The Norton Introduction To Literature: Shorter Edition

by Booth, Alison

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Summary

Now offering a new contextual chapter, a completely rewritten section on writing about literature, refreshed pedagogy throughout the book, new student-writing samples, and 54 new literary selections, The Norton Introduction to Literature , Shorter Ninth Edition, is more flexible and attractive than ever before.

Preface

xxi

Introduction

(1)

Why Literature Matters

(2)

``The Canon''

(1)

What Is Literature?

(2)

Thinking Critically about Literature

(7)

Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing

(54)

Anonymous, The Elephant in the Village of the Blind

(2)

Linda Brewer, 20/20

(5)

Raymond Carver, Cathedral

(11)

Grace Paley, A Conversation With My Father

(4)

A. S. Byatt, The Thing in the Forest

(14)

Sherman Alexie, Flight Patterns

(14)

Nina Sullivan, Student Writing: The Heart of Storytelling in ``A Conversation with My Father'' and ``Flight Patterns''

(3)

Understanding the Text

(296)

Plot

(54)

John Cheever, The Country Husband

(17)

James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

(22)

Edith Wharton, Roman Fever

110

(10)

Narration and Point of View

120

(20)

Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

123

(5)

Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

128

(4)

Lorrie Moore, How

132

(8)

Character

140

(56)

Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O.

145

(8)

Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener

153

(26)

Doris Lessing, Our Friend Judith

179

(14)

Bethany Qualls, Student Writing: Character and Narration in ``Cathedral''

193

(3)

Setting

196

(34)

Andrea Barrett, The Littoral Zone

198

(6)

Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets

204

(14)

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog

218

(12)

Symbol

230

(34)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

232

(10)

Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

242

(6)

Ann Beattie, Janus

248

(4)

Edwidge Danticat, A Wall of Fire Rising

252

(12)

Theme

264

(35)

Angela Carter, A Souvenir of Japan

266

(6)

Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief

272

(12)

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

284

(15)

The Whole Text

299

(63)

Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

299

(28)

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

327

(16)

Stephen Crane, The Open Boat

343

(19)

Exploring Contexts

362

(145)

The Author's Work as Context: Flannery O'Connor

362

(55)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

364

(11)

The Lame Shall Enter First

375

(25)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

400

(10)

Passages from Essays and Letters

410

(7)

Literary Kind as Context: Initiation Stories

417

(31)

Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love

418

(4)

Alice Munro, Boys and Girls

422

(10)

James Joyce, Araby

432

(5)

Michael Chabon, The Lost World

437

(11)

Form as Context: The Short Short Story

448

(17)

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

449

(2)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

451

(5)

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl

456

(1)

Yasunari Kawabata, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

457

(2)

William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force

459

(3)

Ursula K. Le Guin, She Unnames Them

462

(3)

Critical Contexts: A Fiction Casebook

465

(42)

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

467

(7)

Lawrence R. Rodgers, ``We all said, `She will kill herself''': The Narrator/Detective in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

474

(7)

George L. Dillon, Styles of Reading

481

(8)

Judith Fetterley, A Rose for ``A Rose for Emily''

489

(6)

Gene M. Moore, Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

495

(8)

Willow D. Crystal, Student Writing: ``One of us . . .'': Concepts of the Private and the Public in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''

503

(4)

Reading More Fiction

507

(75)

Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

507

(6)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

513

(11)

D. H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums

524

(13)

Katherine Anne Porter, Flowering Judas

537

(9)

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

546

(7)

Margaret Atwood, Scarlet Ibis

553

(11)

Ha Jin, In Broad Daylight

564

(8)

Salman Rushdie, The Prophet's Hair

572

(10)

Biographical Sketches: Fiction Writers

582

(12)

Poetry

Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing

594

(25)

Reading

595

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee?

595

(1)

Jarold Ramsey, The Tally Stick

596

(1)

Linda Pastan, love poem

597

(2)

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

599

(1)

Liz Rosenberg, Married Love

600

(1)

Responding

601

(1)

Ben Jonson, On My First Son

602

(1)

Howard Nemerov, The Vacuum

603

(1)

Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break

604

(1)

Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography

605

(1)

Anne Sexton, The Fury of Overshoes

606

(3)

Writing

609

(1)

Practicing Reading: Some Poems on Love

609

(1)

W. H. Auden, [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]

609

(1)

Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband

610

(1)

William Shakespeare, [Let me not to the marriage of true minds]

611

(1)

Sharon Olds, Last Night

611

(1)

Aphra Behn, On Her Loving Two Equally

612

(1)

Denise Levertov, Wedding-Ring

613

(1)

Mary, Lady Chudleigh, To the Ladies

613

(1)

W. B. Yeats, A Last Confession

614

(2)

Stephen Bordland, Student Writing: Response paper on W. H. Auden's ``Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone''

616

(3)

Understanding the Text

619

(194)

Tone

619

(20)

Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll

619

(1)

W. D. Snodgrass, Leaving the Motel

620

(2)

Thom Gunn, In Time of Plague

622

(2)

Etheridge Knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

624

(1)

William Blake, London

625

(2)

Maxine Kumin, Woodchucks

627

(1)

Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

628

(1)

Many Tones: Poems About Family Relationships

629

(1)

Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

629

(1)

Emily Grosholz, Eden

630

(1)

Li-Young Lee, Persimmons

631

(2)

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

633

(1)

Daniel Tobin, The Clock

633

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali, Postcard from Kashmir

634

(1)

Pat Mora, Elena

635

(1)

Kelly Cherry, Alzheimer's

635

(1)

Andrew Hudgins, Begotten

636

(1)

Simon J. Ortiz, My Father's Song

637

(2)

Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear?

639

(18)

Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid

639

(2)

J. Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

641

(1)

Margaret Atwood, Death of a Young Son by Drowning

642

(2)

Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

644

(2)

Tess Gallagher, Sudden Journey

646

(1)

Dorothy Parker, A Certain Lady

647

(2)

William Wordsworth, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

649

(1)

Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire

650

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt, They Flee from Me

651

(1)

Robert Burns, To a Louse

652

(1)

Pat Mora, La Migra

653

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, [Women have loved before]

654

(1)

[I being born a woman]

655

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

655

(1)

Walt Whitman, [I celebrate myself, and sing myself]

656

(1)

Situation and Setting: What Happens? Where? When?

657

(25)

James Dickey, Cherrylog Road

658

(3)

John Donne, The Flea

661

(1)

Rita Dove, Daystar

662

(1)

Linda Pastan, To a Daughter Leaving Home

663

(1)

John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

664

(2)

Sylvia Plath, Point Shirley

666

(2)

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

668

(2)

Situations

670

(1)

Emily Bronte, The Night-Wind

670

(1)

Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

671

(1)

Marilyn Chin, Summer Love

672

(1)

Virginia Hamilton Adair, Peeling an Orange

673

(1)

Times

674

(1)

William Shakespeare, [Full many a glorious morning have I seen]

674

(1)

John Donne, The Good-Morrow

674

(1)

Sylvia Plath, Morning Song

675

(1)

Billy Collins, Morning

676

(1)

Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning

677

(1)

Places

677

(1)

John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey

677

(2)

Derek Walcott, Midsummer

679

(1)

Thom Gunn, A Map of the City

680

(1)

Earle Birney, Irapuato

680

(2)

Language

682

(47)

Precision and Ambiguity

682

(1)

Sarah Cleghorn, [The golf links lie so near the mill]

682

(1)

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, There's No To-morrow

683

(1)

Charles Bernstein, Of Time and the Line

683

(2)

Yvor Winters, At the San Francisco Airport

685

(2)

Walter De La Mare, Slim Cunning Hands

687

(1)

Pat Mora, Gentle Communion

688

(2)

Emily Dickinson, [After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]

690

(1)

Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz

691

(1)

Sharon Olds, Sex without Love

692

(1)

Martha Collins, Lies

693

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [I dwell in Possibility---]

694

(1)

William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow

694

(1)

This Is Just to Say

695

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

695

(1)

E. E. Cummings, [in Just-]

696

(1)

Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat

697

(1)

Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder

697

(1)

Picturing: The Languages of Description

698

(1)

Oscar Wilde, Symphony in Yellow

699

(1)

Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes

700

(1)

Ted Hughes, To Paint a Water Lily

701

(1)

Andrew Marvell, On a Drop of Dew

702

(1)

Metaphor and Simile

703

(1)

William Shakespeare, [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]

704

(2)

Linda Pastan, Marks

706

(1)

David Wagoner, My Father's Garden

706

(1)

Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose

707

(2)

Adrienne Rich, Two Songs

709

(1)

William Shakespeare, [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]

710

(1)

Anonymous, The Twenty-third Psalm

711

(1)

Henry King, Sic Vita

711

(1)

John Donne, [Batter my heart, three-personed God]

712

(1)

The Computation

712

(1)

The Canonization

713

(1)

David Ferry, At the Hospital

714

(1)

Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

715

(1)

Francis William Bourdillon, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

715

(1)

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Of the Theme of Love

715

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [Wild Night---Wild Nights!]

716

(1)

Symbol

716

(1)

Sharon Olds, Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941

717

(1)

James Dickey, The Leap

718

(3)

Edmund Waller, Song

721

(1)

D. H. Lawrence, I Am Like a Rose

722

(1)

Dorothy Parker, One Perfect Rose

722

(1)

William Blake, The Sick Rose

723

(1)

Robert Frost, Fireflies in the Garden

724

(1)

Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

725

(2)

Roo Borson

727

(2)

The Sounds of Poetry

729

(26)

Helen Chasin, The Word Plum

729

(1)

Mona Van Duyn, What the Motorcycle Said

730

(2)

Kenneth Fearing, Dirge

732

(2)

Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense

734

(4)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Metrical Feet

738

(1)

Wendy Cope, Emily Dickinson

738

(1)

Anonymous, [There was a young girl from St. Paul]

739

(1)

Sir John Suckling, Song

739

(1)

John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

740

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

742

(3)

William Shakespeare, [Like as the waves . . . ]

745

(1)

James Merrill, Watching the Dance

745

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall

746

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

747

(1)

Words and Music

747

(2)

Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings

749

(1)

Augustus Montague Toplady, A Prayer, Living and Dying

749

(1)

Robert Hayden, Homage to the Empress of the Blues

750

(1)

Michael Harper, Dear John, Dear Coltrane

751

(1)

Willie Perdomo, 123rd Street Rap

752

(3)

Internal Structure

755

(22)

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood's Party

755

(3)

Howard Nemerov, The Goose Fish

758

(2)

Philip Larkin, Church Going

760

(3)

Pat Mora, Sonrisas

763

(1)

Sharon Olds, The Victims

764

(2)

Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens

766

(1)

William Carlos Williams, The Dance

767

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]

768

(1)

William Shakespeare, [Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame]

769

(1)

Cathy Song, Heaven

769

(2)

Stephen Dunn, Poetry

771

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

772

(2)

W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats

774

(3)

External Form

777

(26)

The Sonnet

780

(1)

William Wordsworth, Nuns Fret Not

781

(1)

Henry Constable, [My lady's presence makes the roses red]

782

(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument

783

(1)

John Keats, On the Sonnet

783

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks, First Fight. Then Fiddle.

784

(1)

Robert Frost, Range-Finding

785

(1)

William Wordsworth, London, 1802

785

(1)

John Milton, [When I consider how my light is spent]

786

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, [When our two souls stand up]

786

(1)

Christina Rossetti, In an Artist's Studio

787

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, [What lips my lips have kissed]

787

(1)

Gwen Harwood, In the Park

788

(1)

William Shakespeare, [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]

788

(1)

Helen Chasin, Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe

789

(1)

Billy Collins, Sonnet

789

(1)

Stanza Forms

790

(1)

Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

791

(1)

Marianne Moore, Poetry

792

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina

793

(1)

Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica

794

(1)

The Way a Poem Looks

795

(1)

E. E. Cummings, [l(a]

795

(1)

Franklin P. Adams, Composed in the Composing Room

796

(1)

E. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's]

797

(1)

Stevie Smith, The Jungle Husband

798

(1)

George Herbert, Easter Wings

799

(1)

Roger McGough, Here I Am

800

(1)

Earle Birney, Anglosaxon Street

800

(2)

David Ferry, Evening News

802

(1)

The Whole Text

803

(10)

Elizabeth Jennings, Delay

803

(2)

Anonymous, Western Wind

805

(1)

Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes

806

(2)

W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts

808

(1)

George Herbert, The Collar

809

(1)

Robert Frost, Design

810

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]

811

(1)

Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.

811

(2)

Exploring Contexts

813

(165)

Reading Poetry in Context

813

(22)

James A. Emanuel, Emmett Till

814

(1)

Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing

815

(1)

Sandra Gilbert, Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal

816

(3)

Times, Places, and Events

819

(1)

Miller Williams, Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS

819

(1)

Irving Layton, From Colony to Nation

819

(1)

Langston Hughes, Harlem

820

(1)

Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass

821

(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Casabianca

821

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, Casabianca

822

(1)

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est

823

(1)

Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham

824

(1)

Constructing Identity, Exploring Gender

825

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, Exchanging Hats

825

(1)

Marie Howe, Practicing

826

(1)

Richard Lovelace, Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

827

(1)

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

827

(2)

Elizabeth Barrett, Browning, To George Sand [A Desire]

829

(1)

To George Sand [A recognition]

829

(1)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Written the First Year he was Marry'd

830

(1)

Marge Pierce, What's That Smell in the Kitchen?

830

(1)

Paulette Jles, Paper Matches

831

(1)

Amy Lowell, The Lonely Wife

831

(1)

Liz Rosenberg, The Silence of Women

832

(1)

Thom Gunn, A Blank

833

(2)

The Author's Work as Context: John Keats and Adrienne Rich

835

(42)

Keats

838

(2)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

840

(1)

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

840

(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

841

(1)

Sonnet to Sleep

841

(1)

From Endymion (Book 1)

842

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

843

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

845

(1)

To Autumn

846

(1)

Passages from Letters and the Preface to Endymion To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)

847

(1)

To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 1817)

848

(1)

To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 19, 1818)

849

(2)

To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)

851

(1)

Preface to Endymion (dated April 10, 1818)

852

(1)

Chronology

852

(1)

Rich

853

(2)

At a Bach Concert

855

(1)

Storm Warnings

856

(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

857

(4)

Planetarium

861

(1)

For the Record

862

(1)

[My mouth hovers across your breasts]

863

(1)

History

863

(2)

Modotti

865

(1)

Personal Reflections

866

(1)

When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

866

(1)

How Does a Poet Put Bread on the Table?

867

(2)

A Communal Poetry

869

(1)

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts

870

(4)

Chronology

874

(3)

Literary Tradition as Context

877

(29)

Echo and Allusion

878

(1)

Ben Jonson, [Come, my Celia, let us prove]

879

(1)

William Blake, The Lamb

880

(1)

Howard Nemerov, Boom!

880

(2)

Marianne Moore, Love in America?

882

(1)

Robert Hollander, You Too? Me Too---Why Not? Soda Pop

883

(1)

William Shakespeare, [Not marble, nor the gilded monuments]

884

(1)

Poetic ``Kinds''

884

(1)

Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

885

(1)

Haiku

886

(1)

Chiyojo, [Whether astringent]

887

(1)

Basho, [A village without bells---]

888

(1)

[This road---]

888

(1)

Buson, [Coolness---]

888

(1)

[Listening to the moon]

889

(1)

Seifu, [The faces of dolls]

889

(1)

Lafcadio Hearn, [Old pond---]

889

(1)

Clara A. Walsh, [An old-time pond]

889

(1)

Earl Miner, [The still old pond]

890

(1)

Allen Ginsberg, [The old pond]

890

(1)

Babette Deutsch, [The falling flower]

890

(1)

Etheridge Knight, [Eastern guard tower]

890

(1)

Richard Wright, [In the falling snow]

891

(1)

James A. Emanuel, Ray Charles

891

(1)

Imitating and Answering

891

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh, [The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd]

892

(1)

William Carlos Williams, Raleigh Was Right

892

(1)

Allen Ginsberg, A Further Proposal

893

(1)

E. E. Cummings, [(ponder, darling, these busted statues]

894

(1)

Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

895

(1)

Desmond Skirrow, Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized

895

(1)

Cultural Belief and Tradition

896

(1)

John Hollander, Adam's Task

897

(1)

Susan Donnelly, Eve Names the Animals

897

(1)

Miriam Waddington, Ulysses Embroidered

898

(2)

Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Kraken

900

(1)

Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America

900

(1)

June Jordan, Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley

901

(1)

Maya Angelou, Africa

901

(1)

Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa

902

(1)

Alberto Alvaro Rios, Advice to a First Cousin

903

(1)

Louise Erdrich, Jacklight

904

(2)

Cultural and Historical Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance

906

(41)

Arna Bontemps, A Black Man Talks of Reaping

916

(1)

Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel

916

(1)

Saturday's Child

917

(1)

From the Dark Tower

918

(1)

Angelina Grimke, The Black Finger

918

(1)

Tenebris

918

(1)

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

919

(1)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

920

(1)

I, Too

921

(1)

Helene Johnson, Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

921

(1)

Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows

922

(1)

If We Must Die

922

(1)

The Tropics in New York

923

(1)

The Harlem Dancer

923

(1)

The White House

923

(1)

James Weldon Johnson, From the Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry

924

(3)

Alain Locke, From The New Negro

927

(5)

Rudolph Fisher, The Caucasian Storms Harlem

932

(5)

W. E. B. Du Bois, Two Novels

937

(1)

Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

938

(3)

Langston Hughes, From The Big Sea [Harlem Literati]

941

(6)

Critical Contexts: A Poetry Casebook

947

(31)

Sylvia Plath, Daddy

948

(4)

George Steiner, From Dying Is an Art

952

(3)

Irving Howe, From The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent

955

(1)

A. Alvarez, From Sylvia Plath

956

(2)

Judith Kroll, From Rituals of Exorcism: ``Daddy''

958

(3)

Mary Lynn Broe, From Protean Poetic

961

(3)

Margaret Homans, From A Feminine Tradition

964

(1)

Pamela J. Annas, From A Disturbance in Mirrors

965

(4)

Steven Gould Axelrod, From Jealous Gods

969

(9)

Reading More Poetry

978

(51)

William Blake, The Tyger

978

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

979

(1)

Emily Dickinson, [Because I could not stop for Death---]

980

(1)

[I stepped from Plank to Plank]

981

(1)

[We do not play on Graves---]

981

(1)

[The Brain--is wider than the Sky---]

982

(1)

[She dealt her pretty words like Blades---]

982

(1)

John Donne, [Death, be not proud]

982

(1)

The Sun Rising

983

(1)

Song

984

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

985

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy

986

(1)

We Wear the Mask

986

(1)

T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi

987

(1)

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

988

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

989

(1)

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

989

(4)

Robert Hayden, The Whipping

993

(1)

Seamus Heaney, Digging

993

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur

994

(1)

The Windhover

995

(1)

Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating

995

(1)

Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour

996

(1)

Andrew Marvell, The Garden

997

(2)

Howard Nemerov, A Way of Life

999

(1)

Sylvia Plath, Barren Woman

1000

(1)

Lady Lazarus

1001

(2)

Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro

1003

(1)

A Virginal

1003

(1)

John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

1003

(1)

Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream

1004

(1)

Anecdote of the Jar

1005

(1)

Sunday Morning

1005

(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears

1008

(1)

Tithonus

1009

(2)

Ulysses

1011

(1)

Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill

1012

(2)

Walt Whitman, Facing West from California's Shores

1014

(1)

I Hear America Singing

1014

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

1015

(1)

Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1015

(1)

C. K. Williams, Alzheimer's: The Wife

1016

(1)

William Wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

1017

(3)

W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1020

(1)

Easter 1916

1021

(2)

The Second Coming

1023

(1)

Leda and the Swan

1024

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

1025

(1)

Among School Children

1026

(3)

Biographical Sketches: Poets

1029

(15)

Drama

Reading, Responding, Writing

1044

(48)

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

1046

(12)

Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound

1058

(34)

Understanding the Text

1092

(173)

Elements of Drama

1092

(173)

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

1102

(38)

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

1140

(65)

August Wilson, The Piano Lesson

1205

(60)

Exploring Contexts

1265

(205)

The Author's Work as Context: William Shakespeare

1265

(155)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1272

(53)

Hamlet

1325

(95)

Critical Contexts: A Drama Casebook

1420

(50)

Sophocles, Antigone

1423

(31)

Richard C. Jebb, From The Antigone of Sophocles

1454

(1)

Maurice Bowra, From Sophoclean Tragedy

1455

(2)

Bernard Knox, Introduction to The Three Theban Plays

1457

(5)

Martha C. Nussbaum, From The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

1462

(4)

Rebecca W. Bushnell, From Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays

1466

(1)

Mary Whitlock Blundell, From Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

1467

(3)

Reading More Drama

1470

(212)

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

1470

(38)

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House

1508

(48)

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

1556

(65)

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

1621

(61)

Biographical Sketches: Playwrights

1682

(3)

Writing about Literature

1685

(64)

Paraphrase, Summary, and Description

1685

(4)

The Elements of the Essay

1689

(9)

The Writing Process

1698

(13)

The Research Essay

1711

(16)

Quotation, Citation, and Documentation

1727

(22)

Richard Gibson, Sample Research Paper: Keeping the Sabbath Separately: Emily Dickinson's Rebellious Faith

1739

(10)

Critical Approaches

1749

Glossary

(8)

Permissions Acknowledgments

(18)

Index of Authors

(6)

Index of Titles and First Lines

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