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