The Norton Introduction to Literature

by Beaty, Jerome; Booth, Alison; Mays, Kelly J.; Hunter, J. Paul

• ISBN13: 9780393976878
• ISBN10: 0393976874
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xxv
Introduction: What Is Literature?	xxix
Fiction
Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing	2	(13)
The Zebra Storyteller	2	(3)
Spencer Holst
No One's a Mystery	5	(3)
Elizabeth Tallent
The Jewelry	8	(7)
Guy de Maupassant
Questions/Writing Suggestions	14	(1)
Understanding the Text	15	(324)
Plot	15	(51)
Happy Endings	20	(3)
Margaret Atwood
The Country Husband	23	(18)
John Cheever
Sonny's Blues	41	(25)
James Baldwin
Questions/Writing Suggestions	64	(2)
Narration and Point of View	66	(36)
The Cask of Amontillado	70	(5)
Edgar Allan Poe
Hills Like White Elephants	75	(3)
Ernest Hemingway
How	78	(7)
Lorrie Moore
Dreams	85	(17)
Timothy Findley
Questions/Writing Suggestions	100	(2)
Character	102	(55)
Why I Live at the P.O.	107	(9)
Eudora Welty
Bartleby, the Scrivener	116	(26)
Herman Melville
Our Friend Judith	142	(15)
Doris Lessing
Questions/Writing Suggestions	155	(2)
Setting	157	(38)
Sanchez	159	(9)
Richard Dokey
A Pair of Tickets	168	(14)
Amy Tan
The Lady with the Dog	182	(13)
Anton Chekhov
Questions/Writing Suggestions	194	(1)
Symbol	195	(28)
Young Goodman Brown	198	(9)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Hunger Artist	207	(7)
Franz Kafka
Janus	214	(9)
Ann Beattie
Questions/Writing Suggestions	217	(2)
Student Writing: Geoffrey Clement, The Struggle to Surface in the Water of ``Sonny's Blues''	219	(4)
Theme	223	(49)
A Souvenir of Japan	227	(6)
Angela Carter
The Management of Grief	233	(12)
Bharati Mukherjee
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants	245	(10)
Nadine Gordimer
Interpreter of Maladies	255	(17)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Questions/Writing Suggestions	270	(2)
The Whole Text	272	(67)
The Secret Sharer	272	(31)
Joseph Conrad
Questions and Writing Suggestions	301	(2)
Love Medicine	303	(17)
Louise Erdrich
Questions and Writing Suggestions	319	(1)
The Open Boat	320	(19)
Stephen Crane
Questions and Writing Suggestions	337	(2)
Exploring Contexts	339	(238)
The Author's Work As Context: D. H. Lawrence and Flannery O'Connor	339	(107)
D. H. Lawrence	345	(45)
Odour of Chrysanthemums	345	(14)
The Blind Man	359	(14)
The Rocking-Horse Winner	373	(11)
Passages from Essays and Letters	384	(6)
Flannery O'Connor	390	(56)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	390	(11)
The Lame Shall Enter First	401	(26)
Everything That Rises Must Converge	427	(12)
Passages from Essays and Letters	439	(5)
Questions/Writing Suggestions	444	(2)
Literary Kind as Context: Initiation Stories	446	(22)
Gorilla, My Love	447	(5)
Toni Cade Bambara
Boys and Girls	452	(10)
Alice Munro
Araby	462	(6)
James Joyce
Questions/Writing Suggestions	466	(2)
Form as Context: The Short Short Story	468	(22)
The Story of an Hour	470	(2)
Kate Chopin
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	472	(4)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Girl	476	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid
Pants on Fire	477	(4)
Nicholson Baker
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket	481	(3)
Yasunari Kawabata
The Use of Force	484	(2)
William Carlos Williams
She Unnames Them	486	(4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Questions/Writing Suggestions	488	(2)
Cultural and Historical Context	490	(39)
Babylon Revisited	498	(31)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Echoes of the Jazz Age	513	(3)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
From Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s	516	(6)
Malcolm Cowley
The New York Times
Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day	522	(1)
Crowd at Tickers See Fortunes Wane	522	(1)
Women Traders Going Back to Bridge Games: Say They Are Through with Stocks Forever	523	(1)
From Social Problems of the Family	524	(2)
Ernest R. Groves
From The Bankruptcy of Marriage	526	(3)
V. F. Calverton
Critical Contexts: A Fiction Casebook	529	(48)
A Rose for Emily	531	(46)
William Faulkner
Student Writing: Daniel Bronson, ``Like the Sand of the Hourglass...''	539	(3)
``We all said, `she will kill herself''': The Narrator/Detective in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''	542	(8)
Lawrence R. Rodgers
Styles of Reading	550	(8)
George L. Dillon
A Rose for ``A Rose for Emily''	558	(7)
Judith Fetterley
Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''	565	(7)
Gene M. Moore
Student Writing: Willow D. Crystal, ``One of us...'': Concepts of the Private and the Public in William Faulkner's ``A Rose for Emily''	572	(5)
Evaluating Fiction	577	(42)
A Conversation with My Father	577	(6)
Grace Paley
The Most Dangerous Game	583	(18)
Richard Connell
Student Writing: Thaddeus Smith, Why ``The Most Dangerous Game'' Is Good Literature	598	(1)
Student Writing: Sara Rosen, Why ``The Most Dangerous Game'' Is Not Good Literature	599	(2)
Barn Burning	601	(18)
William Faulkner
Reading More Fiction	619	(191)
My Contraband	619	(14)
Louisa May Alcott
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	633	(7)
Ambrose Bierce
Without Benefit of Clergy	640	(15)
Rudyard Kipling
The Real Thing	655	(18)
Henry James
The Yellow Wallpaper	673	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Souls Belated	685	(20)
Edith Wharton
A Jury of Her Peers	705	(15)
Susan Glaspell
Her First Ball	720	(5)
Katherine Mansfield
Flowering Judas	725	(9)
Katherine Anne Porter
The Garden of Forking Paths	734	(7)
Jorge Luis Borges
King of the Bingo Game	741	(7)
Ralph Ellison
The Lady with the Pet Dog	748	(13)
Joyce Carol Oates
Shiloh	761	(10)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Cathedral	771	(11)
Raymond Carver
In Broad Daylight	782	(8)
Ha Jin
The Prophet's Hair	790	(11)
Salman Rushdie
Dressing Down	801	(9)
Carol Shields
Poetry
Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing	810	(23)
Reading	811	(1)
How Do I Love Thee?	811	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Tally Stick	812	(1)
Jarold Ramsey
love poem	813	(2)
Linda Pastan
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	815	(1)
Ezra Pound
Wedding-Ring	816	(2)
Denise Levertov
Responding	817	(1)
On My First Son	818	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Vacuum	819	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Mid-Term Break	820	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Fifth Grade Autobiography	821	(1)
Rita Dove
The Fury of Overshoes	822	(3)
Anne Sexton
Writing About Poems	824	(1)
Practicing Reading: Some Poems on Love	825	(1)
[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]	825	(1)
W. H. Auden
To My Dear and Loving Husband	825	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
[Let me not to the marriage of true minds]	826	(1)
William Shakespeare
Rondeau	826	(1)
Leigh Hunt
A Special Theory of Relativity	826	(1)
Alan Bold
[What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why]	827	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
On Her Loving Two Equally	828	(1)
Aphra Behn
Married Love	828	(1)
Liz Rosenberg
To the Ladies	829	(1)
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
A Last Confession	830	(1)
W. B. Yeats
[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]	830	(1)
William Shakespeare
Wayman in Love	831	(2)
Tom Wayman
Questions/Writing Suggestions	832	(1)
Understanding the Text	833	(256)
Tone	833	(27)
Barbie Doll	833	(1)
Marge Piercy
Leaving the Motel	834	(2)
W. D. Snodgrass
In Time of Plague	836	(2)
Thom Gunn
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	838	(1)
Etheridge Knight
London	839	(2)
William Blake
Woodchucks	841	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	842	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Many Tones: Poems About Family Relationships	844	(1)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	844	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Eden	844	(1)
Emily Grosholz
The Necessity for Irony	845	(1)
Eavan Boland
My Father's Corpse	846	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Persimmons	847	(2)
Li-Young Lee
Those Winter Sundays	849	(1)
Robert Hayden
You Didn't Fit	850	(1)
Susan Musgrave
Elegy	851	(1)
Alan Dugan
Mother of the Groom	851	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Alzheimer's	852	(1)
Kelly Cherry
Beauty	852	(1)
Susan Glickman
Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, Described by My Father	853	(1)
Yvonne Sapia
Postcard from Kashmir	854	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali
Green Chile	855	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Heaven	856	(2)
Cathy Song
Indian Movie, New Jersey	858	(2)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Questions/Writing Suggestions	859	(1)
Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear?	860	(25)
The Ruined Maid	860	(2)
Thomas Hardy
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day	862	(1)
X.J. Kennedy
Letters in the Family	863	(3)
Adrienne Rich
Death of a Young Son by Drowning	866	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	867	(3)
Robert Browning
Sudden Journey	870	(1)
Tess Gallagher
A Certain Lady	870	(2)
Dorothy Parker
Needs	872	(1)
A. R. Ammons
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	873	(1)
William Wordsworth
Praying Drunk	874	(2)
Andrew Hudgins
Hanging Fire	876	(1)
Audre Lorde
They Flee from Me	876	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
To a Louse	877	(1)
Robert Burns
The Poison Flower	878	(1)
Mary Coleridge
Lessons of the War: Judging Distances	879	(1)
Henry Reed
La Migra	880	(1)
Pat Mora
We Real Cool	881	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mirror	882	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Outlaw	882	(1)
Seamus Heaney
[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]	883	(2)
Walt Whitman
Questions/Writing Suggestions	883	(2)
Situation and Setting: What Happens? Where? When?	885	(39)
Cherrylog Road	886	(3)
James Dickey
The Flea	889	(1)
John Donne
Daystar	890	(1)
Rita Dove
To a Daughter Leaving Home	891	(1)
Linda Pastan
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	892	(2)
John Milton
Point Shirley	894	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Dover Beach	896	(2)
Matthew Arnold
Situations	898	(1)
How I Discovered Poetry	898	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
The Night-Wind	898	(1)
Emily Bronte
Siren Song	899	(1)
Margaret Atwood
A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach	900	(1)
Richard Snyder
To His Coy Mistress	900	(2)
Andrew Marvell
Summer Love	902	(1)
Marilyn Chin
Peeling an Orange	902	(1)
Virginia Hamilton Adair
William Blake
Holy Thursday	903	(1)
Holy Thursday	903	(1)
Porphyria's Lover	904	(1)
Robert Browning
A Way of Life	905	(2)
Howard Nemerov
Times	907	(1)
[Full many a glorious morning have I seen]	907	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Good-Morrow	907	(1)
John Donne
Morning Song	908	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Morning	909	(1)
Billy Collins
A Description of the Morning	909	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Evening	910	(1)
Karen Volkman
Evening in the Sanitarium	911	(1)
Louise Bogan
Winter Evening	912	(1)
Archibald Lampman
Places	913	(1)
Singapore	913	(1)
Mary Oliver
In Westminster Abbey	914	(1)
John Betjeman
The Laundromat	915	(1)
Dorianne Laux
West Indian Primer	916	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
A Map of the City	917	(1)
Thom Gunn
City Afternoon	917	(1)
John Ashbery
A Description of a City Shower	918	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Midsummer	919	(5)
Derek Walcott
Questions/Writing Suggestions	920	(1)
Student Writing: Kimberly Smith, A Letter to an Author	921	(3)
Language	924	(62)
Precision and Ambiguity	924	(1)
[The golf links lie so near the mill]	924	(1)
Sarah Cleghorn
Countess of Winchelsea, There's No To-Morrow	925	(1)
Anne Finch
Of Time and the Line	926	(1)
Charles Bernstein
At the San Franciso Airport	927	(2)
Yvor Winters
Slim Cunning Hands	929	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Gentle Communion	930	(2)
Pat Mora
[After great pain, a formal feeling comes---]	932	(1)
Emily Dickinson
My Papa's Waltz	932	(2)
Theodore Roethke
Sex without Love	934	(1)
Sharon Olds
Lies	935	(1)
Martha Collins
[I dwell in Possibility---]	935	(1)
Emily Dickinson
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow	936	(1)
This Is Just to Say	936	(1)
Parsley	937	(2)
Rita Dove
Pied Beauty	939	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[in Just-]	939	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Morning	940	(1)
Mary Oliver
Reflections on Ice-Breaking	940	(1)
Ogden Nash
Here Usually Comes the Bride	941	(1)
Hidden Meaning	941	(1)
Susan Musgrave
Still to Be Neat	942	(1)
Ben Jonson
Delight in Disorder	942	(1)
Robert Herrick
From Paradise Lost	943	(3)
John Milton
De Puero Balbutiente	946	(2)
Thomas Bastard
Picturing: The Languages of Description	947	(1)
Rorschach	948	(1)
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Home Movies: A Sort of Ode	949	(1)
Mary Jo Salter
Bluebonnets	950	(1)
Gail Mazur
The Beautiful Changes	951	(1)
Richard Wilbur
On a Drop of Dew	952	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Love: Youth	953	(1)
C. K. Williams
To Penshurst	954	(3)
Ben Jonson
Metaphor and Simile	957	(1)
[That time of year thou mayst in me behold]	957	(2)
William Shakespeare
Marks	959	(1)
Linda Pastan
My Father's Garden	960	(1)
David Wagoner
Hogwash	961	(1)
Robert Francis
A Red, Red Rose	962	(1)
Robert Burns
Two Songs	963	(2)
Adrienne Rich
[Sex, as they harshly call it,]	963	(1)
[That ``old last act''!]	964	(1)
The Twenty-third Psalm	965	(1)
Anonymous
John Donne
[Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You]	966	(1)
The Computation	966	(1)
At the Hospital	966	(1)
David Ferry
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	967	(1)
Randall Jarrell
A Comparison of the Life of Man	967	(1)
Richard Barnfield
Aubade	967	(1)
Amy Lowell
Other	968	(1)
Dorothy Livesay
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	969	(1)
Francis William Bourdillon
[Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]	969	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Symbol	970	(1)
Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941	970	(2)
Sharon Olds
The Leap	972	(2)
James Dickey
Song	974	(1)
Edmund Waller
I Am Like a Rose	975	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
One Perfect Rose	976	(1)
Dorothy Parker
The Sick Rose	976	(2)
William Blake
Fireflies in the Garden	978	(1)
Robert Frost
Dancing with God	978	(1)
Stephen Dunn
Short History of the West	979	(1)
Jorie Graham
Diving into the Wreck	980	(2)
Adrienne Rich
After a Death	982	(1)
Roo Borson
The Town Dump	983	(3)
Howard Nemerov
Questions/Writing Suggestions	984	(2)
The Sounds of Poetry	986	(31)
The Word Plum	986	(2)
Helen Chasin
What the Motorcycle Said	988	(1)
Mona Van Duyn
Dirge	989	(2)
Kenneth Fearing
Sound and Sense	991	(2)
Alexander Pope
Metrical Feet	993	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson	994	(1)
Wendy Cope
[There was a young lady of Riga]	994	(1)
Anonymous
Song	994	(1)
Sir John Suckling
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	995	(2)
John Dryden
The Raven	997	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
[Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore]	1000	(1)
William Shakespeare
Watching the Dance	1000	(1)
James Merrill
Break, Break, Break	1001	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Spring and Fall	1001	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Foolproof Loofah	1002	(1)
Lee Ann Brown
The Waking	1002	(1)
Theodore Roethke
[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]	1003	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Song	1004	(1)
Cynthia Zarin
Words and Music	1004	(1)
A Song	1005	(1)
Thomas Randolph
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings	1006	(1)
Thomas Campion
Spring	1006	(1)
William Shakespeare
Homage to the Empress of the Blues	1007	(1)
Robert Hayden
The Blues	1007	(1)
Billy Collins
Dear Coltrane	1008	(1)
Michael Harper
Dear John
Jazzanatomy	1009	(1)
James A. Emanuel
Mr. Tambourine Man	1010	(1)
Bob Dylan
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	1011	(1)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
123rd Street Rap	1012	(5)
Willie Perdomo
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1013	(1)
Student Writing: Christine Woodside Metrical Variation and Meaning in ``To the Memory of Mr. Oldham''	1014	(3)
Internal Structure	1017	(27)
Mr. Flood's Party	1017	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Goose Fish	1020	(2)
Howard Nemerov
Church Going	1022	(2)
Philip Larkin
Sonrisas	1024	(1)
Pat Mora
Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends	1025	(2)
James Wright
The Victims	1027	(2)
Sharon Olds
Sir Patrick Spens	1029	(1)
Anonymous
Auto Wreck	1030	(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Pardon	1031	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Dance	1032	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Desire	1032	(1)
Gail Mazur
[The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]	1033	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Save Us From	1034	(1)
Roo Borson
Poetry	1035	(1)
Stephen Dunn
Ode to the West Wind	1035	(3)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	1038	(6)
W. H. Auden
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1040	(1)
Student Writing: Carol Lin Language and Structure in Sharon Old's ``The Victims''	1041	(3)
External Form	1044	(29)
The Sonnet	1047	(1)
Nuns Fret Not	1047	(1)
William Wordsworth
[My lady's presence makes the roses red]	1048	(1)
Henry Constable
A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument	1049	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
On the Sonnet	1050	(1)
John Keats
The New Colossus	1051	(1)
Emma Lazarus
The White House	1051	(1)
Claude McKay
[When I consider how my light is spent]	1052
John Milton
London, 1802	1052	(1)
William Wordsworth
In an Artist's Studio	1053	(1)
Christina Rossetti
The Potato Harvest	1053	(1)
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
First Fight. Then Fiddle	1054	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Range-Finding	1054	(1)
Robert Frost
In the Park	1055	(1)
Gwen Harwood
The Harlem Dancer	1055	(1)
Claude McKay
Yet Do I Marvel	1056	(1)
Countee Cullen
Opening the Cage	1056	(1)
Edwin Morgan
Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe	1057	(1)
Helen Chasin
[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]	1057	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sweep Me through Your Many-Chambered Heart	1058	(2)
Diane Ackerman
Stanza Forms	1059	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	1060	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Poetry	1060	(1)
Marianne Moore
Sestina	1061	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
beware: do not read this poem	1062	(2)
Ishmael Reed
Ars Poetica	1064	(1)
Archibald MacLeish
The Way a Poem Looks	1065	(1)
E. E. Cummings [l(a]	1065	(1)
Composed in the Composing Room	1066	(1)
Franklin P. Adams
[Buffalo Bill's]	1066	(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Jungle Husband	1067	(1)
Stevie Smith
Easter Wings	1068	(1)
George Herbert
The Pillar of Fame	1069	(1)
Robert Herrick
Anglosaxon Street	1069	(1)
Earle Birney
Evening News I	1070	(1)
David Ferry
Lilac	1071	(2)
Mary Ellen Solt
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1072	(1)
The Whole Text	1073	(16)
Delay	1074	(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
Western Wind	1075	(1)
Anonymous
Upon Julia's Clothes	1076	(2)
Robert Herrick
Musee des Beaux Arts	1078	(1)
W. H. Auden
The Collar	1079	(1)
George Herbert
Design	1080	(1)
Robert Frost
The Learned	1080	(1)
Eden Phillpotts
Piano	1080	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
[My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---]	1081	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Cutting the Cake	1082	(1)
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.	1082	(7)
Ben Johnson
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1083	(1)
Student Writing: Meaghan E. Parker Tragedy in Five Stanzas: ``Woodchucks''	1084	(5)
Exploring Contexts	1089	(146)
The Author's Work As Context: John Keats	1089	(17)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	1091	(1)
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket	1092	(1)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	1092	(1)
From Endymion (Book 1)	1093	(1)
When I Have Fears	1093	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	1094	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	1096	(2)
To Autumn	1098	(1)
Passages from Letters and the Preface to Endymion	1099	(6)
Questions/Writing Suggestion	1105	(1)
The Author's Work in Context: Adrienne Rich	1106	(23)
At a Bach Concert	1107	(1)
Storm Warnings	1108	(1)
Living in Sin	1108	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	1109	(4)
Planetarium	1113	(1)
Dialogue	1114	(1)
Power	1115	(1)
For the Record	1115	(1)
[My mouth hovers across your breasts]	1116	(1)
Delta	1116	(1)
History	1117	(1)
Modotti	1118	(1)
Personal Reflections	1119	(9)
Question/Writing Suggestions	1128	(1)
Literary Tradition as Context	1129	(36)
Echo and Allusion	1130	(1)
[Come, my Celia, let us prove]	1131	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Lamb	1132	(1)
William Blake
Boom!	1132	(2)
Howard Nemerov
Love in America?	1134	(1)
Marianne Moore
You Too? Me Too---Why Not? Soda Pop	1135	(1)
Robert Hollander
[Not marble nor the gilded monuments]	1136	(1)
William Shakespeare
Poetic ``Kinds''	1137	(1)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	1137	(2)
Christopher Marlowe
Haiku	1139	(1)
[Whether astringent]	1139	(1)
Chiyojo
Basho
[A village without bells---]	1140	(1)
[This road---]	1141	(1)
Buson
[Coolness---]	1141	(1)
[Listening to the moon]	1141	(1)
Issa
[The moon and the flowers]	1141	(1)
[Insects on a bough]	1141	(1)
[The faces of dolls]	1142	(1)
Seifu
[No sky and no earth]	1142	(1)
Hashin
[Come! Come! Though I call]	1142	(1)
Onitsura
[Old pond---...]	1142	(1)
Lafcadio Hearn
[An old-time pond from off whose shadowed depth]	1143	(1)
Clara A. Walsh
[The still old pond]	1143	(1)
Earl Miner
[The old pond]	1143	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
[The falling flower]	1143	(1)
Babette Deutsch
[Eastern guard tower]	1144	(1)
Etheridge Knight
[Looking over my shoulder]	1144	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
[In the falling snow]	1144	(1)
Richard Wright
Ray Charles	1144	(1)
James A. Emanuel
Imitating and Answering	1145	(1)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	1145	(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh
Raleigh Was Right	1146	(1)
William Carlos Williams
[(ponder, darling, these busted statues]	1147	(1)
E. E. Cummings
To His Importunate Mistress	1147	(1)
Peter De Vries
A Further Proposal	1148	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams	1149	(1)
Kenneth Koch
Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized	1150	(1)
Desmond Skirrow
The Dover Bitch	1150	(1)
Anthony Hecht
[Not only marble, but the plastic toys]	1151	(2)
Wendy Cope
Cultural Belief and Tradition	1152	(1)
Adam's Task	1153	(1)
John Hollander
Eve Names the Animals	1153	(1)
Susan Donnelly
Helen	1154	(1)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Cassandra	1155	(1)
Louise Bogan
Ulysses Embroidered	1155	(1)
Miriam Waddington
An Ancient Gesture	1156	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Kraken	1157	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	1157	(1)
Langston Hughes
On Being Brought from Africa to America	1158	(1)
Phyllis Wheatley
Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley	1158	(1)
June Jordan
Africa	1159	(1)
Maya Angelou
A Far Cry from Africa	1159	(1)
Derek Walcott
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra	1160	(2)
Ishmael Reed
Advice to a First Cousin	1162	(1)
Alberto Alvaro Rios
Jacklight	1163	(2)
Louise Erdrich
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1164	(1)
Cultural and Historical Context	1165	(38)
Emmett Till	1166	(1)
James A. Emanuel
Channel Firing	1167	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal	1168	(4)
Sandra Gilbert
Times, Places, and Events	1172	(1)
Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS	1172	(1)
Miller Williams
From Colony to Nation	1172	(1)
Irving Layton
Welcome to Hiroshima	1173	(1)
Mary Jo Salter
America	1174	(1)
Claude McKay
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)	1175	(1)
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass	1175	(1)
Robert Hayden
Boy on a Swing	1176	(1)
Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
Casabianca	1176	(1)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Casabianca	1177	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Dulce et Decorum Est	1178	(1)
Wilfred Owen
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	1179	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Ballad of Birmingham	1179	(1)
Dudley Randall
Punishment	1180	(2)
Seamus Heaney
Constructing Identity, Exploring Gender	1182	(1)
Exchanging Hats	1182	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Practicing	1183	(1)
Marie Howe
Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	1184	(1)
Richard Lovelace
Disabled	1184	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess	1185	(2)
A Woman's Last Word	1187	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To George Sand---A Desire	1188	(1)
To George Sand---A Recognition	1189	(1)
Tu Do Street	1189	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
She	1190	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Written the First Year I Was Marry'd	1191	(1)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?	1192	(1)
Marge Piercy
Paper Matches	1192	(1)
Paulette Jiles
When I Was Fair and Young	1193	(1)
Elizabeth
L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey	1193	(1)
Katherine Philips
Edna St. Vincent Millay
[Women have loved before as I love now]	1194	(1)
[I, being born a woman and distressed]	1194	(1)
[Who would divorce her lover...]	1195	(1)
Marilyn Hacker
The Lonely Wife	1195	(1)
Amy Lowell
The Silence of Women	1196	(1)
Liz Rosenberg
The Changeling	1197	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Washing-Day	1198	(2)
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Venison	1200	(1)
Karen Chase
A Blank	1200	(3)
Thom Gunn
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1201	(2)
Critical Contexts: A Poetry Casebook	1203	(32)
Daddy	1205	(30)
Sylvia Plath
Dying Is an Art	1208	(3)
George Steiner
The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent	1211	(1)
Irving Howe
Sylvia Plath	1212	(3)
A. Alvarez
Rituals of Exorcism: ``Daddy''	1215	(3)
Judith Kroll
From Protean Poetic	1218	(3)
Mary Lynn Broe
From A Feminine Tradition	1221	(2)
Margaret Homans
From A Disturbance in Mirrors	1223	(3)
Pamela J. Annas
Jealous Gods	1226	(9)
Steven Gould Axelrod
Evaluating Poetry	1235	(14)
[Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame]	1238	(1)
William Shakespeare
Song	1239	(3)
John Donne
Street Funeral	1242	(1)
Irving Layton
In Memory of Jane Fraser	1242	(1)
Geoffrey Hill
Blackberry Eating	1243	(1)
Galway Kinnell
[The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]	1243	(1)
Emily Dickinson
To Emily Dickinson	1244	(1)
Hart Crane
Anecdote of the Jar	1244	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	1245	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens	1245	(1)
Michael Ondaatje
Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds	1246	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Revolutionary Petunias	1247	(2)
Alice Walker
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1248	(1)
Reading More Poetry	1249	(83)
As I Walked Out One Evening	1249	(1)
W. H. Auden
The Tyger	1250	(1)
William Blake
Gwendolyn Brooks
To the Diaspora	1251	(1)
The Coora Flower	1252	(1)
Kubla Khan	1252	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson
[Because I could not stop for Death---]	1254	(1)
[I reckon---when I count at all---]	1254	(1)
[I stepped from Plank to Plank]	1255	(1)
[It dropped so low---in my Regard---]	1255	(1)
[My life closed twice before its close---]	1256	(1)
[We do not play on Graves---]	1256	(1)
[She dealt her pretty words like Blades---]	1256	(1)
John Donne
The Canonization	1257	(1)
[Death, be not proud, though some have called thee]	1258	(1)
The Sun Rising	1258	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	1259	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sympathy	1260	(1)
We Wear the Mask	1261	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi	1261	(2)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1263	(3)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken	1266	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1267	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California	1267	(1)
Velocity of Money	1268	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	1269	(3)
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
The Convergence of the Twain	1272	(2)
The Darkling Thrush	1274	(1)
During Wind and Rain	1275	(1)
Neutral Tones	1275	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur	1276	(1)
The Windhover	1276	(1)
Langston Hughes
I, Too	1277	(1)
Theme for English B	1278	(1)
Heirloom	1279	(1)
A. M. Klein
Skunk Hour	1279	(2)
Robert Lowell
Andrew Marvell
The Garden	1281	(2)
The Mower, against Gardens	1283	(1)
Lycidas	1284	(5)
John Milton
Sharon Olds
I Go Back to May 1937	1289	(1)
The Lifting	1290	(1)
The Glass	1290	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Barren Woman	1291	(1)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather	1292	(1)
Lady Lazarus	1293	(2)
Ezra Pound
The Garden	1295	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	1295	(1)
A Virginal	1295	(1)
I Knew a Woman	1296	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Wallace Stevens
The Idea of Order at Key West	1297	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	1298	(1)
Sunday Morning	1299	(3)
Lord Tennyson
Alfred
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	1302	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	1302	(1)
Tithonus	1303	(1)
Ulysses	1304	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill	1306	(1)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	1307	(1)
Song of the Son	1308	(1)
Jean Toomer
Walt Whitman
Facing West from California's Shores	1309	(1)
I Hear America Singing	1309	(1)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	1310	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed	1310	(6)
Richard Wilbur
Museum Piece	1316	(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	1317	(1)
Transit	1318	(1)
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798	1318	(4)
William Wordsworth
W. B. Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	1322	(1)
All Things Can Tempt Me	1322	(1)
Easter 1916	1323	(2)
The Second Coming	1325	(1)
Leda and the Swan	1326	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	1326	(1)
Among School Children	1327	(3)
Byzantium	1330	(2)
Drama
Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing	1332	(27)
Trifles	1335	(11)
Susan Glaspell
Sure Thing	1346	(13)
David Ives
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1355	(1)
Student Writing: Caryl Zook, Trifles	1356	(3)
Understanding the Text	1359	(249)
Character	1359	(3)
Structure	1362	(1)
Stages, Sets, and Setting	1363	(2)
Tone	1365	(1)
Theme	1366	(1)
The Children's Hour	1367	(51)
Lillian Hellman
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1416	(2)
Pygmalion	1418	(75)
Bernard Shaw
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1491	(2)
A Doll House	1493	(53)
Henrik Ibsen
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1544	(2)
The Piano Lesson	1546	(62)
August Wilson
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1607	(1)
Exploring Contexts	1608	(454)
The Author's Work as Context: William Shakespeare	1608	(167)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1614	(56)
Hamlet	1670	(105)
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1770	(2)
Student Writing: Jeanette Sperhac, The Play's the Thing: Deception in Hamlet	1772	(3)
Literary Context: Tragedy and Comedy	1775	(90)
Oedipus the King	1778	(41)
Sophocles
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1818	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	1819	(46)
Oscar Wilde
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1864	(1)
Culture as Context: Social and Historical Setting	1865	(144)
A Raisin in the Sun	1869	(66)
Lorraine Hansberry
Questions/Writing Suggestions	1934	(1)
Death of a Salesman	1935	(74)
Arthur Miller
Questions/Writing Suggestions	2004	(2)
Student Writing: Sherry Schnake Dream of a Salesman	2006	(3)
Critical Contexts: A Drama Casebook	2009	(53)
Antigone	2012	(50)
Sophocles
From The Antigone of Sophocles	2045	(1)
Richard C. Jebb
From Sophoclean Tragedy	2046	(2)
Maurice Bowra
Introduction to Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays	2048	(5)
Bernard Knox
From The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy	2053	(4)
Martha C. Nussbaum
From Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays	2057	(2)
Rebecca W. Bushnell
From Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics	2059	(3)
Mary Whitlock Blundell
Evaluating Drama	2062	(9)
A Streetcar Named Desire	2071	(68)
Tennessee Williams
The Cherry Orchard	2139	(38)
Anton Chekhov
How I Learned to Drive	2177
Paula Vogel
Appendices Writing about Literature	A3
Introduction	A3
Representing the Literary Text	A4
Replying to the Text	A7
Explaining the Text	A10
Critical Approaches	A18
Writing About Fiction, Poetry, Drama	A28
Deciding What to Write About	A33
From Topic to Rough Draft	A37
From Rough Draft to Completed Paper	A42
A Summary of The Process	A51
Glossary	A53
Biographical Sketches	A64
Permissions Acknowledgments	A103
Index of Authors	A119
Index of Titles and First Lines	A129