Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

by Kennedy, X. J.; Giola, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780321093356
• ISBN10: 0321093356
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: SCHOLG

Table of Contents

Preface	xli
To the Instructor	xliv
About the Authors	liv
Fiction	1	(736)
Reading a Story	3	(19)
Fable, Parable, and Tales	4	(7)
The Appointment in Samarra	4	(1)
W. Somerset Maugham
The North Wind and the Sun	5	(1)
Aesop
Independence	6	(2)
Chuang Tzu
Godfather Death	8	(3)
Jakob
Wilhelm Grimm
Plot	11	(1)
The Short Story	12	(7)
A & P	14	(5)
John Updike
Writer's Perspective
John Updike on Writing, Why Write?	19	(1)
Writing Critically
What's the Plot?	20	(1)
Writing Assignment	21	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	21	(1)
Point of View	22	(55)
A Rose for Emily	28	(7)
William Faulkner
The Tell-Tale Heart	35	(4)
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonny's Blues	39	(24)
James Baldwin
Why I Live at the P.O.	63	(10)
Eudora Welty
Writer's Perspective
Race and the African-American Writer	73	(2)
James Baldwin
Writing Critically
How Point of View Shapes a Story	75	(1)
Writing Assignment	75	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	76	(1)
Character	77	(32)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	80	(8)
Katherine Anne Porter
Everyday Use	88	(7)
Alice Walker
Gimpel the Fool (Translated by Saul Bellow)	95	(11)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Writer's Perspective
The Character of Gimpel	106	(1)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Writing Critically
How Character Creates Action	107	(1)
Writing Assignment	108	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	108	(1)
Setting	109	(45)
The Storm	112	(5)
Kate Chopin
To Build a Fire	117	(11)
Jack London
Greasy Lake	128	(8)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
A Pair of Tickets	136	(15)
Amy Tan
Writer's Perspective
Setting the Voice	151	(1)
Amy Tan
Writing Critically
How Time and Place Set a Story	152	(1)
Writing Assignment	153	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	153	(1)
Tone and Style	154	(41)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	158	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
Barn Burning	162	(13)
William Faulkner
Irony	175	(17)
The Necklace (Translated by Marjorie Laurie)	177	(7)
Guy de Maupassant
Saboteur	184	(8)
Ha Jin
Writer's Perspective
The Direct Style	192	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
Writing Critically
Be Style Conscious	193	(1)
Writing Assignment	194	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	194	(1)
Theme	195	(48)
The Open Boat	197	(19)
Stephen Crane
Babylon Revisited	216	(16)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Luke 15: 11--32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son	232	(1)
Harrison Bergeron	233	(7)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Writer's Perspective
The Themes of Science Fiction	240	(1)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Writing Critically
Stating the Theme	241	(1)
Writing Assignment	241	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	241	(2)
Symbol	243	(36)
The Chrysanthemums	245	(9)
John Steinbeck
The Lottery	254	(8)
Shirley Jackson
My Life with the Wave (Translated by Eliot Weinberger)	262	(5)
Octavio Paz
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	267	(6)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Writer's Perspective
Note on ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''	273	(1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing Critically
Recognizing Symbols	274	(1)
Writing Assignment	274	(1)
Student Essay
An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck's ``The Chrysanthemums''	275	(3)
Further Suggestions For Writing	278	(1)
Evaluating a Story	279	(19)
Jungle Video	281	(13)
Ralph Lombreglia
Writer's Perspective
Creating ``Jungle Video''	294	(2)
Ralph Lombreglia
Writing Critically
Know What You're Judging	296	(1)
Writing Assignment	297	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	297	(1)
Reading Long Stories and Novels	298	(91)
The Death of Ivan Ilych	304	(41)
Leo Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis	345	(34)
Franz Kafka
Writer's Perspective
Discussing The Metamorphosis	379	(2)
Franz Kafka
Writing Critically
Leaving Things Out	381	(1)
Writing Assignment	381	(1)
Student Essay
Kafka's Greatness	382	(6)
Further Suggestions For Writing	388	(1)
Two Critical Casebooks: Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver	389	(105)
Flannery O'Connor	389	(58)
Stories
Good Country People	390	(15)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	405	(11)
Revelation	416	(16)
Flannery O'Connor on Flannery O'Connor
The Element of Suspense in ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''	432	(3)
On Her Catholic Faith	435	(1)
The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader	435	(2)
Yearbook Cartoons	437	(1)
Critics on Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers	438	(3)
Robert Brinkmeyer Jr.
A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit	441	(3)
J. O. Tate
Deconstructing ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''	444	(1)
Mary Jane Schenck
Comic Perversion in ``Good Country People''	445	(2)
Kathleen Feeley
Raymond Carver	447	(44)
Stories
Cathedral	448	(10)
A Small, Good Thing	458	(17)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	475	(10)
Raymond Carver on Raymond Carver
Commonplace but Precise Language	485	(1)
My Biases in Fiction	486	(1)
Honesty in Writing	487	(1)
Critics on Raymond Carver
The Origins of ``Cathedral''	488	(1)
Tess Gallagher
The Origin of ``Cathedral''	489	(1)
Tom Jenks
Carver and Minimalism	489	(1)
Paul Skenazy
Carver's Characterization	490	(1)
Arthur Saltzman
Writing Critically
How One Story Illuminates Another	491	(1)
Writing Assignment	492	(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing on Flannery O' Connor	492	(1)
Further Suggestions for Writing on Raymond Carver	493	(1)
Stories for Further Reading	494	(243)
Dead Men's Path	494	(3)
Chinua Achebe
The Prophecy	497	(13)
Anjana Appachana
Happy Endings	510	(3)
Margaret Atwood
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	513	(8)
Ambrose Bierce
The Gospel According to Mark	521	(5)
Jorge Luis Borges
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	526	(9)
Robert Olen Butler
Paul's Case	535	(15)
Willa Gather
The Five-Forty-Eight	550	(11)
John Cheever
The Lady with the Pet Dog	561	(12)
Anton Chekhov
The Story of an Hour	573	(2)
Kate Chopin
Barbie-Q	575	(2)
Sandra Cisneros
Battle Royal	577	(11)
Ralph Ellison
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	588	(6)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Yellow Wallpaper	594	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Young Goodman Brown	606	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
On the Road	617	(4)
Langston Hughes
Sweat	621	(10)
Zora Neale Hurston
A Family Supper	631	(8)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Araby	639	(5)
James Joyce
Girl	644	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Rocking-Horse Winner	645	(12)
D. H. Lawrence
Angel Levine	657	(8)
Bernard Malamud
Miss Brill	665	(4)
Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh	669	(11)
Bobbie Ann Mason
How I Met My Husband	680	(13)
Alice Munro
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	693	(13)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried	706	(13)
Tim O'Brien
First Confession	719	(6)
Frank O'Connor
I Stand Here Ironing	725	(7)
Tillie Olsen
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	732	(5)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Poetry	737	(580)
Reading a Poem	741	(16)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	743	(3)
William Butler Yeats
Lyric Poetry	746	(2)
Piano	746	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	747	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Narrative Poetry	748	(3)
Sir Patrick Spence	748	(2)
Anonymous
``Out, Out---''	750	(1)
Robert Frost
Dramatic Poetry	751	(3)
My Last Duchess	751	(3)
Robert Browning
Writer's Perspective
Recalling ``Aunt Jennifer's Tigers''	754	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing Critically
Can a Poem be Paraphrased?	755	(1)
Ask Me	755	(1)
William Stafford
A Paraphrase of ``Ask Me''	755	(1)
William Stafford
Writing Assignment	756	(1)
Listening to a Voice	757	(33)
Tone	757	(6)
My Papa's Waltz	758	(1)
Theodore Roethke
For a Lady I Know	759	(1)
Countee Cullen
The Author to Her Book	759	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
To a Locomotive in Winter	760	(1)
Walt Whitman
I like to see it lap the Miles	761	(1)
Emily Dickinson
To the Desert	762	(1)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
For My Daughter	763	(1)
Weldon Kees
The Person in the Poem	763	(8)
Birch Canoe	764	(1)
Carter Revard
Luke Havergal	765	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Hawk Roosting	766	(1)
Ted Hughes
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	767	(1)
William Wordsworth
Journal Entry	768	(1)
Dorothy Wordsworth
A Glass of Beer	769	(1)
James Stephens
Her Kind	770	(1)
Anne Sexton
The Red Wheelbarrow	771	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Irony	771	(8)
Oh No	772	(1)
Robert Creeley
The Unknown Citizen	773	(1)
W. H. Auden
Rites of Passage	774	(1)
Sharon Olds
In Westminster Abbey	775	(1)
John Betjeman
The Golf Links	776	(1)
Sarah N. Cleghorn
I Stop Writing the Poem	777	(1)
Tess Gallagher
I Saw a Jolly Hunter	777	(1)
Charles Causley
The Workbox	778	(1)
Thomas Hardy
For Review and Further Study	779	(4)
The Chimney Sweeper	779	(1)
William Blake
High Treason	780	(1)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border	781	(1)
William Stafford
I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer	781	(1)
H. L. Hix
To Lucasta	782	(1)
Richard Lovelace
Dulce et Decorum Est	782	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writer's Perspective
War Poetry	783	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Writing Critically
Paying Attention to the Obvious	784	(1)
Writing Assignment	784	(1)
Student Essay
Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's ``My Papa's Waltz''	785	(3)
Further Suggestions For Writing	788	(2)
Words	790	(28)
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First	790	(6)
This Is Just to Say	791	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Silence	792	(1)
Marianne Moore
Riding a One-Eyed Horse	793	(1)
Henry Taylor
Down, Wanton, Down!	794	(1)
Robert Graves
Looking Up at Leaves	794	(1)
Barbara Howes
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You	795	(1)
John Donne
The Value of a Dictionary	796	(5)
Aftermath	797	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mouse's Nest	798	(1)
John Clare
Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead	799	(1)
J. V. Cunningham
The Dead Have No Respect	800	(1)
David B. Axelrod
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Henry	800	(1)
Sophie Hannah
Advice to a Friend Who Paints	800	(1)
Kelly Cherry
Grass	801	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Word Choice and Word Order	801	(8)
Reason	804	(2)
Josephine Miles
Blandeur	806	(1)
Kay Ryan
The Ruined Maid	807	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	808	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Lonely Hearts	808	(1)
Wendy Cope
For Review and Further Study	809	(6)
Anyone lived in a Pretty How Town	809	(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Names of the Rapids	810	(1)
Jonathan Holden
Upon Julia's Clothes	811	(1)
Robert Herrick
Carnation Milk	812	(1)
Anonymous
My heart leaps up when I behold	812	(1)
William Wordsworth
Mutability	812	(1)
William Wordsworth
Scottsboro	813	(1)
Anonymous
Jabberwocky	813	(2)
Lewis Carroll
Writer's Perspective
Humpty Dumpty Explicates ``Jabberwocky''	815	(1)
Lewis Carroll
Writing Critically
How Much Difference Does a Word Make?	816	(1)
Writing Assignment	817	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	817	(1)
Saying and Suggesting	818	(14)
Cargoes	819	(1)
John Masefield
London	820	(2)
William Blake
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	822	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Bean Eaters	823	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach	823	(1)
Richard Snyder
Epitaph	824	(1)
Timothy Steele
Merlin	824	(1)
Geoffrey Hill
The Listeners	825	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Fire and Ice	826	(1)
Robert Frost
Final Love Note	826	(1)
Clare Rossini
Tears, Idle Tears	827	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Love Calls us to the Things of This World	828	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Writer's Perspective
Concerning ``Love Calls Us to the Things of This World''	829	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Writing Critically
The Ways a Poem Suggests	830	(1)
Writing Assignment	831	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	831	(1)
Imagery	832	(23)
In a Station of the Metro	832	(1)
Ezra Pound
The piercing chill I feel	832	(2)
Taniguchi Buson
The winter evening settles down	834	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Root Cellar	834	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Fish	835	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Victory	837	(1)
Anne Stevenson
Fork	838	(1)
Charles Simic
A Route of Evanescence	838	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Reapers	838	(1)
Jean Toomer
Pied Beauty	839	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
About Haiku	840	(2)
The Falling Flower	840	(1)
Arakida Moritake
Heat-lightning streak	841	(1)
Matsuo Basho
In the old stone pool	841	(1)
Matsuo Basho
On the one-ton temple bell	841	(1)
Taniguchi Buson
I go	841	(1)
Taniguchi Buson
only one guy	841	(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Cricket	841	(1)
Kobayashi Issa
Haiku Ambulance	841	(1)
Richard Brautigan
A Selection of Haiku	842	(1)
Gary Snyder
Etheridge Knight
Penny Harter
Jennifer Brutschy
Richard Wright
Hayden Carruth
John Ridland
Adelle Foley
For Review and Further Study	842	(5)
Bright star! would I were steadfast as Thou Art	842	(1)
John Keats
The Runner	843	(1)
Walt Whitman
Image	843	(1)
T. E. Hulme
Tired Sex	843	(1)
Chana Bloch
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter	844	(1)
Robert Bly
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout	844	(1)
Gary Snyder
H. D., Heat	844	(1)
Mock Orange	845	(1)
Louise Gluck
Embrace	845	(1)
Billy Collins
Winter News	846	(1)
John Haines
Not Waving but Drowning	846	(1)
Stevie Smith
Writer's Perspective
The Image	847	(1)
Ezra Pound
Writing Critically
Analyzing Images	848	(1)
Writing Assignment	849	(1)
Student Essay
Elizabeth's Bishop's Use of Imagery in ``The Fish''	849	(5)
Further Suggestions For Writing	854	(1)
Figures of Speech	855	(24)
Why Speak Figuratively?	855	(3)
The Eagle	856	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	856	(1)
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	857	(1)
Howard Moss
Sindhi Woman	858	(1)
Jon Stallworthy
Metaphor and Simile	858	(8)
My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun	860	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Flower in the Crannied Wall	861	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
To see a world in a grain of sand	861	(1)
William Blake
Metaphors	861	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Simile	862	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
The Crows	862	(1)
Louise Bogan
It dropped so low -- in my Regard	863	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	863	(3)
Craig Raine
Other Figures	866	(6)
The Wind	866	(2)
James Stephens
Elegy, Written with His Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution	868	(2)
Chidiock Tichborne
You fit into me	870	(1)
Margaret Atwood
The Cathedral Is	870	(1)
John Ashberry
The Pulley	870	(1)
George Herbert
I Knew a Woman	871	(1)
Theodore Roethke
For Review and Further Study	872	(4)
The Silken Tent	872	(1)
Robert Frost
Leaving Forever	873	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Suitor	873	(1)
Jane Kenyon
The Secret Sits	873	(1)
Robert Frost
H. D., The Pool	874	(1)
Coward	874	(1)
A. R. Ammons
Turtle	874	(1)
Kay Ryan
Hands	874	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose	875	(1)
Robert Burns
Writer's Perspective
The Importance of Poetic Metaphor	876	(1)
Robert Frost
Writing Critically
How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning	877	(1)
Writing Assignment	877	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	878	(1)
Song	879	(22)
Singing and Saying	879	(8)
To Celia	880	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Cruel Mother	881	(2)
Anonymous
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper	883	(1)
Take, O, take those lips away	884	(1)
William Shakespeare
Richard Cory	885	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory	886	(1)
Paul Simon
Ballads	887	(5)
Bonny Barbara Allan	887	(3)
Anonymous
Ballad of Birmingham	890	(2)
Dudley Randall
Blues	892	(2)
Jailhouse Blues	893	(1)
Bessie Smith
Clarence Williams
Funeral Blues	893	(1)
W. H. Auden
For Review and Further Study	894	(5)
Eleanor Rigby	894	(1)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
The Times They are a-Changin'	895	(1)
Bob Dylan
Ballad of Aunt Geneva	896	(2)
Marilyn Nelson
Jerusalem	898	(1)
William Blake
Writer's Perspective
Creating ``Eleanor Rigby''	899	(1)
Paul McCartney
Writing Critically
Is There a Difference Between Poetry and Song?	900	(1)
Writing Assignment	900	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	900	(1)
Sound	901	(24)
Sound as Meaning	901	(5)
True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance	902	(2)
Alexander Pope
Who Goes with Fergus?	904	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Recital	905	(1)
John Updike
The Watch	905	(1)
Frances Cornford
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	906	(1)
William Wordsworth
Rain	906	(1)
Emanuel di Pasquale
When maidens are young	906	(1)
Aphra Behn
Alliteration and Assonance	906	(4)
Eight O'Clock	908	(1)
A. E. Housman
Upon Julia's Voice	908	(1)
Robert Herrick
Girl Help	909	(1)
Janet Lewis
The splendor falls on castle walls	909	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Rime	910	(8)
On my boat on Lake Cayuga	911	(2)
William Code
Rough Weather	913	(1)
James Reeves
The Hippopotamus	914	(1)
Hilaire Belloc
Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying	914	(1)
Mark Jarman
Leda and the Swan	915	(1)
William Butler Yeats
God's Grandeur	916	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narcissus and Echo	917	(1)
Fred Chappell
Desert Places	917	(1)
Robert Frost
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud	918	(4)
In Memoriam John Coltrane	920	(1)
Michael Stillman
Full fathom five thy father lies	920	(1)
William Shakespeare
Lai with Sounds of Skin	921	(1)
Chryss Yost
Virginia	921	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Writer's Perspective
The Music of Poetry	922	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Writing Critically
Is it Possible to Write about Sound?	923	(1)
Writing Assignment	924	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	924	(1)
Rhythm	925	(24)
Stresses and Pauses	925	(8)
We Real Cool	930	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Break, Break, Break	930	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with My Salt Tears	931	(1)
Ben Jonson
Atticus	931	(1)
Alexander Pope
With serving still	932	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Resume	933	(1)
Dorothy Parker
Meter	933	(13)
On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm	934	(5)
Max Beerbohm
Rose-cheeked Laura, come	939	(1)
Thomas Campion
Factory Windows Are Always Broken	940	(2)
Vachel Lindsay
Counting-out Rhyme	942	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I was one-and-twenty	942	(1)
A. E. Housman
The Descent of Winter	943	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Beat! Beat! Drums!	943	(1)
Walt Whitman
Song of the Powers	944	(1)
David Mason
Dream Boogie	945	(1)
Langston Hughes
Writer's Perspective
Hearing ``We Real Cool''	946	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing Critically
Freeze-Framing the Sound	947	(1)
Writing Assignment	947	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	947	(2)
Closed Form	949	(25)
Formal Patterns	950	(8)
This living hand, now warm and capable	951	(2)
John Keats
Counting the Beats	953	(1)
Robert Graves
Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')	954	(1)
John Donne
Brief Bio	955	(1)
Phillis Levin
Yield	956	(2)
Ronald Gross
The Sonnet	958	(5)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds	958	(1)
William Shakespeare
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part	959	(1)
Michael Drayton
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why	960	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Acquainted with the Night	960	(1)
Robert Frost
First Poem for You	961	(1)
Kim Addonizio
Roadside Crosses	962	(1)
Jared Carter
Scenes from the Playroom	962	(1)
R. S. Gwynn
Summer	963	(1)
Timothy Steele
The Epigram	963	(4)
A Selection of Epigrams	964	(2)
Alexander Pope
Sir John Harrington
Robert Herrick
William Blake
E. E. Cummings
Langston Hughes
J. V. Cunningham
John Frederick Nims
Stevie Smith
Brad Leithauser
Dick Davis
Anonymous
Hilaire Belloc
Wendy Cope
Clerihews	966	(1)
W. H. Auden
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Cornelius J. Ter Maat
Other Forms	967	(4)
ABC	967	(1)
Robert Pinsky
Do not go gentle into that good night	968	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Triolet	968	(1)
Robert Bridges
Sestina	969	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Writer's Perspective
Poetic Inspiration and Poetic Form	971	(1)
Robert Graves
Writing Critically
Turning Points	972	(1)
Writing Assignment	972	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	973	(1)
Open Form	974	(23)
Six Variations (Part III)	974	(4)
Denise Levertov
Buffalo Bill's	978	(1)
E. E. Cummings
For the Anniversary of My Death	979	(1)
W. S. Merwin
The Dance	979	(2)
William Carlos Williams
The Heart	981	(1)
Stephen Crane
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	981	(1)
Walt Whitman
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	982	(3)
Wallace Stevens
First Practice	985	(1)
Gary Gildner
The Colonel	986	(1)
Carolyn Forche
Visual Poetry	987	(4)
Easter Wings	987	(1)
George Herbert
Swan and Shadow	988	(1)
John Hollander
from Papyrus	989	(1)
Terry Ehret
Concrete Cat	990	(1)
Dorthi Charles
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse	991	(3)
in Just-	991	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Jump Cabling	992	(1)
Linda Pastan
Homage to my hips	992	(1)
Lucille Clifton
I Shall Paint My Nails Red	993	(1)
Carole Satyamurti
What I Like	993	(1)
Alice Fulton
Writer's Perspective
The Poetry of the Future	994	(1)
Walt Whitman
Writing Critically
Lining Up for Free Verse	995	(1)
Writing Assignment	995	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	996	(1)
Symbol	997	(17)
The Boston Evening Transcript	998	(1)
T.S. Eliot
The Lightning is a yellow Fork	999	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Neutral Tones	1001	(1)
Thomas Hardy
13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed	1002	(1)
Matthew
Redemption	1003	(1)
George Herbert
Most Like an Arch This Marriage	1003	(1)
John Ciardi
The Road Not Taken	1004	(1)
Robert Frost
Uphill	1005	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Signs	1006	(1)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
For Review and Further Study	1006	(5)
The Breaks of Eagles	1006	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
The Flight	1007	(1)
Sara Teasdale
Poem (``As the cat'')	1008	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Carrie	1009	(1)
Ted Kooser
What the Body Told	1009	(1)
Rafael Campo
Popcorn-can cover	1010	(1)
Lorine Niedecker
Anecdote of the Jar	1010	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Writer's Perspective
Poetic Symbols	1011	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Writing Critically
How to Read a Symbol	1012	(1)
Writing Assignment	1012	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1013	(1)
Myth and Narrative	1014	(29)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	1016	(1)
Robert Frost
Bavarian Gentians	1017	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
The Oxen	1017	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The World Is Too Much with Us	1018	(1)
William Wordsworth
H. D., Helen	1019	(1)
Archetype	1019	(2)
Medusa	1020	(1)
Louise Bogan
Personal Myth	1021	(6)
The Second Coming	1022	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Night Driving	1023	(1)
Dick Allen
The Heaven of Animals	1023	(2)
James Dickey
Memento Mori in Middle School	1025	(2)
Diane Thiel
Myth and Popular Culture	1027	(8)
Taken Up	1027	(2)
Charles Martin
Imperial Adam	1029	(1)
A. D. Hope
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same	1030	(1)
Robert Frost
Cinderella	1031	(4)
Anne Sexton
Writer's Perspective
Transforming Fairy Tales	1035	(1)
Anne Sexton
Writing Critically
Demystifying Myth	1036	(1)
Writing Assignment	1037	(1)
Student Essay
The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s ``Helen''	1037	(5)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1042	(1)
Poetry and Personal Identity	1043	(22)
Lady Lazarus	1044	(3)
Sylvia Plath
The women on my mother's side were known	1047	(1)
Julia Alvarez
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity	1048	(6)
America	1048	(1)
Claude McKay
Bilingual/Bilingue	1049	(2)
Rhina P. Espaillat
The Shrine Whose Shape I Am	1051	(1)
Samuel Menashe
The X in My Name	1051	(1)
Francisco X. Alarcon
For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian	1052	(1)
Wendy Rose
Facing It	1053	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Gender	1054	(3)
Sous-Entendu	1054	(1)
Anne Stevenson
Listening	1055	(1)
Emily Grosholz
Men at Forty	1056	(1)
Donald Justice
Women	1056	(1)
Adrienne Rich
For Review and Further Study	1057	(5)
To Li Po	1057	(1)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead	1057	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Quinceanera	1058	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Speaking a Foreign Language	1059	(1)
Alastair Reid
Self-Portrait	1060	(1)
Lynn Emanuel
Aubade	1060	(2)
Philip Larkin
Writer's Perspective
Discovering My Voice in English	1062	(1)
Julia Alvarez
Writing Critically
Poetic Voice and Personal Identity	1063	(1)
Writing Assignment	1064	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1064	(1)
Translation	1065	(17)
Is Poetic Translation Possible?	1065	(2)
Muchos Somos	1066	(1)
Pablo Neruda
We Are Many	1066	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Alastair Reid
World Poetry	1067	(7)
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese text)	1068	(1)
Li Po
Yueh Hsia Tu Cho, Moon-Beneath Alone Drink (Literal Translation)	1068	(1)
Li Po
Drinking Alone by Moonlight	1069	(1)
Li Po
Arthur Waley
Con Los Ojos Cerrados	1070	(1)
Octavio Paz
With Our Eyes Shut	1070	(1)
Octavio Paz
John Felstiner
Carpe Diem Odes I (11)	1071	(1)
Horace
Odes I	1071	(2)
Horace
Edwin Arlington Robinson
James Michie
A. E. Stallings
Rubai	1073	(1)
Omar Khayyam
Rubai	1073	(1)
Omar Khayyam
Edward Fitz Gerald
Robert Graves
Omar Ali-Shah
Dick Davis
Parody	1074	(5)
We four lads from Liverpool are	1075	(1)
Anonymous
From Strugnell's Rubaiyat	1075	(1)
Wendy Cope
What, still alive at twenty-two?	1076	(1)
Hugh Kingsmill
The Lady Speaks Again	1076	(1)
Bruce Bennett
If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent	1077	(1)
Gene Fehler
Thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla	1077	(2)
Aaron Abeyta
Writer's Perspective
Translating Neruda	1079	(1)
Alastair Reid
Writing Critically
Parody Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery	1080	(1)
Writing Assignment	1081	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1081	(1)
Recognizing Excellence	1082	(30)
O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face	1084	(1)
Anonymous
Life	1084	(1)
Grace Treasone
A Dying Tiger -- moaned for Drink	1085	(3)
Emily Dickinson
Thoughts on Capital Punishment	1088	(1)
Rod McKuen
Traveling Through the Dark	1089	(1)
William Stafford
Little Libby	1090	(1)
Julia A. Moore
On the Death of an Infant	1091	(1)
Frederick Turner
A Child's Grave Marker	1091	(1)
Ted Kooser
Reincarnation	1092	(1)
Wallace McRae
Recognizing Excellence	1093	(16)
Sailing to Byzantium	1094	(2)
William Butler Yeats
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness	1096	(1)
Arthur Guiterman
Ozymandias	1096	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun	1097	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Whipping	1098	(1)
Robert Hayden
One Art	1099	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
O Captain! My Captain!	1100	(1)
Walt Whitman
Fog	1101	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	1102	(5)
Thomas Gray
The New Colossus	1107	(1)
Emma Lazarus
Annabel Lee	1107	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer's Perspective
A Long Poem Does Not Exist	1109	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writing Critically
How to Begin Evaluating a Poem	1109	(1)
Writing Assignment	1110	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1111	(1)
What Is Poetry?	1112	(5)
Ars Poetica	1112	(1)
Archibald MacLeish
Some Definitions of Poetry	1113	(3)
Dante
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
Mina Loy
T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
J. V. Cunningham
Elizabeth Bishop
Jorge Luis Borges
Octavio Paz
William Stafford
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Bly
Missed Time	1116	(1)
Ha Jin
Two Critical Casebooks: Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes	1117	(41)
Emily Dickinson	1117	(19)
Poems
Success is counted sweetest	1118	(1)
Water, is taught by thirst	1118	(1)
I taste a liquor never brewed	1119	(1)
Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!	1119	(1)
I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain	1119	(1)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?	1120	(1)
The Soul selects her own Society	1120	(1)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	1120	(1)
This is my letter to the World	1121	(1)
I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died	1121	(1)
I started Early -- Took my Dog	1122	(1)
Because I could not stop for Death	1122	(1)
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church	1123	(1)
The bustle in a House	1123	(1)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant	1124	(1)
Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson
Recognizing Poetry	1125	(1)
Self-Description	1126	(2)
Critics on Emily Dickinson
Meeting Emily Dickinson	1128	(1)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Discovery of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts	1129	(1)
Thomas H. Johnson
The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson	1130	(2)
Richard Wilbur
Dickinson and Death (A Reading of ``Because I could not stop for Death'')	1132	(2)
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
A Reading of ``My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun''	1134	(2)
Judith Farr
Langston Hughes	1136	(22)
Poems
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	1137	(1)
Mother to Son	1137	(1)
Dream Variations	1138	(1)
Lenox Avenue: Midnight	1138	(1)
The Weary Blues	1138	(1)
I, Too	1139	(1)
Song for a Dark Girl	1140	(1)
Battle of the Landlord	1140	(1)
Island	1141	(1)
Subway Rush Hour	1142	(1)
Sliver	1142	(1)
Harlem [Dream Deferred]	1142	(1)
Theme for English B	1142	(2)
Homecoming	1144	(1)
End	1144	(1)
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain	1145	(1)
The Harlem Renaissance	1146	(3)
Critics on Langston Hughes
Hughes as an Experimentalist	1149	(1)
Arnold Rampersad
Langston Hughes and Harlem	1150	(2)
Rita Dove
Marilyn Nelson
Black Identity in Langston Hughes	1152	(1)
Darryl Pinckney
Langston Hughes and Jazz	1153	(2)
Peter Townsend
A Reading of ``Dream Deferred''	1155	(1)
Onwuchekwa Jemie
For Further Reading	1156	(1)
Suggestions for Writing	1157	(1)
Poems for Further Reading	1158	(129)
Edward	1159	(1)
Anonymous
The Three Ravens	1160	(1)
Anonymous
The Twa Corbies	1161	(1)
Anonymous
Western Wind	1162	(1)
Anonymous
Last Words of the Prophet	1162	(1)
Anonymous
Dover Beach	1162	(1)
Matthew Arnold
At North Farm	1163	(1)
John Ashbery
Siren Song	1164	(1)
Margaret Atwood
As I Walked Out One Evening	1165	(2)
W. H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts	1167	(1)
W. H. Auden
Filling Station	1168	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Tyger	1170	(1)
William Blake
The Sick Rose	1171	(1)
William Blake
Anorexic	1172	(1)
Eavan Boland
The Mother	1173	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner	1174	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Grief	1174	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	1175	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	1175	(3)
Robert Browning
Merciless Beauty	1178	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Donkey	1178	(1)
G. K. Chesterton
Kubla Khan	1179	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My Grandmother's Love Letters	1180	(1)
Hart Crane
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond	1181	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Death be not proud	1182	(1)
John Donne
The Flea	1183	(1)
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	1184	(1)
John Donne
Daystar	1185	(1)
Rita Dove
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	1186	(1)
John Dryden
Journey of the Magi	1187	(1)
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1188	(4)
T.S. Eliot
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	1192	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Birches	1193	(2)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	1195	(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1196	(1)
Robert Frost
A Supermarket in California	1196	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
California Hills in August	1197	(1)
Dana Gioia
The Man with Night Sweats	1198	(1)
Thom Gunn
Names of Horses	1199	(1)
Donald Hall
The Convergence of the Twain	1200	(2)
Thomas Hardy
During Wind and Rain	1202	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Hap	1203	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Those Winter Sundays	1204	(1)
Robert Hayden
Digging	1204	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Mother of the Groom	1205	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Adam	1206	(2)
Anthony Hecht
Love	1208	(1)
George Herbert
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	1209	(1)
Robert Herrick
Spring and Fall	1209	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thous art indeed just, Lord, if I contend	1210	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover	1211	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now	1211	(1)
A. E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young	1212	(1)
A. E. Housman
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	1213	(1)
Randall Jarrell
To the Stone-cutters	1213	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
On My First Son	1214	(1)
Ben Jonson
On the Death of Friends in Childhood	1214	(1)
Donald Justice
Ode on a Grecian Urn	1215	(1)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	1216	(1)
John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be	1217	(1)
John Keats
To Autumn	1218	(1)
John Keats
Home is so Sad	1219	(1)
Philip Larkin
Poetry of Departures	1220	(1)
Philip Larkin
The Bull Calf	1221	(1)
Irving Layton
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives	1222	(1)
Philip Levine
My Father's Martial Art	1222	(1)
Stephen Shu-ning Liu
Skunk Hour	1223	(2)
Robert Lowell
To His Coy Mistress	1225	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Charles on Fire	1226	(1)
James Merrill
The Farmer's Bride	1227	(1)
Charlotte Mew
Recuerdo	1228	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Methought I saw my late espoused saint	1229	(1)
John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent	1229	(1)
John Milton
Poetry	1230	(1)
Marianne Moore
The Master	1231	(1)
Frederick Morgan
A Strange Beautiful Woman	1232	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
The War in the Air	1232	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves	1233	(1)
Lorine Niedecker
A Selection of Hokku	1234	(1)
Yone Noguchi
Famous	1235	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
The One Girl at the Boys' Party	1235	(1)
Sharon Olds
Anthem for Doomed Youth	1236	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Ethics	1237	(1)
Linda Pastan
Running on Empty	1238	(1)
Robert Phillips
Daddy	1239	(2)
Sylvia Plath
To Helen	1241	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing	1242	(1)
Alexander Pope
The Garret	1243	(1)
Ezra Pound
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter	1243	(1)
Ezra Pound
A Different Image	1244	(1)
Dudley Randall
Piazza Piece	1245	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Naming of Parts	1245	(1)
Henry Reed
Living in Sin	1246	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Power	1247	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Miniver Cheevy	1248	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elegy for Jane	1249	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Welcome to Hiroshima	1250	(2)
Mary Jo Salter
Not marble nor the gilded monuments	1252	(1)
William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold	1253	(1)
William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes	1253	(1)
William Shakespeare
When daisies pied and violets blue	1254	(1)
William Shakespeare
When icicles hang by the wall	1254	(1)
William Shakespeare
Butcher Shop	1255	(1)
Charles Simic
American Poetry	1255	(1)
Louis Simpson
Titanic	1256	(1)
David R. Slavitt
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry	1256	(3)
Christopher Smart
American Primitive	1259	(1)
William Jay Smith
Disposal	1259	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass
Stamp Collecting	1260	(1)
Cathy Song
One Home	1261	(1)
William Stafford
Peter Quince at the Clavier	1262	(2)
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	1264	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Second Hand Coat	1265	(1)
Ruth Stone
A Description of the Morning	1265	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Dark house, by which once more I stand	1266	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Ulysses	1267	(2)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Fern Hill	1269	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Ex-Basketball Player	1270	(1)
John Updike
Red Rooster, Yellow Sky	1271	(1)
Amy Uyematsu
Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri	1272	(1)
Mona Van Duyn
The Virgins	1273	(1)
Derek Walcott
Go, Lovely Rose	1274	(1)
Edmund Waller
A Noiseless Patient Spider	1274	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	1275	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Writer	1276	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Hood	1277	(1)
C. K. Williams
Spring and All	1277	(1)
William Carlos Williams
To Waken an Old Lady	1278	(1)
William Carlos Williams
At the San Francisco Airport	1279	(1)
Yvor Winters
Composed upon Westminster Bridge	1280	(1)
William Wordsworth
A Blessing	1281	(1)
James Wright
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	1282	(1)
James Wright
In this strange labyrinth	1282	(1)
Mary Sidney Wroth
They flee from me that sometime did me sake	1283	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	1284	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Long-legged Fly	1285	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Magi	1286	(1)
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old	1286	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Lives of the Poets	1287	(30)
Drama	1317	(772)
Reading a Play	1321	(54)
A Play in Its Elements	1323	(15)
Trifles	1323	(15)
Susan Glaspell
Tragedy	1338	(11)
Riders to the Sea	1339	(10)
John Millington Synge
Comedy	1349	(18)
Sure Thing	1351	(10)
David Ives
Prodigal Son	1361	(6)
Garrison Keillor
Writer's Perspective
Creating Trifles	1367	(1)
Susan Glaspell
Writing Critically
Conflict Resolution	1368	(1)
Writing Assignment	1369	(1)
Student Essay
Outside Trifles	1369	(5)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1374	(1)
Critical Casebook: Sophocles	1375	(91)
The Theater of Sophocles	1375	(1)
Staging	1375	(4)
The Civic Role of Greek Drama	1379	(1)
Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy	1380	(2)
Sophocles	1382	(1)
Plays
The Origins of Oedipus the King	1382	(42)
Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)	1383	(41)
Sophocles
The Background of Antigone	1424	(40)
Antigone (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)	1425	(31)
Sophocles
Robert Fitzgerald on Sophocles
Translating Sophocles	1456	(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Critics on Sophocles
Defining Tragedy	1457	(1)
Aristotle
The Destiny of Oedipus	1458	(1)
Sigmund Freud
On Misunderstanding Oedipus	1459	(1)
E. R. Dodds
The Irony of Sophocles	1460	(2)
A. E. Haigh
Antigone's Flaw	1462	(2)
Patricia M. Lines
Writing Critically
Some Things Change, Some Things Don't	1464	(1)
Writing Assignment	1465	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1465	(1)
Critical Casebook: Shakespeare	1466	(296)
The Theater of Shakespeare	1466	(2)
William Shakespeare	1468	(1)
Plays
A Note on Othello	1468	(100)
Othello, the Moor of Venice	1469	(99)
William Shakespeare
The Background of Hamlet	1568	(114)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	1569	(113)
William Shakespeare
The Background of A Midsummer Night's Dream	1682	(73)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1683	(59)
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare
On His Friend and Rival William Shakespeare	1742	(1)
Ben Jonson
Critics on Shakespeare
Hamlet's Melancholy	1743	(1)
A. C. Bradley
Hamlet and Ophelia	1744	(1)
Rebecca West
Producing Hamlet	1745	(2)
Jan Kott
Reader-Response Issues in Hamlet	1747	(1)
Joel Wingard
Iago as a Triumphant Villain	1748	(1)
W. H. Auden
Lucifer in Shakespeare's Othello	1749	(1)
Maud Bodkin
Black and White in Othello	1749	(1)
Virginia Mason Vaughan
An Asian Culture Looks at Shakespeare	1750	(1)
Anthony Burgess
Recognizing Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream	1751	(2)
John Russell Brown
On Producing A Midsummer Night's Dream	1753	(1)
Lincoln Kirstein
Female Power in A Midsummer Night's Dream	1754	(1)
Linda Bamber
Writing Critically
Breaking the Language Barrier	1755	(1)
Writing Assignment	1755	(1)
Student Essay
Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera?	1756	(5)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1761	(1)
The Modern Theater	1762	(110)
Realism and Naturalism	1762	(60)
A Doll's House (Translated by James McFarlane)	1765	(57)
Henrik Ibsen
Writer's Perspective
Ibsen and the Familiar Situation	1822	(1)
George Bernard Shaw
Tragicomedy and the Absurd	1823	(34)
The Real Inspector Hound	1826	(31)
Tom Stoppard
Writer's Perspective
Writing The Real Inspector Hound	1857	(1)
Tom Stoppard
Krapp's Last Tape: A Play in One Act	1858	(8)
Samuel Beckett
Writer's Perspective
The Expression That There Is Nothing to Express	1866	(1)
Samuel Beckett
Writing Critically
What's So Realistic About Realism?	1867	(1)
Writing Assignment	1867	(1)
Student Essay
Helmer vs. Helmer	1868	(3)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1871	(1)
Evaluating a Play	1872	(4)
Writing Critically
Critical Performance	1873	(1)
Writing Assignment	1874	(1)
Further Suggestions For Writing	1874	(2)
Plays for Further Reading	1876	(127)
Death of a Salesman	1877	(71)
Arthur Miller
Writer's Perspective
Tragedy and the Common Man	1948	(3)
Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie	1951	(49)
Tennessee Williams
Writer's Perspective
How to Stage The Glass Menagerie	2000	(3)
Tennessee Williams
New Voices in American Drama	2003	(86)
The Sound of a Voice	2003	(15)
David Henry Hwang
Writer's Perspective
Multicultural Theater	2018	(1)
David Henry Hwang
Andre's Mother	2019	(3)
Terrence McNally
Writer's Perspective
How to Write a Play	2022	(1)
Terrence McNally
The Cuban Swimmer	2023	(14)
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
Writer's Perspective
Writing The Cuban Swimmer	2037	(1)
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	2038	(49)
August Wilson
Writer's Perspective
Black Experience in America	2087	(2)
August Wilson
Writing	2089	(2)
Writing About Literature	2091	(25)
Beginning	2091	(2)
Discovering and Planning	2093	(2)
Drafting and Revising	2095	(4)
The Form of Your Finished Paper	2099	(1)
Using Spell-Check Programs	2099	(1)
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers	2100	(1)
Anomymous
Plagiarism	2100	(1)
Documenting Your Sources	2100	(8)
Reference Guide for Citations	2108	(7)
Keeping a Journal	2115	(1)
Writing About a Story	2116	(18)
Explicating	2116	(5)
Sample Student Essay (Explication)	2117	(4)
Analyzing	2121	(7)
Sample Student Essay (Analysis)	2122	(4)
Sample Student Card Report	2126	(2)
Comparing and Contrasting	2128	(2)
Suggestions for Writing	2130	(4)
Writing About a Poem	2134	(21)
Explicating	2135	(6)
Design	2136	(1)
Robert Frost
Sample Student Essay (Explication)	2136	(5)
Analyzing	2141	(3)
Sample Student Essay (Analysis)	2142	(2)
Comparing and Contrasting	2144	(3)
Wing-Spread	2144	(1)
Abbie Huston Evans
Sample Student Essay (Comparison)	2145	(2)
How to Quote a Poem	2147	(3)
Before You Begin	2150	(1)
Suggestions for Writing	2151	(4)
In White (early draft of ``Design'')	2153	(2)
Robert Frost
Writing About a Play	2155	(13)
Methods	2155	(2)
How to Quote a Play	2157	(1)
Writing a Card Report	2158	(4)
Sample Student Card Report	2160	(2)
Reviewing a Play	2162	(3)
Sample Student Drama Review	2163	(2)
Suggestions for Writing	2165	(3)
Critical Approaches to Literature	2168	(1)
Formalist Criticism	2169	(5)
The Formalist Critic	2170	(1)
Cleanth Brooks
Light and Darkness in ``Sonny's Blues''	2171	(1)
Michael Clark
On Robert Browning's ``My Last Duchess''	2172	(2)
Robert Langbaum
Biographical Criticism	2174	(6)
Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Love	2175	(2)
Virginia Llewellyn Smith
On Elizabeth Bishop's ``One Art''	2177	(1)
Brett C. Millier
Biographical Background to ``Babylon Revisited''	2178	(2)
Jeffrey Meyers
Historical Criticism	2180	(5)
Imagism	2181	(1)
Hugh Kenner
``To His Coy Mistress'' and the Renaissance Tradition	2182	(2)
Joseph Moldenhauer
Joyce's Vision of Dublin	2184	(1)
Seamus Deane
Psychological Criticism	2185	(4)
The Nature of Dreams	2186	(1)
Sigmund Freud
The Father-Figure in ``The Tell-Tale Heart''	2187	(2)
Daniel Hoffman
Poetic Influence	2189	(1)
Harold Bloom
Mythological Criticism	2189	(5)
The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes	2190	(1)
C. J. Jung
Mythic Archetypes	2191	(1)
Northrop Frye
Myth in Faulkner's ``Barn Burning''	2192	(2)
Edmond Volpe
Sociological Criticism	2194	(4)
Content Determines Form	2195	(1)
Georg Lukacs
Money and Labor in ``The Rocking-Horse Winner''	2196	(1)
Daniel P. Watkins
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln	2197	(1)
Alfred Kazin
Gender Criticism	2198	(4)
Toward a Feminist Poetics	2199	(1)
Elaine Showalter
Gender and Pathology in ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	2200	(1)
Juliann Fleenor
The Freedom of Emily Dickinson	2201	(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Reader-Response Criticism	2202	(5)
An Eskimo ``A Rose for Emily''	2203	(1)
Stanley Fish
``How Do We Make a Poem?''	2204	(2)
Robert Scholes
The End of Young Goodman Brown	2206	(1)
Michael J. Colacurcio
Deconstructionist Criticism	2207	(5)
The Death of the Author	2208	(1)
Roland Barthes
Rigorous Unreliability	2209	(1)
Barbara Johnson
On Wordsworth's ``A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal''	2210	(2)
Geoffrey Hartman
Cultural Studies	2212	(2)
Poststructuralist Cultural Critique	2214	(1)
Vincent B. Leitch
What is Cultural Studies?	2215	(1)
Mark Bauerlein
The Stance of Observation in William Blake's ``London''	2216
Heather Glen
Glossary of Literary Terms	1	(1)
Acknowledgments	1	(1)
Index of Major Themes	1	(7)
Index of First Lines of Poetry	8	(5)
Index of Authors and Titles	13
Listof Authors (front endpapers)
Index of Literary Terms (back endpapers)