Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature
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Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature List of Selections Instructional Chapters and Glossaries Why Read Literature Active Reading of Literature On Writing About Literature How to Read a Story How to Read a Poem How to Read a Play A Thumbnail Sketch of Western Theater History Critical Approaches to Literature This selection discusses all of the critical approaches below, which are also available as separate selections: Formalisms: Critical Approaches New Criticism: A Critical Approach Semiotics and Structuralism: Critical Approaches Psychoanalysis: A Critical Approach Reader-Response Theory: A Critical Approach Marxism: A Critical Approach Poststructuralism: A Critical Approach Postmodernism: A Critical Approach Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Critical Approaches New Historicism: Critical Approaches Ethnic, Critical Race, and Postcolonial Studies: Critical Approaches MLA Documentation Glossary of Literary Terms Brief Glossary of Literary Terms Glossary of Literary Terms for Fiction Glossary of Literary Terms for Drama Glossary of Literary Terms for Poetry Fiction Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace Louisa May Alcott, Actress Louisa May Alcott, A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Julia Alvarez, Trespass Sherwood Anderson, Mother Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls Nicholson Baker, Shoelace James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Russell Banks, Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story **Contents Subject to Change** John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse Donald Barthelme, Captain Blood Charles Baxter, Gryphon Ann Beattie, The Burning House Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Raymond Carver, Cathedral Raymond Carver, Little Things Raymond Carver, Mine Raymond Carver, Neighbors Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Ana Castillo, Loverboys Willa Cather, Paul's Case Raymond Chandler, Pearls Are A Nuisance Raymond Chandler, Red Wind Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Goophered Grapevine Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Po' Sandy Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Sheriff's Children Kate Chopin, The Awakening Kate Chopin, Désirée's Baby Kate Chopin, The Storm Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Agatha Christie, The Idol House of Astarte Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street Laurie Colwin, An Old-Fashioned Story Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer Robert Coover, The Babysitter Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Stephen Crane, The Open Boat Amanda Cross, Murder Without a Text Don DeLillo, Videotape Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four Andre Dubus, Leslie in California Anita Endrezze, Darlene and the Dead Man Louise Erdrich, Fleur: Summer 1913 Miskimini-geezis Raspberry Sun Pauline Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible **Contents Subject to Change** William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily William Faulkner, Barn Burning F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Revolt of "Mother" Ellen Gilchrist, Nineteen Forty-one Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper Nadine Gordimer, Some Monday for Sure Dashiell Hammett, The House in Turk Street Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers Joel Chandler Harris, Free Joe and the Rest of the World Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy Joel Chandler Harris, Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birth-mark Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants G.A. Henty, Bears and Dacoits: A Tale of the Ghauts Patricia Highsmith, The Snail-Watcher Chester Himes, To What Red Hell William Dean Howells, Editha Langston Hughes, Big Meeting Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Shirley Jackson, The Possibility of Evil Henry James, The Turn of the Screw Gish Jen, Who's Irish? Ha Jin, The Bridegroom Ha Jin, An Entrepreneur's Story Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Jamaica Kincaid, What I Have Been Doing Lately Barbara Kingsolver, Leah Price: The Things We Learned Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies D.H. Lawrence, The Horse-Dealer's Daughter D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. LeGuin, She Unnames Them Jack London, The Law of Life Jack London, To Build a Fire Katherine Mansfield, Her First Ball Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh **Contents Subject to Change** Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer Rodney Morales, When the Shark Bites Marcia Muller, Benny's Space Alice Munro, Boys and Girls Vladimir Nabokov, The Vane Sisters R.K. Narayan, Gateman's Gift Gloria Naylor, Kiswana Browne Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, A Late Encounter with the Enemy Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back Flannery O'Connor, Revelation Frank O'Connor, First Confession Gary Pak, The Valley of the Dead Air Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father Américo Paredes, The Hammon and the Beans Sara Paretsky, Dealer's Choice Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Anne Porter, María Concepción E. Annie Proulx, 55 Miles to the Gas Pump Thomas Pynchon, Entropy Richard Russo, The Mysteries of Linwood Hart Dorothy Sayers, The Necklace of Pearls Dorothy Sayers, The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach Carol Shields, Dressing Down Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Amy Tan, "Two Kinds" from The Joy Luck Club Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Illych Mark Twain, Luck Mark Twain, The Story of the Good Little Boy Anne Tyler, Holding Things Together John Updike, A & P **Contents Subject to Change** Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , Harrison Bergeron Alice Walker, Everyday Use Alice Walker, Nineteen Fifty-five Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. Albert Wendt, The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man Albert Wendt, Prospecting Edith Wharton, The Last Asset Edith Wharton, The Other Two Edward L. Wheeler, Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables Poetry Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla Diane Ackerman, A Fine, a Private Place Diane Ackerman, Sweep Me through Your Many-Chambered Heart Virginia Hamilton Adair, Cutting the Cake Virginia Hamilton Adair, Dirty Old Man Virginia Hamilton Adair, Peeling an Orange Franklin P. Adams, Composed in the Composing Room Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You Anna Akhmatova, Lot's Wife Brian W. Aldiss, Flight 063 Elizabeth Alexander, Nineteen Sherman Alexie, Defending Walt Whitman Sherman Alexie, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City Agha Shahid Ali, Postcard from Kashmir Dick Allen, Night Driving Paula Gunn Allen, Hoop Dancer Julia Alvarez, Queens, 1963 Julia Alvarez, The Women on My Mother's Side Were Known Yehuda Amichai, Jerusalem A.R. Ammons, 80-Proof A.R. Ammons, Coward A.R. Ammons, Needs Maya Angelou, Africa Maya Angelou, My Arkansas Anonymous, A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan Anonymous, Carnation Milk Anonymous, The Cruel Mother Anonymous, The Demon Lover **Contents Subject to Change** Anonymous, Epitaph on a Dentist Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet Anonymous, O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face Anonymous, Scarborough Fair Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence Anonymous, The Three Ravens Anonymous, The Twa Corbies Anonymous, We four lads from Liverpool are Anonymous, Western Wind Gloria Anzaldua, To live in the Borderlands means you Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach John Ashbery, At North Farm John Ashbery, The Cathedral Is John Ashbery, City Afternoon Margaret Atwood, Siren Song Margaret Atwood, This Is a Photograph of Me Margaret Atwood, Variation on the Word "Sleep" Margaret Atwood, You fit into me W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening W. H. Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden, [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone] W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Jimmy Santiago Baca, Green Chile Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans Amiri Baraka, Ka 'Ba Matsuo Bashō, Blossom Viewing Matsuo Bashō, Four Haiku Matsuo Bashō, Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Bashō, The old Pond Matsuo Bashō, On this road Matsuo Bashō, A Village Without Bells Charles Baudelaire, L'Albatros (The Albatross) Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus Wendell Berry, Another Descent John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey The King James Bible, The Twenty-third Psalm Elizabeth Bishop, Casabianca Elizabeth Bishop, Exchanging Hats Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Elizabeth Bishop, Manners Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Elizabeth Bishop, Poem Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina **Contents Subject to Change** William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper William Blake, The Garden of Love William Blake, Her Whole Life is an Epigram William Blake, Holy Thursday William Blake, Infant Joy William Blake, Infant Sorrow William Blake, Jerusalem (from Milton) William Blake, The Lamb William Blake, London William Blake, The Sick Rose William Blake, To See a World in a Grain of Sand William Blake, The Tyger Robert Bly, Driving to Town Later to Mail a Letter Robert Bly, Snowbanks North of the House Robert Bly, Snowfall in the Afternoon Louise Bogan, Cassandra Louise Bogan, The Crows Louise Bogan, Evening in the Sanitarium Louise Bogan, Medusa Eavan Boland, Anorexic Eavan Boland, The Necessity for Irony Arna Bontemps, A Black Man Talks of Reaping Roo Borson, After a Death Roo Borson, Save Us From Laure-Anne Bosselaar, The Bumper-Sticker Francis William Bourdillon, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband Robert Bridges, Triolet Joseph Brodsky, Love Song Emily Brontë , The Night-Wind Rupert Brooke, The Soldier Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks, The Coora Flower Gwendolyn Brooks, First Fight. Then Fiddle. Gwendolyn Brooks, Martin Luther King Jr. Gwendolyn Brooks, Medgar Evers Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud Gwendolyn Brooks, To the Diaspora Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways **Contents Subject to Change** Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To George Sand: A Recognition Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Joseph Bruchac, Ellis Island Robert Burns, John Anderson My Jo Robert Burns, Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Robert Burns, O, Green Grow the Rushes Robert Burns, To a Louse Taniguchi Buson, I go Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty Thomas Campion, Rose-cheeked Laura, come Thomas Campion, When to her lute Corinna sings Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Jared Carter, Roadside Crosses Rosario Castellanos, Chess Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship Helen Chasin, The Word "Plum" Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty Kelly Cherry, Alzheimer's Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links Lucille Clifton, Homage to My Hips Judith Oritz Cofer, My Father in the Navy Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sonnet to the River Otter Billy Collins, Embrace Billy Collins, Marginalia Wendy Cope, Emily Dickinson Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters Hart Crane, To Emily Dickinson Stephen Crane, A man adrift on a slim spar Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane, In the Desert Stephen Crane, from War Is Kind Robert Creeley, Oh No Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel e.e. cummings, [l(a] e.e. cummings, [Buffalo Bill's] e.e. cummings, in Just e.e. cummings, ["next to of course god america I] James Dickey, The Heaven of Animals **Contents Subject to Change** James Dickey, The Leap Emily Dickinson, "Faith" is a fine invention Emily Dickinson, A narrow Fellow in the Grass Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comesEmily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for DeathEmily Dickinson, The Brain - is wider than the Sky Emily Dickinson, The Bustle in a House Emily Dickinson, I dwell in Possibility Emily Dickinson, I felt a Cleaving in my MindEmily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz - when I diedEmily Dickinson, I like to See It Lap the Miles Emily Dickinson, I Never Saw a MoorEmily Dickinson, I taste a liquor never brewed Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low - in my RegardEmily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest SenseEmily Dickinson, My life closed twice before its closeEmily Dickinson, My Life had stood - a Loaded GunEmily Dickinson, One need not be a Chamber - to be HauntedEmily Dickinson, Some keep the Sabbath going to ChurchEmily Dickinson, Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own SocietyEmily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead the GrassEmily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light Emily Dickinson, These are the days when Birds come backEmily Dickinson, This world is not conclusion Emily Dickinson, Water, is taught by thirst Emily Dickinson, Wild nights - Wild nights! John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You John Donne, The Canonization John Donne, Death be not proud John Donne, The Flea John Donne, Song John Donne, The Sun Rising Hilda Doolittle (H.D), Heat Hilda Doolittle (H.D), Helen Mark Doty, Golden Retrievals Rita Dove, Daystar Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar, Theology Stephen Dunn, John and Mary Stephen Dunn, Poetry **Contents Subject to Change** Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment T.S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Martín Espada, Latin Night at the Pawnshop Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Robert Frost, Birches Robert Frost, Desert Places Robert Frost, "Design" and "In White" Robert Frost, Fire and Ice Robert Frost, Mending Wall Robert Frost, Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, "Out, Out - " Robert Frost, The Pasture Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Robert Frost, The Silken Tent Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg, A Further Proposal Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa Louise Glück, Gretel in Darkness Jorie Graham, Short History of the West Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thom Gunn, A Map of the City R.S. Gwynn, The Classroom at the Mall Donald Hall, Letter with No Address Donald Hall, Names of Horses Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy, Hap Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Robert Hass, A Story about the Body Robert Hayden, Homage to the Empress of the Blues Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Seamus Heaney, Digging Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break Seamus Heaney, Mother of the Groom Anthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch George Herbert, Easter Wings George Herbert, The Collar Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes **Contents Subject to Change** Li Ho, Walking Through the South Mountain Fields John Hollander, Swan and Shadow Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A.E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A.E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie Langston Hughes, Dream Variations Langston Hughes, Harlem [2] Langston Hughes, I, Too Langston Hughes, Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes, Mother to Son Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes, Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes, Theme for English B Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting Kobayashi Issa, Cricket Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers, Hands Ben Jonson, On My First Son Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood John Keats, Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats, On the Sonnet John Keats, To Autumn John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to Be X.J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a Staircase X.J. Kennedy, To the Muse Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating Carolyn Kizer, After Bashō Etheridge Knight, A Watts Mother Mourns while Boiling Beans Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It Philip Larkin, Aubade Philip Larkin, Church Going D.H. Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians D.H. Lawrence, Piano Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus Denise Levertov, Leaving Forever Philip Levine, Reinventing America **Contents Subject to Change** Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Amy Lowell, Patterns Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepard to His Love Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress John Masefield, Cargoes Claude McKay, America Claude McKay, The White City James Merrill, Charles on Fire W.S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death Edna St. Vincent Millay, I, being born a woman and distressed Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent N. Scott Momaday, Crows in a Winter Composition Marianne Moore, Poetry (1919) Arakida Moritake, The Falling Flower Howard Nemerov, The Town Dump Pablo Neruda, We Are Many Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage Sharon Olds, Sex without Love Mary Oliver, Morning Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Linda Pastan, Ethics Linda Pastan, Marks Octavio Paz, With Our Eyes Shut Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath Headnote Sylvia Plath, Daddy Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Sylvia Plath, Mirror Sylvia Plath, Morning Song Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck **Contents Subject to Change** Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin Adrienne Rich, Women Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar Wendy Rose, Alien Seeds Wendy Rose, For the White poets who would be Indian Wendy Rose, Julia Muriel Rukeyser, Myth Mary Jo Salter, Welcome to Hiroshima Carl Sandburg, Chicago Carl Sandburg, Fog Sappho, Invocation to Aphrodite Anne Sexton, Cinderella Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds William Shakespeare, My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun William Shakespeare, Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare, That Time of Year Thou Mayst in me Behold William Shakespeare, When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Charles Simic, Fork David R. Slavitt, Titanic Gary Snyder, After weeks of watching the roof leak Gary Snyder, Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia William Stafford, One Home William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark 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 May Swenson, Women Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Jean Toomer, Reapers Mona Van Duyn, What the Motorcycle Said Derek Walcott, In the Virgins **Contents Subject to Change** Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose Phyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman, Facing West from California's Shores Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur, The Writer William Carlos Williams, The Dance William Carlos Williams, Poem William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud William Wordsworth, London, 1802 William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us James Wright, A Blessing William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Drama Anonymous, Everyman Aristophanes, Lysistrata Aphra Behn, The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon; or Life in Louisiana Bertholt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children Bertholt Brecht, Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction Anton Chekhov, A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya Frank Chin, The Year of the Dragon Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine Euripides, The Bacchantes Susan Glaspell, Trifles Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Spreading the News Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, Last Virgin in Paradise: A Serious Comedy Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding Arthur Miller, All My Sons **Contents Subject to Change** Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man Molière, Tartuffe Clifford Odets, Awake and Sing! Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks, An Equation for Black People Onstage Harold Pinter, The Lover Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry The Fourth William Shakespeare, Hamlet William Shakespeare, Macbeth William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw, Preface and Afterward to "Pygmalion" Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed August Strindberg, Miss Julie John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Thornton Wilder, Our Town Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams, How to Stage "The Glass Menagerie" August Wilson, The Piano Lesson William Wycherley, The Country Wife Wakako Yamauchi, And the Soul Shall Dance William Butler Yeats, Purgatory Myths, Parables, and Folktales Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun Aesop, The Vixen and the Lioness The King James Bible, The Parable of the Good Seed The King James Bible, The Parable of the Prodigal Son W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra Non-Fiction Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue Kwame Anthony Appiah, from In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture Aristotle, On the Nature and Elements of Tragedy David L. G. Arnold, "And the Rest Writes Itself": Roland Barthes Watches "The Simpsons" **Contents Subject to Change** Roland Barthes, from Mythologies Cleanth Brooks, What Does Poetry Communicate? Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble Nancy Chodorow, Heterosexuality As a Compromise Formation J.M. Coetzee, What Is a Classic? Theresa de Lauretis, The Technology of Gender Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings Terry Eagleton, The Rise of English T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent Stanley Fish, How to Recognize a Poem When You See One Michel Foucault, Las Meninas Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, from The Madwoman in the Attic Stephen Greenblatt, Invisible Bullets Judith Halberstam, F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity Carolyn Heilbrun, Sayers, Lord Peter, and God Wolfgang Iser, from The Act of Reading Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth Toni Morrison, Black Matters Flannery O'Connor, Passages from Essays and Letters Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact Zone Vladimir Propp, from Morphology of the Folktale Edward Said, from Orientalism Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique Jane Tompkins, "But is it any Good?": The Institutionalization of Literary Value **Contents Subject to Change**
