The Riverside Anthology of Literature

by Hunt, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780395760703
• ISBN10: 0395760704
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-24
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

For composition and introduction to literature courses, The Riverside Anthology of Literature has long been praised for its rich variety of selections, its interwoven commentary, its eloquent editorial prose, its unobtrusive apparatus, and its organizational flexibility. To acquaint students quickly with the specific qualities of a genre, each section now opens with six short selections that focus on a particular theme for easy comparison and contrast.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY
Fiction: Tales and Portraits	4	(18)
A Mini-Anthology of Initiation Stories	22	(13)
Leslie Norris (b. 1921)
Blackberries	22	(4)
Jayne Anne Phillips (b. 1952)
Cheers	26	(1)
James Joyce (1882--1941)
Araby	27	(5)
Barry Yourgrau (b. 1949)
By the Creek	32	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)
Girl	33	(2)
Chronological Anthology	35	(522)
Jacob (1785--1863) and Wilhelm (1786--1859) Grimm
The Juniper Tree	35	(7)
On the Truth in Fairy Tales	42	(1)
Randall Jarell:
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
The Birthmark	43	(13)
On Pushing Outward Toward Mystery	56	(1)
Flannery O'Connor:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
The Tell-Tale Heart	57	(4)
On Unity in the Tale	61	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville (1819--1891)
Bartleby the Scrivener	62	(28)
Gustave Flaubert (1821--1880)
A Simple Heart	90	(26)
On Flaubert's Use of Setting	116	(1)
Flannery O'Connor
Henry James (1843--1916)
The Middle Years	116	(16)
On Limiting the Protagonist's Insight	132	(1)
Henry James
Guy de Maupassant (1850--1893)
The Necklace	133	(7)
On the Conflict Between Realism and Art	140	(1)
Guy De Maupassant
Kate Chopin (1851--1904)
Desiree's Baby	140	(5)
Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)
The Lady with the Pet Dog	145	(13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper	158	(13)
On Her Own ``Nervous Prostration''	171	(1)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton (1862--1937)
Roman Fever	172	(10)
On Crowding Moral Drama into a Short Story	182	(1)
Edith Wharton
James Joyce (1882--1941)
The Dead	183	(31)
Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)
Solid Objects	214	(5)
On Her Rejection of Traditional Fiction	219	(1)
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka (1883--1924)
A Hunger Artist	220	(7)
On Realism in Fantasy	227	(1)
Flannery O'Connor
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
The Blind Man	228	(15)
On the Truths of the Body	243	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	244	(7)
On Memory	251	(1)
Katherine Anne Porter
On Porter's Break with Surface Realism	252	(1)
Eudora Welty
William Faulkner (1897--1962)
A Rose for Emily	253	(7)
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)
Soldier's Home	260	(6)
Two Comments on Being a Writer	266	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck (1902--1968)
The Chrysanthemums	267	(9)
Zora Neale Hurston (1903--1960)
Spunk	276	(5)
Richard Wright (1908--1960)
Big Black Good Man	281	(10)
Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
Livvie	291	(11)
On the Addition of Meaning to Experience	302	(1)
Eudora Welty
Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
The Catch	303	(10)
Jose Donoso (b. 1924)
Paseo	313	(13)
James Baldwin (1924--1987)
Sonny's Blues	326	(25)
On Baldwin's Sadness	351	(1)
Chinua Achebe
Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	352	(13)
The Meaning of the Misfit's Final Comment on the Grandmother	365	(1)
*Michael Wickey
Yukio Mishima (1925--1970)
Swaddling Clothes	366	(5)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	371	(5)
On Matter-of-Factness in the Fantasy	376	(2)
Gabriel Garcea Marquez
Alice Munro (b. 1930)
Circle of Prayer	378	(15)
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
Girls at War	393	(11)
Fulfillment Rather than Self-Gratification	404	(1)
Chinua Achebe
Edna O'Brien (b. 1932)
Sister Imelda	405	(15)
Raymond Carver (1938--1988)
Cathedral	420	(12)
How Memories Find Their Way into Stories	432	(1)
Raymond Carver
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	433	(14)
Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939)
The Lesson	447	(6)
Wholesomeness Versus Hatred	453	(1)
Toni Cade Bambara
Joseph Bruchac III (b. 1942)
Turtle Meat	454	(6)
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
Shiloh	460	(12)
On the Way Stories Grow from Nuggets	472	(1)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use	473	(8)
Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's ``Everyday Use''	481	(1)
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Charlotte Pierce-Baker
Thom Jones (b. 1945)
The Pugilist at Rest	482	(14)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
Snares	496	(8)
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
Woman Hollering Creek	504	(9)
On Fairy Tales, Myths, and Stories	513	(1)
Sandra Cisneros
Ethan Canin (b. 1960)
Emperor of the Air	514	(11)
David Leavitt (b. 1961)
Territory	525	(15)
On the Importance of Seeing Oneself in Stories	540	(4)
David Leavitt
POETRY ANTHOLOGY
Poetry: Opposition and Ripples	544	(13)
A Mini-Anthology of Poetry	557	(15)
Imagery
Matsuo Basho (1644--1694)
The voice has wholly	557	(1)
Kaga no Chiyo (1703--1775)
Morning glories	557	(1)
Kohyo
The stick that strikes at it	558	(1)
Kobayashi Issa (1763--1827)
A butterfly, a child	558	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
In a Station of the Metro	558	(1)
H. D. (1886--1961)
Evening	558	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow	559	(1)
Comparison
May Swenson (1919--1989)
How Everything Happens	560	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1963)
The Snow that never drifts---	561	(1)
Kofi Awoonor (b. 1934)
The Weaver Bird	561	(1)
Diction
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)
Bitch	562	(1)
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)
Beach Glass	563	(1)
Dennis Brutus (b. 1924)
Nightsong: City	564	(1)
Sound
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)
Upon Julia's Voice	565	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)
Come Down, O Maid	565	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1913)
Arms and the Boy	566	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)
Those Winter Sundays	567	(1)
Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939)
Hoop Dancer	567	(1)
Tone
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
Recuerdo	568	(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
Provide, Provide	569	(1)
Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)
Telephone Conversation	569	(2)
Olga Broumas (b. 1949)
Cinderella	571	(1)
Chronological Anthology	572	(429)
Po Chu-I (772--846)
In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight	572	(1)
Watching the Reapers	573	(1)
An Early Levee	574	(1)
Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain	574	(1)
Pruning Trees	575	(1)
Rising Late and Playing with A-Ts'ui, Aged Two	575	(1)
On His Baldness	576	(1)
To the Shade of Po Chu-i	577	(1)
William Carlos Williams
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of the Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor	577	(1)
James Wright
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
Sonnet 55: Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments	578	(1)
Sonnet 65: Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea	579	(1)
Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold	579	(1)
Sonnet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False of Heart	580	(1)
Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth	580	(1)
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?	581	(1)
Come Away, Come Away, Death	581	(1)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	581	(2)
On the Separation of Poetry and Thought	583	(1)
A. E. Housman
John Donne (1572--1631)
The Relic	583	(1)
The Canonization	584	(2)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	586	(1)
The Good-Morrow	587	(1)
The Flea	587	(1)
Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee	588	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God	588	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	589	(1)
On Wit Versus Poetry	590	(1)
A. E. Houseman
On Intellectual Versus Reflective Poetry	591	(1)
T. S. Eliot
John Milton (1608--1674)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	592	(1)
On the Late Massacre at Piedmont	592	(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	593	(1)
from Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 399--548, 994--1189	593	(9)
On the Sound of Milton's Poetry	602	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)
Eyes and Tears	604	(2)
The Definition of Love	606	(1)
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body	607	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	608	(2)
Bermudas	610	(1)
You, Andrew Marvell	611	(2)
Archibald Macleish
William Blake (1757--1827)
The Lamb	613	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	613	(1)
The Little Black Boy	614	(1)
The Tyger	615	(1)
The Sick Rose	616	(1)
A Poison Tree	616	(1)
London	616	(1)
Auguries of Innocence	616	(4)
And Did Those Feet	620	(1)
On Blake's Revolt Against Intellect	621	(1)
A. E. Housman
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
Tintern Abbey	622	(4)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways	626	(1)
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known	626	(1)
There Was a Boy	627	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	628	(1)
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	629	(1)
Resolution and Independence	629	(4)
My Heart Leaps Up	633	(1)
Please Whom?	634	(1)
William Wordsworth
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings	635	(1)
William Wordsworth
John Keats (1795--1821)
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be	636	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	636	(1)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	637	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	639	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	641	(2)
To Autumn	643	(1)
To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime	644	(2)
Countee Cullen
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)
Mariana	646	(2)
The Kraken	648	(1)
Ulysses	648	(2)
Break, Break, Break	650	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	650	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	651	(1)
In Memoriam Sections 2, 7, 11, 20, 39	652	(2)
The Eagle	654	(1)
Crossing the Bar	654
On Tennyson as an ``Instinctive Rebel''	652	(4)
T. S. Eliot
Robert Browning (1812--1889)
My Last Duchess	656	(2)
Meeting at Night	658	(1)
Parting at Morning	658	(1)
Fra Lippo Lippi	659	(9)
Two in the Campagna	668	(3)
Browning's New Literary Form	671	(2)
Samuel Silas Curry
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
Song of Myself, Section 5	673	(1)
The Wound-Dresser	674	(2)
When I Heard the Learn's Astronomer	676	(1)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	677	(1)
To a Locomotive in Winter	677	(2)
A Supermarket in California	679	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Baudelaire (1821--1867)
To the Reader	680	(1)
Correspondences	681	(1)
By Association	681	(1)
The King of the Rainy Country	682	(1)
The Little Old Women	682	(4)
On the Future of the Middle Class	686	(1)
Charles Baudelaire
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
I Like a Look of Agony	687	(1)
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	687	(1)
Of Bronze---and Blaze---	687	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society---	688	(1)
What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---	688	(1)
I Died for Beauty---But Was Scarce	689	(1)
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up	689	(1)
The Heart Asks Pleasure---First---	690	(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death---	690	(1)
My Life Had Stood---A Loaded Gun---	691	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass]	691	(1)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close---	692	(1)
On Dickinson's Religion	693	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)
In an Artist's Studio	694	(1)
Song	695	(1)
L.E.L.	695	(1)
Good Friday	696	(1)
Life and Death	697	(1)
By the Sea	697	(1)
``They Desire a Better Country''	698	(1)
Passing and Glassing	699	(1)
On the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood	700	(2)
*Jennifer Beckman
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)
The Windhover	702	(1)
Pied Beauty	702	(1)
God's Grandeur	703	(1)
The Sea and the Skylark	703	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	704	(1)
On Poetic Cataloguing	705	(1)
Richard Wilbur
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	706	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	706	(1)
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff	707	(2)
Is My Team Ploughing	709	(1)
On Moonlit Heath	710	(1)
Could Man Be Drunk for Ever	711	(1)
When First My Way	711	(1)
Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall	712	(1)
On the Physical Effect of Poetry	712	(1)
A. E. Housman
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	713	(1)
The Folly of Being Comforted	713	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	714	(1)
The Scholars	715	(1)
The Cat and the Moon	715	(1)
The Second Coming	716	(1)
Leda and the Swan	716	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	717	(1)
Among School Children	718	(2)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	720	(1)
On a New Religion	721	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)
Richard Cory	722	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	722	(1)
Eros Turannos	723	(1)
The Mill	724	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	725	(2)
The Sheaves	727	(1)
On Robinson's Humor	727	(1)
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
Home Burial	728	(3)
The Wood-Pile	731	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	732	(1)
Birches	733	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	734	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	734	(1)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	735	(1)
Departmental	735	(2)
The Gift Outright	737	(1)
Saying One Thing in Terms of Another	738	(1)
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)
Sunday Morning	739	(3)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	742	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	742	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	743	(1)
Study of Two Pears	743	(1)
Page from a Tale	744	(2)
On Stevens's Sense of Wonder	746	(1)
Randall Jarrell
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
Queen-Ann's Lace	747	(1)
The Botticellian Trees	748	(1)
This Is Just to Say	749	(1)
To a Poor Old Woman	749	(1)
Young Woman at the Window	749	(1)
The Yellow Flower	750	(2)
Three Comments on Poetry	752	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
Poetry	753	(1)
Silence	754	(1)
The Fish	755	(1)
Peter	756	(1)
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks	757	(1)
Elephants	758	(3)
Marianne Moore Visits the Circus	761	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	762	(3)
Preludes	765	(2)
Journey of the Magi	767	(1)
Animula	768	(1)
The Hollow Men	769	(3)
On Monotony in Eliot	772	(1)
William Butler Yeats
On Eliot's Personality	773	(1)
Robert Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
Spring	774	(1)
Justice Denied in Massachusetts	775	(1)
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink	776	(1)
From a Train Window	776	(1)
The Oak-Leaves	777	(1)
Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies	777	(1)
Modern Declaration	778	(1)
An Ancient Gesture	779	(1)
On Millay's Strengths and Weaknesses	780	(1)
Louise Bogan
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
All in green went my love riding	781	(1)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	782	(1)
in Just-	782	(1)
Buffalo Bill's	783	(1)
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond	783	(1)
i sing of Olaf glad and big	784	(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	785	(1)
On Cummings's Breaking of Taboos	786	(1)
Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)
Medusa	787	(1)
The Engine	787	(1)
To My Brother	788	(1)
Come, Break with Time	789	(1)
The Dream	789	(1)
Evening in the Sanitarium	790	(1)
Zone	790	(1)
The Dragonfly	791	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	792	(1)
Epilogue	792	(1)
Afro-American Fragment	793	(1)
Harlem Sweeties	794	(1)
Theme for English B	795	(1)
Harlem	796	(1)
Same in Blues	796	(2)
Hughes's Overemphasis on Race	798	(1)
Countee Cullen
Race and Poetry	799	(1)
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)
Incident	800	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	800	(1)
Heritage	801	(3)
For a Poet	804	(1)
Black Majesty	804	(1)
Pablo Neruda (1904--1973)
Here I Love You	805	(1)
Ritual of My Legs	806	(2)
Horses	808	(1)
Love	809	(1)
Sweetness, Always	810	(1)
Love Sonnet VI	811	(1)
The Danger	812	(1)
On Neruda's Imagination	813	(1)
Robert Bly
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts	814	(1)
The Sphinx	815	(1)
The Unknown Citizen	815	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	816	(2)
Spain, 1937	818	(3)
Luther	821	(1)
Voltaire at Ferney	821	(1)
The Shield of Achilles	822	(2)
The Old and the New Masters	824	(2)
Randall Jarell
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)
My Papa's Waltz	826	(1)
Big Wind	827	(1)
Root Cellar	827	(1)
Child on Top of a Greenhouse	828	(1)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze	828	(1)
I Knew a Woman	829	(1)
What Do I Like?	830	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)
The Prodigal	831	(1)
Filling Station	832	(1)
The Armadillo	833	(1)
Questions of Travel	834	(2)
In the Waiting Room	836	(2)
Crusoe in England	838	(4)
One Art	842	(2)
On Bishop as a Teacher	844	(1)
Dana Gioia
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)
The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner	845	(1)
The Snow-Leopard	846	(1)
Nestus Gurley	846	(2)
Field and Forest	848	(2)
In Montecito	850	(1)
Composing a Poem	851	(6)
Randall Jarrell
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	857	(1)
The Hunchback in the Park	858	(1)
Poem in October	859	(2)
Over Sir John's Hill	861	(1)
Poem on His Birthday	862	(3)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	865	(1)
On Thomas's ``Drunken Poetry''	866	(1)
William Carlos Williams
John Berryman (1914--1972)
The Ball Poem	867	(1)
Sonnet 25	868	(1)
Dream Song 1	868	(1)
Dream Song 4	869	(1)
Dream Song 14	869	(1)
Henry's Understanding	870	(1)
On the Origins of ``Winter Landscape''	871	(2)
John Berryman
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner	873	(1)
We Real Cool	873	(1)
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock	874	(2)
The Blackstone Rangers	876	(2)
Riot	878	(1)
The Chicago Picasso	879	(1)
On Her Belated Discovery of Black Identity	880	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
The Drunken Fisherman	881	(1)
Waking in the Blue	882	(1)
For the Union Dead	883	(2)
Night Sweat	885	(1)
The Neo-Classical Urn	886	(1)
Epilogue	887	(2)
On the Advantages of Prose	889	(1)
Robert Lowell
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Praise in Summer	889	(1)
The Death of a Toad	889	(1)
Still, Citizen Sparrow	890	(1)
After the Last Bulletins	891	(1)
The Undead	892	(1)
Cottage Street, 1953	893	(1)
Mixed Feelings, Clashing Ideas, and Incongruous Images	894	(3)
Richard Wilbur
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	897	(1)
Love in the Museum	898	(1)
Two Songs	898	(1)
Orion	899	(2)
Gabriel	901	(1)
Planetarium	902	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	903	(3)
On Writing as a Female Poet	906	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
A Far Cry from Africa	908	(1)
Tarpon	909	(1)
Crusoe's Journal	910	(2)
Crusoe's Island	912	(3)
Homecoming: Anse La Raye	915	(2)
The Sea Is History	917	(3)
On Walcott's Struggle with the Postcard Image	920	(1)
Rita Dove
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather	921	(1)
Medallion	922	(1)
Tulips	923	(1)
The Arrival of the Bee Box	924	(1)
Cut	925	(2)
Daddy	927	(2)
Lady Lazarus	929	(3)
On Plath's Last and First Poems	932	(1)
Robert Lowell
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
The Lost Baby Poem	933	(1)
God's Mood	933	(1)
She Understands Me	934	(1)
There Is a Girl Inside	934	(1)
For the Mute	935	(1)
For the Lame	935	(1)
To Joan	935	(1)
Perhaps	936	(1)
On Strength Gotten from Others	937	(1)
Lucille Clifton
On Connection and Disconnection in Clifton's Poems	938	(1)
*Jill Oliver
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Mid-Term Break	939	(1)
Digging	940	(1)
The Outlaw	941	(1)
Punishment	942	(1)
Casualty	943	(3)
Robert Hass (b. 1941)
Palo Alto: The Marshes	946	(3)
Heroic Simile	949	(1)
Meditation at Lagunitas	950	(1)
Santa Lucia	951	(2)
Old Dominion	953	(1)
Weed	954	(1)
The World Repeats Itself	955	(1)
Robert Hass
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
The Elder Sister	956	(1)
The Victims	957	(1)
Bathing the Newborn	957	(1)
The Race	958	(1)
Summer Solstice, New York City	959	(1)
The Chute	960	(2)
The Machinery That Grinds in ``Summer Solstice''	962	(2)
*Kevin Klingbeil
Louise Gluck (b. 1943)
For My Mother	964	(1)
The Apple Trees	964	(1)
Metamorphosis	965	(1)
Horse	966	(1)
A Fantasy	967	(1)
Widows	968	(1)
On Change and Loss	969	(1)
Louise Gluck
Rita Dove (b. 1951)
Banneker	970	(1)
Daystar	971	(1)
The Satisfaction Coal Company	972	(1)
Crab-Boil	973	(1)
Horse and Tree	974	(1)
Ars Poetica	974	(1)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1959)
From Blossoms	975	(1)
My Sleeping Loved Ones	976	(2)
Ash, Snow, or Moonlight	978	(1)
Epistle	979	(1)
Arise, Go Down	980	(1)
A Final Thing	981	(5)
DRAMA ANTHOLOGY
Drama: The Space in Which Words Are Spoken	986	(15)
A Mini-Anthology of One-Scene Plays	1001	(44)
Athol Fugard (b. 1932)
The Drummer	1002	(1)
Jane Martin
Twirler	1003	(2)
Cassandra Medley
Waking Women	1005	(8)
Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)
Krapp's Last Tape	1013	(7)
August Strindberg (1849--1912)
The Stronger	1020	(6)
Wendy Wasserstein (b. 1950)
Tender Offer	1026	(6)
Susan Glaspell (1882--1948)
Trifles	1032	(13)
Chronological Anthology	1045	(527)
Sophocles (496--406 B.C.)
Oedipus the King	1045	(55)
On Reversal, Recognition, and Calamity in Tragedy	1100	(2)
Aristotle
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice	1102	(94)
On Joy in Tragedy	1196	(1)
Arthur Miller
Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)
The Cherry Orchard	1197	(44)
On Lopakhin and His Motives	1241	(2)
*Ardita Maluka
Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
Death of a Salesman	1243	(81)
On Personal Dignity and Tragedy	1324	(2)
Arthur Miller
Maria Irene Fornes (b. 1930)
Fefu and Her Friends	1326	(35)
Athol Fugard (b. 1932)
``Master Harold'' ... and the Boys	1361	(39)
A Memory That Underlies the Play	1400	(2)
Athol Fugard
Sam Shepard (b. 1943)
True West	1402	(50)
August Wilson (b. 1945)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	1452	(58)
On His Image of the Black Tragic Hero	1510	(1)
August Wilson
Beth Henley (b. 1952)
Crimes of the Heart	1511	(58)
On Henley's Credibility	1569	(1)
John Simon
On Henley's Lack of Credibility	1569	(3)
Walter Kerr
Handbook of Literature	1572	(11)
Writing About Literature	1583	(24)
Biographical Sketches	1607	(20)
Acknowledgments	1627	(6)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry	1633	(16)
Index of Literary Terms	1649