Great Writing : A Reader for Writers

by Harvey S. Wiener

• ISBN13: 9780070701908
• ISBN10: 0070701903
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Introduction: The Writing Process	1	(16)
Chapter One DESCRIPTION	17	(53)
N. Scott Momaday
THE LAST OF THE KIOWAS	17	(6)
E. B. White
ONCE MORE TO THE LAKE	23	(7)
Emily Bronte
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, CHAPTER 1	30	(6)
Amy Lowell
WIND AND SILVER	36	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
OZYMANDIAS	38	(2)
Edna O'Brien
MY MOTHER'S MOTHER	40	(12)
Alfred Kazin
THE KITCHEN	52	(5)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
THE EAGLE	57	(2)
John Keats
ODE TO AUTUMN	59	(2)
Melville Crane
SNOW TOWARD EVENING	61	(9)
Chapter Two NARRATION	70	(71)
Willa Cather
A WAGNER MATINEE	70	(7)
Frederick Douglass
FROM NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE	77	(9)
Emily Dickinson
THERE'S BEEN A DEATH IN THE OPPOSITE HOUSE	86	(2)
Richard Wright
NATIVE SON, CHAPTER 1	88	(8)
Countee Cullen
INCIDENT	96	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
THE WITCH'S HUSBAND	98	(7)
William Blake
THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER	105	(2)
James Joyce
ARABY	107	(6)
Langston Hughes
SALVATION	113	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
THE TELL-TALE HEART	116	(6)
Raymond Carver
MY FATHER'S LIFE	122	(8)
Louise Erdrich
JACKLIGHT	130	(11)
Chapter Three EXEMPLIFICATION	141	(51)
Maxine Hong Kingston
FAMILY GHOSTS	141	(4)
Barbara Tuchman
THE BLACK DEATH	145	(10)
James Thurber
COURTSHIP THROUGH THE AGES	155	(5)
Walt Whitman
THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH	160	(3)
e. e. cummings
NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME	163	(3)
Mark Twain
I DISCOVER MOSES AND THE BULRUSHERS	166	(4)
Gwendolyn Brooks
WE REAL COOL	170	(2)
Robert Browning
MY LAST DUCHESS	172	(3)
Lucille Clifton
GOOD TIMES	175	(2)
William Zinsser
CLUTTER	177	(15)
Chapter Four PROCESS	192	(73)
Joan Didion
ON KEEPING A NOTEBOOK	192	(7)
Ernest Hemingway
CAMPING OUT	199	(4)
Anthony Trollope
250 WORDS EVERY QUARTER OF AN HOUR	203	(2)
Ovid
THE CREATION	205	(4)
Henry David Thoreau
ON ECONOMY	209	(16)
D. H. Lawrence
THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER	225	(13)
Ved Mehta
THE BABY MYNA	238	(5)
Camara Laye
THE GOLD WORKER	243	(7)
Lorrie Moore
HOW TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER	250	(15)
Chapter Five COMPARISON	265	(93)
Virginia Woolf
SHAKESPEARE'S GIFTED SISTER	265	(4)
Amy Tan
TWO KINDS	269	(9)
Joseph Conrad
THE SECRET SHARER	278	(31)
Thomas Hardy
THE RUINED MAID	309	(2)
Seamus Heaney
DIGGING	311	(3)
Susan Sontag
TWO DISEASES	314	(7)
Plato
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE	321	(5)
William Shakespeare
MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN	326	(2)
Robert Frost
FIRE AND ICE	328	(2)
Sylvia Plath
A COMPARISON	330	(4)
Toni Morrison
A SLOW WALK OF TREES	334	(8)
Alice Walker
EVERYDAY USE	342	(16)
Chapter Six CLASSIFICATION	358	(53)
George Orwell
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE	358	(12)
Stephen Jay Gould
THE GEOMETER OF RACE	370	(9)
Irwin Shaw
THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESSES	379	(6)
Dylan Thomas
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT	385	(2)
Henry Reed
NAMING OF PARTS	387	(2)
ECCLESIASTES
Chapter 3	389	(2)
Malcolm Cowley
THE NATIONAL HEARTBEAT: "WE-NESS" AND "ME-NESS"	391	(4)
Phillip Lopate
MODERN FRIENDSHIPS	395	(16)
Chapter Seven CAUSATION	411	(61)
Albert Camus
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS	411	(4)
Kate Chopin
THE STORY OF AN HOUR	415	(4)
George Orwell
WHY I WRITE	419	(7)
Tobias Wolff
THE CHAIN	426	(12)
Langston Hughes
DREAM DEFERRED	438	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
RICHARD CORY	440	(2)
William Shakespeare
WHEN MY LOVE SWEARS THAT SHE IS MADE OF TRUTH	442	(2)
Jack London
TO BUILD A FIRE	444	(13)
Lewis Thomas
ON WARTS	457	(15)
Chapter Eight DEFINITION	472	(53)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GIFTS	472	(4)
Carson McCullers
A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD.	476	(8)
Susan Brownmiller
FEMININITY	484	(5)
Carl Sandburg
PRIMER LESSON	489	(2)
Robert Graves
THE NAKED AND THE NUDE	491	(2)
e. e. cummings
A POLITICIAN	493	(1)
Joseph Epstein
YOUR BASIC LANGUAGE SNOB	494	(11)
Marianne Moore
POETRY	505	(3)
William Blake
THE TIGER	508	(2)
Richard Rodriguez
COMPLEXION	510	(15)
Chapter Nine ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION	525	(70)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I HAVE A DREAM	525	(5)
Jonathan Swift
A MODEST PROPOSAL	530	(8)
Virginia Woolf
PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN	538	(5)
Andrew Marvell
TO HIS COY MISTRESS	543	(3)
Wilfred Owen
DULCE ET DECORUM EST	546	(3)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
MYSELF IN INDIA	549	(9)
Adrienne Rich
CLAIMING AN EDUCATION	558	(5)
Franz Kafka
THE JUDGMENT	563	(9)
John Stuart Mill
ON LIBERTY	572	(10)
Anton Chekhov
A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL	582	(13)
Acknowledgments	595