Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)
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9780321011145
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0321011147
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- Copyright: 2002-01-01
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Summary
The perfect alternative to lengthy literature anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise but complete introduction to the study of literature, focusing almost exclusively on selections with brief discussion of writing about fiction, poetry, and drama. "Writing About Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" sections offer a brief overview of organizational strategies, research methods, style and MLA style citation. "The Telling of the Tale" is a discussion of the oral roots of short fiction. "The Short Story Genre" an account of the development of the modern short story. "Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction" a presentation of John Cheever's brief story, "Reunion," followed by a discussion of how the elements of fiction-plot, characterization, point of view, theme, setting, style-relate to this and other stories in the book. "An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts" is a narrative account of a campus poetry reading with a discussion of poetry as oral performance art. "A Brief Note: Literary History and Poetic Conventions" a discussion of how schools of poetry have dominated during certain historical periods. Index of critical terms provides a cross-referenced list of terms covered. For anyone interested in literature.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
Introduction to Fiction.
The Telling of the Tale.
The Short Story Genre.
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864, “Young Goodman Brown” .
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849, *“The Fall of the House of Usher” .
Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893, *“Mother Savage” .
Chopin, Kate 1851-1904, “The Story of an Hour” .
Chekhov, Anton 1860-1904, “An Upheaval” .
Wharton, Edith 1862-1937, “Roman Fever” .
Cather, Willa 1876-1947, “Paul's Case” .
Joyce, James 1882-1941, “Eveline” .
Lawrence, D.H. 1885-1930, *“The Rocking-Horse Winner” .
Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” .
Faulkner, William 1897-1962, “A Rose for Emily” .
Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986, * “The Gospel According to Mark” .
Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961, * “Hills Like White Elephants” .
Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960, *“Sweat” .
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968, “The Chrysanthemums” .
Wright, Richard 1908-1960, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” .
Welty, Eudora 1909-, “Livvie” .
Cheever, John 1912-1982, “Reunion” (in Introduction).
Camus, Albert 1913-1960, “The Guest” .
Ellison, Ralph 1914-1995, *“A Party Down at the Square” .
Jackson, Shirley 1919-1965, “The Lottery” .
O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964, *“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” .
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 1928-, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” .
Achebe, Chinua 1930-,*“Dead Men's Path” .
Munro, Alice 1931-, *“Vandals” .
Updike, John 1932-, “A & P” .
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938-, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Carver, Raymond 1938-1988, *“A Small Good Thing” .
Atwood, Margaret 1939-, * “Happy Endings” .
Mason, Bobbie Ann 1940-, “Shiloh” .
Walker, Alice 1944-, “Everyday Use” .
Tim Gautreaux 1947-, *“Died and Gone to Vegas” .
Gilb, Dagoberto 1950-, “Look on the Bright Side” .
Tan, Amy 1952-, “Two Kinds” .
Cisneros, Sandra 1954-, “Barbie-Q” .
Erdich, Louise 1954-, “The Red Convertible” .
Lorrie Moore 1957-, *“How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)” .
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849, *“The Fall of the House of Usher” .
Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893, *“Mother Savage” .
Chopin, Kate 1851-1904, “The Story of an Hour” .
Chekhov, Anton 1860-1904, “An Upheaval” .
Wharton, Edith 1862-1937, “Roman Fever” .
Cather, Willa 1876-1947, “Paul's Case” .
Joyce, James 1882-1941, “Eveline” .
Lawrence, D.H. 1885-1930, *“The Rocking-Horse Winner” .
Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” .
Faulkner, William 1897-1962, “A Rose for Emily” .
Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986, * “The Gospel According to Mark” .
Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961, * “Hills Like White Elephants” .
Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960, *“Sweat” .
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968, “The Chrysanthemums” .
Wright, Richard 1908-1960, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” .
Welty, Eudora 1909-, “Livvie” .
Cheever, John 1912-1982, “Reunion” (in Introduction).
Camus, Albert 1913-1960, “The Guest” .
Ellison, Ralph 1914-1995, *“A Party Down at the Square” .
Jackson, Shirley 1919-1965, “The Lottery” .
O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964, *“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” .
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 1928-, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” .
Achebe, Chinua 1930-,*“Dead Men's Path” .
Munro, Alice 1931-, *“Vandals” .
Updike, John 1932-, “A & P” .
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938-, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Carver, Raymond 1938-1988, *“A Small Good Thing” .
Atwood, Margaret 1939-, * “Happy Endings” .
Mason, Bobbie Ann 1940-, “Shiloh” .
Walker, Alice 1944-, “Everyday Use” .
Tim Gautreaux 1947-, *“Died and Gone to Vegas” .
Gilb, Dagoberto 1950-, “Look on the Bright Side” .
Tan, Amy 1952-, “Two Kinds” .
Cisneros, Sandra 1954-, “Barbie-Q” .
Erdich, Louise 1954-, “The Red Convertible” .
Lorrie Moore 1957-, *“How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)” .
Poetry.
Anonymous (1450?) “Western Wind” .
Anonymous (1500?) “Bonny Barbara Allan” .
Anonymous (1500?) “Sir Patrick Spens” .
Wyatt, Thomas (1503-1542) “They Flee from Me” .
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) “When I Was Fair and Young” .
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) “Amoretti: Sonnet 75” .
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1584) “Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1” .
Southwell, Robert (1561-1595) “Burning Babe, The” .
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) “Idea: Sonnet 61” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 18” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 20” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 29” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 30” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 73” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 116” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 130” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)” .
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) “There Is a Garden in Her Face” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Canonization, The” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Flea, The” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Holy Sonnet 10” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Holy Sonnet 14” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A” .
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) “On My First Son” .
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) “Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount” .
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Easter Wings” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Love” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Pulley, The” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Redemption” .
Waller, Edmund (1607-1687) “Song” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “How Soon Hath Time” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “On the Late Massacre in Piemont” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “Lycidas” .
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) “Author to Her Book, The” .
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658) “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” .
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) “To His Coy Mistress” .
Dryden, John (1631-1700) “Epigram on Milton” .
Dryden, John (1631-1700) “To the Memory of Mr. Oldham” .
Taylor, Edward (1642-1729) “Housewifery” .
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) “Description of a City Shower, A” .
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) “Essay on Criticism, An (selection)” .
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) “Ode on Solitude” .
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” .
Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) “Jubilate Agno (selection)” .
Freneau, Philip (1752-1832) “Wild Honey Suckle, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Chimney Sweeper, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Poison Tree, A” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Tyger, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “The Little Black Boy” .
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) “Red, Red Rose, A” .
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) “John Barleycorn” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “It Is a Beauteous Evening” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Lines (Composes a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey...” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Nuns Fret Not at Their Narrow Convent Room” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Frost at Midnight” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Kubla Khan” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Work Without Hope” .
Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) “Stanzas” .
Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) “When We Two Parted” .
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) “Ode to the West Wind” .
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) “Ozymandias” .
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) “To the Fringed Gentian” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “La Belle Dame sans Merci” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “Ode to a Nightingale” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “When I Have Fears” .
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) “Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43” .
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) “Arsenal at Springfield, The” .
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) “Cross of Snow, The” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “Raven, The” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “The Haunted Palace” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “To Helen” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Eagle, The” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “In Memoriam A.H.H., 54” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Tears, Idle Tears” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Ulysses” .
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) “My Last Duchess” .
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) “Porphyria's Lover” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Noiseless Patient Spider, A” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Song of Myself, 6” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” .
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) “Dover Beach” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “I Died for Beauty — But Was Scarce” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Soul Selects Her Own Society, The” .
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) “Up-Hill” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Neutral Tones” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “The Convergence of the Twain” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Ruined Maid, The” .
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) “God's Grandeur” .
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) “Pied Beauty” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Eight O'Clock” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Is My Team Plowing” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “'Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Lake Isle of Innisfree, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Leda and the Swan” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Sailing to Byzantium” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Second Coming, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Song of Wandering Aengus, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Easter 1916” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Firelight” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Eros Turannos” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Mill, The” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Richard Cory” .
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) “The Black Riders, 06” .
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) “War Is Kind, 21” .
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906) “We Wear the Mask” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Acquainted with the Night” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “After Apple-Picking” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Design” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Home Burial” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Anecdote of the Jar” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Snow Man, The” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Sunday Morning” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Last Words of My English Grandmother, The” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Red Wheelbarrow, The” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Spring and All” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “In a Station of the Metro” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, The” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “Portrait d'une Femme” .
Wylie, Elinor (1885-1928) “Let No Charitable Hope” .
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) “Sea Rose” .
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) “Pear Tree” .
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) “Dreamers” .
Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) “Purse-Seine, The” .
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) “The Fish” .
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) “Silence” .
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) “Journey of the Magi” .
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” .
Ransom, John Crowe (1888-1974) “Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter” .
Ransom, John Crowe (1889-1974) “Piazza Piece” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “Oh, Oh, You Will be Sorry for That Word!”
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “Not In a Silver Casket” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” .
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) “Dulce Et Decorum Est” .
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) “One Perfect Rose” .
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) “Résumé” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “in Just-” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “pity this busy monster, manunkind” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “Nobody Loses All the Time” .
Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) “Reapers” .
Bogan, Louise (1897-1970) “Women” .
Crane, Hart (1899-1933) “Chaplinesque” .
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) “Dream Boogie” .
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) “Theme for English B” .
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946) “Incident” .
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946) “Yet Do I Marvel” .
Hope, A.D. (1907-) “Imperial Adam” .
Kunitz, Stanley (1905) “Halley's Comet” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “As I Walked Out One Evening” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “Musee des Beaux Arts” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “Unknown Citizen, The” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “Dolor” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “My Papa's Waltz” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “Root Cellar” .
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) “Fish, The” .
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) “One Art” .
Sarton, May (1912-1995) “A Guest” .
Hayden, Robert (1913-1980) “Those Winter Sundays” .
Randall, Dudley (1914-) “Ballad of Birmingham” .
Stafford, William (1914-) “Traveling Through the Dark” .
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” .
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) “Fern Hill” .
Kees, Weldon (1914-1955) “For My Daughter” .
Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965) “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The” .
Walker, Margaret (1915-) “For Malcolm X” .
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-) “Mother, The” .
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-) “We Real Cool” .
Lowell, Robert (1917-1977) “For the Union Dead” .
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919-) “Coney Island of the Mind, A, 15” .
Swenson, May (1919-1989) How Everything Happens” .
Nemerov, Howard (1920-1991) “Primer of the Daily Round, A” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Junk” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Playboy” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Writer, The” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Year's End” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “Next, Please” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “Aubade” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “This Be the Verse” .
Dickey, James (1923-) “The Heaven of Animals” .
Dugan, Alan (1923-) “Love Song: I and Thou” .
Hecht, Anthony (1923-) “'More Light! More Light!'”
Simpson, Louis (1923-) “American Classic” .
Simpson, Louis (1923-) “My Father in the Night Commanding No” .
Miller, Vassar (1924-) “Subterfuge” .
Justice, Donald (1925-) “Counting the Mad” .
Kizer, Carolyn (1925-) “Ungrateful Garden, The” .
Kumin, Maxine (1925-) “Noted in The New York Times” .
Creeley, Robert (1926-) “I Know a Man” .
Creeley, Robert (1926-) “Oh No” .
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-) “Supermarket in California, A” .
Merrill, James (1926-) “Casual Wear” .
Merrill, James (1926-) “Charles on Fire” .
Snodgrass, W.D. (1926-) “Mementos, I” .
O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966) “Day Lady Died, The” .
Ashbery, John (1927-) “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape” .
Ashbery, John (1927-) “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” .
Merwin, W.S. (1927-) “For the Anniversary of My Death” .
Merwin, W.S. (1927-) “Last One, The” .
Wright, James (1927-1980) “A Blessing” .
Wright, James (1927-1980) “Saint Judas” .
Levine, Philip (1928-) “ Genius” .
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) “Cinderella” .
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) “Truth the Dead Know, The” .
Gunn, Thom (1929-) “From the Wave” .
Gunn, Thom (1929-) “Terminal” .
Hollander, John (1929-) “Adam's Task” .
Kennedy, X.J. (1929-) “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Diving into the Wreck” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Rape” .
Hughes, Ted (1930-) “Pike” .
Hughes, Ted (1930-) “Thought-Fox, The” .
Snyder, Gary (1930-) “Walk, A” .
Walcott, Derek (1930-) “Central America” .
Williams, Miller (1930-) “Book, The” .
Pastan, Linda (1932-) “Crocuses” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Daddy” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Edge” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Metaphors” .
Barrat, Gerard (1933) “Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh 1945-1985” .
Stevenson, Anne (1933-) “Sous-entendu” .
Strand, Mark (1934-) “Tunnel, The” .
Oliver, Mary (1935-) “Black Walnut Tree, The” .
Chappell, Fred (1936-) “Narcissus and Echo” .
Clifton, Lucille (1936-) “to my last period” .
Piercy, Marge (1936-) “Barbie Doll” .
Willard, Nancy (1936-) “Hardware Store As Proof of the Existence of God, A” .
Adcock, Betty (1938-) “Digression on the Nuclear Age” .
Gildner, Gary (1938-) “First Practice” .
Phillips, Robert (1938-) “Compartments” .
Simic, Charles (1938-) “Stone” .
Stuart, Dabney (1938-) “Discovering My Daughter” .
Atwood, Margaret (1939-) “Siren Song” .
Dunn, Stephen (1939-) “The Sacred” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Digging” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Punishment” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Bogland” .
Mayers, Florence Cassen (1940-) “All-American Sestina” .
Rogers, Pattiann (1940-) “Foreplay” .
Hass, Robert (1941-) “Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan” .
Ortiz, Simon J. (1941-) “The Serenity in Stones” .
Ruark, Gibbons (1941-) “Visitor, The” .
Cardiff, Gladys (1942-) “Combing” .
Martin, Charles (1942-) “E.S.L.” .
Olds, Sharon (1942-) “One Girl at the Boys Party, The” .
Senz, Benjamin Alire "To the Desert” .
Tate, James (1943-) “Teaching the Ape to Write Poems” .
Voight, Ellen Bryant (1943-) “Daughter” .
Cope, Wendy (1944) “Rondeau Redoublé” .
Morgan, Robert (1944-) “Mountain Bride” .
Raine, Craig (1944-) “Martian Sends a Postcard Home, A” .
Shomer, Enid (1944-) “Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen” .
Walker, Alice (1944-) “Even As I Hold You” .
Stokesbury, Leon (1945-) “Evening's End” .
Fairchild, B. H. (1945-) “Body and Soul” .
Waniek, Marilyn Nelson (1946-) “Ballad of Aunt Geneva, The” .
Ai (1947-) “Child Beater” .
Hall, Jim (1947-) “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” .
Komunyakaa, Yusef (1947-) “Facing It” .
Gwynn, R. S. (1948-) “Approaching a Significant Birthday He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry” .
Steele, Timothy (1948-) “Sapphics Against Anger” .
Bottoms, David (1949-) “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt” .
Fenton, James (1949-) “God, a Poem” .
Forch, Carolyn (1950-) “Colonel, The” .
Gioia, Dana (1950-) “Planting a Sequoia” .
Jones, Rodney (1950-) “Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.” .
Timothy Murphy (1950-) “The Track of a Storm” .
Harjo, Joy (1951-) “Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On” .
Hongo, Garrett (1951-) “Crossing Ka'u Desert” .
Hudgins, Andrew (1951-) “Air View of an Industrial Scene” .
Dove, Rita (1952-) “Adolescence — III” .
Nye, Naomi Shihab (1952-) “Traveling Onion, The” .
Ríos, Alberto (1952-) “Purpose of Altar Boys, The” .
Soto, Gary (1952-) “The Skeptics” .
Alvarez, Julia (1953-) “Bilingual Sestina” .
Mason, David (1954-) “Song of the Powers” .
Salter, Mary Jo (1954-) “Welcome to Hiroshima” .
Song, Cathy (1955-) “Stamp Collecting” .
Holmes, Janet (1956-) “Cinquains for Rocky” .
Lee, Li-Young (1957-) “Eating Together” .
Tufariello, Catherine (1963-) “Useful Advice” .
Williamson, Greg (1964-) “The Kite” .
Anonymous (1500?) “Bonny Barbara Allan” .
Anonymous (1500?) “Sir Patrick Spens” .
Wyatt, Thomas (1503-1542) “They Flee from Me” .
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) “When I Was Fair and Young” .
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) “Amoretti: Sonnet 75” .
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1584) “Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1” .
Southwell, Robert (1561-1595) “Burning Babe, The” .
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) “Idea: Sonnet 61” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 18” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 20” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 29” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 30” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 73” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 116” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “Sonnet 130” .
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) “When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)” .
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) “There Is a Garden in Her Face” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Canonization, The” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Flea, The” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Holy Sonnet 10” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Holy Sonnet 14” .
Donne, John (1572-1631) “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A” .
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) “On My First Son” .
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) “Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount” .
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Easter Wings” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Love” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Pulley, The” .
Herbert, George (1593-1633) “Redemption” .
Waller, Edmund (1607-1687) “Song” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “How Soon Hath Time” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “On the Late Massacre in Piemont” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” .
Milton, John (1608-1674) “Lycidas” .
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) “Author to Her Book, The” .
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658) “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” .
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) “To His Coy Mistress” .
Dryden, John (1631-1700) “Epigram on Milton” .
Dryden, John (1631-1700) “To the Memory of Mr. Oldham” .
Taylor, Edward (1642-1729) “Housewifery” .
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) “Description of a City Shower, A” .
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) “Essay on Criticism, An (selection)” .
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) “Ode on Solitude” .
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” .
Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) “Jubilate Agno (selection)” .
Freneau, Philip (1752-1832) “Wild Honey Suckle, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Chimney Sweeper, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Poison Tree, A” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “Tyger, The” .
Blake, William (1757-1827) “The Little Black Boy” .
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) “Red, Red Rose, A” .
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) “John Barleycorn” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “It Is a Beauteous Evening” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Lines (Composes a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey...” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Nuns Fret Not at Their Narrow Convent Room” .
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Frost at Midnight” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Kubla Khan” .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) “Work Without Hope” .
Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) “Stanzas” .
Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) “When We Two Parted” .
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) “Ode to the West Wind” .
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) “Ozymandias” .
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) “To the Fringed Gentian” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “La Belle Dame sans Merci” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “Ode to a Nightingale” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” .
Keats, John (1795-1821) “When I Have Fears” .
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) “Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43” .
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) “Arsenal at Springfield, The” .
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) “Cross of Snow, The” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “Raven, The” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “The Haunted Palace” .
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) “To Helen” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Eagle, The” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “In Memoriam A.H.H., 54” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Tears, Idle Tears” .
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) “Ulysses” .
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) “My Last Duchess” .
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) “Porphyria's Lover” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Noiseless Patient Spider, A” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “Song of Myself, 6” .
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” .
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) “Dover Beach” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “I Died for Beauty — But Was Scarce” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A” .
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) “Soul Selects Her Own Society, The” .
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) “Up-Hill” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Neutral Tones” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “The Convergence of the Twain” .
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) “Ruined Maid, The” .
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) “God's Grandeur” .
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) “Pied Beauty” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Eight O'Clock” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Is My Team Plowing” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall” .
Housman, A.E. (1859-1936) “'Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Lake Isle of Innisfree, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Leda and the Swan” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Sailing to Byzantium” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Second Coming, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Song of Wandering Aengus, The” .
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) “Easter 1916” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Firelight” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Eros Turannos” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Mill, The” .
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) “Richard Cory” .
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) “The Black Riders, 06” .
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) “War Is Kind, 21” .
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906) “We Wear the Mask” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Acquainted with the Night” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “After Apple-Picking” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Design” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Home Burial” .
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Anecdote of the Jar” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Snow Man, The” .
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) “Sunday Morning” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Last Words of My English Grandmother, The” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Red Wheelbarrow, The” .
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) “Spring and All” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “In a Station of the Metro” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, The” .
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) “Portrait d'une Femme” .
Wylie, Elinor (1885-1928) “Let No Charitable Hope” .
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) “Sea Rose” .
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) “Pear Tree” .
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) “Dreamers” .
Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) “Purse-Seine, The” .
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) “The Fish” .
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) “Silence” .
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) “Journey of the Magi” .
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” .
Ransom, John Crowe (1888-1974) “Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter” .
Ransom, John Crowe (1889-1974) “Piazza Piece” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “Oh, Oh, You Will be Sorry for That Word!”
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “Not In a Silver Casket” .
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” .
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) “Dulce Et Decorum Est” .
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) “One Perfect Rose” .
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) “Résumé” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “in Just-” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “pity this busy monster, manunkind” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” .
cummings, e.e. (1894-1962) “Nobody Loses All the Time” .
Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) “Reapers” .
Bogan, Louise (1897-1970) “Women” .
Crane, Hart (1899-1933) “Chaplinesque” .
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) “Dream Boogie” .
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) “Theme for English B” .
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946) “Incident” .
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946) “Yet Do I Marvel” .
Hope, A.D. (1907-) “Imperial Adam” .
Kunitz, Stanley (1905) “Halley's Comet” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “As I Walked Out One Evening” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “Musee des Beaux Arts” .
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973) “Unknown Citizen, The” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “Dolor” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “My Papa's Waltz” .
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) “Root Cellar” .
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) “Fish, The” .
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) “One Art” .
Sarton, May (1912-1995) “A Guest” .
Hayden, Robert (1913-1980) “Those Winter Sundays” .
Randall, Dudley (1914-) “Ballad of Birmingham” .
Stafford, William (1914-) “Traveling Through the Dark” .
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” .
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) “Fern Hill” .
Kees, Weldon (1914-1955) “For My Daughter” .
Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965) “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The” .
Walker, Margaret (1915-) “For Malcolm X” .
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-) “Mother, The” .
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-) “We Real Cool” .
Lowell, Robert (1917-1977) “For the Union Dead” .
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919-) “Coney Island of the Mind, A, 15” .
Swenson, May (1919-1989) How Everything Happens” .
Nemerov, Howard (1920-1991) “Primer of the Daily Round, A” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Junk” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Playboy” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Writer, The” .
Wilbur, Richard (1921-) “Year's End” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “Next, Please” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “Aubade” .
Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) “This Be the Verse” .
Dickey, James (1923-) “The Heaven of Animals” .
Dugan, Alan (1923-) “Love Song: I and Thou” .
Hecht, Anthony (1923-) “'More Light! More Light!'”
Simpson, Louis (1923-) “American Classic” .
Simpson, Louis (1923-) “My Father in the Night Commanding No” .
Miller, Vassar (1924-) “Subterfuge” .
Justice, Donald (1925-) “Counting the Mad” .
Kizer, Carolyn (1925-) “Ungrateful Garden, The” .
Kumin, Maxine (1925-) “Noted in The New York Times” .
Creeley, Robert (1926-) “I Know a Man” .
Creeley, Robert (1926-) “Oh No” .
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-) “Supermarket in California, A” .
Merrill, James (1926-) “Casual Wear” .
Merrill, James (1926-) “Charles on Fire” .
Snodgrass, W.D. (1926-) “Mementos, I” .
O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966) “Day Lady Died, The” .
Ashbery, John (1927-) “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape” .
Ashbery, John (1927-) “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” .
Merwin, W.S. (1927-) “For the Anniversary of My Death” .
Merwin, W.S. (1927-) “Last One, The” .
Wright, James (1927-1980) “A Blessing” .
Wright, James (1927-1980) “Saint Judas” .
Levine, Philip (1928-) “ Genius” .
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) “Cinderella” .
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) “Truth the Dead Know, The” .
Gunn, Thom (1929-) “From the Wave” .
Gunn, Thom (1929-) “Terminal” .
Hollander, John (1929-) “Adam's Task” .
Kennedy, X.J. (1929-) “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Diving into the Wreck” .
Rich, Adrienne (1929-) “Rape” .
Hughes, Ted (1930-) “Pike” .
Hughes, Ted (1930-) “Thought-Fox, The” .
Snyder, Gary (1930-) “Walk, A” .
Walcott, Derek (1930-) “Central America” .
Williams, Miller (1930-) “Book, The” .
Pastan, Linda (1932-) “Crocuses” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Daddy” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Edge” .
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) “Metaphors” .
Barrat, Gerard (1933) “Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh 1945-1985” .
Stevenson, Anne (1933-) “Sous-entendu” .
Strand, Mark (1934-) “Tunnel, The” .
Oliver, Mary (1935-) “Black Walnut Tree, The” .
Chappell, Fred (1936-) “Narcissus and Echo” .
Clifton, Lucille (1936-) “to my last period” .
Piercy, Marge (1936-) “Barbie Doll” .
Willard, Nancy (1936-) “Hardware Store As Proof of the Existence of God, A” .
Adcock, Betty (1938-) “Digression on the Nuclear Age” .
Gildner, Gary (1938-) “First Practice” .
Phillips, Robert (1938-) “Compartments” .
Simic, Charles (1938-) “Stone” .
Stuart, Dabney (1938-) “Discovering My Daughter” .
Atwood, Margaret (1939-) “Siren Song” .
Dunn, Stephen (1939-) “The Sacred” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Digging” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Punishment” .
Heaney, Seamus (1939-) “Bogland” .
Mayers, Florence Cassen (1940-) “All-American Sestina” .
Rogers, Pattiann (1940-) “Foreplay” .
Hass, Robert (1941-) “Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan” .
Ortiz, Simon J. (1941-) “The Serenity in Stones” .
Ruark, Gibbons (1941-) “Visitor, The” .
Cardiff, Gladys (1942-) “Combing” .
Martin, Charles (1942-) “E.S.L.” .
Olds, Sharon (1942-) “One Girl at the Boys Party, The” .
Senz, Benjamin Alire "To the Desert” .
Tate, James (1943-) “Teaching the Ape to Write Poems” .
Voight, Ellen Bryant (1943-) “Daughter” .
Cope, Wendy (1944) “Rondeau Redoublé” .
Morgan, Robert (1944-) “Mountain Bride” .
Raine, Craig (1944-) “Martian Sends a Postcard Home, A” .
Shomer, Enid (1944-) “Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen” .
Walker, Alice (1944-) “Even As I Hold You” .
Stokesbury, Leon (1945-) “Evening's End” .
Fairchild, B. H. (1945-) “Body and Soul” .
Waniek, Marilyn Nelson (1946-) “Ballad of Aunt Geneva, The” .
Ai (1947-) “Child Beater” .
Hall, Jim (1947-) “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” .
Komunyakaa, Yusef (1947-) “Facing It” .
Gwynn, R. S. (1948-) “Approaching a Significant Birthday He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry” .
Steele, Timothy (1948-) “Sapphics Against Anger” .
Bottoms, David (1949-) “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt” .
Fenton, James (1949-) “God, a Poem” .
Forch, Carolyn (1950-) “Colonel, The” .
Gioia, Dana (1950-) “Planting a Sequoia” .
Jones, Rodney (1950-) “Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.” .
Timothy Murphy (1950-) “The Track of a Storm” .
Harjo, Joy (1951-) “Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On” .
Hongo, Garrett (1951-) “Crossing Ka'u Desert” .
Hudgins, Andrew (1951-) “Air View of an Industrial Scene” .
Dove, Rita (1952-) “Adolescence — III” .
Nye, Naomi Shihab (1952-) “Traveling Onion, The” .
Ríos, Alberto (1952-) “Purpose of Altar Boys, The” .
Soto, Gary (1952-) “The Skeptics” .
Alvarez, Julia (1953-) “Bilingual Sestina” .
Mason, David (1954-) “Song of the Powers” .
Salter, Mary Jo (1954-) “Welcome to Hiroshima” .
Song, Cathy (1955-) “Stamp Collecting” .
Holmes, Janet (1956-) “Cinquains for Rocky” .
Lee, Li-Young (1957-) “Eating Together” .
Tufariello, Catherine (1963-) “Useful Advice” .
Williamson, Greg (1964-) “The Kite” .
Drama.
Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.), Oedipus Rex.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tragedy of Othello.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House.
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.
Arthur Miller (1915-), Death of a Salesman.
August Wilson (1945-), Fences.
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-), The Man in a Case.
David Ives (1950-), Sure Thing.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tragedy of Othello.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House.
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.
Arthur Miller (1915-), Death of a Salesman.
August Wilson (1945-), Fences.
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-), The Man in a Case.
David Ives (1950-), Sure Thing.
Appendix: Index to Literature; Thematic and Critical Approaches.
Index of Article Terms.
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems.
