The Norton Introduction to Literature

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

• ISBN13: 9780393928563
• ISBN10: 039392856X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Norton's acclaimed introductory anthology in a compact, easy-to-carry format. The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Edition, offers a balanced selection of classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in a brief and affordable format. Designed to accommodate a wide range of teaching styles and needs, this inviting introduction includes helpful annotation and pedagogy, student writing samples, and rich multimedia resources.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(1)
Why Literature Matters	1	(2)
``The Canon''	3	(1)
What Is Literature?	4	(1)
Thinking Critically about Literature	5	(7)
Fiction
Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing	12	(45)
The Elephant in the Village of the Blind	13	(2)
Anonymous
20/20	15	(6)
Linda Brewer
Cathedral	21	(11)
Raymond Carver
A Conversation With My Father	32	(5)
Grace Paley
Flight Patterns	37	(16)
Sherman Alexie
Student Writing: Nina Sullivan, The Heart of Storytelling in ``A Conversation with My Father'' and ``Flight Patterns''	53	(4)
Understanding the Text	57	(250)
Plot	57	(49)
The Country Husband	62	(19)
John Cheever
Sonny's Blues	81	(25)
James Baldwin
Narration and Point of View	106	(13)
The Cask of Amontillado	108	(6)
Edgar Allan Poe
Hills Like White Elephants	114	(5)
Ernest Hemingway
Character	119	(46)
Why I Live at the P.O.	123	(10)
Eudora Welty
Bartleby, the Scrivener	133	(29)
Herman Melville
Student Writing: Bethany Qualls, Character and Narration in ``Cathedral''	162	(3)
Setting	165	(30)
A Pair of Tickets	166	(15)
Amy Tan
The Lady with the Dog	181	(14)
Anton Chekhov
Symbol	195	(20)
Young Goodman Brown	197	(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Hunger Artist	207	(8)
Franz Kafka
Theme	215	(22)
A Souvenir of Japan	217	(7)
Angela Carter
The Management of Grief	224	(13)
Bharati Mukherjee
The Whole Text	237	(70)
The Secret Sharer	237	(32)
Joseph Conrad
Love Medicine	269	(17)
Louise Erdrich
The Open Boat	286	(21)
Stephen Crane
Reading More Fiction	307	(80)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	307	(7)
Ambrose Bierce
The Story of an Hour	314	(2)
Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wallpaper	316	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Araby	328	(4)
James Joyce
Odour of Chrysanthemums	332	(15)
D. H. Lawrence
Flowering Judas	347	(9)
Katherine Anne Porter
A Rose for Emily	356	(7)
William Faulkner
The Use of Force	363	(3)
William Carlos Williams
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket	366	(3)
Yasunari Kawabata
A Good Man is Hard to Find	369	(11)
Flannery O'Connor
Gorilla, My Love	380	(5)
Toni Cade Bambara
Girl	385	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
Biographical Sketches: Fiction Writers	387	(11)
Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing	398	(18)
Reading	399	(4)
How Do I Love Thee?	399	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Tally Stick	400	(2)
Jarold Ramsey
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	402	(1)
Ezra Pound
Responding	403	(7)
On My First Son	404	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Vacuum	405	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Mid-Term Break	406	(1)
Seamus Heaney
The Fury of Overshoes	407	(3)
Anne Sexton
Writing About Poems	410	(1)
Practicing Reading: Some Poems on Love	411	(5)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone	411	(1)
W. H. Auden
To My Dear and Loving Husband	411	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
Let me not to the marriage of true minds	412	(1)
William Shakespeare
On Her Loving Two Equally	412	(1)
Aphra Behn
To the Ladies	413	(1)
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
A Last Confession	414	(2)
W. B. Yeats
Understanding the Text	416	(144)
Tone	416	(10)
Barbie Doll	416	(1)
Marge Piercy
Leaving the Motel	417	(2)
W. D. Snodgrass
In Time of Plague	419	(2)
Thom Gunn
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	421	(1)
Etheridge Knight
London	422	(2)
William Blake
Woodchucks	424	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	425	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Many Tones: Poems About Family Relationships	426	(5)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	426	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Those Winter Sundays	427	(1)
Robert Hayden
The Clock	427	(1)
Daniel Tobin
Postcard from Kashmir	428	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali
Alzheimer's	429	(2)
Kelly Cherry
Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear?	431	(15)
The Ruined Maid	431	(2)
Thomas Hardy
Death of a Young Son by Drowning	433	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	434	(3)
Robert Browning
Sudden Journey	437	(1)
Tess Gallagher
A Certain Lady	438	(1)
Dorothy Parker
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	439	(1)
William Wordsworth
They Flee From Me	440	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
To a Louse	441	(2)
Robert Burns
Women have loved before. . .	443	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman. . .	443	(1)
We Real Cool	444	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
I celebrate myself, and sing myself	444	(2)
Walt Whitman
Situation and Setting: What Happens? Where? When?	446	(9)
Cherrylog Road	447	(3)
James Dickey
The Flea	450	(2)
John Donne
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	452	(2)
John Milton
Dover Beach	454	(1)
Matthew Arnold
Situations	455	(4)
The Night-Wind	455	(1)
Emily Bronte
To His Coy Mistress	456	(2)
Andrew Marvell
A Way of Life	458	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Times	459	(2)
Full many a glorious morning have I seen	459	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Good-Morrow	460	(1)
John Donne
Morning Song	460	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Places	461	(4)
In Westminster Abbey	461	(2)
John Betjeman
Midsummer	463	(1)
Derek Walcott
A Map of the City	463	(2)
Thom Gunn
Language	465	(1)
Precision and Ambiguity	465	(6)
The golf links lie so near the mill	465	(1)
Sarah Cleghorn
At the San Francisco Airport	466	(2)
Yvor Winters
Slim Cunning Hands	468	(1)
Walter de la Mare
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	469	(1)
Emily Dickinson
My Papa's Waltz	470	(1)
Theodore Roethke
[I dwell in Possibility---]	471	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Red Wheelbarrow	472	(3)
William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say	472	(1)
Pied Beauty	473	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[in Just-]	473	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Still to Be Neat	474	(1)
Ben Jonson
Delight in Disorder	475	(1)
Robert Herrick
Picturing: The Languages of Description	475	(6)
Symphony in Yellow	477	(1)
Oscar Wilde
The Beautiful Changes	478	(1)
Richard Wilbur
To Paint a Water Lily	478	(1)
Ted Hughes
On a Drop of Dew	479	(2)
Andrew Marvell
Metaphor and Simile	481	(9)
That time of year thou mayst in me behold	481	(2)
William Shakespeare
Marks	483	(1)
Linda Pastan
A Red, Red Rose	484	(1)
Robert Burns
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	485	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Twenty-third Psalm	486	(1)
Anonymous
Batter my heart, three-personed God	486	(1)
John Donne
The Computation	487	(1)
The Canonization	487	(2)
At the Hospital	489	(1)
David Ferry
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	489	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	489	(1)
Francis William Bourdillon
[Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]	490	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Symbol	490	(11)
Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941	491	(2)
Sharon Olds
Song	493	(1)
Edmund Waller
I Am Like a Rose	494	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
One Perfect Rose	494	(1)
Dorothy Parker
The Sick Rose	495	(1)
William Blake
Fireflies in the Garden	496	(1)
Robert Frost
Diving into the Wreck	497	(2)
Adrienne Rich
After a Death	499	(2)
Roo Borson
The Sounds of Poetry	501	(19)
The Word Plum	501	(1)
Helen Chasin
Dirge	502	(3)
Kenneth Fearing
Sound and Sense	505	(4)
Alexander Pope
Metrical Feet	509	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson	510	(1)
Wendy Cope
There was a young girl from St. Paul	510	(1)
Anonymous
Song	510	(1)
Sir John Suckling
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	511	(2)
John Dryden
The Raven	513	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore	516	(1)
William Shakespeare
Spring and Fall	517	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A narrow Fellow in the Grass	517	(1)
Emily Dickinson
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings	518	(1)
Thomas Campion
Homage to the Empress of the Blues	519	(1)
Robert Hayden
Internal Structure	520	(20)
Mr. Flood's Party	520	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Goose Fish	523	(2)
Howard Nemerov
Church Going	525	(3)
Philip Larkin
Sonrisas	528	(1)
Pat Mora
The Victims	529	(2)
Sharon Olds
Sir Patrick Spens	531	(2)
Anonymous
The Dance	533	(1)
William Carlos Williams
[The Wind begun to knead the Grass---]	533	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame	534	(1)
William Shakespeare
Ode to the West Wind	535	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	537	(3)
W. H. Auden
External Form	540	(3)
The Sonnet	543	(10)
Nuns Fret Not	544	(1)
William Wordsworth
My lady's presence makes the roses red	545	(1)
Henry Constable
A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument	546	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
On the Sonnet	547	(1)
John Keats
First Fight, Then Fiddle	548	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The New Colossus	548	(1)
Emma Lazarus
Range-Finding	549	(1)
Robert Frost
London, 1802	549	(1)
William Wordsworth
When I consider how my light is spent	550	(1)
John Milton
When our two souls stand up	550	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In an Artist's Studio	551	(1)
Christina Rossetti
What lips my lips have kissed	551	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In the Park	552	(1)
Gwen Harwood
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun	552	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet	553	(1)
Billy Collins
Stanza Forms	553	(7)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	555	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Poetry	555	(2)
Marianne Moore
Sestina	557	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Ars Poetica	558	(2)
Archibald MacLeish
The Whole Text	560	(11)
Delay	560	(2)
Elizabeth Jennings
Western Wind	562	(1)
Anonymous
Upon Julia's Clothes	563	(2)
Robert Herrick
Musee des Beaux Arts	565	(1)
W. H. Auden
The Collar	566	(1)
George Herbert
Design	567	(1)
Robert Frost
The Learned	568	(1)
Eden Phillpotts
[My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun--]	568	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.	569	(2)
Ben Jonson
Reading More Poetry	571	(65)
Africa	571	(1)
Maya Angelou
Exchanging Hats	572	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Lamb	573	(1)
William Blake
The Tyger	573	(1)
My Last Duchess	574	(1)
Robert Browning
Kubla Khan	575	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yet I Do I Marvel	577	(1)
Countee Cullen
[Because I could not stop for Death--]	577	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I stepped from Plank to Plank	578	(1)
[We do not play on Graves---]	578	(1)
[The Brain---is wider than the Sky---]	579	(18)
[She dealt her pretty words like Blades---]	597
Death, be not proud	580	(1)
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	580	(1)
Sympathy	581	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask	582	(1)
Journey of the Magi	582	(2)
T. S. Eliot
The Road Not Taken	584	(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	584	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	585	(3)
Thomas Gray
Tenebris	588	(1)
Angelina Grimke
Channel Firing	589	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Digging	590	(1)
Seamus Heaney
God's Grandeur	591	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover	591	(1)
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)	592	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	592	(1)
Come, my Celia, let us prove	593	(1)
Ben Jonson
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	594	(1)
John Keats
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	594	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	595	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	597	(2)
Blackberry Eating	599	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Skunk Hour	599	(2)
Robert Lowell
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	601	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Garden	601	(2)
Andrew Marvell
The Harlem Dancer	603	(1)
Claude McKay
The White House	604	(1)
Dulce et Decorum Est	604	(1)
Wilfrid Owen
Daddy	605	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus	607	(3)
In a Station of the Metro	610	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	610	(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	611	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Storm Warnings	612
Adrienne Rich
History	611	(2)
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments	613	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	614	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar	614	(1)
Sunday Morning	615	(3)
Tears, Idle Tears	618	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tithonus	619	(2)
Ulysses	621	(1)
Fern Hill	622	(2)
Dylan Thomas
A Far Cry from Africa	624	(1)
Derek Walcott
On Being Brought from Africa to America	625	(1)
Phyllis Wheatley
Facing West from California's Shores	625	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing	626	(1)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	626	(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	627	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798	628	(4)
William Wordsworth
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	632	(1)
W. B. Yeats
The Second Coming	632	(1)
Leda and the Swan	633	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	634	(2)
Biographical Sketches: Poets	636	(14)
Drama
Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing	650	(17)
Trifles	653	(14)
Susan Glaspell
Understanding the Text	667	(256)
Elements of Drama	667	(113)
Oedipus the King	676	(40)
Sophocles
The Piano Lesson	716	(64)
August Wilson
The Whole Text	780	(143)
The Cherry Orchard	783	(40)
Anton Chekhov
Hamlet	823	(100)
William Shakespeare
Reading More Drama	923	(190)
Death of a Salesman	923	(70)
Arthur Miller
A Doll House	993	(53)
Henrik Ibsen
A Raisin in the Sun	1046	(67)
Lorraine Hansberry
Biographical Sketches: Playwrights	1113	(3)
Writing About Literature	1116	(71)
Paraphrase, Summary, and Description	1116	(4)
The Elements of the Essay	1120	(10)
The Writing Process	1130	(14)
The Research Essay	1144	(17)
Quotation, Citation, and Documentation	1161	(14)
Sample Research Paper	1175	(12)
Critical Approaches	1187
Glossary	1	(10)
Permissions Acknowledgments	11	(10)
Index of Authors	21	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines	25