Literature : A Portable Anthology

by Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl, Peter Schakel

• ISBN13: 9780312412791
• ISBN10: 0312412797
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-12-08
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

An alternative to large and costly books, this volume offers a wide, well-balanced selection of fiction, poetry, and drama in a handy format for less than half the price of a typical introductory literature anthology.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors
35 Stories	p. 1
Young Goodman Brown	p. 3
The Cask of Amontillado	p. 14
Bartleby, the Scrivener	p. 20
A White Heron	p. 50
The Necklace	p. 59
The Story of an Hour	p. 66
The Lady with the Dog	p. 68
The Yellow Wallpaper	p. 82
Araby	p. 96
The Metamorphosis	p. 101
The Rocking-Horse Winner	p. 140
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	p. 153
Barn Burning	p. 161
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	p. 176
The Chrysanthemums	p. 180
A Worn Path	p. 189
Battle Royal	p. 196
The Lottery	p. 208
A Conversation with My Father	p. 216
Sonny's Blues	p. 220
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	p. 247
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	p. 260
Civil Peace	p. 266
A & P	p. 270
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	p. 276
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	p. 290
Happy Endings	p. 300
The Lesson	p. 304
The Management of Grief	p. 310
Everyday Use	p. 324
The Things They Carried	p. 332
Girl	p. 347
Two Kinds	p. 348
The House on Mango Street	p. 358
The Red Convertible	p. 359
250 Poems	p. 369
Sir Patrick Spens	p. 371
Lord Randal	p. 372
They flee from me	p. 374
When I was fair and young	p. 375
One day I wrote her name upon the strand	p. 375
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show	p. 376
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo	p. 377
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part	p. 377
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	p. 378
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?)	p. 379
Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)	p. 379
Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)	p. 380
Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun)	p. 380
When thou must home	p. 381
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	p. 382
The Flea	p. 383
Batter my heart, three-personed God	p. 384
On My First Son	p. 385
Am I thus conquered?	p. 385
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	p. 386
Easter-wings	p. 387
The Pulley	p. 387
Song	p. 388
Lycidas	p. 389
When I consider how my light is spent	p. 395
To My Dear and Loving Husband	p. 396
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	p. 396
To His Coy Mistress	p. 397
On Her Loving Two Equally	p. 398
Housewifery	p. 399
From The Introduction	p. 400
A Description of the Morning	p. 401
The Rape of the Lock	p. 402
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	p. 412
From Jubilate Agno	p. 416
The Indian Burying Ground	p. 419
The Lamb	p. 420
The Tyger	p. 421
London	p. 422
A Red, Red Rose	p. 422
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	p. 423
I wandered lonely as a cloud	p. 427
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	p. 428
The world is too much with us	p. 434
Kubla Khan	p. 435
She walks in beauty	p. 437
Ozymandias	p. 438
Ode to the West Wind	p. 438
When I have fears that I may cease to be	p. 441
The Eve of St. Agnes	p. 442
Ode on a Grecian Urn	p. 454
To Autumn	p. 456
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways	p. 457
To Helen	p. 458
Annabel Lee	p. 458
Ulysses	p. 460
Tears, idle tears	p. 462
Crossing the Bar	p. 463
My Last Duchess	p. 464
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	p. 465
Riches I hold in light esteem	p. 466
From Song of Myself	p. 467
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 479
A Noiseless Patient Spider	p. 486
Dover Beach	p. 486
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	p. 488
Much Madness is divinest Sense	p. 488
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died	p. 489
Because I could not stop for Death	p. 490
Song	p. 491
The Convergence of the Twain	p. 491
The Windhover	p. 493
God's Grandeur	p. 494
Pied Beauty	p. 494
Spring and Fall	p. 495
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now	p. 495
To an Athlete Dying Young	p. 496
"Terence, this is stupid stuff"	p. 497
The Second Coming	p. 499
Leda and the Swan	p. 500
Among School Children	p. 501
Sailing to Byzantium	p. 504
Richard Cory	p. 505
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind	p. 506
We Wear the Mask	p. 507
After Apple-Picking	p. 508
The Road Not Taken	p. 509
Birches	p. 510
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	p. 511
Susie Asado	p. 512
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	p. 513
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	p. 513
Sunday Morning	p. 514
The Red Wheelbarrow	p. 517
Spring and All	p. 518
This Is Just to Say	p. 519
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	p. 519
Garden	p. 520
Poetry	p. 521
Lullaby	p. 522
Hurt Hawks	p. 524
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 525
Preludes	p. 529
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	p. 531
America	p. 531
Wild Swans	p. 532
Dulce et Decorum Est	p. 532
in Just-	p. 533
pity this busy monster, manunkind	p. 534
Reapers	p. 535
Women	p. 535
My Grandmother's Love Letters	p. 536
Riverbank Blues	p. 537
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	p. 538
Harlem	p. 539
Incident	p. 539
From "A" 15	p. 540
Father and Son	p. 542
As I Walked Out One Evening	p. 543
Musee des Beaux Arts	p. 545
My Papa's Waltz	p. 547
The Forms of Love	p. 547
The Fish	p. 548
One Art	p. 550
Love Poem	p. 551
Those Winter Sundays	p. 552
Ballad of Birmingham	p. 552
Henry's Confession	p. 553
Traveling through the Dark	p. 554
Fern Hill	p. 555
Do not go gentle into that good night	p. 556
Naming of Parts	p. 557
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	p. 558
We Real Cool	p. 559
The Bean Eaters	p. 559
Skunk Hour	p. 560
The Torso	p. 561
my old man	p. 563
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	p. 565
Regarding Chainsaws	p. 567
High Windows	p. 569
February Evening in New York	p. 570
The Excrement Poem	p. 571
The History of Jazz	p. 572
Cow Worship	p. 574
Michiko Dead	p. 575
The Day Lady Died	p. 575
A Supermarket in California	p. 576
Time	p. 577
The Pier: Under Pisces	p. 578
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter	p. 580
Yesterday	p. 580
One Coat of Paint	p. 582
The Bear	p. 583
A Blessing	p. 585
What Work Is	p. 586
Player Piano	p. 587
For Fawzi in Jerusalem	p. 589
Cinderella	p. 591
Diving into the Wreck	p. 594
Hitch Haiku	p. 596
Sea Grapes	p. 599
In Memory of Jane Fraser	p. 600
An Early Afterlife	p. 601
Metaphors	p. 602
Daddy	p. 602
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	p. 605
Return to La Plata, Missouri	p. 606
December 21st	p. 607
An Anthem	p. 607
Zimmer Imagines Heaven	p. 609
Coal	p. 610
March Journal	p. 611
August	p. 613
Into This Time	p. 614
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989	p. 616
Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him	p. 617
The Protable Earth-Lamp	p. 618
Barbie Doll	p. 619
From Speeches at the Barriers	p. 620
Begotten of the Spleen	p. 622
Nightmare Begins Responsibility	p. 623
Digging	p. 624
The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart	p. 625
A Dance for Ma Rainey	p. 626
Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat	p. 627
Grandmother's Song	p. 628
Shirt	p. 629
Late Spring	p. 631
Aristotle	p. 632
Why I Left the Church	p. 634
Speaking	p. 635
A Note on My Son's Face	p. 636
A Mask of Anger	p. 638
I Go Back to May 1937	p. 639
Villanelle	p. 640
Woman Who Weeps	p. 641
Parable of Flight	p. 642
The Wheelchair Butterfly	p. 642
Snake-Back Solo 2	p. 644
The Pomegranate	p. 646
Mountain Bride	p. 648
Makeup on Empty Space	p. 649
The Poem You Asked For	p. 653
The History of Red	p. 654
Why Can't I Leave You?	p. 656
Facing It	p. 657
From Room to Room	p. 658
What He Thought	p. 659
Prayer to the Pacific	p. 661
Blink Your Eyes	p. 662
I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi	p. 663
Problems with Hurricanes	p. 664
Functional Poem	p. 666
From the Spotted Night	p. 668
The Colonel	p. 669
Sumptuous Destitution	p. 670
Chinese Villanelle	p. 671
Reading Plato	p. 672
She Had Some Horses	p. 674
Yellow Light	p. 675
Grandfather-in-Law	p. 677
The Satisfaction Coal Company	p. 678
The Small Vases from Hebron	p. 680
You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain	p. 681
Nani	p. 682
The Elements of San Joaquin	p. 684
Family Ties	p. 687
Cold as Heaven	p. 688
The Girl Who Loved the Sky	p. 689
Praise the Tortilla, Praise the Menudo, Praise the Chorizo	p. 691
Tiara	p. 692
Cathedral	p. 693
The Stone of Heaven	p. 694
Freeway 280	p. 696
Tornados	p. 697
A Love Medicine	p. 698
My Mother, If She Had Won Free Dance Lessons	p. 699
Turtle Soup	p. 700
Girl Powdering Her Neck	p. 701
When You Leave	p. 704
Short-order Cook	p. 704
Eating Alone	p. 705
The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp	p. 706
Syntax	p. 707
The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle	p. 708
The Ways of Guilt	p. 711
Thoreau	p. 713
Postcards to Columbus	p. 714
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person	p. 715
9 Plays	p. 717
Oedipus Rex	p. 719
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	p. 763
A Doll House	p. 885
Trifles	p. 944
The Glass Menagerie	p. 956
Death of a Salesman	p. 1012
Top Girls	p. 1091
"Master Harold"...and the boys	p. 1153
The Piano Lesson	p. 1191
Writing About Literature	p. 1263
The Role of Good Reading	p. 1267
The Writing Process	p. 1278
Some Common Writing Assignments	p. 1302
Writing about Stories	p. 1318
Writing about Poems	p. 1325
Writing about Plays	p. 1331
Writing a Literary Research Paper	p. 1338
Biographical Notes on the Authors	p. 1371
Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms	p. 1430
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	p. 1467
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