Holt Elements of Literature

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• ISBN13: 9780030683787
• ISBN10: 0030683785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: HOLT RINEHART AND WINSTON

Table of Contents

Maps
United States	44	(2)
United States Eastern Seaboard	46	(1)
Central and South America	47
Encounters and Foundations to 1800
Time Line	2	(2)
Political and Social Milestones	4	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: Encounters and Foundations	6	(15)
Gary Q. Arpin
The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky: Native American Literature	21	(3)
Joseph Bruchac
The Sky Tree	24	(1)
Joseph Bruchac
The Earth Only	24	(1)
Coyote Finishes His Work	25	(3)
Barry Lopez
Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666	28	(4)
Anne Bradstreet
Literature of the Americas
World, in hounding me . . .	32	(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
En perseguirme, mundo	32	(4)
from A Narrative of the Captivity	36	(9)
Mary Rowlandson
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	45	(6)
Jonathan Edwards
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	51	(9)
Olaudah Equiano
Connection / from To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth	60	(2)
Phillis Wheatley
Connection / Honoring African Heritage	62	(4)
Halimah Abdullah
from The Autobiography	66	(6)
Benjamin Franklin
Connection / from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten	72	(1)
Robert Fulghum
from Poor Richard's Almanack	73	(6)
Benjamin Franklin
Speech to the Virginia Convention	79	(7)
Patrick Henry
from The Crisis, No. I	86	(8)
Thomas Paine
Political Points of View Freedom and Equality	94	(2)
from The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence	96	(11)
Thomas Jefferson
from The Iroquois Constitution	107	(2)
Letter to John Adams	109	(1)
Abigail Adams
from Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention	110	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Read On for Independent Reading	113	(1)
Writing Workshop Writing an Editorial	114	(8)
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting and Evaluating Speeches	122	(4)
Collection I: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
To My Dear and Loving Husband	126	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
Love is not all	127	(3)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Vocabulary Skills	130	(1)
Writing Skills	131	(3)
American Romanticism 1800-1860
Time Line	134	(2)
Political and Social Milestones	136	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: American Romanticism	138	(13)
Gary Q. Arpin
The Devil and Tom Walker	151	(15)
Washington Irving
Thanatopsis	166	(5)
William Cullen Bryant
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls	171	(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Cross of Snow	173	(2)
Connection / Return to Gitche Gumee	175	(6)
J. D. McClatchy
from Nature	181	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Self-Reliance	184	(7)
from Walden, or Life in the Woods	191	(14)
Henry David Thoreau
Connection / from Heaven Is Under Our Feet	205	(3)
Don Henley
Political Points of View Civil Disobedience	208	(2)
from Resistance to Civil Government	210	(9)
Henry David Thoreau
from On Nonviolent Resistance	219	(2)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
from Letter from Birmingham City Jail	221	(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment	227	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil	238	(17)
The Pit and the Pendulum	255	(18)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven	273	(5)
Primary Source / Poe's Process: Writing
``The Raven''	278	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe
Eldorado	280	(3)
Read On For Independent Reading	283	(1)
Writing Workshop Writing a Short Story	284	(8)
Collection 2: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
To Helen	292	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Helen by H. D.	293	(3)
Vocabulary Skills	296	(1)
Writing Skills	297	(3)
American Masters: Whitman and Dickinson
Time Line	300	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: American Masters: Whitman and Dickinson	302	(8)
John Malcolm Brinnin
I Hear America Singing	310	(3)
Walt Whitman
from Song of Myself 10 Alone far in the wilds	313	(3)
from 33 I understand the large hearts of heroes	316	(3)
52 The spotted hawk swoops by	319	(2)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	321	(2)
Primary Source / from Specimen Days	323	(2)
Walt Whitman
Connection / from Hospital Sketches	325	(6)
Louisa May Alcott
Literature of the Americas
Plenos poderes	331	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Full Powers	331	(6)
Ben Belitt
Alastair Reid
The Soul selects her own Society	337	(1)
Emily Dickinson
If you were coming in the Fall	338	(2)
Primary Source / ``If you were coming in the Fall''	340	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant	342	(2)
Apparently with no surprise	344	(1)
Success is counted sweetest	345	(2)
Because I could not stop for Death	347	(2)
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died	349	(1)
Much Madness is divinest Sense	350	(1)
Primary Source / ``I sing . . . because I am afraid''	351	(3)
Emily Dickinson
Connection / In the season of change	354	(1)
Teresa Palomo Acosta
Connection / Emily Dickinson	355	(1)
Linda Pastan
Connection / Emily Dickinson	355	(4)
Gary Smith
Read On for Independent Reading	359	(1)
Writing Workshop Writing a Reflective	360	(8)
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Reflection	368	(2)
Collection 3: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
from Song of Myself, I	370	(1)
Walt Whitman
Who Understands Me but Me	371	(3)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Vocabulary Skills	374	(1)
Writing Skills	375	(3)
The Rise of Realism: The Civil War to 1914
Time Line	378	(2)
Political and Social Milestones	380	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: The Rise of Realism	382	(14)
Gary Q. Arpin
Political Points of View Slavery	396	(2)
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	398	(8)
Frederick Douglass
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	406	(6)
Harriet A. Jacobs
from My Bondage and My Freedom	412	(2)
Frederick Douglass
Go Down, Moses	414	(1)
Follow the Drinking Gourd	415	(1)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	416	(1)
The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age	417	(6)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	423	(9)
Ambrose Bierce
Political Points of View The Civil War	432	(2)
A Mystery of Heroism	434	(8)
Stephen Crane
War Is Kind	442	(3)
Letter to His Son	445	(2)
Robert E. Lee
Letter to Sarah Ballou	447	(1)
Maj. Sullivan Ballou
The Gettysburg Address	448	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Diary from Dixie	449	(1)
Mary Chesnut
from Men at War: An Interview with Shelby Foote	450	(5)
Ken Burns
``I Will Fight No More Forever''	455	(4)
Chief Joseph
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	459	(7)
Mark Twain
Primary Source / The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras	466	(2)
Mark Twain
The Lowest Animal	468	(6)
Connection / A Time of Gifts	474	(6)
Stephen Jay Gould
To Build a Fire	480	(13)
Jack London
Connection / from Left for Dead	493	(6)
Literature of the Americas
What Do You Feel Underground?	499	(4)
Maria Giachetti
Gabriela Mistral
A Pair of Silk Stockings	503	(7)
Kate Chopin
Connection / Now and Then, America	510	(3)
Pat Mora
A Wagner Matinee	513	(10)
Willa Cather
Richard Cory	523	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy	524	(1)
Primary Source / Robinson on Richard Cory	525	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read On For Independent Reading	527	(1)
Writing Workshop Reporting Historical Research	528	(20)
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting Historical Research	548	(2)
Collection 4: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
from The Red Badge of Courage	550	(2)
Stephen Crane
Camouflaging the Chimera	552	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Vocabulary Skills	554	(1)
Writing Skills	555	(3)
The Moderns
Time Line	558	(2)
Political and Social Milestones	560	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: The Moderns	562	(9)
John Leggett
John Malcolm Brinnin
MAKE IT NEW!
Symbolism, Imagism, and Beyond	571	(4)
John Malcolm Brinnin
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	575	(3)
Ezra Pound
The Garden	578	(1)
Primary Source / A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste	579	(4)
Ezra Pound
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	583	(9)
T. S. Eliot
The Red Wheelbarrow	592	(2)
William Carlos Williams
The Great Figure	594	(1)
This Is Just to Say	595	(3)
Poetry	598	(1)
Marianne Moore
Connection / Ars Poetica	599	(3)
Archibald MacLeish
what if a much of a which of a wind	602	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Primary Source / ``Miracles are to come''	603	(1)
E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond	603	(2)
Mini-Workshop Writing a Descriptive	605	(5)
MODERN AMERICAN FICTION
Soldier's Home	610	(8)
Ernest Hemingway
Primary Source / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954	618	(5)
Ernest Hemingway
Winter Dreams	623	(17)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Primary Source / A Letter to His Daughter	640	(5)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Rose for Emily	645	(9)
William Faulkner
Primary Source / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950	654	(4)
William Faulkner
Literature of the Americas
The Feather Pillow	658	(7)
Margaret Sayers Peden
Horacio Quiroga
Mini-Workshop Analyzing Literature	665	(4)
MIDCENTURY VOICES
The Leader of the People	669	(16)
John Steinbeck
A Worn Path	685	(7)
Eudora Welty
Primary Source / ``Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?''	692	(4)
Eudora Welty
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	696	(11)
Katherine Anne Porter
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	707	(5)
James Thurber
Primary Source / The New Yorker's Farewell	712	(5)
E. B. White
Primary Source / Common Diction	717	(1)
Robert Frost
Design	718	(3)
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay	721	(1)
Connection / Trying to Name What Doesn't Change	722	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Birches	724	(3)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	727	(2)
Connection / Mending Test	729	(1)
Penelope Bryant Turk
Connection / To the Editor	729	(2)
Jeffrey Meyers
The Death of the Hired Man	731	(5)
Robert Frost
Primary Source / ``I must have the pulse beat of rhythm . . .''	736	(3)
Robert Frost
Mini-Workshop Writing a Biographical Narrative	739	(3)
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Harlem Renaissance	742	(3)
Tableau	745	(2)
Countee Cullen
Incident	747	(3)
The Weary Blues	750	(4)
Langston Hughes
Harlem	754	(2)
Primary Source / Heyday in Harlem	756	(3)
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	759	(2)
Connection / the mississippi river empties into the gulf	761	(2)
Lucille Clifton
from Dust Tracks on a Road	763	(10)
Zora Neale Hurston
Read On for Independent Reading	773	(1)
Writing Workshop Analyzing a Novel	774	(8)
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Literary Analysis	782	(2)
Collection 5: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
America	784	(1)
Claude McKay
Homework	785	(3)
Allen Ginsberg
Vocabulary Skills	788	(1)
Writing Skills	789	(3)
Contemporary Literature
Time Line	792	(2)
Political and Social Milestones	794	(2)
Introduction to the Literary Period: Contemporary Literature	796	(15)
John Leggett
Susan Allen Toth
John Malcolm Brinnin
Thomas Hernacki
Political Points of View World War II	811	(3)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	814	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Primary Source / The Ball Turret	815	(2)
Randall Jarrell
from Night translated	817	(13)
Stella Rodway
Elie Wiesel
A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima	830	(12)
John Hersey
Primary Source / Unforgettable Fire	842	(3)
Yasuko Yamagata
``The Arrogance and Cruelty of Power'' from Speech at the Nuremberg Trials, November 21, 1945	845	(10)
Robert H. Jackson
from The Diary of a Young Girl	855	(3)
Anne Frank
``The Biggest Battle of All History'' from The Greatest Generation Speaks	858	(2)
Tom Brokaw
John Whitehead
from April in Germany	860	(6)
Margaret Bourke-White
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Speaking of Courage	866	(11)
Tim O'Brien
Game	877	(6)
Donald Barthelme
Connection / The Unknown Citizen	883	(5)
W. H. Auden
Everything Stuck to Him	888	(5)
Raymond Carver
Connection / A Still, Small Voice	893	(5)
Jay Mclnerney
Daughter of Invention	898	(14)
Julia Alvarez
Literature of the Americas
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	912	(8)
Gregory Rabassa
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club	920	(13)
Amy Tan
When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine	933	(14)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Connection / The Ravaged People of East Pakistan	947	(5)
Alvin S. Toffler
The Book of the Dead	952	(12)
Edwidge Danticat
Mini-Workshop Writing an Autobiographical Narrative	964	(4)
CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION
from Black Boy	968	(17)
Richard Wright
The Girl Who Wouldn't Talk from The Woman Warrior	985	(12)
Maxine Hong Kingston
from The Way to Rainy Mountain	997	(10)
N. Scott Momaday
from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	1007	(8)
Alice Walker
Autobiographical Notes	1015	(5)
James Baldwin
Connection / from On James Baldwin Eulogy	1020	(4)
Toni Morrison
Straw into Gold	1024	(7)
Sandra Cisneros
Mini-Workshop Analyzing Nonfiction	1031	(4)
CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Night Journey	1035	(4)
Theodore Roethke
The Beautiful Changes	1039	(4)
Richard Wilbur
The Fish	1043	(3)
Elizabeth Bishop
One Art	1046	(4)
Mirror	1050	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Mushrooms	1052	(4)
The Bells	1056	(2)
Anne Sexton
Young	1058	(3)
The Bean Eaters	1061	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father	1063	(3)
Elsewhere	1066	(4)
Derek Walcott
The Memory of Elena	1070	(2)
Carolyn Forche
Primary Source / Bearing Witness: An Interview with Carolyn Forche	1072	(3)
Bill Moyers
Literature of the Americas
Ars Poetica	1075	(3)
D. J. Flakoll
Claribel Alegria
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica	1078	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Testimonial	1082	(4)
Rita Dove
Coastal	1086	(3)
Mark Doty
Visions and Interpretations	1089	(4)
Li-Young Lee
Medusa	1093	(4)
Agha Shahid Ali
Man Listening to Disc	1097	(4)
Billy Collins
Read On for Independent Reading	1101	(1)
Media Workshop Analyzing and Using Media	1102	(8)
Listening and Speaking Workshop Reciting Literature	1110	(2)
Collection 6: Skills Review
Comparing Literature
How I Learned to Sweep	1112	(2)
Julia Alvarez
September, 1918	1114	(2)
Amy Lowell
Vocabulary Skills	1116	(1)
Writing Skills	1117	(4)
Resource Center
Reading Matters
Kylene Beers
When the Text Is Tough	1121	(1)
Improving Your Comprehension	1122	(9)
Improving Your Reading Rate	1131	(2)
Vocabulary Development	1133	(2)
The World of Work
Reading	1135	(1)
Informative Documents	1135	(1)
Consumer Documents	1135	(1)
Workplace Documents	1136	(1)
Persuasive Documents	1137	(1)
Critiquing Persuasive Documents	1138	(1)
Writing	1138	(1)
Job Applications and Resumes	1138	(1)
Workplace Documents	1138	(1)
Word-Processing Features	1139	(1)
Formatting Documents	1139	(1)
Integrating Databases, Graphics, and Spreadsheets	1139	(1)
A Model Resume	1139	(2)
Writer's Handbook
The Writing Process	1141	(2)
Paragraphs	1143	(4)
The Writer's Language	1147	(2)
Designing Your Writing	1149	(4)
Test Smarts
Flo Ota De Lange
Sheri Henderson
Strategies for Taking Multiple-Choice Tests	1153	(9)
Strategies for Taking Writing Tests	1162	(7)
Handbook of Literary and Historical Terms	1169	(20)
Language Handbook	1189	(40)
The Parts of Speech	1190	(1)
Agreement	1191	(2)
Using Verbs	1193	(2)
Using Pronouns	1195	(2)
Using Modifiers	1197	(2)
Phrases	1199	(2)
Clauses	1201	(1)
Sentence Structure	1202	(3)
Sentence Style	1205	(3)
Sentence Combining	1208	(1)
Capitalization	1208	(4)
Punctuation	1212	(7)
Spelling	1219	(3)
Glossary of Usage	1222	(7)
Glossary	1229	(7)
Spanish Glossary	1236	(9)
Acknowledgments	1245	(4)
Picture Credits	1249	(4)
Index of Skills	1253	(14)
Literary Skills	1253	(2)
Vocabulary Skills	1255	(1)
Reading Skills	1255	(1)
Writing Skills	1256	(5)
Language (Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics) Skills	1261	(2)
Listening and Speaking Skills	1263	(2)
Independent Reading	1265	(2)
Index of Art	1267	(4)
Index of Authors and Titles	1271