the
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Fiction
Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing
anonymous, The Elephant in the Village of the Blind
linda brewer, 20/20
raymond carver, Cathedral
grace paley, A Conversation with My Father
a. s. byatt, The Thing in the Forest
sherman alexie, Flight Patterns
Understanding the Text
1PLOT
margaret atwood, Happy Endings
john cheever, The Country Husband
james baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
edith wharton, Roman Fever
2NARRATION AND POINT OF VIEW
edgar allan poe, The Cask of Amontillado
ernest hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
lorrie moore, How
peter carey, Do You Love Me?
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3CHARACTER
eudora welty, Why I Live at the P.O.
herman melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
doris lessing, Our Friend Judith
toni morrison, Recitatif
4SETTING
andrea barrett, The Littoral Zone
richard dokey, Sánchez
amy tan, A Pair of Tickets
anton chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
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nathaniel hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
franz kafka, A Hunger Artist
ann beattie, Janus
edwidge danticat, A Wall of Fire Rising
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6THEME
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angela carter, A Souvenir of Japan
bharati mukherjee, The Management of Grief
nadine gordimer, Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants
jhumpa lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
7THE WHOLE TEXT
joseph conrad, The Secret Sharer
louise erdrich, Love Medicine
stephen crane, The Open Boat
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Exploring Contexts
8THE AUTHOR’S WORK AS CONTEXT
d. h. lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Blind Man
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Passages from Essays and Letters
flannery o’connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Lame Shall Enter First
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Passages from Essays and Letters
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9LITERARY KIND AS CONTEXT: INITIATION STORIES
toni cade bambara, Gorilla, My Love
alice munro, Boys and Girls
james joyce, Araby
michael chabon, The Lost World
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FORM AS CONTEXT: THE SHORT SHORT STORY
kate chopin, The Story of an Hour
gabriel garcía márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
jamaica kincaid, Girl
yasunari kawabata, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket
william carlos williams, The Use of Force
ursula k. le guin, She Unnames Them
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11CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
f. scott fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
f. scott fitzgerald, Echoes of the Jazz Age
malcolm cowley, from Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
the new york times
Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day
Crowds at Tickers See Fortunes Wane
Women Traders Going Back to Bridge Games
ernest r. groves, from Social Problems of the Family
v. f. calverton, from The Bankruptcy of Marriage
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12 (11)CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A FICTION CASEBOOK
william faulkner, A Rose for Emily
lawrence r. rodgers, “We all said, ‘She will kill herself’”:
The Narrator/Detective in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
george l. dillon, Styles of Reading
judith fetterley, A Rose for “A Rose for Emily”
gene m. moore, Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression:
Problems of Chronology in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
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READING MORE FICTION
guy de maupassant, The Jewelry
ambrose bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
henry james, The Jolly Corner
charlotte perkins gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
susan glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
katherine mansfield, Bliss
katherine anne porter, Flowering Judas
william faulkner, Barn Burning
jorge luis borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
ralph ellison, King of the Bingo Game
joyce carol oates, The Lady with the Pet Dog
bobbie ann mason, Shiloh
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margaret atwood, Scarlet Ibis
ha jin, In Broad Daylight salman rushdie, The Prophet’s Hair
carol shields, Dressing Down
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Poetry
Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing, READING
elizabeth barrett browning, How Do I Love Thee?
jarold ramsey, The Tally Stick
linda pastan, love poem
ezra pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
liz rosenberg, Married Love
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RESPONDING
ben jonson, On My First Son
howard nemerov, The Vacuum
seamus heaney, Mid-Term Break
rita dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography
anne sexton, The Fury of Overshoes
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WRITING
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PRACTICING READING: SOME POEMS ON LOVE
w. h. auden, [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]
anne bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
william shakespeare, [Let me not to the marriage of true minds]
sharon olds, Last Night
aphra behn, On Her Loving Two Equally
denise levertov, Wedding Ring
mary, lady chudleigh, To the Ladies
w. b. yeats, A Last Confession
Understanding the Text
13 (12)TONE
marge piercy, Barbie Doll
w. d. snodgrass, Leaving the Motel
thom gunn, In Time of Plague
etheridge knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
william blake, London
maxine kumin, Woodchucks
adrienne rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
MANY TONES: POEMS ABOUT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
galway kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
emily grosholz, Eden
li-young lee, Persimmons
paul muldoon, Milkweed and Monarchs
robert hayden, Those Winter Sundays
daniel tobin, The Clock
seamus heaney, Mother of the Groom
agha shahid ali, Postcard from Kashmir
olive senior, Ancestral Poem
pat mora, Elena
jimmy santiago baca, Green Chile
kelly cherry, Alzheimer’s
andrew hudgins
Begotten
Mostly My Nightmares are Dull
simon ortiz, My Father’s Song
alberto rios, Mi Abuelo
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14 (13)SPEAKER: WHOSE VOICE DO WE HEAR?
thomas hardy, The Ruined Maid
x. j. kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
margaret atwood, Death of a Young Son by Drowning
robert browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
tess gallagher, Sudden Journey
dorothy parker, A Certain Lady
william wordsworth, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
audre lorde, Hanging Fire
judith ortiz cofer, The Changeling
karen chase, Venison
sir thomas wyatt, They Flee from Me
fred chappell, Recovery of Sexual Desire
robert burns, To a Louse
pat mora, La Migra
edna st. vincent millay
[Women have loved before]
[I being born a woman]
gwendolyn brooks, We Real Cool
katherine philips, L’Amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey
walt whitman, [I celebrate myself, and sing myself]
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15 (14)SITUATION AND SETTING: WHAT HAPPENS? WHERE? WHEN?
james dickey, Cherrylog Road
john donne, The Flea
rita dove, Daystar
linda pastan, To a Daughter Leaving Home
john milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
sylvia plath, Point Shirley
matthew arnold, Dover Beach
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SITUATIONS
emily brontë, The Night-Wind
andrew marvell, To His Coy Mistress
marilyn chin, Summer Love
virginia hamilton adair, Peeling an Orange
mary jo salter, Welcome to Hiroshima
howard nemerov, A Way of Life
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TIMES
william shakespeare, [Full many a glorious morning have I seen]
john donne, The Good-Morrow
sylvia plath, Morning Song
billy collins, Morning
august kleinzahler, Aubade on East 12th Street
jonathan swift, A Description of the Morning
louise bogan, Evening in the Sanitarium
archibald lampman, Winter Evening
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john betjeman, In Westminster Abbey
elizabeth alexander, West Indian Primer
derek walcott, Midsummer
thom gunn, A Map of the City
mary oliver, Singapore
earle birney, Irapuato
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16 (15)LANGUAGE
PRECISION AND AMBIGUITY
sarah cleghorn, [The golf links lie so near the mill]
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anne finch, countess of winchelsea, There’s No To-Morrow
charles bernstein, Of Time and the Line
yvor winters, At the San Francisco Airport
walter de la mare, Slim Cunning Hands
pat mora, Gentle Communion
emily dickinson, [After great pain, a formal feeling comes–]
theodore roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
sharon olds, Sex without Love
martha collins, Lies
emily dickinson, [I dwell in Possibility–]
william carlos williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
gerard manley hopkins, Pied Beauty
e. e. cummings, [in Just-]
bob perelman, The Masque of Rhyme
ben jonson, Still to Be Neat
robert herrick, Delight in Disorder
john milton, from Paradise Lost
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PICTURING: THE LANGUAGES OF DESCRIPTION
jeanne marie beaumont, Rorschach
oscar wilde, Symphony in Yellow
richard wilbur, The Beautiful Changes
ted hughes, To Paint a Water Lily
james merrill, body
andrew marvell, On a Drop of Dew
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METAPHOR AND SIMILE
william shakespeare, [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
linda pastan, Marks
david wagoner, My Father’s Garden
robert burns, A Red, Red Rose
adrienne rich, Two Songs
william shakespeare, [Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]
anonymous, The Twenty-third Psalm
henry king, Sic Vita
john donne
[Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You]
The Computation
The Canonization
david ferry, At the Hospital
randall jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
francis william bourdillon, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
margaret cavendish, Of the Theme of Love
emily dickinson, [Wild Night–Wild Nights!]
greg delanty, The Blind Stitch
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sharon olds, Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941
james dickey, The Leap
edmund waller, Song
d. h. lawrence, I Am Like a Rose
dorothy parker, One Perfect Rose
william blake, The Sick Rose
robert frost, Fireflies in the Garden
stephen dunn, Dancing with God
adrienne rich, Diving into the Wreck
roo borson, After a Death
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17 (16)THE SOUNDS OF POETRY
helen chasin, The Word Plum
mona van duyn, What the Motorcycle Said
kenneth fearing, Dirge
alexander pope, Sound and Sense
samuel taylor coleridge, Metrical Feet
wendy cope, Emily Dickinson
anonymous, There was a young girl from St. Paul
sir john suckling, Song
john dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
edgar allan poe, The Raven
william shakespeare, [Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore]
james merrill, Watching the Dance
gerard manley hopkins, Spring and Fall
lee ann brown, Foolproof Loofah
emily dickinson, [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
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WORDS AND MUSIC
thomas campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
william shakespeare, Spring
augustus toplady, A Prayer Living and Dying
robert hayden, Homage to the Empress of the Blues
michael harper, Dear John, Dear Coltrane
bob dylan, Mr. Tambourine Man
willie perdomo, 123rd Street Rap
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18 (17)INTERNAL STRUCTURE
edwin arlington robinson, Mr. Flood’s Party
howard nemerov, The Goose Fish
philip larkin, Church Going
pat mora, Sonrisas
sharon olds, The Victims
anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens
william carlos williams, The Dance
emily dickinson, [The Wind begun to knead the Grass–]
william shakespeare, [Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame]
cathy song, Heaven
stephen dunn, Poetry
percy bysshe shelley, Ode to the West Wind
w. h. auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats
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19 (18)EXTERNAL FORM
THE SONNET
william wordsworth, Nuns Fret Not
henry constable, [My lady’s presence makes the roses red]
dante gabriel rossetti, A Sonnet Is a Moment’s Monument
john keats, On the Sonnet
gwendolyn brooks, First Fight. Then Fiddle.
emma lazarus, The New Colossus
robert frost, Range-Finding
william wordsworth, London, 1802
john milton, [When I consider how my light is spent]
elizabeth barrett browning, [When our two souls]
christina rossetti
In an Artist’s Studio
Cobwebs
edna st. vincent millay
[What lips my lips have kissed]
[I shall forget you presently, my dear]
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gwen harwood, In the Park
henry constable, Wonder it is & Pity
sir philip sidney, Come Sleep, O Sleep
bartholomew griffin, Care-Charmer Sleep
william shakespeare, [My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun]
diane ackerman, Sweep Me through Your Many-Chambered Heart
helen chasin, Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe
billy collins, Sonnet
STANZA FORMS
dylan thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
marianne moore, Poetry
elizabeth bishop, Sestina
ishmael reed, beware: do not read this poem
archibald macleish, Ars Poetica
THE WAY A POEM LOOKS
e. e. cummings, [l(a]
franklin p. adams, Composed in the Composing Room
e. e. cummings, [Buffalo Bill’s]
stevie smith, The Jungle Husband
george herbert, Easter Wings
roger mcgough, Here I Am
earle birney, Anglosaxon Street
david ferry, Evening News
20 (19)THE WHOLE TEXT
elizabeth jennings, Delay
anonymous, Western Wind
robert herrick, Upon Julia’s Clothes
w. h. auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
george herbert, The Collar
robert frost, Design
eden phillpotts, The Learned
emily dickinson, [My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun–]
ben jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.
Exploring Contexts
21 (20) READING POETRY IN CONTEXT
james a. emanuel, Emmett Till
thomas hardy, Channel Firing
sandra gilbert, Ladies’ Home Journal
TIMES, PLACES, AND EVENTS
miller williams, Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS
irving layton, From Colony to Nation
langston hughes, Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
robert hayden, Frederick Douglass
felicia dorothea hemans, Casabianca
elizabeth bishop, Casabianca
wilfred owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
dudley randall, Ballad of Birmingham
CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, EXPLORING GENDER
elizabeth bishop, Exchanging Hats
marie howe, Practicing
richard lovelace, Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
wilfred owen, Disabled
robert browning
My Last Duchess
A Woman’s Last Word
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elizabeth barrett browning
To George Sand [A Desire]
To George Sand [A Recognition]
yusef komunyakaa, Tu Do Street
lady mary wortley montagu, Written the First Year I Was Marry’d
marge piercy, What’s That Smell in the Kitchen?
paulette jiles, Paper Matches
elizabeth i, When I Was Fair and Young
marilyn hacker, [Who would divorce her lover]
amy lowell, The Lonely Wife
liz rosenberg, The Silence of Women
thom gunn, A Blank
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22 (21)THE AUTHOR’S WORK AS CONTEXT
john keats
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Sonnet to Sleep
from Endymion (Book 1)
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Passages from Letters and the Preface to Endymion
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec 21, 1817)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb 19, 1818)
To John Tayler (Feb. 27, 1818)
Preface to Endymion (dated April 10, 1818)
adrienne rich
At a Bach Concert
Storm Warnings
Living in Sin
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Planetarium
For the Record
[My mouth hovers across your breasts]
History
Modotti
Personal Reflections
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
How Does a Poet Put Bread on the Table?
A Communal Poetry
Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts
23 (22)LITERARY TRADITION AS CONTEXT
ECHO AND ALLUSION
ben jonson, [Come, my Celia, let us prove]
william blake, The Lamb
howard nemerov, Boom!
marianne moore, Love in America?
robert hollander, You Too? Me Too–Why Not? Soda Pop
william shakespeare, [Not marble, nor the gilded monuments]
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POETIC “KINDS”
christopher marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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IMITATING AND ANSWERING
sir walter ralegh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
william carlos williams, Raleigh Was Right
allen ginsberg, A Further Proposal
e. e. cummings, [(ponder,darling,these busted statues]
kenneth koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
desmond skirrow, Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized
ANTHONY HECHT, The Dover Bitch
WENDY COPE, [Not only marble, but the plastic toys]
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CULTURAL BELIEF AND TRADITION
john hollander, Adam’s Task
susan donnelly, Eve Names the Animals
miriam waddington, Ulysses Embroidered
alfred, lord tennyson, The Kraken
phyllis wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
june jordan, Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley
maya angelou, Africa
derek walcott, A Far Cry from Africa
alberto alvaro ríos, Advice to a First Cousin
louise erdrich, Jacklight
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24 (23)CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Arna bontemps, A Black Man Talks of Reaping
countee cullen
Yet Do I Marvel
Saturday’s Child
From the Dark Tower
angelina grimke
The Black Finger
Tenebris
langston hughes
The Weary Blues
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I, Too
helene johnson, Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
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HAIKU
chiyojo, [Whether astringent]
basho¯
[A village without bells–]
[This road–]
buson
[Coolness–]
[Listening to the moon]
seifu, [The faces of dolls]
lafcadio hearn, [Old pond–]
clara a. walsh, [An old-time pond, from off whose shadowed depth]
earl miner, [The still old pond]
allen ginsberg, [The old pond]
babette deutsch, [The falling flower]
etheridge knight, [Eastern guard tower]
ALLEN GINSBERG [Looking over my shooulder
richard wright, [In the falling snow]
james a. emanuel, Ray Charles
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claude mckay
Harlem Shadows
If We Must Die
The Tropics in New York
The Harlem Dancer
The White House
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, From the Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry
ALAIN LOCKE, From The New Negro
RUDOLPH FISHER, The Caucasion Storms Harlem
W.E.B DU BOIS, Two Novels
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
LANGSTON HUGHES, From The Big Sea [Harlem Literati]
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25 (24)CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A POETRY CASEBOOK
sylvia plath, Daddy
george steiner, Dying Is an Art
irving howe, The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent
a. alvarez, Sylvia Plath
judith kroll, Rituals of Exorcism: “Daddy”
mary lynn broe, from Protean Poetic
margaret homans, from A Feminine Tradition
pamela j. annas, from A Disturbance in Mirrors
steven gould axelrod, Jealous Gods
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READING MORE POETRY
william blake
The Tyger
Holy Thursday (1789)
Holy Thursday (1794)
gwendolyn brooks, To the Diaspora
robert browning, Porphyria’s Lover
samuel taylor coleridge, Kubla Khan
emily dickinson
[Because I could not stop for Death–]
[I stepped from Plank to Plank]
[We do not play on Graves–]
[The Brain–is wider than the Sky–]
[She dealt her pretty words like Blades–]
john donne
[Death, be not proud, though some have calléd thee]
The Sun Rising
Song
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
paul laurence dunbar
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
t. s. eliot, Journey of the Magi
robert frost
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
allen ginsberg, Velocity of Money
thomas gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
robert hayden, The Whipping
seamus heaney
Digging
Punishment
gerard manley hopkins
God’s Grandeur
The Windhover
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galway kinnell, Blackberry Eating
robert lowell, Skunk Hour
andrew marvell, The Garden
(HOWARD NEMEROV, A Way of Life)
sylvia plath
Barren Woman
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Lady Lazarus
ezra pound
In a Station of the Metro
A Virginal
francis quarles, On Change of Weathers
john crowe ransom, Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
theodore roethke
I Knew a Woman
The Waking
wallace stevens
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
Sunday Morning
alfred, lord tennyson
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Tears, Idle Tears
Tithonus
Ulysses
dylan thomas, Fern Hill
walt whitman
Facing West from California’s Shores
I Hear America Singing
A Noiseless Patient Spider
richard wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
william wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
c. k. williams, Alzheimer’s: The Wife
W.B. YEATS
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
All Things Can Tempt Me
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
Among the School Children
Byzantium
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Drama
Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing
susan glaspell, Trifles
tom stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound
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Understanding the Text
26 (25) ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
bernard shaw, Pygmalion
august wilson, The Piano Lesson
margaret edson, Wit
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27THE WHOLE TEXT
anton chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
paula vogel, How I Learned to Drive
tennessee williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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Exploring Contexts
28 (26)THE AUTHOR’S WORK AS CONTEXT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
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29LITERARY CONTEXT: TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
sophocles, Oedipus the King
oscar wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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30CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
lorraine hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
wole soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
richard wright, from Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States
earl e. thorpe, from Africa in the Thought of Negro Americans
phaon goldman, from The Significance of African Freedom for the Negro American
stokely carmichael and charles v. hamilton,
from Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
robert blauner, from Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt
henry john drewal, john pemberton iii, & rowland abiodun, from Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
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1942
2003
31CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A DRAMA CASEBOOK
sophocles, Antigone
richard c. jebb, from The Antigone of Sophocles
maurice bowra, from Sophoclean Tragedy
bernard knox, Introduction to Sophocles: Three Theban Plays
martha c. nussbaum, from The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
rebecca w. bushnell, from Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ Theban Plays
mary whitlock blundell, from Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics
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READING MORE DRAMA
(sophocles, Oedipus the King)
arthur miller, Death of a Salesman
henrik ibsen, A Doll House
(lorraine hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun)
writing about literature
glossary
illustrated biographical sketches
index of authors
index of titles and first lines
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