The Seagull Reader Literature

by Kelly, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780393926774
• ISBN10: 039392677X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-22
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Ideal for introductory courses, The Seagull Readers offer a compact and affordable alternative to larger anthologies. Each volume includes a broad selection of the most commonly taught classic and contemporary works, as well as a thorough introduction to each genre, author biographies, and concise explanatory annotations. The comprehensive Literature reader includes the full contents of the Plays, Poems, and Stories readers in one portable volume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xvii
What Is Literature?	xvii
How Do You Read Literature?	xxii
Stories	1	(362)
What Are Stories?	3	(1)
How Do You Read Stories?	4	(17)
Conclusion	21	(342)
Chinua Achebe, Uncle Ben's Choice	23	(5)
Raymond Carver, Cathedral	28	(15)
John Cheever, The Swimmer	43	(12)
Anton Chekhov, In Exile	55	(9)
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour	64	(4)
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat	68	(25)
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily	93	(10)
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	103	(7)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper	110	(18)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown	128	(14)
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants	142	(5)
O. Henry, The Furnished Room	147	(7)
James Joyce, Araby	154	(7)
Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist	161	(9)
D.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter	170	(18)
James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread	188	(20)
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	208	(18)
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried	226	(18)
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find	244	(17)
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation	261	(13)
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing	274	(8)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado	282	(8)
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	290	(10)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman	300	(10)
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums	310	(11)
John Updike, A&P	321	(7)
Alice Walker, Everyday Use	328	(10)
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path	338	(9)
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever	347	(16)
Poems	363	(238)
What Is Poetry?	365	(2)
How Do You Read Poems?	367	(18)
Structure	385	(9)
Conclusion	394	(1)
Note on Dates	394	(207)
Anonymous, Western Wind	395	(3)
Sir Patrick Spens	395	(3)
John Agard, Palm Tree King	398	(2)
Paul Allen, The Man with the Hardest Belly	400	(4)
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach	404	(2)
Margaret Atwood, You Fit into Me	406	(1)
W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts	406	(4)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	407	(3)
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish	410	(5)
Sestina	413	(1)
One Art	414	(1)
William Blake, The Lamb	415	(4)
The Chimney Sweeper (1789)	416	(1)
The Sick Rose	417	(1)
The Tyger	417	(1)
London	418	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper (1794)	419	(1)
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband	419	(2)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	420	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks, the mother	421	(3)
We Real Cool	423	(1)
The Bean Eaters	423	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee?")	424	(1)
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess	425	(2)
Lynne Bryer, The Way	427	(2)
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky	429	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan	430	(2)
Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning	432	(4)
On Turning Ten	434	(1)
Sonnet	435	(1)
E.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill's	436	(2)
in Just-	437	(1)
Emily Dickinson, 249 ("Wild Nights-Wild Nights!")	438	(4)
303 ("The Soul selects her own Society-")	439	(1)
341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")	439	(1)
465 ("I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-")	440	(1)
712 ("Because I could not stop for Death-")	440	(1)
986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")	441	(1)
John Donne, The Sun Rising	442	(7)
The Canonization	444	(2)
The Flea	446	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	447	(1)
Holy Sonnet lo ("Death, be not proud")	448	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14 ("Batter my heart")	449	(1)
Rita Dove, The House Slave	449	(2)
Daystar	450	(1)
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruftock	451	(5)
Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	456	(4)
Captivity	458	(2)
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel	460	(1)
Robert Frost, Home Burial	461	(13)
After Apple-Picking	466	(1)
Mending Wall	467	(1)
"Out, Out-"	468	(1)
The Road Not Taken	469	(1)
Birches	470	(2)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	472	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	472	(1)
Design	473	(1)
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California	474	(1)
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	475	(5)
Thomas Hardy, Hap	480	(5)
The Convergence of the Twain	481	(2)
Channel Firing	483	(2)
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays	485	(1)
Seamus Heaney, Digging	486	(3)
Punishment	487	(2)
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder	489	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	490	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	491	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur	491	(3)
The Windhover	492	(1)
Spring and Fall	493	(1)
A.E. Housman, 1887	494	(8)
To an Athlete Dying Young	496	(1)
The Immortal Part	497	(1)
Shot? So quick, so clean an ending?	498	(1)
"Terence, this is stupid stuff..."	499	(3)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers	502	(3)
Harlem	503	(1)
Theme for English B	504	(1)
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	505	(1)
Ben Jonson, Song: To Celia	506	(2)
On My First Daughter	507	(1)
On My First Son	507	(1)
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	508	(9)
When I Have Fears	509	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	509	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	511	(3)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	514	(2)
To Autumn	516	(1)
Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating	517	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It	518	(2)
We Never Know	520	(1)
Maxine Kumin, Woodchucks	520	(2)
Philip Larkin, Aubade	522	(2)
Li-Young Lee, Visions and Interpretations	524	(3)
The Gift	526	(1)
Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour	527	(2)
Susan Ludvigson, After Love	529	(1)
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica	530	(1)
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	531	(2)
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress	533	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed	534	(2)
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink	535	(1)
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	536	(1)
Marianne Moore, Poetry	537	(2)
Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love	539	(2)
The One Girl at the Boys' Party	540	(1)
Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est	541	(1)
Marge Piercy, Barbie doll	542	(1)
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors	543	(4)
Daddy	544	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven	547	(5)
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	552	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	553	(1)
John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	553	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory	555	(1)
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar	556	(2)
My Papa's Waltz	557	(1)
I Knew a Woman	557	(1)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee")	558	(4)
Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune")	560	(1)
Sonnet 73 ("That time of year")	560	(1)
Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage")	561	(1)
Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes")	561	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias	562	(4)
Ode to the West Wind	563	(3)
Bruce Springsteen, The River	566	(2)
William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark	568	(1)
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar	569	(6)
Sunday Morning	570	(4)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	574	(1)
Leon Stokesbury, Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain	575	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses	576	(3)
Crossing the Bar	579	(1)
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill	579	(3)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	582	(1)
Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider	582	(2)
When I Heard the LearndAstronomer	583	(1)
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	584	(1)
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All	585	(3)
The Red Wheelbarrow	587	(1)
This Is Just to Say	587	(1)
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned	588	(4)
Nutting	590	(2)
The World Is Too Much with Us	592	(1)
James Wright, A Blessing	592	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, My Galley	593	(2)
They Flee from Me	594	(1)
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree	595	(38)
The Second Coming	597	(1)
Leda and the Swan	598	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	599	(2)
Plays	601	(566)
'What Is Drama?	603	(5)
The Parts of a Play	608	(10)
Tragedy	618	(3)
Comedy	621	(1)
Major Moments in the History of Theater	622	(11)
Conclusion	633	(534)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King	635	(51)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet	686	(128)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House	814	(72)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest	886	(63)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles	949	(15)
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie	964	(68)
August Wilson, Fences	1032	(69)
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly	1101	(66)
Biographical Sketches	1167	(42)
Glossary	1209	(16)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1225	(8)
Index	1233