CONTENTS OF MYLITLAB E-ANTHOLOGY AND
MYLITLAB RESOURCES
e-Anthology Contents
ESSAYS
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The
Yellow Wallpaper”
Susan Glaspell, Creating Trifles
Henrik Ibsen, Correspondence on the Final Scene
of A Doll’s House
Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect
Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang'rous
Thing
William Shakespeare, Notes on the Text of Othello
William Shakespeare, Quartos from The Tragedy
of Hamlet
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare's Sister
POETRY
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Anonymous, Western Wind
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Aphra Behn, On Her Loving Two Equally
Aphra Behn, Song
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
William Blake, Infant Joy
William Blake, Infant Sorrow
William Blake, London
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake, The Sick Rose
William Blake, The Tyger
William Blake, The Lamb
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee?
Let Me Count the Ways
Robert Browning, Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Robert Burns, John Anderson My Jo
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates “Jabberwocky”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent
Marinere
John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne, Death be not proud
John Donne, The Flea
John Donne, The Canonization
John Donne, The Sun Rising
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Blue
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Notes on “The Waste
Land”
T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn
Robert Frost, Immigrants
Robert Frost, The Oven Bird
Robert Frost, The Telephone
Robert Frost, The Wood-Pile
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, “Out, Out—”
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, The Pasture
Robert Frost, The Vanishing Red
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
Thomas Hardy, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy, Hap
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing
George Herbert, The Pulley
George Herbert, Easter Wings
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
Ben Jonson, On My First Son
Ben Jonson, To Celia
Ben Jonson, On My First Daughter
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats, Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art
John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, To Autumn
Omar Khayyam, Rubai
D. H. Lawrence, Piano
D. H. Lawrence, Snake
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Li Po, Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese text)
Li Po, Yueh Hsia Tu Cho / Moon-beneath Alone Drink
(literal translation)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Edgar Lee Masters, Minerva Jones
Claude McKay, America
Claude McKay, If We Must Die
Claude McKay, The Harlem Dancer
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love Is Not All
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have
kissed, and where, and why
John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent
Arakida Moritake, The falling flower, translated
by Babette Deutsch
Yone Noguchi, A Selection of Hokku
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Alexander Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar
of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Ezra Pound, An Immorality
Ezra Pound, The Image
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal
Edward Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Carl Sandburg, Grass
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
William Shakespeare, Spring
William Shakespeare, Winter
William Shakespeare, Epitaph
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of
true minds (Sonnet 116)
William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing
like the sun (Sonnet 130)
William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded
monuments (Sonnet 55)
William Shakespeare, O mistress mine
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day? (Sonnet 18)
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me
behold (Sonnet 73)
William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and
men's eyes (Sonnet 29)
William Shakespeare, Take, O, take those lips away
William Shakespeare, When my love swears that she is made
of truth (Sonnet 138)
William Shakespeare, Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth
(Sonnet 146)
William Shakespeare, Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
William Jay Smith, American Primitive
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats, The Magi
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
FICTION
Aesop, A Lion and Other Animals Go Hunting
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun
Aesop, The Vixen and the Lioness
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
Kate Chopin, Ripe FIgs
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin, Désirée's Baby
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Maypole of Merry Mount
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
James Joyce, Araby
James Joyce, Eveline
Jack London, To Build a Fire
Luke 15: 11–32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Matthew 13: 24–30, The Parable of the Good Seed
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Mark Twain, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County
DRAMA
Anonymous, Everyman
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Eugene O’Neill, The Hairy Ape
John M. Synge, Riders to the Sea
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare, King Lear
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Literature Resources in MyLiteratureLab
FICTION
Longman Lectures (background information about the author and work, and a multimedia reading to engage
students. The students are then walked through interpreting the work and given instruction in writing about
it.)
James Baldwin, “Sonny's Blues”
James Joyce, “Araby”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where
Kate Chopin, “Désirée's Baby”
Have You Been?”
Kate Chopin, “The Storm”
Tim O'Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Flannery O'Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Gish Jen, “In the American Society”
Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Video Resources (Videos on each story or tutorial)
Video Essays
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek
Bridge”
Willa Cather, “Paul's Case”
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall”
Video Tutorials
Reading a Story
Point of View
Character
Setting
Tone and Style
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
Theme
Symbol
Audio Resources (readings)
Willa Cather, “Paul's Case”
Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Interactive Readings (students must participate)
Kate Chopin, “The Storm”
Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace”
Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat”
James Joyce, “Araby”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
Flannery O'Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
John Updike, “A&P”
POETRY
Longman Lectures (see above)
Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Mother”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Robert Burns, “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose”
Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
Billy Collins, “The Names”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for
Death”
John Donne, “Batter my heart”
Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”
Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”
Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
Seamus Heaney, “Digging”
Langston Hughes, “The Weary Blues”
John Keats, “Bright Star!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Love is Not All”
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”
Edward Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”
Mary Jo Salter, “Welcome to Hiroshima”
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 73”
The Theme of Love in Sonnets
William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Video Resources (see above)
Video
William Blake, “The Tyger”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Emily Dickinson, “There's a certain Slant of light”
Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”
Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
Dana Gioia, “California Hills in August”
Dana Gioia, “Money”
Dana Gioia, “Summer Storm”
Dana Gioia, “Unsaid”
X.J. Kennedy, “For Allen Ginsberg”
X.J. Kennedy, “Nude Descending a Staircase”
X.J. Kennedy, “Snowflake Souffle”
X.J. Kennedy, “In a Prominent Bar in Seacacus One
Day”
Video Essay (readings for which exercises are provided under the Exercise tab)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
Dorothy Parker, “Résumé”
Video Tutorials
Closed Form
Figures of Speech
Imagery
Listening to a Voice
Open Form
Reading a Poem
Rhythm
Saying and Suggesting
Song and Sound
Symbol
Words
William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”
E.E.Cummings, “Buffalo Bill's”
Gerald Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
Dorothy Parker, “Résumé”
Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Splendor falls on castle
walls”
Audio Resources (see above)
Audio
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
William Blake, “The Tyger”
E.E.Cummings, “Buffalo Bill's”
Emily Dickinson, “I heard a Fly buzz — when I
died”
Emily Dickinson, “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”
John Donne, “Death be not proud”
Robert Frost, “Birches”
Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Love is Not All”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
William Wordsworth, “Composed Upon Westminster
Bridge”
William Wordsworth, “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Audio Essay (see above)
William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
E.E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how
town”
E.E. Cummings, “Buffalo Bill's”
Gerald Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”
Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Splendor falls on castle
walls”
Interactive Readings (see above)
Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
Robert Frost, “Out, Out”
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors”
Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 73”
Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar”
Walt Whitman, “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
William Butler Yeats, “Who Goes with Fergus?”
DRAMA
Longman Lectures (see above)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Video Resources (see above)
Video
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Video Essays
William Shakespeare, Othello
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
August Wilson, Fences
Full-Length Films
Olivier's Hamlet Full–Length Film
Othello Full–Length Film
Antigone Full–Length Film
Oedipus the King Full–Length Film
Audio Resources (see above)
William Shakespeare, Othello
Interactive Readings (see above)
William Shakespeare, Othello
WRITERS ON WRITING (VIDEOS OF WRITERS TALKING ABOUT THEIR CRAFT)
Kim Addonizio
Aliki Barnstone
Jay Boyer
Andrea Hollander Budy
Janet Burroway
Ron Carlson
Rita Dove
Stephen Dunn
Bart Edelman
Albert Garcia
John Hershman
Jeff Knorr
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Craig Lesley
Valerie Miner
Stephen Minot
Todd Pierce
Alberto Ríos
Tim Schell
Virgil Suarez
Diane Thiel
C.K. Williams
Richard Yañez
INTERACTIVE TIMELINE (A LITERATURE TIMELINE)
Timeline Part 1: 20,000 B.C. to 1600 A.D
GLOSSARY
Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms
FULL-LENGTH FILMS
Olivier's Hamlet Full–Length Film
Othello Full–Length Film
Antigone Full–Length Film
Oedipus the King Full–Length Film