Introduction Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature * indicates a selection new to this edition Fiction Introduction to Fiction The Telling of the Tale The Short Story Genre Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction Nathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864) * Young Goodman Brown Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Cask of Amontillado Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) A White Heron Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) *The Necklace Kate Chopin (1851-1904) The Story of an Hour Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) The Yellow Wallpaper Willa Cather (1876-1947) Paul's Case James Joyce (1882-1941) Araby Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Sweat William Faulkner (1897-1962) A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) *Hills Like White Elephants Richard Wright (1908-1960) The Man Who Was Almost a Man John Cheever (1912-1982) Reunion Ralph Ellison (1914-1995) A Party Down at the Square Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) The Lottery Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) Seventeen Syllables Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) *Good Country People Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) Dead Men's Path *John Updike (1932-2009) *A & P Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Cathedral Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Happy Endings Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) Shiloh Alice Walker (b. 1944) Everyday Use *Amy Tan (b.1952) *Two Kinds Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) The Red Convertible *Rick Moody (b. 1961) *Boys Sherman Alexie This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona *Etgar Keret (b. 1967) *Creative Writing Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) A Temporary Matter Susan Perabo (b. 1969) The Payoff *Jill Patterson (b. 1972) *The Fires We Can't Control *Johnathan Safran Foer (b. 1977) * Here We Aren't, So Quickly Poetry Introduction to Poetry An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts Speaker, Listener, and Context The Star-Spangled Banner Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic The Language of Poetry Figurative Language Allegory and Symbol Tone of Voice Repetition: Sounds and Schemes Meter and Rhythm Free Verse and Open Form Stanza Forms Fixed Forms Literary History and Poetic Conventions Writing about Poetry Poetry Anonymous Western Wind Bonny Barbara Allan Sir Patrick Spens Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) They Flee from Me Whoso List to Hunt Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Amoretti: Sonnet 75 Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1 Robert Southwell (1561?-1595) The Burning Babe Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Idea: Sonnet 61 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnet 18 Sonnet 20 Sonnet 29 Sonnet 73 Sonnet 116 Sonnet 130 When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter) Thomas Campion (1567-1620) There Is a Garden in Her Face John Donne (1572-1631) The Flea Holy Sonnet 10 Holy Sonnet 14 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Ben Jonson (1573-1637) On My First Son Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?) In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn Robert Herrick (1591-1674) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time George Herbert (1593-1633) Easter Wings The Pulley Redemption Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Song John Milton (1608-1674) How Soon Hath Time On the Late Massacre in Piedmont When I Consider How My Light Is Spent Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) The Author to Her Book *To My Dear and Loving Husband Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) To His Coy Mistress John Dryden (1631-1700) To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Description of a City Shower Alexander Pope (1688-1744) from An Essay on Criticism Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard William Blake (1757-1827) The Chimney Sweeper The Little Black Boy A Poison Tree The Tyger Robert Burns (1759-1796) A Red, Red Rose John Barleycorn William Wordsworth (1770-1850) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud It Is a Beauteous Evening *Llines: Composted a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting The Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Frost at Midnight Kubla Khan Work Without Hope George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) She Walks in Beauty Stanzas When We Two Parted Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ode to the West Wind Ozymandias John Keats (1795-1821) * Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art La Belle Dame sans Merci *Ode on a Grecian Urn On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18 Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The Arsenal at Springfield The Cross of Snow Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Haunted Palace The Raven Sonnet to Science Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Lady of Shallot Tears, Idle Tears Ulysses Robert Browning (1812-1889) My Last Duchess Porphyria's Lover Walt Whitman (1819-1892) A Noiseless Patient Spider O Captain, My Captain Song of Myself, 6 Song of Myself, 11 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Dover Beach Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes Because I Could Not Stop for Death The Brain Is Wider than the Sky A Narrow Fellow in the Grass Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church The Soul Selects Her Own Society Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant Wild Nights--Wild Nights Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Up-Hill Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Channel Firing Neutral Tones The Ruined Maid Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God's Grandeur Pied Beauty Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) The New Colossus A. E. Housman (1859-1936) Eight O'Clock Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . . William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Lake Isle of Innisfree Leda and the Swan Sailing to Byzantium The Second Coming The Song of Wandering Aengus Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Firelight The Mill Richard Cory Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers The Wayfarer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) We Wear the Mask Robert Frost (1874-1963) Acquainted with the Night After Apple-Picking Design Home Burial The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Anecdote of the Jar Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Snow Man The Worms at Heaven's Gate William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Last Words of My English Grandmother The Red Wheelbarrow Spring and All Ezra Pound (1885-1972) In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Pear Tree Sea Rose Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Dreamers Marianne Moore (1887-1972) The Fish Silence T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Dulce et Decorum Est E.. E.. Cummings (1894-1962) *anyone lived in a pretty how town pity this busy monster,manunkind plato told r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Georgia Dusk Louise Bogan (1897-1970) Women Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Dream Boogie *Theme for English B The Weary Blues Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Incident Yet Do I Marvel W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Musee des Beaux Arts The Unknown Citizen Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) Dolor My Papa's Waltz Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) The Fish One Art Robert Hayden (1913-1980) Those Winter Sundays Dudley Randall (b. 1914) Ballad of Birmingham William Stafford (1914-1993) Traveling through the Dark Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Weldon Kees (1914-1955) For My Daughter Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) the ballad of chocolate Mabbie the mother We Real Cool Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) A Coney Island of the Mind, #15 May Swenson (1919-1989) How Everything Happens Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) A Primer of the Daily Round Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) * For C The Writer Year's End Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Next, Please This Be the Verse James Dickey (1923-1997) The Heaven of Animals Alan Dugan (b. 1923) Love Song: I and Thou Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) The Dover Bitch Third Avenue in Sunlight Louis Simpson (1923-2012) American Classic My Father in the Night Commanding No Vassar Miller (1924-1997) Subterfuge Donald Justice (b. 1925) Counting the Mad Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) The Ungrateful Garden Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) Noted in the New York Times Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) A Supermarket in California James Merrill (1926-1995) Casual Wear W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) Mementos, I John Ashbery (b. 1927) Paradoxes and Oxymorons W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) The Last One James Wright (1927-1980) Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Saint Judas Philip Levine (b. 1928) You Can Have It Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Cinderella Thom Gunn (b. 1929) Terminal X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929) In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day Little Elegy Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Rape Gary Snyder (b. 1930) A Walk Miller Williams (b. 1930) The Book Linda Pastan (b. 1932) Ethics Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Daddy Edge Metaphors Gerald Barrax (b. 1933) Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985 Mary Oliver (b. 1935) The Black Walnut Tree Fred Chappell (b. 1936) Narcissus and Echo Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) homage to my hips wishes for sons Marge Piercy (b. 1936) What's That Smell in the Kitchen? Betty Adcock (b. 1938) Voyages Robert Phillips (b. 1938) The Stone Crab: A Love Poem Dabney Stuart (b. 1938) Discovering My Daughter Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Siren Song Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) The Sacred Ted Kooser (b. 1939) Abandoned Farmhouse Tom Disch (b. 1940) Ballade of the New God Florence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940) All American Sestina Pattiann Rogers (b. 1940) Foreplay Billy Collins (b. 1941) *The Lanyard Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941) The Visitor Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942) Combing Charles Martin (b. 1942) E.S.L. Sharon Olds (b. 1942) The One Girl at the Boys Party Diane Lockward (b. 1943) My Husband Discovers Poetry *Alfred Corn (b. 1943) *Upbringing Ellen Bryant Voight (b. 1943) Daughter Robert Morgan (b. 1944) Mountain Bride Craig Raine (b. 1944) A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Enid Shomer (b. 1944) Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen Wendy Cope (b. 1944) Rondeau Redouble Kay Ryan (b. 1945) Bestiary Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945) The Day Kennedy Died John Whitworth (b. 1945) *Little Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946) The Ballad of Aunt Geneva Jim Hall (b. 1947) Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) Facing It Timothy Steele (b. 1948) Sapphics against Anger James Fenton (b. 1949) God, a Poem Sarah Cortez (b. 1950) Tu Negrito Carolyn Forche (b. 1950) The Colonel Dana Gioia (b. 1950) Planting a Sequoia Rodney Jones (b. 1950) Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr. Timothy Murphy (b. 1950) Case Notes Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951) Air View of an Industrial Scene Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Rita Dove (b. 1952) American Smooth Mark Jarman (b. 1952) After Disappointment Julie Kane (b. 1952) Alan Doll Rap Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) The Traveling Onion Alberto Rios (b. 1952) The Purpose of Altar Boys Julia Alvarez (b. 1953) Bilingual Sestina Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) Dim Lady Kim Addonizio (b. 1954) Sonnenizio on a Line from Michael Drayton David Mason (b. 1954) Fog Horns Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954) Welcome to Hiroshima Cathy Song (b. 1955) Stamp Collecting Ginger Andrews (b. 1956) Primping in the Rearview Mirror Amy Gerstler (b. 1956) Advice from a Caterpillar Rebecca Foust (b. 1957) Family Story *Denise Duhamel (b. 1961) *My Strip Club Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963) Useful Advice Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) Domestic Work, 1937 Craig Arnold (1967-2009) The Singers Allison Joseph (b. 1967) The Athlete Brian Turner (b. 1967) Here, Bullet Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968) Occupation A. E. Stallings (b. 1968) First Love: A Quiz *Kevin Prufer (b. 1969) *The Viillain and His Helicopter: Possble Movie Rental Version *Bob Griffith (b. 1970) *In the Kitchen Ernest Hilbert (b. 1970) Domestic Situation *Alexander Long (b. 1972) *Flash Forward with The Amistad Before Us in the Distance Chelsea Rathburn (b. 1975) *What Was Left Emily Moore (b. 1977) Auld Lang Syne *Caki Wilkinsen (b. 1980) *Itinerant Drama Introduction to Drama The Play's the Thing Origins of Drama Aristotle on Tragedy Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.) Antigone William Shakespeare (1564-1616) *Othelllo Twelfth Night Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) *A Doll House Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) Trifles August Wilson (b. 1945) *Fences David Ives (b. 1950) Sure Thing Milcha Sanchez-Scott (b. 1953) The Cuban Swimmer Appendix A: Writing about Literature Appendix B: Thematic Approaches to Literature Index of Critical Terms Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems
