selected Readings
2160(1)
Formalist Perspectives
2161(3)
An Overview of Formalist Criticism
2161(1)
Thinking from a Formalist Perspective
2162(1)
Formalist Criticism: Selected Readings
2163(1)
Biographical Perspectives
2164(2)
An Overview of Biographical Criticism
2164(1)
Thinking from a Biographical Perspective
2165(1)
Biographical Criticism: Selected Readings
2166(1)
Historical Perspectives
2166(3)
An Overview of Historical Criticism
2166(1)
Thinking from a New Historicist Perspective
2167(1)
Historical and New Historicist Criticism: Selected Readings
2168(1)
Psychological Perspectives
2169(3)
An Overview of Psychological Criticism
2169(1)
Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
2170(1)
Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism: Selected Readings
2171(1)
Sociological Perspectives
2172(4)
An Overview of Sociological Criticism
2172(1)
Marxist Critical Perspectives
2172(1)
Thinking from a Marxist Perspective
2173(1)
Marxist Criticism: Selected Readings
2174(1)
Feminist Critical Perspectives
2174(1)
Thinking from a Feminist Perspective
2175(1)
Feminist Criticism: Selected Readings
2176(1)
Reader-Response Perspectives
2176(4)
An Overview of Reader-Response Criticism
2176(2)
Thinking from a Reader-Response Perspective
2178(2)
Reader-Response Criticism: Selected Readings
2180(1)
Mythological Perspectives
2180(3)
An Overview of Mythological Criticism
2180(2)
Thinking from a Mythological Perspective
2182(1)
Mythological Criticism: Selected Readings
2183(1)
Structuralist Perspectives
2183(3)
An Overview of Structuralist Criticism
2183(1)
Semiotics
2184(1)
Thinking from a Structuralist Perspective
2185(1)
Structuralist Criticism: Selected Readings
2186(1)
Deconstructive Perspectives
2186(3)
An Overview of Deconstructive Criticism
2186(2)
Thinking from a Deconstructive Perspective
2188(1)
Deconstructive Criticism: Selected Readings
2189(1)
Cultural Studies Perspectives
2189(3)
An Overview of Cultural Studies
2189(2)
Thinking from a Cultural Studies Perspective
2191(1)
Cultural Studies: Selected Readings
2191(1)
Using Critical Perspectives as Heuristics
2192(2)
Critical Comments about Literature
2194
Plato Poetry and Inspiration
2195(1)
Aristotle On Tragedy
2196(2)
Sir Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry
2198(1)
Samuel Johnson The Metaphysical Poets
2199(1)
William Blake Art and Imagination
2200(1)
William Wordsworth Poetry and Feeling
2200(1)
John Keats The Authenticity of the Imagination
2201(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets and Language
2203(1)
Anton Chekhov Technique in Writing the Short Story
2204(1)
Henrik Ibsen Notes for the Modern Tragedy
2205(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins Sprung Rhythm
2205(1)
August Strindberg The Scene
2206(1)
Bernard Shaw The Interpreter of Life
2207(1)
Wallace Stevens Observations on Poetry
2208(1)
T. S. Eliot The Poet and the Tradition
2209(1)
Bertolt Brecht Brecht on Theatre
2210(1)
George Seferis Poetry and Human Living
2211(1)
Frank O'Connor Lyric Poetry and the Short Story
2212(1)
Pablo Neruda ``The Word''
2213(1)
Eudora Welty The Origin of a Story
2213(1)
Ralph Ellison Folklore and Fiction
2214(1)
Octavio Paz The Power of Poetry
2215(1)
Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man
2216(3)
Tennessee Williams The Catastrophe of Success
2219(3)
Eric Bentley On Drama as Literature and Performance
2222(1)
Wendell Berry Poetry and Song
2223(1)
Audre Lorde Poems Are Not Luxuries
2223(1)
Mark Strand Poetry, Language, and Meaning
2224(1)
Margaret Atwood Our First Stories
2225(1)
Seamus Heaney Feelings into Words
2226(1)
Robert Pinsky The Sounds of Poetry
2227(1)
John Edgar Wideman Stories Are Letters
2228(1)
Diane Ackerman What a Poem Knows
2229(1)
Tim O'Brien On the Importance of Mystery in Plot
2229(1)
Alice Fulton On the Validity of Free Verse
2230(2)
David Henry Hwang Afterword
2232
Timeline: Literature in Context1(1)
Glossary1(1)
Photo Credits1(1)
Acknowledgments1(1)
Index1

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