Literature : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Edition, Interactive Edition

by Kennedy, X. J.; Gioia, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780321470324
• ISBN10: 032147032X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The concise version of the discipline's most popular introductory anthology, Kennedy/Gioiars"sLiterature, Compact Edition continues to inspire students with engaging insights on reading and writing about stories, poems, and plays. Poets in their own right, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to this compact, paperback anthology. Organized into three genresLiterature,Compact Edition presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, supported by useful writing tips, and followed by (now) six full chapters devoted to writing. A broad scope of traditional and contemporary works is provided, most headed by author images and richly detailed biographical notes and some followed by author commentary. While maintaining the characteristics of its previous editions-accessible apparatus, expansive author representation-this Compact, Fifth Edition has been re-imagined to include new casebooks, a lively new design, and more writing coverage than ever before.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxxvii
To the Instructor	xli
About the Authors	liii
FICTION
Reading a Story	3	(20)
Fable, Parable, and Tale	4	(1)
The Appointment in Samarra	4	(1)
W. Somerset Maugham
The North Wind and the Sun	5	(1)
Aesop
The Camel and His Friends	6	(2)
Bidpai
Independence	8	(1)
Chuang Tzu
Godfather Death	9	(2)
Jakob
Wilhelm Grimm
Plot	11	(2)
The Short Story	13	(1)
A & P	14	(6)
John Updike
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Why Write?	20	(1)
John Updike
Writing About Plot: Paying Attention to Plot	20	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Plot	21	(1)
Writing Assignment on Plot	22	(1)
More Topics for Writing	22	(1)
Point of View	23	(51)
A Rose for Emily	28	(7)
William Faulkner
Teenage Wasteland	35	(8)
Anne Tyler
Sonny's Blues	43	(21)
James Baldwin
Everyday Use	64	(7)
Alice Walker
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Race and the African American Writer	71	(1)
James Baldwin
Writing About Point of View: How Point of View Shapes a Story	72	(1)
Checklist: Understanding Point of View	72	(1)
Writing Assignment on Point of View	72	(1)
More Topics for Writing	73	(1)
Character	74	(39)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	77	(7)
Katherine Anne Porter
Miss Brill	84	(3)
Katherine Mansfield
The Rich Brother	87	(12)
Tobias Wolff
Cathedral	99	(11)
Raymond Carver
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Commonplace But Precise Language	110	(1)
Raymond Carver
Writing About Character: How Character Creates Action	111	(1)
Checklist: Writing About Character	111	(1)
Writing Assignment on Character	111	(1)
More Topics for Writing	112	(1)
Setting	113	(31)
The Storm	116	(4)
Kate Chopin
Greasy Lake	120	(7)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
A Pair of Tickets	127	(14)
Amy Tan
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Setting the Voice	141	(1)
Amy Tan
Writing About Setting: The Importance of Setting	142	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Setting	142	(1)
Writing Assignment on Setting	142	(1)
More Topics for Writing	143	(1)
Tone and Style	144	(36)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	147	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
Barn Burning	151	(12)
William Faulkner
Irony	163	(2)
The Gift of the Magi	165	(4)
O. Henry
Saboteur	169	(8)
Ha Jin
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Direct Style	177	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
Writing About Tone and Style: Be Style-Conscious	177	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About Tone and Style	178	(1)
Writing Assignment on Tone and Style	178	(1)
More Topics for Writing	179	(1)
Theme	180	(26)
Dead Men's Path	182	(3)
Chinua Achebe
How I Met My Husband	185	(12)
Alice Munro
Luke 15:11-32 The Parable of the Prodigal Son	197	(1)
Harrison Bergeron	198	(5)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Themes of Science Fiction	203	(1)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Writing About Theme: Stating the Theme	204	(1)
Checklist: Determining a Story's Theme	205	(1)
Writing Assignment on Theme	205	(1)
More Topics for Writing	205	(1)
Symbol	206	(31)
The Chrysanthemums	208	(8)
John Steinbeck
The Lottery	216	(6)
Shirley Jackson
No One's a Mystery	222	(3)
Elizabeth Tallent
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	225	(5)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Biography of a Story	230	(2)
Shirley Jackson
Writing About Symbols: Recognizing Symbols	232	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About Symbols	233	(1)
Writing Assignment on Symbols	233	(1)
Student Paper An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck's ``The Chrysanthemums''	233	(3)
More Topics for Writing	236	(1)
Critical Casebook: Flannery O'Connor	237	(41)
A Good Man is Hard to Find	238	(10)
Flannery O'connor
Revelation	248	(15)
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor on Writing
From ``On Her Own Work''	263	(2)
On Her Catholic Faith	265	(1)
From ``The Grotesque in Southern Fiction''	266	(1)
Critics on Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers	267	(3)
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit	270	(2)
J. O. Tate
Deconstructing ``A Good Man is Hard to Find''	272	(1)
Mary Jane Schenck
The Prophet in O'Connor's ``Revelation''	273	(3)
Kathleen Feeley
Writing Effectively
Writing About an Author: How One Story Illuminates Another	276	(1)
Checklist: Reading an Author in Depth	276	(1)
Writing Assignment on an Author	277	(1)
More Topics for Writing	277	(1)
Critical Casebook: Two Stories in Depth	278	(31)
Edgar Allan Poe	278	(1)
The Tell-Tale Heart	279	(4)
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing
The Tale and Its Effect	283	(1)
On Imagination	284	(1)
The Philosophy of Composition	284	(1)
Critics on ``The Tell-Tale Heart''
The Father-Figure in ``The Tell-Tale Heart''	285	(2)
Daniel Hoffman
``The Tell-Tale Heart'' As a Love Story	287	(1)
Scott Peeples
The Figure of the Double in Poe	288	(2)
John Chua
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	290	(1)
The Yellow Wallpaper	290	(11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing
Why I Wrote ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	301	(1)
Whatever Is	302	(1)
The Nervous Breakdown of Women	303	(1)
Critics on ``The Yellow Wallpaper''
Gender and Pathology in ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	304	(1)
Juliann Fleenor
Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement	305	(2)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Biographical Echoes in ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	307	(2)
Elizabeth Ammons
Stories for Further Reading	309	(114)
Happy Endings	309	(3)
Margaret Atwood
The Gospel According to Mark	312	(4)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Five-Forty-Eight	316	(10)
John Cheever
The Story of an Hour	326	(2)
Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street	328	(1)
Sandra Cisneros
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	329	(4)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Look on the Bright Side	333	(8)
Dagoberto Gilb
Young Goodman Brown	341	(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sweat	351	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
Araby	359	(5)
James Joyce
Before the Law	364	(1)
Franz Kafka
Girl	365	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Rocking-Horse Winner	367	(10)
D. H. Lawrence
Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?	377	(12)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried	389	(12)
Tim O'Brien
My Life with the Wave	401	(4)
Octavio Paz
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	405	(3)
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Moths	408	(4)
Helena Maria Viramontes
A Worn Path	412	(11)
Eudora Welty
POETRY
Reading a Poem	423	(15)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	425	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Lyric Poetry	427	(1)
Piano	428	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	428	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Narrative Poetry	429	(1)
Sir Patrick Spence	429	(2)
Anonymous
``Out, Out---''	431	(1)
Robert Frost
Dramatic Poetry	432	(1)
My Last Duchess	432	(3)
Robert Browning
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Recalling ``Aunt Jennifer's Tigers''	435	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing a Paraphrase: Can a Poem Be Paraphrased?	435	(1)
Ask Me	436	(1)
William Stafford
A Paraphrase of ``Ask Me''	436	(1)
William Stafford
Checklist: Paraphrasing a Poem	437	(1)
Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing	437	(1)
More Topics for Writing	437	(1)
Listening to a Voice	438	(29)
Tone	438	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	438	(1)
Theodore Roethke
For a Lady I Know	439	(1)
Countee Cullen
The Author to Her Book	440	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
To a Locomotive in Winter	441	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Like to See It Lap the Miles	442	(1)
Emily Dickinson
To the Desert	443	(1)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
For My Daughter	443	(1)
Weldon Kees
The Person in the Poem	444	(1)
White Lies	444	(2)
Natasha Trethewey
Luke Havergal	446	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Hawk Roosting	447	(1)
Ted Hughes
Monologue for an Onion	448	(1)
Suji Kwock Kim
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	449	(1)
William Wordsworth
Journal Entry	450	(1)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Her Kind	450	(1)
Anne Sexton
The Red Wheelbarrow	451	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Irony	451	(1)
Oh No	452	(1)
Robert Creeley
The Unknown Citizen	453	(1)
W. H. Auden
Rites of Passage	454	(1)
Sharon Olds
The Golf Links	455	(1)
Sarah N. Cleghorn
Second Fig	455	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Workbox	456	(1)
Thomas Hardy
For Review and Further Study
The Chimney Sweeper	457	(1)
William Blake
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border	458	(1)
William Stafford
To Lucasta	458	(1)
Richard Lovelace
Dulce Et Decorum Est	459	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
War Poetry	460	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writing About Voice: Listening to Tone	460	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Tone	461	(1)
Writing Assignment on Tone	462	(1)
Student Paper: Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's ``My Papa's Waltz''	463	(3)
More Topics for Writing	466	(1)
Words	467	(22)
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First	467	(1)
This is Just to Say	468	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Silence	469	(1)
Marianne Moore
Down, Wanton, Down!	469	(1)
Robert Graves
Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You	470	(1)
John Donne
The Value of a Dictionary	471	(1)
Aftermath	472	(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friend, on This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead	474	(1)
J. V. Cunningham
Advice to a Friend Who Paints	474	(1)
Kelly Cherry
Grass	474	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Word Choice and Word Order	475	(2)
Upon Julia's Clothes	477	(1)
Robert Herrick
Blandeur	478	(1)
Kay Ryan
The Ruined Maid	479	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	480	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Lonely Hearts	480	(1)
Wendy Cope
For Review and Further Study
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town	481	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Carnation Milk	482	(1)
Anonymous
Vitamins and Roughage	482	(1)
Kenneth Rexroth
English Con Salsa	483	(1)
Gina Valdes
Jabberwocky	484	(1)
Lewis Carroll
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Humpty Dumpty Explicates ``Jabberwocky''	485	(1)
Lewis Carroll
Writing About Diction: Every Word Counts	486	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About Word Choice	487	(1)
Writing Assignment on Word Choice	487	(1)
More Topics for Writing	488	(1)
Saying and Suggesting	489	(12)
Cargoes	490	(1)
John Masefield
London	491	(2)
William Blake
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	493	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Southeast Corner	493	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Epitaph	494	(1)
Timothy Steele
Next to of Course God America I	494	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Fire and Ice	495	(1)
Robert Frost
Final Love Note	495	(1)
Clare Rossini
Tears, Idle Tears	496	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	496	(2)
Richard Wilbur
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Concerning ``Love Calls Us to the Things of This World''	498	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Writing About Denotation and Connotation: The Ways a Poem Suggests	498	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing What a Poem Says and Suggests	499	(1)
Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation	500	(1)
More Topics for Writing	500	(1)
Imagery	501	(22)
In a Station of the Metro	501	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Piercing Chill I Feel	501	(2)
Taniguchi Buson
The Winter Evening Settles Down	503	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Root Cellar	503	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Fish	504	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Victory	506	(1)
Anne Stevenson
A Route of Evanescence	506	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Reapers	507	(1)
Jean Toomer
Pied Beauty	507	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
About Haiku	508	(1)
The Falling Flower	508	(1)
Arakida Moritake
Heat-Lightning Streak	509	(1)
Matsuo Basho
In the Old Stone Pool	509	(1)
Matsuo Basho
On the One-Ton Temple Bell	509	(1)
Taniguchi Buson
I Go	509	(1)
Taniguchi Buson
Only One Guy	509	(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Cricket	509	(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps	509	(1)
Rain Shower from Mountain	510	(1)
Suiko Matsushita
War Forced Us from California	510	(1)
Neiji Ozawa
Even the Croaking of Frogs	510	(1)
Hakuro Wada
Contemporary Haiku	510	(1)
Etheridge Knight, Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, Jennifer Brutschy, John Ridland, Connie Bensley, Adelle Foley, Garry Gay	510	(1)
For Review and Further Study
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art	511	(1)
John Keats
The Runner	512	(1)
Walt Whitman
Image	512	(1)
T. E. Hulme
El Hombre	512	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Tired Sex	512	(1)
Chana Bloch
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter	513	(1)
Robert Bly
Silos	513	(1)
Rita Dove
Mock Orange	513	(1)
Louise Gluck
Embrace	514	(1)
Billy Collins
Not Waving But Drowning	514	(1)
Stevie Smith
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Image	515	(1)
Ezra Pound
Writing About Imagery: Analyzing Images	516	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About Imagery	517	(1)
Writing Assignment on Imagery	517	(1)
Student Paper Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in ``The Fish''	517	(5)
More Topics for Writing	522	(1)
Figures of Speech	523	(17)
Why Speak Figuratively?	523	(1)
The Eagle	524	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	524	(1)
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	525	(1)
Howard Moss
Metaphor and Simile	525	(2)
My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun	527	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Flower in the Crannied Wall	527	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
To See a World in a Grain of Sand	528	(1)
William Blake
Metaphors	528	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Simile	528	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
Other Figures of Speech	529	(1)
The Wind	530	(2)
James Stephens
You Fit into Me	532	(1)
Margaret Atwood
The Cathedral Is	532	(1)
John Ashbery
Money	532	(1)
Dana Gioia
My Shoes	533	(1)
Charles Simic
For Review and Further Study
The Silken Tent	534	(1)
Robert Frost
Low Tide	535	(1)
April Lindner
The Suitor	535	(1)
Jane Kenyon
The Secret Sits	536	(1)
Robert Frost
Coward	536	(1)
A. R. Ammons
Language Lesson, 1976	536	(1)
Heather McHugh
Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose	537	(1)
Robert Burns
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Importance of Poetic Metaphor	537	(1)
Robert Frost
Writing About Metaphors: How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning	538	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Metaphor	538	(1)
Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech	538	(1)
More Topics for Writing	539	(1)
Song	540	(18)
Singing and Saying	540	(1)
To Celia	541	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Cruel Mother	542	(1)
Anonymous
O Mistress Mine	543	(1)
William Shakespeare
Richard Cory	544	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory	545	(1)
Paul Simon
Ballads	546	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	546	(2)
Anonymous
Ballad of Birmingham	548	(1)
Dudley Randall
Blues	549	(1)
Jailhouse Blues	550	(1)
Bessie Smith
Clarence Williams
Funeral Blues	550	(1)
W. H. Auden
Rap	551	(1)
From Peter Piper	552	(1)
Run D.M.C.
For Review and Further Study
Eleanor Rigby	553	(1)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Deathly	554	(2)
Aimee Mann
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Creating ``Eleanor Rigby''	556	(1)
Paul McCartney
Writing About Song Lyrics: Poetry's Close Kinship with Song	556	(1)
Checklist: Looking at Lyrics as Poetry	557	(1)
Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics	557	(1)
More Topics for Writing	557	(1)
Sound	558	(17)
Sound as Meaning	558	(1)
True Ease in Writing Comes from Art, Not Chance	559	(2)
Alexander Pope
Who Goes with Fergus?	561	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Recital	561	(1)
John Updike
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	562	(1)
William Wordsworth
When Maidens Are Young	562	(1)
Aphra Behn
Alliteration and Assonance	562	(1)
Eight O'Clock	563	(1)
A. E. Housman
All Day I Hear	564	(1)
James Joyce
The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls	564	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Rime	565	(1)
On My Boat on Lake Cayuga	565	(2)
William Cole
The Hippopotamus	567	(1)
Hilaire Belloc
The Panther	567	(1)
Ogden Nash
God's Grandeur	568	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narcissus and Echo	569	(1)
Fred Chappell
Reading Poems Aloud	570	(1)
In Memoriam John Coltrane	570	(1)
Michael Stillman
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies	571	(1)
William Shakespeare
Lai With Sounds of Skin	571	(1)
Chryss Yost
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Music of Poetry	572	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Writing About Sound: Listening to the Music	573	(1)
Checklist: Writing About a Poem's Sound	574	(1)
Writing Assignment on Sound	574	(1)
More Topics for Writing	574	(1)
Rhythm	575	(17)
Stresses and Pauses	575	(4)
We Real Cool	579	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Break, Break, Break	579	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time with My Salt Tears	580	(1)
Ben Jonson
Resume	581	(1)
Dorothy Parker
Meter	581	(1)
On the Imprint of the First English Edition of the Works of Max Beerbohm	581	(5)
Max Beerbohm
Counting-Out Rhyme	586	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I Was One-and-Twenty	586	(1)
A. E. Housman
Smell!	587	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Beat! Beat! Drums!	587	(1)
Walt Whitman
Song of the Powers	588	(1)
David Mason
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Hearing ``We Real Cool''	589	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing About Rhythm: Freeze-Framing the Sound	589	(1)
Checklist: Scanning a Poem	590	(1)
Writing Assignment on Rhythm	590	(1)
More Topics for Writing	591	(1)
Closed Form	592	(19)
Formal Patterns	593	(1)
This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable	593	(2)
John Keats
Counting the Beats	595	(1)
Robert Graves
Song (``Go and Catch a Falling Star'')	596	(1)
John Donne
Brief Bio	597	(1)
Phillis Levin
The Sonnet	598	(1)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds	598	(1)
William Shakespeare
Since There's No Help, Come Let us Kiss and Part	599	(1)
Michael Drayton
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	600	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Acquainted with the Night	600	(1)
Robert Frost
First Poem for You	601	(1)
Kim Addonizio
Unholy Sonnet: Hands Folded	601	(1)
Mark Jarman
Summer	601	(1)
Timothy Steele
Sine Qua Non	602	(1)
A. E. Stallings
Shakespearean Sonnet	603	(1)
R. S. Gwynn
The Epigram	604	(1)
A Selection of Epigrams	604	(1)
Alexander Pope
Sir John Harrington
Langston Hughes
J. V. Cunningham
Stevie Smith
Anonymous
Other Forms	605	(1)
ABC	605	(1)
Robert Pinsky
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	606	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Triolet	606	(1)
Robert Bridges
Sestina	607	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
On Form and Artifice	608	(1)
A. E. Stallings
Writing About Form: Turning Points	609	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About a Sonnet	610	(1)
Writing Assignment on a Sonnet	610	(1)
More Topics for Writing	610	(1)
Open Form	611	(16)
Ancient Stairway	611	(3)
Denise Levertov
Buffalo Bill's	614	(1)
E. E. Cummings
For the Anniversary of My Death	615	(1)
W. S. Merwin
The Heart	615	(1)
Stephen Crane
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	616	(1)
Walt Whitman
Salutation	616	(1)
Ezra Pound
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	616	(3)
Wallace Stevens
Prose Poetry	619	(1)
The Magic Study of Happiness	619	(1)
Charles Simic
Visual Poetry	619	(1)
Easter Wings	620	(1)
George Herbert
Swan and Shadow	621	(1)
John Hollander
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse	622	(1)
In Just	622	(1)
E. E. Cummings
I Shall Paint My Nails Red	623	(1)
Carole Satyamurti
Failure	623	(1)
Alice Fulton
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
The Poetry of the Future	624	(1)
Walt Whitman
Writing About Free Verse: Lining Up for Free Verse	625	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Line Breaks in Free Verse	626	(1)
Writing Assignment on Open Form	626	(1)
More Topics for Writing	626	(1)
Symbol	627	(12)
The Boston Evening Transcript	628	(1)
T. S. Eliot
The Lightning is a Yellow Fork	629	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Neutral Tones	630	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Matthew 13:24--30 The Parable of the Good Seed	631	(1)
The World	632	(1)
George Herbert
Outwitted	633	(1)
Edwin Markham
The Road Not Taken	633	(1)
Robert Frost
Uphill	634	(1)
Christina Rossetti
For Review and Further Study
The Term	635	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Carrie	635	(1)
Ted Kooser
Tree	635	(1)
Jane Hirshfield
Popcorn-Can Cover	636	(1)
Lorine Niedecker
Anecdote of the Jar	636	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Poetic Symbols	637	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Writing About Symbols: Reading a Symbol	637	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing a Symbol	638	(1)
Writing Assignment on Symbolism	638	(1)
More Topics for Writing	638	(1)
Myth and Narrative	639	(15)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	640	(1)
Robert Frost
The World is Too Much with Us	641	(1)
William Wordsworth
Helen	641	(1)
H. D.
Archetype	642	(1)
Medusa	643	(1)
Louise Bogan
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	644	(1)
John Keats
Personal Myth	645	(1)
The Second Coming	646	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Myth and Popular Culture	647	(1)
Snow White	648	(1)
Andrea Hollander Budy
Cinderella	648	(3)
Anne Sexton
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Transforming Fairy Tales	651	(1)
Anne Sexton
Writing About Myth: Demystifying Myth	652	(1)
Checklist: Thinking About Myth	653	(1)
Writing Assignment on Myth	653	(1)
More Topics for Writing	653	(1)
Poetry and Personal Identity	654	(16)
Lady Lazarus	655	(3)
Sylvia Plath
Bilingual/Bilingue	658	(1)
Rhina Espaillat
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity	659	(1)
America	659	(1)
Claude McKay
The Shrine Whose Shape I Am	660	(1)
Samuel Menashe
The X in My Name	661	(1)
Francisco X. Alarcon
Quinceanera	661	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Deliberate	662	(1)
Amy Uyematsu
Facing It	663	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Learning to Love America	664	(1)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Gender	664	(1)
Sous-Entendu	665	(1)
Anne Stevenson
Men at Forty	666	(1)
Donald Justice
Women	666	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Being a Bilingual Writer	667	(1)
Rhina Espaillat
Writing About the Poetry of Personal Identity: Poetic Voice and Personal Identity	668	(1)
Checklist: Writing About Voice and Personal Identity	669	(1)
Writing Assignment on Personal Identity	669	(1)
More Topics for Writing	669	(1)
Poetry in Spanish: Literature of Latin America	670	(15)
Asegura La Confianza De Que Ocultura De Todo Un Secreto	672	(1)
Sor Juana
She Promises to Hold a Secret in Confidence	672	(1)
Diane Thiel
Presente En Que El Carino Hace Regalo La Llaneza	672	(1)
Sor Juana
A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection	672	(1)
Diane Thiel
Muchos Somos	673	(2)
Pablo Neruda
We Are Many	673	(2)
Alastair Reid
Cien Sonetos De Amor (V)	675	(1)
Pablo Neruda
One Hundred Love Sonnets (V)	675	(1)
Stephen Tapscott
Amorosa Anticipacion	676	(1)
Jorge Luis Borges
Anticipation of Love	677	(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Los Enigmas	677	(2)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Enigmas	678	(1)
John Updike
Con Los Ojos Cerrados	679	(1)
Octavio Paz
With Eyes Closed	679	(1)
Eliot Weinberger
Certeza	679	(1)
Octavio Paz
Certainty	679	(1)
Charles Tomlinson
Surrealism in Latin American Poetry	680	(1)
The Two Fridas	681	(1)
Frida Kahlo
La Colera Que Quiebra al Hombre En Ninos	681	(2)
Cesar Vallejo
Anger	682	(1)
Thomas Merton
Writers on Writing
In Search of the Present	683	(1)
Octavio Paz
Writers on Translating
Translating Neruda	683	(1)
Alastair Reid
Writing Assignment on Spanish Poetry	684	(1)
More Topics for Writing	684	(1)
Recognizing Excellence	685	(18)
O Moon, When I Gaze on Thy Beautiful Face	687	(1)
Anonymous
Life	687	(1)
Grace Treasone
A Dying Tiger -- Moaned for Drink	687	(3)
Emily Dickinson
Thoughts on Capital Punishment	690	(1)
Rod McKuen
Traveling Through the Dark	690	(1)
William Stafford
Recognizing Excellence	691	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	692	(2)
William Butler Yeats
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness	694	(1)
Arthur Guiterman
Ozymandias	694	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Whipping	695	(1)
Robert Hayden
One Art	696	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
We Wear the Mask	698	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The New Colossus	698	(1)
Emma Lazarus
Annabel Lee	699	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
A Long Poem Does Not Exist	700	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writing an Evaluation: You Be the Judge	701	(1)
Checklist: Evaluating a Poem	701	(1)
Writing Assignment on Evaluating a Poem	702	(1)
More Topics for Writing	702	(1)
What Is Poetry?	703	(2)
Some Definitions of Poetry	703	(2)
Dante
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
Mina Loy
T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
Jorge Luis Borges
Octavio Paz
William Stafford
Two Critical Casebooks: Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes	705	(30)
Emily Dickinson	705	(1)
Success is Counted Sweetest	706	(1)
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed	706	(1)
Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!	707	(1)
I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain	707	(1)
I'm Nobody! Who are You?	708	(1)
I Dwell in Possibility	708	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society	708	(1)
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church	709	(1)
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes	709	(1)
I Heard a Fly Buzz -- When I Died	709	(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	710	(1)
Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant	710	(1)
Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson
Recognizing Poetry	711	(1)
Self-Description	712	(1)
Critics on Emily Dickinson
Meeting Emily Dickinson	713	(1)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Discovery of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts	714	(1)
Thomas H. Johnson
The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson	715	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Dickinson and Death (A Reading of ``Because I Could Not Stop for Death'')	716	(2)
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Langston Hughes	718	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	718	(1)
Mother to Son	719	(1)
Dream Variations	719	(1)
I, Too	720	(1)
The Weary Blues	720	(1)
Song for a Dark Girl	721	(1)
Ballad of the Landlord	721	(1)
Ku Klux	722	(1)
End	723	(1)
Theme for English B	723	(1)
Harlem [Dream Deferred]	724	(1)
As Befits a Man	724	(1)
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain	725	(1)
The Harlem Renaissance	726	(2)
Critics on Langston Hughes
Hughes as an Experimentalist	728	(1)
Arnold Rampersad
The Voices in Langston Hughes	729	(2)
Rita Dove
Marilyn Nelson
Black Identity in Langston Hughes	731	(1)
Darryl Pinckney
Langston Hughes and Jazz	732	(2)
Peter Townsend
Topics for Writing About Emily Dickinson	734	(1)
Topics for Writing About Langston Hughes	734	(1)
Critical Casebook: T. S. Eliot's ``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''	735	(16)
T. S. Eliot	735	(2)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	737	(4)
T. S. Eliot on Writing
Poetry and Emotion	741	(1)
The Objective Correlative	742	(1)
Critics on ``Prufrock''
One of the Irrefutable Poets	743	(1)
Denis Donoghue
What's in a Name?	744	(1)
Christopher Ricks
The Pronouns in the Poem: ``One,'' ``You,'' and ``I''	745	(1)
Philip R. Headings
Will There Be Time?	746	(1)
Maud Ellmann
Prufrock's Dilemma	747	(3)
John Berryman
Topics for Writing	750	(1)
Poems for Further Reading	751	(84)
Lord Randall	752	(1)
Anonymous
Last Words of the Prophet	753	(1)
Anonymous
Dover Beach	753	(1)
Matthew Arnold
At North Farm	754	(1)
John Ashbery
Siren Song	755	(1)
Margaret Atwood
As I Walked Out One Evening	756	(2)
W. H. Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts	758	(1)
W. H. Auden
Filling Station	759	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Tyger	761	(1)
William Blake
The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon	762	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	762	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	763	(2)
Robert Browning
Homage to My Hips	765	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan	766	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Care and Feeding	767	(1)
Billy Collins
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond	768	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Perfect Dress	769	(1)
Marisa de los Santos
Death Be Not Proud	770	(1)
John Donne
The Flea	771	(1)
John Donne
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	772	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Birches	773	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	774	(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	775	(1)
Robert Frost
A Supermarket in California	776	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
The Convergence of the Twain	777	(2)
Thomas Hardy
Those Winter Sundays	779	(1)
Robert Hayden
Digging	780	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Love	781	(1)
George Herbert
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time	782	(1)
Robert Herrick
Spring and Fall	782	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover	783	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	783	(1)
A. E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young	784	(1)
A. E. Housman
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	785	(1)
Randall Jarrell
To the Stone-Cutters	785	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
On My First Son	786	(1)
Ben Jonson
On the Death of Friends in Childhood	786	(1)
Donald Justice
Ode on a Grecian Urn	787	(1)
John Keats
Abandoned Farmhouse	788	(1)
Ted Kooser
Home is so Sad	789	(1)
Philip Larkin
The Ache of Marriage	790	(1)
Denise Levertov
Skunk Hour	791	(1)
Robert Lowell
To His Coy Mistress	792	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Recuerdo	793	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I Consider How My Light is Spent	794	(1)
John Milton
Poetry	795	(1)
Marianne Moore
A Strange Beautiful Woman	796	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
The War in the Air	797	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Poet's Work	797	(1)
Lorine Niedecker
A Selection of Hokku	798	(1)
Yone Noguchi
The One Girl at the Boys' Party	798	(1)
Sharon Olds
Anthem for Doomed Youth	799	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Ethics	800	(1)
Linda Pastan
Daddy	801	(2)
Sylvia Plath
A Little Learning is a Dang'Rous Thing	803	(1)
Alexander Pope
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	803	(2)
Ezra Pound
A Different Image	805	(1)
Dudley Randall
Naming of Parts	806	(1)
Henry Reed
Living in Sin	806	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Miniver Cheevy	807	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elegy for Jane	808	(1)
Theodore Roethke
When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes	809	(1)
William Shakespeare
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold	810	(1)
William Shakespeare
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun	811	(1)
William Shakespeare
Titanic	811	(1)
David R. Slavitt
Stamp Collecting	812	(1)
Cathy Song
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	813	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Vertigo	814	(1)
Larissa Szporluk
The Flight	815	(1)
Sara Teasdale
Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand	815	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Ulysses	816	(2)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Fern Hill	818	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Ex-Basketball Player	819	(1)
John Updike
The Virgins	820	(1)
Derek Walcott
Go, Lovely Rose	821	(1)
Edmund Waller
From Song of the Open Road	822	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing	823	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Writer	823	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Spring and All	824	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge	825	(1)
William Wordsworth
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	826	(1)
James Wright
In This Strange Labyrinth	826	(1)
Mary Sidney Wroth
They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seke	827	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	828	(1)
William Butler Yeats
When You are Old	829	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Penitents	829	(6)
Bernice Zamora
DRAMA
Reading a Play	835	(21)
A Play in its Elements	837	(1)
Trifles	837	(16)
Susan Glaspell
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Creating Trifles	853	(1)
Susan Glaspell
Writing About Conflict: Conflict Resolution	854	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Conflict	854	(1)
Writing Assignment on Conflict	855	(1)
More Topics for Writing	855	(1)
Modes of Drama: Tragedy and Comedy	856	(23)
Tragedy	856	(2)
Scene from Doctor Faustus (Act 2, Scene 1)	858	(6)
Christopher Marlowe
Comedy	864	(2)
Sure Thing	866	(10)
David Ives
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
On the One-Act Play	876	(1)
David Ives
Writing About Comedy: Getting Serious About Comedy	877	(1)
Checklist: Writing About a Comedy	878	(1)
Writing Assignment on Comedy	878	(1)
Topics for Writing on Tragedy	878	(1)
Topics for Writing on Comedy	878	(1)
Critical Casebook: Sophocles	879	(55)
The Theater of Sophocles	879	(1)
Staging	880	(2)
The Civic Role of Greek Drama	882	(2)
Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy	884	(1)
Sophocles	885	(1)
The Origins of Oedipus the King	886	(1)
Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)	887	(38)
Sophocles
Critics on Sophocles
Defining Tragedy	925	(2)
Aristotle
The Destiny of Oedipus	927	(1)
Sigmund Freud
On Misunderstanding Oedipus	928	(1)
E. R. Dodds
The Irony of Sophocles	929	(1)
A. E. Haigh
The Chorus as Democrat	930	(1)
David Wiles
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Translating Sophocles into English	931	(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Writing About Greek Tragedy: Some Things Change, Some Things Don't	932	(1)
Checklist: Analyzing Greek Tragedy	932	(1)
Writing Assignment on Sophocles	932	(1)
More Topics for Writing	933	(1)
Critical Casebook: Shakespeare	934	(118)
The Theater of Shakespeare	935	(1)
William Shakespeare	936	(1)
A Note on Othello	937	(1)
Othello, the Moor of Venice	938	(102)
William Shakespeare
Critics on Shakespeare
An Asian Culture Looks at Shakespeare	1040	(1)
Anthony Burgess
Iago as a Triumphant Villain	1041	(1)
W. H. Auden
Lucifer in Shakespeare's Othello	1042	(1)
Maud Bodkin
Black and White in Othello	1043	(1)
Virginia Mason Vaughan
Shakespeare's Language as a Hidden Political Code	1043	(2)
Clare Asquith
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
On His Friend and Rival William Shakespeare	1045	(1)
Ben Jonson
Writing About Shakespeare: Breaking the Language Barrier	1045	(1)
Checklist: Reading a Shakespearean Play	1046	(1)
Writing Assignment on Tragedy	1046	(1)
Student Paper: Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera?	1047	(4)
More Topics for Writing	1051	(1)
The Modern Theater	1052	(82)
Realism and Naturalism	1052	(2)
A Doll's House (Translated by James McFarlane)	1054	(56)
Henrik Ibsen
Writers on Writing
Correspondence on the Final Scene of a Doll's House	1110	(1)
Henrik Ibsen
Tragicomedy and the Absurd	1111	(3)
The Cuban Swimmer	1114	(13)
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
Writers on Writing
Writing the Cuban Swimmer	1127	(1)
Milcha Sanchez-scott
Writing Effectively
Writing About Dramatic Realism: What's so Realistic About Realism?	1128	(1)
Checklist: Writing About a Realist Play	1129	(1)
Writing Assignment on Realism	1129	(1)
Student Essay Helmer vs. Helmer	1130	(3)
More Topics for Writing	1133	(1)
Plays for Further Reading	1134	(255)
The Darker Face of the Earth	1134	(72)
Rita Dove
Writers on Writing
The Inspiration for the Darker Face of the Earth	1206	(1)
Rita Dove
Andre's Mother	1207	(3)
Terrence McNally
Writers on Writing
How to Write a Play	1210	(1)
Terrence McNally
Death of a Salesman	1211	(70)
Arthur Miller
Writers on Writing
Tragedy and the Common Man	1281	(3)
Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie	1284	(47)
Tennessee Williams
Writers on Writing
How to Stage the Glass Menagerie	1331	(2)
Tennessee Williams
Fences	1333	(52)
August Wilson
Writers on Writing
A Look into Black America	1385	(4)
August Wilson
WRITING
Writing About Literature	1389	(23)
Reading Actively	1389	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	1390	(1)
Robert Frost
Planning Your Essay	1391	(1)
Prewriting: Discovering Ideas	1392	(4)
Sample Student Prewriting Exercises	1392	(4)
Developing a Literary Argument	1396	(2)
Checklist: Developing a Literary Argument	1398	(1)
Writing a Rough Draft	1398	(3)
Sample Student Paper (Rough Draft)	1399	(2)
Revising	1401	(4)
Checklist: Revision Steps	1405	(1)
Some Final Advice on Rewriting	1406	(4)
Sample Student Paper (Revised Draft)	1407	(3)
Using Critical Sources and Maintaining Academic Integrity	1410	(1)
The Form of Your Finished Paper	1410	(2)
Writing About a Story	1412	(25)
Reading Actively	1412	(2)
Thinking About a Story	1414	(1)
Preparing to Write: Discovering Ideas	1414	(3)
Sample Student Prewriting Exercises	1414	(3)
Writing a First Draft	1417	(1)
Checklist: Writing a Rough Draft	1418	(1)
Revising	1418	(2)
Checklist: Revision	1420	(1)
What's Your Purpose? Some Common Approaches to Writing About Fiction	1420	(15)
Explication	1420	(2)
Sample Student Paper (Explication)	1422	(3)
Analysis	1425	(1)
Sample Student Paper (Analysis)	1426	(3)
The Card Report	1429	(1)
Sample Student Card Report	1430	(2)
Comparison and Contrast	1432	(1)
Sample Student Paper (Comparison and Contrast)	1433	(2)
Topics for Writing	1435	(2)
Writing About a Poem	1437	(25)
Getting Started	1437	(1)
Reading Actively	1437	(1)
Design	1438	(1)
Robert Frost
Thinking About a Poem	1438	(1)
Preparing to Write: Discovering Ideas	1439	(3)
Sample Student Prewriting Exercises	1439	(3)
Writing a First Draft	1442	(1)
Checklist: Writing a Rough Draft	1443	(1)
Revising	1444	(2)
Checklist: Revision	1446	(1)
Some Common Approaches to Writing About Poetry	1446	(11)
Explication	1446	(1)
Sample Student Paper (Explication)	1447	(3)
A Critic's Explication of Frost's ``Design''	1450	(1)
Analysis	1451	(1)
Sample Student Paper (Analysis)	1452	(2)
Comparison and Contrast	1454	(1)
Wing-Spread	1454	(1)
Abbie Huston Evans
Sample Student Paper (Comparison and Contrast)	1455	(2)
How to Quote a Poem	1457	(2)
Topics for Writing	1459	(1)
In White	1460	(2)
Robert Frost
Writing About a Play	1462	(9)
Reading a Play	1462	(2)
Common Approaches to Writing About Drama	1464	(3)
Explication	1464	(1)
Analysis	1464	(1)
Comparison and Contrast	1464	(1)
A Drama Review	1465	(1)
Sample Student Drama Review	1466	(1)
How to Quote a Play	1467	(2)
Topics for Writing	1469	(2)
Writing a Research Paper	1471	(31)
Getting Started	1471	(1)
Choosing a Topic	1472	(1)
Finding Research Sources	1472	(4)
Finding Print Resources	1472	(1)
Using Online Databases	1473	(1)
Finding Reliable Web Sources	1473	(1)
Checklist: Finding Sources	1474	(1)
Using Visual Images	1475	(1)
Checklist: Using Visual Images	1476	(1)
Evaluating Sources	1476	(2)
Evaluating Print Resources	1476	(1)
Evaluating Web Resources	1476	(1)
Checklist: Evaluating Sources	1477	(1)
Organizing Your Research	1478	(1)
Refining Your Thesis	1479	(1)
Organizing Your Paper	1479	(1)
Writing and Revising	1480	(1)
Guarding Academic Integrity	1480	(1)
Acknowledging Sources	1481	(2)
Quoting a Source	1481	(1)
Citing Ideas	1482	(1)
Documenting Sources Using MLA Style	1483	(5)
List of Sources	1483	(1)
Parenthetical References	1483	(1)
Works Cited List	1484	(1)
Citing Print Sources in MLA Style	1484	(2)
Citing Internet Sources in MLA Style	1486	(1)
Sample Works Cited List	1487	(1)
Concluding Thoughts	1488	(1)
Writing Assignment for Research Paper	1488	(7)
Sample Student Research Paper	1488	(7)
Reference Guide for Citations	1495	(7)
Writing an Essay Exam	1502	(5)
Checklist: Exam Preparation	1506	(1)
Taking the Exam	1506	(1)
Critical Approaches to Literature	1507
Formalist Criticism	1508	(1)
The Formalist Critic	1508	(1)
Cleanth Brooks
Light and Darkness in ``Sonny's Blues''	1509	(1)
Michael Clark
Biographical Criticism	1510	(1)
On Elizabeth Bishop's ``One Art''	1511	(1)
Brett C. Millier
The Source for Alcee Laballiere in ``The Storm''	1512	(1)
Emily Toth
Historical Criticism	1513	(1)
Imagism	1514	(1)
Hugh Kenner
The Economics of Zora Neale Hurston's ``Sweat''	1515	(2)
Kathryn Lee Seidel
Psychological Criticism	1517	(1)
The Nature of Dreams	1518	(1)
Sigmund Freud
Poetic Influence	1519	(1)
Harold Bloom
Mythological Criticism	1519	(1)
The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes	1520	(1)
Carl Jung
Myth in Faulkner's ``Barn Burning''	1521	(2)
Edmond Volpe
Sociological Criticism	1523	(1)
Content Determines Form	1524	(1)
Georg Lukacs
Money and Labor in ``The Rocking-Horse Winner''	1524	(2)
Daniel P. Watkins
Gender Criticism	1526	(1)
Toward a Feminist Poetics	1526	(1)
Elaine Showalter
The Freedom of Emily Dickinson	1527	(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Reader-Response Criticism	1528	(1)
An Eskimo ``A Rose for Emily''	1529	(1)
Stanley Fish
``How Do We Make a Poem?''	1530	(2)
Robert Scholes
Deconstructionist Criticism	1532	(1)
The Death of the Author	1532	(1)
Roland Barthes
On Wordsworth's ``A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal''	1533	(1)
Geoffrey Hartman
Cultural Studies	1534	(2)
Poststructuralist Cultural Critique	1536	(1)
Vincent B. Leitch
What is Cultural Studies?	1537
Mark Bauerlein
Glossary of Literary Terms	1	(1)
Acknowledgments	1	(1)
Index of First Lines of Poetry	1	(4)
Index of Authors and Titles	5	(115)
Index of Literary Terms	120