The Norton Introduction To Literature

by Booth, Alison; Hunter, J. Paul; Mays, Kelly J.

• ISBN13: 9780393926156
• ISBN10: 039392615X
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-04
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
Introduction	1	(1)
Why Literature Matters	1	(2)
``The Canon''	3	(1)
What Is Literature?	3	(2)
Thinking Critically about Literature	5	(7)
Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing	12	(54)
Anonymous, The Elephant in the Village of the Blind	13	(2)
Linda Brewer, 20/20	15	(5)
Raymond Carver, Cathedral	20	(11)
Grace Paley, A Conversation With My Father	31	(4)
A. S. Byatt, The Thing in the Forest	35	(14)
Sherman Alexie, Flight Patterns	49	(14)
Nina Sullivan, Student Writing: The Heart of Storytelling in ``A Conversation with My Father'' and ``Flight Patterns''	63	(3)
Understanding the Text	66	(296)
Plot	66	(54)
John Cheever, The Country Husband	71	(17)
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues	88	(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	1	(8)
Permissions Acknowledgments	9	(18)
Index of Authors	27	(6)
Index of Titles and First Lines	33